Any script or agent that can discover and deploy services

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Gouki
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Any script or agent that can discover and deploy services

Post by Gouki »

Hello,

They gave me the hard task of discovering how to enter the monitored machines to detect hard disks, database, SAP, FTP and WEB. Then the monitoring services in Nagios XI will be implemented. Beforehand thank you very much.
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Re: Any script or agent that can discover and deploy service

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XI does have an auto-discovery wizard: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... rd/details . To be clear, it is already in XI, you do not need to download it. The link is just for some information about the wizard.

However, it does not automatically deploy agents. You'll want something like chef, puppet, ansible, salt, etc. to do that. I know chef is cross-platform but I do not know about the others.

Please let us know if you have any difficulty using the auto-discovery wizard. For questions about chef, etc., you're probably better off on say, the chef forums, but we may be able to help some.
Gouki
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Re: Any script or agent that can discover and deploy service

Post by Gouki »

dwhitfield wrote:XI does have an auto-discovery wizard: https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... rd/details . To be clear, it is already in XI, you do not need to download it. The link is just for some information about the wizard.

However, it does not automatically deploy agents. You'll want something like chef, puppet, ansible, salt, etc. to do that. I know chef is cross-platform but I do not know about the others.

Please let us know if you have any difficulty using the auto-discovery wizard. For questions about chef, etc., you're probably better off on say, the chef forums, but we may be able to help some.
As long as I have dealt with the auto-discovery, it has not detected all the devices.
dwhitfield
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Re: Any script or agent that can discover and deploy service

Post by dwhitfield »

On the backend it runs the nmap tool to discover hosts and open ports: http://nmap.org/ nmap is not 100% accurate for various reasons, so it makes a best guess as to the OS and services running.

Is there any particular class of devices that is causing issues? We might be able to help get them prepped.
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