[Nagios-users] Another newbie question...
I seem to have gotten Nagios configured and running on a single Linux
host. Now I want to try monitoring a second host on the same network
(I'm experimenting with a couple of machines at home) and I'm having
some problems. I've been looking through the documentation, but either
I'm looking in the wrong place or at the wrong docs.
I have a number of questions - scattered through the rest of this
message. Any help or pointers would be appreciated...
On the primary monitoring machine (referred to as 'localhost' or
'host1'), I added host definitions that include the 'remote' machine
(referred to as 'host2' in the rest of this message). So my file
hosts.cfg includes this:
define host{
use generic-host; Name of host
template to use
host_name localhost
alias localhost
address 127.0.0.1
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 10
check_period24x7
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsd,r
contact_groups admins
}
define host{
use generic-host; Name of host
template to use
host_name host2.aikisoft.com
alias host2
address 192.168.130.111
max_check_attempts 10
check_period24x7
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_optionsd,r
contact_groups admins
}
Question #1:
In the host definition for 'host2', should I include the
check-host-alive command like I have in host 1? Why, or why not - I'm
not sure I understand exactly what I'm defining here
I set up an NSCA daemon process on host 1 to receive status information
from host 2. However, I'm not sure how to configure host2 itself. I have
Nagios installed there, and I have a basic configuration. I can start
nagios running, but I don't see how to get the NSCA client to run the
various tests and forward results to host 1.
Question #2:
Does Nagios need to be running on host 2 or just the NSCA client?
Question #3:
Is there documentation on NSCA? I found some minimal things, but not
enough for me to figure out what is really going on.
The way my system is running, host1 thinks it has 2 hosts to monitor,
and it is using PING to decide that both are alive - that's the good
news. But I would like to also report on CPU utilization, disk space etc
from host 2, and that's where I seem to be stuck.
Sorry if this is long and confusing - I'm definitely confused :)
Thanks in advance for any pointers you can give me. If I need to provide
other config info, I'll be happy to do that.
nbc
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[Nagios-users] Newbie question - authorization...
I'm experimenting with Nagios at home - I just joined a company that uses it extensively in the field and I'll need to know how it works. I've managed to install it, and I can get to the home page from my (FireFox) web browser (on systems running FC5). So far, so good. I have verified that I have a working config file. If I start Nagios, things look ok, but I don't have the authorization correct. I have added the entries in the Apache config file, and created the .htaccess entries in the nagios directories. But when I point the web browser at the nagios page, it does not ask for a login/password. Then I get authorization failures when I try to look at the various monitoring pages This is really a browser issue, not nagios I think. But it isn't something I've done before - can someone suggest what I might have set up incorrectly or point me at what needs to be added? thanks very much, nbc NAME: Neil B. Cohen (Aiki Software) PHONE: 703-444-4610 DOMAIN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * Murphy's Philosophy: Smile - tomorrow will be worse...* * * * O'Tooles Commentary: Murphy was an optimist! * * - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question - authorization...
That was sort of the problem - I found a typo in the .htaccess file. So the server was complaining about an invalid file definition Thanks for the help, nbc On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 13:57 -0400, Morris, Patrick wrote: If I start Nagios, things look ok, but I don't have the authorization correct. I have added the entries in the Apache config file, and created the .htaccess entries in the nagios directories. But when I point the web browser at the nagios page, it does not ask for a login/password. Then I get authorization failures when I try to look at the various monitoring pages This is really a browser issue, not nagios I think. But it isn't something I've done before - can someone suggest what I might have set up incorrectly or point me at what needs to be added? If you're not getting prompted for a login, it's not a Nagios or a browser issue -- it's a webserver configuration problem. Assuming your .htaccess files are valid, your webserver is probably configured not to use them. - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
