On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Josh Frome <jfr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Can Nagios (or any other network >> monitor) actually connect to the server and read it's process table (or in >> some other way determine that the process is actually present)? I want some >> kind of central notification for this since the project deals with over 40 >> systems each running a portion of the overall task. > > Yes. Nagios's check_nrpe command was designed specifically for this. > The standard Linux NRPE client also includes a built-in script to > count running processes by name, size, etc. Additionally, if you have > some more specific need, via NRPE, Nagios can run and return the > results of any script you can write. > > As for notifications, Nagios also has a very powerful centrally > managed notification and escalation system. > > JoshF > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */
FYI: Nagios 4.0 was released a couple of weeks ago. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
