Creating custom service checks

[Hamid Majidy]

Kevin, you can either monitor user services (POP3, SMTP, MAPI, IMAP, LDAP,
etc) by monitoring the ports or monitor for existence in memory of processes
through an SNMP agent. Windows SNMP agent, written for Windows NT 4, are
broken and do not report data accurately. A good alternative is SNMP
Informant, which at least used to have a free version. I hear Net-snmp now
has a Windows version as well which might work. Path of least resistance is
to monitor (service) ports which do not require an agent to be installed,
which is likely what you want anyway. 

 

From: Kevin Mitnikc [mailto:teckadmin at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 4:01 PM
To: Allan Clark
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Creating custom service checks

 

I am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange Server services such as:  

 

Microsoft Exchange Management

"C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\exmgmt.exe"

 

These services will be monitored on the exchsrv01 server.  How do I go about
creating this service to be monitored?  All the services I'm currently
monitoring have already been predefined for me.

 

 

Thanks,

 

Kevin M. 

2009/6/29 Allan Clark <allanc at chickenandporn.com>

Hi Kevin; 

 

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 23:14, Kevin Mitnikc <teckadmin at gmail.com> wrote:

I am looking for some assistance in setting up custom service monitors.  I
am looking to monitor the Microsoft Exchange services, along with a couple
other services.  How do I go about setting this up in Nagios.  

 

I have browsed over some direction, but I seem to only be finding sections
of setting this up.

 

Can somebody please give me some direction and instruction on creating these
custom service monitors.

 

Can you go into more detail?  Nagios is configured by editing the config
files, and running a "nagios -v" to check them; if you have examples of what
you're trying, including the "couple other services", we might be able to
offer concrete suggestions.  ...even if it means you give us a rundown of a
part of your network, with IP address replaced to 192.168.x.y IPs and host
FQDNs replaced to names such as exch01.example.com
<http://exch01.example.com/> .

 

It might help to get such an initial example setup to get you going.

 

Allan

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