Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with notify-by-email

2007-03-14 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, chiel wrote: After adding mail into the command it works. What may have caused it to not be there? The common cause is a network layer 8 problem. Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ This message is using 100% recycled

Re: [Nagios-users] [FRAUD] [DISARMED] nagios 3 latency not shown

2007-03-07 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Mies, Christian wrote: I've installed Nagios 3.0a1 on a SLES 10 Server. I have about 1700 Services on about 300 Hosts running. In the Nagios.cfg I've set the use_large_installation_tweaks=1 Now, If I show in the tactical Overview I see a latency of 0.000 sec. But my

Re: [Nagios-users] Services Flapping

2007-03-05 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Jason King wrote: I have nagios setup to check several servers. On one server, however, it keeps notifying me that all 4 services running on the server are going down then coming back up again then going down then coming backup up again. This only happens after around

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification via yahoo messenger/jabber

2007-03-03 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Mihai Tanasescu wrote: I've read the nagios website and forums to search for a solution to send a yahoo messenger text to me in case a host fails with no luck so far. All that I've seen are two Perl modules that are outdated and no longer work so I thought I could use the

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_http and a Cisco CSS 11501

2007-02-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Scott Frazer wrote: Ok, I've got a packet capture. There are three hosts involved: Nagios, CSS and Webserver In a normal session (one that succeeds) the sequence goes like this: Nagios - CSS [SYN] This would be the CSS VIP, I assume. CSS (impersonating Nagios) -

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_http and a Cisco CSS 11501

2007-02-27 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Scott Frazer wrote: I'm having issues with check_http checking a hostname that's actually a virtual ip address of a Cisco CSS 11501. The check will succeed initially, but eventually begin to fail, taking longer and longer to return, or eventually timeout. If I extend

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks in hosts.cfg?

2007-02-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, chiel wrote: I have been working with Nagios for a couple of days now and I'm just beginning to understand the principle of the config (.cfg) files. I understand that you create a service (let say Ping) and put all your hosts (or hostgroups) in there that you want to

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks in hosts.cfg?

2007-02-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, chiel wrote: Thank you for your comments. I understand this way nagios must be configured. define service{ use mydyndns-template host_name ns2.mydyndns.org,ns3.mydyndns.org,ns4.mydyndns.org,ns5.mydyndns.org

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Cisco 3750 stack

2007-02-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Andrea Gabellini wrote: I would like to monitor the status of a stack of Cisco Catalyst 3750. Do someone know the SNMP OIDs to query? Or can someone share info or scripts? I guess a snmpwalk against the device will let it spill it's guts and you pick whatever you want to

Re: [Nagios-users] A question...cascading failures and failure to recover

2007-02-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Steven Schwartz wrote: I've noticed an odd circumstance on two of my four nagios servers lately, and searching has found me no answers. Has anyone experienced symptoms similar to these: 1) On a given server, a plugin produces a critical failure on many (sometimes all)

Re: [Nagios-users] notification_interval in serviceescalation ignored

2007-02-14 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Rejo Zenger wrote: The problem in short: the escalations are working like a charm, but the notification interval of the escalation seems to be ignored. In more detail, the configuration is as follows: | define serviceescalation { | first_notification 1 |

Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage / memory usage

2007-02-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Marc Powell wrote: Can some one provide directions how to handle cpu usage / memory usage. I am using check_disk plugin for disk usage. Assuming you're talking about a unix variant, check_load is included in the standard plugins and can be used to infer cpu usage. There

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Dependencies - refer to self

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Is there any way to make a service dependency refer to the service's own host? In your case I would write a tiny script and generate the service dependencies. I guess some 20 lines of perl might do the trick if you are fluent in perl.

