Monitoring Nagios

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:52:13PM +0100, Mohr James wrote:
> 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. 

Daemontools' supervise program will restart nagios if it crashes.

http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

In the event that supervise cannot restart the program, you can have
it send an email.

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