[Nagios-users] Set up user for monitoring purpose

2009-03-23 Thread asam30
Hi All, I would like to set up a new user (say monitor) for the purpose of monitoring the nagios GUI interface alerts. He should be having less privileges than a user nagiosadmin. Is that possible? I just want to give him a basic privileges like acknowledge host and services. can you tell me is

[Nagios-users] Nagios-SNMP snmptt

2009-03-23 Thread Joseph Ribin Roy
Hi All, I am able to execute external command and make an entry in nagios.cmd file as [Mon Mar 23 14:43:26 IST 2009] PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;mfin-sol02;TRAP;2;10.10.7.37 Disk_Space_in_VAR 3 NRPE: [Mon Mar 23 14:44:52 IST 2009] PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;mfin-sol02;TRAP;2;10.10.7.37

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle database after each service/host check is performed. Does Nagios support this sort of functionality? Yes,

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle database after each service/host check is performed.

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/23 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: 2009/3/20 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Mar 20, 2009, at 8:48 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: to start? I'm envisioning some sort of script or service which INSERTs into the Oracle

[Nagios-users] Using $SERVICESTATEID$ and $LASTSERVICESTATEID$ macros in notes URL

2009-03-23 Thread MAD
Hi all This may be a dummy question. I would like to use the $SERVICESTATEID$ and $LASTSERVICESTATEID$ macros to define a note URL for some services, but for some reasons, these macros are not processed by Nagios. For example, I defined a notes URL as :

[Nagios-users] Opsview

2009-03-23 Thread Layne Meier
I've never installed Nagios before. I was asked to take over an existing installation. I'm going to install the latest version of Nagios on a clean CentOS build. We've never used Opsview before, but I looked into it and like the idea of using Opsview to configure all of the hosts,

Re: [Nagios-users] job announcement - Senior Technical Operations Leader

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
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[Nagios-users] Service latency suddenly through the roof

2009-03-23 Thread Deborah Martin
Hi, I'm running nagios 2.0b4, on suse 9.3. The plan is to upgrade to 3.0.6 (nagios) and SLES10 sp1. Recently, during some checking of the data that I collect for SLA reporting, I noticed the service latency has gone through the roof! The only recent change I've made is to put ssh checks as a

Re: [Nagios-users] .htpasswd login

2009-03-23 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 23/03/09 12:55, Chris wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:08 PM, Klaus Umbach treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de wrote: On 20/03/09 16:28, Chris wrote: Thanks. I have addedd AuthUserFile /etc/nagios/.htaccess to my /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread frank . bourdeau
Hi Christopher, You must indicate the path of the command perl : /usr/bin/perl /usr/local/nagios/host_check.pl $HOSTADDRESS$ $HOSTEVENTID$ if you don't have enable EPn. Sincerly Frank [ENVOYE PAR INTERNET] Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com 23/03/2009 10:57 A Nagios Users

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 6:57 AM, frank.bourd...@dga.defense.gouv.fr wrote: Hi Christopher, You must indicate the path of the command perl : /usr/bin/perl /usr/ local/nagios/host_check.pl $HOSTADDRESS$ $HOSTEVENTID$ if you don't have enable EPn. This is incorrect. The shell will invoke the

Re: [Nagios-users] Service latency suddenly through the roof

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Deborah Martin wrote: Hi, I'm running nagios 2.0b4, on suse 9.3. The plan is to upgrade to 3.0.6 (nagios) and SLES10 sp1. Recently, during some checking of the data that I collect for SLA reporting, I noticed the service latency has gone through the roof! The only recent change I've

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Unless you're an op5 customer and thereby paying for my services, I *really* don't want off-list emails regarding Nagios problems. Thanks for respecting that in the future. Answers are below. Christopher McAtackney wrote: 2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se: Christopher McAtackney wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] Service latency suddenly through the roof

2009-03-23 Thread Deborah Martin
Andreas, Thanks for your reply. I completely agree with the suggestion of upgrading. I'm currently migrating configs across to Nagios 3.0.6 with the hope of switching to this box in about a week. I was hoping to keep the configs on the nagios 2.0b4 box fairly consistent with the new box so we

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se: Unless you're an op5 customer and thereby paying for my services, I *really* don't want off-list emails regarding Nagios problems. Thanks for respecting that in the future. Answers are below. Sorry, my mistake, I didn't realise I had replied to you

