Re: [Nagios-users] Graphing solutions comparision
Am Dienstag, 31. Oktober 2006 21:20 schrieb Tedman Eng: > Hi Nagios Users, Hi Tedman > I'm attempting to categorize the various graphing solutions and need input > from people familiar with the various projects. > > >From what I can tell, the graphing add-ons are mostly divided into 2 > > schools > > of thought: > > 1. Let the standard nagios plugin decide the status, and then graph the > numbers. > (NagiosGrapher, PNP, others?) > > Nagios plugin "check_snmp -w 50" retrieves value "60%" > Nagios plugin checks 60 > 50, Alarms "Warning!" > Nagios plugin passes "60%" to be graphed (from perf data, regex of output, > etc) > Grapher inserts 60 into RRD Right. But PNP also extracts additional Informations if a Plugin produces valid Perfdata. MIN, MAX,WARNUNG and CRITICAL Valuas are also stored for further usage. > > 2. Rewrite the plugin to graph, and then decide the status based on the RRD > result. > (Apan, Oreon, others?) > > Grapher plugin "check_graph_snmp -w 50" retrieves value "60%" > Grapher inserts 60 into RRD > RRD returns "New=60, Previous=50, Avg=55" > Grapher plugin checks 55 > 50, Alarms "Warning!" > > > The advantage of solution 2 is that thresholds can be based on the RRD > calculation, which is AFAIK the only way to alarm on COUNT data types. The > disadvantage is that custom plugins need to be written, or in some cases a > check_graph wrapper. Also, check latency is increased by the amount of > time required to insert the values into the RRD file. Hmmm, i dont think its the only solution. The most traffic Plugins ( for example check_snmp_int.pl ) use temporary files to store the previous values. > Please let me know your experiences of which fits into which category, of > if I've mischaracterized any of the above. I think graphing should be done by addons and not by the plugins. The check execution time must be as short as possible. Jörg - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Status Map Images
When I look at my status maps, I see all my devices with the questionmark. I checked the FAQs and all I got was to, "The solution is to use pngtogd2 to create the GD2 images from PNGs on the machine that runs the statusmap CGI." There is a good chance this is just something I am not doing right / at all, but if there is any guidance on what I would have to do to have the images properly display, I wouldn't mind learning :)Thanks, Randall R. Saeks, ACSANetwork Administrator/Computer Support SpecialistNorthbrook / Glenview School District 30 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Another Event Handler looping question
I have set up a dummy host to force at failure using check_icmp to validate an event handle execution that sends notifications to another NMS. I have read is_volatile from another thread but since this is a failure test the service never gets executed. is_volatile is not a directive of the host definition. Is there a way to loop the execution of a event handle in this situation? Richard Aseltine - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] status map background
Has anybody tried setting like a map of the US as a background image? I am trying to actually map where my circuits are so it will be easier to tell if a specific region is having an issue. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Active checks of the service have been disabled
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 11:34 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Active checks of the service have been disabled > > When I restart Nagios some of the service checks come up with a big "P" on > them ~ "Active checks of the service have been disabled". > > > > Is there a way to set an option so that all service checks are active on a > restart? Make sure you have 'active_checks_enabled 1' in your service or template definition for the problem services. If you do, and you also have retention enabled, then the retention notes at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#retention_notes are probably relevant. -- Marc - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] nagios 2.x and ndoutils
is anyone out there using ndoutils? any major issues? i just discovered it recently, and it seems to be the solution for those of us who want to store nagios data in a database. however, the lack of documentation on the web and the fact that it isnt downloadable from the main nagios site makes me wonder about the status of this project. is it alpha? beta? -- Mike Conigliaro ProActive Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 203.239.0440 ext:317 www.getproactivenow.com - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] External Command hang segfault
Hi list I'm slowly making progress on this one, but stuck again. The problem: cmd.cgi sometimes hangs and Nagios segfaults after Schedule Downtime External Command. It dies in every version on every Linux on every processor. I did a stack trace on the hung cmd.cgi and found that it was hanging on the write to nagios.cmd. This pointed to the missing nagios process that was supposed to be at the other end of the named pipe. It had died. This used to generate a segfault in the logs but no longer does. It just dies quietly. How do I proceed from here? How do I find out why Nagios died? Since there's no segfault, there's no core file. - David Schlecht (dschl) --- The mailing list archive is found here: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Graphing solutions comparision
