[Nagios-users] Monitoring disk usage

2009-07-14 Thread Juki
Hello, I have installed nrpe v2.11 on a monitored host running Solaris 10. An excerpt from nrpe.cfg on the monitored host is as follows; *command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 30% -c 15% -p / command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 30% -c 20% -p

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking URL on windows-client using NSClient++

2009-07-14 Thread Max
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:42 AM, jvc_dvl...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Patrick, I do get a result/output when I run the batch as described (0 or 1). But I read that it needs to output in STDOUT format and I don't know how to write that in vbs... All tips are welcome.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring disk usage

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:58 AM, Juki wrote: Hello, I have installed nrpe v2.11 on a monitored host running Solaris 10. An excerpt from nrpe.cfg on the monitored host is as follows; command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 30% -c 15% -p /

Re: [Nagios-users] Using two or more host templates to aggregate contacts

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Waugh
Patrick, you legend, it worked! Thanks a bunch... On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 12:44 AM, Morris, Patrick patrick.mor...@hp.comwrote: Hi Guy! On Tue, 07 Jul 2009, Guy Waugh wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to configure nagios 3.0.6 so that I can add contact groups to a host by adding a host

[Nagios-users] Active host check scheduling in a distributed environment

2009-07-14 Thread Paul Corcoran
HI, I run a distributed Nagios environment consisting of 1 parent server and 2 child servers. The child servers perform all the service checking while the parent server should be performing active service checks. The host definitions are configured to perform host checks every 5 minutes. The

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring disk usage

2009-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Juki wrote: Hello, I have installed nrpe v2.11 on a monitored host running Solaris 10. An excerpt from nrpe.cfg on the monitored host is as follows; *command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 30% -c 15% -p / command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w

Re: [Nagios-users] Active host check scheduling in a distributed environment

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 14, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Paul Corcoran wrote: HI, I run a distributed Nagios environment consisting of 1 parent server and 2 child servers. The child servers perform all the service checking while the parent server should be performing active service checks. Both the child server

[Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Natalie Aloi
does anyone have any documentation about the USE parameter listed below - I have been unable to locate this option in the nagios documentation define service{ name sensor-service use generic-service check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 4 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi Natalie, 'use template-name' just means that the definition should use the values defined in template-name. I think this is the relevant page in the documentation: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html Cheers, Guy. On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Natalie Aloi

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Hari Sekhon
Natalie Aloi wrote: does anyone have any documentation about the USE parameter listed below - I have been unable to locate this option in the nagios documentation It inherits settings from a class that you define beforehand (ie register 0)

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Max
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Natalie Aloina...@experisdatacenters.com wrote: does anyone have any documentation about the USE parameter listed below - I have been unable to locate this option in the nagios documentation define

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Assaf Flatto
have you looked here ? http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html Assaf On Tuesday 14 July 2009 15:48:02 Natalie Aloi wrote: does anyone have any documentation about the USE parameter listed below - I have been unable to locate this option in the nagios documentation

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Natalie Aloi wrote: does anyone have any documentation about the USE parameter listed below - I have been unable to locate this option in the nagios documentation define service{ name sensor-service use generic-service check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 4 normal_check_interval 5

[Nagios-users] NSCA

2009-07-14 Thread Nick Price
Firstly many thanks to all that helped me, I finally got distributed servers up and running. It seems that there is a lot of discussion about distributed clusters. Is there a current discussion forum linked to development for this, and how do I join it I would like to return some input and help

Re: [Nagios-users] service definitions use

2009-07-14 Thread Natalie Aloi
thanks for all your responses, this is working now... -Original Message- From: Natalie Aloi [mailto:na...@experisdatacenters.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:48 AM To: 'Nagios Users Mail-list' Subject: service definitions use does anyone have any documentation about the USE

[Nagios-users] Host Checks Service Checks

2009-07-14 Thread Natalie Aloi
Im not sure where I am missing ...but HOST CHECKS are not being performed but service checks are...any idea of what configuration file I need to look in? I have a total of 18 hosts, when I view hosts detail page in gui I only see pending (except for local host)...below are stats capture my

