[Nagios-users] OT - fault tolerant default router for Nagios host. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-02-22 Thread Stanley.HOPCROFT
Dear Folks, I am writing to request comments on a proposal to reduce the risk of loss of Network visibility/spurious alerts etc caused by the failure of the Nagios host's default gateway. When the Nagios host is connected via multiple links, it is still necessary to ensure that data flow

Re: [Nagios-users] RFC Possible bug in 3.0 alpha event handlers/macros ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-02-11 Thread Stanley.HOPCROFT
Dear Folks, Initial indications from RC2 are that event handlers are called with the _correct_ values of the macros. (This is a simulation: ie disable host/service checks and then submit a passive host check result to DOWN and UP a host) Tue Feb 12 07:47:01 2008 PASSIVE HOST CHECK:

[Nagios-users] RFC Possible bug in 3.0 alpha event handlers/macros ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-02-10 Thread Stanley.HOPCROFT
Dear Hugo, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | If you want to use alpha/rc1, 2, 3 .. nagios, don't whine about it on | Nag users. The point is that doing a bug report on 3.0alphaX where there are at least 2 release candidates have followed is

[Nagios-users] RFC Possible bug in 3.0 alpha event handlers/macros ... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-02-09 Thread Stanley.HOPCROFT
Dear Hugo, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, Message: 8 Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:23:29 +0100 From: Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you considered that the changelog might not be complete? Of course ! But don't you think a _major_ change in behaviour

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 21, Issue 5 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-02-08 Thread Stanley.HOPCROFT
Dear Folks, Please would someone help me out with what may be a bug in global event handlers in 3.0 alpha (not rc1 or 2 since there is nothing in the Changelog that seems to warrant upgrade) ? I have a (gloal host) event handler called like so command_line$USER2$/global_host_event_handler

[Nagios-users] Global event handler problem in 3.0 ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-01-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, In sehandlers.c I see if(log_event_handlers==TRUE) logit(NSLOG_EVENT_HANDLER,FALSE,GLOBAL HOST EVENT HANDLER: %s;%s;%s;%s;%s\n,hst-name,macro_x[MACRO_HOSTSTATE],macro_x[MACRO_HOSTS TATETYPE],macro_x[MACRO_HOSTATTEMPT],global_host_event_handler); which suggests that if

[Nagios-users] Debugging global host event handler in Nag 3 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-01-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, The debug options in Nag 3.x are wonderful (especially for embedded Perl. It is no longer necessary to enable debugging in p1.pl. This Is a MASSIVE simply MASSIVE improvement. Thank you). (FWIW the debug options for event handlers in nagios.cfg are debug_level=16 # DEBUG

[Nagios-users] Trouble with Global event handlers in Nag 3 (b7). [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2008-01-04 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to ask for help with global event handlers in Nagios 3.0 (b7). The handler that worked Ok with Nag 2.9 seems to work erratically (ie only some of the time; more often than not it doesn't do anything) with 3.0. Nag would log (in nagios.log) this message with 2.9

[Nagios-users] Experience with 3.0b6 ... most good but a few tiny probs [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-11-08 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to present my observations on 3.0b6. The synopsis is excellent but there are a few non show-stopping problems. Firstly, the performance of host detection is simply excellent and those contemplating mega installations should take great heart. As soon as the service check

Re: [Nagios-users] configuration directory and file directive ...perplexity [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-25 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to to express my gratitude for all the valuable (and good natured) contributions about this matter. All the suggestions were valuable and helpful. Thank you very much, Yours sincerely. Classification: UNCLASSIFIED

[Nagios-users] configuration directory and file directives ... perplexity (long and boring). [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-24 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Has anyone used the nagios configuration directive cfg_dir to point to an SMB (Windows) share ? The interest in doing this is that my colleagues hate vi and 'nix; they are qualified Cisco/Window admins who respect Nagios but have no sympathy with anachronistic editors. They would

