Monitor nagios running on a different server

[Sean McAfee]

rmp dmd wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies I appreciate it.
>  
> But most of the reply advised to use check_nagios to monitor Nagios 
> process on the local machine. 
>
> What I need is to monitor whether nagios for our production system 
> (installed on a different server) is running or has stopped. 
>  
Right, but since Nagios isn't really a network service, it can only be 
checked locally.  That's why my response mentioned NRPE. 

NRPE is installed on remote machines and allows you to run checks and 
plugins on the target machine and report the results back to your Nagios 
instance.  Your main Nagios server will actually do check_nrpe - but 
with arguments directing the remote machine to run check_nagios and then 
report back the results.

-- 
Sean McAfee
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.

smcafee at collaborativefusion.com
 412-422-3463 x 4025

1710 Murray Avenue, Suite 320
Pittsburgh, PA 15217

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