Re: [Nagios-users] Problem sending passive results using NSCA with multi-line output

2013-02-13 Thread Stuart Browne
Sadly, the way NSCA works at the moment isn't capable of doing multi-line responses (when I investigated about 6 months ago at least) as it uses the external command file (which is a single-line command/response FIFO). What I ended up doing to simulate the behaviour was to implement

Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Kernel Version

2012-06-29 Thread Stuart Browne
Current as in installed, or current as in available? We wrote this a while ago to see if the most recently installed kernel is the bootable kernel: #!/bin/bash # # Check if current kernel is being used. # GRUBBY=/sbin/grubby GREP=/bin/grep UNAME=/bin/uname OUTPUT=Current kernel running.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_ibm_imm.sh Plugin Help

2012-05-31 Thread Stuart Browne
What happens when you run this check as the user Nagios runs as (usually 'nagios')? Stuart From: peter.shankl...@ricoh-rpl.com [mailto:peter.shankl...@ricoh-rpl.com] Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 8:14 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_ibm_imm.sh Plugin

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 9

2012-04-19 Thread Stuart Browne
Jeremy, You can have HARD WARNING state as well. SOFT is when you have not yet reached max_check_attempts. Stuart From: Jeremy Page [mailto:jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 1:35 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol

Re: [Nagios-users] one shot check at specific time of day

2012-03-21 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Marki [mailto:jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu] Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:13 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] one shot check at specific time of day Hi people, I have problems defining a check so that it only runs once each

Re: [Nagios-users] Where can arguments go?

2012-02-21 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, -Original Message- From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:d...@dd-b.net] Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:42 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Where can arguments go? I'm looking to use a special check command to verify routers are in operation by

Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle plugin

2011-11-20 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, One of the errors is saying you're not using $sqlplus variable for execution, but we can't see the code that actually does the executing (you probably just left off the $). The language isn't being set properly. Possibly this is the shell you're executing from doesn't have it, thus all

Re: [Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3

2011-10-23 Thread Stuart Browne
them in a time series data warehouse that is sensitive to interval skew...any poller that hits 10 seconds latency has to be bounced. We are at 12 pollers or so right now and we will be up to almost 20 by next year at this time. Sounds fun ;) Max On 10/2/11, Stuart Browne stuart.bro

[Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3

2011-10-02 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, I know this topic has been covered many times, but I've tried those tweaks and I have the remaining issue. After a few days, the latency on checks explodes. It goes along quite happily with small values, then after (about) 3 days, the values rise quite sharply. I've recently been

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

2011-09-27 Thread Stuart Browne
I don't have a generic solution, but we write all such things using Perl and WWW::Mechanize. What are your perl skills like? Stuart -Original Message- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 5:43 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] Different notification behaviour depending on daytime?

2011-09-05 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Axel Rosenski [mailto:rosen...@wave-computer.de] Sent: Monday, 5 September 2011 5:35 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Different notification behaviour depending on daytime? Hi, I want to know whats the best or common way to get different

Re: [Nagios-users] Question about notification_period

2011-05-24 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Andre Tann [mailto:at...@alphasrv.net] Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 4:32 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Question about notification_period Hello everyone, I want my servers to be checked in a 24x7 period, and I want to be

Re: [Nagios-users] IBM System x3650

2011-05-22 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: trm asn [mailto:trm.nag...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, 20 May 2011 6:24 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] IBM System x3650 Dear List, Is there any way we can monitor hardware device health for IBM System x3650 , like we can do for HP

Re: [Nagios-users] compact definition of multiple hosts or service groups?

2011-03-23 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Justin T Pryzby [mailto:just...@norchemlab.com] Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 9:56 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] compact definition of multiple hosts or service groups? Hi Everyone, Is there any way to add multiple

Re: [Nagios-users] Create a virtual service - How to?

2011-02-02 Thread Stuart Browne
Have you had a look at the 'check_cluster' plugin? It allows you to team multiple services into a single service. You tell it how many can fail/not-fail before raising an alert etc. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/clusters.html We use this for our SMTP MX target availability. Stuart

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking a Web Site

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Browne
From: Edwin Zoeller [mailto:edwin.zoel...@ama-assn.org] Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2011 7:28 AM I was wondering if someone out there can help me with this. I am trying to monitoring a website to which I login with a username/password then from there as that user access another site that I

Re: [Nagios-users] Check behavior during the notification event

2011-01-05 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Yu Watanabe [mailto:yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com] Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2011 5:04 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Check behavior during the notification event Hello all. I would like to ask a question regarding to the

