Monitoring Nagios

[Mohr James]

Hi All!

We had a problem the other day where the nagios process died and no one
noticed it for over 30 minutes. Therefore, I was thinking about ways to
monitor Nagios itself. One simply way would be a cronjob that checks if
the nagios process is running and then uses yaps or something to send an
SMS. But what about cases where the nagios process is running, but for
whatever reason the messages are not being processed. 

I was thinking about setting up a service that is triggered by a cronjob
and then sends a notification. This notification writes a flag file and
every X minutes a cron job checks the age of the flag file. If the flag
file is too old, it sends an SMS via yaps. 

Rather than re-invent the wheel, I was wondering if other people had
already implemented something similar. 

Regards,

Jim Mohr

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