On 8/12/2013 4:04 PM, Daniel Ceola wrote: I did that, but it made the map a
complete mess of lines that I couldn't
make out.
Try check_cluster. Check_cluster aggregates the status of individual ESX
hosts. The clusters here have three or four ESX hosts each. If one ESX host
in the cluster
On 6/7/2013 9:28 AM, C. Bensend wrote:
Not real sure why Nagios doesn't think that's a valid config - I
want a contact that will receive only UNKNOWN alerts for services.
Have you tried giving that contact the extra options Nagios wants, and then
defining a service escalation for that
On 5/5/2013 11:29 PM, Alex wrote:
I have also interval_length=60 in nagios.cfg. I don't understand why
admins-escal isn't consulted after three consecutive attempts at
communicating with the service. What am I doing wrong?
This is a silly question, but are there contacts who are members of the
On 3/13/2013 9:51 AM, Jonathan Gazeley wrote:
The end result is a fairly permissive SELinux policy *for Nagios* but
still far better than not having SELinux at all.
That's exactly what I did, too. If it helps you get jump started, I
ended up with a .te file that looks like this. I don't run
On 1/14/2013 9:41 AM, julian_grunn...@tdwh.co.uk wrote:
If the TCP check continues to fail the service escalation contact starts
to get alerts but the actual contact for the defined service doesn't.
Try changing contacts me_at_home to contacts +me_at_home.
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-Chris
Nothing in this message
On 1/3/2013 6:31 AM, Keith Edmunds wrote:
In case it isn't clear: imagine three servers, alpha, bravo and charlie.
Alpha and bravo are in the AB hostgroup; all three servers run Apache.
If Nagios detects a problem with Apache on any of the servers, it should
notify the apache-contact-group. If
Are macros allowed to be used inside custom variables? I'm using Nagios
3.2.3. I was experimenting with using custom variables in host
definitions for clusters. I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
make this work.
It didn't seem to matter how I escaped the $s or not, whether I used
Where I work, the server engineers want Nagios to notify them fairly
quickly when a problem develops. During the day, the settings are fine.
Recently, however, the nightly backups and scheduled antivirus scans
began causing enough load that monitored hosts to become briefly
unavailable, but
On 8/8/2012 5:57 PM, Andreas M. Iwanowski wrote:
So as I understand, if I define a parent-child relationship between
the VPN services (or core gateways) on the parent side and the remote
gateway on the other side, the remote gateway will be checked (and we
notified) as long as one core gateway
On 8/7/2012 8:33 AM, Andreas M. Iwanowski wrote:
I.e. if the primary gateway goes down and the standby takes over, I
would still like to be notified about host troubles behind the VPN. Only
if both were to be down nagios should stop sending messages.
Would setting parent/child relationships,
On 7/31/2012 11:24 AM, David Fulton wrote:
Also keep in mind you can use user defined host based macros that can
be defined in the templates to make parameters to the service checks
inherited from the host as well.
I've been using Nagios since it was Netsaint and never figured out what
I
On 7/30/2012 2:31 PM, Vladislav Staroselskiy wrote:
Is there any way to derive certain service options from the host definition?
Is there any default inheritance behavior for it?
...
I really wish, service notification/contact options could be derived from
hosts definitions to avoid this
On 7/30/2012 5:20 AM, Ruslan Valiyev wrote:
Does it mean I have to create two different service templates and
specify my emails there?
No, you can have just one template for service check if you like. You
determine what kinds of notifications a contact can receive with the
On 3/26/2012 2:04 PM, Jim Winkle wrote:
I'd like to set up Nagios so that:
1) In general, contact_groups for a host are notified about problems with the
host and any service on the host.
2) Occasionally, we'd like other contact_groups to be notified about problems
with certain services on
On 3/21/2012 6:13 AM, Marki wrote:
Hi people,
I have problems defining a check so that it only runs once each day (at a
specified time).
