Re: Nagios

[Dan Clemens <DClemens () revtech net>]

On Thursday, June 5, 2003, at 04:16  PM, Jennifer Fountain wrote:

> Does anyone have an opinion on Nagios?\


Nagios is not a security product , it is a tool used to monitor the 
availability of hosts and the services that run on those hosts.
I have used it in a large network and it worked fine and had a few 
features that some of the extremely over priced commercial products did 
not.


-Thanks,

>   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!

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