This page has my notes form the conference. 

In order to allow the Nagios system to run thousands of alert checks per minute, we needed to tune a few things in Nagios.

First we moved the database and program directories /var/lib and /usr/local over to a high speed EMC disk Array.

Create a RAM disk for Nagios tempory files

I created a ramdisk by adding the following entry to the /etc/fstab file:

none                              /mnt/ram                        tmpfs   size=500M           0 0

Mount the disk using the following commands

# mkdir -p /mnt/ram; mount /mnt/ram

Verify the disk was mounted and created

# df -k

NOTE: These instructions apply to a system that has not previously had NRPE installed on it.  If NRPE has been previously installed, you will need to backup the nrpe.cfg file to ensure it is not lost.

NOTE2: The system you are installing this on MUST have access to your nagios server on port 80.  You can verify this by typing "telnet nagiosserver.mycompany.com 80".

1. Install rpmforge on the linux system

Please refer to this document on installing it if you have not already: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge

2. Next: install nagios-nrpe on the system

rpm -q nagios-nrpe ||  yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nagios-nrpe

 Attached is a script you can use on any of your systems to speed up the process of the installation.

1.  Log into your system

2. vi /tmp/install_nrpe

3. Copy the script listed below

4. save the file

5. type "chmod 755 /tmp/install_nrpe"

6. type "/tmp/install_nrpe"

# begin script
rpm -q nagios-nrpe ||  yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install nagios-nrpe || exit 1

Client Setup Instructions

1. Open Firefox
2. Search for the Selenium IDE plugin and install it.

Recording Selenium Script

*NOTE* This script WILL record passwords.

Naming Standards

Hostname Naming Standards:

• Pattern: host.domain
• Example: Hostname.domain.com

Each hostname will have a fully qualified domain name.

Please refer to JMX::Jmx4Perl::Manual for installation instructions 

for how to deploy the agent servlet (which can be found in the distribution as agent/j4p.war

Reference Links

1. JMX::Jmx4Perl page on seach.cpan.org

Introduction to JMX Technology

Java Management Extensions Technology is a new feature in version 5.0 of the Java Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). If you are already familiar with JMX technology, see Appendix A, "JMX Technology Versions" for version information.

JMX technology provides a simple, standard way of managing resources such as applications, devices, and services. Because JMX technology is dynamic, you can use it to monitor and manage resources as they are created, installed and implemented. You can also use JMX technology to monitor and manage the Java Virtual Machine1 (JVM^TM).

JMX technology was developed through the Java Community Process^SM (JCP^SM) as two closely related Java Specification Requests (JSRs):

a.  Regular Expression HTTP monitor

We need the ability to monitor a part of a page.   The content needs to be able to match content on a page using regular expressions.  Also needed is the ability to log into the page.  Example of expression: /Temp_P18.*\n.*\n.*;(.*) Deg. C.*\n.*\n.*\n.*;(.*) %/

We need to be able to catch the values in the "()" areas listed above and check against those values.

We're experiencing issues with some monitors giving a HTTP-FORBIDDEN issue with the check_http scripts.

nsca - Daemon and client program for sending passive check results across the network