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Checks Service Checks

2009-07-14 Thread Guy Waugh
Hi Natalie, You might need a 'check_command' for each of your hosts... like this: check_command check-host-alive The 'check-host-alive' check command would have to be defined, probably in your commands.cfg file. The default nagios configuration defines this command (I think). This is where

[Nagios-users] Passive check cache

2009-07-14 Thread Guilherme Drago
Hello all, I’ve a problem and I don’t now if I can resolve. The problem is that I like to install a client on nagios monitored hosts that will execute passives check and submit to nagios the results. I also like to when the host communication whit nagios is down it keps a

[Nagios-users] check ping explanation required

2009-07-14 Thread shadih rahman
Nagios uses check_ping for the host check of most hosts. The check is configured to send only one ping. So if Nagios receives a response, it is 0% packet loss. If no response, it is 100% packet loss. # 'check-host-alive' command definition define command{

Re: [Nagios-users] check ping explanation required

2009-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
shadih rahman wrote: Nagios uses check_ping for the host check of most hosts. The check is configured to send only one ping. So if Nagios receives a response, it is 0% packet loss. If no response, it is 100% packet loss. How is it possible for

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Checks Service Checks

2009-07-14 Thread Natalie Aloi
YUP - that's just what I needed - thanks, Guy! -Original Message- From: Guy Waugh [mailto:guid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 01:45 PM To: 'Natalie Aloi' Cc: 'Nagios Users Mail-list' Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host Checks Service Checks Hi Natalie, You might need a

Re: [Nagios-users] check ping explanation required

2009-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
shadih rahman wrote: David, Thanks for your reply. I am ensuring one icmp packet by using -p option in my command definition. Please advise on this. Thanks On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Rosenstrauch dar...@darose.netwrote: The plugin issues 5 pings by default:

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring disk usage

2009-07-14 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Juki wrote: Hello, I have installed nrpe v2.11 on a monitored host running Solaris 10. An excerpt from nrpe.cfg on the monitored host is as follows; command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 30% -c 15% -p /

Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 14, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Nick Price wrote: Firstly many thanks to all that helped me, I finally got distributed servers up and running. It seems that there is a lot of discussion about distributed clusters. Not especially, that I've seen. Is there a current discussion forum linked

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Morris, Patrick
Hi Dale! On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote: I don't seem to be able to do this: # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs # # define hostgroup { hostgroup_nameall-hst alias all-hst members

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking URL on windows-client using NSClient++

2009-07-14 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, jvc_dvl...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Patrick, I do get a result/output when I run the batch as described (0 or 1). But I read that it needs to output in STDOUT format and I don't know how to write that in vbs... All tips are welcome. A result code and output are not

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Mark Gius wrote: Morris, Patrick wrote: Hi Dale! On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote: I don't seem to be able to do this: # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs # # define hostgroup { hostgroup_nameall-hst alias

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Morris, Patrick wrote: Hi Dale! On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote: I don't seem to be able to do this: # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs # # define hostgroup { hostgroup_nameall-hst alias

[Nagios-users] GUI use of Nagios 3.0.6

2009-07-14 Thread Natalie Aloi
I seem to be having a problem with my GUI in Nagios, when I set everything up I disabled notifications through the GUI so that I could verify all of my services were working properly. Now that everything is working (sort of) when i attempt to enable notifications they just won't enable, they

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Max
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Morris, Patrickpatrick.mor...@hp.com wrote: According to http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#hostgroup, you can have sub hostgroups.  So in theory he should be able to specify a hostgroup that contains every host, subtracting

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Gius
Marc Powell wrote: On Jul 14, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Morris, Patrick wrote: Hi Dale! On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Dale J. Chatham wrote: I don't seem to be able to do this: # vim:ts=4:ai:expandtabs # # define hostgroup { hostgroup_nameall-hst alias

