Nagios client? question.

[Christian Purnomo]

HI folks

I'm 1 day old in using Nagios.  I have been previously using Big Brother
monitoring and quite happy with that.  I recently decided to look around and
found Nagios, I notice there are quite a few of features that I like from
Nagios that I'm lacking with big brother (I haven't upgraded my BB for a while,
BB team may have added more features that I'm not aware of).

I have a question about the way nagios external plugin, since I can't see nagios runs a client side on remote server, I wonder how I can monitor such services on a remote server, which service is only connect-able from the machine itself, hence no remote type connection.

Let's take a remote server running mysql database running with
--bind-address=127.0.0.1 , how can I monitor this mysql database from a
seperate nagios server? I can use 'ssh' to login into the remote server and
perform some tests.  Is this how you do it? 

With big brother, since big brother has a client end, all I need to do is to
write a module for that server, this module will talk to the BB client on the
remote server, the client program will then talk to the BB main server.

Many thanks

Christian.



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