2009/12/29 Brent Clark <[email protected]>: > Hiya > > I was hoping someone would be kind to peer review my service check. > > I got a nrpe check to check that the debian packages on my servers are > up to date. I would like for this check to run once a day. > > This is what I was able to come up with. > > define service{ > use generic-service > hostgroup_name debian-packages > service_description Debian Packages > check_command check_nrpe!check_debian_updates > notification_interval 1440 > is_volatile 0 > check_period 24x7 > normal_check_interval 5 > retry_check_interval 1 > max_check_attempts 10 > notification_period 24x7 > } > > Is this correct, if not, would someone be kind enough to point me on the > correct path so that i can achieve this check.
It looks okay to me. As with any change to your config, you need to run "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg" to verify your configuration and make sure there are no warnings or errors. You could try running the check command from the command-line on your Nagios server (while logged in as the nagios user) to make sure it is likely to work okay: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H serverA -u check_debian_updates (replace "serverA" with the hostname or IP address of a host you want to test this on). If this test doesn't work, then you may need to look at your nrpe setup. Personally I wouldn't run this kind of test as frequently as this, but if your Nagios server isn't too stressed I don't suppose it matters much one way or the other. hth, Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] 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
