Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:28:11 -0700 From: pete wright <nomadlogic@gmail.com> To: Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailinglist <questions@freebsd.org>, Deepak Naidu <deepak_nai@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4 Message-ID: <57d710000510200828r340c2196g4ccb2a4f78eb57f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <435774CF.3040700@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> References: <20051020103800.89259.qmail@web34603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <435774CF.3040700@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk>
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On 10/20/05, Mike Woods <Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> wrote: > > Deepak Naidu wrote: > > > > If I want to monitor load, disk space, http etc service I have > > install entire nagios package or nagios-statsd, or plugins ? > > SMTP, http imap etc can all be monitored over the internet by the nagios > box since the check plugins for those are tcp/ip based, things like disk > space will require the nrpe setup (or one of the equivilent) which only > needs the plugins, I use nagios and nrpe extensivley to monitor our rack > at redbus, network services are just another service definition, checks > for disk access call the nrpe check command on the nagios server which > connects to the nrpe service on the remote machine which in turn runs > the nagios check plugin and returns the results to the nagios server! > > Basicly you'll need the nrpe package and the nagios plugins package but > since the nagios plugins are a dependancy of the nrpe port all you'll > need to install yourself is the nrpe package (assuming you're using > ports), you'll also need to install the nrpe package on the linux box in > order to get the check command for nagios! You can also monitor disk load and activity via net-snmp. I use net-snmp to monitor large networks of heterogenous hardware and OS's (*BSD/Linux/IRIX/Solaris/etc..) along side nagios. Granted SNMP may not be = a viable protocol to use on the public internet... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org <http://www.nycbug.org>; NYC's *BSD User Group
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