Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade or No upgrade

2007-09-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Nedim Bicic wrote: Hi all i have nagios 2.4 i was wondering if i should upgrade my nagios to 2.9 the newest version ? I am monitoring currently 800 hosts just ping service and dependecnies is it worth upgrading i mean i dont find the currnt version i am running problamatic what u guys think

[Nagios-users] Nagios server upgrade from 1.4.1 to 2.9

2007-09-18 Thread Marco Borsani
Hi all Actually I am monitoring about 400 hosts and more than 1000 services with Nagios 1.4.1 We have implemented a hard web structure to give possibilities to modify Nagios hosts/services from remote site, without sintax problem risks. I wonder how I could migrate my linux server from

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios server upgrade from 1.4.1 to 2.9

2007-09-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Marco Borsani wrote: Hi all Actually I am monitoring about 400 hosts and more than 1000 services with Nagios 1.4.1 We have implemented a hard web structure to give possibilities to modify Nagios hosts/services from remote site, without sintax problem risks. I wonder how I could

[Nagios-users] check_telnet?

2007-09-18 Thread Melanie Pfefer
Hi Is there a check_telnet to see if the server can be telnet'ed? thanks ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/

[Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Detrak
Hi, I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is coming down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. It's consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a host is down, we dont get a response from the service associate... how can I fix

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:08, Marc Powell wrote: I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is coming down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. It's consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a host is down, we dont get a

Re: [Nagios-users] how to make host commands in NagiosQL?

2007-09-18 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
On 9/17/07, Rogelio Bastardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently installed NagiosQL and am looking to create hosts, services, and contacts so that I can do all of the Nagios checks. The problem, however, is that in order to make a host or service, I have to have a contact. But in order to

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: Ton Voon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 9:23 AM To: Marc Powell Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:08, Marc Powell wrote: I'm using

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Giles Coochey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton Voon Sent: 18 September 2007 16:23 To: Marc Powell Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down On 18 Sep 2007, at

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Hari Sekhon
Ton, This sounds like a great candidate for scalability to not check services on downed hosts? On a large installation with several hosts down, if the service check intervals for broken services increases (as I usually configure it to do) then this could degrade the nagios server. You

Re: [Nagios-users] cannot restart Nagios using webgui on NagiosQL

2007-09-18 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
On 9/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you absolutely certain that the permissions on /path-to-nagios/var/rw are set correctly? I suspect that changing my nagios.cfg file to following had something to do with this nagios.cmd file being created? #check_external_commands=0

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Giles Coochey
It would be best if nagios actually did allow configuration of an option to not check services for downed hosts. I'm not sure if this should be done on a global or host basis though, host/host template is most flexible I think. Could we make this a feature request? I thought about this

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Hari Sekhon wrote: Ton, This sounds like a great candidate for scalability to not check services on downed hosts? Not really, because you have to have the resources for checking everything when nothing is down too. If you want scalability, see how google built their database. On a

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Hari Sekhon
Giles Coochey wrote: I thought about this when writing my post on this particular thread, but then thought - how do I find out that the host has recovered from its downtime? Is this not the defined point of host checks? When the host check detects that the host is up again, then service

[Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user

2007-09-18 Thread Mick
Hi All, Is there a way to disable access to the Host Commands CGI on a user by user basis? For some users I want to only allow them to view the settings and status of different services, but not to allow them to change these. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:57 AM To: Andreas Ericsson Cc: Ton Voon; Marc Powell; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down Andreas Ericsson wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:08 PM To: Giles Coochey Cc: Ton Voon; Marc Powell; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down Giles Coochey wrote: I

Re: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 12:32 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user Hi All, Is there a way to

Re: [Nagios-users] check_telnet?

2007-09-18 Thread Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
Use check_tcp to connect to port 23 (if it's a Telnet host in the strictest sense of the word) or check_ssh if it's an SSH host. Andy Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melanie Pfefer Sent: Tuesday,

Re: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user

2007-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2007, at 18:32, Mick wrote: Is there a way to disable access to the Host Commands CGI on a user by user basis? For some users I want to only allow them to view the settings and status of different services, but not to allow them to change these. I think you mean to stop

Re: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user

2007-09-18 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 2:16 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user On Tuesday 18 September 2007,

[Nagios-users] email alerts failing

2007-09-18 Thread Robert Cole
I've ben chasing an email issue for a while and only just today I've put some time into resolving this and here is what I found. I'm running nagios 2.9 and plugins 1.4.9 and I have a relay email server setup to accept and relay email to the outside world and this works from the nagios system