Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Question

2008-08-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ind it useful to watch the *total* memory; in case you ever have a stick go bad on you, you'll notice. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth &

Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Question

2008-08-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ped. IMO, that's the most useful number to measure: most machines will reach a steadystate where there is 0 or very little (a few tens of megabytes) of active swap. If your swap starts to climb, that's when *I* worry... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [Nagios-users] Any plugin for a TroubleTicketing System for Nagios??

2008-08-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
on the same box, you can also run it's command-line ticket creation program, and skip the email entirely. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 21

[Nagios-users] Why can't I Handle alerts?

2008-08-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
inks they're still unhandled problems, even though I've acknowledged them. Do "acknowledge" and "handle" really not mean the same thing? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] UNSUBSCRIBE

2008-08-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:36:56AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > On Aug 8, 2008, at 8:49 AM, Barbara Abernathy wrote: > > UNSUBSCRIBE > > Yup, bold blue really helps get that point across... ;) I dunno; it was white here, just like all mail text is. Cheers, -- jra --

[Nagios-users] Why can't I Handle alerts?

2008-08-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
oblems, even though I've acknowledged them. Do "acknowledge" and "handle" really not mean the same thing? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Sound Alerts configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:25:09AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > but no sound. Nothing indicative in the frame source... > > > > Did I miss something? > > Sure I did. > > I didn't uncomment the audio file pointers in cgi.cfg, *or* install > Quick

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Sound Alerts configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 10:19:41AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > And why didn't it work for me? > > I made the patch, did make cgis and make install-cgis, and reloaded my > browser tab, then forced a Service Problem (I logged into a machine for > which "User

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Sound Alerts configuration

2008-08-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 10:00:02PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > On Aug 4, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 09:37:52AM +0900, Ian Masters wrote: > >> It's a bit of a kludge so I was wondering if anyone else had found a > >> clean

Re: [Nagios-users] is there a plugin for traffic threshold?

2008-08-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
lert below 50mbit. If you let the speed of this interface go below 50MB/s; the entire switch will blow up, automatically. Cheers, -- jr ':-)' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] feature request: Service used as Host check

2008-08-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
etting up 3.0 about 2 months ago, and all the config managers I found had not yet been forward-ported to deal with 3 yet... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Sound Alerts configuration

2008-08-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
files with the wrong MIME type, and that fixing it requires patching that code; it's in the archives from a couple months back. I too would like to see it fixed; I may go grovel in my Copious Free Time. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification using notify-html-email.sh

2008-07-29 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
/gmane.network.nagios.user/55932 is an example > of why it matters. Threaded mail clients do the same. Your question is > now forever associated with the original as if it were part of it. Not for readers on gmail, alas. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [Nagios-users] Help - I am unable to send notifications

2008-07-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
n exec(2) and exec(3)); if the sh-bang line doesn't call a shell, one is not involved. But I suppose you may have meant "the interactive shell you're talking to"... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designe

Re: [Nagios-users] Thoughts about a custom plugin

2008-07-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
solate that LAN isn't good enough; I presume you're a) also doing other stuff and b) smart enough not to tell us what that is. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] Zombie processes

2008-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
have thought its process model really created such... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com

Re: [Nagios-users] Zombie processes

2008-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
boxes this month, and I didn't look at the details, but that was one of the stock provided plugins... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] Help - I am unable to get the NSClient++ to restart services

2008-07-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 08:32:41AM -0300, Fernando Rocha wrote: >This is Portuguese and we'll translate that for the next release. I'm looking forward to it. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Nagios-users] check-ping

2008-07-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
me than running a small, much-audited program suid root. Ok; that's reasonable. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios can die and still update the CGI date?

2008-07-15 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t to delete the IRT header. > On Jul 14, 2008, at 3:46 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > Does the CGI not at least scream somehow if there's nothing running > > behind it? > > If nagios dies in such a way that the status_file still exists, no. > You might consider running

[Nagios-users] Nagios can die and still update the CGI date?