[Nagios-users] host downtime problem

2009-03-23 Thread Anirudh Srinivasan
Hey Folks, I was asked to put the entire hostgroup for the downtime which i did . But inspite of that i got alerts to my mail from few server from that hostgroup. I selected both schedule downtime for all host in this hostgroup schedule downtime for all services in this

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Christopher McAtackney wrote: 2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se: Unless you're an op5 customer and thereby paying for my services, I *really* don't want off-list emails regarding Nagios problems. Thanks for respecting that in the future. Answers are below. Sorry, my mistake, I didn't

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:12 AM, Christopher McAtackney wrote: The program writes out to the text file every time it is run (it's not connecting to a database yet, this is just proof-of-concept work). In your script, you should specify the full path to that text file (I recommend something in

[Nagios-users] Hosts are Critical

2009-03-23 Thread acarlson
I am running CentOS 5 and I installed nagios thru yum using the RPMForge repository. When I log into the web interface, it shows my server as down/critical under hosts. Obviously since I'm accessing the host remotely via HTTP it isn't down. Any thoughts on how to fix this? Also, this

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts are Critical

2009-03-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 10:15 AM, acarl...@princeton-il.com wrote: I am running CentOS 5 and I installed nagios thru yum using the RPMForge repository. When I log into the web interface, it shows my server as down/critical under hosts. I can't speak to the specifics of what RPMForge does for

[Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
I am working on setting up Nagios for the first time and am trying to search different forums to find my answers, but it appears forums.meulie.net has been down for several days (or I can't seem to get there from my network) and SF is giving me Search Server timeout errors when I try and search

[Nagios-users] Nagios with Trouble Ticket system or Managment System integration

2009-03-23 Thread Florence Luk
Dear all, I am new to Nagios and now my company want to try let Nagios to integrate with our new Service Desk system (Management System). For this project our aim is to inject Nagios's alert message to Service Desk system and it can create a 'Trouble Ticket' automatically. So I want to find

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios with Trouble Ticket system or Managment System integration

2009-03-23 Thread Christopher McAtackney
2009/3/23 Florence Luk lukk...@netvigator.com: Dear all, I am new to Nagios and now my company want to try let Nagios to integrate with our new Service Desk system (Management System). For this project our aim is to inject Nagios's alert message to Service Desk system and it can create a

[Nagios-users] Code of 139 when checking mapped unit

2009-03-23 Thread Alejandro Sánchez Meroño
Hello everybody, I am pretty novice at Nagios, so I hope that my question were easy to answer, or at least, I could get a hint... The thing is that I want to monitor a mapped unit on a Windows host, just to check the available disk space (i.e., drive U:, that might be myuser at

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios or nagiosgraph?

2009-03-23 Thread Gerhard Lausser
Hi, i recommend pnp. Integration in Nagios is very simple and you get the graphs immediately. Nevertheless you can design the look of the graphs individually with the template mechanism. Gerhard -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sergio Ariel [mailto:sergio.ar...@iris.uh.cu] Gesendet:

[Nagios-users] extra garbled characters at end of plugin result output

2009-03-23 Thread Ayotunde Itayemi
Dear All, I seem to get extra garbled characters at the end of the data returned by the various plugins running on Solaris clients. Unfortunately, it's messing up my graphing (pnp4nagios) output. My NAGIOS server is on a RedHat 5.3 system while most of my clients are Solaris 9/10. I may have

Re: [Nagios-users] extra garbled characters at end of plugin result output

2009-03-23 Thread Alex Dehaini
What version of nrpe are you using on the solaris clients? On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Ayotunde Itayemi ayotunde.itay...@zain.com wrote: Dear All, I seem to get extra garbled characters at the end of the data returned by the various plugins running on Solaris clients. Unfortunately,

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Think I've gotten to the root of my rookie issue. Using # instead of ; inside a definition for commenting. In addition to realizing the cfg_dir definition in the nagios.cfg is recursive and I didn't need to define each directory under the base directory it was pointing to. Still interested

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Think I've gotten to the root of my rookie issue. Using # instead of ; inside a definition for commenting. In addition to realizing the cfg_dir definition in the nagios.cfg is recursive and I didn't need to define each directory under the base directory it was pointing to. Still interested

[Nagios-users] Example setups for a newbie

2009-03-23 Thread Fredrik Rambris
Hi! I'm relatively new to Nagios but for a number of reasons we want to migrate away from Hobbit. I've read the manual, read some of the book Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, setup most of our hosts and some services but I cannot really get all the groups (service group, host group,

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts are Critical

2009-03-23 Thread acarlson
Marc, The status (of the host in Nagios) is down. The host definition is: define host{ use linux-server; Name of host template$ ; This host definition $

