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Special Forums Cybersecurity MRTG vs Nagios Post 302072212 by bobtheowl2 on Saturday 29th of April 2006 12:02:16 AM
Old 04-29-2006
Of my -brief- experience with both, MRTG is meant for creating pretty graphs of metrics and Nagios is meant for monitoring up/down of systems and services. Since you said your trying to monitor performace, then MRTG (and whatever scripts you in turn write) shold give you plenty of info on trends, etc in the performance category. If you want to get paged/emailed when X happens, you probably want nagios. Both are a little involved setting up, but they are really two different applications.
 

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nagios(8)                                                             Nagios                                                             nagios(8)

NAME
Nagios - network/systems status monitoring daemon SYNOPSIS
nagios [-h] [-v] [-s] [-d] <main_config_file> DESCRIPTION
nagios is a daemon program that monitors the status of various network accessible systems, devices, and more. For more information, please consult the online documentation available at http://www.nagios.org, or on your nagios server's web page. OPTIONS
main_config_file The main configuration file. On openSUSE systems this defaults to /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg -h A helpful usage message -v Reads all data in the configuration files and performs a basic verification/sanity check. Always make sure you verify your config data before (re)starting Nagios. You can also use the Nagios init script to verify your configuration - try: rcnagios check_verbose -s Shows projected/recommended check scheduling information based on the current data in the configuration files. -d Starts Nagios in daemon mode (instead of as a foreground process). FILES
/etc/nagios Default configuration directory for nagios AUTHOR
Nagios is written and maintained by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. This manual page was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux operating system (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others) and adapted by Lars Vogdt for openSUSE. sean finney, Lars Vogdt February 2006, May 2010 nagios(8)
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