Howto monitor intermittent clients

Hugo van der Kooij hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org
Sat Jan 19 11:42:20 CET 2008


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Lars Stavholm wrote:
| Hi All,
|
| I know this is a bit of an odd one, but still:
|
| I'm looking for ways of monitoring intermittent
| clients, i.e. client computers that are not always
| there, like laptops that come and go or similar,
| clients that gets switched off after work hours.
|
| Ideally, without installing anything on the clients,
| so that sort of rules out passive checking. Instead,
| I would like to use active checking (e.g. using SNMP),
| but configured in a way so that when a host is unreachable
| or down, that's OK, and the services needn't be checked.
| Whereas if the client host is on line, all defined
| services should be checked and issue alarms and so on
| if check results in CRITICAL or WARNING, as per usual.

Make sure you can ping them. Then setup a service to do that at a
relative high rate. And make all other services dependent on that ping
service. Then say you do not care about unreachable services.

Just make sure that ping reaches a hard state before any service can
reach a hard state.

Hugo.

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