Monitoring a HP-UX system

[Palle L Jensen]

Thanks everyone, the check_ssh plugin worked great!

Thanks,
PJ

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Palle L Jensen [mailto:palleje at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 3:06 PM
> To: 'Marc Powell'; 'nagios-users Mailinglist'
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system
> 
> 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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