Survey of Nagios.

Ethan Galstad nagios at nagios.org
Tue Nov 19 04:40:15 CET 2002


Nagios runs as a foreground process if you don't specify the -d 
option on the command line.  BTW, someone is already doing this:

http://www.connectionreset.it/documenti/daemontools.txt



On 18 Nov 2002 at 9:33, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:

> Perhaps one day if I'm feeling energetic, I'll take a crack at trying to
> implement DJB's daemontools to manage nagios.  (This would ideally require a
> way of forcing nagios to *not* put itself into the background.  Ethan?)
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mike McClure [mailto:mmcclure at pneservices.com]
> > Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 10:24 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Survey of Nagios.
> > 
> > 
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I like to use Webmin's "System and Server Status" for this 
> > task.  It takes care of
> > most of the details for you.
> > 
> > - Mike
> > 
> > > Okay, I see where this is heading.. basically, as I think I 
> > was discussing
> > > this with somebody else on this list, have a GSM modem 
> > attached to the
> > > server directly. When nagios dies it sends a page to a designated
> > > person(s).. This is not part of Nagios itelf for obvious 
> > reasons in that
> > > it cant monitor if it is not alive to monitor...
> > > The downfall of this is that the contacts have to be hard 
> > coded outside
> > > nagios (unless somebody wants to write a parser for the 
> > contacts.cfg) but
> > > this isnt really a problem unless you have a quick turnover of
> > > staff/sysadmins. :)
> > >
> > > Pascal Miquet said:
> > >> 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 ?
> > >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike McClure, CCIE # 5125, CISSP # 30232
> > PNE Services, Inc. -  http://www.pneservices.com
> > mmcclure at pneservices.com
> > mobile: 913-636-5590
> > 
> > 
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Ethan Galstad,
Nagios Developer
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