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Hi all,

I'm a total beginner. I have set up Nagios on an Alix box running Voyage Linux (Debian Squeeze) monitoring basic services so far, HTTP, SSH, SMTP etc.

I am trying to monitor a Debian 5 server that is running saslauthd to see if this process is running. Is this possible?

I see some plugins for rpm based distros alright. Has anyone done this before?

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks
Brien

If you are just looking to check whether the process is running, the standard Nagios plugins include check_procs, which will do the job just fine.

agriffin wrote:If you are just looking to check whether the process is running, the standard Nagios plugins include check_procs, which will do the job just fine.

Thanks agriffin.

Sorry I should have been more specific. saslauthd (sasl) seems to crash every now and again with a general protection error. The process itself keeps running.

No idea why but when the process is restarted the issue is resolved. So what I would really like to be able to do is monitor the status of the application and send an SMS if this error occurs.

I saw some saslauthd plugins for rpm but not for debian