Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios check latency

2013-08-13 Thread Randal, Phil
What are your check_result_reaper_frequency and max_check_result_reaper_time set to? I use 3 and 15 respectively here. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email:

Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring

2013-08-12 Thread Randal, Phil
check_mk 1.2.3 should do that for you. There's a bit of pain migrating your config into check_mk's WATO, but IMHO it's worth it in the long run. http://mathias-kettner.com/check_mk.html It might be prudent to wait for the check_mk 1.2.3i2 before playing with it, though. Cheers, Phil --

Re: [Nagios-users] Update Nagios 3.3.1 to 3.5.0

2013-08-05 Thread Randal, Phil
That depends on how and where you installed it from in the first place. From RPM, and if so, which repo? Or from source? Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email:

Re: [Nagios-users] rpmbuild nagios-3.5.0

2013-07-25 Thread Randal, Phil
Talking of DAG's RPMs, if you'd been using Nagios 3.2.3 from rpmforge, I've written a blog post on how to build Nagios 3.4.1 / 3.5.0 as a replacement, using same file locations. The last postscript in the blog is the relevant stuff for 3.5.0.

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios SIGSEGV on archive rotation

2013-07-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Which version of nagios? Are you using check_mk / mk_livestatus? Check the thread Nagios 3.5.0 segfaulting at midnight in this list's archives. Cheers, Phil -Original Message- From: Mike W [mailto:uce_m...@yahoo.com] Sent: 09 July 2013 15:58 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Nagios-users] Issues with check_openmanage documentation URLs

2013-06-20 Thread Randal, Phil
Hmm, Dell have changed the urls yet again... Seems to be no way to automagically determine the url from the product type - uk doc page for that server is: http://www.dell.com/support/Manuals/uk/en/ukdhs1/Product/poweredge-r210-2 Thanks very much, Dell :-( This will also affect

Re: [Nagios-users] Log Rotations Issue

2013-02-07 Thread Randal, Phil
...@gmail.com] Sent: 06 February 2013 15:43 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Log Rotations Issue On Jan 31, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Randal, Phil phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk wrote: I'm seeing the same issue here :-( Phil Phil, Stopping Nagios completely, and then flushing

Re: [Nagios-users] Log Rotations Issue

2013-01-31 Thread Randal, Phil
I'm seeing the same issue here :-( Phil -Original Message- From: Alaric [mailto:paxindust...@gmail.com] Sent: 31 January 2013 15:57 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Log Rotations Issue Hi, I was hoping that someone on this list might have some insight to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.2 and PNP4Nagios

2012-11-12 Thread Randal, Phil
Just tried a build of 3.4.2 here, similar problem, nagios not actually performing checks. Nagios 3.4.2 with check_mk and pnp4nagios. I won't have time to investigate today, alas. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel:

Re: [Nagios-users] check_openmanage and ESXi

2012-08-16 Thread Randal, Phil
You get more reported back from check_esxi_hardware.py if the check detects any error conditions. I did a lot of work on this last year, see my blog post about it for example output when things don't work: http://www.rebee.clara.net/blog/archives/2011/04/entry_185.html Cheers, Phil -- Phil

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing n2rrd with Nagios on Centos 6.2

2012-07-20 Thread Randal, Phil
Can't help but think that using pnp4nagios would be easier :-) Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -Original Message- From: nelson [mailto:tnels...@comcast.net] Sent: 20

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with OCP_daemon and distributed monitoring

2012-07-13 Thread Randal, Phil
Check out Bug 247 http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=247 The attached patch should fix the issue. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk From: James Fillman

Re: [Nagios-users] Large scale installation

2012-06-11 Thread Randal, Phil
What's the spec of your nagios server? We're checking (around) 500 hosts, 4500 active, 5000 passive service with Nagios 3.4.1 in a CentOS 5.8 VM with 2GB RAM, 4 vCPUs, without problems with the help of check_mk /mk_livestatus (http://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk.html) Also using pnp4nagios and

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.1 keeps sending notifications for hosts and service(s) in scheduled shutdown time

