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Hello,

I would like to do the following using Nagios:

- check whether a file exists in a particular directory, on a remote server

- check whether a particular process (eg, rsync) is running in memory on that server

How would you do that in Nagios?

Many thanks.

priht

For simple process checking I would recommend check_procs which comes standard with any nagios installation, here is the manpage for it's requirements:

http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_procs

For file checking I would recommend this very simple plugin found on our exchange site:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... nt/details

Have you set up service's and command definitions before and understand how to do so?

Hi,

thanks for you reply.

Have you set up service's and command definitions before and understand how to do so?

No I haven't. A colleague of mine has shown me the object directory, but that's about it.

You may want to look over the core documentationto get a better understanding of the nagios ecosystem.