How to Implement Nagios Topography to avoid over-alerting. Also how can we improve nagios performance to get avoided from fake alerts. Answer You can use host and service dependency definition in your configs. For example: dependent_service_description CPU Load These are the service that are dependent on the NRPE Status service notification_failure_criteria u,c,p When NRPE Status service is in the UNKNOWN
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Check_MK – configuring legacy check
I am running OMD 1.20 -latest according to official website, Check_MK 1.2.4p5 community edition on an Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS machine. I need to configure a FTP check that will check also the credentials and reading/writing a file. The standard plugins do not offer such a feature from what I know so I am trying to use a custom plugin, specifically:
Grant sudo permissions for nrpe to run the check as root
When I run service httpd status like root user I get httpd (pid 2932) is running… which is like expected. Now, when I su nrpe and run the same cmd service httpd status I get httpd dead but subsys locked. I’m kind of new to the Linux world but to me this smells like nrpe doesn’t have the permissions to
Nagios – Connection refused & Socket timeout
I need to monitor windows services(like CPU load, memory usage etc.), so I have installed Nagios monitoring tool. The installation is complete and ‘check_nt’ plugin is also installed. Upto this no error is there, but while executing scripts with agent NSClient++ ‘Connection refused by host’ error still persists. I have verified that nagios is working correctly, as under. M new