Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios - Hostname not set

2011-06-10 Thread Tristan Drinkwater
Hi, Ok, good shout. I've install the latest version. The config check page looks ok but I'm getting errors where is isn't any rrd data yet. How long does it take to start producing this data when in sync mode? Can I force it along quicker so that I know everything working? Thanks again

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/09/2011 09:30 PM, Marc Haber wrote: On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 06:19:40PM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Why? If the host is reachable via ip6, it's reachable via ip6 and that's what you configure. If it's not, you configure ip4 instead. So one will need to configure a dual stack host

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Andreas Ericsson wrote: Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom variable official, which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special plugins to check both ip4 and ip6 addresses at the same time,

Re: [Nagios-users] RRDTool exits with errors - ERROR: can't make a graph without contents

2011-06-10 Thread Navdeep Sidhu
Hi Folks I'm using Nagios 2.8 with RRD tool version 1.0.50 PNP version 0.3 installed. Nagios is running on RHEL-4. I'm facing an issue in RRD Tool. Recently I have configured this tool for Cisco devices (under serviceextinfo.cfg file) so that memory CPU utilization should be available in

Re: [Nagios-users] distributed host checks: freshness checking issues

2011-06-10 Thread Pascal Vandeputte
As good as Merlin sounds, we currently have something that works (including user-friendly managment provisioning scripts) and unfortunately way too much other things on our plate to invest the appropriate amount of time in this. But I'm certain that I will revisit these ideas in the future,

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2011 01:26 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Andreas Ericsson wrote: Not really. You can still achieve the exact same functionality with custom variables. What Michael has done is to make one such custom variable official, which breaks the ABI. He still has to use special plugins to check

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 So give _address6 official status *in the ui*. Or make a config item that lets users specify which

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/10/2011 02:31 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 14:09 So give _address6 official status *in the ui*. Or

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Patrik Båt
YEAH finally something good in this thread!!! Ah well. We live and we learn. Now it's time for me to learn how much wine I can drink on a friday night without passing out. I'm looking forward to that particular experiment. Cheerios :) Join winehq for a drink and a wine wow.exe maybe ?! :P Over

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Patrik Båt
Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address and get a ipv6 andress and ping6 that address? On Fri, 2011-06-10 at 13:05 +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:07 PM, Michael Friedrich wrote: Original Message

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Patrik Båt p...@osix.eu To: Nagios Users List nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: 2011-06-10 15:03 Why not just have a /usr/local/nagios/etc/ipv6.txt and a ping.sh that look in this file for the ipv4 address

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Michael Friedrich
Original Message Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support From: Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se To: Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at Date: 2011-06-10 14:48 conclusion - you won't accept such patches, I won't accept patches that break things when there are easier

Re: [Nagios-users] Service keeps disappearing from .cfg file and other questions (newbie alert!)

2011-06-10 Thread Matty Sarro
Just as a followup, it appears the server was actually being managed by a Puppet install, and that was removing my configurations. Thanks! :) On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Matty Sarro msa...@gmail.com wrote: Its strange, as I've literally got backup copies that I keep copying back into the

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 2011/06/10, at 07:02, Andreas Ericsson wrote: You can, but with custom variables. How many official addresses should Nagios support? 3? 5? Soon we'll run into someone who wants more than that, and then we're left with breaking the ABI again. You don't have to break anything if the Nagios

[Nagios-users] reloading configurations

2011-06-10 Thread Julie S. Lin
I have a cron job that does daemon-init reload every 45 min to ensure I capture all new ec2 nodes that might be spun up. */45 * * * * myscript.sh -- this is my cron however, my nagios logs show a restart on the hour as well as on the 45 mark why? [06-10-2011 09:00:14] LOG VERSION: 2.0

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Nagios retries checks too soon.

2011-06-10 Thread Paul M Dubuc
Jochen Bern wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:14 PM, Paul M. Dubuc wrote: Andreas Ericsson wrote: I'm not sure. I'm also not sure which behaviour is intended. Arguably, either is correct and Nagios is doing one of two right things. I'm not sure. If a test times out and Nagios tries again 10 seconds

[Nagios-users] nagios-users, Manish Kumar has invited you to open a Gmail account

2011-06-10 Thread Manish Kumar
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[Nagios-users] Is the nagios log file keeps growing over time

2011-06-10 Thread Manish Kumar
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. -- Thanks Manish Kumar http://in.linkedin.com/in/manishkumar85

[Nagios-users] How to disable all service notifications for a specific hostgroup

2011-06-10 Thread Manish Kumar
Hello frnds, I have a specific requirement to disable all services notifications from a particular hostgroup but the host notifications for that hostgroup should be enabled. How this can be achieved by doing changes in configuration files. I have tried from the front-end but it is taking time to

[Nagios-users] How to scale the performance of nagios

2011-06-10 Thread Manish Kumar
Hello Friends, I have just implemented this nagios-3.2.3 solution to monitor a large client infrastructure, i have to monitor say around 200 network switches for around 20 services in each switch and some linux servers around 10 services, and many windows servers with around 6 services to

[Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin to get windows and linux cache memory status ??

2011-06-10 Thread Manish Kumar
Hi Frnds, Is there any nagios plugin to monitor the catch memories of windows and linux machines. -- Thanks Manish Kumar http://in.linkedin.com/in/manishkumar85 http://cens.cdac.in/ -- EditLive Enterprise is the

Re: [Nagios-users] Is the nagios log file keeps growing over time

2011-06-10 Thread Max Schubert
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.

Re: [Nagios-users] How to scale the performance of nagios

2011-06-10 Thread Terry Carmen
Quoting Manish Kumar manikuma...@gmail.com: I want to know this thing that, is it very normal for the standalone implementation of nagios to monitor the size of infrastructure that i have mentioned quite efficiently without any delay in the alerts and notifications. Since i am monitoring very

[Nagios-users] added host not appearing in web interface

2011-06-10 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there -- We are running Nagios 3.1.2 with the NRPE 2.12 client on our systems. We recently installed the VirtualBox application on one of our monitored systems, and have Ubuntu 10.04 LTS 64-bit as the guest operating system. We want to monitor the disk usage, processes, mysql server, and

Re: [Nagios-users] check_memcached and hits/misses

2011-06-10 Thread Pär Åslund
Hi, We solved this with script. But I'm a bit confused regarding what a misses threshold is suppose to tell me. Contrary to hits/misses with fixed polling intervals that is stored to compare previous run with current run. Which does catch a sudden decrease in hits/misses ratio. /p On Mon, May