Monitoring OSX 10.4 Server

[Tim Palmer]

Lucas Fritz wrote:
>
> Nagios-Users,
>
> Are there any definitive guides for monitoring a remote OSX 10.4 Server?
>
> Ideally I’d like to do a minimum of configuration on the remote server 
> and looking at the guide located here:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf
>
> I’m not convinced this will work for installation on OSX.
>
> Has anyone done this before? Are there any caveats or alterations to 
> these instructions necessary for this to work on OSX?
>
> Thank you very much for any help you can provide,
>
> Lucas
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Depending on what you want to monitor, snmp is likely your best bet. 
AFAIK, there's no gui for snmp on OSX, so you'll need to dive in to get 
it setup and running, but much is exposed, and there are various snmp 
based plugins available for Nagios.

tim

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