[Nagios-users] Windows mscs cluster services monitoring with NAGIOS

2008-07-10 Thread Mark Elsen
Hello, Can I monitor mscs-windows-cluster services with NAGIOS ? Best plugins and or solutions ? Idea's and other suggestions welcomed. Tx, Marc. - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies

[Nagios-users] Monitor daemon running on remote linux host

2008-07-15 Thread Mark Elsen
- I need to monitor whether a remote daemon is running on a Linux host and have a NAGIOS alert if it crashes (or disappeared for whatever reason). Is 'check_nrpe' my best option, if so what syntax do I need ? M. - This

[Nagios-users] Problem disabling notifications - combined with 'Disable for Host Too'

2008-11-27 Thread Mark Elsen
Nagios [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6.9-22.ELsmp : - I recently have the problem that the function 'Disabling notifications for all services on this host' combined with flagging 'Disable for Host Too' is no longer working. This may have started after upgrading to

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http not returning expected 502

2008-12-07 Thread Mark Elsen
Hello, I've got nagios installed and seems to be running ok except for one thing. I'm running https checks with check_http and get the expected result when I run it on the command line: ./check_http -H somehost.com -S HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway But in the UI its giving

[Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

2009-10-26 Thread Mark Elsen
- Nagios 3.2.0 --- - This morning, I find nagios stopped death in it's tracks. Single daemon running, servcie and host checks are no longer executed. Stopping and restarting NAGIOS does not help. How can I remedy this ? We left DST in Europe. Can this be due to a time

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

2009-10-26 Thread Mark Elsen
Ref : service nagios stop; now=$(date +%s); sed -i s/^next_check=.*/next_check=$now/ /usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav; service nagios start

[Nagios-users] Using Unix groupnames in contact definitions or cgi authorization schemes

2010-01-26 Thread Mark Elsen
Nagios 3.x - I was wondering wether one can use UNIX groupnames in contact defintions , or in cgi auth. directives such as 'authorized_for_all_service_commands=... ; instead of having to use individual usernames ? I need to make a simple distinction between a couple of

[Nagios-users] Nagios DST bug and upcoming DST-time switch in Europe

2010-03-09 Thread Mark Elsen
Nagios 3.2.0 - By the end of the month, Europe will switch to DST. Will I be affected by the Nagios DST-BUG which , which results in NAGIOS becoming dis-functional ? Which countermeasures can I take to prevent being struck by this problem ? M.

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value

2010-03-10 Thread Mark Elsen
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: It did not help , Still getting the same error. - Try re-starting the nsclient service afterwards (too). M. Thanks Jatin On 3/10/2010 2:10 PM, Verhaeghe, Koen wrote: Hi, You need to reset the windows performance

Re: [Nagios-users] active checks vs. passive checks

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi everyone, at the moment I'm playing around with passive checks. maybe I'm to stupid, but will I be on the right way? I've set up a new Server group called passive-servers' with only one test server called muninbsd this server will be monitored like a active server. I've only changed

Re: [Nagios-users] active checks vs. passive checks

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
... We have some servers, which are located outside from our network and without a permanent connection to our main nagios server. ... ... how do I have to check the services on the servers which are outside of our network? Do I have to install a hole nagios environment (like a second

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi Is there a plugin bundled with nagios-plugins that helps us in checking the memory usage on the linux box. I basically want to know the used memory and the total available , Even if it is given in percentage i am fine. Please let me know if there are plugins to do so. I checked the

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi Mark I saw the website : http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_mem.html I have a few questions: 1. When i click on the download version 1.1 , i get one text file with some code in it , What do i need to with this file ?? Save it as a perl script; in the libexec dir of your NAGIOS

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
Should it be placed at both the nagios server and the target box which is being monitored ?? No (NAGIOS server only), by definition, because it queries the SNMP daemon on the remote Linux box, for the required memory stats. M.

Re: [Nagios-users] switch off send a notification for acknowledgement

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Elsen
Hiya I tried googling. Would anyone know how to switch off send a notification when there is an acknowledgement. - This is an option which you can de-select. Check the NAGIOS menu closely. M. -- Download

Re: [Nagios-users] Whos Disabling Notifications

2010-03-15 Thread Mark Elsen
Somehow our notifications are getting disabled. I assume a user is doing this via the Process Info page. What and where can I grep to find out who is running this command from the Web interface. - Check .../var/nagios.log , configure proper authentication setup(s) for NAGIOS M.

