From 02f826e64e1532df82936edf33f8b9f4577cf9a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Micah Anderson Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 17:03:59 -0500 Subject: replace koumbit-specific nagios server configuration with a $nagios_server variable that can be set. updated README to detail this information --- README | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 3b73200..5cec60d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -65,4 +65,14 @@ and create them. We have yet to create proper authorized_keys management to make that process completely automatic. At the moment, not all the backupninja handlers are available, they -are relatively easy to add however. \ No newline at end of file +are relatively easy to add however. + +Nagios alerts about backup freshness +------------------------------------ + +If you set the $nagios_server variable to be the name of your nagios server, +then a passive nagios service gets setup so that the backup server pushes +checks, via a cronjob that calls /usr/local/bin/checkbackups.pl, to the +nagios server to alert about relative backup freshness. + +Note: this $nagios_server variable must be set before the class is included. \ No newline at end of file -- cgit v1.2.3