Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Checks

2006-11-23 Thread Thomas Sluyter
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 21:09, Morris, Patrick wrote: >> I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a >> nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if >> this is not the case. > > Let me be the first to correct you Haha! First post :p o/ ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Checks

2006-11-23 Thread Morris, Patrick
> I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a > nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if > this is not the case. Let me be the first to correct you -- this is not the case. All you need on the individual machines is the check plugins or scripts you want to

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Checks

2006-11-23 Thread Thomas Sluyter
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 21:00, Hari Sekhon wrote: > I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a nagios > instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if this is not the > case. This is not the case :) You could indeed, as you suggest, create a simple shell script that is r

[Nagios-users] Remote Checks

2006-11-23 Thread Hari Sekhon
I know this is a tired subject but I'm now needing to expand beyond my nagios server and have have check run locally on machines in my infrastructure to make them tell me things like how much disk space is left etc... I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a nagios instanc