From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 10:44:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 515FE16A41F for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:44:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from geofront.co.uk (port-179.dolphin.c4l.co.uk [80.253.114.179]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC59443D64 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:44:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.0.205] (octet22.arishi.com [81.27.69.22] (may be forged)) by geofront.co.uk (8.12.9/8.12.6) with ESMTP id j9KAv3i0032481; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:57:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from Mike@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk) Message-ID: <435774CF.3040700@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:43:27 +0100 From: Mike Woods User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050617 Thunderbird/1.0.2 Mnenhy/0.7.2.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Deepak Naidu References: <20051020103800.89259.qmail@web34603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20051020103800.89259.qmail@web34603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailinglist Subject: Re: Nagios Client on FreeBSD 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:44:43 -0000 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! --------------------------------------- Mike Woods Systems Administrator