<html><head><base href="x-msg://123/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">What i've done to check if my nagios setup is still working is, i configured a HTTP check, to check a page somewhere on a server, it's a simple php page, you can find it on the following url.<div><br></div><div><a href="http://bugoff.be/wp-content/uploads/monitoringcheck.phps">http://bugoff.be/wp-content/uploads/monitoringcheck.phps</a></div><div><br></div><div>then create a cronjob on the server where you put this file to check if the file is updated.</div><div><br></div><div> */5 * * * * cd /var/www/; /usr/bin/php -f monitoringcheck.php cron</div><div><br><div>Kr,</div><div>Bram Gillemon</div><div><br><div><div>On 20 Jul 2010, at 01:29, Ron Wilson wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-NZ" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I am interested in somehow monitoring my Nagios setup to ensure it is running and working correctly. At present Nagios monitors and alerts for problems but if anything happened to Nagios server we would not necessarily know. I toyed with idea of setting up a dummy check that alerts at certain time each night but that seems a long winded way to achieve certainty. Maybe I need a separate application just checking Nagios server.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">--<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Ron Wilson<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Systems Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Television New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">P.O. Box 3819<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Auckland, New Zealand<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Phone 649-916-7560<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; color: navy; ">A conclusion is the place where you get tired of thinking. (Arthur Bloch)</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0cm; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: center; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><hr size="2" width="100%" align="center"></span></div></div><pre>==========================================================
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