setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

[Martin Melin]

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Dombrowski, Neil <neil.dombrowski at hp.com> wrote:
> I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on
>
> client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk
>
> capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me
>
> how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?
>
> Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to
>
> all systems I want to monitor? I would much appreciate it if someone could
>
> send me a link to the right document for this.

NRPE is what you want: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf

NRPE and the nagios-plugins package + any custom plugins you want to
use is usually what you want distributed to your monitored hosts.

Best regards
Martin Melin

>
> Thanks,
>
>         Neil
>

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