2012-06-05 Thread Randal, Phil
Hi Andreas, In my limited testing it seems to work properly with the patch. I've just scheduled downtime for a host, rebooted it, and restarted Nagios when it was down. No notifications were resent here after the Nagios restart. Cheers, Phil -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to Monitor Network Interface

2012-05-31 Thread Randal, Phil
If you've SNMP enabled on your servers, easiest way is via check_iftraffic3.pl It would help if you specified which operating system(s) the monitored box(es) run(s). Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 |

Re: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios

2012-05-30 Thread Randal, Phil
You don't have to do anything on your remote system. If your nagios checks are returning performance data they'll automatically be graphed. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email:

Re: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios

2012-05-29 Thread Randal, Phil
I'd also add mk_livestatus and rrdcached into the mix with pnp4nagios. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -Original Message- From: Paul Dubuc

Re: [Nagios-users] Perfdata problem

2012-05-16 Thread Randal, Phil
, On 15.05.12 15:24, Randal, Phil wrote: Hi Dennis, Can you check out Nagios 3.4.1 and see if this fixes the problem? sorry for not checking prior to posting. Anyway, I built the new version, btw., why can't you just build the RPM from the tar? This is what I had to do on RHEL5: # tar

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed)

2012-05-15 Thread Randal, Phil
in an upcoming 3.4 release? Regards, Dennis On 14.05.12 11:31, Randal, Phil wrote: Hi Andreas, Yours is probably the safest approach. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed)

2012-05-15 Thread Randal, Phil
: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk -Original Message- From: Dennis Kuhlmeier [mailto:kuhlme...@riege.com] Sent: 15 May 2012 14:49 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed) Hi Phil, On 15.05.12 15:24, Randal, Phil wrote: Hi

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed)

2012-05-14 Thread Randal, Phil
May 2012 00:17 To: Nagios Users List Cc: Randal, Phil Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed) On 05/13/2012 10:44 PM, Randal, Phil wrote: I've uploaded a patch to http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=332 Which fixes the double quote issue and my original

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 double quote in command bug (fixed)

2012-05-13 Thread Randal, Phil
I've uploaded a patch to http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=332 Which fixes the double quote issue and my original compile problem. Cheers, Phil Any opinion expressed in this e-mail or any attached files are those of the individual and not necessarily those of Hoople Ltd. You should be

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 complilation error (and trivial fix)

2012-05-09 Thread Randal, Phil
@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 complilation error (and trivial fix) Thanks Phill On 05/08/2012 04:03 PM, Randal, Phil wrote: Hi folks, Trying to compile nagios 3.4.0 gave me this error: checks.c: In function 'run_async_service_check': checks.c:714:5: error: 'temp_buffer

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 complilation error (and trivial fix)

2012-05-09 Thread Randal, Phil
I wouldn't rush to deploy Nagios 3.4.0 until this nasty bug's fixed: http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=332 Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk From: Randal, Phil

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.0 complilation error (and trivial fix)

2012-05-08 Thread Randal, Phil
Hi folks, Trying to compile nagios 3.4.0 gave me this error: checks.c: In function 'run_async_service_check': checks.c:714:5: error: 'temp_buffer' undeclared (first use in this function) Patch to fix the compilation error is: --- nagios/base/checks.c2012-05-08 14:36:02.0 +0100

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Directory (Folders) Size with NSClient++

2012-03-07 Thread Randal, Phil
GetFileSize works for me using backslashes and not forward slashes. Try using \ or \\ instead of / in the path. e.g. d:\\Network Shares\\individual\\*.* This might be a bug in NSClient++ and/or its documentation. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office

Re: [Nagios-users] Eventlog monitoring through NSClient++

2012-02-24 Thread Randal, Phil
I'm using check_mk to monitor eventlogs (and do other good things). http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk.html Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Infrastructure Engineer Hoople Ltd | Thorn Office Centre | Hereford HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260415 | Email: phil.ran...@hoopleltd.co.uk From: Mark Elsen

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to monitor bandwidth usage

2012-02-14 Thread Randal, Phil
I enable SNMP on our servers and use check_iftraffic3l to monitor them. One of the later check_ iftraffic variations might work for you too. http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Connections%2C-Stats-and-Bandwidth/page2 Cheers, Phil From: Serge Dukic

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring clustered services

2011-10-12 Thread Randal, Phil
One solution to that problem is to use Mathias Kettner's check_mk and use its clustered service support: http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_clusters.html That's what I do here. Another alternative is to create a third 'host' in Nagios representing the cluster and monitor the services on that,

Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?

