> Does Nagios report on individual processes running (or not) on the > monitored system? From the "about" page at nagios.org, that's not > clear. It talks about monitoring "network services" such as HTTP, SMTP, > etc., and "host resources" such as processor load, and disk utilization. > Nothing about "process abc is running or not."
Yes. You use the NRPE support and configure the process to be monitored there by supplying a command line to run to check for the process. You then define any application you want to monitor as a "service" in Nagios. I usually configure NRPE to run '/etc/init.d/<service> status' as the check tool; that way manual and automated checks report based on the same information. Or you could write a specific plugin for each app. NRPE is easier to use. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
