Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios installation issue

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I don't use Ubuntu myself, does someone know if there is an equiv to functions? Dan On Sep 18, 2013 3:02 AM, FTL Nagios ftlnag...@gmail.com wrote: Start again and follow http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-ubuntu.html Change the version numbers to whatever version you are

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios installation issue

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
a package for the particular distro. On Sep 18, 2013 8:31 AM, Daniel Wittenberg dwittenberg2...@gmail.com wrote: I don't use Ubuntu myself, does someone know if there is an equiv to functions? Dan On Sep 18, 2013 3:02 AM, FTL Nagios ftlnag...@gmail.com wrote: Start again and follow http

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios installation issue

2013-09-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
work on integrating it with the RPM/build. Dan On Sep 18, 2013, at 2:03 PM, Sunil Sankar su...@sunil.cc wrote: In ubuntu the function file is /lib/lsb/init-functions change and let us know if it works Regards Sunil On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Daniel Wittenberg dwittenberg2

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Load Alerts

2013-09-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We have no idea what OS, I'm assuming some Unix/Linux, so going throw out to look at sar, maybe it's installed and running and might help, but without more info it's really hard for us to guess. Dan On Sep 2, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios check latency

2013-08-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I guess that depends on your definition of stable. I've been using it in large production environments for almost a year. Dan On Aug 20, 2013 9:43 PM, Muhamad Faiz muhamad.f...@asia.xchanging.com wrote: Hi Andreas Ericsson, Until it is in Stable release, we will not update it. I guess

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 4 beta plan/status/roadmap?

2013-08-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Good question, there's only a couple people that can pull the trigger on that one, Ethan and Eric I believe. I was hoping since 4 was announced at least years conference it would actually be out by this years conference :) Dan On Aug 14, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Frost, Mark {BIS}

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Patches for inclusion to Nagios 4

2013-08-06 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Looks like some good additions. Since I'm in the middle of doing some in-depth performance tuning/comparison between 3.2.3 and 4.0 I might to throw a couple of these on and see how things change. Thanks! Dan On Aug 6, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Ton Voon ton.v...@opsview.com wrote: Hi! We've

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Upgrade

2013-08-05 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
On Aug 5, 2013, at 9:46 AM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 2013-08-05 14:30, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: On 2013-08-03 02:27, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, I am running Nagios Version 3.4.4 on CentOS Linux Version

Re: [Nagios-users] rpmbuild nagios-3.5.0

2013-07-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
FWIW - the spec file in 4.0 has been completely rewritten and should work a lot better, based on Dag's RPM's and merged my changes in and what I've been using for almost a year now. Dan On Jul 24, 2013, at 11:55 AM, frank ra...@they.org wrote: Just speaking for myself here, in my experience

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Personally I always use check_logfiles http://labs.consol.de/lang/en/nagios/check_logfiles/ Dan On Jul 15, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Alex mysqlstud...@gmail.com wrote: Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally where I catch that stuff with a log monitor. No, they

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios init script not working on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-06-12 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Functions is a file on rhel-based systems and provides common start/stop routines. I dont use Ubuntu myself but if you figure out how to make it work let me know. If I get some time I'll see if I still have an ubuntu test VM to look at. Dan On Jun 12, 2013 2:09 PM, Abhinav Upadhyay

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and SELinx

2013-03-13 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Good place to start…I'll try building a base level system and start with this and see if we can get this back in the stock RPM to help people out. I think I'd by more likely to use selinux on my nagios boxes if I didn't have to do as much to get it setup :) Dan On Mar 13, 2013, at 10:31 AM,

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and SELinx

2013-03-12 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I haven't done it myself, but I don't know why not, you'd just have to make sure your policy is set for your setup. Speaking of which I guess that would be a nice addition to the RPM's. Dan On Mar 12, 2013, at 6:01 PM, Stephen H. Dawson wrote: Hi, Can Nagios run under SELinux? --

