<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] Survey of Nagios.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  Is it me or is using nagios to monitor itself a waste of effort. Consider this basic scenario: Nagios crashes. Nagios is therefore not running. Nagios is not executing -any- service checks. Nagios can not execute the check_nagios plugin. No one gets notified. -- Marc Sent from a very tiny wireless device with a very tiny unlit keyboard. -----Original Message----- From: Pascal Miquet <p.miquet@hafiba.fr> To: Scott <lists.scott@themagicbox.net> CC: Nagios users <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Sat Nov 16 08:48:01 2002 Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Survey of Nagios. This is OK I presume, But how should I take care of nagios notification, if I set a service into nagios, and like to notify persons in charge of this service ? Into the script we just checks the nagios running state. Any idea ? Le sam 16/11/2002 à 10:30, Scott a écrit : Just to make an appendment to this, I noticed I had it in a test state while writing it... here is the actual working copy.. sorry about that folks.. enjoy #!/usr/bin/perl open PIDFILE, ("/path/to/nagios/var/nagios.lock"); $pid = <PIDFILE>; close PIDFILE; @nag_stat = `ps -ax |grep -e $pid`; if (@nag_stat[0]) { print "nagios running\n"; } else { system('printf "Nagios not running: replace this with external command\n"'); } Scott said: > I think you could just check the pid file for a number and run it > against a ps -ax greping the pid, then notify if it doesnt exist.. > sounds fairly simple and probably a good idea too... Nothing worse then > a network outage to find out that nagios isnt monitoring the network > anyway... > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > open PIDFILE, ("/path/to/nagios/var/nagios.lock"); > $pid = <PIDFILE>; > close PIDFILE; > > @nag_stat = `ps -ax |grep -e $pid`; > > if (!@nag_stat[0]) { > print "nagios running\n"; > } else { > system('printf "Nagios not running: replace this with external > command\n > "'); > } > > Somthing like this from cron would work nicely for that.. crude, yes, > works, yes also.. somebody probably has better perl skills than myself > that could ake this better but it would do what you are asking for > though. > > > Pascal Miquet said: >> Is there some stuff to check that nagios is still alive, and may be >> send an email. >> Doing this is tricky with nagios, I know. >> But I wonder, how admins could be informed that nagios is in a >> blocking state or is not active. >> Personaly, I think that a shell schedule by the anacron in an hourly >> mode shoud be a good way, and then send Email and sms. >> >> But the semantic question is how could we fetch the nagios settings to >> issue notifications ? >> >> Any good idea, or link is welcome. >> Pascal Miquet > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your > web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server > Certificate: <A HREF="http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html">http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html</A> > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn the basics of securing your web site with SSL, click here to get a FREE TRIAL of a Thawte Server Certificate: <A HREF="http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html">http://www.gothawte.com/rd524.html</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <<A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A>> <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> </BODY> </HTML>