Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-16 Thread mohamed ben romdhane
Hello Jonathan, I think that you must put define service {         service_description            Oracle         host_name                      oddjob.resnet.bris.ac.uk         use                            resnet-service         max_check_attempts        1     check_freshness 1

Re: [Nagios-users] Issues with check_by_ssh

2012-08-16 Thread James Osbourn
I see that you are talking to a XenServer host. I am performing something similar. What I have had to do to achieve results is to create a local Nagios user on the XenServer host which has SSH keys to allow the server Nagios user to connect and avoid using any root SSH keys which the Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

2012-08-16 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
Hi Mohamed, Thanks for your response - this worked. Have a nice day, Jonathan On 16/08/12 08:08, mohamed ben romdhane wrote: Hello Jonathan, I think that you must put define service { service_descriptionOracle host_name

[Nagios-users] My Own Command Deinifition Weird Behavior.

2012-08-16 Thread Net Warrior
Hi there guys. I defined my own command to use an internal sms sistems, so we can send an sms alert along with the e-mail ones. This is what the script do. #!/bin/bash HOST=$1 STATE=$2 lynx http://server:/SMSService/$HOST-State-$STATE The command definition is: # send-sms define command{

Re: [Nagios-users] My Own Command Deinifition Weird Behavior.

2012-08-16 Thread James Osbourn
The first thing that spring to mind is that the SMS script is being run for host alerts for which the service variable would not be defined. It may be worth checking your contact notification definitions to make sure that hosts or services are different. James From: Net Warrior

Re: [Nagios-users] My Own Command Deinifition Weird Behavior.

2012-08-16 Thread mohamed ben romdhane
Hi, try to use the attribute  $SERVICESTATEID$  (A number that corresponds to the current state of the service: 0=OK, 1=WARNING, 2=CRITICAL, 3=UNKNOWN.) Best regards, Mohamed De : Net Warrior netwarrior...@gmail.com À : nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Nagios-users] My Own Command Deinifition Weird Behavior.

2012-08-16 Thread Net Warrior
Yes, you are right, after I fired the mail to the list, I checked that, my appologies, I notice that host uses HOSTSTATE and service uses SERVICESTATE, I changed that and defined two commands instead, gonna see if that fix the problem service_notification_commands

[Nagios-users] check_openmanage and ESXi

2012-08-16 Thread Hölzel , Arnold
All, I don't know if anyone else already posted this, I just joined the mail list. We have been using check_openmanage (brilliant piece of work!) to check the hardware status of our Dell machines, lately we are moving from ESX 4 to ESXi 5 and found that the check_openmanage check could not

Re: [Nagios-users] check_openmanage and ESXi

2012-08-16 Thread Randal, Phil
You get more reported back from check_esxi_hardware.py if the check detects any error conditions. I did a lot of work on this last year, see my blog post about it for example output when things don't work: http://www.rebee.clara.net/blog/archives/2011/04/entry_185.html Cheers, Phil -- Phil