Re: [Nagios-users] Nrpe and Windows
Folks, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give check_wmi_plus consideration. It's disappointing that nrpe is failing like this though. I'm only checking local disk usage using check_pdm.exe for the c: drive at the moment. We wouldn't be able to work with NRPE like this as once we have production systems up and running nrpe (or whatever we decide to use) needs to reliable. Regards, Deborah -Original Message- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2011 15:51 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nrpe and Windows Folks, Nagios 3.2.0 is running on SLES 10 SP 1 NRPE running on Windows It all seems to work fine for a while (10 mins) and then I start seeing socket timeout errors. The only way to fix this is to restart the nrpe service on the node that is being monitored. Has anyone else had this this happen and if so, what was the solution to this sort of problem ? The problem is not 'standard' so to speak; check your windows server eventlog (e.g,)( Is nrpe the best way to monitor windows boxes or should I consider other options out there ? You may consider agent less monitoring, I have been using it for a while, google on check_wmi_plus M. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ 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 Complimentary Events and Webinars on In-Memory, Massively Parallel Processing and 'In the Cloud' - for more information click here This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail immediately. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio endeavours to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we cannot guarantee that any e-mail or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] Nrpe and Windows
Hello, Which version of NRPE are you using? NSClient++ is a fairly stable NRPE/NSCA/* client/server for Windows and Linux... // Michael Medin Deborah Martin skrev 2011-09-23 14:19: Folks, Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give check_wmi_plus consideration. It's disappointing that nrpe is failing like this though. I'm only checking local disk usage using check_pdm.exe for the c: drive at the moment. We wouldn't be able to work with NRPE like this as once we have production systems up and running nrpe (or whatever we decide to use) needs to reliable. Regards, Deborah -Original Message- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] Sent: 22 September 2011 15:51 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nrpe and Windows Folks, Nagios 3.2.0 is running on SLES 10 SP 1 NRPE running on Windows It all seems to work fine for a while (10 mins) and then I start seeing socket timeout errors. The only way to fix this is to restart the nrpe service on the node that is being monitored. Has anyone else had this this happen and if so, what was the solution to this sort of problem ? The problem is not 'standard' so to speak; check your windows server eventlog (e.g,)( Is nrpe the best way to monitor windows boxes or should I consider other options out there ? You may consider agent less monitoring, I have been using it for a while, google on check_wmi_plus M. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ 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 Complimentary Events and Webinars on In-Memory, Massively Parallel Processing and 'In the Cloud' - for more information click here This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete this e-mail immediately. Any unauthorised distribution or copying is strictly prohibited. Whilst Kognitio endeavours to prevent the transmission of viruses via e-mail, we cannot guarantee that any e-mail or attachment is free from computer viruses and you are strongly advised to undertake your own anti-virus precautions. Kognitio grants no warranties regarding performance, use or quality of any e-mail or attachment and undertakes no liability for loss or damage, howsoever caused -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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 -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] Service Availability Report Question
I have a question about the Service Availability Report in Nagios 3.2.3 to which I can't find an answer in any documentation: Under the Service State Breakdowns there is a colored horizontal bar which dotted lines and colored segments. The colored segments represent the duration of the corresponding state changes over the specified time period. What do the dotted lines represent? Most of the time they appear at the beginning of colored, non-OK state segment, but I see some that appear alone. Thanks, Paul Dubuc -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] Nrpe and Windows
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give check_wmi_plus consideration. It's disappointing that nrpe is failing like this though. I'm only checking local disk usage using check_pdm.exe for the c: drive at the moment. What's the advantage of check_pdm.exe? We use NSClient++ and check_nrpe to check a bunch of Windows server and it's working without any issues. Regards -- Axel Rosenski - Administration - __ Wave Computersysteme GmbH Philipp-Reis-Str. 1-3 / 9 35440 Linden Geschäftsführer: Carsten Kellmann Registergericht Gießen HRB 1823 Tel.: +49 (0)6403 / 9050 8317 Fax: +49 (0)6403 / 9050 5089 mailto:rosen...@wave-computer.de http://www.wave-computer.de -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] How to configure MySQL password for check_mysql via NRPE?
Hello nagios-users!
