Re: [Nagios-users] View all unhandled services and all unhandled hosts

2009-06-30 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 24/06/09 13:30, Christoph Kluenter wrote: Hi, I want to see all unhandled service problems and all unhandled host problems on one page. I thought, this URL would do it: status.cgi?host=allservicestatustypes=28serviceprops=42hoststatustypes=12hostprops=42 I use

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple host service detail on one page

2009-04-23 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 23/04/09 09:50, Nick Millen wrote: Hi All, I was wondering if anybody had anything place to see multiple hosts services on one page. For example I'm monitoring 3 individual exchange servers. I can add these to a hostgroup then check each individually :

Re: [Nagios-users] Limit the alert notifications

2009-04-16 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 16/04/09 17:33, Martyn wrote: Hi all I would like to change the email alerts per users if I may, is there a way of setting up so only 3 mails get sent to users A but only two mails to user B even if the fault is still there, if not per users then across the board. I have searched around

Re: [Nagios-users] Doubt about email notifications

2009-04-14 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 14/04/09 07:29, Daniel Bareiro wrote: Hi all! Is there any variable where I can configure each how long are sent the email notifications for the services? At first I see that these are sent hourly. look for notification_interval in the documentation (I've set it to zero, so there is

Re: [Nagios-users] .htpasswd login

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 23/03/09 12:55, Chris wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Klaus Umbach treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: On 20/03/09 16:28, Chris wrote: Thanks. I have addedd AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/.htaccess to my /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/lib/nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] .htpasswd login

2009-03-20 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 20/03/09 16:28, Chris wrote: I like to implement .htpasswd so users can log in using their Active Directory user name and password to have a basic view of Nagios interface (as in a 'normal user') At the moment I have htpasswd.users with only one user - nagiosadmin. I would like to keep the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring IBM server-hardware (x3650) running Windows

2009-03-17 Thread Klaus Umbach
and either do the testing for me or give me access to a development server for testing. If I knew where to get this information, I could write the plugins myself :-) - Klaus Klaus Umbach wrote: Hi, How can I monitor the hardware in IBM servers running Windows, especially

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring IBM server-hardware (x3650) running Windows

2009-03-17 Thread Klaus Umbach
that instead of SNMP? yes, there is one: ipssend.exe, but sometimes it says, there is no controller, but I know, there is one. Klaus Umbach wrote: On 16/03/09 10:07, Kevin Keane wrote: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tntnagiosplugin/Windows SNMP is really not all that useful in my experience

[Nagios-users] Monitoring IBM server-hardware (x3650) running Windows

2009-03-16 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, How can I monitor the hardware in IBM servers running Windows, especially the physical harddrives? I can't see anything via SNMP that makes sense and the IBM Director Agents sends no traps if a drive fails. I played around with check_serveraid, changed the ssh-stuff to winexe, but I don't

Re: [Nagios-users] getting warnings for connection refused with check_nrpe instead of critical

2009-02-27 Thread Klaus Umbach
I should write a patch to make it configurable... That'd be nice =) Ehrm, I just looked in the code of nrpe 2.12... This function is already in (-u). I still had 2.5.1 (Debian Etch). This really hurts... :-) Cheers Klaus -- BOFH excuse #75: There isn't any problem

[Nagios-users] getting warnings for connection refused with check_nrpe instead of critical

2009-02-26 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I have a problem with unstable lines and/or machines under stress. Sometimes they just don't reply on nrpe, but are still working, so I get a lot of false alarms. Is it possible, to tell check_nrpe to exit with a warning instead of critical? Cheers Klaus -- BOFH excuse #401:

Re: [Nagios-users] getting warnings for connection refused with check_nrpe instead of critical

2009-02-26 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 26/02/09 12:06, Lee Azzarello wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:21 AM, Klaus Umbach treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: Hi, I have a problem with unstable lines and/or machines under stress. Sometimes they just don't reply on nrpe, but are still working, so I get a lot of false