Re: [Nagios-users] Issue during building rpm binaries for Nagios Plugins version 1.4.16

2013-03-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Just make sure /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ldaps is listed in the %files section of the .spec file and you should be good-to-go. Dan On Mar 11, 2013, at 8:07 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Any clue regarding the below issue? Executing(%doc): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.88063 + umask 022

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable ALL Nagios Notifications For One Hour, On One Day, Every Month

2013-02-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You can do it programmatically with cron through the external commands, a little cleaner approach: http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandinfo.php?command_id=7 Dan On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:27 AM, Jon Adcock wrote: Within Nagios, is there some way to disable ALL Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.3 RC tarball

2012-11-13 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
There are a lot of changes to 4.0, so just jumping there vs. fixing bugs in 3.x might not be an option for some. Dan On Nov 13, 2012, at 12:14 PM, Tech Support wrote: Hello; On a related note, if Nagios 4 is to be released in the not too distant future, is there any compelling reason not

Re: [Nagios-users] solutions for off-server PNP4Nagios perfdata processing?

2012-10-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You might consider looking at 4.0 since disk i/o is almost nothing, but short of that looked at using rrdcache to send the processing to another server? Dan On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Frost, Mark {BIS} wrote: Hello. Has anyone come up with solutions for processing Nagios performance data

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and Infrastructure automatization

2012-09-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Nagios isn't an automation tool, it's a monitoring tool. It also doesn't do authorization, that would be something like LDAP. I think what might help is to look at something like Puppet or Chef which can connect up with Nagios but provide some more automation tools. Dan On Sep 18, 2012, at

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 4: Call for testing

2012-09-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
https://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nagios/nagioscore/trunk Dan Doing the svn check out , i get a svn dump of all nagios versions except 4 , and browsing the svn shows no trace of the nagios4 branch . Can you specify the exact branch to check out ?

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Nagios 4: Call for testing

2012-09-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
First build of the RPM's are below. So far we've been using them during testing but not in any kind of production environment so let me know if any issues/changes. https://github.com/dwittenberg2008/nagios/tree/master/rpms Dan On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:52 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: RPM's

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] Nagios 4: Call for testing

2012-09-13 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
RPM's for CentOS/RHEL 6 will be available tomorrow. Shout if you want them built for other platforms and I'll see what I can do. Dan On Sep 13, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: Yes, you read it right. Nagios 4 is approaching, but it needs your help to reach the finish-line, so

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin Log Pattern Notification

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
http://labs.consol.de/lang/de/nagios/check_logfiles/ Works on Windows and Linux, highly configurable. Dan On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Net Warrior wrote: Thanks, I'll take a look. I found several plugins but for windows instead, what I want to do is to find a string I configured with iptables

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote event handlers using NRPE

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
WMI assumes you are running Windows… With NRPE I haven't seen a way to do it without being pass arguments. I'm just careful with scripts that can take arguments that they scrub what's being passed in. Dan On Aug 29, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Nick Smith wrote: I dont have an answer about your NRPE

Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Kernel Version

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I haven't seen one, but would be trivial to write one. You looking to see the rpm -q kernel output or something like uname -a? Dan On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote: Does anyone know of or have a plugin that will display the current kernel level for Redhat? Thanks, Ed P

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes in 1 web interface

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Check out check_mk multisite, I think that will do what you want. Dan On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Andrew Thompson wrote: Hello, At the moment I have 1 box setup, monitoring 2 sites (1 local and 1 remote) and if I go to www.blablabla.co.ukhttp://www.blablabla.co.uk it routes through to my

Re: [Nagios-users] Large scale installation

2012-06-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Take a look at mod_gearman for distributing the checks: http://labs.consol.de/lang/de/nagios/mod-gearman/ Dan On Jun 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Andreas Brandino wrote: Hi all, my nagios installation has currently 400+ hosts and around 1400 checks. As the server load grows, delays are appearing.

Re: [Nagios-users] Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is POSIX-guaranteed atomic write size (512 bytes).

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I personally haven't seen that, have you looked at using a more recent version? Dan From: Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:kaushalshri...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:21 PM To: nagios Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is

Re: [Nagios-users] JMX requests without java

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I don't remember the details, but I thought you could setup one host with jmx4perl and use that as a proxy for the other hosts, something like that work ? Dan -Original Message- From: MAD [mailto:m...@b-care.net] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:58 AM To: Nagios-Users Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Take a look at pnp4nagios as well. Dan From: vishesh kumar [mailto:linuxtovish...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:33 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios Hi Members, I want to present nagios data in graphics . What should i use for simple for

Re: [Nagios-users] Handling large amount of syslogs with nagios

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would think you could eliminate a good portion of those with the right set of dependencies, but outside of that I would personally look at using an MQ to store the messages instead so you can more easily distribute the work and make it more scalable. Dan -Original Message- From: Yu

Re: [Nagios-users] How many hosts and services are you monitoring with Nagios?

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I actually wrote a NEB like this as well that we used to send data to a CGI and also used it for Splunk, just sending perf data, worked pretty well with almost no impact on the server side, just some increased network bandwidth. Dan -Original Message- From: Max Schubert

Re: [Nagios-users] Querying nagios object information through command line

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I second livestatus, we use it all the time, plus there is a webservice as well, livestatusSlave which might work better with your php. http://nagios.larsmichelsen.com/livestatusslave/ Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16,

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes running together in different locations

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would agree with this as well, usually easier I think then trying to cross-connect everything together and make sense of all of it. Make them standalone, and then use something like Multisite which can bring all of them together in one view so it all appears to be one box setup. Dan From:

Re: [Nagios-users] empty hostgroups only for service defs?

2012-04-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would imagine that's the case, since I had to patch our version to deal with the depenencies too. Dan From: Erik Larkin [mailto:erik_lar...@gap.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:30 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Erik Larkin Subject: [Nagios-users] empty hostgroups only for

Re: [Nagios-users] use_large_installation_tweaks

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We did the same, too much over from NDO to justify any benefit. Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:18 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] use_large_installation_tweaks Does anyone

Re: [Nagios-users] Recommendation needed

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I like pnp4nagios, easy to integrate and flexible. Using it with multisite as the front-end make it all just work out of the box. Dan -Original Message- From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:02 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Usually I've seen that when you have a mismatch in the buffer sizes, so maybe XI has a larger buffer size? Dan -Original Message- From: Steve Kemp [mailto:st...@dedicatedserversaustralia.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:48 AM To: 'Nagios Users List' Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
of error. Dan -Original Message- From: Steve Kemp [mailto:st...@dedicatedserversaustralia.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:28 PM To: Daniel Wittenberg; 'Nagios Users List' Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE Not sure im following you on this about buffer sizes? Regards Steve

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

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We actually use check_logfiles with NSClient so haven't seen this, and we have tons of rules. Might be worth looking at. Not that anything is wrong with NSClient :) just check_logfiles also has more regex and options. Dan -Original Message- From: MAD [mailto:m...@b-care.net] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] socket time out error from cluster server in passive node in nagios tools

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
So getting timeouts sending messages from a node - NSCA on the nagios server? If that's the case how is your NSCA configured, stand-alone or via xinetd? Dan -Original Message- From: chandra moger [mailto:cdac.chan...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:18 AM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios plugins output strings

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This might help: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html Dan -Original Message- From: DENNY, MICHAEL [mailto:md2...@att.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:45 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios plugins output strings Hey,

Re: [Nagios-users] Have we reached some kind of Nagios limit?

