Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Reboot Notification
On Jun 11, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Kevin Mitnikc wrote: > Marc, > > I don't think this will work for me ...reason being Nagios will do > its check, lets say every minute. If the server reboots > unexpectedly and comes up in between that check period, Nagios will > never see the reboot. I could be wrong, but is that not accurate? 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 reset to OK. > Other application will notify you as soon as the server shuts down > or reboots. Is this because its being monitored differently or > different checks are being executed. I have no idea. I presume that these applications are receiving traps from the device (and it is configured to send them) or that it's checking _very_ frequently. There's no magic 'some box just rebooted' protocol... > As a Nagios newb, it seems that Nagios has cycles of running > checks that the user defines. Yes, it does. > But I would like to try you suggestion. Will I simply add the > define command in the commands.cfg config file and then reference > that with the check_command in the hosts.cfg file? Yes. This presumes that you've configured SNMP on the target device and set the read communities to match on both sides. -- Marc -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Check not running
I have a check that never runs. The services I've defined that use it sit at the top of the scheduling queue, with their next check always within a few minutes of the last time I restarted nagios. This remains the case even if I reschedule their next check time in the web interface (while I see a line in the log file confirming that I rescheduled it, the "next check" does not update and the check is never run). The check is defined like this: command_line /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host $HOSTADDRESS$ --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ What's really weird is that if I change it to use Wolfgang Wagner's capture_plugin.pl*, then everything works as expected. I change the above to this: command_line/etc/nagios/plugins/capture_plugin.pl /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host $HOSTADDRESS$ --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ and then I am able to see the output in /tmp/camptured-plugins.log, the status updates in nagios, these checks get cycled through the scheduler queue normally, and everything is as it should be. check_snmp_byportname.pl is a script I've written that's essentially just a wrapper around the stock check_snmp. It works on its own (from the command line) as expected, and works when called with capture_plugin.pl as a wrapper. If I then remove the capture_plugin.pl part of that command definition and restart (and this is the *only* change I'm making), then this particular check goes back to not working (while everything else continues to work as normal). This is on Nagios 2.9 (I'm using the rpm provided by Dag Wieers, on CentOS 5.2). What else can I do to debug this? I thought that using capture_plugin would show me what was wrong with this check, but instead it just showed me that nothing is wrong, apparently. I'm kind of confused at this point. Sorry this is so long. I wanted to try to include as much information and observations as possible. Thanks in advance for the help, Mike * - from here: http://www.waggy.at/nagios/capture_plugin.htm -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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_http --ssl
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:58:36 -0700, wrote: >My check_http doesn't have SSL support: > >check_http: Invalid option - SSL is not available > >>From online research, I gather that I have to recompile the plugins with >the SSL option after having SSL installed on the system. > >I have the following openssl packages on the Ubuntu server: > >$ sudo aptitude search openssl: libssl-dev [..] >Yet, when re-configuring, it still does it without SSL support: > >config.status: creating po/Makefile >--with-apt-get-command: /usr/bin/apt-get > --with-ping6-command: > --with-ping-command: /bin/ping -n -U -w %d -c %d %s > --with-ipv6: yes > --with-mysql: no >--with-openssl: no > --with-gnutls: no > --enable-extra-opts: no > --with-perl: /usr/bin/perl > --enable-perl-modules: no > --with-cgiurl: /nagios/cgi-bin > --with-trusted-path: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin > >What am I missing? libssl-dev should be what you're after. -- Jonathan Angliss -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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_http --ssl
