[nzlug] Nagios vs. OpenNMS

[Matt Brown]

James Jones wrote:
> I have not have tried OpenNMS, but I have used Nagios on a large scale. My
> biggest complaint was that the Nagios Server had to be the one to connect
> server being monitored. I think it work the other way, the server being
> monitor should dial home. Kind of similar to a burglar alarm.

You can setup "phone in" checks with nagios. They're called "passive
checks" as opposed to the "active checks" which nagios uses by default.

You can either submit the results directly via Nagios's command socket,
or using a wrapper tool such as NSCA.

Cheers

-- 
Matt Brown
matt at mattb.net.nz
Mob +64 21 611 544 www.mattb.net.nz

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