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Have you tried running in debug mode? Dan From: Frost, Mark {BIS} [mailto:mark.fro...@pepsico.com] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:48 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Have we reached some kind of Nagios limit? A couple of days ago, I ran into a problem I've never seen

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically add/remove hosts on Nagios

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
That depends on your definition of dynamically. I would like to see it be able to add/remove hosts without requiring a restart of the service. I currently use puppet, but it's still just updating files and then you have to restart to pickup the changes. Dan From: ranjib dey

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically add/remove hosts on Nagios

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
As far as passive checks, just use your script as an eventhandler. As for dynamically adding, I wish too :) My restart times are now like 15-20 minutes whenever I make a config change or update hosts. Dan From: Felipe Cecagno [mailto:fceca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012

Re: [Nagios-users] Centralized Dashboard

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Check out multisite, part of check_mk suite of tools. Dan From: trm asn [mailto:trm.nag...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:40 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Centralized Dashboard Dear Friend, I have 7 Nagios core server running at 7 different location. I have

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts?

2012-01-12 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Another reason something like Multisite is handy :) Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:11 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts? Tonight I will be

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Scalability might still be an issue with Multisite, there are some things that make it perform really slow to be aware of, but I have it accessing 34 nagios servers, about 36,000 devices and 1.5 million service checks, so it's definitely do-able. Dan From: Jake Xu [mailto:j...@demonware.net]

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm using Multisite for front-end to Core and do this all the time. Dan From: Jake Xu [mailto:j...@demonware.net] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:54 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once Hi everyone, From time to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
future system updates. Compiling nagios from source is dead simple and well documented. Cheers, Steve Glasser | Senior System Administrator | visp.net Direct: 541-955-6903 | Fax: 541-471-0821 On 12/28/11 6:12 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2011 10:23 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would second that, use the RPM's and then it's super-simple RPM installs and a few tweaks for performance and you should be good. Dan -Original Message- From: Alain Williams [mailto:a...@phcomp.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:13 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re:

Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
. Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:09 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working On 12/16/2011 04:38 AM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I've started playing

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not meaning to toot my own horn, but for larger scales I did a presentation that has config examples and stuff, based on RHEL-5, but should apply the same to RHEL/CentOS 6 as well. http://planet.nagios.org/archives/84-nagios-exchange/3850-daniel-wittenberg-scaling-nagios-at-a-giant-insurance

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not at all, we're all here to help... What are you using for your ping check? What is the output from 'nagiostats'? Dan -Original Message- From: mpeder...@choopa.com [mailto:mpeder...@choopa.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:21 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:26:15 +, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: Not at all, we're all here to help... What are you using for your ping check? What is the output from 'nagiostats'? And now I'm going to admit to feeling like a blooming idiot. As it turns out

Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
be nice if you could have a setting that would tell it that freshness checks should be treated the same way as active checks. Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:09 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re

Re: [Nagios-users] Basic Question: Apache needed on client ?

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
On the client? None unless you have some odd agent that uses http protocol, but normally on unix/linux you have NRPE which has no requirements for apache. Dan -Original Message- From: Dan White [mailto:y...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:40 PM To:

[Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I've started playing with making a bunch of dependencies and at first it appeared to be working, right now I've got a pretty basic test setup. I've added one service to be dependent on the other one, but it seems that the freshness might be mucking with it. Two services below: define service

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts without any contacts or contactgroups

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I have a user called Nobody with no contact times and no contact information but it's enough to make the system happy. Dan -Original Message- From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:02 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Couldn't do a host alive check that just checks port 80 instead of ping, and then have services with check_http for URL's you want to check? Dan -Original Message- From: Corey Quinn [mailto:co...@sequestered.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:18 PM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] programmatic access to nagios state

2011-11-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We use the livestatus event broker for that purpose, there is also a JSON web services frontend for livestatus as well. Dan -Original Message- From: Richard Clark [mailto:n...@fohnet.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:44 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] High check latency in a machine with low load