Re: [Nagios-users] Code of 139 when checking mapped unit

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
In regards to your NCSA Mismatch, are you intending to use NSClient++ through NCSA or only through the check_nt option? If you aren't using NCSA, you may need to double check your nsc.ini file to make sure it is commented out. There is a pretty good tutorial here

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Chris Beattie
Ken Netzorg wrote: Having read the documentation and doing some pondering, I am looking to break my service monitoring into two notification trees: Production and Development. That way, I am not bothered by development services alerting off hours and only get production notifications off

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Template Inheritance

2009-03-23 Thread Ken Netzorg
Chris, Thanks for the detailed info. I had gone through the inheritance documentation you'd listed below, but I didn't put the facts together that I can mix my host template with my service template such that I can have a host's notification settings apply to a service. I had been trying to figure

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios or nagiosgraph?

2009-03-23 Thread Moby
Gerhard Lausser wrote: Hi, i recommend pnp. Integration in Nagios is very simple and you get the graphs immediately. Nevertheless you can design the look of the graphs individually with the template mechanism. Gerhard -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Sergio Ariel

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios or nagiosgraph?

2009-03-23 Thread Max
I haven't used nagiosgraph so I cannot talk to how it works, but PNP is also very flexible with how you integrate it and can be made to scale very nicely :); the developers are also open to user patches. - max -- Apps

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts are Critical

2009-03-23 Thread RijilV
2009/3/23 acarl...@princeton-il.com: Marc, it also is giving me the following error: Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing Sorry for not mentioning that before.  Thanks, Andy yeah, that's probably the problem - nagios can't find / can't run the plugin. Make sure

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios or nagiosgraph?

2009-03-23 Thread Bryan Wann
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Sergio Ariel wrote: I wanna to graph plugin output. What do I should install? I like to think I'm relatively competent with Nagios, but I fought with nagiosgraph for a while before I ran out of patience and gave up. Unfortunately it's been several months since I did this,

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduling Queue

2009-03-23 Thread Matthias Krauss
Hi Ricardo I believe that a better approach is to change your script to schedule a new service check through nagios pipe. What you think about that? Using pipe we can insert a new service check to our Nagios and this server can schedule service checks dinamically. thats a interesting

[Nagios-users] Download Nagios for CentOS 5.2 64 bits

2009-03-23 Thread Cristiano Casado
Hi friends. From where can I find Nagios 3.0.6 tarball files for CentOS 5.2 64 bits ? Thank. -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios with Trouble Ticket system or Managment System integration

2009-03-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/23 Florence Luk lukk...@netvigator.com: Dear all, I am new to Nagios and now my company want to try let Nagios to integrate with our new Service Desk system (Management System). For this project our aim is to inject Nagios's alert message to Service Desk system and it can create a

Re: [Nagios-users] Example setups for a newbie

2009-03-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/23 Fredrik Rambris fredrik.ramb...@it.cdon.com: Hi! I'm relatively new to Nagios but for a number of reasons we want to migrate away from Hobbit. I've read the manual, read some of the book Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, setup most of our hosts and some services but I cannot

Re: [Nagios-users] Download Nagios for CentOS 5.2 64 bits

2009-03-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Cristiano Casado wrote: Hi friends. From where can I find Nagios 3.0.6 tarball files for CentOS 5.2 64 bits ? The usual place - http://www.nagios.org/download. -- Marc -- Apps

[Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Doherty
Hello, I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is a byproduct of that... I had to reboot my nagios server today, and it didn't come right back up. By the time it did, it realized that the service checks weren't fresh, and started sending out lots of notifications. I stopped

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Charlie Reddington
You have checked your /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue right? I have had a few million emails queued up there before. Charlie On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Peter Doherty wrote: Hello, I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is a byproduct of that... I had to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Peter Doherty wrote: Has nagios passed all the emails over to sendmail, and I just need to clear out sendmail's queue, or is nagios holding onto them while sendmail isn't running, and then once it sees sendmail running, it starts dumping email into the queue?

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Kevin Keane
It's probably Nagios. Does the blizzard of emails stop when you stop the Nagios service? How about stopping the Nagios server, turning off all notifications in the configuration files, and then restarting it? Peter Doherty wrote: Hello, I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Peter Doherty
On Mar 23, 2009, at 10:52 PM, Charlie Reddington wrote: You have checked your /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue right? I have had a few million emails queued up there before. They were in /var/spool/clientmqueue. Thanks Charlie!