Subject: Re: [vserver] Nagios monitoring of host
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@cyber-office.net>
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:24:36 -0700

Cédric Dufour - Idiap Research Institute wrote:
> Hello Rod,
> 
> NRPE is definitely the way to go perform such "remote host health 
> monitoring" (e.g. discs, CPU, memory, processes, etc): 
> http://www.nagios.org/download/addons
> 
> Basically, it allows to perform "local" tests (e.g. disc SMART status 
> check) on the remote host and have it "passed back" through the network.


I was thinking this was the solution from recent messages on the list 
but wasn't sure if there was a way to monitor that didn't require 
installing/running something the host.  Mostly I was thinking of 
escalations (?) so if the host was down don't worry about reporting the 
guests' services were down.
    Though this (NRPE) seems a little heavy-weight for my needs right 
now I'm sure it will benefit those that come after me.  :-)


Thanks
Rod
-- 
> Cheers
> 
> Cédric Dufour @ Idiap Research Institute
> 
> 
> 
> On 23/07/09 15:28, Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
>> I'm just getting started with Nagios but would like to get some LV 
>> hosts monitored.  I have several guests being monitored already but 
>> since there is no specific functionality visible to the network for a 
>> host I am wondering if anyone has come up with a good method to do this.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> \\||/
>> Rod