Re: [Nagios-users] skip monitoring every 4 weeks

2009-01-29 Thread Andreas Ericsson
gt; I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* you want to use Sunday -1 00:00-24:00 if you mean "last sunday of the month". > define timeperiod{ > timeperiod_name box-reboot >use 24x7 >exclude offweekend > } >

Re: [Nagios-users] lun monitoring

2009-02-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
r earlier email, and you still haven't told us what google queries you (presumably unsuccessfully) tried or which other places you've looked for information. If you appear as a timesink, people will pour anything but time your way. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] WMI's

2009-03-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
s if installing nsclient, NCNet or nsclient++ is not an option for you, although some programming may be necessary on your part. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering th

Re: [Nagios-users] WMI's

2009-03-13 Thread Andreas Ericsson
with mono and then we could get a Linux binary running checks directly against windows hosts, with actual credentials being used for authentication. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46

Re: [Nagios-users] WMI's

2009-03-13 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Mark, thanks for keeping the tone very much to the point and trying hard yourself. Very few people do this, so the "bones" we throw on this list are generally on the assumption that people haven't. Mark Weaver wrote: > > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Martyn wrote: >>

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios to monitor application bandwidth

2009-03-16 Thread Andreas Ericsson
utilization of these in maximal detail. Please refer me to the howto achive > such > check_traffic should do what you want. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Con

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with nrpe and nagios 3

2009-03-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
rpe on both ends of the connection. I faintly remember having to make some modifications to (check_)nrpe 2.x for it to compile cleanly on solaris, although I think that was an older version of it than yours. If you run into similar problems, poke me and I'll see if I ca

Re: [Nagios-users] Make nagios3 log successful tests

2009-03-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
o make nagios log > this? > Read the manuals and look for stalking_options. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty

Re: [Nagios-users] fatal library errors on all cgi files

2009-03-19 Thread Andreas Ericsson
kind. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declarin

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
rs that Nagios is picking up the command OK, and is at > least *attempting* to execute it, but for some reason, nothing is > happening. Is there some permissions issue here that I'm unaware of? > Is host_check.pl executable? If not, try adding "/usr/bin/perl" or do ch

Re: [Nagios-users] job announcement - Senior Technical Operations Leader

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
anies, seeks to grow its team with a >> hands-on senior technical operations leader. >> >> ... > > > How do I unsubscribe from nagios-jobs list? It doesn't seem to be split > from nagios-users. > Send "unsubscribe nagios-jobs" to Michael Osofsky on

Re: [Nagios-users] Service latency suddenly through the roof

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
r databases. > > Does anyone know of what could set this servicelatency to suddenly increase > like this ? > Since you're running a beta release that's more than 2 years old, I'm not even remotely interested to guess or investigate this matter. At least upgrade to latest

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Unless you're an op5 customer and thereby paying for my services, I *really* don't want off-list emails regarding Nagios problems. Thanks for respecting that in the future. Answers are below. Christopher McAtackney wrote: > 2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson : >> Christoph

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Historical Data into Oracle?

2009-03-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Christopher McAtackney wrote: > 2009/3/23 Andreas Ericsson : >> Unless you're an op5 customer and thereby paying for my services, I >> *really* don't want off-list emails regarding Nagios problems. >> >> Thanks for respecting that in the future. Answers are be

Re: [Nagios-users] use of check_udp

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ct"... but it turns out that > > check_udp -H host -p 2342 -s 'xyz' -e '' > > works ok. > > Too bad that trick does not seem to work for checking if a kerb5 kdc port is > up and valid. > > I know there is a "check_kdc" perl script, bu

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
actual checks. > It then forwards the checks to the Nagios server via NSCA over HTTPS. A > second benefit is that this agent collects about 40 or so check results, > and then sends all of them at once through a single SSL connection. That > reduces the overhead of establishing a

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and MySQL

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
in a database. If you use our webconfiguration tool, it will overwrite your configuration files when you click "save", but that's sort of expected behaviour, I guess. Still, I think you're going about this the wrong way if you only want it for backup reasons. -- Andreas Ericsso