Hi Nagios Users, I'm attempting to categorize the various graphing solutions and need input from people familiar with the various projects. >From what I can tell, the graphing add-ons are mostly divided into 2 schools of thought: 1. Let the standard nagios plugin decide the status, and then graph the numbers. (NagiosGrapher, PNP, others?) Nagios plugin "check_snmp -w 50" retrieves value "60%" Nagios plugin checks 60 > 50, Alarms "Warning!" Nagios plugin passes "60%" to be graphed (from perf data, regex of output, etc) Grapher inserts 60 into RRD 2. Rewrite the plugin to graph, and then decide the status based on the RRD result. (Apan, Oreon, others?) Grapher plugin "check_graph_snmp -w 50" retrieves value "60%" Grapher inserts 60 into RRD RRD returns "New=60, Previous=50, Avg=55" Grapher plugin checks 55 > 50, Alarms "Warning!" The advantage of solution 2 is that thresholds can be based on the RRD calculation, which is AFAIK the only way to alarm on COUNT data types. The disadvantage is that custom plugins need to be written, or in some cases a check_graph wrapper. Also, check latency is increased by the amount of time required to insert the values into the RRD file. Please let me know your experiences of which fits into which category, of if I've mischaracterized any of the above. Thanks, Tedman - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Active checks of the service have been disabled
When I restart Nagios some of the service checks come up with a big “P” on them ~ “Active checks of the service have been disabled”. Is there a way to set an option so that all service checks are active on a restart? .. The information contained in this communication may be confidential or legally privileged and is intended only for the recipient named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or its contents is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately advise the sender and delete the original and any copies from your computer system.- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Quovadx
Hi Rusty Hall wrote: > Has anyone tried to monitor Quovadx on windows 2003 using nagios. I > have been unable to monitor the application as it sits on a linux > enviroment on a windows server. There are no OIDS to monitor for > Quovadx. I am at a bit of a loss and need to figure out a way to > monitor the application. I can monitor server health, but I have no > eyes into the application itself. Any help with this would greatly > appreciated > > > Rusty I don't know for this specific application, but there are generally several approaches you can use to tackle your problem. This application can either have a built-in support for monitoring, or not (too many cases sadly ...) You say it does not because there are no OIDs, but have you looked at WMI ? It might define a schema and a bunch of classes. Otherwise, are there any kind of maintenance, or status scripts ? If there are, you can wrap them into a check plugin. If it actually does not have any means of being monitored directly, then you can monitor it indirectly. This means: - looking for the process(es). This can be done with WMI or any simple process monitoring plugin. - looking for open ports, if it does use some (check_tcp) - looking for database accesses if it uses an external DBMS. For instance MS SQL provides counters for the number of connections - simulating web accesses if it provides a web front-end (check_http) - looking for opened files/handles - ... If one of those check is not enough, all of them should give you quite a good overview of the health of the application. Hope this gives you ideas Regards -- Thibault GENESSAY ALIADIS www.aliadis.fr Tel. +33 4 72 13 90 40 Fax +33 4 74 22 00 09 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Monitoring Quovadx
Has anyone tried to monitor Quovadx on windows 2003 using nagios. I have been unable to monitor the application as it sits on a linux enviroment on a windows server. There are no OIDS to monitor for Quovadx. I am at a bit of a loss and need to figure out a way to monitor the application. I can monitor server health, but I have no eyes into the application itself. Any help with this would greatly appreciated Rusty - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties
Hi! On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Az wrote: > > The altinity people have created a patch for the "view some, > > change none" scenario[0]. Unfortunately, what I'd need is a > > mechanism for the "view some, change a few" scenario I outlined > > above. > Is that to say that "view _all_, change some" wouldn't work for you? > That's how we're working at present, out-of-the-box. While restricting > viewing might reduce mental clutter for those concerned*, I can't see > why being able to see everything is a big deal (unless you're displaying > some super sensitive information in Nagios which is a totally different > topic). Well it's not super sensitive but when we started deploying Nagios we were very happy to not clutter the webpages for everybody (how we Nagios admins cope is another story ;)). We're currently looking into hacking cmd.cgi to a) log all issued commands with username and ip and b) do some permission checking Unfortunately b) will leave us with yet another othogonal user account type. Currently, most users have three accounts: first.last, first.last-sms, first.last-email, first.last-phone. The first account allows them to log onto the website and view stuff, the other three are used to configure the respective notification types (the first account has notifications disabled entirely). This has the advantage that not everybody that wants to see a host has to get any of the used notification types. Unfortunately, you can not easily pull apart "view" and "disable stuff" this way, hence my initial question. The Nagios permission system is a bit lacking in this respect. As far as I can tell from Ethan's presentation about 3.0, that won't change (much) with the next version. It's not like I have the perfect way to specify such fine-grained perms in my head, either. > *Our service centre can see everything, but we used service groups to > provide "rolled up" views to keep it simple for them. All our engineers > can see everything so when they spot an issue with someone elses kits > that impacts their own, they can find out what the issue is and who to > poke in the eye with