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I think you have the enable_high_latency option enabled :) j/k Do you have any particular checks that are taking a long time? i.e. can you watch top and see checks taking a while? Dan From: Javier Vela Diago [mailto:jv...@s2grupo.es] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:23 AM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not sure about in the old version, but what we do is not put the membership info in the hostgroup definition, but give the host definition a list of hostgroups it belongs to which is a much shorter list. Dan -Original Message- From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We also had to do some tuning with our pnp4nagios for latency. I ended up using a ramdisk for the perfdata folder (that it uses while processing data, not the rrd's) and modified it to run with a nice of 20 to make sure that Nagios always had enough priority to get its work done (which is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure

2011-08-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
So will we see a point release at some point? 3.3.2? Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:19 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure On 08/18/2011 04:15 PM, Jaco Lesch wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure

2011-08-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Yeah I figured so...time to update my resume :) Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:18 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure On 08/23/2011 04:12 PM

Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments

2011-08-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I have seen cases where there can be enough comments to start slowing the interface down considerably. We have a script that removes them if they are 30 days old or more than X number per host. Dan -Original Message- From: William Muriithi [mailto:w.murii...@syncapse.com] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
If I remember right though this will only re-read what is there, so if you add/remove files it won't pick those up so we just always use a restart. Dan -Original Message- From: Edwin Zoeller [mailto:edwin.zoel...@ama-assn.org] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 1:08 PM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 2:37 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly On 1 July 2011 20:19, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: If I remember right though this will only re-read what

Re: [Nagios-users] Best practices for running Nagios across multiple data centers

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Might be simpler than that, just tie the front-end viewing together. We're using Multisite to tie together over 30 Nagios servers in 3 different data centers. Dan -Original Message- From: David Rosenstrauch [mailto:dar...@darose.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:35 AM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Mass Acknowledge a Service

2011-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
If you are using multisite for your interface you can filter the view to only show those and then ack them all at once. Dan From: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:00 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Mass Acknowledge a Service

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring

2011-03-30 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
My vote is to look at Multisite and livestatus from check_mk project. Dan From: Gerheim [mailto:wallacegerh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:01 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring Hello folks, I'm new on Nagios and

Re: [Nagios-users] Create services dynamically for a specific host

2011-03-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This is something you could write, to watch the logs and create the service config files for services it doesn't know about, but would require some knowledge about what services you had coming in. It could be an interesting add-on. Dan From: Jarlath Lyons [mailto:jarlath.ly...@tideworks.com]

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++. Monitoring the devices behind theFirewall.

2011-03-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You could always have a passive check that calls home to get any new updates so then you wouldn't really have to login to each one to push down changes. Dan -Original Message- From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:28 AM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios Monitoring Windows Hosts

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Everyone's configs can be very different. How about posting your error and part of your configs and we can help fix those? Dan From: TINOS ROUSOS [mailto:ti...@ebnet.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:56 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] A question on my distributed server set up

2011-02-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
That looks right. First nagios is telling you that it has received an external command, and the value is X. Then it is telling you that it is processing the results of the passive check. Does that make sense? Dan From: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15,

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This is kind of what I did when testing backup system. I had a process tailing the nagios.log and when it got incoming messages it would just forward a copy to the other server so all but passive checks the secondary system appeared to be the same as the primary. Seemed to work pretty well. Dan

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
the time. Dan -Original Message- From: Morty [mailto:morty+nag...@frakir.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 3:52 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:59:23AM -0700, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: This is kind of what I did when

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-common RPM Package

2011-02-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm not sure what that is, but I tend to stick with the RPM's from rpmforge for Nagios stuff. I have to tweak them, but they are good. You should be able to get nagios (all server stuff), then things like nagios-plugins, nagios-nrpe, nsca, and the nsca client and that would get most of what you

Re: [Nagios-users] ePN Trouble

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Add this to your script in the first 10 lines to keep epn from parsing: # nagios: -epn Dan From: Juan-Francisco Diez [mailto:moch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 4:29 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] ePN Trouble Hi all, I use a

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows 2008 event log?

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Also look at check_logfiles if you need something a little more flexible, both are great. Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:40 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking multiple TCP ports for a single status?

