Re: Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Lane Van Ingen
Subject Re: Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios
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In response to Re: Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios  ("Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com>)
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What does the 'c' part of the -tc command do? It is not documented in
any information I have.

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org
[mailto:pgsql-admin-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Jim C. Nasby
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 5:38 PM
To: Chris Hoover
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Semi OT - Anyone monitoring PostgreSQL with nagios


I'm not familiar with Nagios, but you should be able to do something
like

psql -tc 'select 1' database

to see if it's alive and accepting queries.

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:18:55PM -0500, Chris Hoover wrote:
> Is anyone using Nagios to monitor PostgreSQL?
>
> If so, is there any way to check for more than just your PostgreSQL
instance
> being up?
>
> This weekend, we had an issue where a database shutdown failed due to a
> rogue query that would not die w/o a kill -9 being done on it. The
database
> remained up and accepted connections only to tell the connection to go
away
> because the database was shutting down.
>
> This up and accepting connections caused our Nagios instance to not report
> the database being down.
>
> Any ideas on how to get around this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris

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