Re: [Nagios-users] Help with active web testing

2009-05-14 Thread Johannes Dagemark
one way to go is to take a look at selenium and write a wrapper plugin for it. Cheers Johannes Todd Nine wrote: Hi all, I've been using nagios for a while, and we're needing to perform more active testing on our site than simply HTTP GET and POST operations. I'm looking for a plugin to

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with active web testing

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 Todd Nine t...@spidertracks.co.nz: Hi all,   I've been using nagios for a while, and we're needing to perform more active testing on our site than simply HTTP GET and POST operations.  I'm looking for a plugin to Nagios that can execute steps and report that assertions passed or

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade from 1.3 version to 3+

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 James Pratt jpr...@norwich.edu: First, I'd rebuild a new linux server to run it on and get the latest version running, even if it's only checking localhost and emailing me. Examine very closely *all* old config files, figure out your old installation and what checks will replace (if

[Nagios-users] Plugin for AIX

2009-05-14 Thread Ales Rikovsky
Please. Do exist any plugins for AIX performance (CPU, memory, disk usage...) measuring? Thank you. Ales -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning

Re: [Nagios-users] Service escalations registering, but not enforcing

2009-05-14 Thread Marc Powell
On May 13, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Bruce Thayre wrote: So i've also tested this problem with host escalations, and i have seen the same behavior. Despite whatever settings i put into my host escalations, or my host definitions, i'm still receiving notifications every 30 minutes, any ideas?

[Nagios-users] retained_service_attribute_mask and other alike config options : do they really work ??

2009-05-14 Thread SCHAER Frederic
Hi, I'm facing a strange problem. I have in my definitions services for which notifications are disabled : I'm still running those services on all nodes because it gives me indication something went wrong on all nodes. I recently had to suppress notifications for all services of a

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade from 1.3 version to 3+

2009-05-14 Thread Marc Powell
On May 13, 2009, at 3:33 PM, venu_vustipa...@readersdigest.com wrote: Anyone please let me know what is the best way to proceed for a beginner to upgrade Nagios 1.3 version on Linux to the 3+ There's no easy-to-follow document for this migration that I know of. You're likely to find much

[Nagios-users] NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX with performance data

2009-05-14 Thread postfix
Hello, I’m searching for NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX including Performance Data. Are there any plugins out there? I have found some modified for Windows but not for Linux. Thank you Best Regards Markus W.

Re: [Nagios-users] Trac/Nagios integration

2009-05-14 Thread Hari Sekhon
John Andrunas wrote: The company I work for uses Trac quite heavily, and I was recently tasked with getting Nagios up and running to replace our current monitoring system, I was wondering if anyone had done any kind of trac/nagios integration that would allow creation of a trac ticket from a

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX with performance data

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 post...@weingaertner-ukro.de: I’m searching for NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX including Performance Data. Are there any plugins out there? I have found some modified for Windows but not for Linux. You'll find most of what you need on Monitoring Exchange. In particular for AIX 5.3,

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for AIX

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 Ales Rikovsky ales.rikov...@upol.cz: Please. Do exist any plugins for AIX performance (CPU, memory, disk usage...) measuring?  Thank you.          Ales Yes, you'll find various plugins for AIX on Monitoring Exchange. In particular you'll find nrpe and various compiled plugins

[Nagios-users] Different configurations for backup times

2009-05-14 Thread Mark Krenz
Hi, I recently reconfigured my nagios setup to monitor a lot more things on my servers and its mostly working ok, but I'm running into issues where I'm getting tons of notifictions during times that backups are running. Which is overnight of course. The notifications happen because the load

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Harald Böhmecke
Hi, I have a productive Nagios instance with 200 clients and 1200 Services. PNP4Nagios is also installed and working. Actually everything is working just fine, except the machine has a 75-100% CPU Load, although I have already tweaked around the settings. I want Nagios to have a mysql backend

[Nagios-users] Antwort: Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Sascha . Runschke
Actually everything is working just fine, except the machine has a 75-100% CPU Load, although I have already tweaked around the settings. I want Nagios to have a mysql backend on another server so that the CPU Load decreases as other (also critical) services are currently running on this

Re: [Nagios-users] Poller errors

2009-05-14 Thread Marc Powell
On May 14, 2009, at 8:06 AM, Andrew Davis wrote: I'm seeing items very similar to the one below in our log files quite frequently: nagios: Warning: Service performance data file processing command '/ bin/mv /var/nagios/service-perfdata /var/nagios/perfspool/service-

Re: [Nagios-users] Poller errors

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Davis
The box does indeed have some load on it... hence my other performance tuning request to the list. At present, its running Nagios, mySQL, and Cacti with Cacti polling approx 1500 devices every 5 minutes. Its a fairly good server, but the disk I/O has been problematic on occasion. I think I'll

