Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk plugin

2010-05-06 Thread Aidan Anderson
Davide Blasi wrote: with or without quotes give me the same result :( Try using single quotes, e.g. -I '/my/fist/.*' -I '/second/.*' -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list

Re: [Nagios-users] About host check retry interval for nagios v 3.x

2010-04-27 Thread Aidan Anderson
Yu Watanabe wrote: Hello all. I would like to ask a question regarding to Host Definition in Nagios official document of 3.x. In the Object Definitions - Host Definition, the host retry interval is set as #. What would be the interval lentgh that Nagios is actually performed with this

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Dependency Object Inheritance Issue

2010-04-22 Thread Aidan Anderson
Aidan Anderson wrote: Hi, Using Nagios v3.2.1 I am have problems defining host dependency object inheritance (chaining) using templates. It appears that if you use 2 levels of inheritance, Nagios doesn't like it and aborts with the following error: Error: Could not expand dependent

[Nagios-users] Host Dependency Object Inheritance Issue

2010-04-20 Thread Aidan Anderson
Hi, Using Nagios v3.2.1 I am have problems defining host dependency object inheritance (chaining) using templates. It appears that if you use 2 levels of inheritance, Nagios doesn't like it and aborts with the following error: Error: Could not expand dependent hostgroups and/or hosts

[Nagios-users] Persistent Comment in Acknowledgement

2010-04-12 Thread Aidan Anderson
Hi, When acknowledging a host or service problem, I've noticed that the Persistent Comment check box is not ticked by default in v3 whereas it was in v2. Is there anyway of changing this behaviour so that it is ticked by default? I can't find any options in cgi.cfg or nagios.cfg to change

Re: [Nagios-users] Persistent Comment in Acknowledgement

2010-04-12 Thread Aidan Anderson
Assaf Flatto wrote: Aidan Anderson wrote: Hi, When acknowledging a host or service problem, I've noticed that the Persistent Comment check box is not ticked by default in v3 whereas it was in v2. Is there anyway of changing this behaviour so that it is ticked by default? I can't

Re: [Nagios-users] Persistent Comment in Acknowledgement

2010-04-12 Thread Aidan Anderson
Assaf Flatto wrote: Aidan Anderson wrote: Assaf Flatto wrote: Aidan Anderson wrote: Hi, When acknowledging a host or service problem, I've noticed that the Persistent Comment check box is not ticked by default in v3 whereas it was in v2. Is there anyway

[Nagios-users] Child host becomes UNREACHABLE when parent changes from UP to a SOFT DOWN state

2010-04-07 Thread Aidan Anderson
Hi List! I am in the process of upgrading from v2.12 to v3.2.1. As well as upgrading, I am taking the opportunity to move to a new server at the same time. This has allowed me to run both versions in tandem to compare the operation of the two versions. One difference I noticed straight away

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing Nagios for the first time

2010-03-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Tim Tompson wrote: My nagios.conf: ## BEGIN APACHE CONFIG SNIPPET - NAGIOS.CONF ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin /usr/local/nagios/sbin Directory /usr/local/nagios/sbin Options ExecCGI AllowOverride None Order allow,deny Allow from all AuthType Digest AuthName

Re: [Nagios-users] problem creating hostgroup

2010-03-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Gezina Dekker wrote: Hi all, When I restart after adding this host-group using split.cfg I get the following. Running configuration check. CONFIG ERROR! Restart aborted. Check your Nagios configuration I have server a definition for it. if I comment the lines out, the resatrt is

Re: [Nagios-users] host status in nagios/var/status.dat

2008-03-21 Thread Aidan Anderson
Colin McKinnon wrote: Hi all, Having looked at what was avilable (NLG, centreon...) I decided to write my own front end for Nagios. This proved to be quite straightforward (except for sorting out the locking semantics in PHP - but that's another story). The only problem I'm having is that

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient issue (Unknown alerts)

2008-01-28 Thread Aidan Anderson
Ronaldo A. Bueno Filho wrote: Hi, guys and ladies :) Now, I'm experiencing a problem regarding NSClient++. I'm monitoring a Windows workstation on my LAN. I configured NSClient++ following its documentation. Now, that workstation shows unknown alerts for CPU load, Memory usage and

Re: [Nagios-users] String errors

2007-11-29 Thread Aidan Anderson
Jerad Riggin wrote: Ok, so I'm monitoring about 100 websites with string checks via check_http. We are mirroring what our datacenter actually checks, so we have notifications turned off so when a site goes down we aren't being spammed by the datacenter and our nagios installation. The

Re: [Nagios-users] Service notifications for a down host?