2010-12-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Write a simple script that does both checks and returns results? Dan -Original Message- From: stan [mailto:st...@panix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:39 PM To: nagios List Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking multiple TCP ports for a single status? I think I need to verify

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows event viewer.

2010-12-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Doesn't syslog-ng just consolidate the logs, it doesn't really monitor anything right? Dan -Original Message- From: Polifemo, Salvatore [mailto:polife...@conedsolutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:38 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows

Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
19:42, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: I want to know if a service restarts 3 times in one hour. Right now I can only find a way to do 3 times, ever, using max_check_attempts. Better ? Dan If the service writes an event to the Windows event log each time

[Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
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] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I want to know if a service restarts 3 times in one hour. Right now I can only find a way to do 3 times, ever, using max_check_attempts. Better ? Dan -Original Message- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 1:12 PM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
that is in it's PID file isn't an active process? Thanks. Eric -Original Message- From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:56 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Couple questions 1) Why do you have to reboot your monitoring server weekly? 2) How is the reboot being done? Reason I ask 2) is because the standard rc script will remove the lockfile when nagios is told to stop. So if you are having this problem is sounds like you are not doing a clean

Re: [Nagios-users] tracing nagios actions

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Also you probably want to make sure you run the command as the nagios user, or whatever the user is that the service runs as, to make sure you are getting the right environment and permissions. Dan From: Polifemo, Salvatore [mailto:polife...@conedsolutions.com] Sent: Monday, December 20,

Re: [Nagios-users] CPU monitor for a single Linux user spaceprocess ?

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I also modified one of the other plugins to do a user-space, check_ps.pl I think was it, so I added a -u user option that basically does a ps aux for all that user and then totals all the results. I can probably get a copy if you wanted it. Mainly because I don't use snmp for process checks

[Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I noticed something odd the other day while stressing my servers. I noticed that when I overload it with too many hosts/checks, that I start getting active check failures with the standard 127 code. But, if I slowly reduce the number of hosts/checks, I’ll get to a point where it starts

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, 2010 10:12 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though On 12/14/2010 05:08 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I noticed something odd the other day while stressing my servers. I noticed that when I overload

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
in env. Always something fun in nagiosland :) Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:22 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load

Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high loadreportedby check_load plugin

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, 1 user, load average: 73.36, 73.29, 73.21 From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:40 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high load

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with hostgroup members definition

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You could do it the other way, and in the host definition assign it to a hostgroup, using the hostgroups directive, and give it a comma-separated list of groups? We did it that way so basically the host definition file is all self-contained. Dan -Original Message- From: Forrest Aldrich

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring remote hosts

2010-12-06 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You might want to check: netstat -nap |grep 5667 That will show you what's actually listening on that port, if anything. That's usually oen big reason xinetd couldn't start up. Like maybe you have an RC script starting up NSCA outside of xinetd. Dan From: Rikard Dahlberg

Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high load reported by check_load plugin

2010-12-06 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
In top, does it show the same load values? The status of your memory shouldn't cause the nagios plugin to report high cpu. What does the uptime command say? Try running the check_load script by hand on that host and verify it returns the same results. Dan From: Marc Powell

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I did some testing today with epn on and off and it didn't seem to make any difference in our latency times. Not overly scientific though, but looked about the same running few hours each way. Dan -Original Message- From: Max Schubert [mailto:m...@webwizarddesign.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:39 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 08:38 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Someone else noticed that nagios is generating a ton of minor page faults, and curious

Re: [Nagios-users] Check size of large directory

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not sure how those other scripts are doing it, if using an ls maybe? As a test, can you do: time find path -type f |wc -l See how long it takes for that? Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:26 AM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Sorry for confusion on that..I added 9 checks to *each* host, and there's about 700 hosts. No, it's all the nagios daemon itself (nagios -uxd). It feels like if I add that many more checks that it has a hard time doing the checks and processing the results since if I either move the active

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