[Nagios-users] Host escalation config

2007-01-22 Thread Riahi Taieb
Hi, I want to be notified on host down or recovery not more than 4 times, so i configured host escalation this way but still sending me host notification every 30 minutes !! have i made something wrong on my config?? (still running nagios 1.3 because i found a ready to use package for my

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Nedim Bicic wrote: Hi all, i have nagios 2.4 I need want to change and input settings via the web interface like scheduale downtime etc, which i read that the external command does this i enabled it in nagiod.cfg =1 but i aslo found out that you need to create a nagios.cmd file and

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Herman (ISTD) wrote: Dear all, I use gnokii to send Nagios notification. Gnokii need to access /dev/ttyUSB0 in order to deliver message to Handphone. At present, I need to set nagios user to root group in order to accomplish this task. If the nagios user is not in root group, it could not

Re: [Nagios-users] Completely stumped

2007-01-22 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Was this by any chance coupled with a big fat spike of memory usage on the Nagios server? I assume you do monitor memory usage, right? I've checked it every now and then and found nothing unusal. While switching around 2.5/2.6 with and without

[Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring

2007-01-22 Thread Moayad Mohammad
Dears, I have one nagios server working in my company, and I need to add another nagios server to monitor another servers in other subnets, I don't know if there's any solution to have 2 nagios servers(1 central nagios) and 1 monitor screen... it's mean the second server will

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

2007-01-22 Thread Herman (ISTD)
May be sudo could solve this problem but not permanently, since sudo only add root rights to user for certain period of time. Is there any way to make devs such as serial line and USB controlled by certain user ? Another question, is it common to run nagios as root ? Thx. Regards, Herman

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring

2007-01-22 Thread John Longland
Yes you can. Do a google for distributed monitoring. Basically it caomes down to having the one nagios configured as a slave. It then passes all its info to the main Nagios. The services that are monitored on the slave nagios, are configured as passive on the main Nagios., but the data is

Re: [Nagios-users] Completely stumped

2007-01-22 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Tobias Klausmann wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, Andreas Ericsson wrote: All in all, I'd advice against using this patch, or at least try without it first thing you do in case you run into problems. Hm. I was afraid you'd say that. You think it's wortwhile trying to rescue the patch?

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

2007-01-22 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hallo, On 1/22/2007 10:52 AM, Herman (ISTD) wrote: May be sudo could solve this problem but not permanently, since sudo only add root rights to user for certain period of time. Is there any way to make devs such as serial line and USB controlled by certain user ? That's done by another part

[Nagios-users] check_rrd plugin

2007-01-22 Thread Steve Tatlow
Hi, I am trying to monitor thresholds in certain RRDs. I have added my nagios command group to the cacti rra directory, this has allowed me to run the ./check_rrd.pl plugin as user statlow. However, nagios is reporting no output in the web interface. I was wondering if anyone could point me in

[Nagios-users] Adding Contacts

2007-01-22 Thread Artyom Khmelnitsky
Sorry for posting again but was not able to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via email for some reason. Here's the Contact issue continued. I'm sure that I'm just missing something simple, just don't know what. Thanks for the help Max, I did just that. Added them under contactgroups and then also

Re: [Nagios-users] Adding contacts

2007-01-22 Thread Max H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nagios wrote: Any ideas what may be wrong or why they are not being sent? I'll check the mail logs, but the email account does work. That seems ok to me. Like you mentioned, check your mail logs and see what's going on. Also, check your nagios log

Re: [Nagios-users] Adding contacts

2007-01-22 Thread Max H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nagios wrote: Yeah, nagios is declared, I just didn't put it up. Alerts are being generated as I have it sent to my PDA and those work fine. It compiles fine as well. So, will have to check the logs I guess. Make sure you click Reply All on your

[Nagios-users] Using the Trending Graph

2007-01-22 Thread Alejandro Imass
Hi, new to Nagios so please bear with me. I queried the list archives and there were some similar threads but several with no answers so I hope I have better luck. Nagios Version: 2.5, from distro binary distribution Platform: Debian Linux Sarge 3.1r4 Stable Problem: - If I run the graph with

[Nagios-users] Nagios Modification for No Host Dependency?

