[Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
Hi, i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked services to be the exception. So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems so odd. I was thinking about adding some _v6address variable to all

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:26 AM, Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de wrote: Hi, i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked services to be the exception. So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Florian Lohoff wrote: Hi, i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked services to be the exception. So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems so odd. I was thinking about adding some

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Michael Friedrich wrote: Florian Lohoff wrote: Hi, i am thinking about the monitoring with dualstack targets/hosts. I'd expect all our hosts and services to be dual stacked or at least single stacked services to be the exception. So adding a v6 host for all v4 hosts seems so odd. I was

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Robert V. Bolton
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at wrote: there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. even if there are custom variables, it's more intentional for keeping the systems dualstacked in the future by adding that. You

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
Robert V. Bolton wrote: On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at mailto:michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at wrote: there's a patch for nagios around, adding address6 as host attribute. even if there are custom variables, it's more intentional for

[Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread Jake Xu
Hi everyone, From time to time, I need to restart or reschedule all services to verify that some new checks or new hosts are working properly. Is there any easy way to do that? I have a large number of hosts and services, so it would be tedious to click through a bunch of links via the web

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm using Multisite for front-end to Core and do this all the time. Dan From: Jake Xu [mailto:j...@demonware.net] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:54 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once Hi everyone, From time to

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread Michael Friedrich
On 09.01.2012 20:53, Jake Xu wrote: Hi everyone, From time to time, I need to restart or reschedule all services to verify that some new checks or new hosts are working properly. Is there any easy way to do that? I have a large number of hosts and services, so it would be tedious to click

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread andrew.ford
I usually combine the classic external command scripts with a smidge of perl to grab the members of the hostgroup that I want to trigger something for. If you give the following script a hostgroup name, it will grab the members from objects.cache: #!/usr/local/nagios/bin/perl use warnings; use

Re: [Nagios-users] Dualstack monitoring best practice

2012-01-09 Thread Florian Lohoff
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 10:23:13AM -0700, Robert V. Bolton wrote: Hi Flo, At work we have started to go dualstack with all of our servers. Currently our web servers are 100% dualstack so most of our monitoring dualstack experience is based off of these servers. We have noticed that IPv4