2008-07-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
cream somehow if there's nothing running behind it? Should I already know this answer? And, what about Naomi? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 210

Re: [Nagios-users] check-ping

2008-07-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
7;ve left Jeff's quote in so you can see, Andreas, that you misread him. He didn't say "SUID root". He said sudo -- he plans to set the nagios Linux user up so it can sudo to run ping as root. Seems sensible to me. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] Log time stamps

2008-07-14 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
-liner didn't occur to me. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e

Re: [Nagios-users] unknown option in nrpe.cfg

2008-07-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
this. I'll assume you mean RHEL 5, not Red Hat Linux 5... :-) Did they switch syslogs in RHEL5? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associ

Re: [Nagios-users] Sidebar disappearing in Firefox

2008-07-06 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
FF/Linux), and kill the process, that's the easiest way to restart it and be prompted to reopen your tabs. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 A

Re: [Nagios-users] AUTO: Sean McKell/Boulder/IBM is out of the office until 10/30/2000. (returning 2008-07-08)

2008-06-30 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
plement that pleasant thought. Now if we could just teach it not to reply to messages where the user is not the To: addressee... Cheers, - jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: Bug Reporting / Issue Tracking System ?]

2008-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
em only > serve to simplify. Oh, I'm all for ticketing systems... as long as they aren't giving people the impression that work is likely to be done which will not in fact ever be done. Have you looked at The Original Bugzilla lately? ;-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: Bug Reporting / Issue Tracking System ?]

2008-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 03:38:03PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 14:14 -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > And if other people work the tickets. > > I'll volunteer to have my team manage tickets and generate reports. > > Its just a reality of

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: Bug Reporting / Issue Tracking System ?]

2008-06-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:49:15PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: > "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" -- Eric S. Raymond > -- But only if someone writes them down :) And if other people work the tickets. Is *that* part figured out yet? :-) Cheers, -- jra --

Re: [Nagios-users] cisco switch ports

2008-06-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
me > tire gauge. Anyone seen this before?" Can I nominate that for Funniest Mailing List Reply of the month? :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RF

Re: [Nagios-users] [Multiple Problems]

2008-06-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
mostly 2.x compatible at the moment, but I gather some of them, at least, are being updated. As for extending them, I'd recommend looking into nmap and /etc/services to determine what's available publically to monitor. If this *is* a homework problem... it's your *homework*, du

Re: [Nagios-users] Services on down hosts

2008-06-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
wd idea it won't be 100% completed and super-easy to use from day > one, as there's a lot of work to be done). The site, I note, still says "after June 3 2008". Whazup? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMA

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple Problems

2008-06-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
installed? It will show up as broken. >5. Is it okay to have multiple definitions of the same host with exact same >text in nagios? If no, what about if just the IP remains same? I suspect the former won't work but the latter will, but I'm somewhat of a newbie, as well.

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
e inquiring about how to instrument an NT4 SP6 PDC for Nagios next week... :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Trouble

2008-06-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
sure that another copy > of And if Marc's suggestion doesn't help, note that "I can't create $PATHNAME" can mean that there's something wrong with *any directory in that path*, not merely the last one. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
erride None Order allow,deny Allow from all # Order deny,allow # Deny from all # Allow from 127.0.0.1 AuthName "Nagios Access" AuthType Basic AuthUserFile /appl/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users Require valid-user and that works, as the brits say, a treat. Cheer

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-plugins-1.4.12

2008-06-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s/libexec/ >there isnt too. Scroll back through the output of ./configure when you do it, and it will likely tell you something useful... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Th

Re: [Nagios-users] A couple newb questions

2008-06-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ot;, warn on "3.1" and > error on everything else. That sounds like a neat idea. Could you provide one more layer of detail on that? Which plugin do you use? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] Services on down hosts

2008-06-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t; Thanks. Sorry; my version of mutt doesn't handle large numbers of 'lists' directives well; this list wasn't being recognized for List reply, and I hadn't fixed it and was using Group reply instead. Fixed now. > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at

[Nagios-users] SOLVED: NRPE 2.12 installation issue

2008-06-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
//lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > - > Check out the new SourceForge.net Mar

Re: [Nagios-users] Services on down hosts

2008-06-11 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 08:19:14AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >Stupid question of the week: > > > >I see that Nagios 3 represents as CRITICAL services on hosts which are > >down. > > Those CRITICAL tests are actually test-results. S

