pearsch1 wrote: > Could someone explain to me what the benefits are, if any, of using SNMP to > monitor hosts rather than WMI/SSH? > > I am beginning to experiment with Zenoss, and I have most of my hosts as > being accessible via WMI/SSH, but would have to go through a lot of trouble > to get SNMP configured on all of them. Is there any reason I should need it?
SNMP is comparable to WMI rather than SSH. I have not used SSH monitoring with ZenOSS but I understand that it is still somewhat young and limited, while SNMP is a mature, quite complete protocol that has been around for decades being used extensively for remote monitoring and management in many environments. Installing SNMP support on unix / linux hosts is not contentious, although you may have to do some reading first in order to gain understanding of the protocol and how to configure the agents. > ]Also, is there a way for Zenoss to monitor Linux service availability out of > the box without going to Nagios plugins? By service monitoring, I don't mean > IP services. I mean like checking the services running within the OS (crond > for example). > > Thanks I think you may find that Process Monitoring on ZenOSS does just what you want (as far as I know only works with SNMP). Cheers, Apollon -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=35659#35659 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
