[Nagios-users] How many hosts and services are you monitoring with Nagios?
Hi, I like it when people periodically post numbers and architecture summaries, I am guessing with the distributed frameworks out now for Nagios this thread might be seeing bigger numbers than past threads have. With our custom-built distributed Nagios-based monitoring system, we are currently monitoring 18000+ hosts every 5 minutes and 100k+ active services (plenty of passive services in addition to the actives) every 5 mins as well. We collect performance data from every check as well and pass that on to a highly distributed and scalabe time-series data warehouse another team in our organization has built (which is why we have the 5 min interval requirement) We also do trap ingest using SNMPTT with a few custom mods, but not going to include those numbers as they never have required the optimizations the polling has required. This isn't a monolithic instance, we have 6 projects using instances of our distributed Nagios-based software, called Racon (soon my manager will give our team to package it as open source - so I hear at least). We built it on core Nagios with a custom database layer based on a very very early version of Merlin's database abstraction layer (thank you Andreas!) - we have a custom client/server network-based notification framework in use (we will release that as well) along with a custom NEB/perl based client-server framework (also releasable, just need time scheduled) for sending and processing performance data - the performance and notification framework are both horizontally scalabe and network fault tolerant. What kinds of numbers of hosts and services are you all monitoring? Which add-ons / distributed frameworks are you using? -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] How many hosts and services are you monitoring with Nagios?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: Yes, I know, VM bad. :) Just not bad enough to spend real dollars on more physical hosts. Nothing bad about using a VM, they just fall over horribly (generally speaking) when you try to push the virtual machine's virtual CPU cores and disk hard :p - kudos to you for making that work and pretty interesting setup! Thanks for sharing. -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] How many hosts and services are you monitoring with Nagios?
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 12:19 PM, Mike Guthrie mguth...@nagios.com wrote: Had to reply to this one since I actually studied Max's blog articles for ideas when I was researching performance tuning. Thanks Max for not only pioneering some of these ideas, but actually documenting what you did. ; ) http://www.semintelligent.com/blog/articles/38/nagios-performance-tuning-early-lessons-learned-lessons-shared-part-4-scalable-performance-data-graphing Wow! Forgot about that, glad the ideas in it helped you - Nothing pioneering (though thank you for saying that), I culled work from others and my teammate and I then took that and built on it. I am hoping we can release our network performance data sending framework first, which was initially based on the PNP modpnpsender module and has now been re-written from scratch by several of us based on Andreas's test NEB module that showed how to use the NEB module to write to a pipe with a process listening to the pipe in order to minimize time spent in Nagios and therefore latency added by the NEB-based add in. Nagios XI Benchmarking Test Box - Running on one of our old Desktops: 1 Dual Core CPU, 4GB of RAM, CentOS 5.7 - Ndoutils/MySQL offloaded to a second server - 1800 Hosts, 8200 services, 10k checks running every 5mn - Processing perfdata for all checks - rrdcached in use with PNP - RAM Disk being used for status.dat, objects.cache, host-perfdata, service-perfdata, all spool and tmp directories Nice! -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_load -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$
Load average is a relative measure of how much work over time a system is doing. Read these to start: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9001 http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg1.pdf http://www.teamquest.com/pdfs/whitepaper/ldavg2.pdf -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Centralized Dashboard
+1 for Thruk + multi-site - well done project, easy to set up and easy to replicate a set up across multiple hosts. I haven't tried it with a large Nagios installation. Query capabilities are very cool as well. Max On 2/8/12, Joerg Linge pitchf...@ederdrom.de wrote: Am 08.02.2012 um 14:40 schrieb trm asn: Dear Friend, I have 7 Nagios core server running at 7 different location. I have installed MNTOS to get the consolidated tactical views. Is there any other way to do so. Yes! mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite.html http://thruk.org/ Joerg -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS
I have written a number of blog posts about optimizing and tuning Nagios performance as well - you might find some of them useful: http://www.semintelligent.com/blog/ - Max -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Feeding status information to SCOM?
