Monitor DB Server without outside IP Address

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Patrick Morris
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 4:07 PM
> To: James Pells
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor DB Server without outside IP
Address
> 
> 


> There are reasons people don't make their DB boxes available from the
> internet.  A couple better solutions might be:
> 
> 1. Monitor the box from inside the network it's on, or
> 2. Have the DB submit passive checks to your monitoring box.

Depending on what you are actually interested in monitoring some other
options might be...

3. create a small script on your web server that performs checks on your
DB and outputs a web page than you can check with check_http.
4. check_nrpe -> webserver calls check_nrpe -> DB server (untested but
should work)

--
Marc

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