[Nagios-users] Moncli-0.1.1 released

authentication Feedback is always welcome. Thanks, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net Links: -- [1] http://www.smetj.net/wiki/Moncli -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem: Nagios service check retry interval shorted than configured.

useless. Hope this helps, Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows 2008 event log?

Anybody know a good way to monitor Windows 2008 event logs? It's a shameless self promotion but maybe MoLog might be helpful to you. http://www.smetj.net/wiki/Molog It relies on a a centralized rsyslog server. On Windows, logparser(an official Microsoft tool) is used to forward eventlog entries

[Nagios-users] Having single or double quotes in a custom variable

/fubar.txt I have this line of text without the quotes: one two three fou a b c d How can I keep the quotes? They can be single or double quotes it doesn't matter. -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- This SF.net Dev2Dev

Re: [Nagios-users] Having single or double quotes in a cust om variable

You must to escape them _blah \one two three four\ a b c d Thanks for the answer but when I do that, my check goes to critical the Status Information is: (null) The file /tmp/fubar.txt is not created. Any thoughts?

[Nagios-users] Submitting passive checks directly after adding new objects.

a reload, could that mean these commands can get lost as at that moment they couldn't find a matching host? Cheers, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first

[Nagios-users] Availability report excluding scheduled downtime?

Hi List, How can I create an availability report of a hostgroup which does NOT take the scheduled downtime of the individual hosts into account? Cheers, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- This SF.net

Re: [Nagios-users] Parsing Logs

Stephen H. Dawson service at shdawson.com writes: Hi Stephen, Has anyone parsed a log for review with Nagios?  If so, please advise. This is a shameless self promotion but http://www.smetj.net/wiki/Molog might be helpfull for you. Jelle Smet

[Nagios-users] Rsyslog monitoring

to one of you. * my apologies if this is a double post but the previous message didn't came through* Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list

Re: [Nagios-users] RSyslog monitoring?

Hi Kevin, I would like to find a way to monitor syslog entries using rsyslog 4.4 rules before they are ever written to a log file. The log parsing plugins I found on MonitoringExchange aren’t useful for my purpose. Have a look at http://www.smetj.net/wiki/Molog it might be what you're looking

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.2.0 SIGSEGV

] [064.1] [pid=9031] Making callbacks (type 9)... [1272661034.019967] [064.2] [pid=9031] Callback #1 (type 9) return code = 0 [1272661034.020002] [064.1] [pid=9031] Making callbacks (type 13).. -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net [1272661033.237415] [064.1] [pid=9031] Making callbacks (type

[Nagios-users] Recommended nice level for NRPE?

with setting/resetting the nicelevel for the nrpe daemon? Is there a recommended setting? Thanks, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed

Re: [Nagios-users] Drop in replacement for check_ping wit hout performance output when device down

breaks pnp4nagios not updating the graphs anymore. I must add that pnp4nagios has a way to migrate split multipe rrd's over the different performance data entries, but I'm not going to take that road. Cheers, Jelle Smet

Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification on Check_Load Plugin

I was actually looking for a plugin that can give me the %CPU used , Do we have one with the default installation of the nagios plugins. Please let me know about it. Have a look on http://www.monitoringexchange.org/ and http://exchange.nagios.org/ there you might find what you're looking

[Nagios-users] Initial release of NSCAweb an alternative for NSCA.

, -- Jelle Smet -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel

Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification on Check_Load Plugin

My question is: How does the plugin claculate the 1 min avg load , 5 min avg load and 15 min avg load. Hi Jatin, The Nagios plugins doesn't calculate anything, it just read the load averages produced by the Linux/*nix OS itself. Have a look at this article:

[Nagios-users] Drop in replacement for check_ping wit hout performance output when device down

timeout] [-4|-6] Thanks for your advice and tips -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine

Re: [Nagios-users] Drop in replacement for check_ping wit hout performance output when device down

Andreas Ericsson ae at op5.se writes: Use check_icmp instead. It does something like that, iirc. Yes indeed, but it has 2 extra performance output values rtmax and rtmin. This makes pnp4nagios complain it now receives 4 values instead of 2 and as a result not updating the graphs... Adding

Re: [Nagios-users] Drop in replacement for check_ping wit hout performance output when device down

