Re: Hot to do the first test

Subhendu Ghosh <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.netsaint.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4 Nov 2002, Frank Schafer wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm completely new to NetSaint and I'm trying to do a first test. I
> wonder about a service test, if a filesystem on some host is mounted or
> not. This will be a real test in my environment too.
> Can I do such a test with a normal shell-script? Has the Netsaint host
> to have remote-shell permissions on tne hosts it tests?
> I still didn't completely get the picture of how the tests work. These,
> which are shell-scripts look like scripts to run on the local machine.
> 
> Thanks for any help
> Frank
> 

You are correct - a lot of the tests are local system tests.  In order to 
execute them on remote systems, they need to be installed on the remote 
systems and you then need a method to access them from the monitoring 
host.  2 most common methods are to use NRPE add-on or check_by_ssh 
plugin.


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-sg



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