Monitoring Nagios server with NRPE

[WillemDH]

Hi Andy,

Yes indeed, it seems the checks I was looking for are in common.cfg.:

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### GENERIC SERVICES ###
command[check_init_service]=sudo /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_init_service $$
command[check_services]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_services -p $ARG1$

### MISC SYSTEM METRICS ###
#command[check_users]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 10
command[check_users]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users $ARG1$
command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load $ARG1$
command[check_swap]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_swap $ARG1$
command[check_cpu_stats]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_cpu_stats.sh $ARG1$
command[check_mem]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/custom_check_mem -n $ARG1$

### YUM UPDATES ###
command[check_yum]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_yum

I can't find this common.cfg on the Nagios server. Also like I said before the Nagios server is 2.12 and nrpe on the remote Linux server is 2.14. Is there some way to upgrade this? Is common.cfg something that is installed when installing the nrpe agent?

[slansing]

Common.cfg is not actually called by anything explicitly. It is an example file that you can copy commands out of into your own nrpe.cfg if the plugins shown in the command exist. NRPE will be updated on the nagios server when it is pushed out in one of our update scripts. NRPE 2.14 is fairly recent and we only allow changes like this to pass down to customers once they are thoroughly tested.

[WillemDH]

Hello,

Ok I'm going forward to what I want:
I copied the following scripts from the remote Linux server to the Nagios server and made a command for them to run locally:
check_cpu_stats.sh
check_open_files.pl

Now I get some results similar to our other monitored Linux servers.

Can someone explain me the difference between the load and the cpu stats on a Linux monitored server?

Tx

[slansing]

I'd read through this:

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2009/ ... d-averages

It is valuable information for any linux admin.

[WillemDH]

Cleaning up my open threads. Got the cpu load , open files etc running nicely. Thread can be closesd. Tx.

[tmcdonald]

And thank you for going through your threads!