nagios startup options

[Hugo van der Kooij]

On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 11/14/06, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Sounds like a bad idea. If you make a typo in the config your system will
> > respawn itself a lot as it will start and die in quick succesion.
> >
> > A watchdog script can be smarter. And my nagios uptime is almost identical
> > to my OS uptime. (Which equals the amount of time it takes to run my
> > Sxxnagios script in rc3.d after boot up.)
> 
> Do you have such a watchdog script you can share? :)

Well.  I do not have one because nagios is quite stable. But it might 
contain a check like:

	ps ax|egrep "^`cat /var/run/nagios.pid`"

And verify is still is the nagios process.

Other check might work just as well.

> Do you kick it off from an rc file as well?

Sure. Multiple Centos 4 system all running nagios from DAG's rpm packages. 
Everything except the actual nagios config files was a breeze to install.

Hugo.

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