[Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Blake
Greetings community, I have recently installed Nagios by following this tutorial, to the letter : http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html However, when I log into http://localhost/nagios, and enter the user nagiosadmin and the password I set, it just keeps bouncing back to

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Martin Melin
From the quickstart: 5) Configure the Web Interface [...] Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you'll need it later. htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin [...] Your htpasswd file

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Blake
n Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martin Melin mme...@gmail.com wrote: From the quickstart: 5) Configure the Web Interface [...] Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you'll need it later. htpasswd -c

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

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher McAtackney
That's an interesting link - but unfortunately I don't think it really covers the situation where a host goes down or becomes unreachable. It may be the case that Nagios is not suitable for this purpose, but I thought I would check on here in case anyone had done anything like this previously.

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Blake
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martin Melin mme...@gmail.com wrote: From the quickstart: 5) Configure the Web Interface [...] Create a nagiosadmin account for logging into the Nagios web interface. Remember the password you assign to this account - you'll need it later. htpasswd -c

[Nagios-users] Alternatives to NSCA?

2009-12-11 Thread Sascha . Runschke
Greetings, does anybody know of a NSCA replacement, which does the job without the need of unsupported libraries? The requirement of libmcrypt makes NSCA a real hassle to use for us, since we have to manually install third party libraries - which we really do not want to. RedHat won't support

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Deborah Martin
Chris, The file name the error is referring to is htpasswd.users [Fri Dec 11 13:20:09 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.102] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users But your directory listing shows -rwxrwxrwx 1 nagios nagios26 Dec 11

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Blake
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com wrote: Chris, The file name the error is referring to is htpasswd.users [Fri Dec 11 13:20:09 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.102] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file:

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Blake
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Martin Melin mme...@gmail.com wrote: The line: htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin should be exactly that. htpasswd is not a typo of htpassword ;) As you can see from your ls output, your htpasswd.users file is actually called

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to log in to Nagios

2009-12-11 Thread Christian Schneemann
On Friday 11 December 2009 12:56:53 Chris Blake wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Martin Melin mme...@gmail.com wrote: [Fri Dec 11 13:20:09 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.102] (2)No such file or directory: Could not open password file: /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users [Fri Dec 11

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternatives to NSCA?

2009-12-11 Thread Greg Pangrazio
I just used nsca with encryption turned off and if you need the security on your local network wrap it in ssl via stunnel. this works on my rhel5.2 boxes and my Ubuntu servers (which have libmcrypt in repo) Greg Pangrazio pangr...@gmail.com On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 6:05 AM,

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Alternatives to NSCA?

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Emmanuel Feinsmith
Sascha, Why don't you create a libmcrypt.a and statically link it into your nsca, thereby not requiring mcrypt as an external library at runtime? Daniel. = Check out Brooklyn for Nagios 2.0 on the iPhone App Store! Now Supporting SSL and

Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA strange behaviour

2009-12-11 Thread Cedric Jeanneret
Hello, problem solved, it was indeed a version problem (minor number).. redhat has released a new nsca client/server package, removing a patch, and that made it incompatible with previous version. See: http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19402.html and related

[Nagios-users] Modifying custom variables via external commands

2009-12-11 Thread Diego Roccia
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm having some problem in changing custom object variables via external commands. Using nagios 3.0.6 and 3.2.0 but it seems to ignore *almost* completely my command. define service{ namegeneric-service

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

2009-12-11 Thread gmartin
Chris, great thing about Nagios is it enables creative solution like this. I'd love to see you try it and report back on how it works for you. On 12/11/09, Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com wrote: That's an interesting link - but unfortunately I don't think it really covers the

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Alternatives to NSCA?

2009-12-11 Thread Marcel
Once upon a time, I've tweaked syslog-ng to write to the command pipe. That worked like a charm. On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 10:05 AM, sascha.runsc...@gfkl.com wrote: Greetings, does anybody know of a NSCA replacement, which does the job without the need of unsupported libraries? The

[Nagios-users] Notifications not being sent

2009-12-11 Thread Christopher Tyler
First, thank you all for any help that you can provide. Here is the problem that I am having, I hope someone can help point out something obvious that I have missed. 1) Hosts are being monitored just fine, status map shows red when a host goes down, event log shows alerts like it should. 2)

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications not being sent

2009-12-11 Thread Morris, Patrick
Christopher Tyler wrote: First, thank you all for any help that you can provide. Here is the problem that I am having, I hope someone can help point out something obvious that I have missed. 1) Hosts are being monitored just fine, status map shows red when a host goes down, event log

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Alternatives to NSCA?

2009-12-11 Thread Mattias Ryrlén
i did that with syslog to, and with netcat (but then you don't get encryption though) i think i still have my scripts (they are prob searchable in the list also) if someone is interested On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Marcel mits...@gmail.com wrote: Once upon a time, I've tweaked syslog-ng

[Nagios-users] Monitor Cisco Switches

2009-12-11 Thread VIKRAM MS
Hello, I am trying to monitor Cisco switches and routers. I am able to ping and check the uptime of the switch. 1) But for the port 1 link status, I am getting SNMP CRITICAL - *down(2)* error. 2) For port 1 bandwidth usage, the error is check_mrtgtraf: Unable to open MRTG log file