How does the auto-discovery work?
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2015 6:28 am
How does the auto-discovery tool in Nagios XI works?
When I supply a network ID to run on, let's say 10.10.182.0/24 .
it finds many Microsoft Windows machines as well as Linux servers.
I wanted to know how it works... Can I supply a root/administrator password to the NagiosXI and expect it to connect to each server it finds in the auto-discovery job and automatically install the relevant agent and configure some common checks?
Or does the auto-discovery only scans the supplied network.ID, nmap's it's findings and setting checks for each open port it finds?
I want to be able to supply a network.ID to scan and supply administrative username and password and to press go... and I'd want the result to be:
The NagiosXI will go through the list of servers it found, will connect to each one of them automatically using the administrative credentials I supplied and install the agent there so it would be ready for monitoring... is this doable with Nagios XI?
When I supply a network ID to run on, let's say 10.10.182.0/24 .
it finds many Microsoft Windows machines as well as Linux servers.
I wanted to know how it works... Can I supply a root/administrator password to the NagiosXI and expect it to connect to each server it finds in the auto-discovery job and automatically install the relevant agent and configure some common checks?
Or does the auto-discovery only scans the supplied network.ID, nmap's it's findings and setting checks for each open port it finds?
I want to be able to supply a network.ID to scan and supply administrative username and password and to press go... and I'd want the result to be:
The NagiosXI will go through the list of servers it found, will connect to each one of them automatically using the administrative credentials I supplied and install the agent there so it would be ready for monitoring... is this doable with Nagios XI?