Nagios Support Forum

Dear Friends,

I found Nagios as very useful tool to monitor different services.

I am looking for plugin to check running or stop status of Apache service.

I found some related plugin but they are not giving expected results.
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... /details#/

I have tried this plugin but even with stopped Apache service is shoes status Ok in
Nagios GUI, i am looking for such plugin which should reflect it status to CRITICAL
when service goes down.

Apart from this if i can check specific logs from Nagios for this service then that
would be even better.

so is there any plugin is available for my need ?

Regards,
Juned Khan

There are a couple of ways to do this, but the easiest is just to write a bash plugin that runs "service apache status" or "service httpd status" depending on your distribution and report based on the output.

What arguments are you using with the plugin you linked?

Hi

I have define service like this for apache

define service{
use local-service
host_name 192.168.1.75
service_description Apache Active Threads
check_command check_apache!active_threads!200!300!
}

Regards
Juned Khan

Can you show us the actual "check_apache" command from your commands.cfg file? It is possible that there is a flag that can be used with that plugin to check the current state of the apache process, as it looks like you are currently only checking active threads. You could also use the check_procs plugin that should come with the nagios plugins package to check if a process is running or not.