Re: [Nagios-users] Dependent service checks don't fail when depended-on service check fails

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
a non-ok state after B has crashed, then your check isn't doing what it's supposed to do, or you've misunderstood the relationship somehow. If you were to explain what the two services actually are, it would be easier to point you to a solution that works. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] detecting rogue dhcp server

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
"dhcploc.exe" but I'm on Linux. > check_dhcp can sort of do what you want. Give it a whirl. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the succe

Re: [Nagios-users] Max concurrent service checks

2009-03-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
re or less locked down). Are you using network-mounted drives to store any of Nagios' output files? If so, stop doing that immediately. Network filesystems perform extremely poorly with files that are being frequently updated. Apart from that, it seems as if your system isn't qu

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping with maximum MTU

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Vian Vian wrote: > Hello, > > I wonder what is default MTU in check_ping? How can i maximize check_ping > command to 1472 MTU? > Why would you want an MTU of 1472 for something that in 99.9% of its uses transfers only 64 bytes per packet? -- A

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Kevin Keane wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Kevin Keane wrote: >>> Christopher McAtackney wrote: >>>> 2009/3/25 Kevin Keane : >>>> >>>>> I think you are comparing apples and oranges here, because in most >>>>> situat

Re: [Nagios-users] Best reporting tools

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
, piecharts and fairly boring numbers), that would work too. You can download the sources from http://www.op5.org. There's a sandbox set up at www.op5.com/sandbox where you can create reports to see how it works and looks. Contact me off-list if you want a password without registering. Let me

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp on blade systems

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
sed tcpdump from the blade server and can see packets coming in > from the nagios server. > > I use check_ntp to monitor many of my other systems without any problem. > > I also do lots of other checks (including various SNMP checks) on the > blade system via Nagios without any

Re: [Nagios-users] Uniquely Identifiable Events in Nagios.log?

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
, assuming it's sufficiently strong (say, SHA1 or something). The chance of running into a collision should be very slim, and if it happens you can just increase the number of hashed lines. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.s

Re: [Nagios-users] Max concurrent service checks

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
dware. If the BSD raid driver is buggy, you need to either get new (and better supported) hardware, or change the OS. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the s

Re: [Nagios-users] Dependent service checks don't fail when depended-on service check fails

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Jarrod Moore wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Jarrod Moore wrote: >>> Hello everyone, >>> >>> I have a couple of related questions regarding service dependencies in >>> Nagios and their limitations. I have two ser

Re: [Nagios-users] MySQL.SOCK Location in NDO2DB

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
s-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] Bug, Feature or Layer 8 problem?

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ot warning about it could possibly be a bug, but then again, it's pretty nifty to be able to temporarily override a value by simply specifying the variable again later in the object, so I'm not so sure. Can't you make your script generate timeranges in the proper format? It seems to m

Re: [Nagios-users] Forwarding through intermediate nodes?

2009-03-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ks are actually being run. Interesting problem. I'd take it kindly if you keep us posted :) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars o

Re: [Nagios-users] Children "unreachable" on soft down?

2009-03-31 Thread Andreas Ericsson
. But apparently > with the child host every time this happens, it switches from critical > to unreachable and back again, triggering a notification. Is there any > way to keep this from happening? Thanks. > Doesn't flapping detection do what you want? You'd get a few

Re: [Nagios-users] Dependent service checks don't fail when depended-on service check fails

2009-03-31 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Jarrod Moore wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> Jarrod Moore wrote: >>> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >>>> Jarrod Moore wrote: >>>>> Hello everyone, >>>>> >>>>

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Consultants/Commercial Support in Melbourne

2009-04-01 Thread Andreas Ericsson
but since you asked for professional support I'd be sort of neglecting my job obligations if I didn't. Besides, with a little luck I might be sent to Australia at some point if we team up, and free trips are always nice ;-) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se O

Re: [Nagios-users] configure Nagios to monitor the temperature of the server room

2009-04-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
with compiler etc installed on them. Until you grasp that rather important fact, you're far beyond help I'm afraid. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Consideri

Re: [Nagios-users] "strange" warnings from the config files

2009-04-07 Thread Andreas Ericsson
#x27;d defined a timeperiod encompassing all the hours of all days (I think). It could also be by not checking the service at all, which one could argue is actually correct. Try and find out. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.

