Agentless monitoring (SNMP?)

[youngsunsong]

I have a fairly heterogeneous infrastructure with AIX, Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows, etc.

Just trying to install the agent for AIX, it requires a lot of prerequisite packages to be installed, many of which didn't get installed by default on AIX, and installing them one by one would be a lot of pains.

Does either Nagios XI or Nagios Core have SNMP-based agentless monitoring interface instead?

Somewhere I think I've seen "agentless monitoring for Nagios" as one of the advantages of using Nagios over other monitoring solutions.

Thanks.


- Young

[scottwilkerson]

Yes, we have wizards for SNMP.

For the most part you should be able to use the Linux SNMP wizard however there are a couple default that you would want to change (like the monitoring of crond).

Also, there is a generic SNMP wizard that will allow you to specify any SNMP OID you would like to monitor.

[youngsunsong]

Does XI have a feature somewhere to list all the available MIB OIDs per device?

Or, do you recommend to use a third party tool to get useful OID info more easily?

Or, is it supposed to be a paid feature for which customers should get services from the Nagios Company and pay?


Thanks.


- Young

[scottwilkerson]

We have a SNMP Walk wizard, but many devices have thousands of possible OID's.

I would recommend using a 3rd party walker like snmpB, or look up potential OIDs on

• http://www.mibdepot.com
  http://www.oidview.com/mibs/