Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios configuraion best practice

2010-12-08 Thread Kenneth Holter
, Sep 17, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Kenneth Holter kenneho@gmail.com wrote: I should have been more precise regarding the cluttering of the display - it was the hostgroup display I was referring to. :/ Would it be an idea to as much as possible use this configuration method: hosts --- hostgroups

[Nagios-users] Monitoring linux quotas

2009-08-19 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hello all. I'm considering setting up quotas on our RHEL-servers, and were wondering if there are any Nagios plugins that can monitor quotas. Btw, we're running Nagios 3.0.3. Regards, Kenneth Holter -- Let Crystal

[Nagios-users] Rebuild Nagios-packages for RHEL 5

2009-06-04 Thread Kenneth Holter
use this package to build the above mentioned plugins? If so, does anyone know how to stip the spec file down to just a selected few plugins? I'm quite new to building RPMs, and could use some guidance. Regards, Kenneth Holter

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Postfix with Nagios 3

2009-04-23 Thread Kenneth Holter
Thanks, this worked like a charm. :) On 4/23/09, Angel L. Mateo ama...@um.es wrote: El mié, 22-04-2009 a las 16:21 +0200, Kenneth Holter escribió: Hi. I'm using Postfix on a few of our RHEL 5 64-bit servers, and would like to monitor that this process is running well. I'm using Nagios

[Nagios-users] Monitor Postfix with Nagios 3

2009-04-22 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hi. I'm using Postfix on a few of our RHEL 5 64-bit servers, and would like to monitor that this process is running well. I'm using Nagios 3. What is the recommened way of monitoring Postfix? Regards, kenneho -- Stay

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Postfix with Nagios 3

2009-04-22 Thread Kenneth Holter
=Go hth jamie -Original Message- From: Kenneth Holter [mailto:kenneho@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 10:22 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitor Postfix with Nagios 3 Hi. I'm using Postfix on a few of our RHEL 5 64

[Nagios-users] Define notification contacts based on hostgroup

2009-01-28 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hi. Is there a way to configure Nagios to define contacts based on hostgroups? In other words: I'd like to send all notifications for a hostgroup A to the contact X. Is this possible? Regards, kenneho -- This SF.net

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp_time : Offset Unknown for any host since yesterday

2009-01-02 Thread Kenneth Holter
We too have the same issue. Is there any way we can resolve it without upgrading from 1.4.11 to 1.4.13? We're using the EPEL repo, and if I'm not mistaking one cannot upgrade only the nagios-plugins-ntp package one would be required to upgrade nagios-plugins (and hence also all the other

Re: [Nagios-users] Cannot add remote-linux server to my setup to be monitored

2008-12-23 Thread Kenneth Holter
Just a little side note: I don't think you need to maintain the hostgroup- host relationship in both the hostgroup and host definitions. Keep the definition in one of the two to get a cleaner code. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong. :) On 12/22/08, Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com wrote: I

[Nagios-users] Nagios and SELinux issue

2008-12-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
on the server, so I'll have to configure it to allow for Nagios. Does anyone know what needs to be done to do this? Regards, Kenneth Holter -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future

Re: [Nagios-users] Setting up guest user for nagios

2008-12-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
I already added a guest entry in that file, but thansk anyway. Everything seems to be working correctly. On 12/10/08, Ian Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've ensured that user guest is only included in these two lists: * authorized_for_all_services=usernagios,guest *

[Nagios-users] Network and machine resource consumption for Nagios

2008-12-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hi. Is there any resource consumption with regards to network or server/client machines to worry about when running Nagios? We're running active checks, i.e. the Nagios server uses SSH to run plugins on the client side and gather the information. I guessing that the per service per check

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and SELinux issue

2008-12-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
Thanks - I missed this part during installation. I'll give it a read. On 12/10/08, Ian Masters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kenneth Holter wrote: We're running Nagios 3.0.3 on RHEL 5, and are having an issue with SELinux. A symptom I have noticed it that acknowledging a problem results

