Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple NRPE Processes

2010-01-21 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Can you elaborate Matthew, why is it critical to run NRPE in daemon mode under Solaris? I'm just curious as to any issues that may result from not doing so. Cheers, Chris -- Throughout its 18-year history, RSA

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios as a Service Resiliency Manager

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher McAtackney
. Cheers, Chris 2009/12/10 Marcel mits...@gmail.com: Maybe this would help: http://onlamp.com/onlamp/2006/05/25/self-healing-networks.html On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have a need to control an Active / Passive pair of components

[Nagios-users] Nagios as a Service Resiliency Manager

2009-12-10 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I have a need to control an Active / Passive pair of components and was wondering if anyone had tackled this problem with Nagios? The scenario is as follows; Host A has SERVICE_1 installed and running. Host B has SERVICE_2 installed, but not running. The desired functionality is to

[Nagios-users] Services on Host Templates

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, If I create a host template, and associate a number of services with it, will hosts which inherit from that template also inherit the service associations? I've tried this out, but it doesn't seem to be working, and I'm wondering if there's something I'm missing. Previously I was using

Re: [Nagios-users] Services on Host Templates

2009-08-20 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/8/20 Jim Avery j...@jimavery.me.uk: 2009/8/20 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: Hi all, If I create a host template, and associate a number of services with it, will hosts which inherit from that template also inherit the service associations? No.  You can only associate

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: NDO Utils Question

2009-06-25 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/6/25 Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) jonathan.whee...@stfc.ac.uk: -Original Message- From: Christopher McAtackney [mailto:crist...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 June 2009 14:51 Hi everyone, I have a quick question about Nagios and NDOUtils I was hoping someone could answer. What happens

Re: [Nagios-users] Removing NRPE Daemon

2009-05-28 Thread Christopher McAtackney
scripts How do you start the nrpe daemon ? Assaf On Wednesday 27 May 2009 14:32:40 Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi Assaf, where can I find the init script for the NRPE daemon? Cheers, Chris 2009/5/27 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com: When you did the make install - did you also

Re: [Nagios-users] Removing NRPE Daemon

2009-05-27 Thread Christopher McAtackney
you have is two installs of nrpe located in different locations and the init script is calling the old one . check the paths and locations and see what is called when you start the nrpe daemon . Assaf On Wednesday 27 May 2009 13:47:49 Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi all, I was wondering

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem in configuring NSClient ++

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/5/12 Sundar V S sunnywa...@in.com: Hi, I configured NSClient on Windows server, as menitoned in Nagios Documentation. Now, when i restarted the Nagios service on my Nagios Server, i gave me the following error, Stopping nagios: No lock file found in /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-05-12 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi Simon, Sorry, just realised that I had forgotten to reply to you. I got Centreon working perfectly in the end. My centstorage service wasn't running for some reason, but once it started, the graphs started becoming populated with data as expected. I've had it running for about 10 days now and

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-30 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi Simon, It looks like I'll have to take you up on your offer of help :-) Centreon seems to be working perfectly, except that graphs are not displaying. I see the following errors in nagiosPerfTrace.log; Can't locate /etc/centreon/conf.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl

[Nagios-users] parse log files

2009-04-29 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/29 Chris atst...@gmail.com: I have a log server where all servers log in its individual files. Logs are rotated once a month. Is there any way get Nagios to read the *.crit lines from the log files and alert for each individual server? Thanks. I haven't tried it out myself, but it

Re: [Nagios-users] Protocol

2009-04-28 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Thanks Kevin 2009/4/27 Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com: TCP. UDP would be too unreliable for this type of application, and there also is too much data going over the line to make UDP a viable option. Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi everyone, I was just wondering; what protocol (TCP

[Nagios-users] Protocol

2009-04-27 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi everyone, I was just wondering; what protocol (TCP, UDP?) does Nagios use to communicate with remote hosts when using the check_nrpe plugin? Or just generally? Cheers, Chris -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime

Re: [Nagios-users] C++ Plugins

2009-04-24 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/21 Michael Medin mich...@medin.name: Hello, All the built in plugins are avalible as source so it should be pretty simple to figure out. The idea is anyways that you fill the buffer passed to the function from the core. (this will BTW change in the next major release) Thanks for

[Nagios-users] C++ Plugins

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I'm trying to develop a plug-in for NSClient++ written in C++, but I'm unsure of how to return the status code and the check result string (e.g. 2 and Service is Critical). Are there any examples of C++ plugins online anywhere that I can use as a template? Cheers, Chris

Re: [Nagios-users] C++ Plugins

2009-04-21 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Chris, if you do a search on http://nagiosexchange.org for c++ you will find various plugins, utilities and addons written using C++.  I guess most or at least some of them will include the source code.  I don't program any version of C myself so can't check for sure which might be a good

[Nagios-users] Precompiled Solaris Binaries

2009-04-17 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi everyone, I was wondering if there were pre-compiled binaries of Nagios 3.0.6, NRPE 2.12 and Plugins 1.4.13 for Solaris 10 x86 available anywhere? Cheers, Chris -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both

Re: [Nagios-users] Precompiled Solaris Binaries

2009-04-17 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/17 Kyle O'Donnell kyleodonn...@gmail.com: I'll be compiling these shortly and uploading to nagios exchange. Great, good to hear :) Will these be available today Kyle? I'm quite eager to get my hands on them. Also, whilst on the subject of Nagios under Solaris, does anyone have examples

Re: [Nagios-users] Precompiled Solaris Binaries

2009-04-17 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Sorry, I meant to ask, are there also binaries available for Solaris 10 U6 x64? -- Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save $200 on the

Re: [Nagios-users] Consolidating Log Files

2009-04-17 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/17 Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se: Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi all, I'm thinking of setting up my Nagios system in a Redundant Monitoring configuration - two servers (a primary and secondary) which both monitor all hosts / services, but only one of which has notifications enabled

[Nagios-users] Consolidating Log Files

2009-04-16 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I'm thinking of setting up my Nagios system in a Redundant Monitoring configuration - two servers (a primary and secondary) which both monitor all hosts / services, but only one of which has notifications enabled (the primary). Upon failure of the primary, the secondary will enable its

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-14 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Thanks to all for the replies, I appreciate the offers of help. I was thinking of trying to port Centreon to run against Oracle instead of MySQL. I took a quick skim over the source and it looks like a lot of the database calls are going through PEAR and are fairly generic, so I'm hoping that it

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and Cacti

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher McAtackney
With parallel checks in Nagios 3 and some configuration tuning and well-written SNMP checks, I'd argue that Nagios is as good if not a better poller than cactid :).   our instance is not huge, but currently we do 7000+ SNMP-based checks in 3 minutes on a dual quad-core Linux-based server.

[Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, Does anyone have any experience using Centreon? http://www.centreon.com/ It seems like a really nice front-end to Nagios, but I'd like to hear of other people's experiences using it before installing and setting it up. Cheers, Chris

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-09 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/9 James Pratt jpr...@norwich.edu: -Original Message- From: Christopher McAtackney [mailto:crist...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 8:59 AM To: Nagios Users Subject: [Nagios-users] Centreon Hi all, Does anyone have any experience using Centreon? http

[Nagios-users] Nagios and Cacti

2009-04-08 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I've been looking into making use of Cacti to act as an SNMP management tool which runs alongside my Nagios instance. Ideally, what I would like to do is have Cacti monitor various SNMP-exposed metrics on my hosts, and then have a service check in Nagios which parses Cacti's results

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and Cacti

2009-04-08 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/4/8 Andrew Davis ncc...@gmail.com: And just an FYI from my own experience... putting Nagios Cacti on the same server has been somewhat problematic for us. We have over 400 network devices between switches, routers, WAPs, etc. We also have about 300 monitored servers. Initially I had

Re: [Nagios-users] Uniquely Identifiable Events in Nagios.log?