Re: [Nagios-users] op5 signup for demo issues?

2009-04-07 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Thanks for reporting this, and for your interest :) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I th

Re: [Nagios-users] Adaptive Monitoring: Broken?

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
eds to refresh their memory: http://blogs.op5.org/blog4.php/2008/11/11/nagios-cmd-cgi-authorization-bypass-vuln http://blogs.op5.org/blog4.php/2008/11/11/cross-site-request-forgery-vulnerability-6 The patches to prevent them are available here: http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios.git;a=shortlog;h=r

Re: [Nagios-users] multiple parents

2009-04-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
me unreachable. If you have configured the host (and your contacts) to send notifications on unreachable states, you may still get notifications for it, but not HOST DOWN ones. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Dependency

2009-04-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
your users access this. If you aren't running IP takeover (or some other "same-IP" thing), write a wrapper for check_http which checks both hosts at once and only returns critical if both services are non-ok. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB

Re: [Nagios-users] Is Clientless monitoring possible

2009-04-14 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ccessing the server is necessary to get disk-usage and other data that servers do not publicly advertise. It's up to you to pick your poison. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios plugin configure:3377: error:

2009-04-17 Thread Andreas Ericsson
/include > /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../i586-suse-linux/include This is broken though. This path resolves to /usr/i586-suse-linux/include which I doubt should exist. I'm guessing autoconf is failing quite magnificently here for some reason. It could be because the real path

Re: [Nagios-users] Consolidating Log Files

2009-04-17 Thread Andreas Ericsson
above ways to work, the two server's clocks have to be in sync. If they're not, you need to take the clock-delta into consideration when merging the logs. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225

Re: [Nagios-users] Changing the layout of the status map

2009-04-17 Thread Andreas Ericsson
alternatively is there any way to alter the scaling factor permanently? > Yes. Use a text-editor and re-compile it. Or add 2d_coords for all your hosts. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225

Re: [Nagios-users] concurrent users on a website

2009-04-20 Thread Andreas Ericsson
pretty decent idea of how to implement such a plugin yourself. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and ter

Re: [Nagios-users] only_from = 127.0.0.1

2009-04-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
s, how > do I put "setting 3" in front of the line > He meant you should escape the line by adding a hash-char (#) to the beginning of the line containing 'only_from = 127.0.0.1'. I expect his fingers slipped so the shift-key didn't get pressed properly. -- Andreas E

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor file size through nagios

2009-04-28 Thread Andreas Ericsson
1024); } ok("No file is larger than %d", 1500 * 1024 * 1024); } Writing the various helpers is left as an exercise to the reader. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 F

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and log rotating

2009-05-04 Thread Andreas Ericsson
s not compress rotated logfiles. If logfiles are compressed, something else is doing the compressing. In that case, you need to disable that (whatever it is) and undo the damage it has done. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +4

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts with dynamic IP addresses

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Avery's advice and letting the laptops send passive check-results to your nagios server is definitely the best solution. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows 64-bit

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
t run on the Windows 64-bit, running on AMD (HP if that > matters). Any and all info is appreciated. > Nagios itself doesn't run on Windows at all. For an agent that runs just fine on 64-bit Windows, try downloading the NSClient++ installer from http://www.op5.com/support/down

Re: [Nagios-users] check_icmp and check_host

2009-05-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
of a challenge to set up unless you're using RPM-based system, but it's just pure awesome when it's actually up and running. HTH -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8

Re: [Nagios-users] The icinga on the cake ...

