[lug] Nagios help?

[Will]

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:

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> >>>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.
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> thanks
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> 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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