2011-08-04 Thread Randal, Phil
I use Nsclient++ and check_mk_agent, coupled with pnp4nagios http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk.html Getting check_mk to work the way you want takes a bit of effort, but once you're used to it there's no turning back. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire

[Nagios-users] Problems with exchange.nagios.org

2011-05-18 Thread Randal, Phil
Looks like the backend's fallen over. When trying to download a plugin: Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T.

Re: [Nagios-users] enable SNMP trap handling in Nagios

2011-05-11 Thread Randal, Phil
I'll second that. The documentation's a bit sparse for nagtrap, and overwhelming at times for snmptt, but you'll eventually get there. Installed both last night without too much hassle. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire Herefordshire Council | Deputy

Re: [Nagios-users] check_openmanage errors

2011-04-28 Thread Randal, Phil
Hi Trond, Is the beta of check_openmanage.php available for testing? I'm currently using a slightly modified version of the one in the latest PNP release. Two cosmetic issues came to mind: 1: Temperature is measured in Celsius, not Celcius 2: Formatting when reporting multiple sensors in one

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios alert via Twitter - authorization issue

2010-10-11 Thread Randal, Phil
I haven't tested this myself yet, but take a look at this solution which uses OAuth authentication: http://0wned.it/2010/10/07/tweeting-alerts-from-nagios/ Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Infrastructure Engineer NHS Herefordshire Herefordshire Council  | Deputy Chief Executive's Office |

Re: [Nagios-users] check for the absence of a service

2009-07-09 Thread Randal, Phil
http://nagiosplugins.org/man/negate -- Phil Randal | Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT Tel: 01432 260160 email: pran...@herefordshire.gov.uk Any opinion expressed in this e-mail

Re: [Nagios-users] DNS down and false alerts...

2009-06-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Option 5: Install a local caching DNS server on your nagios box, and put 127.0.0.1 at the top of resolv.conf. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council | Deputy Chief Executive's Office | I.C.T. Services Division Thorn Office Centre, Rotherwas, Hereford, HR2 6JT

Re: [Nagios-users] HTTP and Web Form based Auth

2009-05-28 Thread Randal, Phil
Same here. I did have to apply this patch to get it to work properly with NTLM authentication: # diff -Naur webinject.pl /usr/local/webinject/webinject.pl --- webinject.pl2006-01-04 18:10:30.0 + +++ /usr/local/webinject/webinject.pl 2008-05-14 11:02:21.0 +0100 @@

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE

2009-05-19 Thread Randal, Phil
Yes, You can do it without NRPE too. Install something like NSClient++ (http://www.nsclient.org) on the Vista host. http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/NSClientListener PROCSTATE is the one you want. I use a command check_nt_process: $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios upgrade

2009-04-09 Thread Randal, Phil
Is there any way you can clone your nagios box to a VM and test on the cloned box? I've just done that here testing for a planned 2.12 to 3.0.6 upgrade. You'll need to edit your nagios.cfg file to remove one obsolete option, and there are a few new options to merge in from the example

Re: [Nagios-users] Lilac 1.0 beta 1 released! The most robust Nagios3.x configuration tool available!

