Re: [Nagios-users] check snmp logic
On 29 Aug 2013 02:46, Mark Campbell mcc...@psu.edu wrote:
So I need to utilize some logic in my service checks.
I have a chiller that if it is not running the discharge temp is not of
concern. However if it is running the discharge temp needs to be lower
than 50 degrees.
Is there a way to have the check snmp utilize some logic that says if
running = 0 then ignore discharge temp. If running = 1 then discharge
temp must be 50 degrees?
Yes, I did something similar recently where I wanted to check for existence
of an orphaned file only if ftp failed on another server.
The command definition looked like this:
define command {
command_name check-for-orphan
command_line if $USER1$/check_ftp -H $ARG1$ $ARG2$ $USER10$ then
$USER1$/check_multi -s $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG3$ $USER10$ else exit 0 $USER10$ fi
register 1
}
Obviously you won't be using check_ftp and check_multi (probably check_snmp
or your own custom plugins instead) but hopefully you can see now how you
can do something similar to run the second check only if the first returns
an ok state (I'm presuming your first check will return an ok state if
running=1 and the second returns ok if temperature 50 degrees).
Where you see $USER10$ here, that refers to a macro in your
/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg file that gives you a semi-colon like so:
$USER10$=;
It's a bit of a kludge to allow you to have a multi-line command in a
Nagios command definition.
Note that during the time that the first check returns a non-ok state, the
service check will be in an OK state (the exit 0) but will have null
output. I guess you could put another line with echo something in there
if you want it to say something meaningful.
I hope that makes some sense...
By the way, please don't blame me if this method breaks in some future
version of Nagios - I'm using 3.3.1 on this one.
Cheers,
Jim
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios check latency
On 13 Aug 2013 05:22, Muhamad Faiz muhamad.f...@asia.xchanging.com wrote: My Nagios setup are having high service check latency. Check nagios latency result is 240 seconds! ... Any advice will be much appreciated. If you haven't stopped / started the nagios daemon lately, then do that (/etc/init.d/nagios stop then /etc/init.d/nagios start , NOT /etc/init.d/nagios reload). I find that after a couple of weeks the service check latency starts creeping up, and stopping/starting the nagios daemon sorts it. I hope that helps. Jim -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
On 12 Aug 2013 16:50, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM’s on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM’s can sometimes move around from being on one host to being on another w/o my knowledge beforehand. Does anyone know if there is any sort of plugin available for Nagios Core that would basically talk to my vCenter system and find out what VM’s are on which hosts, and automatically update that VM’s Parent directive in the host definition? I specify all of the host servers as parents of the VM. I reckon that makes perfect sense, and it's dead easy to implement. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring
On 12 Aug 2013 21:49, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: I did that, but it made the map a complete mess of lines that I couldn’t make out. Yes. The map doesn't scale well. I haven't used it for some years now. -- Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite! It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production. Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with 2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48897031iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] how to start nagios with non nagios user
On 31 Jul 2013 14:30, , Roy rp...@njit.edu wrote: Hi guys, I want to start nagios with non root, nagios user. How do I do that. Something like.. sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start should do it. You'll need to edit /etc/sudoers to allow your non-root user to do this. Enter 'man sudoers' to read all the gory detail on how to configure it. However... If your system is anything like mine (Ubuntu), you'll find you can easily give users sudo access to run any command as root by adding them to the 'admin' group. This is by virtue of this entry in /etc/sudoers: # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL Although you might decide this gives them too much power... I hope that helps. Jim -- Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Woes Monitoring Windows Servers
On 28 January 2012 15:52, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote: Hope someone can point me in the right direction. For any check_nrpe command (except CheckVersion) I get the following: CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. I know this is a bit sketchy Yes, it is rather. , but I don’t understand why the CheckVersion command would work and anything else won’t. I’m assuming here that because I get the version of the NSClient++ returned without error, then NSClient++ is configured correctly? I have uncommented the necessary modules within the NSC.ini files on the Windows server. I’ve tried both CheckMEM and CheckUptime with no success. Can someone please help? Does the nsclient.log file contain anything interesting? There are umpteen ways to configure NSClient++ and run checks against it. What specific checks are you trying to run and how are you running them? -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Can passive results cause active check rescheduling?
