event handlers on remote host

[Demetri Mouratis]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, senthil wrote:

> Hi,
>  I am currently working on using Nagios to monitor a remote host.
> Made use of the NRPE plugins to montior the different services on a
> remote host.
> I tried event handlers and it works fine in the localhost.But if I want
> to employ event handlers on a remote machine say to start a HTTP server
> when the service moves on to hard state ? what can i do??

Setup SSH to allow for non-interactive login to the remote machine and
restart the http daemon.

You'll probably want to configure a way for the nagios user to restart
httpd.  Sudoers would help there.  Otherwise, you'll end up having to SSH
as root to restart it.

Hope that helps.
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