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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm a system engineer at a firm that is looking at
its current system management platform and is looking for alternatives. I was
considering Nagios but what to compare it to the features that our current
system provide. Could you tell me if Nagios can provide the following for
us.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Network Monitoring/Alarm Features:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Ability to discover and store all IP addresses
within the system using fully qualified DNS names</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Ability to detect if any IP address is down
to generate a management alarm. Detect when a downed IP is restored to
service.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Ability to use (MIBs) Management Information Base
to capture key statistics</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Alarm generation based on MIB threshold
statistics</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Tools to manage MIBs (MIB browser) and make
config changes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Graphical interface to organize alarms status
indicators</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Alarm correlation to manage event
floods</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sever Monitoring/Management Features</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Monitor any number of logfiles on a server for
error codes/patter matching</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Detection of utilization threshold events for
file systems, memory and CPU</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Monitor a configurable list of software apps for
running status</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Tools to allow system admin to efficiently change
any of the monitoring config files on a large number of servers</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Generate alarms for any condition threshold that
is exceeded. Alarms are sent to a single user display.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Automatically invoke scripts when selected
condition threshold conditions are met</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>- Server monitoring by intelligent agents, only
alarms are sent to central server (bandwidth, alarm persistence and reliability
benefit)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you could tell me, out of those bullets, which
ones Nagios can perform or can't?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mr. Yates</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>George D. Yates</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>Systems Engineer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>443-259-8127</FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial size=2>gdyates@ems.att.com</FONT></DIV>
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