Ron Wilson wrote: > > Yes but that is passive. If you do not get an alert you presume it is > all OK But if the ngaios system was misbehaving for instance or maybe > your sms notification was down you would not know. What is really > needed is a check independent of ngaios and that can use an alerting > system separate from ngaios. It could check and say regular iintervals > alerting only if it the check fails > > > simple bash script will do can run on the machine or another host This will be psuodo code
#!/bin/bash $result = curl -D - http://nagioshost/nagios/tac.cgi |grep -v {some parameter} #get the cgi to reply if $result != (value we want) # nagios is down mail -s " Nagios is dead " [email protected] -c [email protected] < /a/file/with/text That is about the gist of it. Assaf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ 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
