Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10 (now can monitor from server, but local issue on remote host)

2008-06-16 Thread Phil Costelloe
allowed_hosts is only applied if nrpe is running as a daemon. If you're running under a service framework such as inetd/xinetd and apparently SMF according to your experience, it's ignored. The Solaris 10 servers I was monitoring were decommissioned last week so I can't help much w

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10 (now can monitor from server, but local issue on remote host)

2008-06-13 Thread Phil Costelloe
chance and see if I could monitor since I > was receiving some data from the command line, just this one error. > And sure enough, can. Now my question is WHY this is like this? What's the value of the allowed_hosts directive in your nrpe.cfg? -- Phil

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE host on Solaris 10

2008-06-11 Thread Phil Costelloe
t's still not working, post back with the >relevant section of inetd.conf and the output of svcs svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default and inetadm -l svc:/network/nrpe/tcp:default -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE -

Re: [Nagios-users] OpMonAgent vs NSClient++ (was Nagios 3.0 SLA Reporting)

2008-06-03 Thread Phil Costelloe
> -Original Message- > From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Phil Costelloe wrote: > >> I'm also looking forward to this. I'm a big fan of OpmonAgent as a > >> replacement > >> for Nsclient on Windows systems, it installs and

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Re: Nagios 3.0 SLA Reporting

2008-05-29 Thread Phil Costelloe
uot;. I'm also looking forward to this. I'm a big fan of OpmonAgent as a replacement for Nsclient on Windows systems, it installs and runs without any fuss at all. I like things that Just Work. :) -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE -

Re: [Nagios-users] question about nagios on solaris 10

2008-03-06 Thread Phil Costelloe
The times on the two error messages did seem a bit distant, they may relate to different ways you tried to start nrpe. Is it working yet? Phil > -Original Message- > From: Canhua [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 06 March 2008 00:13 > To: Phil Costelloe > Subject: Re

Re: [Nagios-users] question about nagios on solaris 10

2008-03-05 Thread Phil Costelloe
omething other than root. I usually set up a nagios user and group with the least login and permission rights I can get away with. Also in nrpe.cfg, add 10.240.0.54 and 127.0.0.1 to allowed_hosts. Restart nrpe and see what difference that makes. Phil

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring windows servers

2008-03-05 Thread Phil Costelloe
k=view&id=54&Itemid=54. If anything it's easier to install and maintain than NSClient and It Just Works which is always good. Phil -- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foun

Re: [Nagios-users] question about nagios on solaris 10

2008-03-05 Thread Phil Costelloe
27 to /etc/hosts.allow which will permit localhost access to the nrpe service. Phil -- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com/ Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring IIS Windows 2003 Server

2007-12-03 Thread Phil Costelloe
_nt on the Nagios server in order to query performance counters on the Windows servers. A Google for "check_nt performance counters" should pull up some useful information. SNMP is also a possibility for IIS and many other services if you prefer to go down that route. -- Phil Costell

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway

2007-11-29 Thread Phil Costelloe
the OP wants if somebody writes (or has already written) an http-to-gnokii gateway, but then that wouldn't really be a hardware solution as requested. I've never run across anything that implements the sending interface and modem hardware in one product but it may be out there. -- Phil

Re: [Nagios-users] nt_check COUNTER

2007-08-17 Thread Phil Costelloe
DDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -v COUNTER -l "\\SMTP Server(_Total)\\Remote Queue Length","SMTP Remote queue length %.0f" -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -s $ARG4$ } Looks like some of the characters have got mangled in yours. -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage, Berkshire RG18 9SE

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient - Memory Usage

2007-08-02 Thread Phil Costelloe
tual mem SNMP OK - Virtual Memory at 44% with 1,376 of 2,473 MB free MemuseMemory usage: total:2473.56 Mb - used: 1097.36 Mb (44%) - free: 1376.20 Mb (56%) -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE -

Re: [Nagios-users] check_oracle requirements?

