notification of system reboots

[Fredrik Wänglund]

You can use a startup-script and that submit a passive-check-result to 
Nagios each time the machine comes up.

/FredrikW

Chandler A. Collins wrote:

>Actually, we've had similar mechanisms in place in the past, but we're trying to find a clean way to use Nagios to handle this task that won't involve the installation and maintenance of a separate script.  We already have to add a new host to a specific hostgroup in Nagios to make sure all the right services are being monitored.  We'd like to make it so that notification of a system reboot is simply part of the suite of services that are being monitored under this hostgroup.
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>Chandler
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Aaron Conaway [mailto:Aaron.Conaway at HOSystems.com]
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:34 PM
>>To: Chandler A. Collins; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notification of system reboots
>>
>>
>>Some of our Windows and Unix boxes have a batch file or shell script
>>that emails a generic template to a mailing list on boot.  This
>>file/script runs at boottime and lets everyone know that the box is
>>coming back up.
>>
>>----------
>>Aaron Conaway
>>Network Engineer III
>>Verisign, Inc. -- Telecom Services Division
>>http://www.verisign.com
>>Office:  912.527.4343
>>Fax:  912.527.4014
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Chandler A. Collins [mailto:Chandler.Collins at silabs.com] 
>>Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:10 PM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] notification of system reboots
>>
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>>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
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