Strategies for monitoring a generic batch script

[Thomas Guyot-Sionnest]

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On 03/02/09 03:10 AM, Paolo Tealdi wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> i'm searching for the best strategy in nagios for monitoring the 
> result of the execution for a generic batch (could be an rsync batch 
> or a backup or something else) that runs a few times in a day via 
> cron interface.
> I could create a file if all goes well and check for the existance of 
> the file and for it's creation/modification time, but this seems to 
> me a little awkward ...
> Anybody has a better idea ?

I use send_nsca and configure a passive check - the script returns OK of
no error occurred or an error status if anything went wrong. This also
has the advantage of reducing the load on your monitoring server.

You can also use freshness checking to send an alert when no results
come in after some time.

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Thomas
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