On 6/11/09 7:58 PM, p...@fhri.org wrote: > My check_http doesn't have SSL support: > > What am I missing? Try installing libssl-dev: apt-get install libssl-dev And compile with: --with-openssl Working fine for me with Debian. -- Mathieu -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] check_http --ssl
My check_http doesn't have SSL support: check_http: Invalid option - SSL is not available >From online research, I gather that I have to recompile the plugins with the SSL option after having SSL installed on the system. I have the following openssl packages on the Ubuntu server: $ sudo aptitude search openssl: p aolserver4-nsopenssl - AOLserver 4 module: module for SSL mode. p libcrypt-openssl-bignum-perl - Access OpenSSL multiprecision integer arithmetic lib p libcrypt-openssl-dsa-perl - Module which implements the DSA signature verificati p libcrypt-openssl-random-perl - Access to the OpenSSL pseudo-random number generator p libcrypt-openssl-rsa-perl - Perl module providing basic RSA functionality p libcrypt-openssl-x509-perl- Perl extension to OpenSSL's X509 API v libcurl3-openssl-dev - p libcurl4-openssl-dev - Development files and documentation for libcurl (Ope p libengine-pkcs11-openssl - OpenSSL engine for PKCS#11 modules v libopensc-openssl - p libopenssl-ruby - OpenSSL interface for Ruby p libopenssl-ruby1.8- OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.8 p libopenssl-ruby1.9- OpenSSL interface for Ruby 1.9 p libxmlsec1-openssl- Openssl engine for the XML security library i openssl - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary and related cryptog i A openssl-blacklist - list of blacklisted OpenSSL RSA keys p openssl-blacklist-extra - list of non-default blacklisted OpenSSL RSA keys p openssl-doc - Secure Socket Layer (SSL) documentation p pyopenssl-doc - transitional dummy package i python-openssl- Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library p python-openssl-dbg- Python wrapper around the OpenSSL library (debug ext p python-openssl-doc- Documentation for pyOpenSSL i python-pyopenssl - transitional dummy package v python2.4-openssl - v python2.5-openssl - Yet, when re-configuring, it still does it without SSL support: config.status: creating po/Makefile --with-apt-get-command: /usr/bin/apt-get --with-ping6-command: --with-ping-command: /bin/ping -n -U -w %d -c %d %s --with-ipv6: yes --with-mysql: no --with-openssl: no --with-gnutls: no --enable-extra-opts: no --with-perl: /usr/bin/perl --enable-perl-modules: no --with-cgiurl: /nagios/cgi-bin --with-trusted-path: /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin What am I missing? Thanks, Paul -- ea926p -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Read Only CGI Patch
All, I came across the following link recently, and it seems that the Nagios Read Only CGI patch is exactly what I need: http://eluted.net/index.php/blue/comments/read_only_cgi_patch_for_nagios_303_updated Does anyone know if this patch is compatible with Nagios version 2.9? The patches seemed to work just fine, but I received errors when running the make afterwards. If it turns out that this patch is incompatible with Nagios version 2.9, then can someone provide a link to a compatible Nagios Read Only CGI patch version? Mike -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 Reboot Notification
Marc, I don't think this will work for me ...reason being Nagios will do its check, lets say every minute. If the server reboots unexpectedly and comes up in between that check period, Nagios will never see the reboot. I could be wrong, but is that not accurate? Other application will notify you as soon as the server shuts down or reboots. Is this because its being monitored differently or different checks are being executed. As a Nagios newb, it seems that Nagios has cycles of running checks that the user defines. But I would like to try you suggestion. Will I simply add the define command in the commands.cfg config file and then reference that with the check_command in the hosts.cfg file? Thanks, Kevin M. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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 CGI and Splunk
Hello folks, Anyone got the CGI integration with Splunk working? I configured the CGI and links get generated to: http://mysplunk:8000/?q=mydevice However, Splunk just shows me its homepage, not a search for "mydevice". I have a strong feeling the problem is on the Splunk side, but would appreciate knowing if anyone has this working at all. Thanks, -- Francois Caen -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Mailing list mod please remove user...