Re: [Nagios-users] [FRAUD] [DISARMED] Re: Service Dependencies - refer to self

2007-02-04 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 5 Feb 2007, moshe sharon wrote: its pretty simple solution without perl script. create a service called NRPE and enter the following check_command command_name nrpe_version command_line ./check_nrpe -H 212.150.36.20 when running this command against NRPE daemon you should get

Re: [Nagios-users] Two differenet files hosts.cfg andhostsgroups.cfg in one Nagios

2007-02-03 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Morris, Patrick wrote: I need yor help very much I have hostgroup which I need to describe in another configs. Updating script will work only with these files in order not to damage main configs in some case. So I made hosts2.cfg for my group and described

Re: [Nagios-users] truss check_nrpe

2007-01-30 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007, Edwin Zoeller wrote: When I run check_nrpe from the Nagios monitoring box it takes an average of 25 seconds to bring back a return code. If I run the same command locally it takes about 1 second. I have supplied a truss output from my Nagios monitoring server and any help

Re: [Nagios-users] Escalation notifications

2007-01-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, 3ala2 M. Shakhshir wrote: Am having a 2.6 Nagios, I want it to send only an email to contacts when a host or service goes down, and send an SMS to the same contacts after an hour, how this could be implemented in escalations? Perhaps you can indicate which part of the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring disk bandwidth utilization?

2007-01-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Mike Hamrick wrote: I've been unable to find a nagios plugin that monitors disk bandwidth utilization, does anybody know of one? It seems like it would be relatively straightforward to wrap a nagios plugin around a utility like iostat or sar, but I thought I'd ask if

Re: [Nagios-users] Howto not check a service each day from 03-06

2007-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 10:07 +, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name oracle-downtime alias Oracle Downtime sunday

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

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

2007-01-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Herman (ISTD) wrote: 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Email - question....

2007-01-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Lacayo, Luis F wrote: I am trying to figure out how to change the email address that sends the service/host emails. Right now, the messages are sent by [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I want it to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] That trick needs to be done by your local MTA. If you run

Re: [Nagios-users] Adding buttons

2007-01-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007, John Longland wrote: My Nagios system is standing in our call-center and I have a few servers spread out over a few venues. At one of the distant locations, I have a DNS server and at certain times I need to have an operator trigger some scripts on this DNS server. What I

Re: [Nagios-users] Sending Notifications on Soft (from Passive Checks)

2007-01-16 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Nevermind -- just Submit 3 passive service checks and the state transitions from Soft - Hard; What a PITA from the web interface. A macro would be great; a checkbox. Wouldn't this be related to the default retry counter? If you set the retry

[Nagios-users] Down time in UP messages?

2007-01-13 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
Hi, Did someone manage to get the down time in UP messages for hosts and/or services? I have been tampering a little bit with it but could not get any reliable/workable results. But I may havebeen missing out something rather obvious. I tried a thing like: # command_line

Re: [Nagios-users] Bandwidth

2007-01-10 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: I need to monitor the evolution of my internet connection (evolution of the bandwidth available). How it is possible with Nagios ? Can you slam a nail into the wall with a screwdriver? Sure. But a hammer is a much better tool. Monitoring bandwidth is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Timezone

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Darren Dunham wrote: Also notice that unless the TZ variable is set in the one-liner containing the call to start Nagios it may have no effect whatsoever. $ TZ=America/Anchorage date Sat Jan 6 00:21:33 AKST 2007 $ TZ=America/Anchorage $ date Sat Jan 6 10:27:35 CET

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with statusmap.cgi

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Ahmed Foued HAMED wrote: i have all the necessary lib's [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q gd gd-1.8.4-12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q gd-devel gd-devel-1.8.4-12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q libpng libpng-1.2.2-16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q libpng-devel

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Timezone

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Israel Brewster wrote: Ok, looks like I've got things figured out here. The problem appears to stem from Apache being chrooted, specifically that the Nagios CGI's, running under the Apache chroot, can't see the /etc/localtime file. When I copy the /etc/localtime file to

Re: [Nagios-users] New Member

2007-01-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, James E. Pratt wrote: Put a lower-cased f on the end of the link,,, it got chopped off.. http://www.netways.de/uploads/media/Ethan.Galstad_Nagios.3.and.Beyond.pd f And again. But that is Outlook for you. it tries to be smart about URL's but behaves . (well, not so

