Monitoring Nagios?

[Tim Pushor]

Jason Martin wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:41:59PM -0600, Tim Pushor wrote:
>   
>>  - Has anything like this been done
>>  - If not, whats the best (easiest) way to monitor the nagios process? 
>> Can nagios be configured to write something to a log file, so we know 
>> that its still running? (by checking on the modified date on the file)
>>     
> There is a plugin called check_nagios that checks the nagios
> status file for that very thing. The CGI's can also call this
> plugin, although you'll have to check what the output looks like
> when Nagios is down to see what to check for with the HTTP
> monitor.
>   

Thanks for the quick responses Jason and Guillaume,

I've crafted a tiny cgi to wrap check_nagios and it seems to work well.

Thanks again,
Tim

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