On 24 January 2012 15:07, Craig Stewart craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com wrote: Good day! Here is a question. Can the processing of a passive service check schedule a pending active service check? Here's a simple example from a distributed monitoring setup. Lets say we have a service called check_alive that simply pings a host. It's defined on the probe and the central server. On the probe, it's scheduled to check every 60 seconds, and submit the results to the central server. On the central server, it's scheduled to check every 120 seconds. Is there a way to cause the following behaviour to occur? - Probe checks and submits the results to central. It reschedules the check for 60 seconds from now. - Central receives and processes the results (assume an okay state here) and reschedules it's active check that was going to run within short time frame to 120 seconds from now, without running the active check. - 60 seconds later the probe checks and submits (still in an okay state) it's check to the central server. - The central server receives and processes the check result, and reschedules (postpones) it's active service check for 120 seconds from now, without actually running it. - Repeat until a non-okay result comes in. This way if the probe goes silent, the central server will pick up monitoring nearly seamlessly. I know I can get the results I want using the check freshness option. What is happening now, if I enable active service checks on the central server is that the passive result comes in, is processed and the active service check is run at exactly the scheduled time. There is no postponing the central server's check time. There are a couple of problems. 1) My central server also does active service checking for some devices that are not associated with a probe. I can build these to have a separate template, but I'm already getting into template complexity. I don't want to have to have two templates, one for local and one for remote monitoring of each device type. 2) I have an individual that doesn't like to see red on the Nagios interface. They are sufficiently far up the food chain that all I can really do is say Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full sir and hope they forget about it. All the 1 plus services show up in the Nagios interface as disabled and have a red background. Please assume any valid arguments on my part have been made. None of my reading has suggested that this behaviour is possible, but I thought I'd put it out there and ask. My understanding of what Nagios does is it schedules the active check, it goes in to the schedule queue with the specific time it's scheduled to run and that is the time it will run regardless of what passive checks come in in the mean time. I don't understand why it's a problem to you to have the active checks run in their regular times under the control of the Nagios scheduler with passive checks coming in too at whatever times they come in. Granted you will fairly often have the two checks run at almost the same time, but does that cause you a problem? You're right you could use freshness checking. Is there a particular reason why you chose not to? -- Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Active Sessions
On 23 January 2012 13:09, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote:
Does anyone know how to return the number of active sessions from a Windows
Terminal server? I have installed the NSClient++ service on the Windows
server and obviously have the NRPE plugin installed on my Nagios host.
Rab,
if I've understood correctly then you can query a Windows performance counter.
I use an entry in the NSClient++ config file in the [External Alias]
section that looks like this:-
alias_CheckCounter-ts_act_sess=CheckCounter
Counter:sessions=\Terminal Services\Active Sessions ShowAll
MaxWarn=40 MaxCrit=50
Then on the Nagios side, the command is simply check_nrpe -H
thehostname -c alias_CheckCounter-ts_act_sess
So the command definition in Nagios is:-
define command{
command_namecheck_nrpe
command_line$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$
}
And the service definition looks something like this:-
define service{
use srv-pnp,generic-service
host_name myhost
service_description TS_Active_Sessions
check_command check_nrpe!-c ts_act_sess
notes Number of Terminal Services Active Sessions
contact_groupsnotify-engineers
}
There are lots of similar ways to do this sort of think using
NSClient++. Precisely how you set it up depends a bit on how
obsessive you are about security and your particular preference.