If setting the check_period doesn't work out and you can tolerate the
check being run more often, you can set the notification_period to a
smaller time
On 1/4/2012 5:11 AM, Jim Avery wrote:
Another advantage is if you add or remove host servers to the cluster
you only need to change the one host definition.
You could use check_cluster as the host check for your fake host, then
its status would be meaningful too. I'll have a go at doing that
On 12/27/2011 9:31 AM, Jatin wrote:
Fedora. I wanted to know if i can follow the same steps for installing
Nagios on CentOS assuming that i have a default CentOS installation.
Yes. I used the Fedora instructions to install Nagios on CentOS myself.
It has been a while since I did it, though.
On 12/9/2011 8:52 AM, Boyer, Timothy A. wrote:
We’re trying to filter out some flaky services giving us too-frequent
‘No data was received from host’. Will removing ‘u’ from
notification_options eliminate this, or are they two different things?
Have you got flap detection enabled? Nagios can
On 10/28/2011 6:25 PM, Jim Avery wrote:
running and emails or SMSs you if it isn't. The check_snmp_process
plugin could be useful for that task.
http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_process.html
I'm echoing everything Jim said. I cannot remember if Nagios has ever
crashed on me. I do restart
Samuel Kidman wrote:
prl@PR-PRO-CR-NAG02:~/host-config/finished-lists$ sudo
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios-master-test.cfg
Error processing object config files!
I have a hunch the problem's in nagios-master-test.cfg. Do you have a
backup of that file
David Wilkinson wrote:
Will I have to duplicate service config so I can change the notification
period or can I have it set on a per host basis and have that override
what is set in the service template?
You can set it on a per-host basis. If you do not define a notification
timeperiod in
Kevin Kenny wrote:
I find this a convenient configuration because it means I don't have to
explicitly define contacts or contact groups at either the service
template or service check itself and makes management somewhat simpler.
Well, that's one way to do it, but...
Despite the warnings,
Julie S. Lin wrote:
I'm trying to set up recurring downtimes for automatic reboots Below
Have you considered scheduling host downtime instead? There's one fewer
parameter to pass to the script. I think the service name is the
tripping point. I was able to copypaste your command into a
ali abatourab wrote:
please i need help for checking my scheduler task in windows with nagios
, like task start ,task error
You can check Windows scheduled tasks if you use the NSClient++ agent.
http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckTaskSched/CheckTaskSched
In the monitored host's
I noticed that acknowledgements submitted through Nagios' WAP interface
are set as persistent. However, they're not set that way by default if
you use the regular web interface. The command description box reads
like the option is not selected by default.
I'm not a C programmer, but I dug
Check out the documentation's section on implied inheritance. It might let you
do what you want:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
Services can inherit their contact_groups from their associated host
definition. You do this by *not* assigning a contact_group in
$/$SERVICEDESC$ $CONTACTPAGER$
}
And here is a page, sent to a regular e-mail client:
From: nagios@domain [mailto:nagios@domain]
Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 2:46 PM
To: Chris Beattie
Subject: PROBLEM: servername/Disk: F
servername/Disk: F is WARNING
F:\ - total: 399.99 Gb - used: 342.71 Gb (86
Mister IT Guru wrote:
I guess the bottom line is, why are acknowledgment emails being sent,
but not warnings, and criticals?
What are host_notification_options and service_notification_options set
to in your contact definition?
--
-Chris
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Nothing in this message is intended to
James Whittington wrote:
I’m running NSClient++ on some of my web servers and I was looking for
ideas on how you might monitor IIS worker process size.
Could you use check_nt -v COUNTER and check on the Process(w3wp)\Virtual
Bytes and \Process(w3wp)\Working Set performance counters? I don't
Maurizio Pinotti wrote:
hi Chris, thanks for your reply.. I just upgraded to nagios
3.2.1-2~bpo50+1, but
nothing has changed :'(
Bummer. I wonder if the package's nagios.cfg file is different from the
stock one.
