<br clear="all"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:50 PM, Jonathan Call <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcall@verio.net">jcall@verio.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Since I have a large Nagios distributed system the possibility of a<br>
Nagios process going AWOL on one of my many servers is a serious<br>
concern. Has anyone come up with a sure way to confirm (i.e. a cron job)<br>
that Nagios is processing checks properly?</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am using monit ( <a href="http://mmonit.com/monit/">http://mmonit.com/monit/</a> ) to monitor the nagios process and restart it if it dies. To verify that it is running its checks properly than you should be checking its log files.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another option is to use a configuration management tool like cfengine and ensure that a process is running from the policy host.</div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Natxo</div></div>