For this recipe, our database has a local hostname of pg-1, and the monitor server is named monitor-server. Start by following these steps to set up pg-1 with a Check_MK resource agent:
- Click on Monitoring Agents in the WATO - Configuration segment of the left sidebar.
- Download the appropriate agent that matches the operating system being monitored. Assuming pg-1 is a Debian system, we might download check-mk-agent_1.6.0p5-1_all.deb.
- Install the agent via yum, apt, or any appropriate package manager.
- Select and download any additional agent plugins you'd like to monitor. We recommend the mk_postgres plugin.
- Install any chosen plugins into the following folder on pg-1:
/usr/lib/check_mk_agent/plugins
- Mark any downloaded ...