[Nagios-users] check_proc --metric=CPU - alternatives?

2010-08-06 Thread Sebastian Ries
Hi

I have the following Problem:

We have some Processes which are running but are idle for some time
(maybe some weeks) and the get used by a user.
While a single Process is used is should have a cpu usage varying
between 10 and 50%.
We have the problem that sometimes a process gets stuck and then is
running at 100% cpu usage.
= this is what we want to check via Nagios.

I tried to use check_procs like:
./check_procs -w 80 -c 90 --metric=CPU --command=qemu-system-x86
but this did noch catch the processes.

After some testing and searching on the internet I found out that this
is depending on how ps calculates the cpu usage:
It devides the cputime by the runtime of the process, giving the average
cup usage over the whole process time - which does not really help :-(

Does anyone know of an alternative check which gives me the cpu usage
actual of a process (or maybe the average over the last minute)?

Regards
Sebastian Ries

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[Nagios-users] Nagios Graphing

2010-08-06 Thread Robert Jackson
I'm looking to build a Nagios server running under Solaris 10 with
graphing, hopefully allowing me to view trend data in a more pleasing
format. Anyone have any ideas what is the best graphing solution for
Nagios. I know there are many, but just wanted to get a feel as to what
people think is the best option. Obviously it would have to install/run
correctly under Solaris 10 also.


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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Graphing

2010-08-06 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there --
 
I implemented pnp4nagios on our system, and it has done a great job for us. 
 
 



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I'm looking to build a Nagios server running under Solaris 10 with graphing,
hopefully allowing me to view trend data in a more pleasing format. Anyone
have any ideas what is the best graphing solution for Nagios. I know there are
many, but just wanted to get a feel as to what people think is the best option.
Obviously it would have to install/run correctly under Solaris 10 also.

Regards,

Rab.

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[Nagios-users] Required plugins to monitor PIX

2010-08-06 Thread Kiran Kumar P
Hi There,

 

Can you please provide me the plugins to monitor PIX (Cisco) CPU and Memory
usage.

 

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Re: [Nagios-users] Required plugins to monitor PIX

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Pangrazio
Check out the generic switch template that is in the config files.

here is a set of plugins that are designed for cisco devices.
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Uncategorized/Software/SNMP/Cisco-SNMP-device-monitoring/details

If you run show snmp-server oidlist on the asa it will give you the
SNMP OID you should poll for a value.  Here are the basics for CPU.

[128]   1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.2.  cpmCPUTotalPhysicalIndex
[129]   1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.3.  cpmCPUTotal5sec
[130]   1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.4.  cpmCPUTotal1min
[131]   1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109.1.1.1.1.5.  cpmCPUTotal5min

I personally use the values above and do a check_snmp on the oid to
get the results i need.

Greg Pangrazio





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 Can you please provide me the plugins to monitor PIX (Cisco) CPU and Memory
 usage.



 Regards,

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[Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

2010-08-06 Thread Joseph Devaney
I know that nagios can monitor pages for certain text on that page to verify 
that its there.  In our organization we have several monitors like this 
currently setup and they work well for us.  I want to take this operability and 
apply it to a webpage that only appears when there is a server error and have 
it kick off a script to restart a service.

This is for a website within the company.  When there are too many mysql 
connections, the site itself will not be displayed but will display a friendly 
error for us to perform a flush of the hosts.  This error doesnt occur often 
and when it does occur, it doesn't always happen when someone is awake to 
address it.  Basically what I want to happen is for nagios to monitor a website 
and if/when this error appears (I will set the check_command to look for the 
right text) nagios will execute a script to restart that service.  99% of the 
time, the site will be up and functioning as it should be, so I am not sure how 
to write this one up without giving a false positive on our monitors.

Any thoughts on how to implement this?




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Re: [Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

2010-08-06 Thread Martin Melin
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Joseph Devaney
jdeva...@blackducksoftware.com wrote:
 I know that nagios can monitor pages for certain text on that page to verify
 that its there.  In our organization we have several monitors like this
 currently setup and they work well for us.  I want to take this operability
 and apply it to a webpage that only appears when there is a server error and
 have it kick off a script to restart a service.
 This is for a website within the company.  When there are too many mysql
 connections, the site itself will not be displayed but will display a
 friendly error for us to perform a flush of the hosts.  This error doesnt
 occur often and when it does occur, it doesn't always happen when someone is
 awake to address it.  Basically what I want to happen is for nagios to
 monitor a website and if/when this error appears (I will set the
 check_command to look for the right text) nagios will execute a script to
 restart that service.  99% of the time, the site will be up and functioning
 as it should be, so I am not sure how to write this one up without giving a
 false positive on our monitors.
 Any thoughts on how to implement this?