2007-06-20 Thread Phil Costelloe
Oracle client installed for full functionality or InstantClient to use a restricted (but still useful) set of checks. Make sure ORACLE_HOME is set, preferably in a script rather than relying on an environment variable, and you should be good to go. -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT,

Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

2007-06-07 Thread Phil Costelloe
m, > [ memused, GAUGE, $1], > [ memwarn, GAUGE, $2], > [ memcrit, GAUGE, $3] ]; I agree with your analysis, it probably is just a matter of configuring the graph tool to recognise the output. But the OP mentioned NagiosGrapher and that's a

Re: [Nagios-users] service dependencies and failover

2007-06-01 Thread Phil Costelloe
sted and return whatever that outputs. Phil ---- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +44 (0) 1635 203700 Helpdesk: +44 (0) 8

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_nt not reporting memory for 1 server

2007-06-01 Thread Phil Costelloe
ect System as the Performance Object and System Up Time as the Counter, click Add then Close. If you select System Up Time in the list of counters below the graph, do the counter statistics show numbers (increasing by one every second) or big fat zeroes? -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berksh

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_nt not reporting memory for 1 server

2007-05-25 Thread Phil Costelloe
g on the monitored server is wrong, but I don't know > what. Any ideas on what I can check? What agent are you using on the server (e.g. NSClient, nc_net, etc.)? Do you run any other agent checks against that server and do they work? --

Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results

2007-05-24 Thread Phil Costelloe
"/bin/ps axwo 'stat uid pid ppid vsz rss pcpu comm args'" On Solaris, it gives: #define PS_COMMAND "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/pst3" Phil From: M V Ajay (vMoksha) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2007 17:04 To

Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs through nrpe gives wrong results

2007-05-24 Thread Phil Costelloe
os are you using? What version of the plugins? What version of nrpe? How did you compile/install the plugins that are on the remote server, specifically were they compiled either on that server or on a server running the same OS? -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshir

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 41

2007-04-30 Thread Phil Costelloe
Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Navdeep Sidhu wrote: > >> I have already installed PNP for graphical output. > > Just to be sure you meant PHP here? http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage

Re: [Nagios-users] make install-init

2007-04-11 Thread Phil Costelloe
l but I'd guess there's no group called root and that's what's causing the error. Assuming that is the case, I don't know how you'd fix it programmatically (there's probably an option to configure that will do it) but you could manually change the line INI

Re: [Nagios-users] Sharepoint DB check.

2007-04-04 Thread Phil Costelloe
the usual tools - check_mssql.sh in the standard plugin distribution for checking connectivity or by querying the performance counters for more detailed info. I'm not aware of any Sharepoint specific plugins. -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe on solaris

2007-03-12 Thread Phil Costelloe
Is nrpe running as a standalone daemon or under inetd. If the latter, can you post the relevant line from inetd.conf? Phil Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT

Re: [Nagios-users] useful oracle checks

2007-02-28 Thread Phil Costelloe
decode the SQL logic without a bit more investigation. Of course all these require you to install the DBD and DBI::Oracle Perl modules so it would still be nice to have a shell script that does the right thing. -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE

Re: [Nagios-users] useful oracle checks

2007-02-26 Thread Phil Costelloe
t; that if I can't interrogate the tablespaces, I can't connect to the > databases either. I'm not sure how the tablespace check would work > with auto-extending tablespaces if you use them. I'm curous about that myself. Anybody know? --

Re: [Nagios-users] useful oracle checks

2007-02-26 Thread Phil Costelloe
Phil Costelloe wrote: > Jim Avery wrote: >> I confess I haven't used these yet myself (probably ought to though). >> The ones I would immediately pick are: >> >> check_oracle --tns and >> check_oracle --tablespace >> >> I probably wouldn

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring sql counter files

2007-02-23 Thread Phil Costelloe
Phil Costelloe wrote: > Rusty Hall wrote: >> Has anyone tried accessing the performance counter files for SQL >> Server 2000 Enterprise on a Windows 2003 server. [snip] > I monitor both of those (amongst many others) and get sensible > results back (SQL Server 2000 Stand

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring sql counter files

2007-02-22 Thread Phil Costelloe
SER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -v COUNTER -l "\\SQLServer:General Statistics\\User Connections","User connections %.0f" -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -s $ARG4$ } -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_nt & Microsoft Exchange 6.5

2007-02-22 Thread Phil Costelloe
es up in sync with the number of messages held in the queue. If I freeze the Local Delivery queue in System Manager, the Nagios check "Exchange SMTP local queues" (\\SMTP Server(_Total)\\Local Queue Length) goes up in sync with the number of messages held in the queue. Phil ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_nt & Microsoft Exchange 6.5

2007-02-20 Thread Phil Costelloe
H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -v COUNTER -l "\\MSExchangeIS Public(_Total)\\Send Queue Size","IS Public send queue size %.0f" -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -s $ARG4$ define command{ command_namecheck_nt_msexc_ispub_recq command_line$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -v COU

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_nt & Microsoft Exchange 6.5

