notification of system reboots

[Chandler A. Collins]

Hello,

I'm trying to find the best way to get notified anytime a system reboots.

Essentially, I have about 70 boxes being monitored, and I need to know anytime one of them reboots.  Every box also has NRPE installed, and I'm monitoring various services on those systems.  Right now, Nagios is setup to notify administrators if a particular service has a problem for 15 minutes (max_check_attempts = 3, normal_check_interval = 5, retry_check_interval = 5).  That obviously won't work for a reboot, which under normal circumstances will take much less than 15 minutes, in which case we won't even know about it.

Does anyone have any ideas about the best way of doing this so that I'm not notified about transient issues, but I am notified if the system genuinely reboots?

Thanks!

Chandler Collins

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