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Thanks for the reply. I'm still pretty new to networking programming and monitoring, so I apologize if my questions seem basic. I might take a look at some of the plugins and their code on the nagios exchange and see if I can get any ideas for how to output signal from my service endpoints. Someone ...

Thanks for the reply mcapra. Most of what you said is what I've found in my initial research and is what we were planning to do. My main question lies in step 2 with sending the signal to the Nagios server. Most of the implementations I saw were on the machine or server level and if possible, I'd li...

Thanks for the welcome. From what I was told, we would like to have it so that our different web services/web sites all report in saying that they are alive to a monitoring process. Then, if the monitoring process has not heard an "I'm alive" signal from any of the services, it sends an al...

So I'm trying to find a solution for monitoring several different web services and reporting if any particular service goes down. I was reading the documentation on using NCPA for passive checking and sending reports to Nagios and it sounds like this is similar to what I need, but I need it to work ...