[lug] Nagios help?

[Will]

Errr, sorry for the spelling.

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Will <will.sterling at gmail.com> wrote:

> We use passive monitoring to monitor customer's cumputers for them.  With a
> passive monitor I don't need a VPN connection to your network or a hole in
> your firewall.  The monitored computers run the nagios status checks out of
> cron and then send the satus back any way they can, e-mail, http, etc.
>
> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:09 PM, karl horlen <horlenkarl at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> >>>In an active monitoring scheme the server contacts an agent running on
>> the monitored hosts and tells it to run a monitoring plug-in and then
>> listens for the exit status.  A passive moitor just sits and waits for
>> remote hosts to connect and tell the server the status of services that are
>> being monitored.  If it does not recieve an update in a given amount of time
>> it alerts that the service status is unkown.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> any thoughts on advantages or disadvantages of one versus the other or
>> perhaps a combined approach? both seem like they will generate the same
>> amount of traffic assuming they are configured to achieve the same time
>> interval type checks / responses.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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