[Nagios-users] Services on down hosts

2008-06-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
went UNKNOWN if the host wasn't running? Ok, I guess I can see both approaches to that as being sensible in some circumstances; is there a knob to change that behaviour for a service, or something less obvious than a knob? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] Graphs switch ports

2008-06-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s. Nagios isn't really well suited to that sort of running performance monitoring/graphing/logging, from what I can tell. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] snmpwalk as external command or customize "Status information"

2008-06-10 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
roper status to nagios > and you can select which part of the output will be passed through to > nagios as text. > > If I had a serious need for this I would write a perl script. And use Net::SNMP, instead of shelling out to a command. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashwort

Re: [Nagios-users] OT: snmpwalk output format query

2008-06-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
the same (though I can't see why they wouldn't...); the MIB items slip out of sync by the end. It's a start though, and I have a perl guy in house. Thanks again. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http issues...

2008-06-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
addition to any meaning they may have to Nagios. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp

2008-06-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ok for differences? > > Look for an access control list of some kind on the target device which > restricts who can query it via SNMP. And, if that's difficult to do, take the working host offnet, and alias the other one's interface to it's IP. Cheers

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance problems

2008-06-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
looked at the pretty pictures. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24 St

Re: [Nagios-users] OT: snmpwalk output format query

2008-06-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
calhost system`; > > foreach my $i (0..$#names) { > print "$names[$i] $numbers[$i]\n\n"; > } See what happens when you're not a perl guy? Thanks a bunch, Andy. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PR

Re: [Nagios-users] OT: snmpwalk output format query

2008-06-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
to get the combo. Splicing didn't look especially easy, which is why I was hoping to get snmpwalk to do it for me. Mine is net-snmp 5.4, and yes, it has a billion and six output options, but none of them seem to do this; I tried several combinations. Thanks, anyway... Cheers, -- j

[Nagios-users] OT: snmpwalk output format query

2008-06-04 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
. :-) with having to look them up ever 5 minutes. There doesn't seem to *be* a way to do that, though. Anyone ever try this, and figure out the magic mojo? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Agent installation on AIX 4.3

2008-06-02 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
s it's head most prominently WRT system management, which intersects directly with setting up Nagios monitoring. Good luck, and feel free to report your results (on the wiki?) if you have success. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagiosplug-help] check via MAC adress

2008-05-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
> check results. If the process can be scripted, it can be used as a check > plugin. It's that scripting part that can be challenging... Naw; just use an RFC1149 interface driver; it'll take care of all that for you. http://linux.omnipotent.net/article.php?article_id=12239

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with Router status in notification.

2008-05-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:19:22PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > On May 20, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:16:23PM +0530, Michael Mukherji wrote: > >> thanks for your input.But the port was actually down.Bt i want > >> noti

Re: [Nagios-users] OT: Procmail filter to add Reply-To: to mailinglist

2008-05-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
r to either OT the subject line, or, better, take it off-list. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with Router status in notification.

2008-05-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
______ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring your office's Coffee Machine?

2008-05-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ommercl/1coffee/apstserv.html#ICB > http://www.bunnomatic.com/pages/windows/1_5_TF_Bless_Serv_B_D.html > http://www.bunnomatic.com/pdfs/commercial/specsheets/a35.pdf > > Now, if you get that to work, you should post a how-to. And you *gotta* implement RFC 2325. :-) Cheers

Re: [Nagios-users] How to do download speed control

2008-05-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
oblem is really NP-hard to solve generally. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Monitoring your office's Coffee Machine?

2008-05-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 04:15:52PM -0500, tblader wrote: > Mirza Dedic wrote: > > > anyone know of a product you can attach to it that has network > > capabilities that Nagios can talk to? Lol > > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Coffee.html And let's not forget RFCs 2324 and 2

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring your office's Coffee Machine?

