[Nagios-users] External commands to retrieve current status?

2009-08-13 Thread Eddie
Hi all, External commands seem to be mostly for changing and updating. Are there similar commands to check the current stats on a given service? At the moment I'm using these shell scripts (named appropriately) that I've written, which take the host as the first argument and the service as the se

[Nagios-users] Stability of NDOUtils with Nagios 3.0.6

2009-08-13 Thread Getchell, Kristoffer M
We're currently considering a rollout of Centreon and I have tried to go through the install process on one of our Nagios systems. I have got to the point where Centeon begins to look for ndomod.o which I believe is part of NDOUtils. I'm a little wary about going any further as NDOUtils are se

Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-13 Thread Voigt, Thomas
Hi Brian, Brian O'Mahony wrote: > But as the commands are working remotely from the shell on the nagios-server, > isn't this already working? Is there a difference between sending the > commands (as either the nagios or root user) from the nagios-server to > beatrix (my monitored server) Sure

Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-13 Thread Brian O'Mahony
Turned out I had been mucking about with the check_nrpe command descriptor, as during my testing I had just been checking the nrpe version (Im implementing this on Solaris, AIX, HPUX, debian, rhel, CentOS, zlinux, suse and windows) and when it had more arguments, the nrpe checks in the nagios gu

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 8 - Abwesenheitsnotiz

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Re: [Nagios-users] Injecting URL-encoding into Nagios Macros

2009-08-13 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Richard Remington wrote: > Is there a way that anyone knows for URL-encoding the value of the > $SERVICEDESC$ macro? Our service descriptions have spaces in them so > our email notices that include the URL to return to the Nagios Web > admin page is broken at that space. Anyone have any ideas

Re: [Nagios-users] Preventing "plugin timed out while executing system call" notifications?

2009-08-13 Thread Grant Sewell
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:36:08 -0700 Morris, Patrick wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Nagios 3.0.6 (current default on Debian Lenny). > > > > We have a number of activities that will periodically trash our > > network bandwidth, thus causing all of our external checks to > > fail. Now, although I am

Re: [Nagios-users] Export Nagios for new server

2009-08-13 Thread Christian Schneemann
Hi, On Wednesday August 12 2009 09:52:30 pm Tom Denham wrote: > I'm planning to move our existing Nagios server to a new system. Is there > a way to easily export all the configs using Nagiosql or is there a > safer/better method to do this to ensure I do not loose all my templates, > services, ho

Re: [Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

2009-08-13 Thread arly arly
Hi Sean, this helped, thank you very much for commnent. I supposed I had something wrong with $ARGs Thank you and kind regards, Arlytex 2009/8/12 Sean McAfee : > arly arly wrote: >> >> I have an easy but confusing question. Command for checking hard disk >> on my system is defined as >> >> def

Re: [Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

2009-08-13 Thread arly arly
Hi Marc, thank you for mail and explanation. It was/is confusing for me stuff related to $ARGs in nagios commands, I have to learn it. Explanation you sent will definetelly help. Kind regards, Arlytex 2009/8/12 Marc Powell : > > On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:02 PM, arly arly wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >>

Re: [Nagios-users] External commands to retrieve current status?

2009-08-13 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:27 AM, Eddie wrote: > Hi all, > > External commands seem to be mostly for changing and updating. Are > there similar commands to check the current stats on a given service? No. External commands are one-way and have no way of returning output. [script names snipped] > It'

Re: [Nagios-users] Stability of NDOUtils with Nagios 3.0.6

2009-08-13 Thread Hendrik Baecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am 13.08.2009 09:58, schrieb Getchell, Kristoffer M: > We're currently considering a rollout of Centreon and I have tried to go through the install process on one of our Nagios systems. I have got to the point where Centeon begins to look for ndomod.

