Quick and easy way to monitor Nagios itself?

[Terry]

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 2:08 PM, David Rosenstrauch<darose at darose.net> wrote:
> On 09/04/2009 02:50 PM, Jonathan Call wrote:
>> Since I have a large Nagios distributed system the possibility of a
>> Nagios process going AWOL on one of my many servers is a serious
>> concern. Has anyone come up with a sure way to confirm (i.e. a cron job)
>> that Nagios is processing checks properly?
>>
>> For example, I had one OCP_daemon process die, as a result the Nagios
>> process hung for quite some time before it was discovered. Freshness
>> checking is not an option because many hosts are behind firewalls or on
>> private networks and so the central server has active checks disabled
>> globally.
>>
>> Jonathan
>
> See the check_nagios plugin.  One of the parms you can specify is to
> have it check how long ago it wrote something to its log file.
>
> We recently had a problem where our Nagios box went down and we never
> got any notifictions.  So I set up another small Nagios instance whose
> sole purpose is to monitor the primary instance.  It has just one
> service check:  check_nrpe calling check_nagios on the main Nagios box
> to verify that it's up and running.
>
> HTH,
>
> DR
>
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You could also set up a check with an external provider.
Websitepulse.com for example.  This way it takes everything outside of
your environment and it should be set up to send a message to your
phone directly via sms for example.

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