This should be fairly simple to do with a service-specific event
handler http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html and
a check that uses check_http to look for that error message. I think
check_http has options for inverting the default check behavior (i.e.
return CRITICAL if a string is found) but otherwise you can use negate
to accomplish the same thing.

I may not be understanding your question fully though - how would you
risk creating a false positive here? Do you want to restart the
service every time the error message appears on the internal webpage,
or do you also want to check if the site is down before restarting?

Best regards
Martin Melin

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Re: [Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

2010-08-06 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We've had a lot of luck with check_http with the params -u and -s
-u points to the particular path on the web server and -s is the
return string it expects.

And then there's the hacky way of doing it; wget the page and
search for presence/absence of a particular string

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Joseph Devaney
jdeva...@blackducksoftware.com wrote:
 I know that nagios can monitor pages for certain text on that page to verify
 that its there.  In our organization we have several monitors like this
 currently setup and they work well for us.  I want to take this operability
 and apply it to a webpage that only appears when there is a server error and
 have it kick off a script to restart a service.
 This is for a website within the company.  When there are too many mysql
 connections, the site itself will not be displayed but will display a
 friendly error for us to perform a flush of the hosts.  This error doesnt
 occur often and when it does occur, it doesn't always happen when someone is
 awake to address it.  Basically what I want to happen is for nagios to
 monitor a website and if/when this error appears (I will set the
 check_command to look for the right text) nagios will execute a script to
 restart that service.  99% of the time, the site will be up and functioning
 as it should be, so I am not sure how to write this one up without giving a
 false positive on our monitors.
 Any thoughts on how to implement this?



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[Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Dombrowski, Neil
I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on
client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk
capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me
how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?
Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to
all systems I want to monitor? I would much appreciate it if someone could
send me a link to the right document for this.
Thanks,
Neil





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[Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks - active checks

2010-08-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi All,

I'm having a bit of a problem with my nagios setup. I'm trying to move  
toward passive checks, with failover being a active check. For now, my  
failover check command is just a one liner that returns critical with  
a message.

I'm it's looking like the active check is being run, even when I see  
the corresponding passive check coming in. I suspect it may be in my  
configs somewhere, but I'm not sure what is wrong yet.

The big kicker of this, is it's not all of my checks. Only some of  
them. They all have different freshness thresholds, but that doesn't  
seem to be common. Their configs are the same, but in a different  
order, and that doesn't seem like the problem either as it's affecting  
some of one, and not of the other.

Any thoughts of what I may be doing wrong?

Charlie

---


Nagios Version: 3.2.0

I have a service template definition that looks like this.
define service{
 namepassive-service
 check_freshness 1
 active_checks_enabled   0
 passive_checks_enabled  1
 parallelize_check   1
 obsess_over_service 0
 notifications_enabled   0
 event_handler_enabled   0
 flap_detection_enabled  0
 failure_prediction_enabled  0
 process_perf_data   1
 retain_status_information   1
 retain_nonstatus_information1
 is_volatile 0
 check_period24x7
 max_check_attempts  1
 contact_groups  admins
 notification_optionsw,c,r
 notification_interval   60
 notification_period 24x7
 register0
 }

And then I have a services defined like so.
# Free Memory Check
define service{
 use passive-service
 service_description Passive Memory Check
 check_command   check_stale
 hostgroups  passive
 freshness_threshold 3600
 }

My active checks are defined with.
# alert on staledefine command{command_name 
check_stale
 command_line$USER1$/check_dummy 2 Check is  
stale, please run manually
 }

On my host, I use cron jobs to run things like this. I use  
nsca_wrapper to send my check results to the central nagios server.
# Check Free Memory
*/15 * * * * root /usr/local/nagios/libexec/nsca_wrapper.sh -H  
server.name -S 'Passive Memory Check' -C '/usr/local/nagios/libexec/ 
check_memory -w 10 -c 5'   /dev/null



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Re: [Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew J. Salerno
Or just use an event handler.  Check out the examples in the below link.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html



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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

We've had a lot of luck with check_http with the params -u and -s
-u points to the particular path on the web server and -s is the
return string it expects.