We're seeing this (below) for this account for just about every email through the list for more than a week. Would a mod or someone remove this address from the mailing list server already? Its quite infuriating... :) A. Davis Email: ncc...@gmail.com "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan wrote: Erro ao enviar o email para "nagios-us...@lists. sourceforge. net >> Nagios Users mailinglist" A caixa postal do destinatario esta cheia. O email foi recusado The mailbox is full. The email was rejected. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Nagios Reboot Notification
Same here... we have a few machines that can reboot in less than 2 minutes and with Nagios only checking them every 5 minutes or so, some reboots can slip through the cracks. We have an "uptime" test that is critical at less than 30 minutes and warn at less than 60 seconds, plus resolution notifications enabled. So if a machine panic reboots and Nagios misses it, withing 5 minutes the uptime test will show uptime of less than 30 minutes and send an alert. A. Davis Email: ncc...@gmail.com "There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit." - Ronald Reagan Allan Clark wrote: Hi! On Jun 11, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Kevin Mitnikc wrote: Hello everybody, I'm new to the boards, so this topic might already be covered. But I'm not exactly sure how to fully search the boards. Issue at hand: I have successfully setup Nagios 3 on Ubuntu 8.10. I have a few test servers being monitored, but what I can't get working properly are when the servers reboot. I'm looking for a way to monitor when a server reboots or has an unexpected shutdown. I've tried the host-is-alive and also the ping, but the server comes up to fast. I've also tried just monitoring a service, such as the NSClient++ but Nagios doesn't notify me right away once the server reboots. How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold in the past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a way to monitor reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many people have suggested I use scripts, but I don't know how to write scripts. In past, we monitored "uptime < 5 min", there might be a contributed script or plugin. I would look, but have spotty Internet right now. Allan -- http://LinkedIn.com/in/goldfish -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Nagios Reboot Notification
On Jun 11, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Kevin Mitnikc wrote:
> How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold
> in the past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a
> way to monitor reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many
> people have suggested I use scripts, but I don't know how to write
> scripts.
>
> Any help or direction would be much appreciated!
I monitor uptime via snmp and throw a quick WARNING in the GUI if I
see it. You'll likely want to adjust the warning and add critical
thresholds if you want alerts --
define command {
command_name check_uptime
command_line $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS
$ -C -o 1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0 -l "Uptime" -u "Timeticks" -w
5:0
}
--
Marc
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Reboot Notification
Hi! On Jun 11, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Kevin Mitnikc wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm new to the boards, so this topic might already be covered. But > I'm not exactly sure how to fully search the boards. > > Issue at hand: > > I have successfully setup Nagios 3 on Ubuntu 8.10. I have a few > test servers being monitored, but what I can't get working properly > are when the servers reboot. I'm looking for a way to monitor when > a server reboots or has an unexpected shutdown. > > I've tried the host-is-alive and also the ping, but the server comes > up to fast. I've also tried just monitoring a service, such as the > NSClient++ but Nagios doesn't notify me right away once the server > reboots. > > How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold > in the past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a > way to monitor reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many > people have suggested I use scripts, but I don't know how to write > scripts. In past, we monitored "uptime < 5 min", there might be a contributed script or plugin. I would look, but have spotty Internet right now. Allan -- http://LinkedIn.com/in/goldfish -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] nagios future?
