Re: [BackupPC-users] Monitoring backup server

[Brent G <ove...@gm...>]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote:
> I'd like to have my Nagios server check my backuppc server to be sure it 
> is working. I think checking the admin cgi inteface would work well, but 
> I use authentication on it so I don't know how to solve that issue. Is 
> anyone monitoring this way, any other ideas?
> 
> It might be an idea for the future, add a port that answers a query:
> 
> Nagios server: HI Backuppc, are you there?
> BackupPC server: OK
> 
> 

Coming from here:
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#PERLPLUGIN

It looks like Nagios has Perl built in. (embedded Perl Nagios, ePN). 
It'd be trivially easy to write a perl script that logs onto the CGI 
interface.