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Hello jdalrymple, Thanks for your response. Yes, the POS is hosting http, so i can try check_http. Secondly, there is a webservice that all POS are connecting to. POS sends and receives request from it. So anytime you On the POS it should connect to the webservice. So we want to monitor the status o...

Hello Guys, Thanks for your swift response. That means i can monitor check_http. Please do i need to install client on the POS. Please can you guild me through on what and what to do. We have like to 20 POS that we want to monitor the status and create a report for it too. Till i hear from you. Rega...

Hello Support,

I want to ask if nagios can monitor POS status if its down or up. Please i need assistance on this.



Till i hear from you.


Regards,
Ladi

Hi All, Thanks so much for your assistance so far. I think i now understand how it work, i dont need to define any other things, the printer status is enough to monitor all the things i need to monitor. I tried to simulate it , i empty the paper in my printer and i nagios reported out of paper. I th...

Hi tmcdonald, Below is the command that am using. 'check_hpjd' command definition define command{ command_name check_hpjd command_line $USER1$/check_hpjd -H $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$ } I will run it manually and post the output shortly. Dont forget that i said someone the services are working fine except...

Hi Slansing, Currently am using check_hpjp, but have tried check_snmp also, with no luck. I was about to monitor the printer status and ping of the printer , but the rest like Out of Paper and toner, i dont know how to do that. kindly see attached my configurations file for printer and the screensho...

Hi Slansing, Thanks for your response. Well I specified my plugin directory in the .sh script. /usr/local/nagios/libexe before I ran It, cos it prompt me for that. Have checked the folder I couldn't see it any plugin like check-snmp_inverter there.. For the output you said I need to define the Oid, ...

Hi Sreinhardt, Have download the plugin check_smnp_inverter and have extracted it , is now check_snmp_inverter.sh. i opened the file and i added the plugin directory to it, i changed the mode (chmod +x check_snmo_inverter and i run it ./check_snmp_inverter i got the below message after running the ....

Hi Sreinhardt, Thanks for your quick response. Have checked the nagios site and i found out that there is new plugin for inverter check_snmp _inverter. have download the pluging but have not run. How do i run this plugin on ubuntu where my nagios server was installed?. Please i need a guide. Regards.

Hi Box,

Have tried it and it works fine. I passed in the ip and suggested and i left the password space blank. After all this, i restarted my NSCleint++ and nagios server and everything works perfectly.


Thanks for your support.


Regards.