Michael Friedrich wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> Well, Merlin *is* a rewrite. It doesn't reuse any code at all from >> NDOUtils >> and it does scale a *lot* better. It replaces NDOUtils for all >> GUI-related >> activities we do at op5, and the database related parts of the GUI code >> that was previously so arcane it was impossible to debug is now rather >> straight-forward. > > And I really like the idea of it - I just need more time to get a deeper > look and also a running testbox with it. But I am pretty sure I will > catch on this in a break while developing some dns monitoring tools. > >> How can Icinga fit your needs when the underlying model is broken? >> Sorry, but I just don't get it. > > Don't get me wrong but we need to apply and change more than 1 single > Nagios-Server over here. Systems are running fine, no need to change > that meanwhile. What we need desperately simply is Oracle DB support (it > works with NDOUtils Oracle but quite unstable). > We've decided to relay on the low ressources we can provide to extend > the Oracle support by catching up on the most similar system to Nagios. > While the NDO remains BETA since 2007 and Ethan did only minor bugfixes > this project is going to die ... and the compatibility will die too if > Nagios decides to use Merlin instead of NDO - which is a good move - but > we have to decide: > > * update Nagios and everything relaying on the DB Model (we have our own > tools presenting the data from the DB) > * stay where we are and hope that nothing will fail > * search other solutions where we can contribute better and the > compatibility will remain > I think I'll sneak a peak at the changes necessary to get NagVis to support Merlin. I got the feeling when talking to the guy who did it that the biggest problem lay in understanding what the original query did before he could write one that got the same data from Merlin. If that's the case, then perhaps it'll be possible to write some sort of conversion guide mapping NDOUtils query X to Merlin query Y, both getting the dataset Z. > >> I'd prefer if Merlin can use a driver-agnostic layer. Otherwise one would >> have to add support for multiple drivers in Merlin. >> >> There's also the fact that we lack an oracle database to test against, >> so whoever adds oracle support to Merlin and Ninja will have to be >> someone else than me. > > As I remarked - I will look up and test Merlin. But meanwhile it should > be simple to install a testing stage by yourself. For different > Oracle-Queries you may catch up on the NDOUtils Oracle on nagiosforge.com > I'll sneak a peak at them. Thanks. Let me know if you need any help with getting Merlin up and running. It "works for me", but external testing is surely required in order to make sure I haven't done something that only works here. By the way, kudos to Tom Welsh who's helped me a lot in testing the latest and greatest Merlin code :-) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Nagios Reboot Notification
SNMP traps are most suitable for this purpose. From: Kevin Mitnikc [mailto:teckad...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:14 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Reboot Notification Hello everybody, I'm new to the boards, so this topic might already be covered. But I'm not exactly sure how to fully search the boards. Issue at hand: I have successfully setup Nagios 3 on Ubuntu 8.10. I have a few test servers being monitored, but what I can't get working properly are when the servers reboot. I'm looking for a way to monitor when a server reboots or has an unexpected shutdown. I've tried the host-is-alive and also the ping, but the server comes up to fast. I've also tried just monitoring a service, such as the NSClient++ but Nagios doesn't notify me right away once the server reboots. How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold in the past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a way to monitor reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many people have suggested I use scripts, but I don't know how to write scripts. Any help or direction would be much appreciated! Cheers, Kevin M. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Nagios Reboot Notification
I use an uptime script on Windows with NSClient++. I don't know the second it goes down but I'll know when it comes back up. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Kevin Mitnikc wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'm new to the boards, so this topic might already be covered. But I'm not > exactly sure how to fully search the boards. > > Issue at hand: > > I have successfully setup Nagios 3 on Ubuntu 8.10. I have a few test > servers being monitored, but what I can't get working properly are when the > servers reboot. I'm looking for a way to monitor when a server reboots or > has an unexpected shutdown. > > I've tried the host-is-alive and also the ping, but the server comes up to > fast. I've also tried just monitoring a service, such as the NSClient++ but > Nagios doesn't notify me right away once the server reboots. > > How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold in the > past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a way to monitor > reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many people have suggested I > use scripts, but I don't know how to write scripts. > > Any help or direction would be much appreciated! > > > Cheers, > > Kevin M. > -- > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial > Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > ___ > 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 > -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 Reboot Notification