The method shown above means you can have allow_arguments=0 and
allow_nasty_meta_chars=0 in the [nrpe] section which is good for
security. The downside is that if you need to change the warning
theshold, you have to edit the nsc.ini file on the target system.
hth,
Jim
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Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Active Sessions
On 23 January 2012 14:56, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote: Hi Jim, Managed to get some output, but not what I expected: I (0.3.8.75 2010-05-27) seem to be doing fine I get the same manually running check_nrpe from the Nagios host command line. Any ideas? I've not seen that myself, but a quick google for nsclient++ seem to be doing fine comes up with this. http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/discussion/topic/510 I think that's very likely your solution. -- Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledge link on service commands
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Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM
On 4 January 2012 07:53, Claudio Kuenzler c...@claudiokuenzler.com wrote: I created a fake host (with IP 0.0.0.0) for the cluster with active checks and notifications disabled. This way I have one and the same parent for all VM's in that cluster. Let me show it this way: switch --- esx1 VM-CLUSTER-1 -- VM1 | esx2 | VM2 | esx3 | VM3 | esx4 |- VM4 I hope you see what I'm trying to show. In text: Parent of vm's 1-4 is the 'fake' host VM-CLUSTER-1. Parents of VM-CLUSTER-1 are esx1, esx2, esx3, esx4. Parent of esx1-4 is switch. Positive: You can represent the cluster with a host and in the map it's clearly seen which physical hosts are part of this cluster. Negative: The host will stay grey (pending) in Nagios as no check will be executed on the fake host. In Nagvis it looks good and it makes sense. That's a good idea. Another advantage is if you add or remove host servers to the cluster you only need to change the one host definition. You could use check_cluster as the host check for your fake host, then its status would be meaningful too. I'll have a go at doing that myself when I get a minute. The documentation for check_cluster if you run check_cluster --help isn't all that helpful. Some examples can be found after some googling for example at: http://www.nagios-wiki.de/nagios/doku3/clusters If I recall I learned how to use the check_cluster plugin by reading Wolfgang Barth's book. Cheers, Jim -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM
On 3 January 2012 20:58, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: I have few hyper-visors that running bunch of VMs. Each VM runs on a HV and can be migrated from one host to another at any given time for whatever reason(s). Should I specify all HVs (where VM can run) for each VM as a parent? That's what I do, yes. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working
On 27 December 2011 13:32, JM jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote: Jim Avery jim at jimavery.me.uk writes: Is the the relevant entry for that service check in your objects.cache file correct? I believe so. Do you see something out of the ordinary: host_name xxx service_description yyy check_period 24x7 check_command check_dummy!0 contact_groups cg_xx notification_period 24x7 initial_state o check_interval 1.00 retry_interval 1.00 max_check_attempts 1 is_volatile 1 parallelize_check 1 active_checks_enabled 0 passive_checks_enabled 1 obsess_over_service 1 event_handler_enabled 1 low_flap_threshold 0.00 high_flap_threshold 0.00 flap_detection_enabled 0 flap_detection_options o,w,u,c freshness_threshold 600 check_freshness 1 notification_options u,w,c notifications_enabled 1 notification_interval 240.00 first_notification_delay 0.00 stalking_options n process_perf_data 1 failure_prediction_enabled 1 retain_status_information 1 retain_nonstatus_information 1 Ok looking at my config where I do the same sort of thing to clear SNMP-Trap states after a period, it's pretty much the same as yours except I have .. obsess_over_service 0 event_handler_enabled 0 low_flap_threshold 60.00 high_flap_threshold 80.00 flap_detection_enabled 1 flap_detection_options o,w,u,c notification_optionsw,c,r stalking_optionsw,c process_perf_data 0 failure_prediction_enabled 0 I'll leave it to you to think about whether any of those are likely to have any effect. I don't think they should do, but it might be worth doing a bit of experimentation. Cheers, Jim -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] scheduled downtime nagios.cmd
On 29 December 2011 19:23, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: I’m attempting to integrate a downtime schedule script I downloaded from nagios.org into my installation (http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Scheduled-Downtime/Downtime-Scheduler/details) The script is supposed to write downtime information to the nagios.cmd file and disable the referenced host. However, when I tail nagios.cmd I am unable to view any processed commands. The command file isn't a file, it's a pipe so I expect Nagios will have already read the line by the time you get to attempt to read it, and if you were able to read it then it wouldn't be there for Nagios to read it. Interestingly enough the command DOES show in my nagios.log file so it appears that it is processing the command. [1325186243] EXTERNAL COMMAND: SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME;monk;1325186100;1325187540;1;7200;Nagios;Test The problem is that I don’t believe the host (monk) is being disabled despite having the start time already occurring in the past. I’ve validated this test by disabling nrpe on the client. [1325186247] SERVICE ALERT: monk;MEMORY STATUS;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused by host Scheduled downtime won't stop Nagios from running active checks or displaying the resulting alerts in the CGIs. It should stop Nagios from sending notifications (emails) though and you should see the relevant icon to show the host is in a period of scheduled downtime. To view all scheduled downtimes currently configured in Nagios, click 'downtime' in the 'reports' part of the menu. -- Ridiculously easy VDI. With Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, you don't need a complex infrastructure or vast IT resources to deliver seamless, secure access to virtual desktops. With this all-in-one solution, easily deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs and save 60% on VDI infrastructure costs. Try it free! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Citrix-VDIinabox ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie: controlling bad packets.
