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10.4 Advanced distributed monitoring configuration
10.4.1 Sample Nagios configuration
An example configuration for Nagios is listed below. It shows how to set up a remote
Console server
to monitor a single
host, with both network and serial connections. For each check it has two configurations, one each for NRPE and NSCA.
In practice, these would be combined into a single check which used NSCA as a primary method, falling back to NRPE if a
check was late— for details see the Nagios documentation (http://www.nagios.org/docs/) on
Service and Host Freshness
Checks.
; Host definitions
;
; Black Box console server
define host{
use generic-‐host
host_name
Black Box
alias Console server
address 192.168.254.147
}
; Managed Host
define host{
use generic-‐host
host_name server
alias server
address 192.168.254.227
}
; NRPE daemon on gateway
define command {
command_name
check_nrpe_daemon
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -‐H 192.168.254.147 -‐p 5666
}
define service {
service_description
NRPE Daemon
host_name
Black Box
use
generic-‐service
check_command
check_nrpe_daemon
}
; Serial Status
define command {
command_name
check_serial_status
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -‐H 192.168.254.147 -‐p 5666 -‐c check_serial_$HOSTNAME$
}
