Network Monitoring

[Mark]

Currently doing something I have been planning on doing for a many number of years (it probably feels like more years than it has been) -- implementing network monitoring with Nagios.

Yet another monitoring & alerting tool I wish to have at my disposal.

[Bloody Jack Kidd]

I've been running Nagios for a number of years and I've been pretty happy with it.  Config is a bit tedious, but once setup, it does a pretty good job.  I think there is another called Centreon or something like that, based on Nagios, but slicker.

[Mark]

We used Nagios in our capstone project and I hadn't touched it since (think that would have been 2008).  Capstone was on Prelude-IDS.

Just thought I'd start a discussion on it somewhere for the heck of it.  Might be eye-opening to some, or maybe I'll run into something later and I need to gauge what resources I have

[Mark]

...and I just realized that I can use a comma separated list of hosts in my service definitions!  would have saved a ton of copy and pasting and editing had I thought of trying that before!! lol

Was doing it in hostgroups, and thought it should be applied elsewhere.

[Jeff Golas]

After 10 years of waiting...it'll prob take another ten years to get it tweaked the way you want lol.

I messed with Nagios for a bit, and while I thought it did everything I kinda wanted, it just seemed so tedious and mind numbing to screw with config files and what not just to see when the printer ran out of paper 11,000 times a day.