Daren Matthews wrote this check_ups plugin to facilitate monitoring of a number of UPS vendor products. To use the plugin you will need to install UPSD daemon distributed with Russel Kroll’s Smart UPS Tools be installed on the remote host.
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
Felipe Ferreira wrote this howto for monitoring Microsoft Exchange 2003 servers using Nagios. Felipe states that “any comments or improvements are welcome!”
http://felipeferreira.net/?page_id=457
Sam posted this article on how to use Nagios Remote Plugin Executor (NRPE), to remote execute plugins to retrieve data for use in a monitoring capacity.
This article will deal with the anatomy of a RPM. Building an RPM is not hard. However, configuring the RPM for you environment can be confusing. RPMs enable the system administrator and more importantly, the organization, to painlessly deploy and upgrade packages that are custom created for the environment. RPMs file nicely into any enterprises SDLC and can be initiated through Change Management.
Understanding how to work with a spec file and RPM is valuable information for any Systems Administrator working in a Linux environment. Here is a link to the full article: Nagios: Anatomy of an RPM using NRPE and the packaged nrpe.spec
Visit this site where Fabio Milano explains how to monitor a remote Windows system using Nagios
http://www.kernelhardware.org/nagios-nsclient-to-monitor-remote-windows-server/
