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Thanks for that Troy
Running up another VM was what I was trying to avoid. Most of my Nagios Sites just have the one Virtualisation host so as you rightly pointed out - it needs to be on different hardware.
Also another consideration is that I get charged for each VM that I run. Which is why it would be really good to have a package I can install on a existing server that can monitor a Nagios instance and send an alert if Nagios stops. And yes, it's not entirely fail-safe as exchange could be down as well or a network failure - but at that stage the monitoring won't be a primary concern.

regards.. Fred

hanya.radwan,

I see that your question was answered above, and some suggestions were given. Would it be alright if I locked and closed this case out, or do you have further questions?

Yes - you can close it . I had already worked through those solutions - but adding another VM is out of the question.
Still looking for a simple script on an external server to check if NAgios is running - guess I can add that to my list of jobs!

Thanks to all for taking the time to respond. Fred

This is my last comment, I would have PM'd Fred but his account doesn't allow it. I had to comment as there is already a script that does what he is after and I would cringe if he re-invented the wheel.

Fred Kroeger wrote:Still looking for a simple script on an external server to check if NAgios is running - guess I can add that to my list of jobs!

Just grab the script that the "Nagios XI Server" monitoring wizard uses in it's services:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagiosxiserver.php

On a test XI box, run the wizard, create the services and you'll see what commands are created in CCM. Then you'll know how to use the check_nagiosxiserver.php plugin/script on a non-XI server.

from your replies, I create the solution which fit my Nagios environment, that is:

our company has two data centers, and Nagios exist in one of them, so I will let one server (in second data center)to check Nagios server if up or down by ping .

regards that can anyone has script to check Nagios service also if up from remote server.

You can use the following plugin that is on the Nagios XI server (just copy it) help like the "ticket" can be found on your XI server in the URL's located at Admin -> Manage Components -> Backend API URLs

Thanks all - the php script looks like what I was looking for - so will give that a try.
Just realised that at one of my sites the Nagios server is the only UNIX server, all the others are Windows servers, so that will test my abilities a bit to get the same thing working and alerting on a windows server.

regards... Fred

Let us know how that works for you on the php script. I'll leave this thread open for now. Thanks.

I've got what I need for now so if the OP is satisified you can close.

Thanks... Fred

Were you able to sort this out hanya.radwan, or should we leave the ticket open so we can assist further?