Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-11 Thread Dan Egli
On October 9, 2013, Jeff Jibson wrote: > RTFM :P Here is the page you want: Thank you indeed. That would have been my next question, where can I read up more on Nagios and possibly download it. You beat me to the punch here. And as to your RTFM comment, now that I know where to look, I INTEND

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-10 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Yeah 3 years ago would be about the last time I looked at it too. :) On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Josh Frome wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:48 PM, S. Dale Morrey >wrote: > > > DNX is also a good solution for this although it's been years since I > last > > looked at it and I'm not sure i

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread Josh Frome
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:48 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > DNX is also a good solution for this although it's been years since I last > looked at it and I'm not sure it runs with current Nagios. > > Since the last update looks like it's 3 years old, I'm not sure that there's much life left in DNX.

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread S. Dale Morrey
Almost forgot the link http://dnx.sourceforge.net/ On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:48 PM, S. Dale Morrey wrote: > DNX is also a good solution for this although it's been years since I last > looked at it and I'm not sure it runs with current Nagios. > > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jacob Albretse

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread S. Dale Morrey
DNX is also a good solution for this although it's been years since I last looked at it and I'm not sure it runs with current Nagios. On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Jacob Albretsen wrote: > On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 02:07:40 PM Dan Egli wrote: > > On October 7, 2013, at 8:37pm, Brian Chr

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread Jacob Albretsen
On Wednesday, October 09, 2013 02:07:40 PM Dan Egli wrote: > On October 7, 2013, at 8:37pm, Brian Christiansen wrote: > > NRPE: Active Check (Nagios initiating the check > > > > NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check) > > Now I'm lost. I thought Nagios ran on the server? If it does,

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread Jeff Jibson
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Dan Egli wrote: > On October 7, 2013, at 8:37pm, Brian Christiansen wrote: > > > >> NRPE: Active Check (Nagios initiating the check > >> NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check) > > > > Now I'm lost. I thought Nagios ran on the server? If it does, how d

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread Dan Egli
On October 7, 2013, at 8:37pm, Brian Christiansen wrote: > NRPE: Active Check (Nagios initiating the check > NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check) Now I'm lost. I thought Nagios ran on the server? If it does, how does NPRE have Nagios initiate the check and NSCA have the serv

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-09 Thread Dan Egli
On October 7, 2013, at 8:37pm, Brian Christiansen wrote: > NRPE: Active Check (Nagios initiating the check > NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check) Now I'm lost. I thought Nagios ran on the server? If it does, how does NPRE have Nagios initiate the check and NSCA have the serv

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-07 Thread Brian Christiansen
You can also use NSCA to have the server forward the results to Nagios. You can configure Nagios to alert if it doesn't get a response, good or bad, from the server in a certain amount of time. NRPE: Active check (Nagios initiating the check) NSCA: passive check (the server initiating the check)

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-07 Thread Jeff Jibson
On Mon, Oct 7, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Josh Frome 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 proj

Re: Monitoring software question

2013-10-07 Thread Josh Frome
> 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

Monitoring software question

2013-10-07 Thread Dan Egli
Hey folks, I got what may be a common or may be a bizarre question about network monitoring software. I've heard of packages like Nagios and things that supposedly let you monitor various boxes from a central point. That's great, but my understanding of them (admittedly incomplete) is that they mo