Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
yes you have to use a separate one for each site, how else would you be able to use a separate check? Unless you expect the word Home on each site and that is your string check. Another option is using Macros but I suspect this may not do what you want... -h Hari Sekhon Jerad Riggin wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
In that case, is there a way to specify more than one possible string, so that for example if it can't find Home, but it can find Checkout, it considers the host up? On 11/2/07, Hari Sekhon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes you have to use a separate one for each site, how else would you be able

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
I've read the help docs, like I said I have a working installation checking about 15 servers. I have a PING service that pings a host group. I can't do that with this because I'm checking a different string on each site, so i'm guessing it has to be separated out. Does this make sense? On

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
You need to reread the docs, this is the most basic of questions. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service Hint: You are missing a service_description in the last block for one. You should not have name in that last block either, you need host_name. Read docs pls. -h

[Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
I have a functioning nagios setup but I have a quick question. I am going through and adding website string checks so we can keep track of availability on one of our webservers. So in services.cfg I have define service{ namegeneric-service ; Generic service

[Nagios-users] nrpe issue with solaris 9?

2007-11-02 Thread Luis Cerezo
Hi folks, I am seeing an odd issue with nrpe check on solaris 9. from the solaris host: (nrpe 2.0) bash-2.05# grep check_fs /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg command[check_fs]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_fs_space -w 85% -c 95% bash-2.05# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_fs_space -w 85% -c 95% WARNING:

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
I think we're losing something in translation of me trying to tell you what i'm doing. Here is what i've been doing. define service{ use basic-service namecheck-site4 notification_optionsw,u,c,r

[Nagios-users] Distributed monitoring with nrpe_nt and freshness

2007-11-02 Thread Jeff Shumard - DefenseWeb Technologies
We have our monitoring configured and everything is working great checking all our windows servers through a single windows server running nrpe_nt. The problem we are having is when one of our Linux Nagios servers goes down and doesn't send any results to the master Nagios server. When this

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe issue with solaris 9?

2007-11-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
Andreas Ericsson wrote: About a billion times. You're running the check on the nrpe side as root, but nrpe runs it as someone else, and the plugin is crap so it prints ok when it fails to get the proper numbers. I'm guessing you wrote the plugin check_fs_space yourself, and only tested it as

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe timesout!

2007-11-02 Thread Maxwell,Brady
You also need to make sure the nrpe binaries were compilied with the option to except arguments. ./configure --enable-command-args -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 5:32 AM To: alexus Cc:

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Hari Sekhon
Yes I know what you've been doing, double or triple templating, and what I am saying is that you do not need to template for every service. Only template the common bits and put the unique bits in the service definition block with the hostname. You will need less blocks and have less

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
I wish I could, but I'm not a programmer and have limited experience with Linux. I usually just manage Windows servers. Thanks for your help though. I condensed the string check into one instead of double/triple templating. Thanks. On 11/2/07, Hari Sekhon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just

[Nagios-users] monitor EMC with nagios

2007-11-02 Thread trevor obba
I have an EMC CLARiiON AX150 I would like to monitor it with nagios.. How do I monitor my EMC’s disk usage, fan, power supply, battery, temperature and uptime using Nagios? what nagios plugin do i use to monitor the above?

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe issue with solaris 9?

2007-11-02 Thread Luis Cerezo
HI Andreas, We came to the same conclusion, except for who wrote the plugin. I think I got it nagios exchange. header info: # # Author: Todd Barbera # Date: 10/26/05 # Purpose: Report back to nagios file system usage What have you done to get around it? -luis On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:50

Re: [Nagios-users] Service checks

2007-11-02 Thread Jeff Chapin
I was under the impression that check_http has a regex option, meaning you can pass it a regex that ought to be able to handle this. Jeff JEFF CHAPIN SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR T8DESIGN.COM | P 319.266.7574 - x267 | 877.T8IDEAS | F 888.290.4675 This e-mail, including attachments, is covered

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++ install: Too big to fit in memory

2007-11-02 Thread Matt Lozier
In case any of you should run into this issue in the future, I discovered what was causing this problem: When I pulled the files from off of our storage server, they must have gotten corrupted in the process. I re-transferred the NSClient to the client machine I want to manage, and re-ran the

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe issue with solaris 9?

