Monitoring a HP-UX system

[Palle L Jensen]

Unfortunately, SNMP is disabled and can not be enabled.
I will look at the check_ssh plugin.

Thanks


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:50 PM
> To: nagios-users Mailinglist
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system
> 
> 
> On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Palle L Jensen wrote:
> 
> > Hey List,
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone would know if it is possible to monitor a
> > few things on a HP-UX system without installing anything on the
> > server? We are unable to install anything, plugins, apps etc on the
> > server, it's a production server. Below is a description of the
> > general requirements.
> >
> > The general requirements:
> > - Cannot install anything on the system - it's a validated
> > production system.
> > - It runs a SSH server daemon that we'd like to monitor.
> > - What I'd like to see is some way to have it connect to the
> > specified port, read the banner and then just abort the connection.
> > The purpose of this is that perhaps the Nagios system could read the
> > banner response it gets, and if it is not what it's expected, or
> > fails to receive a banner/login prompt, send an alert.
> 
> check_ssh does exactly this.
> 
> > I know that monitoring the ping is workable, but how about anything
> > else, see above. Any help is much appreciated.
> 
> There are plugins to check just about every kind of externally exposed
> service, both in the standard plugins and on nagiosexchange.org. This
> is perhaps the most straightforward kind of monitoring that can be
> done outside of check_ping, and isn't really any different. Just
> identify the external services exposed (ssh, http, etc), and use the
> plugins designed to check them.
> 
> SNMP, if enabled on the system, can be used to check things that
> wouldn't normally be exposed externally, but I don't know if your
> company considers an snmp daemon to be something 'installed'.
> 
> --
> Marc
> 
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