Re: [Nagios-users] getting warnings for connection refused with check_nrpe instead of critical

2009-02-26 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 26/02/09 13:18, Marc Powell wrote: change STATE_CRITICAL to whatever state you think it should be and recompile. Yes, that solution is an option, too, but I was hoping to find something without recompiling :-) I should write a patch to make it configurable... Cheers Klaus --

[Nagios-users] servicedependencies and flapping

2009-02-19 Thread Klaus Umbach
I defined servicedependencies for all check_nrpe-based services depending on NSClient++ on the Windows-hosts, so I only get one notification if for any reason NSClient++ doesn't respond, which works quite well. Now for some reason on a host the connection to NSClient++ starts flapping and I get

[Nagios-users] Notifications when CRITICAL-WARNING, but not OK-WARNING

2009-02-17 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, is it possible, to get notifications, if a service switches from CRITICAL back to WARNING, but not OK to WARNING? Background: We only want critical messages on our pager at night but if a service exeeds a critical threshold and falls back to warning, we get no back to WARNING-message. This

[Nagios-users] time based first_notification_delay

2009-01-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I would like to delay notifications at night for 10 minutes. According to the documentation, first_notification_delay is only possible for service and host objects but not for contacts. I was thinking about using escalations, but they start counting after the last attempt of a check and after

Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios check_http for web basedauthentication

2009-01-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 22/01/09 19:25, Venugopal S wrote: Hi Marc, Thanks for the reply. I am even now vague about how to proceed. Let me tell you the need : I have to open http://ww12.1800flowers.com/signin.do and enter my email(svenugop...@gmail.com) and password(podhum) in order to login. Why did you

[Nagios-users] NSClient++, CheckDriveSize and perfdata

2009-01-21 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I check the drives with check_nrpe -H $HOST -c CheckDriveSize -a Drive=C ShowAll=long MaxWarnUsed=90% MaxCritUsed=95% This has a result like: OK: C:: 29.3G - Used: 5.73G (19%) - Free: 23.6G (81%)|'C:'=19%;90;95; Is it possible, to somehow increase the accuracy of the

Re: [Nagios-users] Recommended Plugin for Monitoring iptables

2009-01-20 Thread Klaus Umbach
-Original Message- From: Klaus Umbach [mailto:treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de] Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:27 PM To: Kaplan, Andrew H. Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Recommended Plugin for Monitoring iptables On 20/01/09 15:09, Kaplan

[Nagios-users] NSClient++ and CheckEventLog

2009-01-19 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I wonder why the following check works on a German Windows 2k3 server, but not on an English one. To me this makes no sense... NSC.ini is the same. CheckEventLog filter=new file=application MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=1 filter+generated=2h filter==eventID=888 Errormessage: EventlogBuffer is too

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ and CheckEventLog

2009-01-19 Thread Klaus Umbach
to something large enough. If you check the wiki/forums on nsclient.org you can find some values that worked for others or you can play around and find what works for you. Thanks! buffer_size=52 worked. Now I have to change it everywhere... :-( - Klaus // Michael Medin Klaus Umbach

[Nagios-users] status.cgi-parameter question

2009-01-08 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I want status.cgi to show me the following: All hosts and services in the status (NOT ok OR flapping) NOT (acknowleded OR scheduled_downtime) Right now I have NOT ok NOT (acknowleded OR scheduled_downtime) with the following parameters: host=all type=detail servicestatustype=16

Re: [Nagios-users] English and German Counters with NSClient++

2008-10-01 Thread Klaus Umbach
for e.g. \Physikalischer Datenträger(_Total)\Durchschnittl. Warteschlangenlänge des Datenträgers vs \PhysicalDisk(_Total)\Avg. Disk Queue Length or do I have to define different services for different languages? - Treibholz // Michael Medin Klaus Umbach skrev: Hi, I was just scared

