monitoring Root Partition....

[Vincent Ngundi]

Hi Tony,

Thanks for the quick response, I'll look into it and get back to the
list......

	-vincent....


On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 13:11, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> tor, 02.06.2005 kl. 11.23 skrev Vincent Ngundi:
> 
> > I have two problems here:
> > 
> >   ) I'm using the 'check_local_disk' command to monitor the disk space
> >     on remote machines....
> > 
> >     The problem is that I get the same value for all the remote 
> >     servers....what could be the problem or what plugin/command should I
> >     use? Is there a plugin like check_remote_disk or should I come up
> >     with one?
> 
> You can't use Nagios to check remote machines without an auxiliary
> utility. Download and check out nrpe - it'll do what you need.
> 
> 
> >   ) Defining a command on the service description:
> > 
> >     While defining a command, there's a line that reads: "command_line"
> >     and another that reads: "command_name",
> >     While defining a service, there's a line that reads: "check_command"
> > 
> >     How do you define a "check_command" given a "command_line"?
> 
> In checkcommands.cfg command_line is the actual path to the plugin and
> the command parameters. command_name is the name it's known as in
> services.cfg.
> 
> >     e.g: given the "command_line": $USER1$/check_pop -H $HOSTADDRESS$,
> >     what would be the corresponding "check_command"?
> 
> in my checkcommands.cfg:
> 
> define  command {
>         command_name    check_pop
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_pop -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> 
> >     Do you use the command_name, which is "check_pop" in the above case?
> 
> Yes, in services.cfg, possibly with extra parameters when needed.
> 
> All of this is extensively documented and grepping and lessing around in
> the original install config directories will get you very far - it's how
> I learned.
> 
> --Tonni
-- 
	-vincent....



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