Category Archives: nagios

nagios snmp check all disks plugin

Posted on January 17, 2012 by cormander

Having to manage a wide array of servers with vastly different disk configurations, I found that things began to be very tedious with the nagios configuration file for disks checks. It seemed as if no two server disk configuration was … Continue reading →

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Monitor time drift with nagios and snmp

Posted on December 14, 2011 by cormander

The other day I threw together a check_snmp_time.pl script that simply checks the remote’s time against the monitor host’s time. It’s fairly straight forward, and will alert you when host’s time drift too much, indicating that your ntpd configuration is … Continue reading →

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An agent, auditor, and bodyguard walk into a bar…

Posted on December 3, 2011 by cormander

This evening I wasted a bunch of time on what turned out to be a simple problem. I really hate it when that happens. I fixed a bug in tpe-lkm where users weren’t seeing all of their processes, and updated … Continue reading →

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nagios snmp memory and swap plugin

Posted on November 19, 2011 by cormander

Since I’m on a nagios and snmp kick this week, here’s a nagios snmp plugin I wrote to check memory and swap. The real difference between this script and the standard nagios plugins for memory / swap, is it takes … Continue reading →

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A nagios snmp plugin that obeys snmp.conf

Posted on November 18, 2011 by cormander

So there is a currently unresolved issue with the check_snmp nagios plugin where it doesn’t use the snmp.conf file. I use v3 of the protocol, and don’t want to have to put the big long string everywhere in the nagios … Continue reading →

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