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I have two hosts H1 and H2. when H1 is down it should create a Warning notification instead of down when H2 is up. I tried to use BPI for this but the notification sent from BPI doesn't have any information on which host is down. Is there way to customize the BPI notification to send the status of a...

I have a Oracle DB on a server which has important transaction data. How can I monitor the database so that Nagios XI gets notified whenever a unauthorized or authorized delete operation is performed on the database. Note: New data is added to this database daily but no data is deleted.

Oh! thanks this helps a lot. Its working now

Sorry for the late reply. i got a chance to work on it now. I was able to setup the BPI. But I can't find an option to enable notifications for the BPI process. where can i configure notifications for the BPI process?

I have a problem with nagios xi when I try apply configuration in the console it is stuck at the verifying configuration screen. And when i try it manually using reconfigure.sh I am getting this error Another reconfigure process is still running, sleeping... Another reconfigure process is still runn...

I have one more problem with this, when the main host is up and any of its service goes down it must give a critical notification. And if the main host is up and the service in the secondary host goes down it must give a warning notification rather than a critical notification. And if main host is d...

I gave nagios sudo access to the client server and changed the file permissions for host_shutdown script to nagios:nagios in client server and it worked. I was able to shutdown the server.

I tried the script you posted but, same output. It didn't work and the server didn't shutdown.

I'm running NRPE using xinetd so I added the host_shutdown command to the nrpe.cfg. how to restart nrpe to take this in to effect?

It looks right, from the Nagios machine can you run /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS -c host_shutdown (replace $HOSTADDRESS$ with the IP of the machine that you setup the machine that you're looking to restart.) Does that work for you? i tried running it manually but the output ...

You will need a remote agent installed such as NRPE, or NSClient++ installed on the machine you're looking to shut down. It will then need a command defined, that references a bash or windows script to shut down the system. Then, you'll want to use event handlers which will trigger every time a sta...