Re: [Nagios-users] non sticky passive checks

2010-01-08 Thread Assaf Flatto
Pankaj wrote: Hi, I've configured passive service checks and am reporting back the results using nsca. I would like to turn the alerts to be critical after 5 minutes if the monitored servers fail to send any results. Currently the check continues to remain in the last state. How can I

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting parameters and plotting them in terms of % (Percentage)

2010-01-08 Thread Jatin Davey
Hi all While compiling the PNP4 pacakage i am seeing that one the modules is not installed: RRDs Perl Modules:*** NOT FOUND *** Can someone tell me where to get the modules. Thanks Jatin Joerg Linge wrote: Am 07.01.10 14:25, schrieb Jatin Davey: Hi Marc Can you

Re: [Nagios-users] non sticky passive checks

2010-01-08 Thread Paul Weaver
We use the following check to ensure that a backup has completed. The backup job calls in success (or fail) at the end, and runs every day (86,400 seconds). The freshness_threshold The backupFailed check command contains the folllowing. Note that normally active checks are disabled, however the

Re: [Nagios-users] non sticky passive checks

2010-01-08 Thread Getchell, Kristoffer M
Hi Could you enable freshness checking and set the check command to something that sets the status to critical (for example you could write an external command into the external command queue)? So long as passive results were received within the freshness threshold, the check command won't be

Re: [Nagios-users] non sticky passive checks

2010-01-08 Thread Pankaj
Hi, Thanks all. The following works best: define service { check_freshness 1 freshness_threshold 300 check_command check_dummy } define command{ command_name check_dummy command_line

Re: [Nagios-users] check_sensors command

2010-01-08 Thread James Pratt
-Original Message- From: xmanhosting [mailto:anth...@xmanhosting.com.au] Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 11:57 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_sensors command Hello, Thanks for the replies Mark and James. How would I find out what

[Nagios-users] Could not expand members specified in hostgroup (defined in cfg_dir)

2010-01-08 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Hello, I was trying out Nagios 3.0.6-4~lenny2 on Debian 5.0. The nagios3 package in Lenny uses cfg_dir pointing at /etc/nagios3/conf.d. The directory is pre-populated with the following: contacts_nagios2.cfg extinfo_nagios2.cfg generic-host_nagios2.cfg generic-service_nagios2.cfg

Re: [Nagios-users] Could not expand members specified in hostgroup (defined in cfg_dir)

2010-01-08 Thread Marc Powell
On Jan 8, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Jacob Anawalt wrote: I made a new cfg for my gecko server, gecko.cfg, and added it alongside localhost in hostgroups_nagios2.cfg, but when I tried to restart, nagios says: Error: Could not find any host matching 'gecko' (config file

[Nagios-users] Dependancy clarification

2010-01-08 Thread Israel Brewster
Here's the situation: running nagios 3.2.0, I have two services, we'll call them A and B. Both have event handlers such that if they register a hard critical state, Nagios attempts to restart them. Service B depends on service A, such that when service A goes down, service B does as well, causing

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting parameters and plotting them in terms of % (Percentage)

2010-01-08 Thread patrick . morris
Hi Jatin! On Fri, 08 Jan 2010, Jatin Davey wrote: Hi all While compiling the PNP4 pacakage i am seeing that one the modules is not installed: RRDs Perl Modules:*** NOT FOUND *** Can someone tell me where to get the modules. It depends what OS and platform you're