This article describe howto monitor an Asterisk server with Nagios or op5 Monitor. Pre-req to get it running is a working Nagios or op5 Monitor installation and an Asterisk 🙂 Theory In my implementation of Asterisk I have a couple of softphones, 2 hardphones and connections to two SIP providers. I want to monitor the […]
I’ve got a hint from a partner to take a peak at http://folk.uio.no/trondham/software/check_openmanage.html It describes How-To monitor Dell hardware with Nagios, of course it works perfectly well with op5 Monitor aswell.
Today I had to do some electrical work at home. The consequence was that my internet connection was down for about 20 minutes because my ADSL modem did not have any power. My Nagios based op5 Monitor system discovered this directly and reported to me. I forgot to schedule this as planed downtime so I […]
At my home the most critical system is the MythTV system and a MythTV downtime will create a revolt at home. This article will describe howto make sure that a MythTV backend can be surveillanced with Nagios or op5 Monitor. I have in earlier articles described howto install and configure both the backend and the […]
To get output to an LCD display 1-wire can be used. This article will describe how to that and include an example to get status from Nagios or op5 Monitor on the display. I use it to get a quick overview how my DataCenter is doing. When the LCD display is flashing something has either […]
I have hinted about automysqlbackup in an earlier blog. Of course an important script like this should be monitored by Nagios or op5 Monitor. In my opinion the correct way of doing this is using a passive check that sends in the result of the backup into Nagios or op5 Monitor. The backup script is […]
In some cases the "Normal" way of running checks does not work, passive checks might do the job. I have a script the runs every night that backup my MySQL database. If this script fails I would like op5 Monitor or Nagios to send a notification. An active check will not work in this case […]
Do you want to write your own plugin to Nagios or op5 Monitor. op5 have created a development howto for plugins a.k.a. check commands. Take a peak at op5 support pages.
Do you want Nagios or op5 Monitor notifications to be sent by MSN? Follow the steps below to implement it. This is a hint from my colleague Martin Kamijo, kudos to him 😛
Cut-n-paste from http://www.op5.org/about We want to give something back to the community We have built a successful business around several opensource components, such as Nagios, RRDTool, Cacti, syslog-ng, NSClient++, Linux and several hundred GNU programs and libraries. A big thanks to all the hundreds of programmers for their efforts. Now that we have addons around […]