[Nagios-users] English and German Counters with NSClient++

2008-09-30 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I was just scared by the discovery that the performance counters in Windows are language specific... (Those morons even use Umlauts!) Is it somehow possible to define all I need in counters.defs and use them with a language-independent call? I already defined some, but I don't know how to

Re: [Nagios-users] Periodic downtime of a server

2008-09-23 Thread Klaus Umbach
services are inheriting time and contacts from their perspective host , you should have no issue at all. Can you post a host , service and their templates definition example ? On Monday 22 September 2008 12:40:09 Klaus Umbach wrote: On 22/09/08 13:22, Assaf Flatto wrote: From what i

[Nagios-users] Periodic downtime of a server

2008-09-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, How to I configure a periodic downtime of a server? My scenario: 7 groups of servers, each group gets rebooted on a specific weekday at 4am. (windows-servers, they reboot them before they crash!) If I change the check_period of the host to a timeperiod that excepts 3:30 - 4:30 I still get

Re: [Nagios-users] Periodic downtime of a server

2008-09-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
saturday00:00-24:00 } And that will help you have a sorted and set schedule for each reboot time. Assaf On Monday 22 September 2008 09:47:04 Klaus Umbach wrote: Hi, How to I configure a periodic downtime of a server? My scenario: 7 groups of servers, each group

Re: [Nagios-users] Periodic downtime of a server

2008-09-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
:53 Klaus Umbach wrote: On 22/09/08 11:26, Assaf Flatto wrote: It seems that you need to make dependencies for the services on the host status to limit the amount of notifications . Also it is possible - if you have a set interval for each group ( set schedule ) you can define a time

Re: [Nagios-users] Periodic downtime of a server

2008-09-22 Thread Klaus Umbach
Sorry, I was wrong, I actually did define them in the host definition. - Klaus On Monday 22 September 2008 12:06:26 Klaus Umbach wrote: On 22/09/08 12:24, Assaf Flatto wrote: If you defined the time periods and associated the servers to them , you should not get any alerts

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications are sent, even if Notifications are diabled.

2008-09-17 Thread Klaus Umbach
2008/9/16 Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sep 16, 2008, at 3:37 AM, Klaus Umbach wrote: Hi, I have the following problem: The notifications for a host are disabled, but I get the host down and th host up for the host... This does not seem to happen with all hosts... Without

[Nagios-users] Notifications are sent, even if Notifications are diabled.

2008-09-16 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I have the following problem: The notifications for a host are disabled, but I get the host down and th host up for the host... This does not seem to happen with all hosts... Cheers Klaus -- (Nagios 3.0.3) - This

[Nagios-users] freshness_threshold question

2008-09-01 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I have a local script to backup my Nagios-machine, which writes its status directly in nagios.cmd. This works fine, but after about 3 minutes after the OK it switches back to CRITICAL. The service is passive and the freshness_threshold is set to 26h. Why does it complain after 3 minutes?

[Nagios-users] differentiate a WARNING - OK and CRITICAL - OK

2008-08-27 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, is it possible, to differentiate the status change from WARNING to OK and from CRITICAL to OK? Background: I don't want WARNINGs on the pager at night, just CRITICAL and the corresponding OKs, but not the OKs from WARNINGs. - Klaus -- First Official Internetdenier

[Nagios-users] Checking Windows Services with stupid names.

2008-08-25 Thread Klaus Umbach
Hi, I have a service on a windows-box to check, which has a in the name. (With check_nt and nsclient++) with 'SERVICESTATE -l Foo Bar' it checks for the services 'foo' and 'bar' , \, \\\ and using ' instead of did'n't help. How do I check this? Cheers Klaus -- First Official

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking Windows Services with stupid names.

2008-08-25 Thread Klaus Umbach
2008/8/25 Michael Medin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would say: use NRPE instead :) but perhaps this is a bug, I have seen the reports on and off but haven't had time to look into it (since it is so easily solved with NRPE) NRPE? To check a Windows-Box? No, that's not really funny... I found out,