Services available for checking with Nagios

[Jo]

Hi Jason,

I also started only last week with Nagios. Been planning to do it for a 
lot longer, but I was always but off by the first few lines in the manual.
The rest of the comments are in-line.

Jason Williams wrote:

>
> My question is specifically related to the check_command portion of 
> the service. I tried a few of the examples i found in the configs that 
> came with nagios: ping, http for instance.
>
> But what im trying to do is find out how to setup the check_command 
> for other services, such as mysql, pqsql etc.


> So my question is, where can I find out how to setup the check_command 
> for specific services? Is there a file that has more information for 
> each plugin? I haven't been able to find any readme for each plugin so 
> I thought i'd start here.
>
If you found the directory with the plugins, you can execute them at the 
command line with the -h parameter, then you can find out how to use them.

> Also, one last thing. I have a couple servers that I wanted to check 
> for multiple services. Does that mean if I want to monitor lets say 
> apache and mysql on one box, I need to add it twice to the 
> services.cfg file, one for each service?

Yes, the services.cfg file gets pretty crowded. Look at the way you can 
reuse stuff by making templates.

Jo


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