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PostgreSQL Administration Essentials
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PostgreSQL Administration Essentials

by Hans-Jürgen Schönig
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
142 pages
3h 9m
English
Packt Publishing
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Integrating Nagios

Integrating PostgreSQL with the Nagios monitoring system is the goal of many system administrators. In many cases, Nagios or a Nagios-compliant solution is chosen to handle monitoring, alerting, and all that.

To integrate PostgreSQL with Nagios it makes sense to check out the Bucardo project, which offers a plugin to handle monitoring nicely. The plugin can be downloaded from the website http://bucardo.org/wiki/Check_postgres.

Once the module has been installed, administrators can enjoy a rich variety of checks: http://bucardo.org/check_postgres/check_postgres.pl.html.

Depending on your type of setup, you might want to use different modules. For example, database_size might be a perfectly valid check if you happen to run a large ...

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