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network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:33 pm
by 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.
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:39 pm
by lordasb1
found this
https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/50083- ... s-via-prtg
which hints at something in side nagios via a plugin ?
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:53 pm
by 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.
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 3:57 pm
by 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>
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 4:01 pm
by lordasb1
mcapra wrote: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.
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 5:38 pm
by 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.
Re: network switch snapshop capture
Posted: Tue Jul 11, 2017 11:43 am
by 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?