How to check Nagios itself??

[Andreas Ericsson]

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???
> 

Check nagios from cron. Check cron from nagios. Make sure one restarts 
the other in case either goes down. Make sure both send notifications if 
either goes down. If both go down simultaneously you're shit out of 
luck, but you'll never be able to cover all cases anyway.

> Tnx
> 
> Marcel Smeets
> 
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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