[arm-allstar] Nagios Client Packages?

[Don Backstrom]

On Sun 17-Dec-17 16:29, "Lee Woldanski via arm-allstar" wrote:
> Rather than re-invent the wheel, I figured I would check with the group
> first.

	For those wishing to understand the free version of Nagios, here's a 
few obvious places to start:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagios
    https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nagios
    https://www.nagios.org/downloads/nagios-core/
    https://github.com/NagiosEnterprises/nagioscore

	I have no experience with version 4.x but the version3 service runs 
just fine on my old Fisher-Price rPi-v1 on top of Rasperian Wheezy/Jesse 
(I stay away from Stretch). My personal experience is that Nagios 
produces very little additional load, but that obviously is in part 
related to the number of objects which you have setup to check upon.

	IMO, it just sits there in the background and *runs* with no need for 
supervision.

	A simple (regular, automatic) ping to <node#>.asnode.org (where the 
string '<node#>' is replaced with the numeric node#) for each node 
you're interesting in monitoring might be a good start, so long as each 
node is normally on-line and responds to WAN pings. You could also check 
more fine detail with the 4569 (or whatever) port, along with 222 (etc) 
AAH port or web ports 80/8080/etc if they are publicly exposed.

	HTH,

	- Don - AA7AU