On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 20:30 -0400, Bill Hudacek wrote: > Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I've written a Nagios plugin to monitor BackupPC (tested against > > 2.1.2) and will be putting it online soon (it takes some time for > > sourceforge to approve a project). I'm doing some cleanup and > > verbosity adjustment right now, and was wondering if there were any > > specific features for the plugin beyond what I have that anyone would > > like. > > > > The plugin currently warns if there are any hosts with errors and all > > those hosts have a backup newer than an age threshold, and goes > > critical if the errored hosts have a backup older than the threshold. > That's a great idea! Put me down for one. > > Basically, having to check the web interface every day or every other > day (whenever I remember) is not a big deal, but this is definitely a > nice-to-have. I've just never scripted any kind of cron/anacron checks, > so... > Not as nice as the Nagios plugin idea, but I have a daily status email and a RSS feed that gets updated daily (the RSS idea from Rich Duzenbury). Rich's original RSS patch requires using the cgi interface to generate the xml, and I wanted something automated, so months back I wrote a script that is called from backuppc_nightly. If anyone is interested, let me know. -- Travis Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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