2008-05-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ive when people pick up the pot to pour coffee. Urns work better in this environment. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates

Re: [Nagios-users] Forcing a Service State to Recovery

2008-05-13 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
o it" to be a red trap, and for managers to be able to send the green trap manually. I think this is a failing in the design of c_l, or at least it not being designed for what you want -- which seems a reasonable thing to want -- but you could also view it as Nagios being iffy on handling

[Nagios-users] Build problem with NRPE on Slack 10.2

2008-05-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ctory `/appl/downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11/plugins' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/appl/downloads/nagios-plugins-1.4.11' make: *** [all] Error 2 This appears to be a common build error, but no one ever answers when prople ask, that Google wan

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup definition

2008-05-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
roups hostgroup1,hostgroup2,hostgroup4,hostgroupn > } It doesn't cause any confusion, statistical or otherwise, to put a host in more than one group, does it? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup definition

2008-05-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
f other host groups whose members > should be included in this group. I did see that, when I actually looked far enough. :-) For what it's worth, it doesn't *actually* say that if you are going to declare an object a member of a hostgroup, you *do* still actually have to *define* it

[Nagios-users] Hostgroup definition

2008-05-12 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
o define the hostgroup in some amorphous 'somewhere', and then add all the hosts to it *there* (which means that there are two places you have to change when you add a new host, which I'm not fond of). Have any of the DBMS config builder front-ends been updated to 3.0 yet? Cheer

Re: [Nagios-users] wrong information by check_disk !

2008-05-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
that disk isn't remote. This isn't entirely the best documented process -- I know, cause it took me almost 3 hours to figure it out. :-) === You know what would be *wonderful*? If someone could post, somewhere, one or more working complete configurations, annotated

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
load average *per processor*, and then have one check_load per processor. Alternatively, you could get those numbers that top(1) displays for utilization percentages, and massage *those* to get your load results per proc; those are split. But you'd need to average them. Cheers,

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t, they > would be alerted. I think the way you should set this up is to send the Nagios alerts as Level 1 messages, and then your users can set up their notification alerts anyway that suits them. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMA

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-08 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
a really good question, though, and opinions will likely differ. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.p

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote check with check_load check_disk

2008-05-07 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
check_nrpe!check_load > } And to expand that a touch so it's clearer for the archives, if you use NRPE, *you must define the check commands on both machines*, the monitoring machine, and the target monitored machine. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Bayli

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange notification problem

2008-05-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:34:41AM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > If your particular carrier *and phone* happen to tolerate that, then > you go with that. > > But understand the other repliant's warning: it's out-of-standard. Excuse me: you're using Gnokii. *B

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange notification problem

2008-05-05 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
> } > > With this command I can send SMS with more than 160 symbols but less than > 220 and it's suitable for my needs. If your particular carrier *and phone* happen to tolerate that, then you go with that. But understand the other repliant's warning: it&#

Re: [Nagios-users] No notification on hard state change afteranacknowledgement

2008-05-01 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
n't* say sticky; the last sentence says how that changes for Sticky. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://

Re: [Nagios-users] Issue with Contacts and Notifications

2008-04-29 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
to you. You RTFMd someone pretty hard my first week here, and I was a bit snotty to you; clearly it wasn't justified. --j ] -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashwo

[Nagios-users] SNMP Traps from ProCurve Switches

2008-04-29 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t in parallel? And does anyone know if those traps include the MAC address of the rising device, or whether I'm going to have to go poll the MIB? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Thin

Re: [Nagios-users] check_smtp

2008-04-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:19:44AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:10:37PM -, Nair wrote: > > >Could you pls let me know usage of check_smtp to exceute an > > >smtp command and display

Re: [Nagios-users] check_smtp

2008-04-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
I think, Nagios Exchange, that ought to give you a pretty strong hint. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange NRPE Problem...

2008-04-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:14:01PM +0100, Gavin Williams wrote: > Just to clarify, I'm using NRPE_Nt, with Nagios 2.0x and check_nrpe on > Windows Server 2003. Yup; that was a good thing to clarify. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange NRPE Problem...

