Re: [Nagios-users] single email alert to multiple contacts?

2010-08-20 Thread Charlie Reddington
On Aug 20, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Scott Nottingham wrote: Does anyone know how (or if it is even possible) to configure nagios to send a single email to all contacts associated with the host/ service/etc as opposed to a separate email to each contact? The problem I'm facing is with emailing

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks - active checks

2010-08-13 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hey All, I'll check out the stats and turn on debugging next to see if there is anything there. In the mean time, what version of nagios are you running? Nagios Core 3.2.1 This seems to be the problem right here. I upgraded to nagios 3.2.1 from 3.2.0 and nagios now honors my

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks - active checks

2010-08-09 Thread Charlie Reddington
I can't see any problem with the config below. If you have dozens of checks set up this way and they are all set up in crontab to run at */15 then you will get a storm of checks at each 15 minute intervals. I normally make sure I stagger the checks in cron so that they are reasonably evenly

[Nagios-users] Passive freshness checks - active checks

2010-08-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi All, I'm having a bit of a problem with my nagios setup. I'm trying to move toward passive checks, with failover being a active check. For now, my failover check command is just a one liner that returns critical with a message. I'm it's looking like the active check is being run, even

Re: [Nagios-users] setting up nagios to monitor other systems load, mem, disk

2010-08-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 AM, Dombrowski, Neil wrote: I have nagios 3.2.1 installed on a RH5.5 box, and it is monitoring ssh on client systems (and host check/ping). I now want to be able to check disk capacity, cpu load, etc., on other systems(clients). It's not clear to me how to

Re: [Nagios-users] Send Only one notification...

2009-07-22 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hey Luis, whats up man! Couldn't you just create a separate contact, and set it up with escalations, but only have it alert once? Maybe something like this... (note, untested). define hostescalation { host_name * first_notification 1

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-26 Thread Charlie Reddington
On Mar 26, 2009, at 11:05 AM, Kevin Keane wrote: Andreas Ericsson wrote: Kevin Keane wrote: Christopher McAtackney wrote: 2009/3/25 Kevin Keane subscript...@kkeane.com: I think you are comparing apples and oranges here, because in most situations that I can think of, the decision is

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-25 Thread Charlie Reddington
On Mar 25, 2009, at 2:30 PM, RijilV wrote: 2009/3/24 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: Hi all, I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros / cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the check_by_ssh command? I'm aware that check_by_ssh

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and email

2009-03-23 Thread Charlie Reddington
You have checked your /var/spool/mqueue and /var/spool/clientmqueue right? I have had a few million emails queued up there before. Charlie On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:22 PM, Peter Doherty wrote: Hello, I have a kind of custom nagios setup, so maybe this is a byproduct of that... I had to

[Nagios-users] Cannot disable individual servers / hosts

2008-11-22 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi, I'm running Nagios 3.0.5. I currently have about 5 different clients on my system for different companies. So users are only added to see their own servers, except for my user, which can see and do it all. I CAN disable all notifications for the entire system. Process Info - Disable

Re: [Nagios-users] Cannot disable individual servers / hosts

2008-11-22 Thread Charlie Reddington
, it will disable. Weird. Charlie On Nov 22, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Charlie Reddington wrote: Hi, I'm running Nagios 3.0.5. I currently have about 5 different clients on my system for different companies. So users are only added to see their own servers, except for my user, which can see and do

[Nagios-users] Confused on how this is working with out nrpe...

2008-11-11 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi, I'm running the latest version of nagios - 3.0.5. On my remote hosts, I'm running NRPE. I haven't used nrpe with nagios since 2.9, so I'm wondering did I miss how things work now that we are 3.0. I have a bunch of checks - disk, load, users, etc, but I'm not putting it through nrpe,

Re: [Nagios-users] Confused on how this is working with out nrpe...

2008-11-11 Thread Charlie Reddington
That's the thing, I don't have nrpe installed around. Which is where my confusion is. On Nov 11, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Sean McAfee wrote: Charlie Reddington wrote: Sure thing. I think I am missing something as it's not working how I remembered it working. --- define

Re: [Nagios-users] Confused on how this is working with out nrpe...

2008-11-11 Thread Charlie Reddington
- From: Charlie Reddington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 10:49 AM To: Nagios User list Subject: [Nagios-users] Confused on how this is working with out nrpe... Hi, I'm running the latest version of nagios - 3.0.5. On my remote hosts, I'm running NRPE

[Nagios-users] check_by_ssh timeouts / how to work around?

2008-10-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi, I have a couple machines that spit out a warning similar to this: WARNING - check_by_ssh: Remote command '/home/nagios/nagios-plugs/ check_disk' returned status 1 I believe this to be caused by the check itself is timing out. As when I try to login it will sometimes take up to a minute

Re: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh timeouts / how to work around?

2008-10-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
I should also mention that I also have these timeouts in place... service_check_timeout=90 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 notification_timeout=60 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5 Charlie On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:35 AM, Charlie Reddington wrote: Hi, I have a couple machines

Re: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh timeouts / how to work around?

2008-10-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
Sorry, forgot the mail list I'm using no ldap, but with DSA keys. On Oct 6, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Matt Rivet wrote: Are you using a LDAP server and RSA keys? -Original Message- From: Charlie Reddington [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:35 AM To: Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh timeouts / how to work around?

2008-10-06 Thread Charlie Reddington
On Oct 6, 2008, at 11:03 AM, James wrote: On Mon, October 6, 2008 11:37 am, Charlie Reddington wrote: I should also mention that I also have these timeouts in place... service_check_timeout=90 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 notification_timeout=60 ocsp_timeout=5

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios on call schedule w/ escalations?

2008-10-04 Thread Charlie Reddington
the proper contact time period. Thanks again, works perfect. charlie On Oct 2, 2008, at 3:13 AM, Jon Angliss wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:22:16 -0500, Charlie Reddington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys / gals, I am working on the final

[Nagios-users] nagios on call schedule w/ escalations?

2008-09-30 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi guys / gals, I am working on the final stages of my nagios setup, but I'm entering territory which I haven't been before and can use some guidance. Here's what I'm trying to achieve. We have a team of 3 admins, where we rotate weeks who is on call. Of course, they aren't every other 3rd

[Nagios-users] check_by_ssh - getting errors in logs

2008-09-12 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi all, I have nagios working pretty good, it's checking all i want over ssh. But ever since I have set up nagios over ssh, I keep getting the following in my logs. authpriv crit sshd[8939]: fatal: Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer I've checked the load / iowait of the

[Nagios-users] service dependency on host?

2008-09-11 Thread Charlie Reddington
Hi, I have nagios up and working but I want to tweak it some so I'm not getting buried under sms messages. My setup works like so. I have a file called Loc-Servers.cfg In this file it has the host definitions that look like this, but just a ton of them # serv01 define host{

Re: [Nagios-users] service dependency on host?

2008-09-11 Thread Charlie Reddington
/networkreachability.html -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios- users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Reddington Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 3:11 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] service dependency on host? Hi, I have nagios up