[Nagios-users] Service check goes HARD too quick if multiple service are in problem state

2013-01-15 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi, I have had this problem previously and posted here but not go nowhere with it. Ill have another bash. Basically my nagios machine is checking too frequently and firing out alerts too quickly Its ignoring the retry_interval value, the max_check_attempts value and ingoring the

[Nagios-users] check_nt - MEMORY USAGE - incorrect results

2013-01-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, Using the supplied check_nt plugin to check Memory Usage on Windows servers. Some report correctly, others report a complete load of old tosh!!! I have tried 3 different versions of Windows OS, the version seems to make no odds. Doesn't matter if 32 or 64 bit either. Some examples

Re: [Nagios-users] Anybody use check_mssql_health plugin?

2012-12-07 Thread Andrew Thompson
...@pomwonderful.com 559.521.5089 From: Andrew Thompson [and...@fulgent.co.uk] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2012 4:48 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Anybody use check_mssql_health plugin? If so, ever

[Nagios-users] Anybody use check_mssql_health plugin?

2012-12-06 Thread Andrew Thompson
If so, ever come across this issue before? Everything works fine apart from 1 server and 1 check. 1 particular Windows 2008R2 server replies its CPU usage as a crazy percentage: [12-05-2012 14:47:35] SERVICE ALERT: XX;CPU USAGE;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CRITICAL - CPU busy 194180.74% [12-05-2012

[Nagios-users] Nagios is ignoring the retry_interval setting

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi, My nagios box has decided to stop listening to the retry_interval entry in my templates. My server template reads: define host{ name host-server check_period server_24x7 check_interval1 retry_interval3

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios is ignoring the retry_interval setting

2012-11-29 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi Georgio, The whole test cfg I am using to try troubleshoot this can be found at: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/test.cfg This is a direct copy of my main servers config but with the rest of the servers and some templates for other server checks taken out Kind Regards Andrew From: Andrew

[Nagios-users] SSL Enable web interface help

2012-11-21 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, I am publishing my Nagios web console to be accessible over the interweb, now I need to make it secure. I have loaded a test VM with Nagios 3.4.1 on, on Ubuntu 12.04 desktop to test on rather than play with SSL on the live box. I have followed this guide:

Re: [Nagios-users] SSL Enable web interface help

2012-11-21 Thread Andrew Thompson
to type service nagios start? chkconfig nagios on make sure that firewall don't block nagios's port De : Andrew Thompson and...@fulgent.co.ukmailto:and...@fulgent.co.uk À : nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.netmailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net nagios-users

[Nagios-users] Performance Data from custom bash script

2012-10-18 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hello, I have a custom written bash script for checking my websites and trawling around them. Now I need to learn and understand now to get performance data into nagios from this script so I can graph with PNP4Nagios Can anybody give me any pointers on how to get performance output from this

[Nagios-users] Check Website Help

2012-08-03 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, I have websites that I monitor. Some require just a yes is it up or no its down by hitting the site and searching for text on it. Others require the site to be logged into and trawled to test SQL backend so I need to provide it with a username/password. I also want performance data

[Nagios-users] Check_Mk - no hosts

2012-06-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi, Trialing check_mk plugin as I was 2 nagios boxes in 1 web interface. I have it set up on a test box (but I used OMD for install of everything) Anyhow I have added my Windows 7 laptop to the main.mk file, installed the agent and checked the service is running. and then I run check_mk -I

[Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes in 1 web interface

2012-06-21 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hello, At the moment I have 1 box setup, monitoring 2 sites (1 local and 1 remote) and if I go to www.blablabla.co.ukhttp://www.blablabla.co.uk it routes through to my office and nagios box and the web interface is displayed. I want to put a box in at the remote site so both boxes only check

[Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes running together in different locations

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, We run 1 nagios box in our Office at location A - this monitors all servers/websites etc in Location A and a remote office in Location B hooked up with a static VPN We have a bit of a tempermental firewall at the moment that keeps going down thus resulting in everything appearing down

Re: [Nagios-users] Root_partition check not reading correctly

2012-03-19 Thread Andrew Thompson
Check out the command lines and the way you are spelling disk/disc as you have 2 different spellings. command_line$USER1$/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c $ARG2$ -p $ARG3$ command_line$USER1$/check_disc -w $ARGS$ -c $ARGS$ -p $ARGS$ Check the actual name of the file in the libexec folder. Also

[Nagios-users] Ackowledge this service link is missing

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all Nagios 3.3.1 on Ubuntu 11.04 Desktop. I have just come to acknowledge a critical service and much to my surprise I don't have the option too. Is this a known bug? Any help appreciated. Kind Regards Andrew T: 01386 834000 F: 01386 834100 and...@fulgent.co.ukmailto:and...@fulgent.co.uk

Re: [Nagios-users] Ackowledge this service link is missing

2012-03-14 Thread Andrew Thompson
thought the same thing only to realize that the service hadn't gotten all the way to a hard state just yet. Mark From: Andrew Thompson [and...@fulgent.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 8:44 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users

[Nagios-users] Does nagios refuse the \ character?

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Thompson
Does Nagios allow \ characters in check commands? If I run this from the terminal: Check_mssql_health --servername IP ADDRESS --username domain\\domain user --password QWERTY --mode connected-users It connects off to my SQL Database and reports back the connected users. I have put the

[Nagios-users] FW: Does nagios refuse the \ character?

