<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">LAUKENS Niels wrote:<br>
>Although this is getting off-topic, for the record: Nagios can accept<br>
>"alerts" from pretty much anywhere. Either use "send_nsca", or write<br>
>directly to the "external command file" with your updated information.<br>
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</div>Indeed. Plus, for active monitoring, if you can write a script to do it, Nagios can monitor it. In essence, the monitoring side of Nagios is just calling scripts and processing the response code (OK, Warning, Critical, Unknown). So pretty well all you need to do is write a script (optionally taking some parameters), and have it spit out a one-line result - whatever goes inside is up to you and can be as simple or complex as you like/need/can cope with.<br>
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Though I have to agree with an easrlier comment - it's a bit heavyweight, and has a fairly steep learning curve until you get your head round it.<br>
<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yeah, unfortunately (fortunately?) I have a *lot* of experience with it. I originally started using it when it was still called Netsaint (circa 2000) . Now I am a slave to HP... :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Anyway, if I get some time I'll try and take a look at the plugin and see what it does, it could be relatively easy to port to a newer version of MythTV.</div><div><br></div><div>Tom </div></div></div>
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