Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

Mike Woods Mike at the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk
Thu Oct 20 03:44:43 PDT 2005


Deepak Naidu wrote:


>  If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have
>  install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ?

SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over the internet by the nagios 
box since the check plugins for those are tcp/ip based, things like disk 
space will require the nrpe setup (or one of the equivilent) which only 
needs the plugins, I use nagios and nrpe extensivley to monitor our rack 
at redbus, network services are just another service definition, checks 
for disk access call the nrpe check command on the nagios server which 
connects to the nrpe service on the remote machine which in turn runs 
the nagios check plugin and returns the results to the nagios server!

Basicly you'll need the nrpe package and the nagios plugins package but 
since the nagios plugins are a dependancy of the nrpe port all you'll 
need to install yourself is the nrpe package (assuming you're using 
ports), you'll also need to install the nrpe package on the linux box in 
order to get the check command for nagios!

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Mike Woods
Systems Administrator


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