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
at I'm continuously deeply grateful to everyone who bring us > Nagios itself, and the plugins and tools which make it greater than > the sum of its parts. > Don't be. Well, be, but reserve some gratitude for yourself for using it. Without a userbase, a project is just an academic ex

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 ACK author

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
that Nagios rejects the > ack without entering a name? > The simple way is to create per-user accounts with admin rights and then create contacts with the same names as the usernames you set. The difficult way is to hack the CGI's and recompile. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] What does the flag failure_prediction_enabled

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Sean Carolan wrote: >>> I can't find any informations on the flag "failure_prediction_enabled" >>> in service definition. What is the effect of this flag ? >> First result for 'nagios failure prediction' on Google: >> >> http://www.google.com/search?btnI=&q=nagios+failure+prediction > > And it app

Re: [Nagios-users] The icinga on the cake ...

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Sean Carolan wrote: >> Not being a developer myself, I'm not quite sure what to say or think, >> except that I'm continuously deeply grateful to everyone who bring us >> Nagios itself, and the plugins and tools which make it greater than >> the sum of its parts. > > This is, IMHO, one of the great

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 ACK author

2009-05-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Sven Wiedeck wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for the replies but we don't want to create user accounts for > > 30 people if it's not absolutely neccesary. > > So the auto-login is the only way so far... > No can do then. You can lock the author-field, but if everyone are authenticated as the same perso

Re: [Nagios-users] Quick Question Time

2009-05-12 Thread Andreas Ericsson
NG, for when they haven't been checked yet. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://nordicmeetonnagios

Re: [Nagios-users] socket timeout after 20 sec

2009-05-14 Thread Andreas Ericsson
e been breaking my head on this. Please suggest some idea or > your experience > There is a firewall blocking the traffic somewhere along the way, or you have managed to build a cyclic token-ring network (if you don't know what those are, consider yourself lucky and look over your fire

Re: [Nagios-users] Both hostgroup_name and host_name in services.cfg

2009-05-18 Thread Andreas Ericsson
email and awaiting the response. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://nordicmeetonnagios.op5.org/ Consid

Re: [Nagios-users] email attribute in contact

2009-05-20 Thread Andreas Ericsson
d out if that is actually true or not. Make sure to report your finds back to the list, so other can benefit in the future. > thank you > You're welcome. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-23022

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroups and service dependencies?

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Ericsson
y to apply the depth first search to host and service dependencies too. It was originally a patch from Jean Gabès, and it speeds up parent/child relations for hosts by a *huge* amount, so it's probably worth adding it to dependencies too. Even so, I'm guessing you actually added 100 (or more)

Re: [Nagios-users] Different notification contacts depending on service state

2009-05-22 Thread Andreas Ericsson
; Yes. Check the documentation for service escalations. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Register now for Nordic Meet on Nagios, June 3-4 in Stockholm http://

Re: [Nagios-users] unusual behavior

2009-05-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
hy this would be? > Does the host get its IP from DHCP? If yes, I'd assume the check_dig-based service check tried to verify that the host itself had a certain IP but it got a different one when you brought it back up, although why you'd want to resolve the name of a host with dynamic ip

Re: [Nagios-users] Do services inherit downtime from their hosts?

2009-06-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Sean Carolan wrote: > If we put a host into downtime, will alerts be suppressed for services > running on the host? > Yes. > Or does each and every service have to be put into downtime by hand? > No. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics..

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
equests are ofcourse very welcome, and documentation patches for the installation procedures even more so. Hope that answers your questions :-) -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Michael Friedrich wrote: > Hi, > > Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 11:10: >> Yes. It was discussed quite a lot some few weeks back on the >> nagios-devel mailing list. Browse the archives for the full >> discussion. >> > try > http://

Re: [Nagios-users] disk IO for windows?

