I've built a few checks that monitor say 5 partitions or ping 5 ip addresses
and will report back if one or more are down. results line says 1 is ok, 2 is
ok, 3 is down,,, etc.
Is that what you are looking for?
I could send the check to you on Tues when I am back in work
Date: Sat, 31 Aug
You could create a separate contact for each admin and then add a line in each
service definition for a contact / contact_group:
contacts contact name
contact_groups contact group name
Steve
: sandeepvre...@outlook.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 17 Jul
try this
create index.html file under http root directory.
#cd /var/www/html
#touch index.html
Restart web services.
#service httpd restart
Now restart you nagios services.
#/etc/init.d/nagios restart
HTTP OK HTTP/1.1 200 OK - 265 bytes in 0.004 seconds.
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 19:22:38
Running Nagios 3.2 for a while but never got the histogram statusmaps
configured, get the 404 error as none of the cfg files are there. Since I want
to upgrade to 3.5, once I have all my libraries installed, and do the upgrade
will the needed cfg files install or do I still have to run the
Hello All,
Think I am missing something obvious here. Running core 3.2 and an trying to
add a user to the web console. I only want this user to have rights to the
hosts that he is a contact for.
I have a host group called broadband which has no services associated with it .
I am only using
Just posting that I figured out my issue. I had the broadband contact group
still listed as a contact in the linux-server template from when I orig set
this up. I am using a separate host template entry for the broadband check.
Once I removed the broadband contact from the linux-server host
hows your space on the server?
Steve
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:47:02 -0600
From: uce_m...@yahoo.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Log rotation issues...
For some reason the loggin with nagios has stopped rotating. I have
changed my setting to rotate
You could probably set up a time period object with a series of exclusion
dates. Have the check(s) run every day except the days you dont want to run.
Or you could, just before the holiday in question, put the check into scheduled
down time. That could be time consumong depending on how
Hola friend.
despite the circumstances I stayed positive this came at perfect timing for me
this showed that money is power I just had to share it with you
http://leosta.home.pl/JustinMurphy11.html
see you
We have been running a check_http to our website and just today it started
alerting. I fixed it but was looking for an explanation of why it failed.
The check was check_http -L www.somesite.com -c 30 -w 15, which was running
with no problem. Today we switched over content to Akamai and as
Thanks Patrick for the info
So technically, since I never specified a host with -H in the check, it was
working almost by accident I guess.
Appreciate the feedback
Steve
Good Morning All,
1st off, please don't laugh at me, we do EVERYTHING the hard way here.
I am in need to check 600 + remote Cisco routers for their primary port
secondary port. I am running Nagios Core in a distributed environment, 600 +
locations. Each location running a Nagios dist
Appreciate the support for this problem. Got it fixed and wanted to put the
info here hoping it helps someone in the future.
Problem was a missing double quote from the notify-service-by-email command.
I could see the Notification being generated in nagios.log but thats all.
From the
Running nagios Core on SUSE linux 11. Nothing changed
at LEAST to Nagios, and everything was working fine. Had an
alert happen but never got an email for the alert.
Verified in nagios.log, the notification was created but nothing ever shows
up in /var/log/mail. Last time I show
h I COULD stand to lose a few lbs. you didnt see anything there for
Viagra tablets did you ;)
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 14:01:25 -0400
From: erek...@digiraticonsulting.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] wiki spam?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
I am working on a pretty large distributed Nagios core deployment and have a
question regarding resources.
It appears that almost every morning @ about 7:20 am, my cpu usage goes from
about 4% to about 25-40% . It will do this for a few hours and then go back to
4%.
It appears to me that
I have a check that checks the size of multiple partitions and we recently
added some data that surpassed the threshold value and I have over 100 clients
alerting. There is nothing I can do about the space issue, it will go back to
normal in a few weeks.
Is it possible to acknowledge all 100
a Service
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
I am just starting to deploy my production nagios core environment and have a
question on wwwrun nagios.
