Chapter 9:
Nagios Integration
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7.
The
Nagios Check
nominated as the
check-host-alive
check is the check used to determine
whether the network host is up or down
8.
This will be
Check Ping
– although in some cases the host will be configured not to respond to
pings
9.
If no
check-host-alive
check is selected, the host will always be assumed to be up
10.
You may deselect
check-host-alive
by clicking
Clear check-host-alive
11.
If required, customize the selected
Nagios
Checks
to use custom arguments
12.
Click
Apply
9.2.6 Configure the upstream Nagios monitoring host
See the Nagios documentation (http://www.nagios.org/documentation/) for configuring the upstream
server:
The section entitled
Distributed Monitoring
steps through what you need to do to configure NSCA on the
upstream server (under
Central Server Configuration
)
NRPE Documentation
has recently been added which steps through configuring NRPE on the upstream
server http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf
At this stage, Nagios at the upstream monitoring server has been configured, and individual serial port and
network host connections on the console server configured for Nagios monitoring. If NSCA is enabled,
each selected check will be executed once over the period of the check interval. If NRPE is enabled, the
upstream server will be able to request status updates under its own scheduling.
