Nagios monitor\alert services

[ynguyen]

I am evaluate the NagiosXI product to see whether it will be a good fit for us before purchasing a license for it.
We are currently running Nagiosxi nagiosxi-2011r2.4-vmware

How easy and well does Nagios provide on the area of monitoring and alerting services under Linux & Windown.


Example under Redhat ES 6.1 server:
1. a service name call
web-pro

How does Nagios does monitor and alert this type of services? Does it have a build in script so all we have to do is type is the service name?
Or there are lot of scripts manipulation requirement in order for Nagios to manage these type of custom services?


We have other flavor of Linux distribution as well such as Gentoo. I don't be there is an pre-build agent for this Gentoo distribution.
We need to understand whether Nagios will able to provide remote linux services monitor and alert capability.

Thank you.
Y

[scottwilkerson]

Monitoring a service under windows or Linux boxes generally consists of running the appropriate wizard and typing in the service name to monitor.

[ynguyen]

Scott,

Does it still mean, an agent still need to be install on a (monitor) target server?

Or the agent doesn't require to install on the (monitor) target server?

Thank you.
Y

[scottwilkerson]

It depends on the information you need and such the wizard you run. To get the most information to be monitored you would install one of our agents, however we also have wizards that can be run agentless such as SNMP wizards for both Windows and Linux systems, as well as WMI wizards for windows machines.

Additionally, you could check Linux machines via SSH if you wanted to go agentless...