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios DST bug and upcoming DST-time switch in Europe

2010-03-15 Thread Mark Elsen
Unless I'm mistaken, we had this timeperiod problem occur here.  Some alerts were sent during a timeperiod for which notifications are not enabled.  I did restart Nagios after DST went into affect just for fun, but that was before these alerts went out. I know that the fix for this when

[Nagios-users] Confused about (new) 'Schedule downtime for this host and all services' in NAGIOS 3.2.1

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Elsen
The new link ' Schedule downtime for this host and all services' in NAGIOS 3.2.1 confused me. Does it schedukle shutdown for host's services only as described in ChangeLog and or is scheduled shutdown for the host itself included ? The naming seems to suggest scheduling shutdown for BOTH host

[Nagios-users] Expiration of passive check results

2010-03-30 Thread Mark Elsen
- Is it possible in NAGIOS, to let the result of a passive check , 'expire' after a given time period ? (this could be used for errors, which are considered less important, and are being considered 'dead weight' for the time being). I mean if I a get a CRITICAL (passive) test result,

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios-Plugins [make errors]

2010-04-18 Thread Mark Elsen
Hello list, I have encountered the following 'make' error while trying to compile nagios-plugins-1.4.14 (after successfully running the 'configure' command) on a Solaris 10 client host. ... Try 'gmake' (GNU Make) , M.

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Scom collector

2010-06-08 Thread Mark Elsen
Did  anybody ever use the collector between Nagios and Scom ?? I do , M. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit.

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

2010-06-10 Thread Mark Elsen
We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? Works like a charm :-) Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it and how did you configure it? Same as for a small installation

Re: [Nagios-users] TEST to Nagios Users List

2010-07-23 Thread Mark Elsen
       This is just a test. I haven't received any mail from the list in almost a month. Both philosophically and technically it can be argued that this test won't help you. Unless you reply (but there's more to think about here,then you may be aware of) :-) M.

[Nagios-users] Implementing live title-bar in NAGIOS

2010-10-12 Thread Mark Elsen
- I wonder if the developers would ever contemplate , implementing , a live title-bar in NAGIOS, including for instance the all service/host problems counter(s) ? M. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Mark Elsen
Hello list, is the following setup possible : host A : Nagios Server host B : server being monitored host C : backup server If Nagios (host A) can not ping host B (or any other check via nrpe), can Nagios then execute a command on host C ?? I want Nagios to activate the backup server

Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA - Status is changing after 10 seconds to OK

2010-11-04 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi all, I am trying to configure nagios with NSCA. NSCA is successfully receiving  the messages (sent with send_nsca), updates the services state and the message info. The problem is that after 10 seconds, the service is returning to OK state; in the meantime I haven't send any other

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE

2010-12-07 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi List I have a problem using check_nrpe: The script on the remote machine is running this command: #/bin/bash output=`sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -X |grep tomcat| wc -l` max=$1 if [ $output -lt $max ]; then echo OK |value is $output exit 0; else echo CRITICAL value is $output exit

Re: [Nagios-users] Not a valid parent

2010-12-21 Thread Mark Elsen
What causes this error message: Error: 'pm2fwi' is not a valid parent for host 'pm2fw'! This is the insdie, and outside of a firewall. They are in 2 diferent subnets, and 2 different domains. Still, this relatiionship is corect, and I would expcect Nagios to allow me to define it, - Make

Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-22 Thread Mark Elsen
We’re looking at a service that has problems from time-to-time, and it gets auto-restarted when needed (Windows).  What I’ve been looking for is a way to say that it needs 3 restarts ir order to go critical, but only within a 1 hour time frame.  Anyone come up with a way to do time frames like

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration error with no explanation

2011-01-28 Thread Mark Elsen
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:44 PM, j...@jms1.net wrote: Greetings. I'm working on a distributed nagios system, with two master servers running the web interface to view status, and several dozen slave servers running the actual tests. So far it's working pretty well, but I've run into a very

Re: [Nagios-users] What happened during night for services that failed and timeperiod was off

2011-01-31 Thread Mark Elsen
Hello there, I'm wondering if there is a way to make nagios send notification for services which failed during non notification timeperiod ? ' Truly remarkable, although in quantum logic,even the obvious answer is not 'guaranteed' ... M.