There is a commercial Nagios to SCOM connector, we use it at my place of work - avoid it and work on a custom solution (which is the path you are on) - the commercial connector is awful * Only allows for one Nagios system to send to SCOM using SNMP traps * Does not translate statuses properly * Does not allow for event chaining - Max -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3
What minor RHEL rev are you running? We had one poller that was running RHEL 5.3 that had constantly increasing latency - a Compaw / AMD based host. None of the optimizations / configuration changes we made to the other pollers we ran at the time seemed to help this one - we updated the poller in-box from 5.3 to 5.4 and voila - issue gone. As Joerge mentioned, probably was a memory leak / bug in a library the parent Nagios poller process was using, we never did determine which one and we haven't hit that same issue since then with any 5.4 or 5.5 pollers. Even with stable software we end up bouncing our pollers every 2-3 days - 1) because we have an active customer base who make config changes often and 2) because we take the metrics from the checks and put them in a time series data warehouse that is sensitive to interval skew...any poller that hits 10 seconds latency has to be bounced. We are at 12 pollers or so right now and we will be up to almost 20 by next year at this time. Max On 10/2/11, Stuart Browne stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au wrote: Hi, I know this topic has been covered many times, but I've tried those tweaks and I have the remaining issue. After a few days, the latency on checks explodes. It goes along quite happily with small values, then after (about) 3 days, the values rise quite sharply. I've recently been graphing performance statistics (nagiostats, mrtg) and as you can see by the two attachments (day, week), it's rather surprising. We restart Nagios every few days (for other reasons) so thankfully the issue never gets completely out of control, but as you can see, it gets a bit crazy. I can't think of any combination of settings that would cause such growth after such a long period of time. Does anybody have any knowledge as to why it would suddenly increase after running for days without issue? Basic Nagios system stats: 2 x dual-core Xeon 5160 (3Ghz) 6GB Memory 4 x SAS, RAID1 (hardware, BBU, LVM over RAID1) RHEL5, fully patched Load average between 0.5 and 3.2 'nagios -s /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg' output (trimmed): HOST SCHEDULING INFORMATION --- Total hosts: 252 Total scheduled hosts: 252 Host inter-check delay method: SMART Average host check interval: 300.00 sec Host inter-check delay: 1.19 sec Max host check spread: 30 min First scheduled check: Mon Oct 3 14:31:17 2011 Last scheduled check:Mon Oct 3 14:36:15 2011 SERVICE SCHEDULING INFORMATION --- Total services: 1575 Total scheduled services: 1386 Service inter-check delay method: SMART Average service check interval: 878.40 sec Inter-check delay: 0.63 sec Interleave factor method: SMART Average services per host: 6.25 Service interleave factor: 6 Max service check spread: 30 min First scheduled check: Mon Oct 3 14:33:43 2011 Last scheduled check: Mon Oct 3 14:48:21 2011 CHECK PROCESSING INFORMATION Check result reaper interval: 5 sec Max concurrent service checks: Unlimited PERFORMANCE SUGGESTIONS --- I have no suggestions - things look okay. Stuart J. Browne Senior Linux Administrator -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency
RAM disk for the NPCD queue + rrdcached is a necessity for scaling a PNP backend - PNP in asynchonous mode is a must as well, preferrably on a server other than the primary pollers - for example, use merlin to distribute events and then designate one server or more to purely processing PNP's RRD-based graphs. - Max -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Help required on Nagios Setup
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:28 PM, sunilang...@rediffmail.com wrote: Hi All Let me introduce myself. My name is Sunil Angane and I am working with Softenger (I) Pvt. Ltd., an IT Infrastructure Management Services company. We are doing Nagios setup at one of our prestigious client in Mumbai to cover OS and DB monitoring. As we are doing this for the first time, we need guidance from you all on this. Under OS part we are covering AIX, LINUX, SOLARIS and WINDOWS, under DB part ORACLE, SQL, SYBASE and DB2. Kindly share the installation / configuration documents related to above listed OS and DB flavors. Kindly let me know if anyone from negios user is residing in Mumbai or India so that it will be easier for me to contact. Do you really expect the community to execute your contract for you? Interesting! Start here! http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Main_Page If you have directed questions that show you have done some reading and educated yourself you will get useful answers from the group. - Max -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Is the nagios log file keeps growing over time
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Manish Kumar manikuma...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Frnds, I have got a concern, Will the nagios log file (nagios.log) in /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log will keep increasing in size or there is some auto-rotation facility. If it is there how it can be done. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#log_rotation_method - Max -- EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Q: Service Escalation Recovery Notifications.
