Quick and easy way to monitor Nagios itself?

[Massimo Balestra]

I use another Nagios.

I have 2 Nagios each monitoring its servers and each controlling the other
Nagios.

And for the check I use the attached script. Feel free to modify it at
needed.

If you run it from with no parameters you can have some instructions.

Have fun
Massimo


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Call [mailto:jcall at verio.net] 
Sent: Friday, September 04, 2009 11:50 AM
To: nagios-user Mailinglist
Subject: [Nagios-users] Quick and easy way to monitor Nagios itself?

Since I have a large Nagios distributed system the possibility of a
Nagios process going AWOL on one of my many servers is a serious
concern. Has anyone come up with a sure way to confirm (i.e. a cron job)
that Nagios is processing checks properly? 

For example, I had one OCP_daemon process die, as a result the Nagios
process hung for quite some time before it was discovered. Freshness
checking is not an option because many hosts are behind firewalls or on
private networks and so the central server has active checks disabled
globally. 

Jonathan


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