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
), but you should be able to view them with that thing you can pop up when pressing ctrl-alt-del (task manager or whatever it's called). -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-23023

Re: [Nagios-users] Recovery notifications after escalations

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ins a concatenated list of "normal" and escalated contacts would be favourite, since that would mean everyone who received the problem notification will also get the recovery notification. This would best be implemented by building a linked list with only unique elements to operate on. The

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Michael Friedrich wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 15:09: >> >> Nagios will move to git when 3.2.0 is out the door. Ethan wants some >> time to manage patches and stuff like he's used to without having to >> learn another tool. I&#x

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Michael Friedrich wrote: > > > Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 16:33: >> >> It has? I'll have to take a look at that, I think. The hard part will >> be to separate the cruft from the code, so that only the real changes >> appear in a dif

Re: [Nagios-users] ndo utils question

2009-06-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
nfiguration for a while. When I go into the database and > look at nagios_objects tables, I see all sorts of old objects which do not > exist in my current setup. Does ndoutils clean up and throw away old config > when we start nagios? No, but it marks them as inactive (or some such

Re: [Nagios-users] service dependencies not catching all

2009-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ependencies. *ALL* those dependencies would be circular, so this simply cannot be how you have configured Nagios. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the su

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Michael Friedrich wrote: > > > Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 09.06.2009 19:03: >> >> Well, it'll be ambiguous even if one char is stripped from it, so just >> cutting the name at 30 chars might be worthwhile if we're on oracle. > > Don

Re: [Nagios-users] service dependencies not catching all

2009-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ed Nagios. > > I hate to disagree , but this is the setting i have in my nagios and i do no > have the "264384000 " > dependencies . > It can't be, because then all PING services would depend on themselves which Nagios doesn't allow. The fact that some 26 milli

Re: [Nagios-users] service dependencies not catching all

2009-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
the config parsing somehow, or you're using the pre-cached config option and aren't actually loading it from the *real* configuration. That dependency simply is not valid in any version of Nagios, so you *can't* be actually *using* it. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-10 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Richard Quintin wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 7:05 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> There's also the fact that we lack an oracle database to test against, >> so whoever adds oracle support to Merlin and Ninja will have to be >> someone else than me. > > I appre

Re: [Nagios-users] nagvis requires ndoutils; how stable is ndoutils?

2009-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
so you can use that if you can't get NDOUtils to work. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I thi

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios future?

2009-06-11 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Michael Friedrich wrote: > Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> >> Well, Merlin *is* a rewrite. It doesn't reuse any code at all from >> NDOUtils >> and it does scale a *lot* better. It replaces NDOUtils for all >> GUI-related >> activities we do at op5, an

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios2: failover

2009-06-15 Thread Andreas Ericsson
> **Note thta the IP for the nagios failover server IS listed in the nrpe.cfg > allowed_hosts directive and the nrpe daemon has been restarted. > Double-check this with cut 'n paste. 9/10, this is actually the issue but with a typo somewhere, or the same IP written in both nrpe

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation

2009-06-17 Thread Andreas Ericsson
share your work, I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, po

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios SLA tool

2009-06-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
r all nodes that have any downtime at all and then sorting the list after it's been calculated. > > Any advise is very welcome. > Just use our stuff now, or hang on until Merlin and Ninja are ready for public production use sometime in august or september. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios SLA tool

2009-06-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
tand- alone product. Patches welcome in case anyone else is interested in doing this. I'm sorry to say we're a bit behind schedule with Merlin and Ninja and thus we don't have time to take care of this rather trivial step on our own :-/ -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.eric

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp issue

2009-06-25 Thread Andreas Ericsson
check_dhcp > > Do I need to do something like set permissions on serveip1 server? > > Please advise. > As root on your nagios server: chmod 4755 ./check_dhcp -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel:

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp issue

2009-06-25 Thread Andreas Ericsson
erveip1 > Error: Could not bind socket to interface eth0. Check your privileges... > > Any other ideas? > Sorry. As root: chown root:root check_dhcp && chmod 4755 check_dhcp -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp issue

2009-06-26 Thread Andreas Ericsson
when I look at the nagios monitor page, I get this: > CRITICAL: Received 1 DHCPOFFER(s), 0 of 1 requested servers responded, max > lease time = 86400 sec. > > > Any idea why? > You're not running it with the exact same parameters from Nagios and the command-line. -- A

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting Nagios to "go active"

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ck originally will automatically take it over because it'll be in its scheduling queue at the right moment and time. You can find merlin at http://git.op5.org/git/nagios/merlin.git. The project page is at http://www.op5.org/community/projects/merlin HTH -- Andreas Ericsson andrea

Re: [Nagios-users] check_period help?