Hi, On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 05/19/2011 03:32 PM, Paul M. Dubuc wrote: OK, but wouldn't it be nice if all contacts who got an error notification were able to get the recovery message instead of just the one last notified? Is there any way to do that? Setting up an explicit serviceescalation for recovery notifications doesn't seem to work. Max Schubert is working on a patch that does something similar to that. If he doesn't complete it, I might take a look at adding it myself. I will send out my partial patch to the list sometime today along with an explanation of my thinking / approach for it - feel free to use it or discard it as you see fit :)! - Max -- What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this article and learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help Windows* and Linux* C/C++ and Fortran developers boost performance applications - including clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notification configuration (Was [Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents)
Andreas, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 7:57 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: Any plans to detatch notification attributes from service / host definitions in 4.x and make them their own top-level configuration class like escalations to make it easier to scale notification definitions for large projects? Not really. What would such an object look like? How would it add additional benefit compared to using templates for hosts and services? I think if I could just see some sort of example definition of it I'd get an inkling of why some seem to think it's such a great idea. Right now, I see no additional benefit to it. It would look just like an escalation. What doesn't work well for large configurations with notification policies being stuck into host and service objects is this scenario (which is the one we are in at work by design): * Multiple configuration editors who own various parts of the Nagios configuration tree - in our case this used to be one big tree, now we have set up separate trees for separate projects - we have about 20-30 people who can edit their project-specific configurations. * A set of services that are global in nature - service - hostgroup - host - baseline monitoring required by all projects using standards established by multiple organizations in our company - for our example, base host monitoring with an SNMP agent (6 services across every host) - we have other global services as well and a core team who develop, maintain an augment both our distributed Nagios software and these global services and configurations * A set of services that are specific to each project using our distributed variant of Nagios - managed by subject matter experts on each team. With this scenario, how do we let each group that is responsible for hosts that have these global services on them create individually tailored notification policies since there is one notification policy per service? * We configure our base service and host to 'notify' on every state change using the command name do_nothing * We created a custom patch so that when the string 'do_nothing' is seen in the command name this state change only increments the notification count - it does not trigger any external command to run * We created a patch (partial - no serialization to disk) for escalation logic that tracks in memory when a fault escalation was sent so that OK escalations are only sent in response to something that was in a fault state. We are working on completing this patch so that across restarts the state is saved. * We have all groups use escalations to define their notification policies - the service and host notification commands then trigger our distributed pollers to send escalation requests to a network-based notification service we have that then lets the notification requests trigger email, SMS, SNMP traps, etc without having to re-configure Nagios for every notification transport /. method change. Yeah, it is very ugly, and why? Because 1 notification policy per service, that doesn't scale well when taking advantage of service - hostgroup - host mappings, which is a critical pattern to use when scaling a configuration. We have over 9000 hosts being monitored by our distributed framework (and growing) with around 30 configuration editors and 120+ users. Our distributed framework was centralized and a ''one project for all but now is a cluster of distributed set ups, one distributed set up per project, which is scaling nicely. Our largest distributed installations have 3900 and 5100 hosts in them respectively - we have 4 other distributed instances that are just getting ramped up and only have a few dozen hosts apiece at this point. So while this is ugly, it works! All editors can define escalation objects that take into account both their individual needs for global service notifications as well as any project-specific notifications - and by putting project-specific hosts in project-specific host groups, for most groups, two escalation policy definitions are all that are needed per project - one for hosts, one for services. If all notifications were just done through an escalation like configuration object, life for a big project would be much easier. 1) Having notifications clearly separated as their own configuration template in the Nagios DSL makes it much less confusing for people new to Nagios to understand 'where to configure notifications' 2) The configuration flexibility of the escalation template makes it very easy to work with for a large configuration. Our global and project specific scenario and all the notification changes we made is also serving us very well as we grow. Notifications as separate objects would let us back out a number of patches and would reallly simplify our configuraiton and let our pollers run hotter . - Max -- What Every C/C++ and Fortran developer Should Know! Read this
Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents
Andreas, How does this differ functionality from the current ability to describe dependencies with servicedependency? Is it just easier to define (I agree that would be a win) -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] RFC/RFP: Service parents
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 05/17/2011 11:34 AM, Max Schubert wrote: Andreas, How does this differ functionality from the current ability to describe dependencies with servicedependency? Is it just easier to define (I agree that would be a win) It's just easier to describe, and it ties in nicely with different additions to the configuration syntax being planned. It does have some limitations, but in 99.5% of all dependencies I've seen, it matches the usecase people put dependencies to so it should be quite a nice win anyway. I agree - the current syntax is very flexible but understanding how to implement it properly for some users results in a very painful learning curve. Any plans to detatch notification attributes from service / host definitions in 4.x and make them their own top-level configuration class like escalations to make it easier to scale notification definitions for large projects? - Max -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] WARNING: Unknown contact keyword: serviceescalation
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Re: [Nagios-users] WARNING: Unknown contact keyword: serviceescalation
Have you tried removing the trailing commas from the contact attribute
'members' for the two contactgroup defintions?
