Re: [Nagios-users] [FIXED] disabling checks of all service and host no longer works

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Seth Simmons wrote: I applied the patch and it worked. I selected a host and told it to disable checks for all services and the host and this time it did it. Goodie. Thanks :) -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Holter
Thanks for your reply. The is_volatile options is actually already set to 0. :/ I think it would be correct to sum up what I'm in need of like this: Whenever there is a transition from one hard error state to another hard error state, or when there has been a recovery from such an error, I'd

Re: [Nagios-users] host_alert_check issue

2008-11-12 Thread Ian Masters
I have a couple of different versions of nagios running on different contracts and have no issues. On one contract I have installed nagios version 3.0.3 running on suse 11. Has anyone had any issues with this version with the host alert check. Basically all my service checks

[Nagios-users] host_alert_check issue

2008-11-12 Thread stephen wing
Hi There I have a couple of different versions of nagios running on different contracts and have no issues. On one contract I have installed nagios version 3.0.3 running on suse 11. Has anyone had any issues with this version with the host alert check. Basically all my service checks

[Nagios-users] Audit users actions within nagios

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Savage
Hi Im running nagios 3.0.4 on FreeBSD 7.0 I have it set up so that all users to the system have an individual user name to access nagios. What i would like to be able to do to be able to log all the actions that the users perform and to be able to see which user performed which action? A

Re: [Nagios-users] Audit users actions within nagios

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Richard Savage wrote: I think you might have misunderstood. Im not interested in what actions are performed on the actual box, as they cant log into that, im interested in what actions are performed within the Nagios program. Following your apache log will tell you who visited which page.

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:43 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: Thanks for your reply. The is_volatile options is actually already set to 0. :/ That's interesting. That's about the only option that would cause the behavior you are reporting that I can think of. Are you using event handlers for

Re: [Nagios-users] Email Notifications

2008-11-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help! I have set up eSMTP as relay.The test from the command line is as follows: echo test | /usr/bin/esmtp -C ~/esmtp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an outside email address i am sending to from an inside email address on our

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Kenneth Holter
I think I found one of the causes for the excessive notifacations - the notification_interval was set to 0. For almost all our services we have a high number (such as 1440), but this current value of zero must have made it's way into the code somehow. This is my current definition: define

Re: [Nagios-users] Limiting mail notification for clock drift

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: I think I found one of the causes for the excessive notifacations - the notification_interval was set to 0. For almost all our services we have a high number (such as 1440), but this current value of zero must have made it's way into

Re: [Nagios-users] Email Notifications

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Gargiullo
-Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nagios-user Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Email Notifications [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please help! I have set up eSMTP as relay.The test

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Aaron Segura
Did you search the applicable mailing list archives? I think that would be a pretty good indicator. From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 9:43 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Seth Simmons
I've been running Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora 9 for a while and runs well. Make sure you got apache and your compilers, download the Nagios and Nagios plugins tars and follow the quick install guide for fedora in the manual. From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday,

Re: [Nagios-users] Audit users actions within nagios

2008-11-12 Thread Assaf Flatto
This is more of a OS security and administration issue , and not a nagios issue. try using sudo for that . On Wednesday 12 November 2008 11:05:01 Richard Savage wrote: Hi Im running nagios 3.0.4 on FreeBSD 7.0 I have it set up so that all users to the system have an individual user name to

Re: [Nagios-users] Audit users actions within nagios

2008-11-12 Thread Richard Savage
I think you might have misunderstood. Im not interested in what actions are performed on the actual box, as they cant log into that, im interested in what actions are performed within the Nagios program. Rich NewNet plc: Company Registration 03128506 Assaf Flatto wrote: This is more of a

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there - I will be implementing Nagios 3.0.5 on a new server, and the operating system in question will be the Fedora Core 9 release. Are there any issues that I should be aware of prior to the installation of Nagios, via yum, onto the server? Thanks. The information transmitted in this

[Nagios-users] Citrix checks

2008-11-12 Thread Edgar Matzinger
Fellow nagios users, I wonder how you would check several Citrix services. Like SMA, IMA, Print Manager, WWW Publishing, licenses, etc. with nagios/nrpe? Port checks? Are there any SNMP checks possible? I've seen some Citrix checks on nagiosexchange.org, but they handle the checks mentioned

[Nagios-users] Nagios for client management?

2008-11-12 Thread dale sykora
Hello, Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux clients. For instance, I'd like to be able to tell clients to update a perl

[Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
Hey folks, First, thanks for such a great product. Totally loving Nagios! At first I found the config really intimidating but after maybe 20 or 30 minutes I had a few hosts banged in and it was all downhill from there. It's amazingly easy now, I find! But I'm having the following problem. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios for client management?

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Gargiullo
-Original Message- From: dale sykora [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:10 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios for client management? Hello, Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if anyone

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 1:24 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Hey folks, Hey =) Welcome. I'm basically calling check_disk with -w -c and -p options. e.g. check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -p /path/to/autofs/mountpoint/disk1 check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -p /path/to/autofs/mountpoint/disk2 I've also tried adding a

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios for client management?