2009-06-30 Thread Andreas Ericsson
period 1a-7a_every_day >> register 0 >> >> } >> This looks decidedly odd. "Time-7a_to_1a" uses the check_period "1a-7a_every_day". Either you were very confused when you named the time

Re: [Nagios-users] Simplified Nagios user interface for end users/help desk

2009-07-01 Thread Andreas Ericsson
e groups are there for precisely this reason, really. Making users see how various failures in the network affects what *they* use is an immensely powerful feature, but it has to be used properly. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op

Re: [Nagios-users] Event Handlers, start a java program, nohup issues.

2009-07-02 Thread Andreas Ericsson
restart" >> /tmp/test` > nohup $JAVA_CMD -cp $CLASSPATH $JVM_OPTIONS JMXServer $PORT > &1 >> $LOG_FILE& > `$ECHO_CMD "FINISHED trying" >> /tmp/test` > > ;; > > esac > >

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-Users]- How to change the alert message pattern

2009-07-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
aqs/smart-questions.html before you post here again, please. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor for memory bottleneck on Windows?

2009-07-06 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ts swapping performance will go downhill very, very fast. The disk is several hundred orders of magnitude slower than the RAM. If you have high swap usage, you should buy more RAM for your servers (or modify whatever programs are running on them). -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor for memory bottleneck on Windows?

2009-07-09 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ce will degrade considerably. > Indeed. Swap allocation growing quickly is a good indication of a busy system with not enough *real* memory to perform the task it's been assigned. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.o

Re: [Nagios-users] Detecting partial outages

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
ces, only the server that does the last check of whatever host/service it should report on will send a notification. This shouldn't take much more than a day to hack up, but is less elegant. With a shared network-capable database it shouldn't be too much trouble though. There are more o

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 136 is out of bounds.

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
execute flag set, or if the user trying to execute the program lacks the permissions to execute the given file. Since the OP stated all the plugins are owned by the nagios user, I'd assume a simple chmod +x /path/to/nagios/plugins/* would suffice. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp over internet "best practice"

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
to be added without having to install additional software. The code is also small, and I've audited it myself so I know it's sound, provided it's configured properly. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios threads and process model

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
agios 2.x and earlier will stall exactly everything while waiting for the check to finish. If it's a service-check, only the other services that happened to end up in the same batch will be delayed, but only wrt the reporting back t

Re: [Nagios-users] Modbus/TCP??

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
tation of it once, a long time ago. AFAIR, it's a fairly simple binary protocol along the tried and tested variant of head+body. I'll have a look at work tomorrow and see if I can find it. If so, I can most likely post it here. It'll require a lot of tweaking though,

Re: [Nagios-users] Can't execute the CGI scripts

2007-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Reynold Guerrier wrote: > I did. Because I can see the Nagios Homepage, I can browse the > Documentation webpages, but can't get through the nagios data. > It sounds as if you didn't configure your webserver to execute CGI's. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS alerte

2007-08-28 Thread Andreas Ericsson
- > > ___ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting > any is

Re: [Nagios-users] sh: -c: line 0: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''

2007-08-28 Thread Andreas Ericsson
hose last two lines every 60 seconds until I kill it. > > Any thoughts on what the cause is? > My guess would be a broken shell-script that you use as a plugin. Nagios runs plugins by using the popen(3) call, which uses sh -c to interpret and execute the given command. -- Andreas Ericsson

Re: [Nagios-users] Log monitoring with Nagios - recommendations?

2007-08-29 Thread Andreas Ericsson
out disabling them altogether, no. Unless you hack up a NEB-module, but that seems like overkill for this. -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225

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