a burnt stick to get it fixed. We found that trying > to hide stuff just blinkered people and made them only responsive to > their own issues ("not my server. not my problem.") which results in > poor customer service at the end of the day. While I agree with you mostly, we also offer Nagios monitoring to our customers. This is turn means that we have to seperate them in some way (it wouldn't be cool if all customers saw each other's hosts and services). This is a hard requirement that I can't move a single inch on (rather: my boss won't let me). We're now looking at seperating our own Nagios and that for the customers. That way, we'd get the "have N accounts for everybody" to be a little more manageable. For our internal stuff, we'd go the route you described (everybody seeing everything). Seeing as about 90% of what we monitor is our own stuff, that would make quite a difference. Regards, Tobias -- Never touch a burning system. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Running check_nagios by ssh
Here is a script I wrote for checking that the master is running or not and it will ENABLE/DISABLE the service checks and notifications accordingly on the slave depending on it's check results of the master. You will need to edit the variables accordingly and remove the rsync stuff as I used it to automatically turn the rsync cron ON/OFF. I run this on a cron. The use of sudo in this script is because I am running it as the nagios user and it needed it for adjusting the rsync cron, but you can remove the rsync stuff and add your own if you want it to do any additional functions beyond ENABLING/DISABLING service checks and notifs on the slave. Please keep in mind this script is rudimentary and could be streamlined alot, I just haven't gotten around to it.. -Don check_nagios_primary.sh contents: #!/bin/bash # Author: Donnell C. Lewis | 2005-09-14 |NOTE:This script was written to work with Nagios 2.x and up. # This script is covered under the GPL and can be freely distributed, re-distributed and edited, sliced # diced and throw in the fire so long as you leave the original $AUTHOR credits in place. # Props go out to Ethan Galstad who made the awesome software for which this script was written to # work with. # What is is: This script was written to be a semi-logical automatic control interface between the # primary Nagios host and the slave Nagios host, and should be set to run on a crontab. It includes all # the functions that it requires to login/reach the primary Nagios to make sure it's running it's Nagios # processes. If this script cannot ssh to the primary or should it not be able to locate a running # Nagios process on the primary it will send commands to the nagios.cmd file on the slave that will # enable "service checks" and "notifications" and disable the companion rsync script. Once this # script can once again reach the primary and finds running processes it will send commands to # nagios.cmd that will disable "service checks" and "notifications" and re-enable the companion # rsync script. # Here we set some PATH's and environment variables for script execution PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin:/usr:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin: export PATH unset USERNAME # Here we check if this script is already running and if so we die ! if [ -e "check_nagios_primary.lock" ]; then echo "check_nagios_primary.sh already running..exiting!" echo "check_nagios_primary.sh already running..exiting!" >> check_nagios_primary.log exit fi # Write a command to the Nagios command file to cause # it to process a service check result touch check_nagios_primary.lock echocmd="/bin/echo" CommandFile="/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd" # get the current date/time in seconds since UNIX epoch datetimestamp=$(date +%s) datetime=$(date) # create the command line to add to the command file cmdline="[$datetimestamp]" SVCUP="STOP_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS;" SVCDOWN="START_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS;" NOTIFON="ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;" NOTIFOFF="DISABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;" PRIMARY="89.149.155.19" #Check nagios with check_nagios plugin /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -t 90 -H $PRIMARY -C "./check_nagios -e 5 -F /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log -C /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios >> /dev/null" if [ "${?}" != 0 ] ; then echo "$datetime CRITICAL:Nagios not running, enabling service checks and notifications !" touch /usr/local/nagios/var/check_nagios_primary.log echo "$datetime CRITICAL:Nagios not running, enabling service checks and notifications !" >> check_nagios_primary.log $echocmd $cmdline $SVCDOWN >> $CommandFile $echocmd $cmdline $NOTIFON >> $CommandFile sudo crontab -u rsync -r else echo "$datetime OK:Nagios running fine mate, disabling service checks and notifications !" touch /usr/local/nagios/var/check_nagios_primary.log echo "$datetime OK:Nagios running fine mate, disabling service checks and notifications !" >> check_nagios_primary.log $echocmd $cmdline $SVCUP >> $CommandFile $echocmd $cmdline $NOTIFOFF >> $CommandFile sudo crontab -u rsync -r echo "*/5 * * * * /home/rsync/rsync.pull-nagios.sh >/dev/null 2>&1" > cron.tmp sudo crontab -u rsync cron.tmp rm -rf cron.tmp fi rm -rf check_nagios_primary.lock exit On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 18:52 -0500, Lehman, John wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to run the check_nagios command from one machine to another. > (slave to master) > > I can run the following from the command prompt on the "slave" machine: > > Note: the master I am checking is 10.130.4.80 > > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh -H 10.130.4.80 -l smadmin-sec -i > home/smadmin-sec/.ssh/id_dsa -C "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios > /var/log/nagios/status.log 5 'nagios'" > > > I get the following as a response: > > Nagios ok: located 1 process, status log updated 3 seconds ago > > > > My question is, can I use the "response" to determine whether the master > is up and if not I want the slave to take over? > > I thought this might be a simple and easy way to set up failover > > Thanks. > > > > ---
