On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Mark L Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:20 -0800, Roger wrote:
Does anyone have any tools or tips on auditing Nagios configs when
you're consolidating boxes?
I would be pretty easy to do with a little sed and awk or grep and
On Feb 18, 2008 11:31 AM, Andy Shellam
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NLG v2 is going to be designed to work better with users, permissions and
groups and will be better suited to those who don't want a simple network
overview and would like to restrict what different users and groups can
see.
Is
Anyone have a snmp v3 config for a 3600 they'd be willing to share?
I'm needing to monitor a multilink connection...have never configured
v3 on any IOS platform.
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On Feb 5, 2008 8:36 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
List,
I am doing a school project and I wanted to do something with
nagios/monitoring. I am in a business class and my team wants to create
a consulting firm that specializes in network
technology/topology/monitoring. We are going to use
On Jan 31, 2008 10:35 AM, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Agreed, I have been doing a lot of refactoring as well and have seen a
very nice shrink in configuration file sizes and ease of adding new
hosts :) too.
- Max
Is 3 rc2 ready for primetime?
Is Opsview in another time zone? :) Responses seem to come in during
the evening.
Quick question I asked there that someone here might have an answer
for: Where, during the install process, is it best to use their tool
to convert your config files - and after their app converts them, do
you need
Opsview list appears to be kind of slow, so I'll ask here for those
using it: After using the conversion tool supplied with Opsview to
convert Nagios 2.0 configs, is there any easy way to put the other
information - hostextinfo mostly (parenting!!) - in correctly?
The tool is alpha and doesn't
On Jan 29, 2008 10:25 AM, Scott Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was able to create a true failover (hot-spare) setup using Linux-HA and
DRBD. The two machines use a primary/secondary DRBD drive setup for
/usr/local/nagios, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue. Linux-HA
manages the
On Jan 29, 2008 2:13 PM, Lars Stavholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Loe wrote:
Can someone monitoring Sun servers, and Sun clusters, contact me
off-list for pointers and other assorted stuff... :) Thanks!
Or on-list, I'm interested too, as I'm sure others are as well.
That's kinda' why
Can someone monitoring Sun servers, and Sun clusters, contact me
off-list for pointers and other assorted stuff... :) Thanks!
Perhaps nagiosexchange should have add onto their wiki howto section
by host type or something - that would be handy. Sample configs and
all that.
what's the view on Opsview? Is it just, more or less, a wrapper for
Nagios? Easier or more difficult to manage than plane Nagios? Addons
like Nagvis work with it (or is Nagvis unnecessary?)?
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On Jan 17, 2008 6:08 AM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
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How about just pulling it from the last full backup that I know you have
of the Nagios box... :)
Stephen Valdinger
That'd be cool...if only. :)
No, its not a production box yet, so there aren't any backups. And
On Jan 16, 2008 4:07 AM, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, it is a tool to do custom visualizations :); for example at one
client I work for I have taken .jpg exports of the Visio diagrams for
network segments and placed Nagios host icons over those; another map
for this client shows logical
Now that I do have Nagios in a mysql database, what other add-ons
utilize it? The documentation on it is pretty thin... I would assume
its very helpful when you have lots of Nagios servers feeding a
centralized one?
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This
Just FYI: I finally got another perl based GUI status map editor to
run
(http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.20.0.html?tx_netnagext_pi1%5bp_view%5d=593)
- but not without some errors (illegal divisions by zero and such).
Hopefully I'll be able to use this for the quick method of layout I
On Jan 14, 2008 3:51 PM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ever use Nagvis? I think that will be an easier solution for you. It
offers a webgui to modify content. www.nagvis.org
Looks excellent - but I have question about the install. Its says to
move the nagvis folder
I got NagVis installed but I have to say, I'm fairly disappointed -
but perhaps only because I don't know what I'm doing yet and I haven't
figured out what I need to do to get on its mail list. At any rate, I
was hoping for an easy way to build the visual representation of my
infrastructure and
On Jan 16, 2008 12:34 AM, Joerg Linge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OT
So lets have a look on the upcomming features :-)
http://www.nagios-portal.de/wbb/index.php?page=ThreadthreadID=8327
Only in german, but you can find some screenshots showing the brand new
automap feature.
When is this
Anyone use this? Can you help me figure out an issue I'm having
loading the hostextinfo.cfg file - which appears to be something to do
with Image.pm as well as several other lines in the code. :)
I REALLY want a wysiwig layout app for the status map!!
Is there a way to control how the labels are displayed on the logos?
Currently, I can't space the logos far enough away from each other for
the labels not to be overriding other logos!
