Nagios

Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.

Check command

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.1 -c check_metric

Sample /etc/nagios/nrpe config file on CentOS 6.3 64 bit, host checked by Nagios

log_facility=daemon
pid_file=/var/run/nrpe/nrpe.pid
server_port=5666
nrpe_user=nrpe
nrpe_group=nrpe
#nagios server 192.168.1.2
allowed_hosts=196.168.1.2,127.0.0.1
dont_blame_nrpe=0
debug=1
command_timeout=60
connection_timeout=300
include_dir=/etc/nrpe.d/

command[check_users]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_users -w 5 -c 10
command[check_load]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 30,25,20
command[check_hda1]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20% -c 10% -p /dev/hda1
command[check_zombie_procs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 5 -c 10 -s Z
command[check_total_procs]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_procs -w 150 -c 200 

check_oracle_health shows warning when OK

http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=6282