check_nagios_summary enables you to do perform distributed monitoring using Nagios. With this plugin, a Nagios system can check and summarize the status of other (satelite) Nagios systems.
Why?
Nagios includes NSCA which enables you to distribute check-results of satelite Nagios processes to the main Nagios instance. The con of this is that it requires you to have all services defined on the satelite host to be defined on the main host as well. This is an administration nightmare.
The sourcepackage contains elaborate instructions how to install this Nagios add-on.
Example
Thanks
This program was written with support from BPSolutions.
Changes
0.0.27 fixed Nagios 3.0 support (not all new parameters were processed), fixes in max-age checks 0.0.26 added Nagios 3.0 support, stability fixes 0.0.24 initial release
Links
You might be interested in MultiTail: that program enables you to monitor logfiles while viewing the output of httping in a seperate window! NagiosDigger: a web-interface to the historical Nagios logging. Nagcon: a console application interfacing to Nagios which gives you an overview of all services with troubled services. NagIRCBot announces the Nagios status on an IRC channel. NagTail is like tail on the Nagios status logfile.