i have essential nagios documents and some basic configuration documents but they dont meet my needs, so i would like to have a detailed, comprehensive documents that refers to pluggins, how to configure a complex nagios script as a service, maybe even how to trigger another script in error case or send sms in case of fatal. I would appreciate if you share anything usefull with me,
thanks in advance
I don't like the standard monitoring plugins for Nagios. After hours of checking out alternatives, I finally decided to develop some own alternatives (and spend days ;)).
The goal was to make system monitoring simple. (And not: getting as many details as possible.)
The plugins are written in... (1 Reply)
Team would like to know if anyone here had created a basic nagios plugin.
I did write a simple postfix service checker. Then add it in nagios nrpe.cfg then restart nrpe and nagios and it is not working, its like i cant receive email if the service is stopped or running.
#!/bin/bash... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I just started working on a script. After my research, i found a command which can help me:
AIM: To build a script which starts the services (Services 1) on server 1 automatically whenever its down. And it has a dependency on other service (Service 2) on Server 2.
So my script has to... (4 Replies)
We have a dual Nagios server setup. One is setup for internal server monitoring on our LAN, while the second Nagios server is hosted externally and is used for external checks only such as URL and ping checks form the WAN side.
I was wondering if there is any way to setup cross dependencies... (1 Reply)
I am trying to install nagios-plugins-1.4.15 on a Solaris 10 box and when I run the ./configure script I get this error:
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... configure: error: no acceptable grep could be found in... (2 Replies)
Hi guys, I'm looking for a Nagios plugin which monitors selected processes and if they die, restarts them.
Does anyone have such a plugin\script, or could anyone point me in the right direction?
Cheers
Jamie (3 Replies)
CHECK_MULTI(8) System Administration Utilities CHECK_MULTI(8)NAME
check_multi - nagios plugin to combine multiple service checks in one run
DESCRIPTION
Usage: check_multi -f <config file> [-n name] [-t timeout] [-T TIMEOUT]
[-r level] [-l libexec_path] [-s option=value]
check_multi [-h | --help] [-hh extended help] [-hhh complete help] check_multi [-v | --verbose] check_multi [-V | --version]
[ more infos on http://my-plugin.de/check_multi ]
Common options: -f, --filename
config file which contains commands to be executed multiple files can be specified serially if filename is a directory, all '.cmd'
files will be taken (file format follows nrpe style: command[tag]=plugin command line)
-n, --name
multi plugin name (shown in output), default:
-r, --report <level>
specify level of details in output (level is binary coded, just sum up all options) default:13 see more details with extended help
option -hh
-s, --set <option>=<value>
<KEY>=<VALUE> - set multi variable $<KEY>$ to <VALUE> see more details with complete help option -hhh
-t, --timeout
timeout for one command, default:11
-T, --TIMEOUT
TIMEOUT for all commands, default:60
-l, --libexec
path to plugins, default:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins
-h, --help
print detailed help screen (extended help with -hh, complete help with -hhh)
-v, --verbose
prints debug output (multiple -v extend debug level)
-V, --version
print version information
Extended command line - command file options also available on command line: -x, --execute "command [ tag ] = check_xyz" -i, --instant
"tag" -y, --inventory -w, --warning <expression> -c, --critical <expression> -u, --unknown <expression> -o, --ok <expression>
check_multi 0.26-1 November 2011 CHECK_MULTI(8)