Re: [Nagios-users] System appears as down, but services are being monitored

2007-01-07 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 6 Jan 2007, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: What would the correct syntax be? This would apply to a Nagios 2.6 server. The one in the fine manual: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#host Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/

Re: [Nagios-users] Looking for a Nagios plugin to alarm on mgs in mailbox

2007-01-07 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 7 Jan 2007, Andrey Dmitriev wrote: Is there are a Nagios Plugin that could check let's say a POP account, and if email arrives it would start utilizing its escalation mechanism? E.g. we have certain alerts coming from ArcServ backup failures, or emails from raid managers, or from

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Timezone

2007-01-06 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Darren Dunham wrote: So how do I determine what the proper setting for my timezone is? I tried setting TZ=America/Anchorage but this didn't have any effect. That is NOT a valid TZ variable. If you take a minute you can use your favorite search engine and actually find the

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_pgsql

2007-01-04 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: I think on Fedora you can edit /etc/ld.so.conf, then run ldconfig. Or make sure there is a symlink to the libpq.so.5 in /lib, /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib (just to cover all bases!) I had a similar problem on FreeBSD, and linking

Re: [Nagios-users] 0 bytes pin using check_ping

2007-01-02 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: dhaval thakar wrote: Dear Andy, thanks for your reply, of course practically I'll not get 0 byte ping. Well. As long as there is any stretch of ethernet involved you will get a minimum size of 64 byte packets. Anything below 64 bytes

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE_NT and Win NT 4.0 Problem

2006-12-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Rene Fertig wrote: Is there a known issue with nrpe_nt (0.8b) and Windows NT 4.0?? The service is running and responding, but the exit code/errorlevel is not transmitted. I always receive 0 (OK). On a Win2k-box everything works fine. Retire the NT 4 boxes. (Should have

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE problem

2006-12-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Jesús Oliván wrote: i'm using NRPE to monitorize a Solaris host. When i launch disk nrpe request through check_nrpe plugin on server machine, it returns me a DISK Warning problem, and my host nrpe config is configured to see warnings since 10% space free, but any filesystem

Re: [Nagios-users] ANNOUNCE: Nagios Looking Glass 1.0.0#PRE is here!

2006-12-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 28 Dec 2006, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Thanks for your description below but I'm still struggling to come to terms with how NLG can be used to attack another site. Firstly, my understanding of an XSS attack is of the following: - Client requests a page (eg. www.yahoo.com)

Re: [Nagios-users] Server/Router with more than 1 interface

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Herman (ISTD) wrote: Hi Hugo, thank you very much for your suggestion. Currently, I do the same thing with : define command{ command_namecheck_interface command_line$USER1$/check_snmp_cisco_ifstatus -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $ARG1$ -i $ARG2$ }

Re: [Nagios-users] New condiguration not loading

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, John Longland wrote: Just saw something very weird for the first time since I have installed my distributed Nagios system ( 2.4 ). ( Running on CentOS4.0 ) I needed to take out 2 hosts. But after taking them out of my minimal.cfg and restarting nagios, I still see that

[Nagios-users] GD2 and Nagios? It works for me.

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
Hi, I recall having seen some remarks on the GD2 support of Nagios when installed throug DAG's packages. Well it works for me. Added a config line to nagios.cfg like: cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/host-extinfo Then filled this directory with config files for my hosts. For example: define hostextinfo {

Re: [Nagios-users] Error: Could not read host and service status information!

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, edalB wrote: I used the following tutoria. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Nagios When starting up nagios it started up with no error at all. Follow the manual instead and see what you did forget to do. Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk

2006-12-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Matthias wrote: i am wondering about the output of the check_disk plugins: on the ext3 partition is 38% of inodes used: # df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 9.2G 3.3G 5.5G 38% / That will be disk blocks, not inodes

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about scheduling

2006-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Tobias Klausmann wrote: - How does the scheduling queue work? From the docs it seems the whole queue is held up as soon as a host check is necessary. As far as I know, Nagios parallelizes checks, so my question is if the current checking thread is held up only or if

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about scheduling

2006-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Yes, for reasons stated above. It gets slightly worse if you have a largely linear network (many hosts only have one child), since it also has to check parent hosts until it finds the closest possible up to determine where a possible network outage

