Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Service Dependencies

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/7 Dei Bertine : > Basic question guys: > > Which file do you normally place your service dependencies in? > > It stated here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html > to place in objects cfg file which I thought placing it in my nagios.cfg > > But when I did, it complai

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-05-06 Thread Simon Finch
Hi Chris,   First does the file /etc/centreon/conf.pm exist ? It should have the database hostname, dbname, dbuser and dbpassword in it.   Who owns the /var/lib/centreon directory structure ? The apache user that centreon runs as needs full rights to this directory and the directories bel

[Nagios-users] Nagios Service Dependencies

2009-05-06 Thread Dei Bertine
Basic question guys: Which file do you normally place your service dependencies in? It stated here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html to place in objects cfg file which I thought placing it in my nagios.cfg But when I did, it complained about this error after running

Re: [Nagios-users] service escalation problems

2009-05-06 Thread Bruce Thayre
Hi, Thanks for the idea, i gave it a shot and it does not seem to be of any help. I was under the impresion that service escalations were for taking the nag out of nagios by curbing its tendency to spam admins with notifications for large networks, or for specific services. More specifically,

Re: [Nagios-users] nag2ast

2009-05-06 Thread Martyn
Yep that is me and I'm willing to pay for any help on getting this function working. -Original Message- From: Aaron Segura [mailto:aaron.seg...@cabelas.com] Sent: 06 May 2009 22:48 To: cr...@hooters-uk.com Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nag2ast There'

Re: [Nagios-users] nag2ast

2009-05-06 Thread Aaron Segura
There's a discussion on the groundwork forums about it... http://www.groundworkopensource.com/community/forums/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=1152 YMMV -Original Message- From: cr...@hooters-uk.com [mailto:cr...@hooters-uk.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 2:25 AM To: shadhi...@gmail.com Cc: na

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 06 May 2009, Jim Avery wrote: > 2009/5/6 Tobias Klausmann : > > I did something else: I patched PNP so that it removes the > > check_nrpe! prefix if it's there, then does processing as usual. > > I've sent this (trival, four-line) patch to the PNP maintainer > > but never got an answe

Re: [Nagios-users] service escalation problems

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Bruce Thayre : > define serviceescalation{ >    host_name        *,!Rambo, !localhost, !nagios, !t2gw04, !uaf-3 >    service_description    condor_master_alive >    first_notification    1 >    last_notification    2 >    notification_interval    180 >    contact_groups        admins >  

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Tobias Klausmann : > I did something else: I patched PNP so that it removes the > check_nrpe! prefix if it's there, then does processing as usual. > I've sent this (trival, four-line) patch to the PNP maintainer > but never got an answer :/ Where would you stop though? Would you also rem

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi! On Wed, 06 May 2009, Jim Avery wrote: > It's not quite as simple as that though, because if you set up > a check_nrpe.php template which makes your swap graphs look > lovely, it might make all the other checks you run using > check_nrpe look awful! You might need to consider setting up a > se

[Nagios-users] service escalation problems

2009-05-06 Thread Bruce Thayre
Hello, I'm not new to nagios, however his is the first nagios installation i have done with nagios 3.x. I've set up several service escalations in my services.cfg, they are being recognized and registered with nagios, however they are not actually doing anything. Despite the escalations being

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Ayotunde Itayemi : > Jim: The SWAP graph looks OK and I haven't noticed any changes in the other > graphs (CPU, RAM, filesystems, PING, etc) - possibly because the check_nrpe > defaults are the same as in the nwstat.cfg-sample file I created the > check_nrpe.cfg from, and the check_nrpe

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and CD/DVD in Solaris

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Andrew Davis : > I have check_disk setup to do monitor all local disks so that I don't have > to make edits everytime I add a new filesystem or mount point. > Unfortunately, on Solaris, mounted CD's and DVD's show as local volumes and > as 100% full. Unfortunately, check_disk (the stock on

Re: [Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Mirza Dedic : > After some more trial and error, I got the command check fixed but there is > still an issue. > > The command I am sending is: > > r...@van-nagios:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_nt -H van-mail01 -s > xr1p71c -p 12779 -v COUNTER -l  "MSExchangeIS Mailbox(_Total)\\Messa

