Service Monitoring System

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h1. Install check_db2_health

*Important note*: Install this addon on the Nagios machine.

Official website: http://labs.consol.de/nagios/check_db2_health/

h2. Prerequisites

This addon requires the following Perl modules in order to work properly:

* @DBI@

* @DBD::DB2@

h2. Installation Steps

h3. DB2 server (which to be monitored by Nagios)

# login to the server

## if @nagios@ user and @nagios@ group do not exist:

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# useradd nagios

# passwd nagios

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## if @nagios@ user and @nagios@ group exist, proceed to next step

# login to the server with the @DB2 user@, e.g. db2inst1, and execute:

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db2inst1$ db2 update dbm cfg using sysmon_group nagios

db2inst1$ db2 grant select,update on table SYSTOOLS.STMG_DBSIZE_INFO to nagios

db2inst1$ db2stop; db2start

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h3. Nagios server

# download the source file "check_db2_health":http://labs.consol.de/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/check_db2_health-1.0.1.tar.gz

# extract the downloaded file

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# tar -xvzf check_db2_health-1.0.1.tar.gz

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# @cd@ to the extracted directory

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# cd check_db2_health-1.0.1

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# @make@ and @install@ the package:

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# ./configure

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