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe CheckEventLog

2011-02-16 Thread Mark Elsen
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Tristan Drinkwater trist...@micro-p.com wrote: Hi guys, I hope someone can help me. I'm trying to set up Nagios to return a warning for all red error logs in both the system and application logs on a windows 2003 server. So far no matter what I try I

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe CheckEventLog

2011-02-16 Thread Mark Elsen
Thanks for the reply. I fear the main problem here is the lack of knowledge that's sat in-between my chair and my pc :) I've edited the ini file on the server to allow both arguments and nasty chars and restarted the service. If I use the -a switch after -c checkEventLog all I get back

Re: [Nagios-users] Socket.h:(677): bind failed

2011-03-03 Thread Mark Elsen
Good afternoon list! I'm having trouble with NSClient++ in the Windows Server 2008 x64. I try reinstall NSClient++ and the Nagios Server can't connect to NSClient++. I'm sending an log attached. - Check your windows server 2008 firewall settings. M.

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Elsen
On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: Hello! How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job

Re: [Nagios-users] Make Install error on 3.3.1

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Elsen
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Morum amo...@brendata.co.uk wrote: We're seeing an error during make install of 3.3.1. I have checked the install upgrade docs for 3.3.1, all prerequisites are already installed. 3.2.3 still installs with no errors. OS: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS (fully

[Nagios-users] Nagios 'check for updates' not (yet) advising 3.3.1

2011-07-27 Thread Mark Elsen
- My Nagios Home - Check for updates still says I am 'current' no need to update, despite 3.3.1 being available and running 3.2.3 ! M. -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.3.1 ./configure error

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Elsen
I was installing nagios3.3.1 and got this message i have shown the lines ending in 'no' please help root@ubuntu11:~/software/open_source/nagios/nagios# ./configure --enable-embedded-perl --with-perlcache --with-command-group=nagcmd checking whether we are cross compiling... no checking

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.3.1 ./configure error

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Elsen
Forwarding this to the list, as another post indicates, this might be a 'broader' problem : (check for further list-replies) : On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Bereket Zeselassie bereket...@yahoo.com wrote: i appreciate ur help. configured it without perl and it went good until i 'make install'

Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam?

2011-08-03 Thread Mark Elsen
I was looking for something in the wiki, and happened upon this page: http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Diet_Coffee_-_How_To_Combine_Green_Tea_And_Weight_Loss Nagios Enterprises is really branching out, eh? It's probably a bit like, Google ; once you become too rich ... :-) M.

Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?

2011-08-03 Thread Mark Elsen
I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine. Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers. There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing this? We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL.

Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Elsen
Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 best ways to monitor Windows in general. I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I do note that the following though from reading about them - 1. Checkwmiplus - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, because

Re: [Nagios-users] Nrpe and Windows

2011-09-22 Thread Mark Elsen
Folks, Nagios 3.2.0 is running on SLES 10 SP 1 NRPE  running on Windows It all seems to work fine for a while (10 mins)  and then I start seeing socket timeout errors. The only way to fix this is to restart the nrpe service on the node that is being monitored. Has anyone else had this

[Nagios-users] checking web applications beyond 'check_html'

2011-09-27 Thread Mark Elsen
- I am looking for best plugins, concerning , web application checking, 'going futher' then check_html, like dealing with advances auth. challenges, tokens etc. Giving me the most flexible solution for checking webapps in Nagios ? M.

Re: [Nagios-users] Segmentation fault under 3.2.3 on CentOS release 5.7

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Elsen
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Tom t...@limepepper.co.uk wrote: On 17/01/12 15:32, Mark Elsen wrote: I upgraded my nagios to the 3.2.3 base rpm from rpmforge and I'm seeing seg faults... This is the strace of strace /usr/bin/nagios  /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg stat(/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe ssl handshake error

2012-02-06 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi, In nrpe.cfg only_from has my nagios server IP Address. What else can i check for this issue. - Check the equivalent of /var/log/messages on HP-UX. I think it is /usr/adm/syslog Grep on nrpe (error) messages if any. M.

