Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system

[Leandro de O. <leo...@ts...>]

Hi

You can check_by_ssh and execute a shell script on server side to get the 
informations you want.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Palle L Jensen" <pa...@gm...>
To: "'Marc Powell'" <ma...@en...>; "'nagios-users Mailinglist'" 
<nag...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:06 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system


> Unfortunately, SNMP is disabled and can not be enabled.
> I will look at the check_ssh plugin.
>
> Thanks
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Marc Powell [mailto:ma...@en...]
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 2:50 PM
>> To: nagios-users Mailinglist
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a HP-UX system
>>
>>
>> On Apr 28, 2009, at 12:52 PM, Palle L Jensen wrote:
>>
>> > Hey List,
>> >
>> > I was wondering if anyone would know if it is possible to monitor a
>> > few things on a HP-UX system without installing anything on the
>> > server? We are unable to install anything, plugins, apps etc on the
>> > server, it's a production server. Below is a description of the
>> > general requirements.
>> >
>> > The general requirements:
>> > - Cannot install anything on the system - it's a validated
>> > production system.
>> > - It runs a SSH server daemon that we'd like to monitor.
>> > - What I'd like to see is some way to have it connect to the
>> > specified port, read the banner and then just abort the connection.
>> > The purpose of this is that perhaps the Nagios system could read the
>> > banner response it gets, and if it is not what it's expected, or
>> > fails to receive a banner/login prompt, send an alert.
>>
>> check_ssh does exactly this.
>>
>> > I know that monitoring the ping is workable, but how about anything
>> > else, see above. Any help is much appreciated.
>>
>> There are plugins to check just about every kind of externally exposed
>> service, both in the standard plugins and on nagiosexchange.org. This
>> is perhaps the most straightforward kind of monitoring that can be
>> done outside of check_ping, and isn't really any different. Just
>> identify the external services exposed (ssh, http, etc), and use the
>> plugins designed to check them.
>>
>> SNMP, if enabled on the system, can be used to check things that
>> wouldn't normally be exposed externally, but I don't know if your
>> company considers an snmp daemon to be something 'installed'.
>>
>> --
>> Marc
>>
>>
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