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-25 Thread Stuart Browne
Perhaps you'd like to run the plugin (as nagios) when it is erroring and show us the output? I was just about to ask the same question, when this thread appeared. I have exactly the same problem. In my case it is a Python script. The output is fine for the OK state, but missing for other

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Alexander Haas [mailto:a...@geloet.de] Subject: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin Hi list, it's me again :) I wrote a plug-in which does work great. It works from the shell as root, from the shell as nagios and from nagios executed as

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Alexander Haas [mailto:a...@geloet.de] Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin Hi Stuart, you got me on that one :) The output did in fact contain a empty new line. I did not pay very much attention to this fact because my own error

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Information in to Logfile

2010-11-08 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2010 4:16 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Status Information in to Logfile On 8 November 2010 16:45, matt.garr...@shell.com wrote: If a Service state is ok and its

Re: [Nagios-users] tim format in nagios.log

2010-10-24 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 14:11 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Subject: [Nagios-users] tim format in nagios.log how can I change time from unix time to human readable? There are a number of

Re: [Nagios-users] significant bug in 3.2.2 - nagios.cfg -- execute_service_checks=0 completely ignored

2010-10-01 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Robert Wolfe [mailto:robert.wo...@robertwolfe.org] Sent: Friday, 1 October 2010 11:38 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] significant bug in 3.2.2 - nagios.cfg -- execute_service_checks=0 completely ignored Hi all. My first post here. So

Re: [Nagios-users] Handling different states

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: sandma...@libero.it [mailto:sandma...@libero.it] Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:31 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Handling different states Hi all, I've written a plugin that looks for number of record processed. If

Re: [Nagios-users] can't get host to display in Host Detail panel

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
what's the command line that is called from nrpe when it's asked for a 'check_load' ? There should be a line similar to this in there: command[check_load]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 5,4,3 -c 8,6,4 Does this exist in the nrpe.cfg? If you run the command from your configuration as

Re: [Nagios-users] can't get host to display in Host Detail panel

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
: Unable to read output do I actually need to supply arguments at the end of the check_nrpe command? e.g., -w 5,4,3 (i've tried doing so, but to no avail) On Sep 21, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Stuart Browne wrote: what's the command line that is called from nrpe when it's asked for a 'check_load

Re: [Nagios-users] Building RPM's from provided nagios-plugins.spec

2010-07-28 Thread Stuart Browne
From: Tracy Phillips [mailto:tracy.phill...@amerinap.com] Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 13:03 Hi List! I am building RPM's (on RHEL 5.5 x86_64) from the provided nagios-plugins.spec file. The build goes well, however after the install when I try to install the RPM's I get the

Re: [Nagios-users] setting ENV for checks in commands.cfg

2010-07-07 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2010 13:01 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] setting ENV for checks in commands.cfg Hi, I need to set up my checks in command.cfg to source an ENV file before

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring for exactly 1 process on 3 hosts

2010-06-07 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] Sent: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 08:57 I need to monitor that a process is running on one of three hosts and that is not running on the other two. Is there a way to set up a service such that a check must return OK for

Re: [Nagios-users] a test for an expired pw on account?

2010-06-07 Thread Stuart Browne
As you've not said what system you're wanting to check account expirations on, it makes it a bit hard to give decent advice. On a Linux box, about the closest I can think of is to run 'passwd -S user' on every user on a box. This specific command only works for local accounts however. If in

Re: [Nagios-users] How to override a command definition?

2010-05-13 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Scot Wilcoxon [mailto:s...@wilcoxon.org] I want to make all check_http commands use a different timeout. How can I replace the check_http command without altering the original definition file? I tried redefining the command in the directory where I have

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd long URL

2010-05-10 Thread Stuart Browne
Does 'check_http' not work for you? From: ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com [mailto:ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2010 09:45 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Odd long URL Hello, After scratching my head until my head fell I have come to ask

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing

2010-04-06 Thread Stuart Browne
From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa...@gmail.com] Just installed nagiosgraph and nagios (bothe latest) . Nagios seems to be working fine. When i see Load graph, I am seeing something like 350m, 440m, 200m instead of 0.03, 0.04, 0.02. I don't know what this m is and how/why this is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing

2010-04-06 Thread Stuart Browne
Oops, wrong scale. Milli as Romain suggests. -Original Message- From: Stuart Browne [mailto:stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au] Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 09:09 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS 3: Adjusting fields which appear in the default nagios log

2010-03-17 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Morris, Patrick [mailto:patrick.mor...@hp.com] Traiano Welcome wrote: Hi All I'm sending nagios logs to a 3rd party application (Netcool) for processing, and there is a requirement for the IP address of the monitored device to appear in the ALERT and

Re: [Nagios-users] event handler script not executing

2010-03-10 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Rick Garland [mailto:rick.garl...@quantum.com] On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Rick Garland wrote: Hi Marc: In the script I have it doing a couple of arcane things for testing. I have it touch a file called 'test' and I have it echo the macro values to a

Re: [Nagios-users] Can we change the IP address of the Linux box after installing Nagios.