On 27 December 2011 14:22, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg n...@eurofmc.com wrote: Hi the List, I would control if bad packets has been rejected on a given lan for any or several machines A command like this : check_rejected_packets -L lan address, i.e 192.168.0.0, or a lot of addresses, or an intervall -T elapsed times in seconds Any ideas? A plugin exists for this control? Take a look at http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html With the -e option, it gives you in/out errors and discards for the specific interface (if that is the sort of thing you want). -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working
On 27 December 2011 13:32, JM jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote: Jim Avery jim at jimavery.me.uk writes: Is the the relevant entry for that service check in your objects.cache file correct? I believe so. Do you see something out of the ordinary: I can't see anything wrong with that at all, no. The only difference I can think of between what you have and what I have is I don't use an event handler. I'll be back at work on Thursday so I'll take a closer look then. -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working
On 23 December 2011 18:48, jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote:
Hi there,
consider the following template:
define service {
name x_trap
register 0 ; DONT REGISTER - ITS NOT
REAL,JUST A TEMPLATE!
host_name host
active_checks_enabled 0
passive_checks_enabled 1
is_volatile 1
max_check_attempts 1
normal_check_interval 1
retry_check_interval 1
flap_detection_enabled 0
contact_groups cg_x
notification_options w,u,c
notification_interval 240
notification_period 24x7
check_freshness 1
freshness_threshold 600
check_command check_dummy!0
check_period 24x7
}
Can someone tell me why some real services derived from the above template
do not seem to do the freshness checks?
Are you sure they don't do the freshness check? Personally I would
have the following arguments (or similar) to check_dummy, using 3
rather than 0 to show an unknown rather than ok state.
check_command check_dummy!3 UNKNOWN: Nagios did not receive a
passive service check recently.
One thing that catches me out frequently is when I put an explanation
mark in there which stops it from working. For example, this will not
work.
check_command check_dummy!3 UNKNOWN: Nagios did not receive a
passive service check recently!
hth,
Jim
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Re: [Nagios-users] Feeding status information to SCOM?
On 20 December 2011 13:58, Troels Arvin tro...@arvin.dk wrote: Thoughts/comments? In the other direction, we have an IBM Director system which simply forwards alerts to Nagios as SNMP Traps. It seems to work pretty well on the whole. I would think you could configure your Nagios system to send traps for any state changes or events to the SCOM system quite easily. A bit of googling around will find you the bits and pieces you need to do that, including the MIB. For example, I found a FAQ for it here:- http://support.nagios.com/knowledgebase/faqs/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=52catid=35faq_id=28expand=falseshowdesc=true That's my 2p worth anyway ... Cheers, Jim -- Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] permissions issues with nagiosql
On 13 December 2011 16:11, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys im having permissions issues and getting the following message Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)! i did some googling and game up with http://www.nagiosql.org/forum/installation-issues/195-permissions.html should i have some template config files somehwere? From what I am seeing i do not have any demo configs showing up anywhere On my system, the user www-data (the apache web server user) is added to the nagios group. So, in the /etc/group file we have:- nagios:x:1001:www-data If www-data (or whichever user your Apache daemon runs as) isn't in the 'nagios' group, you should be able to add it something like so .. usermod -G nagios www-data hth, Jim -- Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization Self Assessment. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51450054/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor memory on cisco router
On 13 December 2011 16:41, moses neah mssn...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, Where can I find a plugin to monitor cisco routers memory. I got the one that monitors CPU, fan and temperature. I haven't tried it myself, but this one should do the trick:- http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_mem.html -- Systems Optimization Self Assessment Improve efficiency and utilization of IT resources. Drive out cost and improve service delivery. Take 5 minutes to use this Systems Optimization Self Assessment. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sdnl/114/51450054/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] timeperiod definition for election day?
