I was going to say exactly that. Using e-mail as a monitoring system is a very
poor substitute. Nagios is a great start in true network monitoring.
Timothy J. Massey
Out of the Box Solutions Inc.
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On Sep 22, 2011, at 9:03 AM, "Brad Alexander" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Another option would be, if you have to have that positive affirmation, and
> if you are running Nagios on your network, there is a plugin/check called
> check_backuppc, which will issue an alert in Nagios if any monitored host
> does not get backed up. From the help file:
>
> $ check_backuppc -h
> check_backuppc - 1.1.0
> A Nagios plugin to check on BackupPC backup status.
>
> Options:
> --hostname,-H only check the specified host
> --exclude,-x do not check the specified host
> --archive-only,-a only check the archive hosts
> --backup-only,-b only check the backup hosts
> --status-only,-s only check backup status, omit connection failures that
> are
> less than $Conf{FullPeriod} old
> --warning,-w days old an errored host must be to cause a warning
> --critical,-c number of days old an errored backup must be to be
> critical
> --reduce,-r maximum number of failed hosts for severity reduction
> --verbose,-v increase verbosity
> --version,-V display plugin version
> --help,-h display this message
>
> --b
>
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Aleksey Tsalolikhin
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi. I'm running BackupPC 3.1.0 for about 3 years now and love it. It
> just works.
>
> I go into the Web admin UI once a week or so and check the host
> summary to make sure backups are chugging along.
>
> Is it possible for BackupPC to email me that summary?
>
> I looked at /usr/bin/BackupPC_sendEmail but it looks like it will only
> email if BackupPC is down.
>
> Thanks,
> -at
>
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