How to check Nagios itself??

[Marcel Smeets]

Tnx for the answers. Will use this last option with the double
checking together with cron!!


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:32:52 +0100, Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> wrote:
> 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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