<html> <head> <style></style> </head> <body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'> To be rather general... <br><br>If you can monitor a device via SNMP, you can monitor it via Nagios. Also you can use something like NSCA to accept checks/heartbeats from remote systems/services.<br><br><span class="listing-desc">"NSCA is a Linux/Unix daemon allows you to integrate passive alerts and checks from remote machines and applications with Nagios. Useful for processing security alerts, as well as redundant and distributed Nagios setups.</span>"<br><br>The ease of which you can do the above... well, that's debatable depending on what may (or may not) already be done by various plugins other folks have kindly written as well as your skills to either extend/modify what exists or even write something totally new.<br><br>-- <br>Mat W.<br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:52:39 -0400<br>From: rjm399@nyu.edu<br>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie questions for Nagios XI latest release<br><br><div>Hi,</div><div> </div><div>I have a few questions on the latest release of the product.</div><div> </div><div> </div><div> </div><div>1) Does Nagios support the use of Oracle as the back end database? Would doing so compromise our support from them?</div> 2) Can Nagios receive alerts from external monitors? If so what mechanisms would be supported?<BR> 3) Does Nagios support monitoring IBM specific hardware - e.g. the bladecenter AMM's or IBM RSA II cards in standalone xServers for alerts?<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><BR><div>Thank you,<br><br>Bob Molerio<br> Systems Administrator<br>New York University<br>ITS Computer Facilities Services/Infrastructure<br>Level C-2</div> <div>75 Third Avenue <br>New York NY 10003-5527<br><a href="mailto:robert.molerio@nyu.edu">email:robert.molerio@nyu.edu</a></div> <div> </div> <div> </div><br> <br>------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2<br>_______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null</div> </div></body> </html>