Re: [Nagios-users] start nagios

2006-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Alicia Calvo wrote: I configured about manual but at start time Nagios send the following msgs: Permiso denegado. I try start at /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start. Try looking for permission denied and nagios with your favorite search engine. You did not include any

Re: [Nagios-users] Server/Router with more than 1 interface

2006-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Herman (ISTD) wrote: I have some servers and routers that have more than 1 interface, and each interface has IP Address. I would like define a host is alive if all of its interface ip address are available via check_ping. So I define as following, but if I shut down the

Re: [Nagios-users] Use statement

2006-12-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, Saulo Silva wrote: Just to confirm . Can I use two use statement when I am defining a service . Why do you not use nagios -v to confirm it? It is there for you to verify your config. (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/verifyconfig.html) Hugo. -- [EMAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] nsca query

2006-12-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Barton, Murray M. wrote: I have setup nsca and I can send alerts to nagios OK. Here is the problem I have- 1. send critical/warning alert to nagios 2. confirm alert is displayed 3. send OK status to nagios 4. confirm nagios displays status OK 5. time passes 6.

[Nagios-users] Nagios upgrade to 2.6 bumps using RPMs

2006-12-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
Hi, Just some notes before anyones picks up the nagios 2.6 RPM from DAG. Make sure to backup the config directory (as always). Just got the upgrade. But I lost some files in the upgrade and had to restore them from backup. In /etc/nagios the files checkcommands.cfg and misccommands.cfg are

Re: [Nagios-users] Forbidden access to server

2006-12-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Sam Fraser wrote: For some reason my webserver can't get access to the nagios html files. I've given 777 access to all the files in /usr/local/nagios/* and I've run the web server as the owner of these files, but to no avail, any ideas? Setting access right like this

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios database support

2006-12-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Mike Hammett wrote: Darn offlist replies. ;-) Add topposts and duplicates to the list if you please. An archive didn't reveal much, though through some Googling I found some alternative methods. I was hoping for an official method, but I guess not. I recommend that

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring routers / status map

2006-12-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Petry wrote: im finding a program to monitor the interface of my routers ( up/down ), so i've found nagios. i not installed yet, and just have some questions about how it works: - i need to configure something on the routers?? Not if you can ping all of them. For

Re: [Nagios-users] Roadmap for nagios 3.0

2006-12-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Manish Sapariya wrote: I should have been clear while stating my problem, but my status string is expected to cross 80 column limitation currenlty imposed by the Nagios. Some of my services return lots of stats and I need to report them on Nagios dashboard. Frankly. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Roadmap for nagios 3.0

2006-12-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Manish Sapariya wrote: I agree to you. As of now this is the requirement set by the user of nagios and I have to somehow give this information. Whether its in service summary or extended service page is secondary for me right now. The important question is HOW? Its

Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

2006-12-05 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, John Longland wrote: Wanting to get Nagvis going with my Nagios-system. I have installed it as they explain. When I hit it with my browser, it does display half the page but complains about a username that I have not supplied. And yet, it never asks me for one. Sounds

Re: [Nagios-users] email notifications

2006-11-30 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006, Abegail Pungtilan wrote: I'm new to nagios world with basic knowledge in unix. My boss ask me to enable setup email notifications on our nagios and I'm having a hard time how / where to start. Could someone give me hints / tips on this it would be highly appreciated?

Re: [Nagios-users] CGI Interface Dropping Services

2006-11-23 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Gerd Mueller wrote: 1. use the init script which comes with nagios 2. Do not send a signal manuell nor use restart. Use stop, ps (to check for nagios processes) and start nagios again. Perhaps the restart option should sleep a while between stop and start. But for most

Re: [Nagios-users] Flat map

2006-11-22 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Varaillon Jean Cristophe wrote: Ok but then I have an issue here: Each host is define with a single address, right? In this case, how woud you configure nagios if you want to have this map: Server_1--10.10.10.0/24---ROUTER1---20.20.20.0/24---Server_2 How would

