[Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Assaf Flatto
As the user sent this mail to me - i am forwarding it to the list , so all will be able to know what he needs and may be able to help more. Assaf -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration files obfuscation Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009 From: edward

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Kevin Keane
Obfuscating the config files is going to be difficult, because almost everything in them is either a Nagios keyword, or something that shows up verbatim in the user interface, or an IP address. The only thing you could reasonably obfuscate is the names of the various commands. But you may be

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Andreas Ericsson
edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Alain Williams
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy
Hi, I have installed the nagios on fedora 10 OS. how can i get alerts from nagios? where to configure the nagios alerts on contacts group for my mail ID(pr.sekharre...@gmail.com). Please let me know your suggestions. thanks in advance. Thanks Sekhar Reddy P R On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM,

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy
I want to add new windows server on nagios. how can i configure that let me know. on hosts.cfg file Thanks Sekhar Reddy P R On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Julian Hein jh...@netways.de wrote: Am 17.06.09 11:09 schrieb Andreas Ericsson unter a...@op5.se: edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I

[Nagios-users] Can nagios replace whatsup

2009-06-17 Thread Alex Dehaini
Hi Guys, My company uses nagios and whatsup together. Nagios helps us to monitor services and send out notifications and whatsup does live network monitoring. Recently, my supervisor wants me to scrap whatsup for nagios. I am not very comfortable with his decision. What's up is a spot-check tool.

[Nagios-users] Host/service comments

2009-06-17 Thread Ales Rikovsky
Hello, there is a possiblity to insert comments in which I can describe fox example the reason of host crash. First: can I insert comment to the past Second and IMPRTANT: is it possible to have comments hidden from regular user view? Thank you Ales

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy wrote: Hi, I have installed the nagios on fedora 10 OS. how can i get alerts from nagios? where to configure the nagios alerts on contacts group for my mail ID(pr.sekharre...@gmail.com). How is this related to configuration

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-17 Thread Michael Friedrich
Didn't have the time to catch up on Merlin, but I ran a few more Tests with Icinga IDO and libdbi Oracle - it fails hard. Tested against Oracle 11g, DB connection successfull but error in address mapping while doing a simple DB insert. Meaning the oracle driver for libdbi is broken and in case

[Nagios-users] Proper use of this list

2009-06-17 Thread Alain Williams
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:36:50PM +0530, rajashekar.s wrote: Hi, For monitoring windows machines (a) Edit /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy wrote: I want to add new windows server on nagios. how can i configure that let me know. on hosts.cfg

[Nagios-users] NDO Utilities install NDO database error for ndoutils-1.3.1

2009-06-17 Thread Natalie Aloi
Hello I am attempting to install NDO Utils - I am at the Create NDO Database section...except I don't have this installdb file in my db directory I have what is below: as you can see I am installing ndoutils 1.3.1 since I am using nagios 2.11 [r...@nagios ndoutils-1.3.1]# cd db [r...@nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] NDO Utilities install NDO database error for ndoutils-1.3.1

2009-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Natalie Aloi wrote: Hello I am attempting to install NDO Utils - I am at the Create NDO Database section...except I don't have this installdb file in my db directory I have what is below: as you can see I am installing ndoutils 1.3.1 since I am using

Re: [Nagios-users] Can nagios replace whatsup

2009-06-17 Thread Israel Brewster
On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Alex Dehaini wrote:Hi Guys,My company uses nagios and whatsup together. Nagios helps us to monitor services and send out notifications and whatsup does live network monitoring. Recently, my supervisor wants me to scrap whatsup for nagios. I am not very comfortable with

[Nagios-users] ' Need the big picture: Why retention?

2009-06-17 Thread Scott . Chapman
I'm reading the Nagios docs (a rather long trip - thanks for the great docs!) and I'm seeing plenty of references to retention. I'm new to this and it isn't clicking. Why would I want retention? What's it for? TIA - I'm a bit confused. :) Scott The information contained in this

Re: [Nagios-users] Check not running

2009-06-17 Thread Mike Chesnut
Any ideas how I could debug a check that works when using capture_plugin.pl, but never gets scheduled or run otherwise? Thanks, Mike Mike Chesnut wrote: I have a check that never runs. The services I've defined that use it sit at the top of the scheduling queue, with their next check always

[Nagios-users] NRPE_NT Bad return code for 128

2009-06-17 Thread Murali Edula
Hi, I am running NRPE_NT on Windows2003. It was running fine. All of sudden it is giving error See the log file: 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 7;Host is asking for command 'nt_check_disk_c' to be run... 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 7;Running command:

Re: [Nagios-users] ' Need the big picture: Why retention?

2009-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:27 PM, scott.chap...@verizonwireless.com wrote: I'm reading the Nagios docs (a rather long trip - thanks for the great docs!) Good deal... =) and I'm seeing plenty of references to retention. I'm new to this and it isn't clicking. Why would I want retention?

[Nagios-users] need help with check_sensors

2009-06-17 Thread Jeremiah Jester
Hello, I'm trying to get check_sensors working for nagios. I already have lm_sensors installed and ran 'sensors' to configure it for my machine. Next, I setup and defined the commands and services in nagios. However, when i run the following command i get the following error. $

[Nagios-users] Need to Configure SMS and Email Notification

2009-06-17 Thread chethan.mnc
Hi All, I need to Configure SMS and E mail Notification from my Nagios Setup. Please let me know how to get this done. Regards, Chethan M N -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out

[Nagios-users] Return code of 142 is out of bounds

2009-06-17 Thread victory
Hi All, I am running Nagios 3.0.2 on FC5 server. I have been encountering this strange error intermittently on a few checks. (Return code of 142 is out of bounds) I am using the nagios with snmp (net-snmp-5.2 net-snmp-5.3) on a few servers. This normally happens with snmp-load checks or