- Max
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Chad Rhyner crhy...@box.net wrote:
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Max Schubert m...@webwizarddesign.com
wrote:
Please respond to the list with the version of Nagios you are using
and an example contact and/or serviceescalation definition that you
are using.
- Max
Certainly. The version I am using is 3.0.6. Here is a copy of the output:
Nagios 3.0.6
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 12-01-2008
License: GPL
This is being run on a 64-bit Linux machine. Here is an example of the
serviceescalation definition:
define serviceescalation{
hostgroup_name sms
service_description HTTP
first_notification 1
last_notification 2
notification_interval 10
contact_groups oncall,email
}
Here are the contactgroups related to that serviceescalation:
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name oncall
alias Oncall
members user1,user2,
}
define contactgroup{
contactgroup_name email
alias Email
members
user1_email,user2_email,user3_email,...usern_email,
}
For both contactgroups oncall and email, there is a contact defined for each
user that is named. I have changed the usernames for privacy reasons.
~Chad
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Re: [Nagios-users] Which GUI to configure Nagios 3 ?
We do have 60+ sysadmins using a shared instance of Nagios without a configuration UI - all Nagios configuration files are in SVN, current we monitor around 5300 hosts. We found with a little training the sysadmins were happy to take the hit on learning in order to have the flexibility of the full power of the config language. We avoided implementing or integrating a web-based UI because all of them take away various capabilities of the language - we did not want to treat our audience like dummies, so instead we went the path of providing training and mentoring to them and empowered them to use the language themselves. Was this a lot of work for us, especially when we started? YES. Was it an approach that respected our user base and gave them the ability to do what they needed to do with minimal intervention from us? YES. - Max On 2/24/11, Breandan Dezendorf brean...@dezendorf.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Ennis Ibarra en...@nmcourts.gov wrote: My two cents: Once you lock up your configuration to a given tool, then you stick with the tool capabilities to configure stuff. The real power is understanding the Nagios structure and files, leave the GUIs for presentation only. I agree - but when you're trying to serve a large community of sysadmins, a GUI tool is a useful tool for getting the job done. I can't teach 60+ admins how to write clean nagios configs, but I can teach them to use web-based tools. -- Breandan Dezendorf brean...@dezendorf.com bwdez...@gmail.com -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_hpasm and check_openmanage over nrpe in windows
you can configure the snmp agent to send snmp v3 traps with encryption. On 2/25/11, Assaf Flatto nag...@flatto.net wrote: the main issue is that SNMP is a clear text protocol and no way to encrypt the date , while you can encrypt the NRPE traffic with SSL . Assaf Alexandre wrote: hello, I think using nrpe is not a good idea. I use snmp Trap of dell openmanage for alert in Nagios. Alex On 25/02/2011 12:38, Assaf Flatto wrote: Hello All I have encountered an issue with wanting to monitor HP and Dell servers running windows OS . The main issue is that due to security issue we can not use the NSClient++ internal functionality , but use the NRPE module option . I have not used the nrpe on windows boxes extensively before and wanted to know if anyone has deployed the check_hpasm and check_openmanage on windows boxes where the nagios server can only access the NPRE port and not have SNMP access direct to the server ? Thanks Assaf -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Multi-site frontend options
Definitely check out Merlin - through configuration you can have Nagios instances communicate events with each other using a few types of relationships and you can then serialize the data from an instance to a database for either using their custom UI or making one of your own. http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/merlin When we used it back in early 2010 it was not quite ready with regards to event distribution but I would think it is more mature by now - definitely worth spending some proof of concept time on to explore as an option. We have been using the database serialization portion of Merlin for the last 1.5 years, we have made mods for it to meet our purposes (hope to share some of that code soon on our github account - one cool thing we added was threaded MySQL connections from Merlind to the database which increased throughput tremendously). - Max -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS does not register Critical | Warning status.
