On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 02:52:13PM +0100, Mohr James wrote: > Hi All! > > We had a problem the other day where the nagios process died and no one > noticed it for over 30 minutes. Therefore, I was thinking about ways to > monitor Nagios itself. One simply way would be a cronjob that checks if > the nagios process is running and then uses yaps or something to send an > SMS. But what about cases where the nagios process is running, but for > whatever reason the messages are not being processed. > > I was thinking about setting up a service that is triggered by a cronjob > and then sends a notification. This notification writes a flag file and > every X minutes a cron job checks the age of the flag file. If the flag > file is too old, it sends an SMS via yaps. > > Rather than re-invent the wheel, I was wondering if other people had > already implemented something similar.
Daemontools' supervise program will restart nagios if it crashes. http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html In the event that supervise cannot restart the program, you can have it send an email. ==ml -- Michael W. Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.BlackHelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Now Shipping: "Absolute FreeBSD" -- http://www.AbsoluteFreeBSD.com On 5/4/2007, the TSA kept 3 pairs of my soiled undies "for security reasons." ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