Hello everybody, I'm new to the boards, so this topic might already be covered. But I'm not exactly sure how to fully search the boards. Issue at hand: I have successfully setup Nagios 3 on Ubuntu 8.10. I have a few test servers being monitored, but what I can't get working properly are when the servers reboot. I'm looking for a way to monitor when a server reboots or has an unexpected shutdown. I've tried the host-is-alive and also the ping, but the server comes up to fast. I've also tried just monitoring a service, such as the NSClient++ but Nagios doesn't notify me right away once the server reboots. How is everybody monitoring server reboots. I've used Whats Up Gold in the past, and it would notify me right away. There has to be a way to monitor reboots and get a notification of that reboot. Many people have suggested I use scripts, but I don't know how to write scripts. Any help or direction would be much appreciated! Cheers, Kevin M. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Problem with preflight check
Hi there -- I went through the motions of adding the lines in question to the nagios.cfg file. When I run the preflight check now, I am able to see all the services and hosts to be monitored. However, during the flight check the following errors appear on-screen: Checking services... Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'Current Load' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'Current Users' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'HTTP' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'PING' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'Root Partition' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Service check command 'check_ssh' specified in service 'SSH' for host 'localhost' not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'SSH' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Service check command 'check_local_swap' specified in service 'Swap Usage' for host 'localhost' not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'Swap Usage' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! Error: Contact group 'admins' specified in service 'Total Processes' for host 'localhost' is not defined anywhere! What file(s) do I need to modify now in order to get past this? Thanks. -Original Message- From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:45 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with preflight check Did you check the nagios.cfg for the cfg_file or cfg_dir directives to tell it what files to load and check ? Assaf On Thursday 11 June 2009 15:31:59 Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I copied from out Nagios 2.6 server the .cfg files, with the exception of > nagios.cfg, to our new Nagios 3.0.6 server > and placed them in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. When I run the > preflight check, I noticed that the only services > that being checked are those that are specific to the localhost. What > file(s) do I need to reconfigure in order to have > all the services on the all the hosts to be checked, and subsequently > monitored by the 3.0.6 server? Thanks. > > > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it > is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the > e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance > HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent > to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact > the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -- Assaf Flatto SSP Ops Team Linux System Administrator 169 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AE Along with a few colleagues I am doing The Three Peaks Challenge again this year to raise money for The Railway Children. Please sponsor me by making a donation online, simply click on the link below and give via your switch/credit card. Thank you. http://www.justgiving.com/londonnorththreepeaks IMPORTANT . this email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email and any attachments from your system. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belong to Select Service Partner UK Limited. Should you communicate with anyone at Select Service Partner UK Limited by email, you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence. Nothing in this email shall be taken or read as suggesting, proposing or relating to any agreement concerted practice or other practice that could infringe UK or EC competition legislation. Select Service Partner UK Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 05687183) whose registered office is at 1 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge. Surrey. KT13 0NY -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businesso
Re: [Nagios-users] disk IO for windows?
Hi All, We just started monitoring IO on our Windows servers. We measure two PerfMon counters (using the nsclient++ agent). System\File Control Operations/sec Description: File Control Operations/sec is the combined rate of file system operations that are neither reads nor writes, such as file system control requests and requests for information about device characteristics or status. This is the inverse of System: File Data Operations/sec and is measured in number of operations perf second. This counter displays the difference between the values observed in the last two samples, divided by the duration of the sample interval. System\Data Operations/sec Description: File Data Operations/ sec is the combined rate of read and write operations on all logical disks on the computer. This is the inverse of System: File Control Operations/sec. This counter displays the difference between the values observed in the last two samples, divided by the duration of the sample interval. I'm not sure what good thresholds are for these, currently we have a warning at 1 and critical at 2 on our test servers. We've had a couple of servers cross those thresholds but I don't have a good sense for what they should be yet. I've never seen any documentation regarding what a Windows box can do (in terms of IO). >From a command line they look like this: check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c CheckCounter -a "\\System\\File Data Operations/Sec" ShowAll MaxWarn=1 MaxCrit=2 Regards, -greg -Original Message- From: Curtis LaMasters [mailto:curtislamast...