Use check_icmp instead. It does something like that, iirc. Hi Andreas, When untarring nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gz there's already a compiled version sitting nagios-plugins-1.4.13/plugins-root/check_icmp which has the behaviour you were referring to. It has only 2 performance output

[Nagios-users] Blocking outage

true as the second router is still up and running and the site is still perfectly available... I though a network outage occurs when the complete networkpath is broken towards X amount of nodes Is this normal behaviour? Thanks -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net

Re: [Nagios-users] Restrict user only to enable/disable checks

RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(cmd_type=16|cmd_type=4|cmd_type=6) [OR] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /not_allowed.html [R,L] Excellent yes that does the trick. Who want to use this solution keep in mind it's cmd_typ without the e Cheers, Jelle

[Nagios-users] Python module for talking to nsca

Hi list, Anyone knows how to connect to nsca from python? I've understood it's not that difficult to do so, but if there's a module made for it, It saves the trouble. If not, where cn -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net

[Nagios-users] Python module for talking to nsca

Hi list, Anyone knows how to connect to nsca from python? I've understood it's not that difficult to do so, but if there's a module made for it, It saves the trouble. If not, where can I find the nsca specifications to write a module myself? Thanks, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net

[Nagios-users] Restrict user only to enable/disable checks

working. What are your thoughts? -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Download Intel#174; Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications

[Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for 1 host and its services

Hi List, I'm using Nagios 3.2.0 and have a question about scheduled downtimes which I can't find in the docs. If I schedule downtime for a host, does this automatically schedule downtime for all the host services too? If so, why isn't there the ZZzzz icon next to these services? Will scheduled

[Nagios-users] Alerts and see hosts through web interface

. This prevents people from seeing the big picture, ... So is there a way to make a user a not a contact for a service/host and yet see it in the web interface? (Without change the source) Thanks for yout advice and or tips, .. -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net

Re: [Nagios-users] Alerts and see hosts through web interface

So is there a way to make a user a not a contact for a service/host and yet see it in the web interface? (Without change the source) Never mind, I overlooked the parameters in cgi.cfg authorized_for_all_services=* authorized_for_all_hosts=*

[Nagios-users] Nagios Clustering for failover using drd b?

, work relatively well. Are there any people doing something similar for the moment? If so, are there any constraints, tips or things to take into account? Thanks in advance, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Come

[Nagios-users] Service depency on host status, ...

that, Having both would double my icmp traffic so that's out of the question. Thanks, Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event

[Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

clients) * Something like Splunk or a centralized syslog server is unfortunately not available. What are my options? Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

Any plugin that works for Nagios directly should also work with NRPE. The only potential difference is of course the processor and system architecture. NRPE refuses to process metachars | `' \ [ ] { } ; ! which makes sending over regex's as a parameter over nrpe virtually impossible. I

Re: [Nagios-users] RE [spam?] Remote logfile monitoring

You have also check_logfiles which is located at http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles/ Hi Frank, yes, my choice would also be that tool. I'm looking into a way to implement all my beforementioned requirements using this tool and NRPE.

Re: [Nagios-users] A way to alert suspicous trends?

straightforward to hack a proof of concept of this. Good tip, I'm going to have a look at this, ... but having to build this myself it's going to end up on the bottom of my extensive todo list:) Thanks, Jelle Smet. -- Come

[Nagios-users] A way to alert suspicous trends?

days, ... but the coninuous gentle growth indicates a problem (log file appends for example) Thanks for the info. Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Come build with us! The BlackBerryreg; Developer Conference in SF, CA

Re: [Nagios-users] How to make 1 exception for 1 host when mapping services to hostgroups?

it also creates consistancy. -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus

Re: [Nagios-users] How to make 1 exception for 1 host when mapping services to hostgroups?

. -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core

Re: [Nagios-users] How to make 1 exception for 1 host when mapping services to hostgroups?

exclude a hostgroup/servicegroup the same way, if you have overlapping hostgroups. Hi Thomas, that was the missing link indeed. It works as expected and fits in our current setup. Thanks, -- Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net

[Nagios-users] How to make 1 exception for 1 host when mapping services to hostgroups?

. Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core

[Nagios-users] Organisation of hostgroups availability reports

Nagios saying: only show hosts that appear in each selected group. But that's not the case. So, ... Any idea how to organize hosts and how to get this kind of information out of there? Cheers, Jelle Smet http://www.smetj.net