Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4

pete wright nomadlogic at gmail.com
Thu Oct 20 08:28:15 PDT 2005


On 10/20/05, Mike Woods <Mike at the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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!



You can also monitor disk load and activity via net-snmp. I use net-snmp to
monitor large networks of heterogenous hardware and OS's
(*BSD/Linux/IRIX/Solaris/etc..) along side nagios. Granted SNMP may not be a
viable protocol to use on the public internet...

-pete



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