Re: [Nagios-users] timeouts when using secondary dns

2006-11-06 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, stucky wrote: Guys I use the check_by_ssh plugin for most of my stuff and I noticed that if the primary nameserver is unavailable nagios starts freaking out. All of a sudden all plugins time out. I tested it using the 'host' command and it only takes about 1 second

[Nagios-users] Perl error with check_linux_raid.pl

2006-11-03 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
Hi, After the last yum update of nagios-plugins I found myself staring at an error I could not fix right away. I think it is my lack of Perl knowledge that is to blame and hope some can tell me if my corrections are correct. The error I got in Nagios was: **ePN failed to compile

Re: [Nagios-users] small alternative frontend

2006-11-01 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: I have just (10 minutes ago!) released version 0.2.4 of my alternative front-end called Nagios/Network Looking Glass - it's aimed at businesses that want to publish their server status to 3rd parties without giving them access to the

[Nagios-users] Views on mailinglist usage (Was: Net-SNMP and SNMP4Nagios)

2006-10-26 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Max H. wrote: lists automatically being good when it comes to the reply-tos. When you click a reply all on this, you get the original sender, you, and the list instead of just the list. If you only click reply, you get just the sender.

Re: [Nagios-users] Theme / website

2006-10-25 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Kyle Vorster wrote: Does any one know of a webend for Nagios that supports Themes, or to customize the pages. I am growing tired of the boring tables, and wish to spice it up a little. Well you could just write your own add-on if you are really bored. Hugo. --

Re: [Nagios-users] Net-SNMP and SNMP4Nagios

2006-10-25 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Justin Craig wrote: I updated my num.conf file with the example provided and cleaned yum. Now, it's looks like progresion, but still get an error when trying to install net-snmp. Ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] SNMP4Nagios-0.3]# yum install net-snmp Setting up Install

Re: [Nagios-users] Net-SNMP and SNMP4Nagios

2006-10-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Justin Craig wrote: I'm reaching out of the comfort zone of just pinging hosts. I want to install SNMP4Nagios and recognize Net-snmp and rddtool as pre-reqs. I'm trying to install net-snmp and get an error (snippit) libtool: link: cannot find the library

Re: [Nagios-users] auto-detecting of new hosts, routers etc...

2006-10-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 21 Oct 2006, root root wrote: Can Nagios gather information from my network automatically in order to add it to hosts.cfg file by itself, not by nagios administrator? No. There are tools to detect hosts and write updated config files out there. But someone installed equipment in your

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users auto-detecting of new hosts, routers

2006-10-21 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, magic_rooter wrote: I know some tools based upon Cisco Discovery Protocol. Netdisco and Nedi for example. So I can gather information from my network and than manually add it to my configs? So, that's a good idea, I think. Some kind of script will make it more easy to

Re: [Nagios-users] /tmp directory filling up

2006-10-20 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the past couple of weeks the /tmp directory has been filling up with thousands of zero length files list this ~ embedded23S23e embeddedoIBi1e. What is wrong with the thread you started 4 days ago? Did you read the answer you got? How did it

Re: [Nagios-users] 1.3 - 2.5 upgrade docs?

2006-10-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Tom Trelvik wrote: So I originally installed Nagios via apt on a Debian stable system. I only later realized that Nagios was on version 1.3 in apt and 2.5 on the web site. When Debian stable gets updated to Etch this December, apt will want to upgrade to 2.5. I can

Re: [Nagios-users] check router and switch cisco

2006-10-18 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, wrote: are there a plugin that check temperture of router and switch cisco? Check_snmp. Getting the right OID might be a wee bit harder. Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hvdkooij.xs4all.nl/ This message is using 100% recycled electrons.

Re: [Nagios-users] check router and switch cisco

2006-10-18 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, wrote: Sorry but i am newbie in that , but what is a OID? Object IDentifier. Please check your favority search engine and put in the question. It usually helps. You are advised to learn a thing or two about SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) as it is the usual

Re: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website

2006-10-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Frank, Jason wrote: This actually hits on what I consider to be one of Nagios' (few) weaknesses. A lot of time, when I do my checks, I'm not nearly as interested in the value of a check as in the change in the value since the last check. This is a good example.