I have a distributed environment, 12 remote sites ( so far) each with 6-10
local hosts , one of which is the nagios distributed server.
On my Nagios core server, I am looking at resources
I am trying to simplify my admin work for a large deployment we are doing right
now of Nagios 3.2 Core in a SuSE Linux environment
I have multiple hostgroups set up and wanted to use a wildcard in the member
name since all of the devices that will be in a hostgroup are named the same
except
Gonna answer my own question. looks like if I do
.sa
it works.
Thanks,
Steve
From: a31mod...@hotmail.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:36:18 -0400
Subject: [Nagios-users] A question on using a wildcard in a hostgroup.cfg
file
I am trying
I have a small test Nagios 3.2 environment on a Suse platform ( 11 10 boxes
)and was wondering about the encryption methods used.
I am working fine with no encryption configured on host or central server. I am
getting all of the checks on the console. Once I set it to any value other
than 0
I am trying to send a test job to my nagios server from a monitored client
using send_nsca. I am running suse linux 10 on both client nagios server.
Currently, everything is working correctly from within nagios using send_nsca
as I am set up as distributed environment. I am now in the
: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 10:09 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] A question on using send_nsca
I am trying to send a test job to my nagios server from a monitored client
using send_nsca. I am running suse linux 10
hello David,
Not saying its the best way but I have a separate file in my objects dir called
servicegroup.cfg where I set up as follows :
define servicegroup{
servicegroup_name Legacy Checks
alias Store Legacy Checks
}
then in my services.cfg file, I have a line
We use SMS for Windows distributions and in our Linux world, we use Stratacache
Omnicast.
We deploy almost daily to 1000's of Linux boxes using Omnicast with almost
100% success. Best sw delivery method I have ever used.
Steve
From: ntou...@hotmail.com
To:
Hello All,
Has anyone integrated Nagios with BMC Remedy for ticket creation?
I am looking at ARCPerl for this since our Remedy infrastructure is not set up
to receive e-mails.
Has anyone tried this? Any info / horror stories would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve
I stumbled upon the answer to my issue for a custom status page.
What I was doing wrong was I created in the servicegroups.cfg file with a line
called members
members HOSTNAME1,check_1, check_2,
check_3,check_4,check_5,HOSTNAME2, SAME 5 CHECKS AS HOST
So far everything has been working fine in my test distributed environment.
Getting ready to go live with it as soon as a new server is build for the
central server.
On my distributed set up however.
In /var/log/nagios/nagios.log, I see 2 entries for every check as shown below.
Are
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, 2011 3:51 PM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users
Hello All,
I have say 20 hosts that among their checks they each run the same 5 checks on
a SCO Unix machine at their location via an rsh script. For example, I rsh to
the sco box, do a sar on it and report the results back and determine if the
cpu on the sco box is high. These check reports
I assume you want
check_procs -w ( warning value ) -c ( critical value ) -C ( NAME OF PROCESS
TO CHECK)
do check_procs --help to see all of the options
From: s...@247emaildata.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:58:46 +
Subject: [Nagios-users]
BR,
Try setting your service notification setting as follows to allow notification
of only critical when you define your service :
notification_option c
Steve
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 14:41:32 +0100
From: luc.maig...@winxpert.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject:
You could do it for individual contacts then put those contacts into a
contact group
define contact{
service_notification_options[w,u,c,r,f,s,n]
service_notification_options:
This directive is used to define the service states for which
notifications can be sent out to this contact.
You could set up a Nagios Escalation Notification AKA The Throw you Under
the Bus Notification where a secondary group ( tertiary, quaternary,
quinary, senary, septenary, octonary, nonary, etc ) of people ( techs,
managers, etc ) get notified if an alert has not been addressed for x
?
