Wow! I did not expect a reply so quickly! We'll look into fsh, it looks promising.
Thanks for the advice. Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jason Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 3:56 PM To: Keller, Steve Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] "Agentless" monitoring with Nagios? On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 03:34:53PM -0700, Keller, Steve wrote: > a replacement. One of the issues we have is that we cannot, for various > (mostly political) reasons, install an agent on the hosts we monitor. By any chance is SNMP already in place on the target hosts? That might cut down on the number of agent-on-demand checks you have to run. > So my question is, does anyone know of a reasonable approach to > agentless monitoring using Nagios? We are planning to try SSH4, which Check out FSH (http://freshmeat.net/projects/fsh/) which does a similiar thing. That should take care of the SSH overhead problem. > this has the problem that a host which is down, or busy, could delay > checking other hosts. If you are writing this in perl, you can have your plugins timeout gracefully to prevent that. Nagios can be configured to time out plugins as well. -Jason Martin -- "Keyboard? How quaint!" - Scotty This message is PGP/MIME signed. ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
