[Nagiosplug-help] [Nagios-users] monitoring application with nrpe

[Hari Sekhon]

yes I also found the documentation a bit lacking.

basically, install nrpe on each server, this needs an nrpe.cfg which is 
documented with comments.

you need to define each check_command in nrpe.cfg on each server. I use 
on and push this to all servers over ssh/rsync.

then on nagios server use check_nrpe -H hostname -c check_command which 
connects to the remote nrpe port (5666) by default, executes the plugin, 
returns the standard output and the status code.

you might want to run your nrpe through xinetd to filter ips allowed to 
call nrpe checks (or use iptables or something), nrpe has ip 
restrictions removed now I think...

the rest you should be able to figure out by yourself.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Harry John wrote:
> Hi Gentlemen,
>  
> I've succesfully installed nagios and am monitoring windows processes 
> with nsclient++ with great help from you people.
> Now I need to monitor running some process (application specific) with 
> nrpe.
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf this document does 
> not say anything about it.
>  
> Could anyone help me how to monitor such processes ?
>  
> Thanks !
>  
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