On Dec 20, 2007 8:48 AM, Brian LaMere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm often faced with issues that most solutions on the net just don't > work on, due to certain restrictions imposed on us; half our customer > base is DoD, so instead of having 2 products to maintain, both sides > end up with the same stuff. So while our commercial side /can/ do > certain things (like snmp), the DoD side /can't/, and if we solve for > the DoD airgap then why not use that same solution for the commercial > side. I'm repeating myself. > > Currently, I'm looking for edge-aware monitoring systems that don't > rely on snmp (which throws nagios and anything nagios-based right out > the window). There's a long list of requirements (page different > people for different types of issues, edge-aware, fail over to diff > group if no response after X minutes, no snmp, and most importantly - > server must pull the data, the clients cannot initiate the > connection).
Nagios actually doesn't rely on SNMP at all to the point where it actually doesn't support it very well. Most of the checking is done server-side through its plugins which can handle just about anything you can do in a small Unix program. It may be worth checking it out again if it turns out that you were thinking Nagios was wrapped around SNMP. > Google, et. al, is just filled with about.com sites and that ilk, > such that one can't get good info there anymore. So the second > question...seems like if there was a user group that was folks who > were under the same limits (ie, other DoD vendors), then I could ask > them as they'd have similar needs. Anyone know of such a group? > Throw "user group" into a search engine and it just gets the > convention-marketing hits, as if a 1-hour info session with strangers > at a convention is some sort of cohesive community, something akin to > the user groups of yore (like LUGs...like KPLUG...). > > So anyone have a DoD-vendors-user-group, or edge-aware, > enterprise-level, open-source, non-snmp, server-pull monitoring > solution suggestion? That would be a great way to describe Nagios. -Al > Brian > > > -- > [email protected] > http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list > -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
