Plugin for System Uptime

[Askar Ali]

Marc Powell wrote:

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>>admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H.
>>Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 3:50 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Plugin for System Uptime
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>>What plugin would be the one to use to monitor the uptime of several
>>remote
>>hosts? The hosts in question are Linux and HP-UX.
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>There's a check_uptime plugin in the contrib. folder. I've never used it
>but it's there.
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Yep you can use check_uptime from /libexec, however on remote hosts I 
would suggest you to use "nrpe". That way you nagios machine sends 
request to nrpe daemon running on remote host which in turn call a local 
plugin for a specific task say check_users, check_uptime etc.
For check_uptime you must read the script where the auther of the plugin 
explain how you could use it, check_uptime use nmap -0 which must be run 
as root, in my case i'm running nrpe as nobody user on remote host. So i 
have to put an entry in /etc/sudoers

nobody <hostname>=NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/nmap

otherwise you will get an no uptime from host.

I hope this would helps

Regards

Askar Ali


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