[Nagios-users] Alerts, Escalation and Alert Counts

2009-08-13 Thread cr...@hooters-uk.com
Hi Group, I wonder if you could help me out with the following scenario I would like to set up. I will try and explain best I can but if I'm a little vague in places please let me know, here goes then.. I'm monitoring for example an FTP service that if goes down flags as critical, I would like to

Re: [Nagios-users] Alerts, Escalation and Alert Counts

2009-08-13 Thread Stephen Bader
This should be fairly easy. As I've recently struggled with escalations, I'll give you some pointers. You may want to set the default contact group for this host/service to be a null address and set the notification_interval to 10. Then, setup an escalation for the first two notifications you

[Nagios-users] parent/child host relationship and vif

2009-08-13 Thread shadih rahman
I am monitoring bunch of vif which is served by one actual host. Is it possible to achieve the following just by defining host/service definition host - A vif1.com has parent A vif2.com has parent B vif3.com has parent C I am checking the following url with check_http plugin vif1.com/someu

[Nagios-users] SNMP Checks

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
Is there any way to get an snmp check to query multiple oids like .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.9 and return the *.7 for my seventh disc, maybe cat a few values together actually so it queries for the name, mount point, free space etc in one check so it occupies only one line on the host screen? Thanks! jlc

Re: [Nagios-users] Alerts, Escalation and Alert Counts

2009-08-13 Thread cr...@hooters-uk.com
Fantastic Steve, this has given me a massive understand of how escalations work, many thanks. --- Original Message --- >From: Stephen Bader[mailto:sba...@comcast.net] Sent: 13/08/2009 16:43:09 To : cr...@hooters-uk.com Cc : nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject : R

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Checks

2009-08-13 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 13, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Is there any way to get an snmp check to query multiple oids If you're talking about generic SNMP oids, certainly you can create a custom plugin to do this pretty easily. I've done it for some router checks; hunting for an interface desc

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP Checks

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
>For disks in particular, this might be useful to you -- >http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html Yeah, I don't know what I was thinking trying to do it the hard way:) I already those installed so I just took the easy way out and used 'em! Thanks! jlc -

[Nagios-users] Passive Checks and state changes

2009-08-13 Thread Joseph L. Casale
What am I missing, I use some passive checks for backups which update only when send_nsca runs on the client. After editing the configs and restarting nagios, only sometimes do they turn critical, as if it decided to perform the freshness check out of hours? Anyone know why this happens only somet

[Nagios-users] HTML e-mail plugin

2009-08-13 Thread David Rosenstrauch
Just wondering if anyone here has used the HTML e-mail plugin (http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2002.html;d=1) and can vouch for it. We have a need to embed HTML links into Nagios service alert messages, and it looks like this plugin might handle that. Thanks, D

Re: [Nagios-users] HTML e-mail plugin

2009-08-13 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:24 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > Just wondering if anyone here has used the HTML e-mail plugin > (http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2002.html;d=1 > > ) > and can vouch for it. Not I, but I know others previously on this list are. They may s

Re: [Nagios-users] Stability of NDOUtils with Nagios 3.0.6

2009-08-13 Thread Simon Finch
Hi Kris, We are running this configuration successfully without any major problems for about a year. I am currently running with Nagios 3.10 / NDOUtils 1.4b7. in production and NDOUtils 1.4b8 in development. The only problem I am currently seeing is that ndo2db-3x leaves zombies behind that I

[Nagios-users] windows updates thru check_nt

2009-08-13 Thread Trnka Tomas
Hello everyone , I want to check updates on windows machine, i like to use check_nt , not nrpe. Please tell if you have any idea , thanks zed -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal R

Re: [Nagios-users] How to detect MSSQL cluster failover?

2009-08-13 Thread Jon Angliss
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:08:56 +0200, Marco Tirado wrote: >Hello users: > >I would like to know what is the easiest way to detect when a failover >occurs in an MSSQL cluster. I need a simple check that tells me when our >database cluster fails from physical node "X" to node physical node "Y" > >Has