Monitoring Nagios

[Mohr James]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Michael W. Lucas [mailto:mwlucas at blackhelicopters.org] 
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 28. November 2007 15:01
> An: Mohr James
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Nagios
> 
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:52:13PM +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.
> 
> Daemontools' supervise program will restart nagios if it crashes.
> 
> http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html
> 
> In the event that supervise cannot restart the program, you 
> can have it send an email.
> 
> ==ml
> 
> -- 
> Michael W. Lucas 	mwlucas at BlackHelicopters.org, 
> mwlucas at FreeBSD.org
> 		http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/
>       Now Shipping: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- 
> http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 
> pairs of my soiled undies "for security reasons."

Thanks Michael and Donnell!

I will give Daemontools and Monit a look and see if that can solve my problems.

Regards,

Jim Mohr

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