2007-11-19 Thread Aidan Anderson
Doug Tabb wrote: I’m looking for a little behavior confirmation here, please. It’s my understanding that a failed service check is one way a host check is initiated. If Nagios determines the host is down, further service problem notifications are suppressed. However, I still get one or

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor packet loss with check_ping command

2007-10-22 Thread Aidan Anderson
Alex Dehaini wrote: But in this case - if there is a 20% packet loss out of 10 pings sent to a host - will I be notified? That all depends on what you set your max_check_attempts to. If you want to be notified of any packet loss, set this to 1 (one). Increase this value if you prefer more

Re: [Nagios-users] notify contact only once

2007-10-05 Thread Aidan Anderson
Terry wrote: I have a contact that I only want to receive one notification. How can I set this up? A good place to start looking would be here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html ;) - This

Re: [Nagios-users] notify contact only once

2007-10-05 Thread Aidan Anderson
Aidan Anderson wrote: Terry wrote: I have a contact that I only want to receive one notification. How can I set this up? A good place to start looking would be here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/notifications.html ;) without supporting info will risk being sent

Re: [Nagios-users] notify contact only once

2007-10-05 Thread Aidan Anderson
notification_interval and of course apply the different contact groups to each service. Am I correct or is there another way around this? Thanks! On 10/5/07, Aidan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Terry wrote: I have a contact that I only want to receive one notification. How can I

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Notifications Problem

2007-09-24 Thread Aidan Anderson
Ray Wadkins wrote: Thanks for the reply. I didn't include notify-host-by-email because it didn't seem relevant, but it's in commands.cfg (pasted below). The host isn't failing, just the service. When you say service notifications are suppressed what do you mean? Is there a configuration I

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Notifications Problem

2007-09-23 Thread Aidan Anderson
Ray Wadkins wrote: define contact{ contact_namerwadkins_e ; Short name of user use generic-contact ; Inherit default values from generic-contact template (defined above) alias

Re: [Nagios-users] Configure smtp in Nagios

2007-09-21 Thread Aidan Anderson
Rodrigo Tavares wrote: Hello, How I do configure smtp in Nagios ? best regards, Rodrigo Faria You don't. Whatever mail server you are running on the Nagios box will take care of SMTP. Nagios simply pipes the notification through the /bin/mail command or whatever command suits the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Log Management Tips?

2007-09-20 Thread Aidan Anderson
Rogelio Bastardo wrote: Anyone have any tips for dealing with Nagios logs? Things are getting a little crazy, and I haven't even been logging very much! e.g. [EMAIL PROTECTED] run]# find / *nagios* -type f -size +100k -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 : $5 }'

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin)

2007-07-20 Thread Aidan Anderson
shacky wrote: Hi. I'm using NRPE to monitor a remote server. The most part of the plugins works without problems, but check_backuppc returns the error (No output returned from plugin) in the Nagios web interface. The check_backuppc stanza in the Nagios configuration is the following:

Re: [Nagios-users] Cancel Downtime?

2007-06-15 Thread Aidan Anderson
On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Anthony Mendoza wrote: Click Downtime and then the Trash can icon to the right of the service/host you want to cancel. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil Schultz Sent: Thursday, June 07,

Re: [Nagios-users] Cancel Downtime?

2007-06-15 Thread Aidan Anderson
Aidan Anderson wrote: On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:18 PM, Anthony Mendoza wrote: Click Downtime and then the Trash can icon to the right of the service/host you want to cancel. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wil

Re: [Nagios-users] how to unsubscribe????

2007-06-02 Thread Aidan Anderson
Go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users Go to the bottom of the page to the section headed Nagios-users Subscribers and follow the instructions for unsubscribing. You'll need your password. Aidan Arief Iqbal wrote: hi, how can i unsubscribe from this goddamned

[Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Hi, I have recently set up Nagios 2.8 and am monitoring 1623 hosts and 1946 services. Performance under normal circumstances is fine. Typical check and latency times are as follows: Monitoring Performance Service Check Execution Time:0.03 / 11.04 / 3.418 sec Service Check Latency:

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe command line test question

2007-05-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Maxwell,Brady wrote: My nrpe.cfg on the remote host contains these commands command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$ command[check_disk1]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -p /dev/vga/root running a check_nrpe from the

Re: [Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Ton Voon wrote: On 11 May 2007, at 19:03, Jim Avery wrote: On 11/05/07, Aidan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of people have mentioned using fping to speed things up but if my average service latency is only 0.479 seconds in normal circumstances, I can't see how

Re: [Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Aidan Anderson
Ton Voon wrote: On 11 May 2007, at 20:25, Aidan Anderson wrote: First of all, thank-you for the replies! The majority of devices that I monitor are routers/vpn devices and I have (on the documentation's advice) not set active checks on the hosts and instead I've added check_ping

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable service_notification_commands

2007-05-02 Thread Aidan Anderson
Hi Kareem, I am using 2.8 and the docs have 'service_notification_commands' in red (required) so I don't know whether that is an error in the docs or not. If you want to disable service notifications, put the directive back and simply specify the 'n' option. This will disable service

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Group Summary Changing Numbers

2007-04-10 Thread Aidan Anderson
they all did not stop for some reason. I have since stopped all services killed off any additional processes and now things seem to be back to exactly what I have grown to expect, a nice stable platform in nagios. Thank you - Original Message - From: Aidan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: N