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On Jan 3, 2008 2:39 PM, Matthias Flacke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to suggest a completely different approach - again with the
plugin
check_multi (http://my-plugin.de/check_multi) which I yesterday introduced
in
another context. ;-)
Take the following scenario: you have a parent
I was thinking of some convoluted solution for users to configure their
configuration files and them diffed or uniqed to the original with that
being saved and then the newly updated config file to be copied over the old
one and nagios reloaded, etc., etc.. BUT, I figure there has to be a better
On Jan 3, 2008 11:30 AM, Hari Sekhon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Revision Control?
Get Subversion.
-h
I've used subversion in the past and it worked well for what I was doing -
but that was all cron and script driven and there were plenty of examples to
borrow from. This needs to be user
On Jan 3, 2008 11:41 AM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fruity is a great tool. It is driven by a MySQL back-end. Users make
changes in the web interface, which get saved to the database. Once all is
reviewed, you can verify everything in the web before writing the
On Jan 3, 2008 11:46 AM, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a member of the lilac project as it happens. I can put in a feature
request for that.
Users can be administered at least as well as they are via Cacti - and hey,
why not use the same system for lilac,
On Jan 3, 2008 11:58 AM, Hari Sekhon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It needs proper forms based authenticated, not .htaccess for that.
I still think that revision control configuration is quite important
though.
So there you have 2 feature requests Stephen:
1. Forms based authentication
2.
On 3/31/07, Mike Hamrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
% For machines running httpd, download several pages, diff to last
copies of these pages, report big differences...
I'm guessing you'll have to code this plugin yourself in nagios.
Wget pages, diff previous version...blah? Sounds easy
I have...what trouble are you having?
Its been awhile since I set it up but I'll help with what I can.
On 2/9/07, Kevin DaSilva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all...
Has anyone be able to setup Net-SNMP and SNMPTT on a SuSe Lunix Box?
Ultimately I would like to receive Netware traps and have
What's your config look like? I found stuff on the 'Net for what I
wanted to do, and unless you can do the same it can be a struggle.
For snmptrapd.conf I have one line:
traphandle default /usr/sbin/snmptthandler
For snmptt, snmptt.conf, I have the events I'm looking for and the
commands I want
I have a contact group with everyone on the team in it. I have another
just for the on-call pager. I used to send e-mails to both groups but
now I'm paging them. Is there a way to configure a notification to
send a page to one contact/contact group and an e-mail to another?
What are some of the commands you guys are using for notifications via
sendpage? Since I can now page from the command line I'm ready to work
on this and since its kind of a well established method I thought I'd
avoid re-inventing the wheel like I tried last time.
I'm running nagios_spawn.sh from crontab every 5 minutes. This
script, provided by - I believe - someone on this list (thank you)
uses the check_nagios command to verify that nagios is running. For
some reason, it appears as though every other time this script is ran
(every ten minutes) it fails
On 1/31/07, Morris, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I guess the question now is, why would this check fail
every ten minutes?
How often is nagios.log updating? If it's less than every five minutes
this check will fail.
Well, good question - can you explain the stamp Nagios puts in
Anyone using sendpage with Nagios? I'm running into trouble compiling
the serialport module and have no idea where to go to get help
(e-mailed the developer but haven't heard back - maybe old e-mail,
maybe got filtered).
Thanks, as always, in advance.
Turns out, I'm not getting any alerts sent all of a sudden (or at
least since trying to implement the new alert), the only clue I
currently have is that every time it should have sent an alert, I get
this instead (which hows up in the host alert history):
Program End[01-22-2007 11:35:01] Lockfile
On 1/29/07, Morris, Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Everything you've showed looks normal. That lock file is only checked
when Nagios starts up, to see if it's already running. It doesn't need
any group-write permissions, and isn't even looked at when an alert is
sent.
Chances are you
On 1/29/07, Brian Loe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The config check (nagios -v) shows everything as fine. Log file shows
Nagios coming up fine. Its not sending ANY alerts, via the old e-mail
method or the new pager method I created. In alert history this is the
only thing unusual - and I've
On 1/29/07, Brian Loe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I need some real help, real fast - where can I look to see why
alerts are not getting out? According to the logs they're being sent,
but the pager and e-mail isn't getting anything, which is gonna hurt
if something happens after 5 today
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I really don't get this. That worked. If I just copy and paste
that output (from echo) to the command line it works fine...
What permissions would that application need to have for Nagios to run
it?
drwxr-xr-x
On 1/24/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Try this to see if the program is reporting any errors --
# 'notify-by-pager' command definition
define command{
command_namenotify-by-pager
command_line/usr/local/pager/client $CONTACTADDRESS1$
Service:
On 1/24/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, did that, it created the file but didn't put anything in it.
