This guide will help you setup Nagios user to have limited access to host and service checks. It is helpful when you want to allow your customers or clients to view and receive alerts on their servers and services, like for dedicated servers. Procedure: Contacts: Create new contact definitions for your client. define contact{ contact_name [...]
We have a monitoring server running Nagios and we needed to add checks for Nginx process on a new server. Basically, you only need to install NRPE to monitor services, processes, disk space, load, etc on your remote machine. Check the NRPE docummention for complete reference and here’s a quick NRPE installation guide for Debian. [...]
Tags: Nagios
This is a slight departure from our regular programming. Instead of just concentrating on the sys admin side of things I want to show how to add a Nagios check to an existing application. In this case we have a Java application for which we want to monitor whether it is running or not. Later [...]
Tags: java·monitoring·Nagios
