Using Nagios to monitor "service-less" hosts
Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk
Tue Nov 7 17:46:28 CET 2006
Fermín Galán Márquez wrote:
> Dear Aaron, all,
>
> Afser comparations between documentation
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#host
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#host
>
> it seems that in 1.x it is not possible to have monitored service-less hosts
> (as Giles said), but it's fine for 2.x (as Andy said).
>
> Andy, can you confirm that the version of your looking glass is 2.x?
>
Yes, it's running off my Nagios 2.5 server - the Looking Glass is a
separate product to Nagios, though, it runs by parsing (read-only)
Nagios 2.5's status.dat and object.cache files.
>
> I'll try to upgrade to 2.x. I use Debian and use to install things through
> APT, but the most recent version in the Debian repository is what I have
> (1.4). Is there some workaorund to avoid the dreadfull :) installation from
> source .tar.gz (e.g., third-party .deb packages, alternative APT
> repositories, etc.), please?
>
>
The Nagios install from source isn't really painful - the trickiest part
is the plugins, and if you know where your MySQL/PostgreSQL/other
libraries are, you're fine :)
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