There is a debug level you can set in nagios.cfg that will show you all commands being executed - an easier way would be to make a shell wrapper for check_int that logs all args and then execs them with the real check_int. Something like 1. Copy check_int to check_int.bin 2. Make check_int a shell script like !#/bin/bash echo $* /path/tlo/logfile.log exec /path/to/check_int.bin $* Now whenever check_int is called, the full command line and args will be appended to the log each run for you to inspect - without cranking up debug or restarting nagios. Max On 2/22/11, socomm soc...@crowbar.cc wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:23:54 -0500, Allan Clark all...@chickenandporn.com wrote: Can you confirm that %% is needed for a single % token? I don't remember that being needed, but I don't use % in my commands. I could see $ needing doubling up due to token replacement. Apparently check_nt will returns same code whether I pass it the '%' sign or not, however the double '%' was a typo which I've corrected. Also, see about increasing logging, see if you can log what the actual command is running as, and what it responds as a result code. Maybe proving that the check_nt script is being called in the way you think it is can help bisect the problem. I am looking for a way to log commands, but best I've found is the debug option which will give me option to log commands to a debug file. However, the output I get is the following: - OUTPUT - Raw Command Input: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ Expanded Command Output: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ Which I'm not sure why variables are not being expanded to the actual arguments being passed. Anyone more familiar as what I may need to do to view the expanded variables being passed? -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios::Plugin and Nagios Embedded perl interpretor
Marc, On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:16 AM, Marc-André Doll m...@b-care.net wrote: Hi list, I'm developing some Nagios plugin with the Nagios::Plugin perl module and it's saving me a great amount of time. However, I encountered a little problem when I tried to activate the embedded perl interpretor in Nagios: all checks returned an UNKNOWN state with an error from the ePN saying that an error occurred in the Getopt::Long perl module about the use of an uninitialized value line 459. I suppose the problem come from my usage of the add_arg() function but I don't know how to correct it. Does somebody have already encountered that kind of behaviour or have an idea on how to debug a perl script when it's launched by the ePN? Check out your command lines, especially if you use custom attribute substitution in them - look for attributes that are empty (no spaces) - that gets translated into a NULL or some other non-printable character that Getopt::Long chokes on http://www.semintelligent.com/blog/articles/50/epn-why-do-i-get-an-unitialized-value-error-message-from-my-getopt-longpm-when-nagios-runs-my-perl-based-plugin-under-epn - Max -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Backing up Nagios on Ubuntu 10.04
While a live back up is definitely a good idea, if you start storing your configuration tree in a version control system off server - CVS, GIT, SVN, any other one you choose - then the back up issue on the live server only becomes one of backing up retention.dat, which has changes you / your users have made to the states of notifications, flapping, etc from the CGIs or via the named pipe. - Max -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Alert host down with passive check
Read up on freshness checking: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/freshness.html max On 12/10/10, Rikard Dahlberg ej_...@hotmail.com wrote: Heya guys! Is there any possible way to configure nagios to report host as DOWN, if nagios havn't got any passive checkresult within like 5 minutes? Can I change that somehow? For now, when a host dies in my current configuration, it actually doesn't report is as DOWN, since im using passive checks. But i want to set nagios to if i havn't got a new passive.-check result in 5 minutes, i want nagios to automaticly set it as DOWN... Any idea please? :) Regards Rikard -- Sent from my mobile device -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] high latency
I find it interesting that a number of users get performance improvements with embedded perl off - we lose 20-40% polling capacity perl poller with it off. - Max -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] high latency
Latency increases much more quickly for us without epn as execution times are noticably longer per check. We use rhel 5.x, so the perl is 5.8.8. We have semi dailoy updates to our pollers and with epn that means cold restarts - memory leaks have not been noticable given that scenrio, but on test hosts or hosts where we are doing burn ins it is negligable enough that we can go for 2-3 days with no memory issues - we always hit service latency thresholds first. 7 seconds is in general where we have to force a restart of our pollers to prevent metric collection and snmp delta calculation issues. Max On 12/3/10, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 12/03/2010 12:46 PM, Max Schubert wrote: I find it interesting that a number of users get performance improvements with embedded perl off - we lose 20-40% polling capacity perl poller with it off. How do you mean that you're losing capacity? Does latency start to creep upwards or is load increasing? Out of interest; How much memory does epn leak nowadays, and which perl version is it compiled against? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] How can i show remote nagios results in one interface?
