Greetings to all, I'm doing research in the reliability of diverse networked systems. In order to collect data, I've been automatically discovering and following services in medium- to large-sized network environments. The Nagios' FAQ entry that advices against automatic discovery is well known, but my argument is that in less than ideal circumstances, services may become lost to system administrators. Thus, there seems to be some need for automatical discovery.
Initially I've extended the Nmap2Nagios-ng tool to allow services to be set up differently depending on the protocol and port they listen to. Later on I just rewrote the Nmap3Nagios (N3N) tool from scratch. N3N's major benefit is its extendability, i.e., it is aimed to catch even the less common situations. N3N provides a user-space tool that can be run by the admin against his own Nmap results file. In contrast to Lilac's automatical discovery, the results file may be provided by other means than allowing the http daemon to run Nmap (security restrictions may prevent this). N3N is written in Ruby and requires the LibXml Ruby parser. The program logic is implemented as a module and free for use by tools other than the one provided. N3N is released under GPLv3. Naturally, for N3N to become more polished I need some input from other users. Therefore, you are all welcome to play with the tool and send feature requests and bug reports either as replies or directly to me. I hope that most of the tool's options are self-explanatory; the included README file contains some in-depth discussion on what's going on inside the code. http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pervila/Nmap3Nagios/ Best regards, - Pervilä ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ 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