[Nagios-users] Concise list of best overall performance tweaks

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Davis
If running the latest version(s) of Nagios and the plugins, using mysql, and gathering trending info, is there a list available of the best performance tweaks one can make? I seem to read a lot that mySQL is a resource whore when also on the Nagios server. Some have commented on seeing

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Marc Powell
On May 14, 2009, at 8:10 AM, Harald Böhmecke wrote: Hi, I have a productive Nagios instance with 200 clients and 1200 Services. PNP4Nagios is also installed and working. Actually everything is working just fine, except the machine has a 75-100% CPU Load, although I have already

Re: [Nagios-users] Different configurations for backup times

2009-05-14 Thread Eric Pearce
I had a similar problem with my backups, as they looked like a disk problem to the nagios plugin. I turn off notifications before the backup: /usr/bin/su - nagios -c /usr/local/bin/wget --quiet -O - --post-data 'cmd_typ=23cmd_mod=2host=yourhostservice=yourservicebtnSubmit=Commit'

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Andrew Davis
Plus, for what its worth, on most systems these days you can move an HD to another system with more CPU/RAM which would negate the muck up all the Nagios stuff. Virtualization is an alternative as well. We run Nagios and Cacti on one server and four instances of Splunk on four other servers.

[Nagios-users] Distributed and Redondant Nagios

2009-05-14 Thread Jean Meunier
Good Afternoon, I search documentations, best practice or write book in order to set-up a monitoring system with Nagios in 4 Datacenter. Actually I think i will deploy 2 Nagios Daemon as Master (they will received event states with ncsa, all the services will be declared in passive mode) in two

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Harald Böhmecke
Thank you Marc and Sasha for the feedback. It is now clear to me that no mysql backend is needed to decrease CPU Load. Thanks for the tips on PNP4Nagios. To answer some of your questions: - System Load is 3.5 on the 15 min counter. - System specs: Its a VM running on a DL585 with 32GB of RAM.

[Nagios-users] Benifits from version 3 compared to 1.3

2009-05-14 Thread venu_vustipalli
Can anyone tell me the benifits/features in the Nagios version 3 when we compared to version 1.3. I know the latest version is always better but, Just trying to see if it's worth the effort. Thanks, Venu-- The NEW

[Nagios-users] Checking SAP not running SAP CCMS

2009-05-14 Thread Ales Rikovsky
Hello, I'm trying to monitor SAP and it's enough for my purposes to log in using username and password to declare system to be running. I don;t want to run CCMS on SAP machine. I've reached first step I have command definition in commands.cfg: command_line$USER1$/check_sap_cons

Re: [Nagios-users] Benifits from version 3 compared to 1.3

2009-05-14 Thread Marc Powell
On May 14, 2009, at 1:21 PM, venu_vustipa...@readersdigest.com wrote: Can anyone tell me the benifits/features in the Nagios version 3 when we compared to version 1.3. I know the latest version is always better but, Just trying to see if it's worth the effort. If you're asking this

[Nagios-users] socket timeout after 20 sec

2009-05-14 Thread Anirudh Srinivasan
Hey Folks, I know socket timeout after 20 sec has been discussed so many time in all the forums and post, but still this is not so clear to me. Nagios server : RHEL 5 NC_NET used on Windows server. In startup.cfg the port is 12489 and the ip_passive is ip address of the nagios server. Even

Re: [Nagios-users] socket timeout after 20 sec

2009-05-14 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Anirudh Srinivasan wrote: Hey Folks, I know socket timeout after 20 sec has been discussed so many time in all the forums and post, but still this is not so clear to me. Nagios server : RHEL 5 NC_NET used on Windows server. In startup.cfg the port is 12489 and the ip_passive is ip

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade from 1.3 version to 3+

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 venu_vustipa...@readersdigest.com: Can anyone tell me the benifits/features in the Nagios version 3 when we compared to version 1.3. I'm too young to remember version 1.3! I know the latest version is always better but, Just trying to see if it's worth the effort. Where can I

Re: [Nagios-users] socket timeout after 20 sec

2009-05-14 Thread Jayson Broughton
Try opening a telnet session to that port (to test the firewall theory) telnet ip_windows_server 1248 you should get: Trying ip address Connected to ip address. Escape Character is '^\]'. Then Ctl-C to exit out of it (if your in linux that's what it looks like) 50 Seconds is pretty long. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
I can't help wondering if you're running all your checks at 1-minute intervals? If you're not doing so already, you might like to consider running your less time-critical checks at 5-minute intervals or more. hth, Jim