Re: [Nagios-users] Eventlog monitoring through NSClient++

2012-02-24 Thread Mark Elsen
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, MAD m...@b-care.net wrote: Hi list, I was trying to monitor events on a Windows server through the CheckEventLog functionnality built in NSClient++. I didn't notice first while I was adding my checks but memory usage and cpu load started raising as I was

Re: [Nagios-users] accept trap snmp

2012-03-29 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi all ** ** Actually I make many query via snmp to routers, fw, etc. ** ** Is it possible (and how) received trap snmp from Nagios server? -Checkout theNagios SNMP Trap

[Nagios-users] Loosing NAGIOS_* env variables in 3.4.1

2012-05-23 Thread Mark Elsen
- I have some 'home-written' notification scripts launched from NAGIOS ; now when using nagios 3.4.1 , all NAGIOS_* variables are gone. (printenv listing). How come ? How can I get them back ? M. -- Live

Re: [Nagios-users] Loosing NAGIOS_* env variables in 3.4.1

2012-05-25 Thread Mark Elsen
- I have some 'home-written' notification scripts launched from NAGIOS ; now when using nagios 3.4.1 , all NAGIOS_* variables are gone. (printenv listing). How come ? How can I get them back ? + Make sure you're not using large_installation_tweaks and that you

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.1 keeps sending notifications for hosts and service(s) in scheduled shutdown time

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Elsen
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Randal, Phil phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.ukwrote: Does the patch in http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=338 fix the issue (notifications during scheduled downtime) for you? Cheers, Phil Initial testing seems to indicate that it

Re: [Nagios-users] notification bug in Nagios Core 3.4.1

2012-07-17 Thread Mark Elsen
I have upgraded to Nagios Core 3.4.1 last week. There are a couple of issues I noticed. 1. notification for service check failures are being sent when the host is in downtime. 2. downtime are not being remove when it is expired.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Mikrotik router

2012-07-18 Thread Mark Elsen
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Andrea Cappelli a.cappe...@asidev.comwrote: Hi list, I would monitor a not so large Mikrotik network (about 100 host) via SNMP, but I have some questions 1) Where can I find OID for my devices (different version of RouterOS) and how use it? SNMP MIBS, for

Re: [Nagios-users] How Do I Find the no of connections in Tomcat?

2012-08-01 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi all, I'm very new to Nagios. I have certain doubts. I need to find a way to find the number of tomcat connections. More precisely, I need to know: If Number of connections ( 500 for 1 min) or else alert. Is that possible to do so ? There are a number of plugins out there to

Re: [Nagios-users] How Do I Generally Specify timing constraint in Nagios?

2012-08-02 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi all, I'm new to nagios. I need to know how I can specify the timing constraints. For example if I want to do something : if something is down for 10 min then alert me. In this case where do I specify the timing constraints? There are numerous timing vars, determining these

Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Elsen
I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem. The documentation states A service must be defined in Nagios before you can submit passive check results for it. I defined a config block like this, to define a

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.4.1 and IE 8 problem

2012-09-05 Thread Mark Elsen
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Matsushita, Nobuo nobuo.matsush...@childrenscolorado.org wrote: Hi, I installed and configured nagios 3.4.1. When I use Firefox, everything works fine. But when I use Internet Explorer 8 ( under Windows 7), I get the following error message: Internet

Re: [Nagios-users] No response from check_snmp (Plugins version 1.4.16)

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Elsen
On Saturday 20 October 2012 03:41 PM, Jatin wrote: Hi I follwed the quick installation guide to install Nagios and then installed the plugins with the link for the steps. I installed everything and got the UI for both Nagios and PNP4Nagios. Installed the check_mysql_health plugin as

Re: [Nagios-users] No response from check_snmp (Plugins version 1.4.16)

2012-10-20 Thread Mark Elsen
Yes , while doing the sample run from the /usr/local/nagios/libexec dorectory i see that there is no response from the check_snmp plugin. I used the command in the following way: ./check_snmp -H ip.address -o OID -C Community-String -t 30 There is no response , it just stays on there

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a host behind VPN/Firewall

2012-10-22 Thread Mark Elsen
Hi folks.. I'm trouble here... We have a thousand host behind VPN/Firewall. For now, we use NC_NET to collect WMI data from server, and send this datas to Nagios server, throught NSCA. We do it in passive mode... What happen here is that, even host came down, I still see the status ok for

Re: [Nagios-users] Version Check Incorrect

2013-01-14 Thread Mark Elsen
Nagios version incorrect, Tx for your efforts - yet the download menu for Nagios Core, advertises 3.4.4. as being 3.4.3; - The ChangeLog file does not contain any 3.4.4. information (ref : http://www.nagios.org/download/core/thanks?t=1358230874) M. On Mon, Jan

Re: [Nagios-users] Old value still being used after replacement in config

2013-03-06 Thread Mark Elsen
I have this issue whereby after changing the ip value in one host.cfg, restarting nagios, when I checked the logs it still pinging the old ... Please verify online-config using the right-pane, down button 'Configuration' ; check wether host addresses found are value as intended. M. On Wed,