Nagios Support Forum

In an attempt to not reinvent the wheel, I was provided a link to a plugin which may help... check_dhcpd_leases https://www.monitoringexchange.org/inventory/Check-Plugins/Software/Misc/Check_Dhcpd_Leases So I am going to install this plugin an see what kind of output it provides. Then see if I can m...

Ok, so after some research I found a plugin which does what is needed for any check_plugin. This was provided to me as a result of a email sent to the Icinga team (a fork of nagios) who uses the nagios plugin's. When you install the extra plugin pack, a utility called NEGATE which has the ability to...

To anyone who is reading this, I have found out that nagios directives are by design to be generic an will accept any value. What matters is how the plugins use the directive. In the case of my question, yes I can put the mac address in the address directive. The fall out (or issue) is that plugins ...

I want Nagios to report RED an send notifications when sshd is running.

Is there any good documentation or explanation on how to accomplish this?

Currently I am running nagios 3.x which came with OpenSuSE 11.4

Thanks,
John

I'm afraid you may have to create your own plugin for this one I don't believe I've ever seen a plugin that accomplishes this floating about. Probably because there's any myriad of different systems that one might use as a central authoritative repository :( Saddly, I am not a corporate or enterpri...

I am looking for a plugin to alert me when a Unknown Host connects to my network. There is one plugin, but it makes use of opsview which I don't have running as its a commercial product. I am at the point of having to create a plugin, of which I have no perl experience, an limited bash experience. B...