Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts Via Gammu

. By adding the notification as an argument (instead of relying on piping), it began to send: define command{ command_namenotify-service-by-sms command_line/usr/local/bin/sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ ** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ ** } Sean

Re: [Nagios-users] Temporarily changing thresholds of an NRPE driven service check

vignette_backup } The standard check would then have check_period as vignette, while the one you'd like to run during your backup window would use vignette_backup. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Help - I am unable to send notifications

, it's defined in Nagios' resources file). Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information

Re: [Nagios-users] Introducing a delay between checks in a Host Check (v2.11)

to being scheduled at its normal rate as defined by the check_interval value. Unless you've changed the interval_length directive from the default value of 60, this number will mean minutes. More information on this value can be found in the check scheduling documentation. Sean McAfee System

Re: [Nagios-users] Design question

to be documenting it more once it's polished, but if you're creative and not afraid of svn, sed, and rsync, it can be implemented with no more management overhead than a single system setup. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes

Re: [Nagios-users] Design question

contact with the Master instance. Self-demotion is simply the inverse of that. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: distributed monitoring host checking question]

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Re: [Nagios-users] Design question

is the primary goal here, so some latency in self-demotion is perfectly acceptable since the only risk is receiving redundant notifications from each slave for any globally-monitored hosts. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe and sudo

it from the script. Try specifying the full path to sudo. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT: This message contains

Re: [Nagios-users] $LASTHOSTUP$ macro

)... [1219093171.497662] [064.1] [pid=16669] Making callbacks (type 19).. If you're set on using it, you're stuck using a wrapper script (or very creative command line-fu) to do the conversion. Otherwise, I'd look into using $HOSTDURATIONSEC$ instead, which is the seconds since the last state change. Sean

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_SSH Plug-In

in this case, you'd want to use `negate -w OK -o CRITICAL //path/to/check_ssh -checkargs/`. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with $CONTACTADDRESS1$

Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/08/08 07:05 PM, Sean McAfee wrote: Taylor Dondich wrote: You could also use a new feature of Nagios 3.0, custom variables: Well it's going to be changed, why not just use $CONTACTPAGER$? What do you mean

Re: [Nagios-users] notification were not sent out for service recovery

/notifications.html) *Caps used to be consistent with the documentation, not as passive aggressive sarcastic emphasis. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with contact groups

a host goes UP/DOWN. Since you're looking to receive notifications on a service, remote_admin would also have to be defined as a contact in the oracleUp service defintion. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue

Re: [Nagios-users] ADSL modem checking

$ARG3$ -p 5 } and then use: check_command check_ping_external!www.gmail.com!100.0,20%!500.0,60% in your service check definition. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios gets stuck

Have you tried Nagios 3? (Which I have not) Jonathan Jonathan, are you running BSD as well? If so, what scheduler are you using? How about you Dave? Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios gets stuck

events so I didn't do much troubleshooting, but I can at least confirm the behavior. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT

Re: [Nagios-users] Anyone tried Nagios 3.0.3 on FreeBSD yet?

). On the completely anecdotal side, it does seem to be more efficient overall but I think that's related to general improvements on the 3.x branch. Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Variable notifications

something about your config, you just need to add notification_period 24x7 to the temperature check definition. Any directive set in a template can also be used in an individual object definition and any value set in the check itself will override the value from the template. Sean McAfee

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS notification problem . HW trouble ?

. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only

Re: [Nagios-users] How to debug a check_http problem?

that Nagios executed. Running this from the command line (as the Nagios user!) will go a long way toward helping you figure out the problem. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor nagios running on a different server

googling but I haven't find anything. Kindly advise on how to do this. Use check_nagios (one of the default checks in nagios-plugins - http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_nagios) via NRPE. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes

Re: [Nagios-users] contacts.cfg error.

. -- Sean McAfee Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 1710 Murray Avenue, Suite 320 Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT: This message contains confidential information and is intended only for the individual

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor nagios running on a different server

Nagios server will actually do check_nrpe - but with arguments directing the remote machine to run check_nagios and then report back the results. -- Sean McAfee Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 1710 Murray Avenue, Suite 320 Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping modify output

Aaron Segura wrote: 1) Get the source 2) Modify 3) Compile 4) …. 5) Profit! Or write a script that wraps around check_ping, evaluates the native return, then returns whatever you want. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025

Re: [Nagios-users] changing display of service description without losing history

Host Alert: Level 1: sample.host.com is DOWN ** - and use templates to assign them to hosts. It'd take about as much configuration as your idea and uses the pre-existing mechanisms to accomplish the same thing. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412

Re: [Nagios-users] changing display of service description without losing history

, no ? You're right - I respond out of my notifications folder so I didn't think it through the whole way. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Confused on how this is working with out nrpe...

-H $HOSTNAME$ -c check_disk -a $ARG1$ $ARG2$ } That is how NRPE is getting invoked. Look closer at your templates. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

server. Since 10 seconds is the default timeout for those checks, you'll always hit a timeout unless the DNS server becomes responsive again. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios checks and DNS queries

use of the options in resolv.conf to allow us to reboot the DNS servers without causing any interruptions. For Dirk though, this isn't so much a Nagios or monitoring issue as it is a general *nix one. The real question here is why the DNS servers become unavailable so frequently. -- Sean

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reduce a very high latency number

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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios behaviour when scheduling checks

at 12:04:20 6. Nagios sees that $MAXSERVICEATTEMPTS$ = $SERVICEATTEMPT$ and transistions $SERVICESTATETYPE$ from SOFT to HARD -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. smca...@collaborativefusion.com 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http negative matching

-regex Return CRITICAL if found, OK if not -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. smca...@collaborativefusion.com 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT: This message contains

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with plugin...

