Re: Hot to do the first test
Subhendu Ghosh <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.netsaint.user |
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| 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. -- -sg ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ApacheCon, November 18-21 in Las Vegas (supported by COMDEX), the only Apache event to be fully supported by the ASF. http://www.apachecon.com