I have been recently creating a number of external scripts within Nagios to bring together a number of services to be monitored. I am now looking at reporting the job status from vRanger backup jobs to Nagios based on the following criteria: Report the last completed run of a backup job. Report the job status … More Report Job Status from vRanger to Nagios
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I recently wrote a script to automate the creation of snapshots for EBS volumes for Amazon EC2 instances (https://deangrant.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/aws-create-ec2-snapshot-based-on-metadata-tag-value/). Following on from this I wanted to report the status of snapshots completed and return this status to Nagios. This was to be achieved by comparing the number of EBS volumes that contained a specific metadata tag … More Monitoring status of AWS EC2 Snapshots within Nagios
As part of creating external scripts within Nagios I was required to create a script which would monitor NTFS volume mount points which is not available in the default monitoring wizard. As the script was to be run against a number of different volume mount points, I did not want to create multiple scripts as … More Checking Free Disk Space on NTFS Volume Mount Points in Nagios
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