2007-11-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Luis Cerezo wrote: HI Andreas, We came to the same conclusion, except for who wrote the plugin. I think I got it nagios exchange. header info: # # Author: Todd Barbera # Date: 10/26/05 # Purpose: Report back to nagios file system usage What have you done to get around it?

Re: [Nagios-users] Downtime scheduling

2007-11-02 Thread Larry Low
Timeperiods is the best idea. You can either use the notification_period or check_period depending on your end needs. Larry Low 4150 N Drinkwater Blvd., 5th Floor Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Office: 480.385.7045 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Telesphere Networks, Inc From: [EMAIL

[Nagios-users] State changes and notifications

2007-11-02 Thread Sean McAvoy
If a service enters a non-OK state (OK - Warning), is then acknowledged, and then enters a Critical state should not a notification be sent? I have a situation where this happens even with notification_options set to w,u,c,r for the template used by the service. Any insight is greatly

Re: [Nagios-users] Downtime scheduling

2007-11-02 Thread Larry Low
You probably have to rewrite 04:00-01:00 to 00:00-01:00,04:00-24:00. Larry Low 4150 N Drinkwater Blvd., 5th Floor Scottsdale, AZ 85251 Office: 480.385.7045 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' Telesphere Networks, Inc From: Jerad Riggin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Nagios-users] Downtime scheduling

2007-11-02 Thread Jerad Riggin
Thanks for the reply. Here is what I did.. define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name maintenance alias Maintenance period sunday 04:00-01:00 monday 04:00-01:00 tuesday 04:00-01:00 wednesday 04:00-01:00

Re: [Nagios-users] monitor EMC with nagios

2007-11-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
trevor obba wrote: I have an EMC CLARiiON AX150 I would like to monitor it with nagios.. How do I monitor my EMC’s disk usage, fan, power supply, battery, temperature and uptime using Nagios? what nagios plugin do i use to monitor the above? Google's hit #5 when searching for

Re: [Nagios-users] Downtime scheduling

2007-11-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Jerad Riggin wrote: Thanks for the reply. Here is what I did.. define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name maintenance alias Maintenance period sunday 04:00-01:00 monday 04:00-01:00 tuesday 04:00-01:00

[Nagios-users] Monitoring ARCserve services

2007-11-02 Thread Kustner, Tom
[Note that I am a Nagios end-user, not the administrator. Someone at HQ runs the box.] We currently use Nagios 1.2. We have a Windows Server 2003 server running the latest ARCserve (11.5 SP3). We have basic monitoring of the box via Nagios but are looking for a way to monitor the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring ARCserve services

2007-11-02 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kustner, Tom Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 3:46 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring ARCserve services [Note that I am a Nagios end-user, not

Re: [Nagios-users] problems defining contact_groups in definehostgroup section

2007-11-02 Thread Roger
It's generating config files that are compatible with 1.x, not 2.x. There were several config changes made between the versions such as this change to where contact_groups are associated to hosts. It seems that nmap2nagios hasn't been updated since April 2003 (at least from the sourceforge

Re: [Nagios-users] Subject Line

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/10/07 04:38 PM, Mike Hawley wrote: Hi guys and girls, can anyone let me know how I add a subject, and display the sent to (to:) line to the emails that leave the Nagios server. I am running Nagios 3.0b5 on a OpenSuSe server, with Sendmail

Re: [Nagios-users] Check disk

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/10/07 04:09 AM, Dennis Hünseler wrote: Hi, in nagios 3.0 for example use a service-definition like check_command check_local_disk!20!10!/var where 20 stands for the warning level of 20 % free 10 stands for the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios service latency

2007-11-02 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/10/07 08:29 AM, Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sunchai (gillnaldo : sun) Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 7:01 AM To: