> I wonder if anyone here uses Nagios to monitor Firebird or InterBase
> servers (for uptime/disk space, etc.)? If there is someone, could you
> provide nagios plugin for Firebird you use?
>
> If there isn't any, I'm interested to write one. It should be a simple
> command-line program to determine whether Firebird/Interbase is running.
>
> Has anyone got a good idea how to do it? I'm thinking connecting to
> supplied host/port (defaults to 3050) and username/password
> combination and doing "select * from rdb$database". It would be very
> nice if we could also retrieve server version.
>
> For those who don't know about it, Nagios is an open source host,
> service and network monitoring program:
>
> http://www.nagios.org/

Milan,

Interesting this nagios. Why don't you do the same test that is done
with IboConsole to teste connection to a server and Database? After
all the source is there and ready...

HTH
Andrew