If Any are up.
It's a way of modelling a resilient network.
On large network, it can become a bit messy (pairs of routers all
cross-connected with virtual IPs, dynamic rerouting etc). In those
cases, I tend to just add the virtual router IPs, or even skip the
switches completely until getting
Doesn't it depend on how often you're performing the checks too? 1000 checks
every 10 seconds is harder than 10,000 checks every hour.
We have 589 hosts/3619 service on a 2 cpu 2.8GHz xeon with 1GB of ram, which
does other things too. The machine is about 8-10 years old.
The checks are
There was a guy that configured to monitory it by the tcp port,
however, rarely the jboss came very slow and nagios does not report
anything
because the port is listening.
Does anyone know a plugin to check a specific instance of jboss and
the port or other things together?
What part of jboss
When you upgrade to a threaded mail reader you will understand :-)
Actually, replying to another thread to start your own is considered
'hijacking'
There is probably a bit of snobbery with mail agents going on. Many
people are stuck with abominations like Outlook, which are often set up
to
I have a question that I hope someone give me some guidance on. How
do I view the map? What I try it still looks all jumbled together.
The map is built automatically based on the parent/child relationship
you have set in your host definitions.
The default automap is fairly unusable once you
check_command check_dns!foo.mylan.com!192.168.0.1
}
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From: Pankaj [mailto:penguinh...@gmail.com]
Sent: 08 January 2010 07
I'm trying to have a meaningful map like I have found on
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/images/screens/big/statusmap.jpg
I thought it had something to do with dependency but that doesn't seem
to work.
My question is how do I do this?
The statusmap is only really of use if you have a small
http://isitup.org/nsclient.org
Yes, it's working.
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From: Anthony [mailto:anthony-nag...@hogan.id.au]
Sent: 10
, you can add in plugins from
monitoringexchange.
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From: Kevin Mitnikc [mailto:teckad
);
close_socket();
logout();
For already-written plugins, check_x224 will give a better check than
check_tcp.
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Our ciscos respond to the standard IF-MIB::ifSpeed oid (I think it's
.1.3.6.1.2.1.2.2.1.5), we have a perl script wrapped around that which
calculates traffic over a 20 second period, but you could use a temporary file
to record the traffic if you were interested in a longer time. Be warned
Sure it will. uptime is a counter that increases from 0 to infinity
(essentially) and resets on reboot. The snmp check I use says
that if that counter is less than 50,000ms (~8.3 minutes),
show a WARNING. If you check every minute, you'd see a
WARNING status for 7 or 8 minutes, then a
While it's not specifically a nagios question, it's related to plugins.
After an afternoon of tearing my hair out, I've confirmed that I really
hate windows.
However, after finding a nice little package to query WMI from linux
(wmi-client, it's tied into samba), I had hopes of interrorgating
(remembermachine);
$mech-click();
$logins++;
}
my $content = $mech-content;
my $result = 0;
foreach (split(/\n/, $content)) {
$result++ if (/hhviewwiredetail.aspx/);
}
$results-{$WIRE} = $result;
}
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You need to keep all the of the .log files in (nagios)/var, the only historical
data nagios stores stays in those files.
I use rsync every day to back up these files offsite, as we've got 18 months of
data.
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We use nagiosgrapher with the following config (The plugin output includes the
phrase
transfered nnn bits/s)
Which produces some graphs.
define ngraph{
#Tweak service name to fit naming conventions in dev/live environment
service_nameCisco Traffic
A work around would be to run the check every 4 minutes -- the arp entry
won't time out then
(It takes our boxes less than a milisecond to respond to an arp, 397ms
would imply to me that something else is going on -- isdn link
reaquiring etc)
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From: Martyn [mailto:mar...@chetnet.co.uk]
Subject: [Nagios-users] A group of Nagios users are:
Just on a lighter note, what do we call a bunch of Nagios users;
Nagiothions?
