Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE and ip range in allowed hosts

2010-09-22 Thread Herb J.
Yes, CIDR-style notation is accepted. On 09/22/2010 08:47 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote: Hello Has anyone tried placing a range ip entry in the allowedhosts directive of NRPE ? Will putting 10.1.0.0/24 work ? If not ,does anyone know if is it something that is planned to future versions of

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] FW: Nagios - SunOS

2010-09-07 Thread Herb J.
Honestly, your best solution may actually be to install a new machine that is running an OS new enough to run the latest version of Nagios. Keeping old hardware and old OS'es running may be a requirement for specific software systems, but there is no technical reason you have to run Nagios on

Re: [Nagios-users] Help hacking a script to montior my AppServers?

2010-08-30 Thread Herb J.
You will have to write your script in a way that it is able to parse the date fields in that output and calculate the difference between that time and the current time.. Is it possible to have that program output UNIX timestamps instead? If not, it will require you to get creative with awk,

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

2010-08-20 Thread Herb J.
Issues like this is just one of the reasons why we had to abstract out all notifications from Nagios to an external script. We have servers in a number of different locations, different platform groupings, escalation tiers, etc., as well as notifications sent by Jabber. They had to do to

Re: [Nagios-users] Help Needed | Web Authentication

2010-08-18 Thread Herb J.
Basic HTTP authentication is what you would use if you were password protecting a web page using an .htaccess file. Since Facebook does not use basic HTTP authentication, Facebook is ignoring the login and password you are sending it and is just displaying the standard login page (in this

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios plugins return code issue

2010-08-16 Thread Herb J.
Additionally, Nagios is really sensitive about how the Perl script is written. It should be written well-enough to run with use strict without any errors. (I see that it is commented out of both of your scripts.) Additionally, the embedded Perl interpreter causes the scripts to be run in what

Re: [Nagios-users] ? on monitoring the distribution servers

2010-08-09 Thread Herb J.
I don't use localhost in any host or service configs. There is no use for localhost, since it is such an ambiguous hostname. In a distributed setup where there are multiple sources feeding data into a single server, *every* host name must be unique, otherwise they clobber each other's data (as

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios supervising nagios?

2010-08-05 Thread Herb J.
That would be considered a standard distributed Nagios setup. We do that in our Nagios cluster. We have a number of remote Nagios collectors in different locations. They all forward their service check results back to a central monitoring server. That server doesn't actually run any host or

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios supervising nagios?

2010-08-05 Thread Herb J.
On 08/05/2010 04:16 PM, Linus Gasser wrote: Le 05.08.10 18:38, Herb J. a écrit : That would be considered a standard distributed Nagios setup. We do that in our Nagios cluster. We have a number of remote Nagios collectors in different locations. They all forward their service check

Re: [Nagios-users] Service notification

2010-07-30 Thread Herb J.
Nagios won't do that. If I recall correctly, when the host check fails, it refuses to generate any further service notifications for that host until the host check succeeds again. It also won't generate service recovery notifications when those services actually come back online either. Our

Re: [Nagios-users] NDO only processing some hosts

2010-07-14 Thread Herb J.
Unless you wish to somehow modify the source code to ignore certain hosts (a very risky proposition unless you are good at C), I'd recommend against trying to limit the number of hosts that NDO puts in the database. Also, having that many services in NDO shouldn't be an issue with the hardware

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios on Vmware

2010-07-08 Thread Herb J.
For that size of a deployment you will definitely want to use dedicated hardware. Also, with 300,000 services the standard nagios web interface could end up being quite slow. Our deployment has just over 21,000 services (multiple remote collectors feeding data back into a primary collector,

Re: [Nagios-users] Trouble with latency

2010-07-06 Thread Herb J.
You may wish to periodically off-load the historical data to a second database and clean up the primary one periodically. Having a smaller database would help immensely when NDO periodically truncates old data. Also, make sure that you have the proper database table indexes created. Also