Re: [Nagios-users] configuration directory and file directives ... perplexity (long and boring). [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-24 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Tim, (Yes, I am the nitwit). -Original Message- Mr Hopcroft, My first reaction was an unqualified yuk!, what nitwit would even consider this, then I noticed it was you, and having seen your ever useful posts since the Netsaint 0.0.7 days, I relented. Although hearing vi

[Nagios-users] ePN patch - testers wanted. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-22 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to invite testing of a small patch for the embedded Perl Nagios feature. Currently (2.10/3.x) ePN, when a plugin is modified (without a restart) refuses to run the modified plugin because compilation of the modified plugin fails when Perl attempts to redefine the

[Nagios-users] Backing up Cisco router configs. Was: Nagios backup [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-19 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, -Original Message- From: Cook, Garry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios backup You can use the 'archive' commands in recent IOS to have your config backed up to a TFTP server anytime the config is written to NVRAM, as well as at specified time

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 17, Issue 35 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-17 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Larry, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry Low Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:13 AM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] Thanks Stanley, Using my check_ifoperstatus

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.9 ePN INC line [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-14 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear John, From: john [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.9 ePN INC line I guess that is an option, but I'd prefer not to have to do that for all the additional modules/plugins that I end up with. Does version 3 behave better as I may be able to hold off for that

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-11 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Larry, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 11 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:21:35 -0700 From: Larry Low [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is without making changes to the script. Scenario: 1) ./configure --prefix=/opt/Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-11 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Larry, There are debugging hooks in p1.pl that would be useful to enable. If you are interested in helping deal with this problem please would you 1 Back up your original copy of p1.pl (path is specified in nagios.cfg IIRC) 2 Change the DEBUG_LEVEL to use constant DEBUG_LEVEL

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-10-10 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Larry, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 9 Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:01:41 -0700 From: Larry Low [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching The problem I am having is with subroutines inside of

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b1 and perl check plugins [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-09-07 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, In the last 4 - 6 weeks there were reports of failures of embedded Perl in Nagios 3.0 betas. I am running 3.0b3 with the event broker and ePN with a full complement of non standard Perl plugins known to work with ePN in 2.9 (my employers production system). This site is RHEL 3 +

Re: [Nagios-users] Perl checks in 3.0 [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-09-07 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, There is a comment in base/checks.c that may be relevant to the probs with embedded Perl in 3.0 betas. There was apparently a long standing bug of freeing memory associated with the Perl plugin output _before_ it was copied to Nagios. The comment says the bug was corrected by a

Re: [Nagios-users] SLA reports [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-09-03 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Matthew, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, Hi there, I wish (well, have been told to..) to produce SLA type reports of our IT systems for management. At the moment the requirements are rather vague... As we are currently using NDO I am hoping that Jasper

Re: [Nagios-users] Log monitoring with SEC and Nagios. [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-08-29 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Risto (Thank you very much for SEC, the king of event correlators). Message: 19 From: Risto Vaarandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nagios-users] Log monitoring with Nagios - recommendations? hi all, few weeks ago I posted a question to this list about passive service checks - I was

[Nagios-users] Monitoring multicast - any ideas [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-08-19 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Does anyone have any wisdom to offer about monitoring multicast applications ? The context is Cisco PIM, so the Cisco Mroute MIB is an obvious place to start. What makes it a bit harder is that the application of interest (TV broadcasting) uses an MS Media server that simply joins

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b1 and perl check plugins [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-08-16 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, The reports about this matter are a bit perplexing in that 1 if the Nag internals have changed so that the ePN functions do not have their return values processed correctly, or the ePN functions are not called in the same way as 2.x, then the SEGV is expected with ePN. 2 However, if

Re: [Nagios-users] check_tacacs_plus.pl [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-05-24 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Message: 8 Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:47:21 -0700 From: Daniel Lacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any experience with check_tacacs_plus.pl I don't know this platform, but A TACACS+ server's password database should be invisible to a TACACS client.

