network switch snapshop capture

[lordasb1]

hi all

please correct me if I am wrong but will nagios capture the snap shots of the switches it connects to?

if so how do you do it?

looked over the knowledge base but the only snapshot management seams to be the config of nagios.

[lordasb1]

found this
https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/50083- ... s-via-prtg
which hints at something in side nagios via a plugin ?

[mcapra]

What that article and it's top answer are stating is that Nagios is a monitoring application. It is not designed for the purposes of device/machine configuration management. You might be interested in something like Chef or Puppet for that use case.

There may be some unofficial components/extensions on the Nagios Exchange that strive to address the issue of device configuration management, but there is nothing native to Nagios XI or Nagios Core that can assist with managing specific device configurations. Nagios XI has a Core Config Manager, but this is only for managing Nagios configuration files.

[lordasb1]

also found this, but its so over my head at present

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... ig/details

is there not a simple build in feature in nagios>

[lordasb1]

What that article and it's top answer are stating is that Nagios is a monitoring application. It is not designed for the purposes of device/machine configuration management. You might be interested in something like Chef or Puppet for that use case.

There may be some unofficial components/extensions on the Nagios Exchange that strive to address the issue of device configuration management, but there is nothing native to Nagios XI or Nagios Core that can assist with managing specific device configurations. Nagios XI has a Core Config Manager, but this is only for managing Nagios configuration files.

thanks for the reply, did find one but I don't have the time to get some indepth 3rd party work about to work.

seams that nagios might not be for me or us sadly then, we need 1 dashboard to give overview of switch status and backup.

[mcapra]

A plugin might exist, or one could be crafted, that could accomplish a simple "are the backups and the switches themselves working" point(s) of visibility, but Nagios wasn't really designed to handle the actual "please take this snapshot, please restore this snapshot" portions of your use case.

[dwhitfield]

I'm happy to put in a feature request for this, but I feel pretty confident it would be rejected. Do you want me to give it a shot?