checking for reboots of a host (perhaps via SNMP/uptime?)

[Olaf Hoyer]

Hi!


Well, got the problem that I am stress-testing some embedded devices
(console servers) for stability. Unfortunately, they crash somehow, and
I need to determine that they have crashed. The reboot time is quite
quick, so that even a check_ping that is scheduled once per minute
sometimes cannot catch them reliably.

My thoughts were:

1) put a script onto that device (embedded linux with ssh access and a
flashdisk) that sends email once the thing reboots

2) do it via nagios, perhaps checking the uptime via SNMP.

Has anyone written a check for this yet?

3) in the contrib dir is a check_uptime.c, that obviously needs
self-compiling the hard way, at least in my FreeBSD box the contrib dir
isn't being compiled automagically.

Versions of the Software:
# pkg_info |grep nagios
nagios-1.2          Extremely powerful network monitoring system
nagios-plugins-1.3.1_1 Plugins for nagios


Any suggestions?

TIA
Olaf

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Olaf Hoyer        ohoyer at gaff.hhhr.ision.net
Fuerchterliche Erlebniss geben zu raten,
ob der, welcher sie erlebt, nicht etwas Fuerchterliches ist.
(Nietzsche, Jenseits von Gut und Boese)


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