2007-01-22 Thread Jay Radcliffe
Hello, I have been running a fairly large Nagios setup (40,000 service checks 4500 hosts) and I wanted to see if anyone has worked on a certain problem. When nagios runs service checks and gets no response from a service check, it stops working other service checks until it can determine if that

Re: [Nagios-users] Adding contacts

2007-01-22 Thread nagios
Max H. wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nagios wrote: Yeah, nagios is declared, I just didn't put it up. Alerts are being generated as I have it sent to my PDA and those work fine. It compiles fine as well. So, will have to check the logs I guess. Make sure

Re: [Nagios-users] Adding contacts

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Artyom Khmelnitsky Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:15 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Adding contacts Hello, Is it possible to declare multiple

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nedim Bicic Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 5:33 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external Hi all, i have nagios 2.4 I need want to

[Nagios-users] ANNOUNCE: Nagios Looking Glass 1.0.0 released!

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
With immediate effect, Nagios Looking Glass v1.0.0 is available for download! The Important Bits === = The official project site is: http://www.nagioslookingglass.co.uk Get the latest release at: http://www.nagioslookingglass.co.uk/download.phpx Available in Windows Zip, and Unix

Re: [Nagios-users] Using the Trending Graph

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alejandro Imass Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:18 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Using the Trending Graph This did NOT work either because the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Modification for No Host Dependency?

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Radcliffe Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:09 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Modification for No Host Dependency? Hello, In my

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Nedim Bicic
ok this is how far i got with the documentation but same error keeps coming up when i try to put in external command ex: comment in host: Error: Could not open command file '/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! ok and here is what i have for my permission set since thats indicating to be

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Israel Brewster
On Jan 22, 2007, at 8:30 AM, Nedim Bicic wrote: ok and here is what i have for my permission set since thats indicating to be the problem ls -al total 612 drwxr-xr-x 4 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 22 12:20 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jan 21 04:02 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Nedim Bicic
yeah i think thats the problem i am loging in as nagiosadmin but from what i copied and pasted from documentation in nagios created user nobody and nagios ' But when i log into nagios i am logging in as nagiosadmin not nobody or nagios i tried adding nagiosadmin with this command:

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios

2007-01-22 Thread Brian Loe
I'm using the following check command (in checkcommands.cfg): # 'check_dns' command definition define command{ command_namecheck_dns1 command_line$USER1$/check_dns -H www.our-web-server.com -s $HOSTADDRESS$ -a our web server's IP address define command{

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Israel Brewster
On Jan 22, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Nedim Bicic wrote: yeah i think thats the problem i am loging in as nagiosadmin but from what i copied and pasted from documentation in nagios created user nobody and nagios ' But when i log into nagios i am logging in as nagiosadmin not nobody or nagios i

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
You may be connecting to Nagios using nagiosadmin, but that is a user under your webserver, not an OS user. If your Apache runs under the user nobody, that is the user you need to add to the nagioscmd group. Nedim Bicic wrote: yeah i think thats the problem i am loging in as nagiosadmin but

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: You may be connecting to Nagios using nagiosadmin, but that is a user under your webserver, not an OS user. If your Apache runs under the user nobody, that is the user you need to add to the nagioscmd group. A better suggestion is in

[Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But Services Are Monitored

2007-01-22 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- I have Nagios 2.6 with plugins 1.4.5, and NRPE 2.6 installed on a server that is running Fedora Core 5. The remote client in question is running NRPE 2.6 with plugins 1.4.5 on a Fedora Core 2 operating system. NRPE is configured to run with the -n option on the server as well as the

Re: [Nagios-users] consistent service logging across hosts

2007-01-22 Thread Mark
Wait, that would not work. I have a standby nagios server accepting passive check info for all the services that the active nagios server is monitoring. They are both writing to logs at the same time. I think I'd need something where I could send the availability logs to a third party, so to

[Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes.