2008-12-11 Thread Randal, Phil
Shame it requires PHP 5.2. Any chance of re-engineering it so it works out of the box with a standard RedHat / CentOS 5.2 install? My past experience of the hassles of custom builds of PHP makes me very wary of going down that route again. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal | Networks Engineer

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor web server run multiple virtual web site

2008-06-05 Thread Randal, Phil
I've recently done this. The details are in the Webinject forum here: http://www.webinject.org/cgi-bin/forums/YaBB.cgi?board=Development;actio n=display;num=1185818423 It works a treat. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Networks Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original

Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

2008-05-01 Thread Randal, Phil
Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 May 2008 10:40 To: Randal, Phil Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts Randal, Phil wrote

Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS server packagealerts

2008-04-30 Thread Randal, Phil
# ./check_yum -vvv setting plugin timeout to 30 seconds running command: /usr/bin/yum --security check-update Returncode: '0' Output: 'Loading security plugin Loading priorities plugin Loading protectbase plugin Loading installonlyn plugin Loading dellsysidplugin plugin Setting up repositories

Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts

2008-04-30 Thread Randal, Phil
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randal, Phil Sent: 30 April 2008 15:30 To: Hari Sekhon; Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: Check_Yum for RedHat/CentOS serverpackagealerts # ./check_yum -vvv setting plugin timeout to 30 seconds running command: /usr/bin/yum

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient - ERROR: PDH Collection thread not running.

2008-03-13 Thread Randal, Phil
Upgrade to NSClient++ 0.3.1 and try again. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marco Borsani Sent: 13 March 2008 16:04

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.11 changelog

2008-03-12 Thread Randal, Phil
The new download page is vile! Bring back the old one! Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey Sent: 12 March 2008 14:16 To:

Re: [Nagios-users] check-nt Windows 2003 Server

2006-07-11 Thread Randal, Phil
Nobody told my Windows 2003 servers that! pnsClient.exe works fine on Win 2003. If you're on SP1, disable DEP for pnsclient.exe. Cheers, Phil -- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] check-nt Windows 2003 Server

2006-07-11 Thread Randal, Phil
:08 To: Randal, Phil; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check-nt Windows 2003 Server What does this software ? -Message d'origine- De : Randal, Phil [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Envoyé : mardi 11 juillet 2006 16:50 À : REMY Julien; nagios-users

Re: [Nagios-users] Check MS Terminal Services

2006-06-28 Thread Randal, Phil
pnsclient does work on Win2003 SP1 boxes, you just need to disable DEP for pnsclient.exe. NSClient++ (http://nscplus.medin.name/index.php/Main_Page) looks good and works for me for what I want to do (and saves me from having to have nrpe_nt installed as well). Clientless? Spend aeons figuring

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Randal, Phil
A quick look at the NagioSQL web page gives me little confidence. No documentation or screenshots. I've been playing with both Monarch and Fruity. Both are (to me) Alpha quality, regardless of any RC monnikers the developers attach to them. I needed to patchboth to make them usable:

RE: [Nagios-users] NSCPlus (aka clearly im stupid)

2006-05-23 Thread Randal, Phil
There is a check_nt as part of the standard nagios plugins (http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/). The only difference between that and the check_nt which came with pnsclient.exe is the fileage checking (which isn't implemented yet in nsclient++ - or if it is it doesn't work). You can use

RE: [Nagios-users] NSCPlus (aka clearly im stupid)

2006-05-23 Thread Randal, Phil
Or both, the choice isn't exclusive. Cheers, Phil Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Allan Holdt Hansen INBODAN Sent: 23 May 2006 11:01 To:

RE: [Nagios-users] NSCPlus (aka clearly im stupid)

2006-05-23 Thread Randal, Phil
Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Oliver Marshall Sent: 23 May 2006 11:18 To: Randal, Phil; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSCPlus (aka

RE: [Nagios-users] Remove NSClient++

2006-05-19 Thread Randal, Phil
Have a look in c:\nsclient++\docs\index.html To uninstall NSClient++ execute the following command: NSClient++ /uninstall Cheers, Phil Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

RE: [Nagios-users] NsClient vs. NRPE_nt

2006-02-10 Thread Randal, Phil
Try NSClient++ from http://nscplus.medin.name/index.php/Main_Page Depending on your needs and environment you might be able to use just this and not need nrpe_nt (from http://www.miwi-dv.com/nrpent/ Cheers, Phil Phil RandalNetwork EngineerHerefordshire CouncilHereford, UK