From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 20 15:28:15 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 11D8416A420 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:28:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2183D43D64 for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:28:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nomadlogic@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so254579wxc for ; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=UDGdFc1VAZGBfpwyJGZnpqxyVwD+/5Nc/GS5NPCZCsa7pPOvWlouZtY/mpjNicsAWUMcLhBvFBCmkpNYaol1dopmOWlyqM2qqQql/80BwdAdq2Mt+lZMsbf0NaxouEP3foosgc9kkVcDEHmd1ltLeIeMJfabatRWDD6y0FjuGRI= Received: by 10.70.102.12 with SMTP id z12mr991978wxb; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.65.12 with HTTP; Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:28:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <57d710000510200828r340c2196g4ccb2a4f78eb57f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:28:11 -0700 From: pete wright To: Mike Woods In-Reply-To: <435774CF.3040700@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20051020103800.89259.qmail@web34603.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <435774CF.3040700@the-rubber-chicken-network.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailinglist , Deepak Naidu 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 15:28:15 -0000 On 10/20/05, Mike Woods 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 NYC's *BSD User Group