I was using an old nagios.cfg file for a while. It turned out there
were new
Maurizio Pinotti wrote:
I have a really odd issue running Nagios: a few minutes after starting the
scheduling queue seems to freeze and no more active checks are performed. The
queue remains stucked for hours until I have to manually restart Nagios.
I'm running Nagios 3.0.6 (deb package) on
Toonz IT wrote:
Is it possible to monitor specific event ids like disk error, fro
windows event viewer logs??
Yes, but you may have to use the NSClient++ agent on your Windows boxes
and create custom commands to do it.
http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog/CheckEventLog
Unfortunately,
tal...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm trying to setup the check_smtp plugin for a remote mail server. I
downloaded the latest version of nagios-plugins, built and installed
it. This is what I get when I invoke check_smtp from the command line
(actual data removed) -
received 530 5.7.0 Must issue a
Mark A. Lappin wrote:
interface for hosts and all services on hosts. Dozens it seems. Is
there an easy way to turn all notifications back on for all services and
all hosts in one fell swoop? We had a lot of htem turned off while we
You can use Nagios' external commands to do that.
On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 15:41 -0500, chris burgess wrote:
Is there a way to override the service notification period by setting
it in the hosts entries? (this is what I expected to do, but it seems
the service takes precedence)
You're on the right track, but facing backwards. If you set a
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 11:20 -0500, Chris Beattie wrote:
This time I'm trying a nearly-stock nagios.cfg file. The one I've
been
using predates Nagios 3.0. Though it's been updated some, it doesn't
contain all the more-recent settings.
I was out of town for a bit.
This is still happening
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:52 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
That one was in 3.2.2 too though. Could you try un-commenting the lines
mentioned there and see if that helps?
It looks like something weird is still happening after making that
change. I checked some more hosts and the retry_interval
On Tue, 2010-11-16 at 22:52 +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios.git;a=commitdiff;h=1149d275011d7c4d8631b44dbba30ebdb4d7e83f
That one was in 3.2.2 too though. Could you try un-commenting the lines
mentioned there and see if that helps? I won't revert that patch,
I noticed something curious. It looks like Nagios 3.2.3 is making
on-demand host checks faster than the retry_interval should allow. The
interval_length is set to 60 and the retry_interval is set to 1. Nagios
and the plugins were compiled from source on CentOS 5.5 x64.
I'm not sure if this
Acknowledgements add comments to hosts and services, so you could just
set yourself a reminder to occasionally check the comments link in the
side bar and look for anything that's getting stale.
-Original Message-
From: Andre Timmermann [mailto:an...@nine.ch]
Sent: Monday, November 01,
Your servers will probably be fine servicing the extra Nagios polling,
unless they are overloaded already.
Since I run Nagios on virtual machines, however, I tried to keep the
load on my failover Nagios server minimized. My failover Nagios server
runs a cron job that uses the check_nagios
On Wed, 2009-07-01 at 14:51 +0530, N Patil wrote:
Is there any way that I can generate/convert reports into CSV, PDF,
DOC or such formats ?
I don't know if this will help you at all, but I've always used MRTG or
Cacti for history and graphing rather than Nagios add-ons. Newer
versions of
On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 10:25 +0100, cr...@hooters-uk.com wrote:
I'm looking to monitor a web site that is hosted on a
server that has multiple sites, how would I go about
monitoring multiple sites on one server?
The check_http command supports arguments for the host name, the host
address, and
'
dependencies, however. That does make life much easier than the RPM
Hell days!
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the notification period from the
host. You'll have half the service templates to manage if you can do that.
Look for implied inheritance on this page:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
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Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept and offer
*
contact_groups +nogmgr
first_notification 3
last_notification 0
}
define hostescalation {
host_name *
contact_groups +nogmgr
first_notification 3
last_notification 0
}
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users's dead.letter file.
Thanks from me, too, for the explanation: I don't need that cron job
anymore!
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contract, except that an attachment that is an image of a contract bearing the
signature
service_description Service: Web
check_command check_nt_service!W3SVC
}
You don't have to assign services to a hostgroup, but it's convenient
for me to do so.
