How to check Nagios itself??

[Andreas Ericsson]

Adams, Russell L. wrote:
> The cheap hack to make sure its always running would be to make the
> nagios daemon a direct child of init in your inittab, with respawn
> set.
> 

Do NOT do this. If you for some reason want to turn nagios off or 
reconfigure it and make a mistake, you won't be able to stop it at all, 
and it might respawn too fast so that init disables it altogether.

> Russell
> 
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 10:42:50PM +0100, Marcel Smeets wrote:
> 
>>I am using nagios on our servers and it is doing fine. But now I want
>>to check if Nagios is  still working (Control the Controller). Of
>>course it can be done by Nagios itself (but who is going to report a
>>down state??) or another Nagios running somewhere else. But how do you
>>check if Nagios is still running from, lets say the other side of the
>>world by not using Nagios. Any ideas someone???
>>
>>Tnx
>>
>>Marcel Smeets
>>
>>
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