2008-11-12 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 12-Nov-2008, at 14:09 , dale sykora wrote: Hello, Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux clients. For instance, I'd like to

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
OK, I checked the perms and they seem fine. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]$ ls -ald /opt/corp/projects/BCM_CC drwxrwxrwx 8 otheruser othergroup 1024 2008-10-31 13:52 /opt/corp/projects/BCM_CC Note that otheruser is not nagios. othergroup is one that nagios is not a member of. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] Audit users actions within nagios

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andreas Ericsson wrote: Richard Savage wrote: I think you might have misunderstood. Im not interested in what actions are performed on the actual box, as they cant log into that, im interested in what actions are performed within the Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
Aha, but maybe this is it! Above was with the automounter running. I turned it off and checked again : [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# ls -ald /opt/corp/projects/ drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2008-07-14 04:28 /opt/corp/projects/ So I chmodded it 0755 then turned it back on. Nope, in the web GUI

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Aha, but maybe this is it! Above was with the automounter running. I turned it off and checked again : [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# ls -ald /opt/corp/projects/ drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2008-07-14 04:28 /opt/corp/projects/ So I chmodded

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
I will be implementing Nagios 3.0.5 on a new server, and the operating system in question will be the Fedora Core 9 release. Are there any issues that I should be aware of prior to the installation of Nagios, via yum, onto the server? Thanks. The Nagios version in FC9 is pretty old. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Michael Gargiullo
-Original Message- From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:54 PM To: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9 Hi Hugo -- If I was to go the CentOS route, would the Quick Install procedure

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
Please expand on this. What specifically is flipping back and forth? What is the service output when this is happening? flip-flop behavior is an indicator of accidentally having multiple nagios daemons running at the same time. Right now the screen just refreshed and it's reporting correctly

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
Right now the screen just refreshed and it's reporting correctly in the web GUI : DISK OK - free space: /opt/corp/projects/BCM_CC 64697 MB (73% inode=99%): There, one more refresh and : DISK OK - free space: / 63202 MB (91% inode=94%): -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: If I was to go the CentOS route, would the Quick Install procedure available for Fedora also work for version 5.2 64-bit of CentOS? I am not familiar with that. But with Centos it is like: - Install Centos - Add

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: I will be implementing Nagios 3.0.5 on a new server, and the operating system in question will be the Fedora Core 9 release. Are there any issues that I should be aware of prior to the installation of Nagios, via yum,

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:06 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Please expand on this. What specifically is flipping back and forth? What is the service output when this is happening? flip-flop behavior is an indicator of accidentally having multiple nagios daemons running at the same time. Right now

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
A more likely, and elegant reason is that you have multiple nagios daemons running at the same time, one with the current config and one with a prior config that was set to check '/'. Nope, doesn't appear to be Unless the automounter is unmounting it in the time between checks, Why

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios for client management?

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dale sykora wrote: Nagios seems to be a good client monitor system. I was wondering if anyone also uses it as a client management system? By management, I mean running update scripts and other software on various Linux clients. You might

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 3:57 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Unless the automounter is unmounting it in the time between checks, Why wouldn't it? That's it's job - to unmount stuff that is not needed anymore. I guess that my expectation is that automounter would wait about 10 minutes before

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 on Fedora Core 9

2008-11-12 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi Hugo -- If I was to go the CentOS route, would the Quick Install procedure available for Fedora also work for version 5.2 64-bit of CentOS? -Original Message- From: Hugo van der Kooij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 3:41 PM To: Nagios Users Mailinglist

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
I guess that my expectation is that automounter would wait about 10 minutes before unmounting. I'm not sure why this should matter though. It's job is to mount when needed, and unmount when not needed. I guess that my expectation is that automounter would wait about 10 minutes before

[Nagios-users] Email Notifications

2008-11-12 Thread kellyjackie
Please help! I have set up eSMTP as relay.The test from the command line is as follows: echo test | /usr/bin/esmtp -C ~/esmtp [EMAIL PROTECTED] -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is an outside email address i am sending to from an inside email address on our email server. Do i need to

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan McKay wrote: Aha, but maybe this is it! Above was with the automounter running. I turned it off and checked again : [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux]# ls -ald /opt/corp/projects/ drwxr-x--- 2 root root 4096 2008-07-14 04:28 /opt/corp/projects/ So

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Nov 12, 2008, at 4:28 PM, Alan McKay wrote: Here's a question : by what means does check_disk do it's checking? I guess it's using system calls? Which ones? I can look into those calls to see if there is a cleaner way around this than writing a wrapper script. Don't remember. I'd have

[Nagios-users] sticky acknowledgements do not persist across nagios restarts in Nagios 3

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Paul
Hello Nagios-Users, I have nagios 3.0.4 in Solaris 10. When acknowledge a host that is down (with a sticky acknowledgement, and then restart the nagios daemon with a kill -HUP, it deletes the acknowledgement. This is not the correct behavior according to page 7 of the nagios-3.pdf document,

[Nagios-users] check_logs.pl gets 'uninitilized value'

2008-11-12 Thread Bret Goodfellow
Hi all, I have been running a perl plugin, check_logs.pl, on a RHEL server for several months (no changes to my knowledge). But, this week the plugin is having trouble. When it runs, an 'uninitialized value' warning is produced. Below is the shell output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]#

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and autofs

2008-11-12 Thread Alan McKay
Don't remember. I'd have to look at the source but you can do that too. yes, I will if none of the designers recall off the top of their head -- I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends - Abraham Lincoln

Re: [Nagios-users] sticky acknowledgements do not persist across nagios restarts in Nagios 3

2008-11-12 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Paul wrote: Hello Nagios-Users, I have nagios 3.0.4 in Solaris 10. When acknowledge a host that is down (with a sticky acknowledgement, and then restart the nagios daemon with a kill -HUP, it deletes the acknowledgement. 1: sticky

Re: [Nagios-users] sticky acknowledgements do not persist across nagios restarts in Nagios 3

2008-11-12 Thread Chris Paul
Hugo van der Kooij [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1: sticky acknowledgement This is not the correct behavior according to page 7 of the nagios-3.pdf document, Acknowledgement comments that are marked as non-persistent are now only deleted when the acknowledgement is removed.