[Nagios-users] retry_check_interval to 1.5
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there a way to specify for a service to have the retry_check_interval to one and a half of the defined check_interval (default 60 thus 90 seconds? ) thanks all - -- "Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends" "Ne humanus crede" Jochen Maes http://sejo.be -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFR1xVHk9siaKv9sgRAmcsAJ9ue1tNOE9wMfxn8xjc4CIuJKNoWQCfZqWm X0l3euR/c+G9NrGit4OVrJ4= =NG9J -END PGP SIGNATURE- - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_all_disk 2 host same value
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kovács Zsolt > Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 1:04 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_all_disk 2 host same value > > Hello > > > I installed nagios2 from Debian test. > The Problem is: > If I set in the check_all_disk service at both of two hosts, the two host > show the same value. > My setting: > define service{ > host_name angyal > service_description Free space on angyal > check_command check_all_disks!40%!20% > use generic-service > } > > define service{ > host_name vedelmezo > service_description Free space on vedelmezo > check_command check_all_disks!60%!50% > use generic-service > } You don't provide enough information to completely answer your question; we need to see the check_all_disks command definition and know more about the plugin that it's using. The standard check-disk plugin is not network aware and only checks the disks on the machine it's installed/run on (how could it do otherwise without extra configuration by you). You'll probably need to install the plugin on the target machine and use check-by-ssh, NRPE, NSCA or some other helper script to run the plugin on the target machine and return the results to your Nagios machine. An alternative is to enable/configure SNMPd on the target machine and use check-snmp to check your disk space. It's a bit more work though. -- Marc - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties
Tobias Klausmann wrote: > The altinity people have created a patch for the "view some, > change none" scenario[0]. Unfortunately, what I'd need is a > mechanism for the "view some, change a few" scenario I outlined > above. Is that to say that "view _all_, change some" wouldn't work for you? That's how we're working at present, out-of-the-box. While restricting viewing might reduce mental clutter for those concerned*, I can't see why being able to see everything is a big deal (unless you're displaying some super sensitive information in Nagios which is a totally different topic). See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configcgi.html#authorized_for_all_hosts and http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configcgi.html#authorized_for_all_services. *Our service centre can see everything, but we used service groups to provide "rolled up" views to keep it simple for them. All our engineers can see everything so when they spot an issue with someone elses kits that impacts their own, they can find out what the issue is and who to poke in the eye with a burnt stick to get it fixed. We found that trying to hide stuff just blinkered people and made them only responsive to their own issues ("not my server. not my problem.") which results in poor customer service at the end of the day. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
[Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties
Hi! I've got a problem that I don't how to solve best in Nagios. I think other people have run into the same problem (I know that someone has run into a /similar/ problem). I'm running 2.5 on a mid-sized installations (~300 hosts, ~2500 services). Thing is, our projects/(host|service)groups vary wildly in who is responsible for them. Unfortunately, all these projects are also heavily intertwined in their dependencies. Say we have a web mail project A. This consists of several web servers, databases and the like. It is heavily dependent on the LDAP project B and the mail server project C. While B and C have the same group of admins, project A is managed by an entirely different group of people. As such, we have configured Nagios that the group that is responsible for project can only see the machines of project A and the "B-and-C-people" can only see B and C. Everything is peachy. Except. Sometimes, project A may look like it's broken (pages time out etc). But in reality, there's a spam attack and the project B (the LDAP infrastructure) is so slow it simply grinds to a halt. In this case it would obviously be nice if the people from project A could see that project B is slow. Yet they should not be able to change the notification options/acknowledgements etc etc of projects B or C. The altinity people have created a patch for the "view some, change none" scenario[0]. Unfortunately, what I'd need is a mechanism for the "view some, change a few" scenario I outlined above. How do others deal with this kind of problem? I'm sure we're not the only ones who've run into it. As of currently, our best guess would be to create pseudo-accounts (like john.foo and john.foo-admin) and hack the CGI(s) to only allow the commands from -admin accounts which are in the notification list (with notification options set to "n"). We already do this to let people see machines they don't mailed/paged/called about. Regards, Tobias [0] http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2006/02/a_view_some_cha.html - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null