2008-04-28 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
r your nrpe.cfg file says the daemon should run as -- it actually seems to default to nobody...) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associate

Re: [Nagios-users] smtp server that nagios uses

2008-04-25 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 01:03:21PM +, Melanie Pfefer wrote: > mycompany.com smtp:smtp:ip_adddress_of_my_new_exchange If that's a copy and paste, note that you did "smtp:" *twice*. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL P

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios alerts via Windows Messenger

2008-04-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
t that it might be productive to aim tcpdump at that segment and let Windows do it. You might gain some useful insight as to how they're doing it... which combined with the smbclient sources, might tell you if it's possible. Of course, that's probably a last resort, but at least it&#

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs NSCA benchmarking

2008-04-24 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ten do you do that? I'm just not sure I can envision a *better* architecture for it, either... Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth &am

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: FW: FW: SMS issue Nagios 3.0

2008-04-23 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:56:05PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > It is not a variable *in the shell*. > > If you're manually testing a nagios commandline in the shell, you have > to substitute in valid values for the values by hand.

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: FW: FW: SMS issue Nagios 3.0

2008-04-22 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
Nagios*. It is not a variable *in the shell*. If you're manually testing a nagios commandline in the shell, you have to substitute in valid values for the values by hand. Cheers -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
n I'm comfortable with. Commercial solutions for this are $5k, which I won't get. A couple hours of an electrician on a Saturday, to put boxes in front of the panels to loop the feeders through, to where I can separate them, and put CTs on them in a box with no exposed HV, yeah. I'm

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
[ inadvertantly didn't send these to the list ] On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Jonathan Dill wrote: > On Apr 21, 2008, at 10:33 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >Aha! > >Thanks. It ain't wireless, but at the price, I also don't care. :-) > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-21 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
I also don't care. :-) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com '87 e24

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 01:53:47PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > LaCrosse, for example, has 10-channel capable wireless temp and > possible temp/hyg sensor/transmitters for very close to $20 each... but > while they have a PC interface, it's not clear at all whether the > inte

[Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2008-04-20 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
r in my machine room, and temp sensors in each of my 4 breaker panels, to start. $150 sensors are a non-starter) Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashwo

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code 255 and flapping services on Solaris9

2008-04-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
ask a potentially stupid question? Why check_by_ssh instead of nrpe? Admittedly, nrpe wasn't the *easiest* thing I've ever configured, but I did manage to get it running reliably in about 2 hours. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code 255 and flapping services on Solaris9

2008-04-19 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
see it break when you run it manually, but it breaks how frequently when you let Nagios run it? Side question to all: is there a way to configure nagios to drop into a log file somewhere *precisely* what it hands off to a shell or exec when it runs a check-command? Cheers, -- jra --

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code 255 and flapping services on Solaris9

2008-04-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
get 100 hits? Same question *with* local caching. We're about reliability on this question, I think. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code 255 and flapping services on Solaris 9

2008-04-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
you tested to make sure that that name can be reliably, repeatably, resolved? Does the command return the expected results from the command line if you run it 100 times in a row? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] D

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE uninstall?

2008-04-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
is is the problem if all your remote checks pass, but the status on the service detail is "NRPE v2.5.1" or suchlike). Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things I Think

Re: [Nagios-users] check_users: list the users?

2008-04-18 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 09:22:55AM +0100, Hari Sekhon wrote: > Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > >I'm putting this on servers that, typically, have no humans logged in > >at all. > > > >Since that's true, I'd like to have the list of users from who -q > >re

[Nagios-users] check_users: list the users?

2008-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
mit a patch to do this? b) How long can that status message become without breaking 1) nagios and 2) nrpe? Anyone have opinions, answers, or pointers? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer The Things

Re: [Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
h :( if that's the case) No, if you can get to that point from the command line on the monitoring machine, then you should be ok into Nagios, I would expect. I see that the first hyphen on the response line is *not* followed by a space, as I've come to expect... but I'

Re: [Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 07:34:05PM +0200, Gerhard Lausser wrote: > (There is the option "nologfilenocry" which can be set in a > configurationfile. With this option, a missing logfile is silently > tolerated). It's your plugin, then? That's a *classic* switch na

Re: [Nagios-users] Recurring Notification Problem

2008-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
rminal Services > > is_volatile 1 > > RTFM. Oh, goodie. I was so hoping I'd find we had someone like *you* on the user support mailing list, Marc. Cheers, -- jr '' a -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE uninstall?

2008-04-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
says this then ? What *I* don't know is why the code can't give a better error. The target machine's nrpe log will though usually tell you you couldn't connect. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Designer

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