Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA and long output

2008-05-27 Thread Mike Hamrick
Hi Aaron, You wrote: I've been trying to figure out if this is possible for a while. I'm using NRPE and $LONGHOSTOUTPUT$ for a number of tests, which is great, except for passive monitoring. We have several data centers that run their own Nagios boxes and then ship the data back to the master

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Fwd: plugin for iostat readings?

2008-03-02 Thread Mike Hamrick
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to call iostat with multiple checks - the longer the better - but then it means you would have to run iostat for like 30 seconds or so - plugin runtime is 30 seconds too then! That means that check would have a high delay/latency, which is

Re: [Nagios-users] State Stalking and notifications

2008-02-21 Thread Mike Hamrick
On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:46 AM, Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote: I had thought about writing a custom check for each line of output that this command generates, but that seems needlessly painful. You could write one active check that parses the output, figures out what's gone wrong, and then submits

[Nagios-users] Announce: Monocole Oracle Monitoring Package

2008-02-14 Thread Mike Hamrick
Hello, Blue Gecko Inc, is proud to announce the first release of Monocle, our open source (GPLv2) Oracle 10g database monitoring package! Monocle mostly consists of a body of PL/SQL code that runs inside the database as scheduled Oracle jobs. When events occur inside the database that are

Re: [Nagios-users] linux kernel instrumentation + Nagios?

2007-10-14 Thread Mike Hamrick
Roger wrote: I'm looking for tools that will give Nagios some visibility inside the Linux kernel. What are you trying to learn from the kernel? I think it'd be handy to have a monitor that would alert if a process started doing more than a certain amount of block i/o operations. Or perhaps a

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive host results soft states?

2007-04-25 Thread Mike Hamrick
Marco wrote: What I did is to send the passive host check through NSCA only if its in hard state, soft states are ignored, what script do you use to call send_nsca ? Just a simple script that pipes $HOST\t$RESULT\t$OUTPUT\n into send_nsca. I'll need to also pass in $HOSTSTATETYPE$ and exit

[Nagios-users] Passive host results soft states?

2007-04-24 Thread Mike Hamrick
Howdy, Host A is a server which sends passive host/service results to host B via NSCA. When a single host check fails on host C (a machine monitored by host A) host A considers host C to be a SOFT state, where host B (the one that actually sends notifications) considers host C to be in a HARD

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive host results soft states?

2007-04-24 Thread Mike Hamrick
Thanks Marc, I found this answer from Ethan Galstad in the thread you posted: Nagios 2 doesn't support a max_attempts directive for hosts and all passive host check results will immediately force the host into a HARD state. This has changed a bit in Nagios 3 - hosts do have a

Re: [Nagios-users] Snmptrap with Nagios

2007-04-17 Thread Mike Hamrick
I have to monitor a thing that works with snmptraps, but I don`t know what I have to do. You need to have a machine that listens for SNMP traps. The program snmptrapd does this, it comes with net-snmp package. This daemon writes the trap info to the system log, or alternately runs a

Re: [Nagios-users] Which tool is best for me: Nagios, OpenNMS, or something else?

2007-03-31 Thread Mike Hamrick
I can't speak for OpenNMS, but I think for Nagios the answer for a lot of your questions is going to be: There isn't a way of doing this with the standard nagios plugin package, but someone has probably written a plugin that does this, check the Nagios Exchange site. % Confirm each machine is

[Nagios-users] Monitoring disk bandwidth utilization?

2007-01-28 Thread Mike Hamrick
Hi! I've been unable to find a nagios plugin that monitors disk bandwidth utilization, does anybody know of one? It seems like it would be relatively straightforward to wrap a nagios plugin around a utility like iostat or sar, but I thought I'd ask if anyone had done this before I dive in.

[Nagios-users] Separate notification_interval for warnings?

2007-01-07 Thread Mike Hamrick
Howdy, I have nagios set up to send notifications every five minutes. This makes sense when a service is CRITICAL, but makes less sense when it is simpily WARNING. Warnings go to a separate email alias... every five minutes. Normally during the day I acknowledge them, but during the evening