And then there's the hacky way of doing it; wget the page and
search for presence/absence of a particular string

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM, Joseph Devaney
jdeva...@blackducksoftware.com wrote:
 I know that nagios can monitor pages for certain text on that page to verify
 that its there.  In our organization we have several monitors like this
 currently setup and they work well for us.  I want to take this operability
 and apply it to a webpage that only appears when there is a server error and
 have it kick off a script to restart a service.
 This is for a website within the company.  When there are too many mysql
 connections, the site itself will not be displayed but will display a
 friendly error for us to perform a flush of the hosts.  This error doesnt
 occur often and when it does occur, it doesn't always happen when someone is
 awake to address it.  Basically what I want to happen is for nagios to
 monitor a website and if/when this error appears (I will set the
 check_command to look for the right text) nagios will execute a script to
 restart that service.  99% of the time, the site will be up and functioning
 as it should be, so I am not sure how to write this one up without giving a
 false positive on our monitors.
 Any thoughts on how to implement this?



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Re: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Martin Melin
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Dombrowski, Neil neil.dombrow...@hp.com wrote:
 I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on

 client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk

 capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me

 how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?

 Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to

 all systems I want to monitor? I would much appreciate it if someone could

 send me a link to the right document for this.

NRPE is what you want: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nrpe/NRPE.pdf

NRPE and the nagios-plugins package + any custom plugins you want to
use is usually what you want distributed to your monitored hosts.

Best regards
Martin Melin


 Thanks,

     Neil


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Re: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Greg Pangrazio
Niel,

You can do this many ways.  It might be a good idea for you to start
with some background info and such.  I have really had good luck with
James Turnbull's Pro Nagios 2.0 book as well as Building a
Monitoring Infrastructure with Nagios by David Josephsen.

These books both help with deciding the trade offs between check by
ssh, nrpe, snmp etc.

Greg Pangrazio





On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Dombrowski, Neil
neil.dombrow...@hp.com wrote:
 I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on

 client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk

 capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me

 how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?

 Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to

 all systems I want to monitor? I would much appreciate it if someone could

 send me a link to the right document for this.

 Thanks,

     Neil

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Re: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Charlie Reddington


On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Dombrowski, Neil wrote:

I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring  
ssh on


client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check  
disk


capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear  
to me


how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh  
or nrpe?


You can do either. I have been using check_by_ssh because I didn't  
want to open a new port on my client machines, and they are all  
running sshd on them. But this does not scale very well. We have a 2  
core server, and about 300 hosts, and 1500 checks, and it's loaded the  
host down pretty bad.


If I was to stay doing active checks, I would do NRPE as I have done  
in the past. It scales much better.
Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and  
distribute it to


all systems I want to monitor?

You'll want to get the nrpe plugin along with the plugin checks. We  
usually just push the files to the systems, compile, install, and then  
put our configs in place. A smart bash script can automate most of the  
install for you.

I would much appreciate it if someone could

send me a link to the right document for this.

The basics you'll need are to define another host. Define services.  
Define commands for those services. Add the host to those services. On  
the client, install and configure nrpe. Install the plugins you want  
to use. And then open up firewalls for these new services.


Sorry I can't find the link I used to use when I first started out  
with nagios.





Thanks,

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[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys...

I setting up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that.
I setting up some host to get passive checks too.
On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication
to a Windows 2003 host.
The NC_NET tool is install on same machine.
I setting NC_NET to send data at each one minuto to my Nagios Server.

The problem here is that I can't get freshness to work...
When the NC_NET send data, the appear on Nagios Web Interface.
This take about 1 minutes...
But, when NC_NET don't send nothing and ncsa don't send nothing to
nagios too, the check_command running whitout wait the
freshness_threshold parameter!!!
Why... 
It's not to wait the time set on freshness_threshold???


I setting the cfg for a service like this:

define service {
host_name   HOSTNAME
service_description Free-Space-C
check_command   no_return
is_volatile 1
max_check_attempts  5
check_interval  1
retry_interval  1
passive_checks_enabled  1
check_period24x7
obsess_over_service 1
check_freshness 1
freshness_threshold 900
event_handler   notify-host-by-email
event_handler_enabled   1
flap_detection_enabled  0
process_perf_data   0
retain_status_information   0
retain_nonstatus_information0
notification_interval   120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsw,c,s
notifications_enabled   1
contactsAdministrators
contact_groups  admins
register1

}

Thanks for any help!



