How to check Nagios itself??

[Daniel maher]

I use Monit on a number of my servers, including my Nagios boxen.

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/

It's basically a web interface to make sure that a given process is actually running.  It can interact with init scripts, and so forth, and even gives you some basic statistical information. 

It's not fancy, but it's effective.


Daniel Maher
System Engineer
ACE TECHNOLOGY INC.
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: March 2, 2005 6:29 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Nagios itself??

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.


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