Well, then the script is being called but doesn't output anything. Is
that normal? It's looking more and more to me that you need to get more
verbose output from the
I have a notification configured to run an app and pass it Nagios
parameters. For what ever reason I can watch the log and see a device
go critical, but it never runs the notification command, or, if it
does, it doesn't work.
Any way to see deeper into this process?
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If the notification is being called but you don't see what you expect in
your notification script, echo the command that nagios is running to a
file to see if it's what you think it's supposed to be --
define command {
command_name
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Doing what you suggest I see that it IS running the notification,
except that the quotation marks are lost (which my external app
actually needs - so maybe I can double them up?) and none of the
I'm not sure what you mean. Post what you
On 1/23/07, Josh Yost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You should be able to backslash the quotes you need it to print:
$ echo \hi\
I'm not sure where above you would want them, maybe something like
\$SOMEMACRO$\ \$SOMEOTHERMACRO$\ ?
- Josh
The app I'm using takes two variables:
/client
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# 'notify-by-pager' command definition
define command{
command_namenotify-by-pager
command_lineecho '/usr/local/pager/client $CONTACTADDRESS1$
Service: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nAddress:
$HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
On 1/23/07, Brian Loe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# 'notify-by-pager' command definition
define command{
command_namenotify-by-pager
command_lineecho '/usr/local/pager/client $CONTACTADDRESS1$
Service: $SERVICEDESC
On 1/23/07, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These look fine (probably). Is 'client' a script or program that you
wrote or have visibility into? What does it do exactly.
It is an application written in-house in C, I don't have any
visibility into it but it basically just sends a message to
I'm using the following check command (in checkcommands.cfg):
# 'check_dns' command definition
define command{
command_namecheck_dns1
command_line$USER1$/check_dns -H www.our-web-server.com
-s $HOSTADDRESS$ -a our web server's IP address
define command{
I want to use check_dns for our two DNS servers, but I want to do an
nslookup on our main web server, and specify some other specific
command line options (does -A work correctly?). Is the proper way to
do this just to change the check_dns configuration in
checkcommands.cfg? What if you wanted
One of the things Tivoli had promised to provide our company was
end-to-end insight of our Java applications. It doesn't work. Any
product that does this is going to be difficult to create, implement
or administer. In our case, the easiest method for verifying the
uptime and performance of our
On 12/27/06, John P. Rouillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-- rouilj
John Rouillard
Let me summarize my response to this excellent post: I'm working on
the same sort of thing, using SEC more so than Nagios - and not in
nearly as advanced a way as you are. I have
Nagios was running, the config is fine. I restarted Nagios again and
it recreated the pipe. I was able to remove all of the comments this
time...perhaps because I slowed down...shrug
On 12/20/06, Az [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you sure it is still running? I think you will find the pipe only
I'm not sure on the ease, but it seems like it should be doable now
for any service/application for which you can run a Nagios check
against. The parent being the system (ping?), the next some base OS
subsystem, next the app that depends on it (log file checks or some
other homegrown
It seems I should have a /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file -
but I don't. Not anywhere on my drive or in the dowloaded tar.
Thoughts?
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That was it - just needed to restart Nagios
On 12/20/06, Patrick Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Brian Loe wrote:
It seems I should have a /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file -
but I don't. Not anywhere on my drive or in the dowloaded tar.
It's a pipe that's
and...still no pipe.
Any ideas?
On 12/20/06, Patrick Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Brian Loe wrote:
It seems I should have a /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file -
but I don't. Not anywhere on my drive or in the dowloaded tar.
It's a pipe that's created when Nagios
On 12/11/06, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nagios Looking Glass will have this functionality - check out
http://looking-glass.andyshellam.eu - that (currently) has a host
comment added in Nagios that shows as a message box, but only if you
append #NLG: to the comment in
I have a customer that would like us to monitor all devices that
involve the services we're selling them, and provide them with an
availability report. I've created a host group with just those devices
but the outstanding issues are:
1. Need to change the polling/pinging interval to 2 minutes. I
On 11/14/06, Saletan, Jesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As Donnell said this may be somewhat distro dependent, but with Red
Hat/Fedora I think you could make Nagios respawn using a respawn line
in /etc/inittab. I couldn't give you the exact syntax offhand but it's
pretty straightforward.
I
I've played with a couple of reporting scripts from nagios exchange -
with little success. Does anyone have one that they KNOW works on the
latest, stable version of Nagios and can provide availability for a
particular hostgroup? Or, conversely and probably preffered, a list of
outages for each
On 11/14/06, Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sounds like a bad idea. If you make a typo in the config your system will
respawn itself a lot as it will start and die in quick succesion.
A watchdog script can be smarter. And my nagios uptime is almost identical
to my OS uptime.