Does anyone have some logic that I can use, preferably in perl for this kind of thing? You do, and you're already using it: ok if above 10 else critical No need to reinvent the wheel. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. smca...@collaborativefusion.com 412-422-3463 x

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Hosts without use plugins

are not schedule and are only execed when a service check fails. In the end, generic-host-alive will still be using check_ping. Just define a single check_ping service check for each device with a max_check_attempts of 1 and you'll get what you want. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion

Re: [Nagios-users] One Time Check

this template kick off at 8:40 19:50. Since normal_check_interval is greater than the time period windows, it will only run once per window. If there's a better way to do it, I'd like to know as well. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.0.3 on FreeBSD defunct process

for the same reason: anything newer would lock up due to defunct Nagios processes. Does 'ldd /usr/local/bin/nagios' show it linked against libpthread or libthr? -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Distribuated Help

because of the increased resolution. Look into OCP Daemon (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2521.html;d=1) - it solved my problem. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer -- This SF.net email

Re: [Nagios-users] Excluding a hostgroup from a service check

the magic + that indicates additive inheritance instead of making it override. Try: define service{ use standard-check hostgroup_name +!hostgroup5 service_description Disk Space } -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

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

be separate, check_cluster will display a status based on the current status of stand-alone checks. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer -- Crystal Reports #45; New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign

Re: [Nagios-users] How configure Nagios to send periodic notifications?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Check Service at a specific time...

friday 08:40-09:00 saturday08:40-09:00 sunday 08:40-09:00 } The checks that use this have a normal_check_interval of 30 minutes. This results in them being scheduled for a single run at 8:40A every day. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Monitor Server, and NRPE clients, giving funny results

it this way are relating to templating and configuration centralization, so the hit is restricted to management overhead. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer -- The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http -s

, making Nagios interpret the rest as the required string for -P. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer Collaborative Fusion, Inc. smca...@collaborativefusion.com 412-422-3463 x 4025 5849 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217 IMPORTANT

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http -s

Proskurin Kirill wrote: Sean McAfee wrote: Proskurin Kirill wrote: Hello all. I try to add a check_http with expecting some word in a body. But: ./check_http -v -H example.com -u /some.jsp -P -s=ERROR BUT it must be ERROR - not ok. What I do wrong? The -s=ERROR is being POSTed because

Re: [Nagios-users] number of acknowledgments

dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum wrote: I'm looking for a way to see if there are any unacknowledged host/service problems within nagios. Try the Unhandled link under the Service|Host Problems links in the GUI. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Alerts to SMS using SMSTools help?

$ ** } I can't answer your compatibility question, but if you have problems with it, the Moxa OnCell G2100 (http://www.moxa.com/product/OnCell_G2100_Series.htm) has been absolutely rock solid. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Weird issue with check_ping

lookup fails. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer -- Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App

Re: [Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

Windows_1 service_description C:\ Drive Space check_commandcheck_nt_disks!C!90!95 } -- Sean McAfee System Engineer -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

the exact same behavior on both 2.x and 3.x when remote sites go down. Since each passive result takes 10s to time out, the queue just becomes so backed up it stops being useful. OCP Daemon fixed it for me. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] How do I cancel scheduled downtime when in the middle of that downtime

check of the host or service seems to remove the downtime. -- Marc Click Downtime in the left navigation frame, then click the trash icon like you would to delete a comment. -- Sean McAfee System Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_by_ssh

send your command definition, host definition, service definition, and any templates used? It's very hard to troubleshoot without those. -- Sean McAfee -- The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage

Re: [Nagios-users] OOB alerting

the cell company. I previously had a Cepag modem and it was absolutely terrible and would lock up quite frequently. My dealings with Moxa have been few, but I've been completely satisfied with them. -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plugin problem using check_nrpe

/libexec/ 2. Change your nrpe.cfg to be: command[check_teste]=/path/to/sudobinary /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_teste.pl -s 4 -w 80 -c 85 3. Restart npre -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Sending NAGIOS alerts to Gmail addresses can get your mail server listed as suspect.

servers ended up on an RBL for something else. -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https

Re: [Nagios-users] Missing -l parameters. Detailed i nformation (can´t solve the problem) PLEASE HELP!!

generic-service check_command check_nt_disk!12489!c!80!90 } Hope this helps, -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day

Re: [Nagios-users] Information about nagios..

for what you need to do. -- Sean McAfee Senior Systems Engineer -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev

Re: [Nagios-users] single email alert to multiple contacts?

Parish, Brent wrote: Agree totally! All alerts from Nagios go to the same post-processing script we built and that's where they get shuffled off where they need to go, based on user preferences. This sounds amazing! Is there any chance this could be released to the community? -- Sean

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

the Moxa, we've never had a missed page, locked up device, or any other problem (other than PETA spamming the number...) -- Sean McAfee -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE

Re: [Nagios-users] R: smstools3 with nagios

On 5/12/2011 02:49, Marco Borsani wrote: Command file is the same. Running that command like root or Nagios user manually it is ok In the Nagios file (does not send sms): command_line/usr/local/bin/sendsms 0039$CONTACTPAGER$ Host:$HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$ Type:$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$.