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Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept and offer or to form a
contract
I need some help understanding the check_cluster plugin, please. I'm
using version 1.4.13 of the plugins on Nagios 3.10, all compiled from
source on 64-bit CentOS 5.2. We use VMWare ESX clusters, and I'd like
the hosts in Nagios that happen to be virtual machines to have one
parent instead of a
since it's looking only for *.cfg, but they do visually pollute the
directory listing and I tell rsync to exclude them when I copy the
config files from dev to production.
--
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Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept and offer or to form a
contract, except
PC can render Nagios' web pages.
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Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept and offer or to form a
contract, except that an attachment that is an image of a contract bearing the
signature of an officer of our company may be or become a contract. This
message
I compiled Nagios 3 from source on CentOS 5.2 with SELinux set to Enforcing. I
installed Nagios following the Fedora Quickstart guide. SELinux will prevent
just about everything in Nagios' web page from running. It was an iterative
process to get everything allowed, since I kept finding
Marc Powell wrote:
On Feb 2, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Chris Beattie wrote:
Sorry for the top-posting: I'm stuck with Outlook.
heh. That's an excuse? ;) Here's what I do to make it more 'standard'
when I have to use it --
I started with BBSes in the early eighties, so to this day combining
for things the
program I'm compiling depends on. For example, if I got that message, I
would verify that I had, say, the krb5 package installed, and then
following that, also install krb5-devel, and try the configure step again.
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Chris Beattie
Nothing in this message is intended to make or accept
You can disable inherited service checks for a host by putting an exclamation
mark in front of the host name in the service definition. Look for Excluding
Hosts in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html.
From: Keith Edmunds
Sorry for the top-posting: I'm stuck with Outlook.
Have you tried templates? We have ~550 hosts and ~4500 services, and
it'd be a real pain to not use templates.
I have a host template definition for Windows servers, which adds
anything assigned that template to a windows_servers host group. I
I didn't notice this until you pointed it out. I almost always open things in
new tabs, though. Reloading status.cgi works if it's in its own tab, at least.
-Original Message-
From: Nicole Hähnel [mailto:m...@nicole-haehnel.de]
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 11:15 AM
To: Nagios Users
From: Palle L Jensen [mailto:pall...@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2009 9:28 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Acknowledged by user + Service action url
1. In Nagios Web-interface and when someone acknowledges a problem, the
Author (your name) it is
Hello all,
I'm running Nagios 3.0.6 compiled from unmodified source on CentOS 5.2
x86_64. I noticed that notifications stopped early this morning, and
the logs said Nagios caught SIGSEGV, and it was shutting down. Nagios
doesn't appear to go all the way down, though. All the CGIs still work,
From: Chris Beattie [mailto:cbeat...@geninfo.com]
I'm running Nagios 3.0.6 compiled from unmodified source on CentOS 5.2
x86_64. I noticed that notifications stopped early this morning, and
the logs said Nagios caught SIGSEGV, and it was shutting down. Nagios
doesn't appear to go all the way
-Original Message-
Kenneth Holter wrote:
We're running Nagios 3.0.3 on RHEL 5, and are having an issue with
SELinux. A symptom I have noticed it that acknowledging a problem
results in the following error:
/Error: Could not stat() command file
-Original Message-
From: Eddie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To keep services status information up-to-date on the slave the master
sends all service check results to the slave.
I got this set up between my master and slave servers, and then noticed
that comments and other stuff like
I'm setting Nagios up in a failover configuration like is described in
the documentation, with the primary server feeding check results to the
failover server via NSCA. That part's working fine, but is there a good
way to also keep host and service comments, acknowledgements, and
scheduled
Er, both servers are Nagios 3.0.5 running on CentOS 5.2, sorry.
From: Chris Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 9:53 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring and acknowlegements
I'm setting Nagios up in a failover
keep Nagios itself, updated on the failover server without me having to
do it manually.
From: Paul Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2008 11:09 AM
To: Chris Beattie; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Failover monitoring
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