stan wrote: > I have a number of isolated networks, that is networks which are > deliberately non-routable to. On each of these networks, I have a single > host that has a 2nd NIC thta is on the general network. I don't can't to > turn on forwarding on this host. I would like to monitor some statuses on > the machines on the isolated networks. > > I am thinking of doing this using a Nagios plugin. My first thoughts on > this plugin are to have the plugin execute a script on the dual homed > machines. This script would, as a first cut, ping the internal machines, and > return up/down statuses. Later I might want too expand on this by having > the script do some other checks on the isolated machines. >
Sounds like you'd be better off installing Nagios on each of the dual-homed servers and submitting the check-results passively up to the main monitoring machine. Actually, merlin would be a very nice candidate for this, although it's still in early beta. See http://www.op5.org/git/?p=nagios-merlin.git;a=summary -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ 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
