RE: [SLUG] Anyone good with NAGIOS? I need to remotely monitorseveral boxes.

From: Seth Hollen (seth@hollen.org)
Date: Mon Dec 09 2002 - 17:28:31 EST


 
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Thank you Ian and Matt :) Good info!!
So it can be done but I don't know how much time/money he's willing to spend to do it.

Seth

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From: slug@lists.nks.net [mailto:slug@lists.nks.net] On Behalf Of Matt Miller
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 4:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [SLUG] Anyone good with NAGIOS? I need to remotely monitorseveral boxes.

On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:21, Seth Hollen wrote:
> I use nagios a little to monitor some servers at one location and
> such. But I have a tough one here.
>
> Problem:
> A friend of his has a business with about 9 computers running various
> programs in windows and DOS (I know I know) For example one only does
> shipping labels, another does inventory, etc. these are all controlled
> from 1 monitor/keyboard/mouse, with a KVM switch.
>
> The problem is that being windows the programs occasionally lock up.
> Not the whole computer mind you (that happens too) but the program
> will crash or freeze. Since no one is looking at the screen it is
> hours or days till the problem is noticed.
>
> I am not familiar enough with nagios to write plug-ins. I was
> wondering if it's possible for nagios to somehow monitor a remote
> process? Perhaps through SNMP?

Yes. And Yes.

> While windows may be the problem here, I was hoping Linux was the
> answer.

When is Linux not the answer? :-)

>
> Any ideas on a solution to this would be appreciated :)
>

I use Nagios quite extensively at my work. Rather than recant what is already well documented, I recommend you look here:

http://www.nagios.org/faqs/index.php?section_id=11
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=32

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Matt Miller
Systems Administrator
MP TotalCare
gpg public key id:
08BC7B06

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