Re: Nagios

["e.Z.y" <ezyt () optushome com au>]

hey guys,

> From what ive seen on their website and online demo, it looks to be a very
powerful product and would be of great assistance in a production
environment.

Has anyone on the list run nagios on a freebsd platform?

regards,

ezat

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stefmit" <stefmit () comcast net>
To: <FOCUS-IDS () securityfocus com>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 3:53 AM
Subject: Re: Nagios


> One could build his own (any) check_ functions, and your question would
relate
> to doing the proper reporting using the NSclient as basis. See here for
more
> info:
>
> http://nsclient.ready2run.nl/
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=8499
>
> Remember - this is GPL stuff, so only the sky is the limit. On the other
hand,
> if this would have been a SCO "product", ... ;>
>
> Stef
>
>
> On Saturday 07 June 2003 12:21 pm, Routledge, Jeffrey wrote:
> > Can Nagios report and alert on custom perfmon counters ?
> >
> > -Jeff.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mikael Björn [mailto:mikael.bjorn () mibj01 dyndns org]
> > Sent: Sat 6/7/2003 3:58 AM
> > To: 'Jennifer Fountain'; FOCUS-IDS () securityfocus com
> > Cc:
> > Subject: RE: Nagios
> >
> >
> >
> > I've been using this fine product for years both as Nagios and under
> > it's former name NetSaint for building production environments including
> > large telcos and small & medium businesses.
> >
> > My opinion is that you can without a problem use SNORT with Nagios but
use
> > the two product as separate entities and use either the SNMP gateway or
> > some other form of communication mechanisms in SNORT (I, myself, prefer
> > SNMP) to talk to Nagios.
> >
> > But if you want to handle Firewall rule adaptation from SNORT I would
> > use SnortSAM for that. Quite a neat little hack!
> >
> > Hope my $0.02 was helpful!
> >
> > /Mikael Björn
> > Freelance Consultant
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jennifer Fountain [mailto:JFountain () rbinc com
> > <mailto:JFountain () rbinc com> ]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 11:17 PM
> > To: FOCUS-IDS () securityfocus com
> > Subject: Nagios
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have an opinion on Nagios?  They say it can use snort and it
> > has it's own IDS functions to detect certain traffic.  I am wondering if
> > this is a good product or just hype.
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jenn
>
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