From: steve f
[mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 10:41 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning Alerts
You could set up a Nagios
Escalation Notification AKA The Throw you Under the Bus
Notification where a secondary group
Most
plugins time out after 10 seconds of not being able to contact a
service (FTP, HTTP, etc). If the plugins are timing out after a short
period of time, increase the timeout value for the plugin using the
appropriate command line argument for that plugin. Try using a -t 12.
I think that
Is it possible to create a unique email notification for a serviceescalation ?
I defined my serviceescalation and the contact group and verified after the set
number of first_notification, my escalation group got the email notification of
the alert.
What I want to do, is send a unique email
FYI
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-printers.html
This document describes how you can monitor the status of networked
printers. Specifically, HP printers that have internal/external
JetDirect cards/devices, or other print servers (like the Troy
PocketPro 100S or the
If the error you are talking about is the too few options , then the problem
appears to be that you did not include a -P for the port did not include a
critical and warning values
[r...@nagiosxi services]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_akcp.pl -H
192.168.3.2
Too few options!
Steve
The 5 ping value is written in the check as the default value. If you do not
add any -p value, it pings the host 5x. Just like if you do not add a -t value
for a timeout for a check, it defaults to 10 seconds.
You can look at the source code for the check_ping here :
Thanks very much for the replies. This is the answer I was looking for with
the external commands. After reading my orig posting, I did realize I didnt
want to ack it but schedule/reschedule the check.
Your answers will put me where I need to be.
Thanks Jim Joerg
Happy New Years All
Mark,
I think Salvatore means run the check manually from the command line , make
sure you run it as the nagios user and try setting tha warning critical
values to something that will make it fail also:
/usr/local/nagios/libexec ./check_disk -w 50 -c 70 -p /home
DISK OK - free space: /home
if you have not yet picked it up, I would recommend getting Learning Nagios 3.0
( assuming you are using 3.0 ) by Wojciech Kocjan. Has clarified alot ( but not
all ) questions I have.
Steve
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 09:15:01 -0500
From: chrishud...@gmail.com
To:
Hello All,
I have the following script created to check free space on a remote legacy box
via rsh.
used=`sudo rsh $1 df -v |grep starlite6 | head -1 | awk '{print $4}'`
free=`sudo rsh $1 df -v |grep starlite6 | head -1 | awk '{print $5}'`
full=`echo $(($used+$free))`
percent=`echo
Spent some more time with it now getting a little closer
I added this to my script on the dist server running the check:
CLOCK=`date +%s`
HOST=$1
SVC=Starlite Size
STATUS=$3
OUTPUT=$4
Changed the following lines
exit 0 toSTATUS=0
exit 1 toSTATUS=1
exit 2 to
I am building a package to send out to 500 locations to set up a distributed
Nagios 3.2 environment.
I have scripts written that when the nagios package is dropped in a location,
the script creates a hosts.cfg a hostgroup.cfg file on the remote distributed
server for the hosts he will
I have a need to check about 10 server partitions on 1200 servers in a
distributed Nagios environment. Down the road, I would probably use event
handlers to correct known space issues for certain partitions.
My question is is it significantly more efficient to check all of the
partitions in
Gonna take a stab at this for you. Newer Nagios guy here as well. Here is a
basic start
You use a hostgroup.cfg file to create a group
i.e
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name Remote_Hosts
alias Remote Hosts
members
I was hoping to find some more detailed info on setting up nsca for distributed
server config. Anyone know of some documentation besides whats in the Nagios
3.x docs, either on line or book ? I just seem to be missing the connection
between the send_nsca plugin and the actual plugin running
Thanks for your help with this.
I commented out the sshd.conf section calling for a banner resent the
following successfully:
/usr/local/nagios/libexec ./check_by_ssh -H 10.X.XXX.XXX -C
'/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 5.0 -c 10.0'
OK - load average: 0.12, 0.15,
Hello All,
have been banging my head against the wall trying to get check_by_ssh to work.
No matter what I try to do, I keep getting Remote command execution failed: .
I have verified that I can ssh to the remote pc from the server as both root
the nagios user with no problem or password
Thanks for the reply, yes I have tried it with both ip name with the same
results.