On 5 December 2011 20:31, Paul M. Dubuc w...@paul.dubuc.org wrote: I didn't see this in the documentation, but I wonder if there is a way to specify a timeperiod for the first weekday after another weekday. For example, election day in the U.S. is on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday of November. We have a similar need do define a timeperiod for the 1st Sunday after the 1st Saturday of every month. Must we do this by entering all the specific dates for these in the coming year(s), or is there a simpler, no maintenance way of doing it? Thanks, Paul Dubuc I was pondering about this sort of thing the other day when I was updating our bank holiday list. I think what's really needed is an equivalent of ntp, but for bank holidays so you have have a central repository of bank holiday information and have any servers that are interested poll it once in a while. That would be nothing to do with Nagios per se of course, but would be useful to Nagios and lots of other applications. Maybe someone has already done such a thing and I've not heard of it yet? -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Passive monitoring multiple servers with 1 NAT IP
On 3 December 2011 17:46, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: ok great if its possible, however I did try setting this up and it didnt seem to work. I am using the NSClient++ on Windows servers, and under the NSCA section I have defined what is described as LOCAL HOST NAME correctly on each client. However when both clients are configured on the Nagios server updates are received to one and not the other, which makes me think its just asscoiating all inbound messages with the first matching IP (I have defined each host with an IP, I guess that is required too isnt it?), The 'address' directive in the host definition is mandatory, yes, but you can put anything in there you like. If you are not doing any active checks (and the active checks you might end up doing are check_dummy anyway), then you can put what you like in there - it won't be used for anything. If it isn't to do with the host definition having an IP defined then maybe I made some other config mistake, I can double check it all on Monday. It sounds like it's probably some simple problem with the config on the host which isn't working, yes. Sometimes it helps to get nsca (on the Nagios server) to write some debug to syslog. I can't remember off-hand how to do that, but it's probably found in /usr/local/nagios/etc/nsca.ini or similar or if not, in the xinetd entry for nsca which if I recall is in /etc/xinetd.d/nsca . Check the nsclient.log file on the Windows system too, and make sure there's nothing obvious in there. Upper/Lower case is important for the host name so what you have in the Nagios host definition must match what the agent is sending. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Passive monitoring multiple servers with 1 NAT IP
On 2 December 2011 18:14, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Hi, in the case where I want to monitor several servers in a remote office where all outbound traffic from that office originates from a single IP (NAT) is there any way I can monitor those with Nagios without putting a Nagios server in the remote office? On the face of it it would seem impossible as Nagios identifies hosts by their IP (and therefore each needs a unique IP) but would be good to get that confirmed or otherwise, Yes you can do that no problem. Send the checks to the Nagios server using send_nsca and configure all the hosts in Nagios with passive host and service checks. You can use freshness checking to alert you if no checks have been received at all lately from the remote host. The send_nsca transmission identifies the host to Nagios so it won't matter if the address is NATted. Note that for the active check in Nagios you will need to use check_dummy or similar so that if the freshness check fails then Nagios will run this and alert you to the fact the freshness check has failed. I normally use something like .. check_dummy!3 UNKNOWN: Nagios didn't receive a check result lately from the server! You haven't said if the servers are Unix, Windows or what. If Windows, then it's easy to configure the NSClient++ agent to send checks using NSCA. If Unix or linux you will need to install send_nsca and the relevant plugins and run the checks from cron, maybe using the nsca_wrapper script which you'll find on Nagios Exchange. You will of course need to configure NSCA on your Nagios server to receive the incoming checks. hth, Jim -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] monitor printer from Windows server
On 1 December 2011 12:39, James Osbourn james.osbo...@citrix.com wrote:
I have a Windows 7 server acting as a print server and I would like to check
the status of these printers and make sure that they are still online etc.