2010-03-08 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com I have approached my security team and they have suggested me that they can change the IP address of this Linux box and move it to a different VLan for some time period where we have internet access, so that I can install the

Re: [Nagios-users] event handler command not executing

2010-03-08 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] snip Try adding a bit at the top of the script to touch a file or something to see if it really ran and is maybe failing further into the script (i.e. because of a potential sudo restriction). exec /tmp/$(/bin/basename

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk question Nagios

2010-02-22 Thread Stuart Browne
From: akp geek [mailto:akpg...@gmail.com]   I have installed nagios on server1. Without installing NRPE on the Server2 , would it possible to use the check_disk to monitor the space on server2. Thanks for the help Investigate the 'check_by_ssh' plugin that comes with the nagios-plugins.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk question Nagios

2010-02-22 Thread Stuart Browne
From: Ennis Ibarra [mailto:en...@nmcourts.gov] From: Stuart Browne stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au From: akp geek [mailto:akpg...@gmail.com] I have installed nagios on server1. Without installing NRPE on the Server2, would it possible to use the check_disk to monitor the space

Re: [Nagios-users] Asterisk Questions

2010-02-03 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Wolfe, Robert [mailto:robert.wo...@robertwolfe.org] Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2010 01:52 Hi all! I am wanting to write a plugin that will tell Asterisk to make a test call every so often and then report back to Nagios if a call was successful or not.

Re: [Nagios-users] How to run a perl script instead of sending emails?

2010-01-24 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Mr Gabriel [mailto:gabr...@impactteachers.com] Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 09:49 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How to run a perl script instead of sending emails? Dear All, I have a perl script that connects to my

Re: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error with no output (return code: 3)

2009-10-27 Thread Stuart Browne
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Re: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error with no output (return code: 3)

2009-10-27 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Ricardo Melendez [mailto:rmelen...@utep.com.mx] Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:35 To: Stuart Browne; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error with no output (return code: 3) Hi, Stuart

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk plugin

2009-10-12 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi All When I run the check_disk plugin it only detects the first disks numbers. [r...@wsrv1 nagios]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 80 DISK WARNING - free space: / 14512 MB (50% inode=97%); /boot 58 MB (62% inode=99%); /mnt/disk 16522 MB (53% inode=99%); /mnt/dbdata 2445 MB (7%

Re: [Nagios-users] escalation for receiving only recovery events?

2009-10-04 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Justin Pryzby [mailto:just...@norchemlab.com] Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 02:50 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] escalation for receiving only recovery events? A coworker wants to receive periodic notifies for failing

Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule downtime for a host and its services

2009-09-27 Thread Stuart Browne
-Original Message- From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 22:21 On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I am using nagios3 and I'm having problem scheduling downtimes for hosts... The problem is that although I

Re: [Nagios-users] How does an NRPE daemon work with multiple Nagios servers?

2009-09-06 Thread Stuart Browne
NRPE has requests made to it by the nagios server. -Original Message- From: YungWei Chen [mailto:ywche...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 7 September 2009 11:21 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How does an NRPE daemon work with multiple Nagios servers? Hi,

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.1.0 / is_volatile

2009-05-28 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, I'm trying to get a passive-checked is_volatile service working. Currently, it accepts the passive result, changes to 'WARNING', but that's the end of it. It doesn't return back to an OK state. Service definition exploded out from templates as follows: define service {

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
The nagios Plugins has a 'check_mysql' compiled binary which does basic checks, and has plenty of built-in help to get it working. From: Eduardo Barreto [mailto:lec...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 01:55 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL Hi

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin exiting with 127 code

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
Generally, checks will run as the 'nagios' user (nagios_user in nagios.cfg). If the check needs to write to some temporary files, or is in a place where that user cannot read from, it may just be a 'Permission Denied' issue. When you run it from the command line, do you run it as the 'nagios'

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
Oh crud! Sorry. Brain wasn't awake :( -Original Message- From: Jon Angliss [mailto:j...@netdork.net] Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:31 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL On Tue, 26 May 2009 09:08:26 +1000, Stuart Browne stuart.bro