In the message dated: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:21:53 -0000,
The pithy ruminations from Mike on 
<[Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios> were:
=> 

=> 
=> Folks,
=> 
=> Does anyone have any tips for montioring Bacula with Nagios?

Yes.


=> 
=> Ideally I was thinking of connecting to the sockets and doing a hello to
=> make sure it was happy.  I haven't been able to find any plugings and
=> tinking with the protocol there seems to be some non printing characters
=> which makes it a little tricky to write my own.
=> 
=> Any other suggestions for achiving it?

Sure.

I'm using the Nagios "nrpe" facility to have the nagios server issue calls to 
each client to run the nagios "check_procs" command, looking for the presence 
of the process "bacula-fd". You can do similar things to check for the 
bacula-sd and bacula-dir daemons.

Here are some config file snippets:

===nagios server===
checkcommands.cfg
        command_line    /usr/lib/nagios/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c 
check_bacula-fd -t 20


===backup client===
nrpe.cfg
        command[check_bacula-fd]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs  -C 
bacula-fd -c 1: -w :2


=> 
=> Mike.
=> 

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