Relaxed :)
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to tell (and I've just realized it is probably
important) I use NagiosQL to create the service. Is it
possible that NagiosQL didn't escape the (! ) but the (\)
when he writes the cfg file ?
Look at the actual config file generated. You may need to escape the \
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I want to authenticate my nagios with AD. i read couple of
document on net but no luck..any one using this method of
authentication please let me know i will appricate your help.
I'm assuming you mean the Nagios UI, in which case you'll
want to look for mod_auth_ldap and active
/default/files/screenshots/nagvis-1.3-rack.pn
g
And perhaps this kind if you have a geographically spread system.
http://www.nagvis.org/sites/default/files/screenshots/nagvis_map_2.png
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Hello,
we are running nagios 3.0.5 under cygwin quite successfully
in a relatively simple setup
That's surprising, but good news. I hope you don't rely on it
(most check results come via
NRPE from NSCA++ clients on windows machines). Everything is
well, but sometimes a awkward thing
update-rc.d nagios defaults
cd /usr/local/nagios/var
comments.dat
downtime.dat
nagios.log
objects.cache
retention.dat
status.dat
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From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com]
Sent: 18 February
The dependencies, hand-config user-creation, and the creation of the
ghost files,
can be done with a proper RPM -- which then means that two
installations (by
different people) are able to help each other a bit easier. It may
also help
the original OT poster get a canned install with
thank u very much
Does someone have a piece of software that use
Nagios::Statuslog to share?
perl -e '
use Nagios::StatusLog;
my $host = hostname;
my $description = service description;
my $dataFile = /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat;
my $log = Nagios::StatusLog-new( Filename = $dataFile,
I am using check_snmp_fans plugin to monitor fans on some of
my ESX hosts on blades. But I can't seem to monitor fans on
my actual physical servers and workstations. I get error
Error: walkoid() returned nothing. Does anyone know why I am
getting this error?
The SNMP oid that
indiviudual
contacts. We use an ntlm module to do IE passthrough authentication with
active directory, and default everyone to the same user, who has
visibility of every host and service.
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you get when you were expecting something else.
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From: Khairuzzamri [mailto:k_za...@kannal.com.my]
Sent: 21 January 2009 15:18
To: Nagios Users
read-only (some disk fault)?
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Hi there,
I am getting the following error while doing running the commit
command on Nagios:
Could not stat command file ()
Usr/local/Nagios/var/rw/Nagios.cmd
It may also be related to the capitalisation given below. Does it really
state
Can't Stat Usr/local/Nagios/var/rw/Nagios.cmd
.
If you want to do load balancing across nagios instances though, you
should
look at the full hog
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For just a failover installation, are there any issues with rsyncing the
files from master to slave every minute?
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I'm wondering if anyone can give me suggestions as to how to
monitor a specific process to make sure it keeps running
properly. The specific issue I have is that I have a Java
Webstart applet running on OpenBSD
4.4 that, from time to time, randomly crashes. I can't just
use check_process
i think you should use check_tcp to see if the port is available.
SNMP is UDP based, and wont respond without a valid community string
You could always do an snmp check to see if snmpd is running ;)
If you want to use check_snmp to check the snmp just ask for
the Uptime.oid (or any oid as
Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if
anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I
mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux
clients.
The closest thing we do is monitor patches on machines.
For debian machines,
-Original Message-
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Is it possible to set up the web interface so that it shows several
*separate* status maps (i.e., in different browser windows on
different
displays)?
My status map doesn't fit
applications. Once they're logged in there, we would pass their username
over to Nagios via URL querystring or hidden form value, etc (not going for
maximum security).
Indeed not, anyone who wants can pretend to be anyone else. Still, if it's an
internal intranet, and you capture the IP
On Monday October 20 2008 11:38:04 am Paul Weaver wrote:
How about a new command called fakecheck, and apply to a
dumbswitch host with a 127.0.0.1 address. It would take a list of
machines, and check them all. If any of them are up, then the
fakecheck would return OK, otherwise
Use an iframe to include
http://nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?servicegroup-allstyle=summary -- you'd need a
mediawiki plugin to allow the use of iframes
The use of actualize does ask questions..