[Nagios-users] Any experience with check_tacacs_plus.pl (NagiosExchange) or Authen::TACACSPlus [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-05-22 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Please would you let me or the list know of experience checking the TACACS+ server implemented by Cisco in their 'Secure ACS for Windows 3.3' product ? Nagios Exchange has a plugin named check_tacacs_plus.pl that makes use of the Authen::TACACSPlus module from CPAN. I am not sure

[Nagios-users] Potential BUG report Was: Nagios 3.x + ePN = Garbage data in status [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-05-07 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I think there is a bug in the Nag 3.x processing of the plugin output returned by an ePN check. Message: 7 Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:29:11 -0400 From: James Whittington [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.x + ePN = Garbage data in status

Re: [Nagios-users] Does anyone use and love NDOUtils for availability reporting .. ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-04-06 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:24:47 +0100 From: Rob Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or later) for availability reporting ?

[Nagios-users] Does anyone use and love NDOUtils for availability reporting ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-04-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or later) for availability reporting ? I believe that NDOUtils inserts rows representing down times in an MySQL table, making it much easier for DIY reporters to produce reports. I am currently using an event handler

[Nagios-users] Nagios memory Leaks

2007-01-23 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your valuable letter and say, From: Tobias Klausmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nagios-users] Memory leaks Hi! (First off: if this should also go to nagios-devel, just yell at me.) I don't think so because it deals with the aspects of the

Re: [Nagios-users] ePN Was Performance issues.

2007-01-03 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- From: Robert Hajime Lanning [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too1 .. skipped helpful remarks. The perl code path that runs in the master Nagios process (after all

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too1

2007-01-02 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- -- Message: 2 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:26:34 +0100 (CET) From: Daniel Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too Hi there, and happy

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 7, Issue 32

2006-12-20 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:31:25 -0600 From: Craig Van Tassle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Nagios-users] Getting pie charts in host's history -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 2, Issue 8

2006-07-09 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, For the benefit of the archives, Dear Folks, Is it possible to use the standard plugin distro check_ping to distinguish a reachability failure brought about by sluggish transport and one caused by a routing failure. I think the best way to do this is with a plugin that returns

[Nagios-users] Really dumb question - how do folks distinguish unreachable from over threshold ?

2006-07-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Is it possible to use the standard plugin distro check_ping to distinguish a reachability failure brought about by sluggish transport and one caused by a routing failure. What occurs to me at the moment is to either 1 don't use check_ping in cases of volatile routing (examine

[Nagios-users] Monitoring Cisco 3750 stacks - OIDs or traps ?

2006-06-25 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, We like many others have happily deployed the Cisco 370 stackable switch/routers in stacked configurations. Please would anyone with experience of monitoring these units with Nagios comment on how best to monitor the performance of the internals. I am particuarly interested in

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3212

2006-06-07 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:27:36 +0200 From: Rene Fertig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor complex websites? To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: [EMAIL

[Nagios-users] RE: Nagios config parser in Perl

2006-05-30 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say Message: 13 Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:47:02 +0200 From: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Parsing a Nagios 2 configuration file from perl Hi, I'd like to have a

[Nagios-users] RE: Jabber Custom Notification Script Not Working (Frederik Vanhee)

2006-05-24 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:52:22 +0200 From: Frederik Vanhee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Harebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Jabber

RE: [Nagios-users] Undefined subroutine Embed::Persistent::eval_file called. in check_disk_smb

2006-05-23 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 15 Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:10:03 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?jacobo=20garc=EDa?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Undefined subroutine

RE: [Nagios-users] How many parent hosts in a parent directives ?

2006-05-21 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- I usually define HSRP as a child of the two parent routers that are participating. Both routers have to be down before the HSRP is marked unreachable. Devices behind those routers can then use the HSRP

[Nagios-users] Re: Nagios 2.3.1, problems with perl plugins

2006-05-17 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letters and say, -Original Message- Message: 17 From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCttig?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: MSP To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Nagios 2.3.1, problems with perl

[Nagios-users] RE: CSV output out of availibility Reports

2006-04-06 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 7 April 2006 13:16 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #3123 - 37 msgs

[Nagios-users] Ideas sought - reporting on monitored sites in TZs != Nagios TZ.

