Unfortunately, SNMP is disabled and can not be enabled. I will look at the check_ssh plugin.
Thanks > -----Original Message----- > From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:50 PM > To: nagios-users Mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system > > > On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Palle L Jensen wrote: > > > Hey List, > > > > I was wondering if anyone would know if it is possible to monitor a > > few things on a HP-UX system without installing anything on the > > server? We are unable to install anything, plugins, apps etc on the > > server, it's a production server. Below is a description of the > > general requirements. > > > > The general requirements: > > - Cannot install anything on the system - it's a validated > > production system. > > - It runs a SSH server daemon that we'd like to monitor. > > - What I'd like to see is some way to have it connect to the > > specified port, read the banner and then just abort the connection. > > The purpose of this is that perhaps the Nagios system could read the > > banner response it gets, and if it is not what it's expected, or > > fails to receive a banner/login prompt, send an alert. > > check_ssh does exactly this. > > > I know that monitoring the ping is workable, but how about anything > > else, see above. Any help is much appreciated. > > There are plugins to check just about every kind of externally exposed > service, both in the standard plugins and on nagiosexchange.org. This > is perhaps the most straightforward kind of monitoring that can be > done outside of check_ping, and isn't really any different. Just > identify the external services exposed (ssh, http, etc), and use the > plugins designed to check them. > > SNMP, if enabled on the system, can be used to check things that > wouldn't normally be exposed externally, but I don't know if your > company considers an snmp daemon to be something 'installed'. > > -- > Marc > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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