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at programming you could probably get a list of children
out of the config -- complex configs take a long time to read in using
perl though)
Another way of monitoring would be to have it powered off an SNMP
enabled MDU which can tell the current being drawn. You could then
measure that.
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To: Paul Weaver
Subject: AW: [Nagios-users] mediawiki - include the nagios
status report
Thanks a lot, i will try this.
Sorry, I didn´t mean actualize, I meant that it should update
However if you use a squid proxy, running the service on the cache would
be a better choice.
If not, running on your external gateway might be a good idea. After
all, if your internet connection goes down, it doesn't mean
www.google.com isn't available -- it means you can't see it.
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/newsjtcmpp26.cfg
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a Nagios::StatusLog module in
cpan, or often via your distribution (With ubuntu apt-get install
libnagios-object-perl)
You could also, I believe, look at NDO, which sends nagios data out to
a mysql database.
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But if people want different additions to nagios, want tweaks to the
cgi's (we have a link into our documentation system for example), etc.
You may want to keep them completely separate.
Running nagios in a VM would seem the obvious answer though.
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Bahadur
Hi
I would like to monitor two partitions(/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3)
with the same command..
How do I specify those ? Is it by separating with commas or by just
space as below ??
I don't have any pcs with default routes out of two network cards to
test, but perhaps using ping -I eth0 www.yahoo.co.uk and ping -I eth1
www.yahoo.co.uk would work?
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From: Paulus, Jake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 27 August 2008 13:50
To: Paul Weaver; Nagios Users Mailinglist
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] (Nagios-Ping)
I have this issue as well. In my case I believe it exists
because servers are improperly multi-homed; this is a server
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Hello,
When using passive checks, you *should* do the following:
define service {
...
check_freshness 1
freshness_threshold 660
...
Helpful,
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk_smb question
did you define the command to go with it ?
Some thing like
1) Are you sure that /var is a seperate partition? Run
df
And look at the mounted on column
2) Run
snmpwalk 127.0.01 -v2c -C public hrStorageDescr
And see what partitions snmp lists
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by the SUNWmibii.
You can run snmpwalk -v2c -cpublic hostname .1 to see what fun
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It seems to me, that there are 2 basic ways to view our
conglomeration of systems. One is geographic, and the 2nd is
from a network topology point of view. Frankly I think a
nagvis presentation of both would be useful. The network
topology version is fairly straightforward (I think, but I
for that tree
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To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Config documentation
You can use check_ping -- I assume the boxes are pingable, and you want
to check they are pingable, even if they do nothing else that can be
monitored.
If you don't want to check they work via ping, why are you even
modelling them?
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The NTFS Mounted Point File System in Windows is a File
System mounted
in a Subdirectory, but still a Mounted File System., but a
got your point.
Do you Known any other way in other to get the free space percent in
this kind of cenario ?
A couple of options
1) Create a second
of the nagvis, which is a subdirectory off your
normal nagios web client.
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I use a slightly modified (allow cheks of /var as well as c:)
check_hd plugin to check disk space on both windows and unix. It works
fine for the most part, except for a windows machine with 2 partitions.
The E: partition report is fine
OK: hd e:\.* 1% full, 27.4GB free. [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Perl's Nagios::StatusLog module.
No idea how well it scales, and I'm sure there's a better way of doing
it. It's definatly a work in progress, and has made me think a lot more
about defining system health.
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I'm no expert in python or passive results, however you appear to be
opening the file for write access. Have you tried opening for append (w+
perhaps?)
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I've recently started using nagios in our development environment, and
have knocked a few plugins for some of our programs (i.e. monitor a log
on a remote server to make sure it's growing, but not growing too fast
or too slow, or jumbo pings between two remote machines), which is very
impressive.
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