Checking Nagios...

[Kalle Andersson]

Francois Meehan wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is there a script or utility to check if Nagios is running from another 
> PC? That would send me an e-mail if Nagios would be down.
> 
> I know the best way would be to have a second instance of Nagios but I 
> am looking for something simple.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Francois
> 

Francois,

If both machines are unixes you could use ssh/rsh in order to run 'ps' 
on the nagios-system and if there is no nagios-process active send an 
e-mail.
Such script would be trivial and you could run it through crontab at 
whatever interval you'd like.

-- 
Best regards / Med vänlig hälsning
Kalle Andersson, CISSP
Säkerhetskonsult / Kontilint Data AB
Mail: kalle at kontilint.se
Tel: +46-702-420659



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