Have you ever hit a limit of the number of hosts in a host or service check.
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Sent: Tue 26/08/2008 22:44
To: Assaf Flatto
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Physical limitations of config files
Can anyone tell me if there is a max number of contacts you can have in
a contact group :)
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Depending on which helpdesk software you are using you should be able to
set up a notification command to raise a ticket in your help desk system
You really need to specify the helpdesk system you are using before you
could get much more help. Some helpdesk systems allow you to auto
generate tro
Hi Trevor,
You have not framed your question very well. Do you mean you do not have a
statusmap.cgi or do you require some tips on setting up a statusmap?
If it is the later, then you need to set parent-host relationships. If its the
former then look on the FAQ as it tells you what you need to i
Hi Pallav,
Provided you have setup your 30 hosts in your hosts.cfg or what ever
file then all you need to do to define the service is as i show below.
define service{
use
generic-service
host_name
winserver1,winserver2,winserver3,..winserver30
Hi All,
Has anyone done any monitoring of 3tera Applogic servers/grids? I'm
looking for a plugin to list grid members, servers states, etc.
It may be possible to construct this with host dependancies and service
dependancies but id rather have a plugin if there is one around.
If not I suppose I'
First off
Don't try checks as root. Root can do what ever it wants.
Re run your check on the command line logged in as the nagios user. Let
us know what you get as a result.
HOST:/usr/local/nagios/libexec # su - nagios
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uid=1001(nagios) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)
Hi Stephen,
Read the docs about contacts and groups. This will show you what you
want to know.
Regards
Tom
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Hi Gaurav
you don't point out what OS you are running Nagios/nrpe under.
Have you checked the faq on nagios.org under support. There are multiple
faqs available for this error. Does any off your errors fall into any of
them?
Regards
Tom
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Hi Riahi,
You mean that Google never threw up the following when you used the
search string "comments from Nagios 1.x to Nagios 2.x"
http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg05515.
html
Andreas may be able to comment on the suitability of the script but im
sure its st
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Subject: [Nagios-users] how to SNMP
there is one UMAN table of SNMP value??
I want check more value in sistem Windows 2000 end HPUX (all ma
Hi Eric,
Ok, My Bad.
Not sure this cures everything but have you read and distilled the
following 2 sections from Nagios "Theory of operation"?
Determine status and reachability of network hosts
Network outages
Hope that helps, And if it doesn't, then im sure some one with much more
experience
Hi Eric,
This is a faq question.
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=81&expand=false&showdesc=f
alse
Regards
Tom
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Crist
Sent: 15 January 2008 14:31
To: Patrick Morris
Cc: Nagios List
Subj
Hi Sunny,
Its quite simple really.
You interrogate the device it with snmp utilities
Now a properly formatted question would go something like this..
---< Example question with necessary Info>--
Hi All,
I'm new to this so please bear with me.
I would like to interroga
Hi Wadud,
How have you setup you authentication to use certs?
Typically nagios uses .htaccess files in the examples to authenticate
users. This is documented in the docs.
You can use htpasswd, htdigest or dbmanage to create your user file.
Just make sure you set the AuthType to the correct valu
Hi Yu-ting,
Here is the link to Hari's plugin.
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Check_Plugins.21.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[
p_view]=1132
Hari,
Great plugin, And im loving the whitelist. Now when those pesky
developers sneak onto production servers we will know :)
Regards
Tom
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Thanks Hari
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From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 October 2007 10:44
To: Welsh,T,Tom,DLS C
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hi
OK I will try to release it today, I am just adding the extra
functionali
Hi Hari,
I too would be interested in this plugin. If your going to release it
that is.
Regards
Tom
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Sekhon
Sent: 24 October 2007 10:13
To: Sukesh /IT/BLR/JIG/IN
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Hi Pablo,
In my humble opinion I would suggest not to use beta software in a production
environment. As you stated in your mail you used 2.9 and it was great. Id
suggest still using it until Nagios 3 is stable. There is quite a lot of
chatter on the mailing list about nagios 3 and problems with
Hi
From: Sukesh /IT/BLR/JIG/IN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 October 2007 04:17
To: Welsh,T,Tom,DLS C
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] nrpe problem
This is my remote host log messages
Oct 11 07:00:13 ngapps-prd xinetd[619]: START: nrpe pid=1767
from=192.168.
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/IT/BLR/JIG/IN
Sent: 11 October 2007 10:48
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] nrpe problem
Hi
Iam running nagios-3.0a4 and nrpe V2.8.1.iam not getting the result
while running ./check_nrpe -H . alred
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From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 09 October 2007 19:54
To: Ton Voon
Cc: Welsh,T,Tom,DLS C; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New Nagios Plugins website
Ton Voon wrote:
> Thanks Tom,
>
> We were think
Why don't you just do a nontent check on a page that wont change much?
It beats the hell out off writing one?
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Ventura
Sent: 08 October 2007 11:41
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios
Look on the faq page of the nagios site. you have some libs missing.
There is a faq that addresses this exact question.
Regards
Tom
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Roberts
Sent: 04 October 2007 18:10
To: nagios-users@lists.s
Hi Mick,
Not saying im gonna be able help but what is your nmap command line
switches you use to perform the scan?
Regards
Tom
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Sent: 02 October 2007 11:35
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Hi All,
Does anyone know off a capacity planning add-on for Nagios or are others
using data from Nagios to perform capacity planning functions?
Regards
Tom
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I Dave,
Ave you tried sending a mail from the box to an account you can receive
from. This will effectively rule out the box being unable to send
emails.
If you receive the mail. Then take a look at your misccommands.cfg and
see how the command is formatted. Make sure the path to your mail
binari
Use check_tcp and specify the port and any other switches you want
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Pfefer
Sent: 18 September 2007 11:47
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_telnet?
Hi
Is there a "c
Hi Rogelio,
Are you absolutely certain that the permissions on
//var/rw are set correctly?
Incorrect permissions on the rw directory cause this kind off error.
Re-read the section off the Nagios documentation about External Command
file Permissions.
Regards
Tom
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Fr
Not a problem.
Im more than happy to test anything you want. Just drop me a mail when
you think this or anything else may need further testing and I'll take
it for a spin
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From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 13 September 2007 12:25
To: Welsh,T,Tom,XS
Hi Andreas, Ton,
Thank you both very much for the help. I now have a working ndo utils.
As I used 2 different versions off NDO Utils to get this working I will
document each
NDO 1.4b5
My problem as you pointed out very well Andreas was my ld.so.conf. I had
not included the /usr/local/mysql/li
Hi Andreas,
Thanks for coming back to me on this.
Mysql was installed from source
mysql 5.0.45
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql
I believe that that is the default install location anyway.
I ran ldd, I completely forgot about that and I get the following
/usr/l
Hi Again list.
Im my continuing saga to try and get NDO Utils working I have come up
against another error.
# /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c
/usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db: error while loading shared
libraries: libmysqlclient.so.15: cannot open sha
Hi All,
I had a similar problem and I was getting the same error you guys are
getting
"Support for the specified database server is either not yet
supported,
or was not found on your system."
My system is setup as follows
OS and Software as follows
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
This is the exact same problem I have been having also. I have tried
with the --enable-mysql and also specifying the mysql libs and include
files but still get the error that Vadiraj gets.
I have the following setup
OS and Software as follows
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. SP2
Nagios 2.9
NDO Uti
Dont ya just hate it when that happens
From: Melanie Pfefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Fri 07/09/2007 13:42
To: Welsh,T,Tom,XSL4A C; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_http
I was entering the wrong po
Hi Melanie,
On your Nagios host can you telnet to port 8080 from the shell? This will
ensure you are actually connecting to the box.
I can see further down that you ran check_http and got a result.
Are you running the plugin as the nagios user?
Regards
Tom
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Hi All,
I have just recompiled nagios 2.9 with event broker support as I wish to
use ndo-utils but I get the following message when I try to start the
event broker
#/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg -i
Support for the specified database server is either not yet sup
There are several, Take a look at nagios exchange to see which web front
ends are available. Im currently installing MonArch which I hope will
satisfy my needs.
I Must admit though that I do prefer to edit the files manually as it
gives you a better feel for how Nagios all hangs together .
Regard
Hi All,
I have just recompiled nagios 2.9 with event broker support as I wish to
use ndo-utils but I get the following message when I try to start the
event broker
#/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg -i
Support for the specified database server is either not yet sup
Yes, I'd second cfengine. Though rsync is a simple quick fix
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Sent: Thu 30/08/2007 21:11
To: Rob Brown
Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed config admin tool?
On 8/30/07, Ro
Take a look at check_log
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Sidhu
Sent: 30 August 2007 06:38
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring of specific log events in Event
Viewerthrough Nagios
Hi All
Is th
Have you checked you have connectivity between your nagios host and the
remote machine?
This caught me out first time round. Bloody firewalls!!
