how to monitor uptime service when using nrpe wizard

[ganeshsambandam]

how to monitor uptime service when using nrpe wizard

[swolf]

Can you be more specific about what system or server you're trying to monitor? NRPE is a way for you to run nagios plugins on a remote host, so in a very general sense, you'll want to find or create a plugin that measures uptime on the system you're monitoring, install NRPE on that system, place the plugin in /usr/local/nagios/libexec, add a command for the plugin in nrpe.cfg, and then run through the NRPE wizard, adding the command where it asks for "Remote NRPE Command" and the relevant plugin arguments next to that.

Here's a link to some documentation for configuring NRPE on a Linux server

[jforcier]

Add check_uptime in the NRPE Commands during step 2 of the NRPE wizard.

More information on uptime checks here:
https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/u ... s-784.html

[ganeshsambandam]

https://support.nagios.com/kb/article/u ... s-784.html

above link doesn't have an option to monitor uptime using nrpe.

We are trying to monitor uptime for solaris version 10 servers.

[jforcier]

The first plugin in that link, check_uptime, will work with NRPE.

Follow this document and add check_uptime in step 2:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... g_NRPE.pdf

To test the plugin, you could set up a command in the nrpe.cfg file on the remote machine as such:

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command[check_uptime]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_uptime $ARG1$

and restart nrpe so that changes take place.

Then, you can test your check from the command line on the Nagios XI server:

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# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x -c check_uptime -a '-u days -c 1'
Uptime CRITICAL: 2 day(s) 3 hour(s) 39 minute(s) | uptime=2.000000;;1.000000;

[ganeshsambandam]

Thanks, can you please provide me the command which can be used to check in minutes.

For ex:- i need to see an alert if uptime is less than 10 minutes.

[jforcier]

Run your check like this:

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./check_uptime -u minutes -c 10: -w 20:

Here is an articale that explains how to use thresholds and ranges in your checks.
https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/guidelin ... HOLDFORMAT