2007-02-20 Thread Phil Costelloe
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Re: [Nagios-users] nsclient problem to start service

2007-01-04 Thread Phil Costelloe
nexpectedly. 1067 is just a general "starting the service didn't work" error so doesn't help much. I'm confused as to whether you're installing nrpe or nsclient, can you clarify the steps you've taken so far? I think you've probably missed something out. Ph

Re: [Nagios-users] 0 bytes pin using check_ping

2007-01-04 Thread Phil Costelloe
d" will turn up plenty of general info. Phil ---- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +44 (0) 1635 203700 Helpdesk: +44 (0) 800 0121099 DDI: +44 (0) 1635 20

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk inode bug

2006-12-20 Thread Phil Costelloe
tical) and not a specific metric concerning inodes. Phil ---- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +44 (0) 1635 203700 Helpdesk: +44 (0) 800 0121099 DDI: +44 (0) 1635 20

Re: [Nagios-users] URGENT REPOST: CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytesfromdaemon ErrorMessage

2006-12-19 Thread Phil Costelloe
/sbin/init.d directory called nrpe. Here is the text of the script: > >/usr/local/nagios/bin/nrpe -n -c /usr/local/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d I'd say that you either want to run as a daemon or run under inetd, not both. Phil -------- P

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with check_http

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Costelloe
inname or http://192.168.13.2 > they would see the same permission denied error. Not on a default Fedora install, which is what makes it difficult to diagnose. Fedora serves a test page (the equivalent of the Apache It Worked! page) but with a 403 HTTP status. -- Phil Costelloe Foundation IT, Hermi

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Looking Glass (was: small alternativefrontend)

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Costelloe
Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: > I've noticed a few visitors have used Konqueror - are any of these > people on this list? How did it look? Can anyone feedback how it > behaves in Opera? It looks and acts the same in Opera 9.02 on Windows as it does in Firefox 1.5.

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with check_http

2006-11-02 Thread Phil Costelloe
you need to create an index.html in /var/www/html. Apache on Fedora returns 403 if there's no index.html. The Test Page is still somehow automagically served if you use a browser but all Nagios sees is the error. Phil ---- Phil Cost

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_disk plugin on Solaris 8/9

2006-10-10 Thread Phil Costelloe
= c_idfp; se->found =0; se->found_len = 0; *pathtail = se; Presumably a fix of some kind is in the current CVS version. Phil Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshir

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios client cannot be uninstall stop and start

2006-10-03 Thread Phil Costelloe
o use the Windows native kill program from the W2K Resource Kit. Phil ---- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +44 (0) 1635 203700 Helpdesk:

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows plugin to check process page faults?

2006-08-01 Thread Phil Costelloe
rformance viewer that's installed with the Administrative Tools but the definitive source (for Windows 2003 at least) seems to be http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/3fb01419-b1ab-4f5 2-a9f8-09d5ebeb9ef21033.mspx?mfr=true Phil ------

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows plugin to check process page faults?

2006-07-28 Thread Phil Costelloe
d!foobar etc etc } Untested but should just about work. Phil ---- Phil Costelloe Technical Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.foundation-it.com Foundation IT Foundation Court Old Street Oare Hermitage Berkshire RG18 9SE Switch: +44 (

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugins

2006-06-16 Thread Phil Costelloe
't think you can read Docbook documents directly, I build mine to HTML or PDF. A lot of Linux distributions come with all the necessary tools to set up a build environment but I'm not sure how well they work together out of the box. Phil

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http ssl certificate

2006-06-05 Thread Phil Costelloe
nd of change? Won't the plugin be using OpenSSL to do the certificate handling and hence won't the authority checking be handled at the library layer? I've just done a quick test and can "check_http -S" a site with a self-signed certificate so the behaviour you seem to be

RE: [Nagios-users] Check_load

2006-05-10 Thread Phil Costelloe
Sandeep Narasimha Murthy wrote: > > So, does load average: 0.35, 0.47, 0.53, mean there are only 0.53 > jobs running and waiting over the last 15 minutes ? executing TOP in > the shell shows me at least 15 different processes.. The important distinction here is "running", i.e. actually on the C

RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MS Exchange Mailq

2006-01-17 Thread Phil Costelloe
Sand Philipp wrote: > Thanks for the hint with snmp, but I think those are only the > counters, you can also check via performance counter. > I'll ask my Mailserver Admins, if these values are adequate. > > Otherwise, how do you monitor you Exchange Servers? Am I the first > one, who wants to do