I inherited a Linux box (latest Debian stable, aka Squeeze) with a MySQL
database and a Nagios NRPE. Now I'd like to check MySQL status with NRPE. I
configured /etc/nagios/nrpe_local.cfg with the following line:
command[check_mysql]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql
so that this command is available to NRPE. Then I configured the following
check on my separate Nagios server:
define service{
use web-check-alert # use some template
configuration
host_name ... # check my MySQL host
check_command check_nrpe!-c check_mysql # check the MySQL via
command check_mysql
}
Sadly, I get a critical alert for this service with the following message:
Access denied for user nagios@localhost (using password: NO)
The NRPE daemon runs under user nagios -- as you might have guessed.
According to /etc/passwd, the login shell for this user is /bin/false, and the
home directory is /var/lib/nagios. I tried to add a file .my.cnf there:
root@myhost:~# ls -la /var/lib/nagios/.my.cnf
-rw--- 1 nagios nagios 40 21. Sep 17:37 /var/lib/nagios/.my.cnf
This file contains the necessary bits to connect to the local MySQL database.
The login information are correct, I checked exactly the same file with my user
account on the server. So, this file seems not to be picked up.
I am lost here. What am I doing wrong? How must I configure Nagios/NRPE to get
a working connection to the MySQL database?
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Christoph Grothaus
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[Nagios-users] Suggestions for checking DHCP Scopes
Hello, We are running Nagios, Ndoutils and PnP4 in an enterprise environment. We use NSClient++ exclusively on our Windows servers. Does anyone have any suggestions for checking DHCP scopes on Windows servers. I saw one util on Nagios Exchange that uses a vbs script but I have no idea how I would set that up. Thanks. Marty -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] How to configure MySQL password for check_mysql via NRPE?
Hi Christoph,
you have to add user and password to your nrpe command.
command[check_mysqld]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql -H localhost -u
anyuser-panypass
You need to ensure that the chosen user has usage rights and if you like to
monitor replication of a slave the user needs replication slave and
replication client
Regards
Axel
Am Freitag 23 September 2011, 15:35:19 schrieb Grothaus, Christoph:
Hello nagios-users!
I inherited a Linux box (latest Debian stable, aka Squeeze) with a MySQL
database and a Nagios NRPE. Now I'd like to check MySQL status with NRPE.
I configured /etc/nagios/nrpe_local.cfg with the following line:
command[check_mysql]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql
so that this command is available to NRPE. Then I configured the following
check on my separate Nagios server:
define service{
use web-check-alert # use some
template configuration host_name ... #
check my MySQL host check_command check_nrpe!-c check_mysql #
check the MySQL via command check_mysql }
Sadly, I get a critical alert for this service with the following message:
Access denied for user nagios@localhost (using password: NO)
The NRPE daemon runs under user nagios -- as you might have guessed.
According to /etc/passwd, the login shell for this user is /bin/false, and
the home directory is /var/lib/nagios. I tried to add a file .my.cnf
there:
root@myhost:~# ls -la /var/lib/nagios/.my.cnf
-rw--- 1 nagios nagios 40 21. Sep 17:37 /var/lib/nagios/.my.cnf
This file contains the necessary bits to connect to the local MySQL
database. The login information are correct, I checked exactly the same
file with my user account on the server. So, this file seems not to be
picked up.
I am lost here. What am I doing wrong? How must I configure Nagios/NRPE to
get a working connection to the MySQL database?
Any help appreciated.