I assume that the command line check should work as I have written it here
correct?
/usr/local/nagios/libexec ./check_by_ssh -H 172.xx.xx.xx -C
'/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 8' -l nagios -2
yes running the check on the client works fine :
/usr/local/nagios/libexec ./check_users -w 5 -c 8
USERS OK - 1 users currently logged in |users=1;5;8;0
I am beginning to think it has to be something really stupid...
Thanks,
Steve
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:52:06 -0500
From:
I also tried this as well from the server , which does work
ssh 172.xx.xx.xx /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 8
Authorized users only.
USERS OK - 0 users currently logged in |users=0;5;8;0
This tells me that
1. ssh as Nagios works
2. the check_users script runs on the
If I remember, that line is in the sshd.config for the auth users banner. I
should be able to comment it out to test it.
Didn't think about that... I'll dial in when I get home try it..
Thanks Benny for the info,
Steve
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:22:35 -0500
From: be...@bennyvision.com
In my environment, I have over 400 remote locations, each with 2 servers 15
linux clients. I have set up a Nagios 3 host server here at corporate running
NRPE to monitor the servers at each location. I also want to monitor the 15
linux clients at each location, I wanted to have one of the
So I am installing the Nagios NRPE addon on a SuSE 8 server. When I try to do
the nagios-plugins-1.4.14 configure, I error out every time for missing
pg_config_manual.h
If I am not running pgsql on the box, is there a way to get the plugins
compiled? I know I can do the config with the
, steve f wrote:
So I am installing the Nagios NRPE addon on a SuSE 8 server. When I
try to do the nagios-plugins-1.4.14 configure, I error out every time
for missing pg_config_manual.h
If I am not running pgsql on the box, is there a way to get the plugins
compiled? I know I can do
Have you verified that the server Nagios is running on can send a test email
from the command line?
Steve
From: navee...@philips.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:55:07 +0200
Subject: [Nagios-users] Regarding receiving the mail from Nagios
Dear
Hello All,
I am currently looking for an alternative to using Tivoli , TEC postemsg for
a rather large ( 6000 + ) remote environment.
I have had great success with Nagios in my small local/remote test environment
and the obvious cost savings without having TEC anymore is huge.
Can I use the
If you open it as a new page, it will only show the tac screen. you can use the
url as your path to the screen.
Steve
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 08:49:37 -0500
From: lflac...@cps.k12.il.us
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] (no subject)
Good Day every one,
I
I have a need to verify that vendor urls for my company do not change. Since we
only allow our locations to see approved urls, this is important.
I was hoping there was some way I could use a macro to do the check_http and
have all of the urls for the sites listed as the macro contents .
Hey Fritz,
Maybe this is the issue ?
Steve F.
http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg18874.html
You are specifying 'Sticky Acknowledgement'.
Command Description
This command is used to acknowledge a service problem. When a service
problem is acknowledged
Are you referring to the main page for the Nagios web console?
I have modified both the main page the side bar by editing either side.php or
main.php
Steve
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 15:17:43 +0100
From: werty...@gmail.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users]
I have been building a sandbox to set up Nagios 3.2.0 and so far everything
has been fine. I am using the nagios-plugins-1.4.13 with Nagios 3.
A large number of the clients we need to monitor ( about 1200 ) are running
SuSE SLES-8 (i386)
VERSION = 8.1
I was trying to set up one of these
Hello,
We have IBM TEC ( Tivoli Enterprise Console) for alot of our current monitoring.
Does anyone have any experience / history integrating Nagios with IBM TEC?
We use postd messages to get the info from the clients back to TEC. Can Nagios
read the postd messages? I guess I could somehow
Hello Happy New Year,
Is it possible to have Nagios notify me of a service problem once an hour AND
tell me how many times it alerted during that hour time frame?
For example, if I run a plugin, I don't necessarily want to have a notification
every time the threshold was met but after 1
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