At 2:42 PM -0600 5/27/08, Patrick Fowler wrote:
I'm not familiar with Nagios plugins. I would like to see how they
work. I have downloaded the plugins an placed them in the tools
directory on my server. I'm not sure how to make they runnable.
Any help would be great. I'm currently using the check_ping plugin
as a test.
You've put them in your tools directory. To make them runnable on
Mac/Unix, cd to the Tools directory and do
chmod a+x *
If you're on Windows, you shouldn't need to do anything.
Now, go to InterMapper and create a new device. When prompted for an
address and probe, give it an appropriate address and in the probe
picker, choose Miscellaneous->Nagios->Nagios Plugin. The default
plugin called is check_ping, so if that's your test, you don't need
to change the parameter; just click Ok.
That should be all you need to do to get it running. Now, chances are
it will show as down because it's timing out--the default timeout in
InterMapper is 3 seconds, and check_ping takes quite a bit longer to
run. So, right-click on the device, choose Set Info->Set Timeout, and
configure a longer timeout. 15 seconds often works well.
That should be all you need to do. Note that check_ping doesn't
return any performance data in the PERFDATA format (at least as of
1.4.11), so you won't see any enhanced performance data info in the
status window.
-- Christopher
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Christopher L. Sweeney
Dartware, LLC
http://www.dartware.com/
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