Using MySQL plugin for Nagios monitoring

[Marc Powell]

On Sep 10, 2009, at 12:39 AM, Sowmya Dass wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> I've installed Nagios 3.2.0 on RHEL 4. I wanted to use the MySQL  
> plugin to check the connectivity status of a SQL database hosted on  
> a remote windows 2000 machine.
> Is it necessary to have NSClient++ installed on the remote windows  
> machine for this plugin to work ?

No.

> Would it be possible for me to use this plugin to check the  
> connectivity to MYSQL database hosted on remote windows machine from  
> the nagios server ?

Yes, it is network aware. You can specify the host name or IP address  
that is running the mysql server

>
> Please provide your views/suggestions on this.

check_mysql --help.

--
Marc


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