Thoughts about a custom plugin

[Andreas Ericsson]

stan wrote:
> I have a number of isolated networks, that is networks which are
> deliberately non-routable to. On each of these networks, I have a single
> host that has a 2nd NIC thta is on the general network. I don't can't to
> turn on forwarding on this host. I would like to monitor some statuses on
> the machines on the isolated networks.
> 
> I am thinking of doing this using a Nagios plugin. My first thoughts on
> this plugin are to have the plugin execute a script on the dual homed
> machines. This script would, as a first cut, ping the internal machines, and
> return up/down statuses. Later I might want too expand on this by having
> the script do some other checks on the isolated machines.
> 

Sounds like you'd be better off installing Nagios on each of the dual-homed
servers and submitting the check-results passively up to the main monitoring
machine.

Actually, merlin would be a very nice candidate for this, although it's still
in early beta. See http://www.op5.org/git/?p=nagios-merlin.git;a=summary

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