2009-04-03 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Since you almost certainly want to maintain a single process to handle the logged lines, why not just write a tail-like program that parses them one by one as they're written? After all, you'd hardly want to slog through all the log-entries multiple times anyway. With this solution, I find it

Re: [Nagios-users] Auto-Discovery

2009-03-26 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/25 Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com: It doesn't appear to me that the configuration syntax has changed significantly, but I haven't used 3.x yet. NACE updates your templates, so the syntax shouldn't matter much. If you write Nagios 3.x configs, and let NACE reuse them with

Re: [Nagios-users] Auto-Discovery

2009-03-26 Thread Christopher McAtackney
There is a new config / discovery manager for nagios called Lilac. http://www.lilacplatform.com/ Have a look and let us know how you get on. Rich Hi Rich, I have looked at Lilac before, and it looks great, unfortunately the only supported database platform I'll be using is Oracle. Is

[Nagios-users] Uniquely Identifiable Events in Nagios.log?

2009-03-26 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to configure Nagios to produce uniquely identifiable entries in the nagios/var/nagios.log file? The reason I ask, is that I would like to parse this log file for service check results and perform further processing based on the values discovered there.

Re: [Nagios-users] Uniquely Identifiable Events in Nagios.log?

2009-03-26 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/26 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 26, 2009, at 9:22 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible to configure Nagios to produce uniquely identifiable entries in the nagios/var/nagios.log file? No, the log format isn't configurable.  Or any other

Re: [Nagios-users] Auto-Discovery

2009-03-25 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/24 Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com: NACE is a toolkit that you can use to build your own configuration. It was creating during the Nagios 2.x days, if you have any problems let me know. Once queries were created, it was incredibly low maintenance. Thanks. Hi Russell, I

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-25 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/25 Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com: I think you are comparing apples and oranges here, because in most situations that I can think of, the decision is dictated by the network topology. If you are exclusively on a trusted private network, check_by_ssh really doesn't offer any

[Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-24 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros / cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the check_by_ssh command? I'm aware that check_by_ssh increases the CPU overhead, but I'm not clear on the level of impact here - does this increase the load on

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-24 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/24 Michael Schwartzkopff mi...@multinet.de: Am Dienstag, 24. März 2009 10:45:08 schrieb Christopher McAtackney: Hi all, I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros / cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the check_by_ssh command? I'm aware

[Nagios-users] Auto-Discovery

2009-03-24 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had some pointers on Auto-discovery? Both hardware / services preferably. I've found something which looks promising, NACE (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nace/), but I'd like to hear other people's opinions on it and their experiences with it. Cheers, Chris

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle database after each service/host check is performed. Does Nagios support this sort of functionality? Yes

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle database after each service/host check is performed

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
directly. Christopher McAtackney wrote: 2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se: Christopher McAtackney wrote: [1237804472] Warning: Attempting to execute the command /usr/local/nagios/host_check.pl 127.0.0.1 53 resulted in a return code of 127.  Make sure the script or binary you are trying

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios with Trouble Ticket system or Managment System integration

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Florence Luk lukk...@netvigator.com: Dear all, I am new to Nagios and now my company want to try let Nagios to integrate with our new Service Desk system (Management System). For this project our aim is to inject Nagios's alert message to Service Desk system and it can create a

[Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I'm new to Nagios and was wondering about possible strategies for storing service / host check results in an Oracle database. I'm aware of an Oracle extension to NDOUtils (https://www.nagiosforge.org/gf/project/ndoutils_oracle/) but I believe that it is in a pre-alpha state, which makes

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-20 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Thanks Marc, I'll take a look into those options and see if I can make use of them for logging to Oracle. Cheers, Chris 2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs