How to monitor logged in users

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Faraz Ahmed
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Joined: Fri Jun 29, 2012 5:24 am

How to monitor logged in users

Post by Faraz Ahmed »

hello some body can help me i am using Ubuntu 11.0

i want to show Nagios alert if certain users are not logged in.
which service we used and how i configure?
agriffin
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Re: How to monitor logged in users

Post by agriffin »

The check_users plugin does what you want. By default your Nagios installation should already be monitoring the users on your local machine. To monitor other hosts you'll need to combine this plugin with something like NRPE.
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