Scenario / Question: How do I monitor Windows Services and Processes using check_nt and Nagios NSClient++ Solution / Answer: Use the check_nt command with the SERVICESTATE and PROCSTATE variables. Install and Configure Nagios NSClient++ as per the following tutorial: “Nagios NSClient++ to [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor a remote Windows system using Nagios Solution / Answer: Use the NSClient++ addon to execute Nagios plugins on the remote server and report back to the monitoring host server. NSClient++ Remote Server Installation and Setup Make a [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I install NRPE on a SME 7 server Solution / Answer: You install NRPE by using the rpm packages hosted by Michael Weinberger. Download rpm packages Use the following script to automatically download all the needed packages wget_nrpesme Download and Run: # mkdir -p [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor APC UPS Battery via apcaccess on linux Solution / Answer: Use the check_apcupsd plugin and NRPE Download check_apcupsd Plugin on Remote Host Server The original check_apcupsd plugin can be found here. check_apcupsd I modified the check_apcupsd plugin to [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor linux software raid array status on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_raid plugin and NRPE Download check_raid Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_lsi_megaraid plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ from [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor LSI MegaRAID controller and raid array status on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_lsi_megaraid plugin and NRPE Download check_lsi_megaraid Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_lsi_megaraid plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ from [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor Yum updates on a remote linux server Solution / Answer: Use the check_yum plugin and NRPE Download check_yum Plugin on Remote Host Server Downlaod check_yum plugin to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ from www.monitorexchange.org check_yum 1. Download the plugin to [continue...]

Scenario / Question: I followed the Tutorial on installing and configuring NRPE, but now I want to monitor more services on the remote server. Solution / Answer: You can add services by configuring nrpe.cfg on the remote host and adding a new service definition on the Nagios monitoring [continue...]

Scenario / Question: How do I monitor a remote linux system using Nagios Solution / Answer: Use th NRPE daemon to execute Nagios plugins on the remote server and report back to the monitoring host server. NRPE Remote Server Installation and Setup Create Nagios user account on remote server to be [continue...]

Installing Nagios server and network monitoring on Centos 5 server The official documentation can be found at http://support.nagios.com/knowledge-base/official-documentation Install necessary packages yum install httpd gcc glibc glibc-common gd gd-devel php Create Nagios User account and [continue...]