check_nagios plugin

[matty jones]

I may be missing it but where do you point it to the other server.  I
thought you need to add the nagios server you wish to check as an arg.
 On Dec 18, 2014 6:50 PM, "Ditmar Tavares" <DTavares at clearwater.ca> wrote:

>  I’m new to Linux and also to Nagios monitoring, so it may be something
> that I’m missing.
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> I setup a second Nagios server so I can monitor my primary Nagios server,
> basically if the primary Nagios stop monitoring I would like to know via
> the secondary Nagios.
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> Issue is that I setup the check_nagios plugin and its giving me the status
> of the Nagios process of the primary server, but when I shutoff the Nagios
> process on the primary server (for testing), I am NOT getting any
> notification from the secondary server that something is wrong with the
> primary, and its also keeps telling me the process on the primary servers
> is OK.
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> Could you please assist ? thank you in advance.
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> See my host service definition below.
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> define service {
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>         use                             generic-service
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>         host_name                       ClearMon02
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>         service_description             Nagios
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>         check_command                   check_nagios
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>         notifications_enabled           1
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>           }
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> My command definition is below
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> define command{
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>         command_name    check_nagios
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>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nagios -F
> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat -e 1 -t  15 -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
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>         }
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