I cannot seem to find a way of checking printers shared from a Windows
machine, does anyone have any suggestions or references that I could use.
Thanks
James
I query the windows performance counter for number of print jobs
spooling. If a printer breaks then usually this counter starts
ramping up quite rapidly as more and more print jobs get stuck in the
queue.
For example, the [external alias] section of your nsc.ini (assuming
you use NSClient++), you can have:-
alias_CheckCounter-PrintQJobs=CheckCounter Counter:jobs=\Print
Queue(_Total)\Jobs ShowAll MaxWarn=250 MaxCrit=500
Then your service definition would look something like this:-
define service {
host_name printserver1,printserver2
service_description PrintQJobs
use srv-pnp,generic-service
check_command check_nrpe!-c PrintQJobs
max_check_attempts 6
check_interval 15
retry_interval 5
contact_groups notify-admins
notes Records the number of Active
Jobs on a Print Server
register1
}
And the command definition I use is just a generic one for any nrpe
check like so:-
define command {^M
command_namecheck_nrpe
command_line$USER1$/check_nrpe -H
$HOSTADDRESS$ -u $ARG1$
register1
}
Our servers aren't quite as recent as Windows 7, but I guess the
counter would still be the same.
I hope that helps.
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Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a Microsoft SQL Server
On 17 November 2011 15:17, Kaplan, Andrew H. ahkap...@partners.org wrote: Hi there -- Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion on the two plugins, and here are the results. When the command syntax for check_mssql was the following: ./check_mssql -H ip address -U domain\\username -P password or ./check_mssql -H ip address -U 'domain\\username' -P password The error message displayed on-screen was: UNKNOWN: Invalid characters in the username. The check_mssql plugin is way too fussy about what characters it will allow in host names and user names. On my system I edited the plugin to remove the if/else sections entirely below the comments // Validate the hostname and // Validate the username. hth, Jim -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] nagios timeout checks
On 11 November 2011 16:11, Gustavo g.macha...@gmail.com wrote:
hello,
this is my first email
I've just installed nagios 3.2.3
And i would like to know if is there a way to configurate nagios to send
time-out cheks to other group of users.
The problem is that if some times the monitoring service works fine... but
once or twice a day it does time out exception.
Can i config a way to if the monitoring works fine send normally the email,
if it happends a time out exception send this erro for me to see what
happends.
thakou in advanced and sorry for my bad english, hope you undarstand :)
If the timeout errors result in an UNKNOWN state, then you can
configure your ordinary users (for example) to receive only WARNING,
CRITICAL and RECOVERY notifications, but your Nagios administrator
users only to receive UNKNOWN and FLAPPING notifications. That is set
for all notifications for that contact though.
For example:
define contact {
contact_name luciano_lanza
aliasordinary user Luciano Lanza
host_notification_options d,r
service_notification_options w,c,r
email lla...@hotmael.com
}
define contact {
contact_name gustavo_machado
alias Nagios Admin G. Machado
host_notification_options u,f
service_notification_options u,f
email gmach...@hotmael.com
}
Note that the check_nt plugin will only result in UNKNOWN on timeout
if you specify the -u or --unknown-timeout option.
Unfortunately some other plugins do set status to UNKNOWN on timeout
but others don't.
With some checks, it helps to set max_check_attempts to 3 or more so
that if the plugin times out only once or twice then Nagios will not
send a notification.
Cheers, and welcome!
