Monitoring Remote Server with NRPE

[gvrsagar]

Hi,

Is it possible to monitor a remote server with out installing NRPE daemon on it? I mean in core Nagios.

-thanks

[mguthrie]

Yes. You can either set up passive checks using NSCA or NRDP, or you can also monitor the linux server using SNMP, but that requires that the snmpd service be installed and configured on the client linux server, and requires configuration as well.

[gvrsagar]

Can you please share docs for configuring linux server with SNMP.

-Thanks

[gvrsagar]

Thanks for the reply, can you please share related instructions/docs for configuring using SMTP.

- Thanks

[agriffin]

There are no definitive docs for working with Nagios and SNMP, because SNMP is a complex beast and most setups require customizing the config in ways that require you to know about the SNMP protocol. There are many how-tos scattered about the web, however. To start with, you could give this one a try.