<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Dombrowski, Neil wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?</font></span></p></div></blockquote><div>You can do either. I have been using check_by_ssh because I didn't want to open a new port on my client machines, and they are all running sshd on them. But this does not scale very well. We have a 2 core server, and about 300 hosts, and 1500 checks, and it's loaded the host down pretty bad. </div><div><br></div><div>If I was to stay doing active checks, I would do NRPE as I have done in the past. It scales much better.</div><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">all systems I want to monitor? </font></span></p></div></blockquote>You'll want to get the nrpe plugin along with the plugin checks. We usually just push the files to the systems, compile, install, and then put our configs in place. A smart bash script can automate most of the install for you.<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">I would much appreciate it if someone could</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">send me a link to the right document for this.</font></span></p></div></blockquote>The basics you'll need are to define another host. Define services. Define commands for those services. Add the host to those services. On the client, install and configure nrpe. Install the plugins you want to use. And then open up firewalls for these new services.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry I can't find the link I used to use when I first started out with nagios.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas">Thanks,</font></span></p><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Consolas"> Neil</font></span></p><div><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span lang="en-us"></span><span lang="en-us"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><span lang="en-us"></span><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div> </div> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>This SF.net email is sponsored by <br><br>Make an app they can't live without<br>Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge<br><a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev">http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev</a> _______________________________________________<br>Nagios-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users<br>::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. <br>::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null</blockquote></div><br></body></html>