Gilberto Nunes
TI
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Re: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Matthew J. Salerno
SNMP is another options.  I am a big fan of agentless monitoring!







From: Dombrowski, Neil neil.dombrow...@hp.com
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Fri, August 6, 2010 11:59:21 AM
Subject: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, 
disk

setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk 
I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on
client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk
capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me
how to do this in the documentation. Do I need to use check_by_ssh or nrpe?
Is there a way to package up part of the nagios install and distribute it to
all systems I want to monitor? I would much appreciate it if someone could
send me a link to the right document for this.
Thanks,
Neil


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[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys...

I set up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that.
I set up some host to get passive checks too.
On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication
to a Windows 2003 host.
The NC_NET tool is install on same machine.
I setting NC_NET to send data at each one minuto to my Nagios Server.

The problem here is that I can't get freshness to work...
When the NC_NET send data, the appear on Nagios Web Interface.
This take about 1 minutes...
But, when NC_NET don't send nothing and ncsa don't send nothing to
nagios too, the check_command running whitout wait the
freshness_threshold parameter!!!
Why... 
It's not to wait the time set on freshness_threshold???


I set up the cfg for a service like this:

define service {
host_name   HOSTNAME
service_description Free-Space-C
check_command   no_return
is_volatile 1
max_check_attempts  5
check_interval  1
retry_interval  1
passive_checks_enabled  1
check_period24x7
obsess_over_service 1
check_freshness 1
freshness_threshold 900
event_handler   notify-host-by-email
event_handler_enabled   1
flap_detection_enabled  0
process_perf_data   0
retain_status_information   0
retain_nonstatus_information0
notification_interval   120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsw,c,s
notifications_enabled   1
contactsAdministrators
contact_groups  admins
register1

}

Thanks for any help!

P.S. - I sent the message again 'cause my English is very poor... I hope 
somebody can help...

Gilberto Nunes
TI
Selbetti Gestão de Documentos
Telefone: +55 (47) 3441-6004
Celular: +55 (47) 8861-6672





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[Nagios-users] Status.cgi layout

2010-08-06 Thread gregborbonus
Hi, 

I know that you can do a pattern match for hostnames and such, but is there a 
way to do that for hostgroups?

IE: status.cgi?hostgroup=blah*style=overview

I looked through the code and did not see anything I'd recognize.

I'm not a c dev, so I could have overlooked it.

Thanks 
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[Nagios-users] Passive Freshness checks

2010-08-06 Thread Gilberto Nunes
Hi guys...

I set up a Nagios 3 here.. I'm using Debian Lenny for that.
I put some host to get passive checks too.
On remote host I'm using NC_NET package that provide WMI communication
to a Windows 2003 host.
The NC_NET tool is installed in the same machine.
I set up the NC_NET to send data at each one minute to my Nagios Server.

The problem here is that I can't get freshness to work...
When the NC_NET send data, appears on Nagios Web Interface.
It is take about 1 minutes...
But, when NC_NET don't sent nothing and ncsa don't send nothing to
nagios too, the check_command running without wait the
freshness_threshold parameter!!!
Why???
It's not to wait the time set on freshness_threshold???


I set up the cfg for a service like this:

define service {
host_name   HOSTNAME
service_description Free-Space-C
check_command   no_return
is_volatile 1
max_check_attempts  5
check_interval  1
retry_interval  1
passive_checks_enabled  1
check_period24x7
obsess_over_service 1
check_freshness 1
freshness_threshold 900
event_handler   notify-host-by-email
event_handler_enabled   1
flap_detection_enabled  0
process_perf_data   0
retain_status_information   0
retain_nonstatus_information0
notification_interval   120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsw,c,s
notifications_enabled   1
contactsAdministrators
contact_groups  admins
register1

}

Thanks for any help!

P.S. - I sent the message again 'cause my English is very poor... I hope 
somebody can help...

Gilberto Nunes
TI
Selbetti Gestão de Documentos
Telefone: +55 (47) 3441-6004
Celular: +55 (47) 8861-6672






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