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Ayotunde Itayemi
Hi All/Jim/Marc-Andre, Thanks for the response. I was actually able to figure it out while waiting - I didn't RTFM - not all at first :-) Here is what I did in case someone else finds it useful (and if possible correct me if I am wrong): # cd /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/check_commands # cp -a che

Re: [Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Mirza Dedic
After some more trial and error, I got the command check fixed but there is still an issue. The command I am sending is: r...@van-nagios:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_nt -H van-mail01 -s xr1p71c -p 12779 -v COUNTER -l "MSExchangeIS Mailbox(_Total)\\Messages Delivered/min" -w 25 -c 120 T

[Nagios-users] check_disk and CD/DVD in Solaris

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Davis
I have check_disk setup to do monitor all local disks so that I don't have to make edits everytime I add a new filesystem or mount point. Unfortunately, on Solaris, mounted CD's and DVD's show as local volumes and as 100% full. Unfortunately, check_disk (the stock one) is not a simple shell scr

[Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I am trying to use NSClient++ to monitor performance counters; previously I only used it to check disk space etc, but I am trying to make sure of the "-v COUNTER -l" switch more now as it is very powerful. In my config I have: define command{ command_name check_nt_exchange_messages_deli

[Nagios-users] service escalations on hostgroup/servicegroup combos

2009-05-06 Thread Mark Gius
I am attempting to create service escalations that act upon a hostgroup/servicegroup combination. I'd like to see escalations on services on certain hosts that are part of a particular servicegroup. I'm having trouble doing this. I've tried a number of different ways to do this. I have tri

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Ayotunde Itayemi : > I noticed also that all my graphs use the Default Template and the XML > files for all of them have check_nrpe. As these > files are generated automatically, how do I get the SWAP graph to use > the SWAP template? You'll notice that the graph produced by the default t

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp - warning numbers

2009-05-06 Thread Matias Blanco
Hola Alejandro, Ahora otra cosa: De que manera crees que pueda chequear los puertos de mi switch con nagios para tener una idea más clara de lo que está sucediendo? Porque esos paquetes entrantes con errores no se si son por causa de la PC o de los puerto del switch... Muchas Gracias... Cristia

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-05-06 Thread Bruce Reed
Interesting thread on Centreon. I evaluated it when it was Oreon 4 years ago and it was horrid then, difficult to install, unpredictable and had very little English information available. Looks like it has come a long way. Is the English conversant community as large as the French now? Has anyone

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread MAD
I installed from scratch. That's why I told you to install the "devel" package (with 'yum install libjpeg-devel' for example). Once you will have installed every devel package I told you to, just compile again Nagios and install with 'make all && make install' and every thing should be working

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread MAD
You could use a template I developped some weeks ago. It works pretty well. Just copy it into the "templates" directory Marc-André - Original Message - From: "Ayotunde Itayemi" To: Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 5:09 PM Subject: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO Hi All, By de

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp - warning numbers

2009-05-06 Thread Alejandro Sánchez Meroño
Hola Matías... :-) and hola everyone... There exists a magical website where to identify every OID you can check with SNMP, the link is: http://support.ipmonitor.com/mibs_byoidtree.aspx For your particular issue, if you type "RFC1213-MIB" at the "Search for:" form, click the result given ("RF

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Powell
On May 6, 2009, at 11:03 AM, Meyer Jerome wrote: > P.S.- Anyway! As someone still install Nagios from scratch Yes, absolutely, even on Redhat/clone systems. I happen to believe it's the best way to learn it and things are put in the 'right' places as far as the documentation, addons and

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp - warning numbers

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Powell
Comments below -- On May 6, 2009, at 10:49 AM, Matias Blanco wrote: > Hi, I am using the check_snmp nagios`s plugin. And when we check the > ports status of a 3com Baseline 2250 Plus, we recibe many ports > results: > > SNMP OK – 0 > SNMP WARNING - *1* > SNMP WARNING - *84* > SNMP WARNING - *2*

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
I'll check that and install it in this way... Thanks a lot, Jerome P.S.- Anyway! As someone still install Nagios from scratch? > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com [mailto:jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 17:54 > An: Meyer Jerome

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread jmoseley
Since this is the first time you've installed Nagios (I assume) and you probably haven't used it much, I wouldn't expect there is too much benefit for you by installing Nagios from source. I would suggest that you take advantage of RH's rpm management and install Nagios from rpm. Doing that will