2012-02-29 Thread Andrew Thompson
Ignore I sorted it by putting some in the check command Define service{ Useservice-sql-server Host_nameSERVER Service_descriptionSQL CONNECTION TIME

[Nagios-users] check_mssql_health plugin by consol labs connection issues

2012-02-28 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all Ubuntu 11.04 desktop 32 bit SQL 2005 server Check_mssql_health-1.5.8.2 Just testing this plugin on 1 of my SQL servers. Im using the domain admin to test with so I know it has full Windows auth access. I have installed the DBD:Sybase package. If I run from a terminal: Libexec#

[Nagios-users] Host Availability Report Strange Output

2012-02-27 Thread Andrew Thompson
Can anybody tell me what is meant by an Undetermined state and the reason being insufficient data? I added a host last week on Friday 24th and its had no issues at all but my weekly email report gave this output for it HOST Availability Report Last Updated: Mon Feb 27 00:01:18 GMT 2012

[Nagios-users] Exclude Notifications during certian hours

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, I have all my servers (approx. 70) monitored by PING using the 24x7 time period and notifications set to 24x7. Im happy with this as I want to know when my servers go down at all times as a lot are critical and under strict SLA's. However I have the need to exclude notifications for 1

[Nagios-users] Warning: Duplicate definition found for service 'XXXX' on host 'YYYY'

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
Nagios Users, Im trying to restructure my Nagios to make the web interface easier to read. My test servers.cfg file is thus: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/895609/office_servers.cfg When I test my config I get: Warning: Duplicate definition found for service '' on host '' And when I look at

Re: [Nagios-users] Warning: Duplicate definition found for service 'XXXX' on host 'YYYY'

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
2012 15:15 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Warning: Duplicate definition found for service '' on host '' -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Thompson [09.02.2012 12:17]: Nagios Users, Im trying to restructure my Nagios to make

[Nagios-users] NDOUtils Error writing to data sink! Some output may get lost. xxx queued items to flush

2012-02-03 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, Ubuntu 11.04 32bit Desktop edition NDOUtils 1.4b9 Im trying to install NDOUtils so I can get Nagios writing its log files to MYSQL. But im not having much luck. I have followed the install guide to the letter: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/ndoutils/NDOUtils.pdf When all said

[Nagios-users] Write nagios.log data to a SQL Server database hosted on a remote Windows server

2012-01-27 Thread Andrew Thompson
Is this possible? c I know i can get Nagios to write its nagios.log data to MYSQL on the Nagios sevrer but is it possible to have it write its data to a remote Windows SQL server? Wondering if i can take advantage of Microsoft SQL Reporting Services to manipulate my data into reports ready to

[Nagios-users] FW: I cant get notifications for service alerts

2012-01-26 Thread Andrew Thompson
and pointing out to me where I was going wrong Patrick. Kind Regards Andrew From: Andrew Thompson Sent: 25 January 2012 21:32 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Fwd: I cant get notifications for service alerts Hi Patrick, so what check do I suggest I add in fir the host

[Nagios-users] Fwd: I cant get notifications for service alerts

2012-01-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
cant get notifications for service alerts From: Andrew Thompson and...@fulgent.co.uk To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net CC: Hi all, I have just setup Nagios to monitor the diskspace on my servers. Nagios works fine monitoring and reporting diskspace but I cant

[Nagios-users] Nofification Anomaly

2012-01-13 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, I have a strange notification problem that I cant seem to get to the bottom of. In a nut shell I am using escalations to limit the amount of notifications for any given host to 5. Host Down notification 1 comes via form of Email and Text Then I have Not 2-5 if down to come via email

[Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts?

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, Tonight I will be forming maintenance on over 50 of my servers and will be taking firewall and routing links out. I have 86 hosts that this will affect. Im going to put them into scheduled downtime in Nagios. I have my hosts divided into hostgroups. Is there a quick way to schedule

[Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts?

2012-01-12 Thread Andrew Thompson
! From: Andrew Thompson Sent: 12 January 2012 12:14 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Scheduled downtime for mass hosts? Hi all, Tonight I will be forming maintenance on over 50 of my servers and will be taking firewall and routing links out. I have 86 hosts that this will affect

[Nagios-users] Gammu SMS Daemon writes Nagios text alerts to MYSQL but they dont get sent out to mobile!

2012-01-01 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, I know this is a Nagios support list but my question it more a Gammu, MYSQL and Nagios combination help that I am after. Software: Gammu 1.28 MYSQL Server Ubuntu Desktop 11.04 32bit Nokia 6021 via USB cable Nagios 3.3.1 I have got everything working but 1 thing. Nagios uses:

[Nagios-users] Anybody help setting up Anag on an Android phone?

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
Trying to get the aNag app set up on my Samsung Galaxy. However when I add my Nagios instance it always throws back the same error: HttpResponseException: Not Found (time and date) I can access my nagios web interface over the internet by going to http://nagios.company.co.uk/nagios just fine

Re: [Nagios-users] Anybody help setting up Anag on an Android phone?

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Thompson
Thanks for the suggestion Seon, Its all sorted now - my phone automatically chages Nagios in the url to a capital N. Changed it to lower case and my phone now checks in with Nagios. Simple things huh.. :) Kind Regards Andrew T: 01386 834000 F: 01386 834100

[Nagios-users] Is there a plugin available that will log into a website and navigate through it?

2011-11-25 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, Is there a plugin out there in the wild that will login into a website with a provided user/pass and then navigate its way around the site clicking a few links and then log back out again? Got a site that id like to trawl to check its availability. www.site.comhttp://www.site.com

[Nagios-users] Nagios Core and SMS alerts (or lack of) through Nagios

2011-11-11 Thread Andrew Thompson
Hi all, Im at my wits end. Spent 2 days now trying to get Nagios to SMS me through gnokii but a lunar eclipse is a more frequent event! So i have Ubuntu 11.04 installed using postfix to email me alerts (works flawlessly) Now i also want a text message as a failover incase my Exchange server