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 8:15 PM To: Anthony Montibello Cc: Andreas Ericsson; Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] disk IO for windows? I use Disk Idle time as an indicator. Not an original idea :( I was told to mimic the monitoring built into Windows SBS. Curtis LaMasters http://www.curtis-lamasters.com http://www.builtnetworks.com On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Anthony Montibello wrote: > That is partialy right, > > The Alt delete thing is To get to TaskManager but only on New versions > of windows does it give access to some counter names, > > The best place to go is Performance Monitor Since thats on all version > of windows since 2000 Control Panel--> Administrative Tools--> > Computer Managment--> then Performance Counter on newer systems from > Computer Management --> Reliability and performance > --> Monitoring Tools --> Performance Monitor > Once you FIND performance Monitor then click the Green + to get into > the "add counters" > Click the Checkbox to Show the Counter description then click arround > till you find what you need Look for Disks for Drive stuff, > > Tony (Author of NC_NEt) > > On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:24 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum wrote: >> > Anyone know of a plug-in or mechanism to log local disk I/O on windows? >> > >> > My nagios server is currently using check_nt to connect to windows >> > hosts via nsclient++. I was hoping perhaps COUNTER has something >> > buried within it to pull down this info. >> > >> >> There are indeed counters for that, but due to Microsoft's stupidity >> the counter-names are different depending on which base-language >> you've used for your windows servers. >> >> I don't know what they're named for english platforms (or any other >> for that matter), but you should be able to view them with that thing >> you can pop up when pressing ctrl-alt-del (task manager or whatever >> it's called). >> >> -- >> Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se >> OP5 AB www.op5.se >> Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 >> >> Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and >> terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war >> on peace. >> >> >> - >> - Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check >> out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited >> royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing >> server and web deployment. >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects >> ___ >> 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 > > > -- > Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out > the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited > royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing > server and web deployment. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects > _
Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with preflight check
Did you check the nagios.cfg for the cfg_file or cfg_dir directives to tell it what files to load and check ? Assaf On Thursday 11 June 2009 15:31:59 Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: > Hi there -- > > I copied from out Nagios 2.6 server the .cfg files, with the exception of > nagios.cfg, to our new Nagios 3.0.6 server > and placed them in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. When I run the > preflight check, I noticed that the only services > that being checked are those that are specific to the localhost. What > file(s) do I need to reconfigure in order to have > all the services on the all the hosts to be checked, and subsequently > monitored by the 3.0.6 server? Thanks. > > > > > The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it > is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the > e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance > HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent > to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact > the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -- Assaf Flatto SSP Ops Team Linux System Administrator 169 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AE Along with a few colleagues I am doing The Three Peaks Challenge again this year to raise money for The Railway Children. Please sponsor me by making a donation online, simply click on the link below and give via your switch/credit card. Thank you. http://www.justgiving.com/londonnorththreepeaks IMPORTANT . this email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email and any attachments from your system. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belong to Select Service Partner UK Limited. Should you communicate with anyone at Select Service Partner UK Limited by email, you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence. Nothing in this email shall be taken or read as suggesting, proposing or relating to any agreement concerted practice or other practice that could infringe UK or EC competition legislation. Select Service Partner UK Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 05687183) whose registered office is at 1 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge. Surrey. KT13 0NY -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Problem with preflight check
Hi there -- I copied from out Nagios 2.6 server the .cfg files, with the exception of nagios.cfg, to our new Nagios 3.0.6 server and placed them in the /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. When I run the preflight check, I noticed that the only services that being checked are those that are specific to the localhost. What file(s) do I need to reconfigure in order to have all the services on the all the hosts to be checked, and subsequently monitored by the 3.0.6 server? Thanks. The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail was sent to you in error and the e-mail contains patient information, please contact the Partners Compliance HelpLine at http://www.partners.org/complianceline . If the e-mail was sent to you in error but does not contain patient information, please contact the sender and properly dispose of the e-mail. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] nagios future?
