notification of system reboots

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Chandler A. Collins wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to find the best way to get notified anytime a system reboots.
> 
> Essentially, I have about 70 boxes being monitored, and I need to know
> anytime one of them reboots.  Every box also has NRPE installed, and I'm
> monitoring various services on those systems.  Right now, Nagios is
> setup to notify administrators if a particular service has a problem for
> 15 minutes (max_check_attempts = 3, normal_check_interval = 5,
> retry_check_interval = 5).  That obviously won't work for a reboot,
> which under normal circumstances will take much less than 15 minutes, in
> which case we won't even know about it.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas about the best way of doing this so that I'm
> not notified about transient issues, but I am notified if the system
> genuinely reboots?
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Chandler Collins
> 

Have you tried contrib/check_uptime?

It probably needs a bit of tweaking with the new library structure.


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-sg



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