Regards,
Christoph Grothaus
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Re: [Nagios-users] Suggestions for checking DHCP Scopes
Does anyone have any suggestions for checking DHCP scopes on Windows servers. I saw one util on Nagios Exchange that uses a vbs script but I have no idea how I would set that up. Define checking DHCP scopes? Do you need to make sure DHCP is running? Do you need to make sure DHCP clients can get addresses? Do you need to check how many IPs are free in the scopes? Each of the above could be a different failure mode. Personally, I gave up on checking for lease availability, we have way too many scopes, VLANs, etc. I now do the following: 1) Check to make sure the DHCP Server service is running 2) Via a custom setup between consol.de's excellent check_logfiles plugin and a perl wrapper I wrote, check for an event 1020 in the system event log and parse the output #2 was a pain, as Windows apparently has no hard-and-fast way to check on IP availability in the scopes, and randomly logs a 1020 whenever it feels you just don't have enough addresses left. With the wrapper program, I parse the 1020 events and apply my own thresholds to determine good, bad, or ugly. Microsoft: why oh why do you not expose the IP address utilization via performance counters or WMI? Benny -- Open your door, or I open your wall. -- Seen on an image on fukung.net -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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] Hostgroup Members
Hello,
We are using a fairly old version of Nagios (1.4.1) which has been running
great for years and is in production on 100+ servers so we are a bit hesitant
to update. If it ain't broke don't fix it, right? Anyway, one minor problem
is the fact that in the nagios configuration, the members directive for a
hostgroup can only support a certain number of entries, due to the fact that
the members directive takes a comma delimited list of members and that list, it
seems, can only be a maximum of 2000ish (I think, I don't recall off hand)
characters. Like:
hostgroup {
...
members = Member1,Member2,Member3,...,Member200, Member201, Member202
}
My question is, do newer version of nagios remove this limitation? It isn't
really a huge deal since we can simply create additional hostgroups when we
reach the limit on one, however if this is fixed in a newer version then that,
for us, would be a good reason to upgrade.
Thanks,
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Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members
Not sure about in the old version, but what we do is not put the membership
info in the hostgroup definition, but give the host definition a list of
hostgroups it belongs to which is a much shorter list.
Dan
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From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:51 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members
Hello,
We are using a fairly old version of Nagios (1.4.1) which has been running
great for years and is in production on 100+ servers so we are a bit hesitant
to update. If it ain't broke don't fix it, right? Anyway, one minor problem
is the fact that in the nagios configuration, the members directive for a
hostgroup can only support a certain number of entries, due to the fact that
the members directive takes a comma delimited list of members and that list, it
seems, can only be a maximum of 2000ish (I think, I don't recall off hand)
characters. Like:
hostgroup {
...
members = Member1,Member2,Member3,...,Member200, Member201, Member202
}
My question is, do newer version of nagios remove this limitation? It isn't
really a huge deal since we can simply create additional hostgroups when we
reach the limit on one, however if this is fixed in a newer version then that,
for us, would be a good reason to upgrade.
Thanks,
Brandon
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Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members
Thanks Dan. I was aware of the hostgroups directive in the host {} block, but
for some reason my brain never connected the dots.
In that case, does anyone know when support was added for host { hostgroups =
... }, or simply whether or not it is available in version 1.4? I have googled
a bit but can't seem to find the online manual for 1.4.x.
Thanks again,
Brandon
On 09/23/2011 12:14 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
Not sure about in the old version, but what we do is not put the membership
info in the hostgroup definition, but give the host definition a list of
hostgroups it belongs to which is a much shorter list.
Dan
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From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com]
Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:51 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members
Hello,
We are using a fairly old version of Nagios (1.4.1) which has been running
great for years and is in production on 100+ servers so we are a bit hesitant
to update. If it ain't broke don't fix it, right? Anyway, one minor problem
is the fact that in the nagios configuration, the members directive for a
hostgroup can only support a certain number of entries, due to the fact that
the members directive takes a comma delimited list of members and that list,
it seems, can only be a maximum of 2000ish (I think, I don't recall off hand)
characters. Like:
hostgroup {
...
members = Member1,Member2,Member3,...,Member200, Member201, Member202
}
My question is, do newer version of nagios remove this limitation? It isn't
really a huge deal since we can simply create additional hostgroups when we
reach the limit on one, however if this is fixed in a newer version then
that, for us, would be a good reason to upgrade.
Thanks,
Brandon
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Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members
Brandon Phelps wrote:
Thanks Dan. I was aware of the hostgroups directive in the host {} block,
but for some reason my brain never connected the dots.
In that case, does anyone know when support was added for host { hostgroups
= ... }, or simply whether or not it is available in version 1.4? I have
googled a bit but can't seem to find the online manual for 1.4.x.
Thanks again, Brandon
I don't know when it was added, but could you try it and see if it works? If
nagios 1.4 supports the -v option it would tell you if the hostgroups
directive isn't recognized.
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