Check Nagios service itself

[mwngai]

Hi,

May I know if there is a way that Nagios will inform the administrator (say daily) that it is up and running? I may not actively access Nagios everyday to monitor the added services. So if Nagios is down, the added services will leave unmonitored, it is surely not desirable.

Thanks in advance.

David

[mguthrie]

I'm sure there are multiple ways to do this, one simple way would be to have a second Nagios install somewhere that just runs a few simple nrpe checks on the main server and checks that the nagios service is running.

[mwngai]

Thanks for the advice. May be the easiest way is just running mail command on Nagios server in regular basis to notify me the server is up and running.

David

[mguthrie]

Yeah, I suppose you could just set up a daily cron job to check if the nagios service is running and mail the output. That would be easier ; )