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Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs
On 8 November 2011 22:18, Corey Quinn co...@sequestered.net wrote: What's the canonically proper way to check an external website (that I don't control) within Nagios? WHat I've done historically has been to define a dummy urlhost that I then hang various check_http checks off of, but that seems wrong somehow. I don't think there is a 'proper' way. I would think you're probably best off thinking about the parent relationships though. If you lose contact with all your external websites, then what is the furthest thing that might have gone down? Is that the customer-facing interface of your ISP's router maybe? I would hang your external web service checks on that. Obviously if you don't own these external sites then it's polite to check them infrequently and ask the site owner if it's okay. Personally I think there's no real substitute for setting up a monitoring system or two elsewhere out there in the internet if you want to be really sure a site is available to customers. -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt wrapper
On 4 November 2011 14:18, mazar ma...@autistici.org wrote: Hi list, I've put together a wrapper for the Disk Reads/sec and Disk Writes/sec counters, my goal is to have an output as follow: ./check_diskio_win.sh 1.1.1.1 C Disk Reads/sec is 5 ; Disk Writes/sec is 25 I'm able to accomplish this via script, but when I give it to nagios, as check_command the output (web interface) is as follow: Disk Reads/sec is : Disk Writes/sec is what I do in the script is basically the below command and some parsing (that works from shell script): check_nt -H $1 -v COUNTER -l \\PhysicalDisk(0 $2:)\\Disk Reads/sec,PhysicalDisk(0 $2:) Disk Reads/sec is %.f My guess is the shell is interpreting the % character in some way. Try escaping it like so .. Reads/sec is \%.f but note that sometimes you need to escape a few times, as it might be some other level in the process that needs the backslash to appear intact. Try with two or even three backslashes like so.. Reads/sec is \\\%.f The most number of backslashes I have needed in a similar situation was five! hth -- RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Web Interface does not notify when nagios service is killed!
On 28 October 2011 18:55, Ashwin discoverash...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am working as UNIX administrator in Data Centre having more than few hundred servers(RHEL 5.5/6). I have installed Nagios (core) 3.3.1 and Nagios Plugins 1.4.15 and NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) 2.12 to monitor the all servers in data centre mentioned above. When nagios process is killed manually at the nagios monitoring server, the nagios web interface does not automatically notify about the nagios process been killed (unless the service is explicitly stopped). This gives impression to support team looking at the web interface that everything is working fine when nagios process itself is killed/dead. I am new to nagios/RHEL, can you please give me some pointers to solve this issue. In the (more years than I care to remember) that I've been running a Nagios system, I've not had a problem with the nagios daemon being killed manually. So long as you stop/start it using the init script the front end will make it pretty obvious the daemon is stopped. If your admins are fool enough to kill stuff off willy-nilly you need to lock them out of your Nagios system, and any other system that's important to you for that matter. If you really want to know the daemon is killed, then simply knock up a script, ideally running on another server, which queries your Nagios server using snmp or ssh or whatever to see if the nagios daemon is running and emails or SMSs you if it isn't. The check_snmp_process plugin could be useful for that task. http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_process.html hth, Jim -- The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3
On 3 October 2011 04:36, Stuart Browne stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au wrote: Hi, I know this topic has been covered many times, but I've tried those tweaks and I have the remaining issue. After a few days, the latency on checks explodes. It goes along quite happily with small values, then after (about) 3 days, the values rise quite sharply. I've recently been graphing performance statistics (nagiostats, mrtg) and as you can see by the two attachments (day, week), it's rather surprising. I'm sorry I can't shed much light on it, but I've seen the same behaviour myself, albeit on my system the service check latency wouldn't start increasing until after a week or two but you're right - the rate of increase when it starts is quite alarming. I've recently culled a lot of checks from the system which has ameliorated the issue for the time being, but it would be good to get it fixed properly. -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Historical Reports
