Hi You can check_by_ssh and execute a shell script on server side to get the informations you want.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Palle L Jensen" <[email protected]> To: "'Marc Powell'" <[email protected]>; "'nagios-users Mailinglist'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:06 PM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system > Unfortunately, SNMP is disabled and can not be enabled. > I will look at the check_ssh plugin. > > Thanks > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Marc Powell [mailto:[email protected]] >> 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 >> [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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 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 > [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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 [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