[Nagios-users] check_snmp - warning numbers

2009-05-06 Thread Matias Blanco
Hi, I am using the check_snmp nagios`s plugin. And when we check the ports status of a 3com Baseline 2250 Plus, we recibe many ports results: SNMP OK – 0 SNMP WARNING - *1* SNMP WARNING - *84* SNMP WARNING - *2* SNMP WARNING - *2* SNMP WARNING - *4* The question is, what´s the meaning of the warn

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
Hi James I've install Nagios through source-code : nagios-3.0.6.tar.gz! Thanks Jerome > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com [mailto:jmose...@corp.xanadoo.com] > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2009 16:45 > An: Meyer Jerome > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > B

[Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Ayotunde Itayemi
Hi All, By default I have nothing in the templates directory of my PNP installation so all my graphs use the "Default Template." I noticed that this inverts the SWAP utilization graph i.e., the red and yellow lines (warning/critical) are very close to the bottom of the graph while the utilization s

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
Hi > > Meyer Jerome wrote: > > > > > > Hi > > > > > > > > I still have many questions about nagios J. > > > > Yeah, there're many documentations on the Web, but that is not always > > obvious to find what I seeks... > > > > > > > > 1) So, I've create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread jmoseley
As per Marc, you need the 'devel' packages installed as well. Did you install Nagios via RPM or compile from source? If the latter, I would suggest you install Nagios from RH's yum repository, thay way, all the library dependencies will be installed as well. James Moseley "Meyer Jerome" w

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
Thanks for your help! > > > > Hi > > > > I still have many questions about nagios J. > > Yeah, there're many documentations on the Web, but that is not > > always obvious to find what I seeks... > > > > 1) So, I've create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But I > > want to known what do you

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Meyer Jerome wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I still have many questions about nagios J. > > Yeah, there're many documentations on the Web, but that is not always > obvious to find what I seeks... > > > > 1) So, I've create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But I want > to known what do

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
Hi Marc-André Thanks for your answers! Here are the installed librairies on my RedHat Server : # rpm -qa|grep libjpeg libjpeg-6b-37 libjpeg-6b-37 # rpm -qa|grep libpng libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2 libpng-1.2.10-7.1.el5_3.2 # rpm -qa|grep gd gd-2.0.33-9.4.el5_1.1 Is Ok?? And here're the procedure :

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread MAD
Sorry, just realizing The reason you don't have statusmap.cgi, trends.cgi and histogram.cgi is may be becaus you don't have one of the graphic library installed on your server. Check if you have libjpeg-devel, libgd-devel and libpng-devel installed on your server (if your running under Debia

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Powell
On May 6, 2009, at 8:23 AM, Meyer Jerome wrote: > > Hi > > I still have many questions about nagios J. > Yeah, there’re many documentations on the Web, but that is not > always obvious to find what I seeks… > > 1) So, I’ve create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But I > want to known

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring critical servers - best practices

2009-05-06 Thread Sean McAfee
alfonso baldaserra wrote: > i had been waiting for people to share their experience monitoring > mission critical systems but it seems there are not many people who do > that. I sure am, and I'd be willing to bet that a lot of people here are. You've got everything "right" in your configs. Yo

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread MAD
Hi Jerome Concerning your check_host, this can be anything you want. check_ping is generally used but for some hosts which run only apache server I'm using check_http. Linking check_icmp to check_host should be fine (I assume). If statusmap.cgi, trends.cgi and histogram.cgi don't exist, that me

[Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Meyer Jerome
Hi I still have many questions about nagios J. Yeah, there're many documentations on the Web, but that is not always obvious to find what I seeks... 1) So, I've create a link for my check_host to check_icmp! But I want to known what do you think about that, is ok? Or is there a specia

Re: [Nagios-users] plugins for clustered environment

2009-05-06 Thread Anirudh Srinivasan
Why don't you use check_tcp on tcp port for network service offered by exchange (smtp25/pop110)? yes , i am using this right now. Currently the below service check is done on the clustered node individually . My question is , is it possible to put it on the clustered environment instead of indiv

Re: [Nagios-users] checking host alive or service ping check

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Powell
On May 6, 2009, at 5:30 AM, Felipe Ferreira wrote: > Hello all, > What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check > in > the host template (check_command check-host-alive), witch I have > defined > as a PING. > And creating a ping service applied to the host ? Host check

Re: [Nagios-users] Identical weird data returned by NRPE on eight different hosts?

