checking unix load/disk space

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of HP Geeza
> Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2005 11:34 AM
> To: Bill_Akins at emoryhealthcare.org; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] checking unix load/disk space
> 
> I belive that would work...and i understand the syntax in that
command.
> However that command will check the disk space on /, /tmp, /var, /boot
on
> the localhost though?
> 
> The problem i am having is that how do i tell nagios to run a command
such
> as:
> check_disk -w 25% -c 10% -p / -p /tmp -p /var -p /boot
> 
> on a remote host and return values?..a simple ping command seems to
work
> fine
> 
> Do i need to add a -h $HOSTNAME$ in the checkcommands file?....also
just
> to

Only if the plugin is network aware and understands -h parameters ;) In
this case, it won't work as check_disk is a local check only and not
network aware.

> make sure which client software should i be running on my remote host?
i.e
> on windows i installed the PNSClient when i was using netsaint this
seems
> to
> be working fine when switching to nagios....do i have to do something
> different for unix machines?

Yes, you do. The host-resource plugins are not network aware. You can
always see if a plugin is network aware by running it with '--help'. In
this case, check_disk must be run on the host you intend to check. There
are a number of ways to do that but the most common are NRPE or
check-by-ssh.

--
Marc


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