Monitoring Nagios

[Donnell Lewis]

Hey Jim,

I use Monit which will monitor services and makes sure they stay
running, there are alot of options and I have it making sure ssh, nagios
and HTTP are running on the nagios box.  Monit runs via the inittab and
if it dies for any reason gets respawned using init and it has
notifications it can send out about specific things.  You can have it
notify just for about anything, maybe this will help you out.

http://www.tildeslash.com/monit/


-Donnell Lewis

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 14:52 +0100, Mohr James wrote:
> Hi All!
> 
> We had a problem the other day where the nagios process died and no one
> noticed it for over 30 minutes. Therefore, I was thinking about ways to
> monitor Nagios itself. One simply way would be a cronjob that checks if
> the nagios process is running and then uses yaps or something to send an
> SMS. But what about cases where the nagios process is running, but for
> whatever reason the messages are not being processed. 
> 
> I was thinking about setting up a service that is triggered by a cronjob
> and then sends a notification. This notification writes a flag file and
> every X minutes a cron job checks the age of the flag file. If the flag
> file is too old, it sends an SMS via yaps. 
> 
> Rather than re-invent the wheel, I was wondering if other people had
> already implemented something similar. 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Jim Mohr
> 
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