Need to monitor Nagios Service Automatically

[Asrai khn]

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Martin Melin <martinm at op5.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Asrai khn <asraikhn at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Martin Melin <martinm at op5.org> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 8:30 AM, Sunny Soung <loesprite at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I'm using Nagios to monitor some servers. All the things are good. But
>>>> these days I'm thinking about one question - What if Nagios went down??
>>>> If my Nagios went down, I would never get any notification. That would
>>>> be really bad.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I agree, that is a very bad thing :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>> *So is there a good solution to monitor the Nagios service??*
>>>>
>>>
>>> It depends on how much effort you want to spend and how critical Nagios
>>> is for your organization. If you just want to know if Nagios goes down, you
>>> can simply set up a second machine to monitor your Nagios host and notify
>>> you when it goes down or stops working. However this means that your other
>>> machines are unmonitored for the time it takes you to get your Nagios
>>> machine back online - and in case of hardware failure that could take a
>>> while.
>>>
>>> Most people for whom Nagios is a critical tool implement some sort of
>>> redundancy instead, where Nagios continues to monitor your network even if
>>> an individual Nagios host goes down. There is a good overview of your
>>> options in the documentation:
>>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/redundancy.html
>>>
>>> Also, the smartass answer to "is there a good solution to monitor the
>>> Nagios service" is http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_nagios
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> In check_nagios example they have given nagios.log but I thinks it should
>> be 'status.dat', for example in my case when nagios is installed from binary
>> package..
>>
>> /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -e 5 -F /var/nagios/status.dat -C
>> /usr/bin/nagios
>> NAGIOS OK: 1 process, status log updated 9 seconds ago
>>
>> I am interesting in implementing this check, any other example will be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
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> check_nagios is not very complicated. Per the manpage, it wants to be
> pointed to status.log, not nagios.log or status.dat. The reason for that is
> simply that it checks that the last entry in the log is within N minutes of
> the current time (set by -e 5 to 5 minutes). It also checks that a Nagios
> process is present in ps. What kind of examples are you looking for?
>
>
Thanks for the explanation.

I am looking for usage examples, and I thinks the one given in the
check_nagios manpage is fine.

/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios -e 5 -F /var/nagios/status.dat -C
/usr/bin/nagios




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>> Thanks.
>>
>>
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>>>  Advise will be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks and regards,
>>>> Sunny,
>>>>
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