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Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
Thank you, Andreas - I actually really enjoy writing tests and understand their value - will see if I can put a few in place using tap over the next week or so and update the patch with them. On 11/29/10, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 11/29/2010 09:20 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: This looks nice. It's in my compile and test queue right now, so assuming it works out ok it'll be committed before the week is out. And now it's out there. More testing would be much appreciated though, but considering the patch is fairly well written I have few qualms about it. Cheers, and thanks again. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
Hi, Long overdue and anxiously waited on by at least 3 people :), here is the patch, diffed against the CVS HEAD (as of tonight) revision of Nagios, with a documentation patch for configmain.html as well (as requested by Andreas): The option is now named allow_empty_hostgroup_assignment Thanks to Dan Whittenberg and Michael Friedrich for their input on the option name and the patch itself - thanks to my managers at Comcast (a great place to work as a developer) Eric Scholz and Mike Fischer for allowing the team I am on to contribute code back to the community, and thanks to the team I am on for their hard work and dedication with our distributed Nagios set up and the many other projects we are involved with. Andreas, please let me know if you'd like any further modifications or documentation for the patch beyond what is provided. https://github.com/netoisstools/Nagios-3-Patches/blob/master/CVS-HEAD-201011292220/201011281330-allow_empty_hostgroup_assignment.patch - Max -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base get more eyes on your game by optimizing for Intel(R) Graphics Technology. Get started today with the Intel(R) Software Partner Program. Five $500 cash prizes are up for grabs. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intelisp-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] More than one command defined
We went through a couple of rounds of changes with this: * We first hacked our copy of process_perfdata.pl and added logging to it, then built a relay to our long term trending data warehouse for relaying Nagios perfdata to it after allowing PNP to process it for short term views of the data Nagios - PNP NEB - network - performance data server - NPCD queue - process_perfdata.pl - log - relay - network - data warehouse * Now we have a POE-based solution in place that processes the perfdata for PNP and our relay as two data driven events Nagios - PNP NEB - network - performance data server - POE server POE server - RRD files (replaces npcd and process_perfdata.pl) POE server - network - data warehouse network listener For both methods we built off of the (at the time very young) modpnpsender.c NEB module source included with PNP. ; we then migrated to a NEB modules who's code was based on some NEB code Andreas wrote that showed how to write to the input of a second external program over a pipe + an external perl script that relayed the data to the destination servers over the network (or queued if the network was down). Code will be available open source this year for people who are interested. - Max -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
Will try to get this done this weekend - sorry all, it is an irony to be working for a company that allows us to release code from work to open source and be so busy at the job that I rarely have time to do so :). My apologies for the delay - and thanks for your input, help, and feedback on the patch, Dan. Glad you find it useful. - Max On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: I'll check with the original author of the patch...I re-rolled it already against head and tested great, been a lifesaver. I sent the updates to him so he could post and move forward with so if he's not had time I'll see about submitting directly. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks
Escalations can resolve this - if you set an escalation to trigger at notification 1 and set a re-notify interval in the escalation you will be re-notified at the set interval while the service remains in the configured alarm state. - Max On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Alberto Menichetti alb.meniche...