[lug] Nagios help?

[karl horlen]

>>>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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