2009-05-06 Thread Marc Powell
On May 6, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > Dear All, > > I have the following configuration for my hosts, but for some > reason, my > hosts are all reporting the same data, even though I'm using NRPE. For > example, swap data, is exactly the same for each host. I have > included a

[Nagios-users] escaping arguments - check_snmp_int.pl

2009-05-06 Thread Tom Wouters
Hi everyone, I've hit a bit of a snag while trying to monitor the status of some switch ports. I'm using the check_snmp_int script from Patrick Proy, when i run /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_int.pl -H 10.2.0.111 -C public -n "5.(?:6|7)" -2 -k -M -w500,500 -c700,700 -B from the commandline

Re: [Nagios-users] checking host alive or service ping check

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Felipe Ferreira : > Hello all, > What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check in > the host template (check_command check-host-alive), witch I have defined > as a PING. > And creating a ping service applied to the host ? I did a test with both > configurations, and

[Nagios-users] NDO Utils Error Support for the specified database server is either not yet supported

2009-05-06 Thread BipinDas-Gmail
Hello Everybody I have setup nagios for the Datacentre. Now I need to setup NDO for database logging. Setup everything according to the DOC. I got an error when I tried to start the daemon using à /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db-3x -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg. “Support for the specifi

Re: [Nagios-users] Only hard status on tactical display?

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Divan Santana : > Hi again... > > Sorry to bother all but surely someone has wanted to get the tactical display > to only show hard status' and not soft errors. Yes indeed! > Has anyone managed to get this to work? I haven't. Although the Nagios Checker plugin for Firefox can do this.

[Nagios-users] checking host alive or service ping check

2009-05-06 Thread Felipe Ferreira
Hello all, What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check in the host template (check_command check-host-alive), witch I have defined as a PING. And creating a ping service applied to the host ? I did a test with both configurations, and didn't see a different behavior. The

[Nagios-users] Identical weird data returned by NRPE on eight different hosts?

2009-05-06 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Dear All, I have the following configuration for my hosts, but for some reason, my hosts are all reporting the same data, even though I'm using NRPE. For example, swap data, is exactly the same for each host. I have included a link to a CFG file that I am using, can someone have a look, and make s

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Kevin Keane
Does your network use dynamic DNS by any chance? If you do, you could use the laptop's DNS name rather than its IP address. You may also be able to use a script that enumerates all the machines in the network. On Windows, look into the commands "net view /Domain:" and nbtstat -c as some sta

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring critical servers - best practices

2009-05-06 Thread alfonso baldaserra
> max_check_attempts 2, notification_interval 10. Looks like you just > need to change check_interval. I use -- > > check_interval 5 > retry_interval3 > max_check_attempts 3 > > > I have checked nagios archives for check_interval, retry_int

Re: [Nagios-users] nag2ast

2009-05-06 Thread cr...@hooters-uk.com
No I did not find any English documentation, further to that one of the links in the instructions no longer works. http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html Does anybody else have any suggestions on how I can achieve Voice notification. Thanks Craig --- Original Message --- From

Re: [Nagios-users] Only hard status on tactical display?

2009-05-06 Thread Divan Santana
Hi again... Sorry to bother all but surely someone has wanted to get the tactical display to only show hard status' and not soft errors. Has anyone managed to get this to work? Thanks very much -- Divan Santana On Sunday 03 May 2009 21:01:53 Divan Santana wrote: > Hi All, > > Has anyone manag

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows 64-bit

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Grant Lowe wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been trying to find out if there is a 64-bit version of Nagios > for Windows 64. I've been looking at the internet and there isn't a > lot of info about it. I'm asking because our local Windows admins > say it won't run on the Windows 64-bit, running on AMD (

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Ken Tang wrote: > I'd like to monitor a few user laptops in our environment. They use > wireless so they often get dynamic IP addresses. Is there a way that > Nagios can accept any connections, or, a range of addresses for a host? > I don't have control of the DHCP server so I cannot assign a

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/5 Ken Tang : > I'd like to monitor a few user laptops in our environment.  They use > wireless so they often get dynamic IP addresses.  Is there a way that > Nagios can accept any connections, or, a range of addresses for a host? > I don't have control of the DHCP server so I cannot assign a