There's a wrapper for nmap which diff's successive network scans. http://pbnj.sourceforge.net/
Perhaps turning this into a nagios plugin would be a useful solution what's being discussed here. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthew Joyce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 3:34 PM > To: Curt Shaffer; Nagios Users mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] auto-detecting of new hosts, > routers etc... > > > > One way would be to define the entire IP range as hosts and > have a check > which checks they are not responding (unless they are authorised > devices) > If a new device come on the lan, this check would fail and send an > alert. > > If you're not comfortable having the existing config altered by a > script, why not have nagios scan a folder for CFGs. > A script could add/alter individual CFGs (archive older versins), and > send you the result of a `nagios -v`, ready for you to bounce the > service. > > > Matthew Joyce > 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute > Australia for Medical Research > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > > Of Curt Shaffer > > Sent: Sunday, 22 October 2006 5:01 AM > > To: Nagios Users mailinglist > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] auto-detecting of new hosts, > > routers etc... > > > > On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 18:19 +0200, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > > > On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, root root wrote: > > > > > > > Can Nagios gather information from my network > > automatically in order > > > > to add it to hosts.cfg file by itself, not by nagios > > administrator? > > > > > > No. There are tools to detect hosts and write updated > > config files out > > > there. > > > > > > But someone installed equipment in your network and it must have > > > passed a couple of checks before you installed it. Right? > > Then what is > > > the problem of adding it to your config as part of these checks? > > > > > > If someone installed something in your network without your > > knowledge > > > then why do you need to monitor it? > > > > > > The only automatic tool I would use is one that triggers an > > alert if a > > > new device was added to the network. So you can go on a > search and > > > destroy mission. > > > > > > Hugo. > > > > > > > I have used nmap to Nagios with some success. I have been > > thinking about how to automate this but I keep seeing > > potential issues like rogue devices or adding services that I > > don't care to monitor. Plus I just don't like the idea of a > > program overwriting my configs without my concent when it > > comes to this. I'm looking at modifying how it works to be a > > bit more functional for this need. One thing that a lot of > > new monitoring systems have is auto discovery and I think it > > will be a good addition to Nagios to keep it as one of the > > best. It may work fine for you so give it a look. > > > > http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.40.0.html?&tx_netn > > agext_pi1[p_view]=147&tx_netnagext_pi1[page]=10%3A10 > > > > HTH > > > > Curt > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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