Attempting to monitor the "Nagios Server" itself

[kyle.odonnell at gmail.com]

check the nagios exchange.  there are plenty of nagios server related
checks that might indicate impending failure.  that being said, if
nagios dies how can it monitor itself?  I have scheduled a job in cron
that monitors, restarts, and emails me when it dies.

On 8/12/08, Bret Goodfellow <Bret.Goodfellow at questar.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
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> I have Nagios running on a RHEL 4 (update 6) server.  It is monitoring
> 30 linux servers and 10 unix servers.  I am now attempting to get Nagios
> to monitor the host server (the server that the nagios daemon is running
> on).  When I add services for the nagios server (Colorado), the nagios
> service fails after about 15 seconds.  I am getting the following
> messages in /var/log/messages:
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> Aug 12 13:18:09 colorado nagios: Nagios 2.10 starting... (PID=23650)
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> Aug 12 13:25:58 colorado nagios: LOG VERSION: 2.0
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> Aug 12 13:25:58 colorado nagios: Finished daemonizing... (new PID=23651)
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> Aug 12 13:26:10 colorado nagios: Caught SIGSEGV, shutting down...
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> Why can't I get nagios to monitor itself?  In other words, why can't I
> get nagios to monitor the server that it is running from?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Bret Goodfellow
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