[Nagiosplug-devel] Writing a new universal cross-platform plugin?

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk]

I'm quite sure that this would benefit users. The reason of making a general 
plugin instead of mrtg, nsclient and all sorts of stuff is to simplify it 
all. SNMP is generally more tricky to set up than an agent on most systems, 
as you'll need to know SNMP, obviously. Most people don't. The auto-discovery 
part is almost finished already using multicast 'pings' (talking to the 
agents). So - give us a week or ten, I beleive this project will gain 
Nagios's quality a lot :)

roy

On Tuesday 29 July 2003 22:49, you wrote:
> I'm not sure what kind of benefit you would gain from writing the client
> side portion of this since SNMP agents exist for nearly all platforms
> you could conceive.  The non-trivial part is the auto-discovery.  HP
> OpenView does this via pings and SNMP queries, but you run into the
> problem where machines with multiple interfaces end up as multiple
> instances within your configuration.  And that can be very messy.
>
> I think many people would be interested if some sort of simple
> auto-discovery tool was available for Nagios in order to pre-populate
> configurations.
>
> --Andy
>
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:
> > hi all
> >
> > This friend of mine came up with a rather neat idea:
> >
> > Write a new universal cross-platform plugin in perl (run as service in
> > windows). Configure the service to expose the services to be monitored
> > (disk space on device c: or /dev/sda, cpu etc), and have an auto-dicover
> > script dicover all local hosts/services, creating nagios configs for it.
> >
> > Perhaps this should be done directly in a database? will nagios 2 support
> > database-based configs?
> >
> > roy
> >
> >
> >
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