Re: [Nagios-users] Setting up guest user for nagios

2008-12-09 Thread Kenneth Holter
or other problems to this approach that I don't see? Regards, Kenneth On 11/29/08, Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenneth Holter wrote: Hi. I need to configure a guest account so that anyone in the organization interested

[Nagios-users] Setting up guest user for nagios

2008-11-28 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hi. I need to configure a guest account so that anyone in the organization interested in monitoring can log into our Nagios web interface. Setting up the guest user account is a matter of adding the guest user to the required lines in cgi.bin. What is the recommended practice here? I were

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-13 Thread Kenneth Holter
and see what I come up with. Thanks for the help. I've learned a lot more about Nagios. On 11/12/08, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: I think I found one of the causes for the excessive notifacations - the notification_interval was set

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Holter
like a notification. On 11/11/08, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 11, 2008, at 2:08 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: Hello. I'm using Nagios 3.0.3 to monitor things such as time (synchronized with NTP) on our servers, and are getting a lot of semi-duplicate notification mails

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Holter
above answers most of them. We don't run multiple Nagios daemons on the same machine. I didn't find anything unusual in objects.cache. On 11/12/08, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: Thanks for your reply. The is_volatile options

[Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-11 Thread Kenneth Holter
can set to limit the notification to _one_ mail whenever we enter or leave an error/warning state, and thus not for every time a new drift time is calculated? The same problem also applies to things such as disk space. Regards, Kenneth Holter

[Nagios-users] Turning off notification_period for ping

2008-11-07 Thread Kenneth Holter
where this is defined. Does anyone know this? I'm running Nagios 3.0.3. Regards, Kenneth Holter - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Nagios-users] Turning off notification_period for ping

2008-11-07 Thread Kenneth Holter
. Regards, Dennis On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 13:07:48 +0100, Kenneth Holter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I have a few machines that are currently blocked by the firewall, which are reported down by Nagios. I'm pretty happy with having just _one_ notification of this kind of error, and would

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring which user is running a service/process

2008-10-31 Thread Kenneth Holter
:* Kenneth Holter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Friday, October 10, 2008 8:18 AM *To:* nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Monitoring which user is running a service/process Hello all. I have some processes that are meant to be run by user A, but are often

[Nagios-users] Monitoring which user is running a service/process

2008-10-10 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hello all. I have some processes that are meant to be run by user A, but are often (for some human error reason) run by the root user. Is there a way to set up Nagios to alert me whenever this happens? Regards, Kenneth Holter

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring 64-bit and 32-bit servers - plugin path problem

2008-09-26 Thread Kenneth Holter
to be very messy. I may consider the Gavins approach setting the PATH environment though, since it looked like a very neat solution. On 9/25/08, Tom Throckmorton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 23 08:18, Kenneth Holter wrote: Hello all. I've set up Nagios to monitor a few 64-bit machines

[Nagios-users] Monitoring 64-bit and 32-bit servers - plugin path problem

2008-09-23 Thread Kenneth Holter
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios configuraion best practice

2008-09-17 Thread Kenneth Holter
practise. What happens when NFS breaks? You should really copy the plugins to each host st they run locally. On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Kenneth Holter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply. I'll read the documents you listed. Meanwhile, I have a design question: What's the best

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios configuraion best practice

2008-09-16 Thread Kenneth Holter
, look at Large Installation Tweaks On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Kenneth Holter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm new to Nagios, and are planning on using Nagios for monitoring our network of Linux servers. Are there any best practice documents on how to manage

[Nagios-users] Nagios configuraion best practice

2008-09-15 Thread Kenneth Holter
Hello all, I'm new to Nagios, and are planning on using Nagios for monitoring our network of Linux servers. Are there any best practice documents on how to manage the different definitions such as hostgroups, services, servicegroups, and so forth in an enterprise environment? Regards, Kenneth