When monitoring ESX hosts using the check_vmware_esx plugin we started noticing a lot of “script time out” errors and the checks going to “Unkown” state even know the default timeout is 90s. For us the problem seems to be solved […]
Monitor Varnish with Nagios
Varnish is an amazing reverse proxy product and it does its job very well, but how can we know that? Or even better how can we know it detected problems in the backed? Currently I monitor those server using hit/ratio […]
NRPE_NT Plugins
There are quite a few nice nagios nrpe_nt plugins (vbs scripts) released by GroundWork, since 2006 they have been working and improving these set of plugins. Those scripts are very well written and they can be enhanced for your own […]
Exchange Top Senders Nagios Plugin
Well I just went back to this old script, I rewrote so it will now work with Nagios. The output is simple and just reports total Top emailers, the script also requires/takes 3 arguments topemailers.vbs 3 5000 10000 would report […]