Disk space checks

[Paul L. Allen]

Peter Lauda writes: 

> I want to monitor disk space on mulitple systems and the check_disk 
> pluggin I have seems to only check the local nagios servers disk.

Correct.  That plugin has to run on the machine you want to check
the disk of. 

> I don't mind reading faqs etc so if anyone can at least point me in the 
> right direction, I'd be thankful.

You need some way of executing the plugin remotely and returning
results.  Options are check_by_ssh, NCSA, NRPE and establishing a
VPN between the two machines, each have their own advantages and
disadvantages.  Another way of doing it is with check_snmp. 

-- 
Paul Allen
Softflare Support 




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