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Hi there,
I'm having a total brain-fart here -- I've added a number of my Linux servers via the XI Linux Wizard, and all is fine. Now, I want to go back and monitor if a specific Linux service is running (Asterisk).

How would I go about monitoring a specific service like this? I could have swore I've done this before...

You'll want to use the core config manager for this.

Configure --> Core Config Manager --> Monitoring --> Services.

You'll want to set up a command similar to the following:
You'll want to set the config name to whatever config your host is on. I obfuscated mine since it's a personal domain

This is checking for the SSH service. You can change that to whatever.

Alternatively, we have a section for more specialized Asterisk plugins on Nagios Exchange

Let us know if you have further questions.

Thanks!

My remote Linux machine that I want to monitor the service on does not seem to have 'check_init_service' in nrpe.cfg.

I don't see it in /usr/bin/local or /usr/lib/64/nagios/plugins either.

What is in your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe/common.cfg file?

hsmith wrote:What is in your /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe/common.cfg file?

I don't have have that directory.
[root@PBX1 plugins]# whereis nagios
nagios: /etc/nagios /usr/lib64/nagios

Just did a reinstall of the NRPE agent using the tarball from my XI server. I had previously installed NRPE via yum.
All looking good now! Thank you!

Ahhh, the generally preferred method is definitely to install it from source. Our Yum repos could use a little work at the moment

I'll go ahead and close this one up.

Thanks for letting us know how you resolved the issue!