Re: [Nagios-users] web authentication

2006-10-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006, Jeff Rutkowski wrote: Ok, continuing on from yesterday. To recap: SuSE 9.3, linux box Nagios 2.5, apache 2.2.3. I am now able to start nagios, but when I try to access it via web browser, it prompts me for id and password, then gives the error: FORBIDDEN You

Re: [Nagios-users] nagiso compilation parameters

2006-10-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Brandino Andreas wrote: btw, should i prefer source rpm or just install from source? Is there any howto for installing source on suse? Well the generic installation procedure may appy. 1. Install gcc, make, .. (if not yet present) 2. `rpmbuild --rebuild

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP checking for IBM Bladecenters

2006-10-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the Nagios Exchange plugin: SNMP checking for IBM Bladecenters but it's giving me a perl error. It says it can't find utils.pm in @INC. I installed GO::Utils from CPAN, but I'm still getting the error. I'm wondering if

Re: [Nagios-users] check_mailq

2006-10-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Frank Sfalanga wrote: I've edited the sudoers file using visudo and appended this information - it doesn't seem to have made a difference though, unfortunately. Perhaps this plugin will not work the way I'm trying to use it? I'm guessing that this plugin is designed to

Re: [Nagios-users] nagiso compilation parameters

2006-10-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Brandino Andreas wrote: The problem is that i installed nagios from (suse) rpm. For some reason nagios doesnt read hostexteinfo.cfg (even when i add this line: cfg_file=/etc/nagios/hostextinfo.cfg to nagios.cfg). hostextinfo configuration is defined somewhere else in

Re: [Nagios-users] check_mailq

2006-10-07 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, Frank Sfalanga wrote: I've installed and am configuring Nagios v1.3 on Ubuntu server. I used apt-get install nagios and the majority of setup was done for me. I have a qmail server and I'm trying to get the check_mailq plugin to work. So far all I'm getting is:

Re: [Nagios-users] holidays

2006-10-06 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Matthias Eble wrote: Andreas Ericsson schrieb: Bart van Daal wrote: i've been searching around for a way to define holidays in nagios. The object is to be able to use a 24-7 timeperiod on holidays (e.g. 25 december) and the Tech_hours timeperiod on 'normal'

Re: [Nagios-users] R: R: Installing problem

2006-10-02 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Marco Borsani wrote: When I installed Nagios on Red Hat Enterprise 3 I had not these problems!! Was SELinux enabled on that server? What was its exact settings compared to the settings on this system? RHEL3 does not have SELINUX. (Saves time

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Installing problem

2006-09-29 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Marco Borsani wrote: I am not expert on Linux so I don't understand when you write: ..but for RedHat you *should* get everything needed by the simple expedient of yum install gd-devel What do you mean? Get your hands on the manual and learn the usage of the yum tool

Re: [Nagios-users] Time of HTTP request

2006-09-27 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Thanks for answer. Is there a way to check this in the apache log (via a plugin) instead testing the request ? because I don't know what request will be sent by the client, I just want to see after all slow requests. Check your apache manual for apache

Re: [Nagios-users] can not send email with nagios

2006-09-19 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, [iso-8859-1] Carlos Julio Sánchez [ACC-SIS] wrote: I am newbie with nagios, i install nagios 2.5, but nagios don’t send mails when occur an error, I need some packet for to send mails?. Yes. Most Linux distribution come with a scaled down sendmail server or something that

Re: [Nagios-users] config file activation after changes

2006-09-15 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Matthias Eble wrote: my nagios instance showed some strange behaviour a couple of minutes ago. I changed a couple of services to notifications_enabled 0 in the configfiles, but the deamon didn't recognize the changes after reloading and restarting. (yes, i checked for

Re: [Nagios-users] nagiosgraph there no content (graph)

2006-09-14 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, hendro budianto wrote: My os is CentOS 4.0, nagios-devel-2.5-1.el4.rf, nagios-2.5-1.el4.rf, nagios-plugins-1.4.2-1.2.el4.rf with the nagiosgraph-0.8.2 version. The configuration is already set, but when i click the grafik icon the graphics isn't show up. When i check