On 11/14/06, Donnell Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I always like using the nagios process check myself rather than checking
for the .pid file as I have had nagios die off and the ps wasn't
telling me anything, I use this which works pretty good for me, I also
use this along with additonal and
I've had fun with Cacti - if thats the sort of thing you're looking for.
On 10/25/06, Maxwell,Brady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Nagios Users,
I have a need to setup some performance and trending graphing or charts for
many of the service checks I am performing with Nagios. My
I BELIEVE it can, but I don't know that for sure. You can build a template for just about anything though...and in fact there is a nagios plugin already available though its mostly a frontend (the version I'm running anyway).
Check out cacti.org and cacti.net and cactiusers.org.On 10/25/06,
On 10/21/06, Az [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1. *All* packets fail on the first check (be it from none arriving or
taking too long).
2. *Some* packets fail on the first and subsequent check.
Close, I think
Problem1: Pings take too long (longer than the configured threshold)
and/or 1 of 3 pings
Is there a way, at all, to specify that if pings are lost - but at
least one gets through - or get slow, then nagios waits until the next
check before alerting on it. However, if all pings fail, it alerts on
the first check?
I'm using check_icmp, I think, and I believe it does the same - but
how do I differentiate between alert on the first complete failure,
but check twice before alerting when the threshold is exceeded?
On 10/19/06, Az [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brian Loe wrote:
Is there a way, at all, to specify
On 10/5/06, Tom Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
we send pages (no sms) using a modem on the nagios box and then this
routes to the pager supplier - Relying on email or email-to-sms gateway
is dangerous as what happens if all connectivity fails - your alerts do
not get through.
I agree
So, for a noob, whats the easiest way to make sure a host alert is
sent the FIRST time Nagios doesn't get a response to a ping?
Perhaps it should be a service alert - but either way, you get my
meaning. I don't want to wait 15 minutes to find out a router went
down. Not EXACTLY sure how to fix it
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Downtimes.38.0.html?tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=363
Does anyone know if you can use templates for this configuration file
(schedule.cfg)? If not, how hard would it be to add?
On 9/18/06, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the script link. The one I'm
I'm monitoring a couple of 5.3 boxen with Cacti (nothing in Nagios
other than a ping) and it works okay... the AIX snmp implementation
isn't much fun though, and to view more of the MIB you'll need to
enable it. I had more luck with v3 than v1.
Might look at upgrading snmp...?
On 8/31/06, Arnar
Assuming you stop/started the service after modifying your hosts and
services config files, is it possible you used the rc/init script?
Have you killed the service (with the kill command) and then restarted
it yet? I'd try that...
I was under the impression that nagios will spawn more processes
Couldn't you write a script that diffs nmap results and report 0 if
diff doesn't come back with anything and 1 otherwise? nmap could be
cronned to run hourly - or so - and the results diffed with a baseline
file resulting in the code which nagios can cat... or something.
Sorry, not a developer
On 8/17/06, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/nagios-plugins-1.4.3/contrib. --
[contrib]$ ./check_nmap.py --help
check_nmap plugin for Nagios
Copyright (c) 2000 Jacob Lundqvist ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
License: GPL
Version: 1.21
SNIP
If possible, supply an IP address for the host address,
I've downloaded this plugin! Problem is, as I understand it, its not
compatible with the newest version of Nagios - correct? I would
certainly like to use it though - and if you can provide me with some
help that would be most excellent!
Before I read that somewhere, I had tried to implement it.
2.4 - but I was confused about which plugin you were referring to...
My problem with your plugin is that I just get an empty e-mail, which
I'm forwarding here (less my company's warnings of confidentiality and
such).
On 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Newest version of
Awesome - thank you!
On 8/10/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, found the problem.
Sorry guys, in my haste to bash out a version without the CSS embedding
code, i made a schoolboy error. This has now been fixed.
Does anyone have a solution for reporting (via printable views - or
better, e-mail) in the 2.x version of Nagios. I'm really needing the
availability report sent at a specific interval...
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On 8/9/06, Tory M Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 8/9/06, Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you know which URL to request to get the report you want: Simply wget
it and write a small script to tuck it in a nice email message.
The url for the avail report is something
On 8/9/06, Tory M Blue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go ahead and click open in new window after the first selection and I think
from that point on, it gives you the full url.. Meaning right click the
submit/select button and open it in a new window (should give you the full
url)
Couldn't do it
using --save-headers, -p -k and saving it to a file (-O), this is all
I've managed to get:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 21:40:43 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Linux/SUSE)
Cache-Control: no-store
Pragma: no-cache
Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
Last-Modified: Wed, 09 Aug 2006
On 8/9/06, Marc Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll want to go all the way through the report generation process in
your browswer _then_ grab the URL for the page with the actual report.
This looks like you're giving wget the URL for the start of the report
process.
That's possible, but
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