[Nagios-users] check_snmp

2009-07-14 Thread SYS ADMIN
It seems that for some reason my new install of nagios 3.0.6 into Debian lenny has failed to install check_snmp into the /usr/local/nagios/etc/libexec folder. It has a multitude of other check_snmp_blah blah, which I am sure are all based on it, but IT is not there, and several of my plugins call

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp

2009-07-14 Thread Natxo Asenjo
hi, http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_snmp quote This plugin uses the 'snmpget' command included with the NET-SNMP package. if you don't have the package installed, you will need to download it from http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net before you can use this plugin. /quote The Net-SNMP package

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Mark Gius wrote: This syntax works for me in service escalations (service and host groups), as well as service definitions. I've not tried it in hostgroups however. The behavior is sort of defined here

[Nagios-users] Unable to Login to Nagios

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Mitnikc
I am unable to login to the Nagios web GUI. When I open a browser to access Nagios, I am unable to authenticate. I haven't made any changes or addons since yesterday. What do I need to do to reset the password and login? Am I able to do this somehow in the terminal? Cheers, Kevin

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgtroup question

2009-07-14 Thread Max
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Marc Powellm...@ena.com wrote: Regular expressions can be used in any of the fields used in the examples below (host names, hostgroup names, service names, and servicegroup names). note that 'hostgroup_members names' is not specifically mentioned. Diving

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to Login to Nagios

2009-07-14 Thread Morris, Patrick
Hi Kevin! On Tue, 14 Jul 2009, Kevin Mitnikc wrote: I am unable to login to the Nagios web GUI. When I open a browser to access Nagios, I am unable to authenticate. I haven't made any changes or addons since yesterday. What do I need to do to reset the password and login? Am I able to

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to Login to Nagios

2009-07-14 Thread Kevin Mitnikc
That is understandable. What exactly am I looking for in my webservers configuration? What information can I provide. I have a typical Nagios install with a few servers being monitored. Is there a way to reset the password for the Nagios web portal or access? Not sure how to refer to the web

[Nagios-users] Dynamically generated service checks

2009-07-14 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Scratching my head as to how it might be possible to accomplish a monitoring task I need to do: We have a database table of tags. For each tag we have a process that generates a Javascript file and pushes it out to a CDN. I've successfully created a service check to monitor that the process

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to Login to Nagios

2009-07-14 Thread Mark Gius
Default web access is controlled via apache's basic auth module, using a password file. The default name for this file is htpasswd. I would look in your apache and nagios directories for a file of that name for a start. If you can't find that, look in your apache configs and find the nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to Login to Nagios

2009-07-14 Thread Paul Weaver
Hmm, I'm sure you're really not Kevin Mitnick You'll probably find a .htaccess file somewhere on your system. The exact configuration will vary depending on how you initially installed nagios. This file will contain a username, a .htpasswd file will contain the (encrypted) password.

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically generated service checks

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew Jurgens
I do a similar thing where I dynamically change the service check definitions configured into Nagios. You've almost got to this solution but say and couldn't just . Not sure why you say that but I'll briefly cover what I did. You will need some programming/scripting. First up in the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Eventlogs on windows server

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew Jurgens
You're almost there. You just need to configure NSClient++ a little more. http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog If you jump on our demo site I think there is an example of a check command to look through the event log Go to http://www.smartmon.com.au/, select the demo menu and then

Re: [Nagios-users] Changing the layout of the status map

2009-07-14 Thread Matthew Jurgens
I can't answer your question directly but I know what you are trying to achieve (with regards to the large public display). Instead of showing the status map we developed an application that reads the nagios status.dat file and builds a high level status view of the monitored environment. In

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp

2009-07-14 Thread Marc Powell
You received an answer earlier today that you seem to have ignored... I'll try -- On Jul 14, 2009, at 3:45 PM, SYS ADMIN wrote: It seems that for some reason my new install of nagios 3.0.6 into Debian lenny has failed to install check_snmp into the /usr/local/nagios/etc/libexec folder.