@tai.it wrote: Hi all, I noticed the same strange behavior, but I don't think it's the right behavior. Operating in this way, a linkDown trap will be notified only once (in fact the sender device will generate a single trap in response to state change). Is it possibile to modify this behavior? Hall, JC wrote: After some testing, it looks like it will only re-notify after receiving another passive check result. It won't simply re-notify because it's still in a non-ok state after the notification_interval has expired. So to combat this I just used the check freshness attribute to re-execute my external script and feed the passive check result into nagios and thus re-sending a non-ok notification at what would have been the interval for notifications. So technically my external scripts are running at every interval to check the freshnes, not only when it's called for by my event_handler from another active service check... which I'm ok with. -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 5:00 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Hall, JC Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications on passive service checks On 11/11/2010 11:27 PM, Hall, JC wrote: Is it accurate that Nagios will only send 1 notification for a passive service check? IE, the notification_interval definition for a passively checked service won't instruct Nagios to re-send a notification such as with actively checked services? To be honest, I haven't got the faintest idea. An educated guess is that it will re-send the notification if it receives another passive check-result and enough time has passed though, or that it simply re-sends the notification when enough time has passed. If you try and find out, let me know either way and I'll amend the docs. -- TAI S.r.l. Alberto Menichetti Area Mercato - Ingegneria dei Sistemi System Engineer 50141 Firenze - Via Pazzagli, 2 Voice: +39 055 42661 - Fax +39 055 4266356 56125 Pisa - Viale Gramsci, 12 Voice: +39 050 220221 - Fax: +39 050 24421 e-mail: alb.meniche...@tai.it http://www.tai.it --- COMUNICAZIONE AI SENSI LEGGE 196/03 Il presente messaggio di posta elettronica viene inviato al Vostro indirizzo email, che abbiamo acquisito da Vostre Visite, da incontri commerciali, elenchi di pubblico dominio, Vostre precedenti comunicazioni. Il Vostro dato in questione e' in possesso di TAI S.r.l., che lo ha immagazzinato in formato elettronico. Tali informazioni non saranno divulgate a terzi. Se desiderate verificare, cancellare o modificare i dati in nostro possesso, inviate fax al numero 0554266356. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explorer 9 supports standards for HTML5, CSS3, SVG 1.1, ECMAScript5, and DOM L2 L3. Spend less time writing and rewriting code and more time creating great experiences on the web. Be a part of the beta today http://p.sf.net/sfu/msIE9-sfdev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
Will do my best to do this this week - if I don't get to it this week I will forget about it for sure, all the patches our team has done to make Nagios (some very very specific to our env) work for us will be available on our team github account; will do my best to get that updated this week as well and post that url along with the patch / docs to this list or I will forget to do that for another few months too. Max On 11/3/10, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 11/02/2010 04:54 PM, Max Schubert wrote: allow_empty_hostgroups = 1 I'll take this, but rename the option to something more mnemonic, as empty hostgroups are already allowed and it's a bit ambiguous what it means. Any chance you could re-roll the patch against latest CVS head and include a brief documentation update? Name the var allow_empty_hostgroups in the docs so I can find it when I sed it in. If you want any special attributions (company or person thanks, beyond the addition of your name to the THANKS file and your name and email in the commit log message), let me know. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Achieve Improved Network Security with IP and DNS Reputation. Defend against bad network traffic, including botnets, malware, phishing sites, and compromised hosts - saving your company time, money, and embarrassment. Learn More! http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpdev2dev-nov ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 10:52 AM, Fredrik Barrud fred...@barrud.se wrote: Hi, I would also like to be able to create empty hostgroups with services assigned. The reason for this is that I've setup a nagios installation for a customer where a host is only member to one hostgroup to inherit services from other hostgroups, like all-windows-citrix-server and for a few special servertypes I would like to prepare the chain with hostgroup and services so that when the servers are ready to be monitored everything is prepared and the servers only needs to be added to the apropriate hostgroup. We have a local patch to turn the error into a warning, patched against 3.2.0 - we needed this because we have customers who can use host - hostgroup - N related services mappings but we do not control their configs, we only define the global service sets - so we could not have this be fatal and fail everyone's changes just because one customer stopped using the mapping. We have been using this patch in production for a year without issues. To apply: 1) Put patch in top level source directory 2) patch -p0 name-of-patch - Max 20101026171548-allow_empty_hostgroups.patch Description: Binary data -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement
To activate the downgrade from error to warning, put allow_empty_hostgroups = 1 in your nagios.cfg after compiling Nagios with the patch in place. - Max -- Nokia and ATT present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
