[gentoo-doc-cvs] cvs commit: nagios-guide.xml

[Sven Vermeulen]

swift       08/07/09 16:54:14

  Modified:             nagios-guide.xml
  Log:
  Adding some nrpe stuff

Revision  Changes    Path
1.5                  xml/htdocs/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml

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Index: nagios-guide.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.4
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.4 -r1.5
--- nagios-guide.xml	7 Jul 2008 20:02:46 -0000	1.4
+++ nagios-guide.xml	9 Jul 2008 16:54:13 -0000	1.5
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml,v 1.4 2008/07/07 20:02:46 swift Exp $ -->
+<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/nagios-guide.xml,v 1.5 2008/07/09 16:54:13 swift Exp $ -->
 <!DOCTYPE guide SYSTEM "/dtd/guide.dtd">
 
 <guide disclaimer="draft">
@@ -265,8 +265,11 @@
 
 <p>
 Next, edit <path>/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg</path> to allow your main Nagios system to
-access the NRPE daemon and customize the installation to your liking. Finally,
-launch the NRPE daemon:
+access the NRPE daemon and customize the installation to your liking. Another
+important change to the <path>nrpe.cfg</path> file is the list of commands that
+NRPE supports. For instance, to use <c>nagios-nrpe</c> version 2.12 with Nagios
+3, you'll need to change the paths from <path>/usr/nagios/libexec</path> to
+<path>/usr/lib/nagios/plugins</path>. Finally, launch the NRPE daemon:
 </p>
 
 <pre caption="Launching the NRPE daemon">
@@ -345,7 +348,32 @@
 </pre>
 
 <p>
-Finally, define the service(s) you want to check on these hosts.
+Finally, define the service(s) you want to check on these hosts. As a prime
+example, we run the system load test and disk usage plugins:
+</p>
+
+<pre caption="Define the services to check">
+# <i>nano /etc/nagios/objects/remote/nrpe-services.cfg</i>
+
+define service {
+  use generic-service
+  host_name webber,isync
+  service_description Current Load
+  check_command check_nrpe!check_load
+}
+
+define service {
+  use generic-service
+  host_name webber,isync
+  service_description Root Partition
+  check_command check_nrpe!check_disk
+}
+</pre>
+
+<p>
+That's it. If you now check the service details on the Nagions monitoring site
+you'll see that the remote hosts are connected and are transmitting their
+monitoring metrics to the Nagios server.
 </p>
 
 </body>



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