2006-04-03 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to invite ideas about how to report on availability in cases where there is one Nagios monitoring hosts located in other time zones (TZ). In many cases, people want reports of availability in 'business hours' and Nagios does that beautifully by (avail.cgi) accepting the

[Nagios-users] RE: Nagios::Report (end of dev cycle).

2006-03-20 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Sir, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Content-Disposition: inline Hmm, it would be a pitty not to develop this thing further. Like you say it provides the kind of reports management likes and up until now it is the only way I have found to

[Nagios-users] Nagios-Report-0.002 on CPAN/NagiosExchange.

2006-03-16 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to say that Nagios::Report 0.002 has been 'released' and is available at the usual places. This relase fixes a bug, and adds limited charting capability and a weaker alternate interface (provided by the Perl DBD::AnyData module) that allows client code to select the

[Nagios-users] Potential bug in avail.cgi/Nagios 2.0.

2006-03-06 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to report a peculiar behaviour of the availability CGI with Nagios 2.0 Firstly, I think the avail.cgi is a wonderful beast that turns the Nagios logs into a very useful and desirable data source. My reporting requirements are down times minus any down time scheduled. I

[Nagios-users] RE: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #3076 - 9 msgs

2006-03-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Message: 8 To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net From: John R. Daily [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:51:35 -0500 Subject: [Nagios-users] ePN: notification script I've been trying to get a Perl script to work as part of the notify- by-email command as defined in

[Nagios-users] RE: Reporting bits and pieces.

2006-02-07 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Mainly off topic - related to Reporting Firstly some observations and corrections to my recent letters about Reporting. 1 Use of DBD::RAM to at one fell swoop download the Nagios all hosts/services report and stash it in an in-core table (prior to filtering with SELECT and saving

[Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, Firstly thanks to all that answered either on the list or privately. I will now attempt to emulate a journalling file system by summarising the responses. 1 Having Nagios availability in a DB is a good thing. Doing so reduces the cost of reporting since there is are data

[Nagios-users] RE: Reporting and misc rave.

2006-02-02 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing with mainly a rant about Graphing and Reporting. Mainly OT rant 1 About graphing with Nagios Why would one bother when 1.1 Cacti does such a good job 1.2 Nagios could check the Cacti RRDs with either check_rrd, or by an outboard (Cron scheduled) RRD poller

[Nagios-users] 2.0rc2 avail.cgi - possible bug in reporting of HOST DOWNTIME START/END EVENTS.

2006-02-02 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to report a possible anomaly/bug in avail.cgi for Nag 2.0 rc2 (RPM based on Dag Wieers for RHEL3). The problem is that when a host has exited a period of scheduled downtime, the 'Host log entries' shown by avail.cgi look like Event Start Time Event End Time

[Nagios-users] Re: Nagios ignoring Perl Shebang

2006-01-26 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:12:03 +0100 From: Arno Lehmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios ignoring Perl Shebang - Was: Notification script problems..

[Nagios-users] RE: iReport Was: RE: [Announce] Nagios_Simple_Report on

2006-01-23 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 1 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] [Announce] Nagios_Simple_Report on NagiosExchange/CPAN. From: Mels Kooijman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Hans, =20 I use iReport, a good reporting tool

[Nagios-users] [Announce] Nagios_Simple_Report on NagiosExchange/CPAN.

2006-01-19 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to announce that Nagios::Report, a Perl module to munge data from the Nagios all hosts/services availability report is on CPAN and NagiosExchange (where it is called Nagios_Simple_Report). The class treats the CSV data from the availability report as a flat file database

[Nagios-users] Reporting ideas sought.

2005-12-05 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to welcome clues about providing an itemised list of outages and their causes from, 'in some way', Nagios. The Nagios availability report does ineed provide a useful list of outages that can be wrapped and processed to ones hearts content (eg HOST_NAME