Monitor the newtwork devices via their own monitoring system

[phyo]

Hi,

For the customer, we need to monitor some video streaming devices. They have their own monitoring software. Then they will send SNMP Traps from this software to Nagios Server and they will also provide the MIBs files. What I want to know is can we get all of the information of the video streaming devices via their monitoring software or not?

Another problem is: there are another network devices which monitor by nagios. Then their nagios system will send SNMP traps to our Main NagiosXI System. Same question what i want to know is can we get all of the network devices status via their nagios system?

Thanks.

[tmcdonald]

For the first part of your question, that all depends on what is exposed by their software. Nagios expects a specific format for check results and SNMP traps, and if your software doesn't expose a certain metric, Nagios has no way of gathering it.

As for the second part, this is basically the same thing. If your device supports (for example) temperature readings via SNMP, then Nagios can monitor it. If not, you will need to find some other way to get this data.

[phyo]

For the first answer, I will discuss with vendor.

For the second answer, you mean we can monitor the status of the network devices via their nagios system?

[tmcdonald]

I'm a little unclear as to what you are asking, but if you want to know whether or not one Nagios system can send results to another, then yes.

[phyo]

My question is: One vendor used nagios to monitor their network equipments. Then they will send snmp traps to our nagios xi server the status of their network equipments status. What I want to know is, can we monitor their network equipments status via their nagios server without directly monitor to their network equipment? I think your answer can cover to my question.

Thanks.

[slansing]

Well, what benefit would this hold over receiving traps from them? That would be monitoring these items. But sure, you can set it up so that NSCA forwards check results to Nagios XI from their Nagios server.