2009/4/29 cr...@hooters-uk.com <cr...@hooters-uk.com>: > Hi all, just a query this time on how I would achieve the following. > > We have an site that needs monitoring which has a broadband connection with a > single IP address > and 4 servers sitting behind it, 1 running Web, 1 running Mail and 1 running > FTP, the other is a > file and print server all Centos boxes. > > The firewall has port forwarding for each of the Servers that have web, mail > and ftp but the file > server is on a private IP address. > > I know I can monitor the web, mail and FTP because of the port forwarding but > how do I go about > monitoring the services that I normally check with the nrpe command, do I > need to put in a Nagios > server on site, let that do all the checking and then send the results on? > > Any guidance would be great, if you can point me to a site/book or other > information that I could > look at that would be great, the problem I have at the minute is looking for > the correct phrase to > put into Google to get the right results. > > Thanks > > Craig
So long as these servers can connect to your Nagios server, you could configure the checks in cron on the remote servers and have them send results back to Nagios using nsca. See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/passivechecks.html and http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/addons.html#nsca You could install Nagios on one of those servers to do the job for you, but you'd still use nsca to make the connection back to your main Nagios server. If you're after a book, I can highly recommend "Nagios" by Wolfgang Barth. It's available in print or .pdf form (or both) from the publisher No Starch Press: http://nostarch.com/nagios_2e.htm hth, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Register Now & Save for Velocity, the Web Performance & Operations Conference from O'Reilly Media. Velocity features a full day of expert-led, hands-on workshops and two days of sessions from industry leaders in dedicated Performance & Operations tracks. Use code vel09scf and Save an extra 15% before 5/3. http://p.sf.net/sfu/velocityconf _______________________________________________ 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