A simple telnet monitored-host <5666>
Should result in a connection
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Has anyone got a statusmap.cgi that has been modified to only show the
network layout and not all the layout method, drawing layers etc.
Im looking for a visual that just shows my network layout and so I can
put it on the screen and not have keep scrolling back up and down when
the html refreshes
I agree,
I feel it is much better to understand the layout and structure to the
config files than to hide it all behind a gui type front end.
You learn a lot more about how nagios hangs together by making config
files, running pre-flight checks and getting errors. You then correct
the errors, no
Hi Maged,
You probably didn't have all the libraries needed to create it at
compile time.
Look at this FAQ from the support section on the Nagios site.it
addresses your problem
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=55&expand=false&showdesc=f
alse
Regards
Tom
_
Ok Lets take it from the top.
1. About the software you have installed
1a. What OS are you using
1b. What version of Nagios and nagios Plugins are you using?
1c. What version of nrpe are you using?
1d. Is Nagios and the Plugins configured?
1e. If you run nagios -v ./nagios.cfg does it pass t
Hi
When you run the command manually does it work?
Here is what I get when I run my command
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/nagios/libexec> ./check_nrpe -H test_server_1 -c
check_load
OK - load average: 1.09, 1.04, 1.01|load1=1.090;15.000;30.000;0;
load5=1.040;10.000;25.000;0; load15=1.010;5.000;2
Is the check load command specified on the nagios monitoring box
Here is how my config is defined.
Remote nrpe box. /usr/local/etc/nrpe.cfg
command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c
30,25,20
>From nagios monitoring box. /usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg
# ' c
Might be a stretch here but why not use a hostdependency group and only
alert when x amount off servers don't respond?
Description:
Host dependencies are an advanced feature of Nagios that allow you to
suppress notifications for hosts based on the status of one or more
other hosts. Host dependenc
Hey All,
Its only a wild guess but there is a space in your config file name
config file '/opt/hptc/nagios/etc/xc- hostgroups.cfg',
xc- hostgroups.cfg
Should it not be xc-hostgroups.cfg.
Check your nagios.cfg file where you specified the above filename and
verify it is the same as th
Hi List,
Has anyone implemented Nagios monitoring of Rackables kit?
www.rackables.com ( I think)
If so what are you monitoring and how (SNMP, Custom Plugins etc)
Any help gratefully received.
Regards
Tom
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Hi List,
My box config is as follows
SUSE Linux enterprise Server 9.2
Mysql 5.0.27
Php 5.2.0
Apache 2.0.59
Nagios 2.6
Nagios Plugins 1.4.5
Im trying to install ndoutils on my SLES 9.2 box and getting an error
whilst doing a make. I see the following in my ./configure
--
Hi David,
You have not said whether or not you have created your config files?
By default when you install nagios no configuration files are installed.
Have you checked that the /path-to-nagios/etc exists.
Read the following faq
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=49&expand=false&sho
Title: Some info on check_disk output
Hi List,
SLES9.2
Nagios 2.5
Nagios-Plugins 1-4-3
NRPE 2.5.1
When I look at my check disk output in nagios I see the following against some entries. My disks are partitioned with LVM
My command line from my nrpe.cfg is
command[check_disk1]=/usr
Title: NRPE and Check_disk error
Hey List,
Current setup.
Nagios 2.5 - Standard install to /usr/local/nagios/*
Nagios Plugins 1.4.3 - Standard install to /usr/local/nagios/libexec
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 sp2 - Disks partitioned with LVM ( yes I have taken that into account in m
Hi,
Take a look at the propaganda page on the nagios site for
some customer
http://www.nagios.org/userprofiles/viewprofile.php?profile_id=1700
http://www.nagios.org/userprofiles/viewprofile.php?profile_id=1457
http://www.nagios.org/userprofiles/viewprofile.php?profile_id=1602
http://
Ignore my last, major brain fart
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Hi Brian,
You don't
Hi Brian,
You don't need to specify the service_description in the serviceextinfo
file see the docs...
Info taken from Extended Service Information Definition
Description:
Extended service information entries are basically used to make the
output from the status and extinfo CGIs look pretty. T
Hi Rob,
Take a look at "Authentication and authorisation in the CGI's" section
off the docs, or alternatively jump to it from faq F0048. this solved a
similar problem for me a few years ago.
-- tom
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Ris
I am having a problem getting NRPE and checks to work with Nagios
Nagios Version 2.5
Nagios Plugins 1.4.3
NRPE 2.5.2
I realise I have missed something, but having looked at this now for
almost 2 hours and having ran through the faq and mailing lists I have
resorted to posting to the mailing list
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