Newbie Features Question

[rgendron]

Hello,

I'm trying to determine if it's feasible to use Nagios as a replacement for BMC's Event Manager tool. In order to do this I need to replicate the following functionality.

Event Manager has the ability to receive alerts from BMC Patrol and Microsoft's Operations Manager (Currently running OpsMgr 2007 R2, transitioning to 2012) and to send acknowledgements back to the tool that sent the alert. It's this two way interaction between BEM and the alter source that's giving me trouble. I haven't been able to find a plugin or post on how to do this. Does anyone have any ideas on how to make this work?

Thank you
Bob

[agriffin]

Nagios is probably not a suitable tool for this. It's modular enough to allow this, but you would have to write quite a bit of code and add the feature yourself.

[rgendron]

I was afraid of that. I was really hoping to use this as way to get an open source tool into our monitoring infrastructure and eventually expand it to replace other tools. Do you know of any open source tools that could do this?

[slansing]

There is some groundwork for integration with Nagios:

https://communities.bmc.com/communities/thread/55879

But Nagios is a Infrastructure monitoring backbone, in that sense it must be tied in with other programs like BMC. It might end up not being very difficult to write your own plugins for this.