Hi there, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > > Merlin has no table prefix. We feel that if you're managing the network > monitoring server, you have the right to demand a separate database for > it of the DBA's. table-prefixes are quite handy for things such as forums > and blogs which are sometimes hosted by home-users on free hosting sites > where each user gets full access to one database but has no possibility > to create more. I find it extremely unlikely that Nagios+Merlin will ever > be installed in an environment where that is the case. Jep, point taken. I dunno how much Ethan had the experience while coding the NDO but it seems the design was done to fit everything which could prohibit problems. More or less without regards of the known problems right know. > > Well, Merlin *is* a rewrite. It doesn't reuse any code at all from > NDOUtils > and it does scale a *lot* better. It replaces NDOUtils for all > GUI-related > activities we do at op5, and the database related parts of the GUI code > that was previously so arcane it was impossible to debug is now rather > straight-forward. And I really like the idea of it - I just need more time to get a deeper look and also a running testbox with it. But I am pretty sure I will catch on this in a break while developing some dns monitoring tools. > How can Icinga fit your needs when the underlying model is broken? > Sorry, but I just don't get it. Don't get me wrong but we need to apply and change more than 1 single Nagios-Server over here. Systems are running fine, no need to change that meanwhile. What we need desperately simply is Oracle DB support (it works with NDOUtils Oracle but quite unstable). We've decided to relay on the low ressources we can provide to extend the Oracle support by catching up on the most similar system to Nagios. While the NDO remains BETA since 2007 and Ethan did only minor bugfixes this project is going to die ... and the compatibility will die too if Nagios decides to use Merlin instead of NDO - which is a good move - but we have to decide: * update Nagios and everything relaying on the DB Model (we have our own tools presenting the data from the DB) * stay where we are and hope that nothing will fail * search other solutions where we can contribute better and the compatibility will remain The fork is really good, Ethan is awaken, community is more important and development is getting moving again. Let's see what time will bring and where we will end :-) > > Looks simple enough. Perhaps it'd be worthwhile to test the experimental > Oracle support in Kohana as well to see if we can get Merlin+Ninja up > and running fairly quickly. Assuming PHP has Oracle support (which it > does), I really don't see any issues with that here. Only compiling instead of package installs, but that shouldn't be that big problem for sysadmins. > I'd prefer if Merlin can use a driver-agnostic layer. Otherwise one would > have to add support for multiple drivers in Merlin. > > There's also the fact that we lack an oracle database to test against, > so whoever adds oracle support to Merlin and Ninja will have to be > someone else than me. As I remarked - I will look up and test Merlin. But meanwhile it should be simple to install a testing stage by yourself. For different Oracle-Queries you may catch up on the NDOUtils Oracle on nagiosforge.com Kind regards, Michael -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] nagvis requires ndoutils; how stable is ndoutils?
Rahul Nabar wrote: > I was tempted to install Nagvis but unfortunately it needs Ndoutils > which I am not using so far. > > I could install ndoutils but am afraid about breaking my production > Nagios environment. Especially because of the warning in the ndoutils > README about the code being alpha/beta quality. > > Any ndoutils users? How stable is it? Any pitfalls while installation? > > Or should I avoid ndoutils entirely? Is there any workaround to get > Nagvis working? > Starting with NagVis 1.4, NagVis supports the Merlin database format so you can use that if you can't get NDOUtils to work. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] nagvis requires ndoutils; how stable is ndoutils?
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 2:56 AM, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote: > it works. It's not the best, it has some overhead problems with MySql, > causing some taxing utilization of the cpu, but it works. Sometimes you > can fall in some indexing problems, but you can workaround them with this > sql clause: Thanks Giorgio and Marc-André. I think those comments confirm what I thought. It is somewhat unstable and unfit to push into a production environment. Nagvis did look so cool otherwise though! Support also seems sort of iffy. I was toying with using the ndo2fs backend but there is very little documentation. Besides usually Nagios questions generate a lot of responses on the list but the relative silence for my Nagvis questions seems to say that not so many users are trying it yet. -- Rahul -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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
