Nagios Monitoring

January 22, 2010

I use Nagios at work to monitor all of my critical production servers. We have a older Solaris 8 SPARC server that quietly sits handling database queries using Informix. Most of the time this server never needs to be touched but recently it has had some performance issues. Once we discovered the problem I decided to also add it to the pool of servers Nagios monitors. Needless to say, monitoring Solaris 8 with Nagios had its challenges to get setup.

I wrote up a detailed paper explaining the process and how to get around some of the problems I encountered while trying to get NRPE to play nicely with Solaris 8.

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