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.5

2006-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: . Error: Global host event handler command 'log-host-event-to-db' is not defined anywhere! Error: Global service event handler command 'log-service-event-to-db' is not defined anywhere! Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 Error

2006-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Jim Perrin wrote: Top posting because there's no actual question here. What's your point? Read the docs. Configure nagios to taste. You haven't defined anything. In fact the answer is a duplicate either ;-) But it seems Kaushal Shriyan reads the mailinglist as well as the

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http on image

2006-09-10 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Richard Galvez wrote: On a few servers I'm running tux web servers that only serve images (speeds up the process dramatically), and I'm trying to check this with nagios. I essentially need to do a check_http -H somedomain.com/someimage.jpg -w # -c ## I try doing this

Re: [Nagios-users] defining domain for check_http for each host

2006-09-03 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Richard Galvez wrote: Yeah, I follow you, but the issue is that I'm the user, and I care for the websites that I know are consistent with each machine. If that site goes down, then so did the machine.. That's my reason behind it. Thanks for your help though, all of you, I

Re: [Nagios-users] defining domain for check_http for each host

2006-09-02 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 3 Sep 2006, Richard Galvez wrote: Right, I understand that, but the issue is that I would have to define a check_http then for every host. I have over 100 hosts, and I would like to just set it in the host definition for quicker, more logical execution.. Is this possible? You do not

Re: [Nagios-users] cannot stop notifications!!

2006-08-28 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Mon, 28 Aug 2006, Malcolm Frazier wrote: Umm okay Hugo you say what to do but not how to do it, great. Well I assumed that everyone has configured their hosts and services at one time or another. So I guessed this nudge was enough to go in the config section for the individual host/services

Re: [Nagios-users] (No output!) Errors in Nagios 2.4

2006-08-27 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Andy Shellam wrote: I've been using Nagios for around 5 months now with no problems. I've recently added a new server onto my network, which has added somewhere in the region of another 3 hosts and 12 services onto Nagios. Since then I now keep getting random errors in

Re: [Nagios-users] cannot stop notifications!!

2006-08-26 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Malcolm Frazier wrote: I had the same problem you seem to have, I could not disable notifications from the nagios web interface so what I did was went into my nagios.cfg file and around line 622 you'll see something like enable_notifications=1 change that 1 to a 0 and

Re: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh not working

2006-08-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Nelson Serafica wrote: Here's the scenario: user John can connect via ssh to SONICSERVER using oracle user without authentication. To verify, i run this command and encountered no problem: ssh -i /home/John/.ssh/id_rsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] w and the commands run

Re: [Nagios-users] Good Linux and Mac Client

2006-08-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: Ladies and Gents, Can someone please suggest a good Linux, and a good Mac client for Nagios? I have been using nagios-statd (python), however, it does not support any authentication mechanism :( I would recommend firefox. Perhaps

Re: [Nagios-users] Good Linux and Mac Client

2006-08-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote: OH lol! No NO NO. I meant for the clients running on the hosts being monitored :) They are (sometimes) refered to as agents. Which make it much clearer what way you want to go. However these agents are as diverse as the things you want to

Re: [Nagios-users] stange symbols in notifications

2006-08-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Hari Sekhon wrote: Hari Sekhon wrote: Here is an example CRITICAL: Only 19.11G (4%) free on 92.168.1.138ig2 Why does it seem to be mangled? Is this a character set issue or a local issue or something? also, the web interface shows this normally:

Re: [Nagios-users] Help rephrasing my question

2006-08-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Brian McKee wrote: I posted a query on this list a week ago which no-one responded to. https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=29500609forum_id=1873 That was a rephrased form of a question I asked a few weeks earlier than that

Re: [Nagios-users] R: check+http on asp.net site

2006-08-09 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Marco Borsani wrote: Telnet ip 80 .. GET / HTTP/1.0 Host: ip Ouch. I don not think you refer to this host as http://ip/ but http://hostname/ in your web browser. That would render the test illegal. But by all means

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