Re: [Nagios-users] Physical limitations of config files

2008-08-26 Thread tom.welsh
Have you ever hit a limit of the number of hosts in a host or service check. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Marcel 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

[Nagios-users] Max number if contacts in a contact group

2008-08-22 Thread tom.welsh
Can anyone tell me if there is a max number of contacts you can have in a contact group :) - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SD

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios can works with help desk software?

2008-07-24 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios status map

2008-04-29 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios help!!

2008-04-10 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] 3 tera applogic monitoring

2008-04-10 Thread tom.welsh
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'

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http and differents ports

2008-02-29 Thread tom.welsh
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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> id uid=1001(nagios) gid=100(users) groups=100(users)

Re: [Nagios-users] Is this possible - to make a user only see certainhosts or hostgroups ??

2008-02-20 Thread tom.welsh
Hi Stephen, Read the docs about contacts and groups. This will show you what you want to know. Regards Tom From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 February 2008 09:46 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Su

Re: [Nagios-users] Error: Cannot Complete SSL Handshake.

2008-02-19 Thread tom.welsh
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 From: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [Nagios-users] Migration From nagios 1.x to Nagios 2.10

2008-02-01 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] how to SNMP

2008-01-15 Thread tom.welsh
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of riky.none Sent: 15 January 2008 15:41 To: Nagios Users Mailinglist 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

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios and parenting...

2008-01-15 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios and parenting...

2008-01-15 Thread tom.welsh
Hi Eric, This is a faq question. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=81&expand=false&showdesc=f alse Regards Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric F Crist Sent: 15 January 2008 14:31 To: Patrick Morris Cc: Nagios List Subj

Re: [Nagios-users] NAS device Mapping

2007-12-17 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Mapping DNs to username

2007-12-04 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] hi

2007-10-25 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Messag

Re: [Nagios-users] hi

2007-10-24 Thread tom.welsh
Thanks Hari -Original Message- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 October 2007 10:44 To: Welsh,T,Tom,DLS C Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hi OK I will try to release it today, I am just adding the extra functionali

Re: [Nagios-users] hi

2007-10-24 Thread tom.welsh
Hi Hari, I too would be interested in this plugin. If your going to release it that is. Regards Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: 24 October 2007 10:13 To: Sukesh /IT/BLR/JIG/IN Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Nagios-users] should I use nagios 2.9 or 3.0b5??

2007-10-16 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe problem

2007-10-12 Thread tom.welsh
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.

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe problem

2007-10-11 Thread tom.welsh
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sukesh /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

Re: [Nagios-users] New Nagios Plugins website

2007-10-09 Thread tom.welsh
-Original Message- 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

Re: [Nagios-users] using web content to determine the nagios status

2007-10-08 Thread tom.welsh
Why don't you just do a nontent check on a page that wont change much? It beats the hell out off writing one? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jaime Ventura Sent: 08 October 2007 11:41 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Map Error

2007-10-04 Thread tom.welsh
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 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joel Roberts Sent: 04 October 2007 18:10 To: nagios-users@lists.s

Re: [Nagios-users] Differentiate between monitoring modem Vs router

2007-10-02 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mick Sent: 02 October 2007 11:35 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subj

[Nagios-users] Nagios and Capacity Planning

2007-09-28 Thread tom.welsh
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 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges.

Re: [Nagios-users] Email Notifications

2007-09-24 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] check_telnet?

2007-09-18 Thread tom.welsh
Use check_tcp and specify the port and any other switches you want -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Melanie Pfefer Sent: 18 September 2007 11:47 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_telnet? Hi Is there a "c

Re: [Nagios-users] cannot restart Nagios using webgui on NagiosQL

2007-09-18 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- Fr

Re: [Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-13 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 13 September 2007 12:25 To: Welsh,T,Tom,XS

Re: [Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-13 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-12 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-12 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Resp.: NDOUtiles not working

2007-09-12 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOUtiles not working

2007-09-10 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http

2007-09-07 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http

2007-09-07 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- From: [

[Nagios-users] Problems getting NDO to work

2007-09-06 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] web interface to add hosts and services...

2007-09-06 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] Problems getting ndo to work

2007-09-05 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed config admin tool?

2007-08-31 Thread tom.welsh
Yes, I'd second cfengine. Though rsync is a simple quick fix From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill Omer 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring of specific log events in Event Viewerthrough Nagios

2007-08-29 Thread tom.welsh
Take a look at check_log -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Navdeep 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

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE times out after 10 seconds

2007-07-19 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

[Nagios-users] Looking for modified statusmap.cgi

2007-05-24 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios

2007-05-17 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi is not found in Nagios ver. 2.9

2007-05-15 Thread tom.welsh
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 _

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Command 'check_swap' not defined

2007-05-02 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Command 'check_swap' not defined

2007-05-02 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE: Command 'check_swap' not defined

2007-05-02 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] Create mesh network in status map

2007-04-26 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS 2.3.1 version issues

2007-03-07 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] Rackables + nagios

2007-03-05 Thread tom.welsh
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 - Take Surveys. Ear

[Nagios-users] Problems compiling ndoutils-1.4b1

2007-01-10 Thread tom.welsh
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 --

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing issue.

2006-10-24 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] Some info on check_disk output

2006-10-05 Thread tom.welsh
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

[Nagios-users] NRPE and Check_disk error

2006-10-04 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] How many host to monitor

2006-09-27 Thread tom.welsh
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://

Re: [Nagios-users] host name problem

2006-09-13 Thread tom.welsh
Ignore my last, major brain fart -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 September 2006 19:09 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] host name problem Hi Brian, You don't

Re: [Nagios-users] host name problem

2006-09-12 Thread tom.welsh
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

Re: [Nagios-users] "Logged in as ?" -- http auth not working ?

2006-09-12 Thread tom.welsh
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 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Ris

[Nagios-users] NRPE :- (Return code of 126 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)

2006-09-10 Thread tom.welsh
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