2007-01-22 Thread Peter L. Berghold
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi folks, Just put up a new installation of Nagios (version 2.6) and it's not like I haven't done this before so there is obviously something I'm overlooking. When I set up authentication I did the same things I've done before (I think) but it ain't

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But Services AreMonitored

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kaplan, Andrew H. Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 2:23 PM To: Nagios-Users (E-mail) Subject: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But Services AreMonitored Hi there -- I

[Nagios-users] definition of notification

2007-01-22 Thread Daniel
Hi all, is there a way to change the email template? I wanne see in the subject following info: Address: 127.0.0.1 in the normal notification emails is iz displayed as text and i cant find the email-template für $ADDRESS$ bzw it wont work.. -- greetz daniel

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes.

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter L. Berghold Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:26 PM To: nagios Users Mailing List Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [Nagios-users] definition of notification

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:35 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] definition of notification Hi all, is there a way to change the email

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes.

2007-01-22 Thread Jay Chandler
Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter L. Berghold Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:26 PM To: nagios Users Mailing List Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes. -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But ServicesAreMonitored

2007-01-22 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
I am interpreting this to mean that the Host status for the remote host is CRITICAL but the services on the host, checked by NRPE, show as OK. If that is the case then the check_command in the host{} definition for the client does not accurately determine the status of the host. What is that

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd external

2007-01-22 Thread Nedim Bicic
thanks for the advice guys it was apache that needed to be added to the group it works now i can finnaly add comments and do external commands thanks On 1/22/07, Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: You may be connecting

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But ServicesAre Monitored

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
Is execute_host_checks disabled? On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 15:23 -0500, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: Hi there -- I have Nagios 2.6 with plugins 1.4.5, and NRPE 2.6 installed on a server that is running Fedora Core 5. The remote client in question is running NRPE 2.6 with plugins 1.4.5 on a

Re: [Nagios-users] consistent service logging across hosts

2007-01-22 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:24 -0700, Mark wrote: Wait, that would not work. I have a standby nagios server accepting passive check info for all the services that the active nagios server is monitoring. They are both writing to logs at the same time. If your active servers are sending check

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But ServicesAreMonitored

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 3:56 PM To: Marc Powell; Nagios-Users (E-mail) Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Remote Linux Client Appears Down But ServicesAreMonitored I am interpreting this to mean that the Host

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagiosplug-help] Cannot compile plugins

2007-01-22 Thread Martin Møller Pedersen
I have tried 1.4.4, 1.4.5 and the latest snapshot. Running Redhat 9 on a 686. Crypto library is 0.9.8b [...] add the compiler switch -ldl to the various Makefiles and it will work. Regards Martin - Take Surveys. Earn

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios

2007-01-22 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Loe Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 12:08 PM To: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios I'm using the following check command (in checkcommands.cfg): #

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing /dev/ttyUSB0 to send SMS

2007-01-22 Thread Herman (ISTD)
Dear Arno, Thx for your tips. It works with udev . Best Regards, Herman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Lehmann Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 5:05 PM To: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

[Nagios-users] separating important from non-important hosts/services on tactical overview

2007-01-22 Thread Semir H.
Hi All - I was wondering if it is possible to not include some hosts/services in the Tactical Overview page. We use Nagios to monitor mostly production resources but there are a few dev and test resources in there as well. I was wondering if it is possible to NOT have the Tactical overview page

[Nagios-users] Several map views of Nagios

2007-01-22 Thread Herman (ISTD)
I learned several commercial software of NMS could defined several views of Monitoring maps and customize it for certain need. I think it's a good idea. Let say we have hundreds of server to monitor, and it would be very crowded and quite invisible if we put all the servers in one monitoring

Re: [Nagios-users] Several map views of Nagios

2007-01-22 Thread Morris, Patrick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Herman (ISTD) Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 9:13 PM To: Nagios-Users (E-mail) Subject: [Nagios-users] Several map views of Nagios Is it possible for Nagios to do several map views ? Sure. Take a look at the map page, and

Re: [Nagios-users] No host details

2007-01-22 Thread Vignesh Kumar
Hi Nelson, This may be due to the following reason. NSclient (Nagios Client tool) may not be installed in the client machine. Thanks Regards, P.Vignesh Kumar | +91-98943-58008 | VOIP -914-5351 | Distributed Systems Support

Re: [Nagios-users] No host details

2007-01-22 Thread Morris, Patrick
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nelson Serafica Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 11:13 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] No host details Good day, Just wondering why are there no details in my