On 19 September 2011 11:43, Lingan Vairavamoorthy lin...@avantiagroup.co.uk wrote: I’ve looked through the posts and haven’t seen anything on full logging information. What we are looking for is the ability to view all the checks that have occurred on a host/service regardless if there was a change of state. This will enable us to do graphing on performance data and look at trends when states would not have changed. i.e. We are checking a response to a web page and we only warn on large delays – but we would like to actually record all the timings it takes to visit that web page regardless if the state changed from OK to WARN. So that we would have a entry in the historical logs for every check. Is that feasible? Nagios itself doesn't usually write the check result to the log if the service is in a hard state and the state hasn't changed. You can configure it to do that, but for best performance I wouldn't recommend it. To store, process and graph performance data, you are probably best off using PNP4Nagios http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/start . It's quite easy to extract data from the .rrd databases created by PNP4Nagios using rrdexport if you need it in xml format or similar. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Historical Reports
On 20 September 2011 01:16, Samuel Kidman samuel.kid...@panres.com wrote: The only gripe I have with it is the graphs are rarely ever up-to-date when you get them- you're always about 5-10 minutes behind. It would be nice if there was a way of triggering the databases to be updated and graphs to be drawn in their most up-to-date form as soon as they are requested. You might need to look at some of the many ways you can speed up PNP4Nagios processing. I agree the graphs aren't updated instantly but 10-20 seconds should be a more typical time to wait for the graph to be updated, not 5-10 minutes even in a fairly large Nagios system. At the most basic level, how often Nagios will process performance data determined by these two directives in nagios.cfg: # HOST AND SERVICE PERFORMANCE DATA FILE PROCESSING INTERVAL # These options determine how often (in seconds) the host and service # performance data files are processed using the commands defined # below. A value of 0 indicates the files should not be periodically # processed. host_perfdata_file_processing_interval=15 service_perfdata_file_processing_interval=10 -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] suddenly, cgi stopped working...
On 16 September 2011 11:25, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jim, this directive is not in nagios.cfg. actually there is no such directive in any conf file... when i issue into /etc/nagios3 this command grep status_file * i get no results i did this find / -name status.dat /var/lib/nagios3/status.dat and found that it has the right permissions -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios www-data 223007 2011-09-16 13:20 status.dat so, whats next ? I don't know Centreon, but in a nagios core install I would expect the .cgi should read the nagios.cfg file to determine the location of status.dat. I would add the directive status_file=/var/lib/nagios3/status.dat anyway and see if that helps the .cgi to find the status file. (in a default Nagios core install) Your cgi.cfg file should point to the location of nagios.cfg like so: # MAIN CONFIGURATION FILE # This tells the CGIs where to find your main configuration file. # The CGIs will read the main and host config files for any other # data they might need. main_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg I would raise this on the relevant Centreon forum as I would guess you're more likely to find people there who understand the peculiarities of Centreon's implementation of nagios. Some of the newer front-ends don't use status.dat to get status information from Nagios - I wouldn't know if Centreon is one of those. -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-devcon-copy2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] running an external script for sms notification
On 15 September 2011 10:35, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote:
hello all,
i have a shell script which takes two arguments, the mobile phone
number and the text message, which sends sms notifications.
for example /usr/local/bin/sendsms 69 host problem
when i debug Nagios, i can see this into the log file
[1316012199.774170] [256.1] [pid=17625] Running command
'/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx Type:PROBLEM, Host:
00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011'...
when i run from a terminal the command
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms 6944420xxx Type:PROBLEM, Host:
00-dummy_2, State: DOWN, Address: 194.145.127.44, Info: Unknown ping
number, Date/Time: 14-09-2011
sms message arrives normally
this is how i include the command into nagios conf files..
define command{
command_name host-notify-by-sms
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/sendsms
$CONTACTPAGER$ Type:$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$, Host: $HOSTNAME$, State:
$HOSTSTATE$, Address: $HOSTADDRESS$, Info: $HOSTOUTPUT$, Date/Time:
$DATE$
}
any help/suggestions ?
Looks ok to me. Am I right in assuming that when Nagios runs the
command you receive no SMS at all? Or do you receive something but in
the wrong format?
When you run the command from the command-line, are you logged in as
'nagios'? If not it could be a simple permissions problem.
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Re: [Nagios-users] suddenly, cgi stopped working...
On 15 September 2011 13:42, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote: hello all, I have nagios installed with centreon interface to add hosts, services, etc.. Suddenly Nagios stopped showing data, in web interface. i get the message: Whoops! Error: Could not read host and service status information! it was working this morning. Nagios is running, as far as i can see from the log file. please, help.. The host and service information which the cgi is trying to read is in the status.dat file. Where that is depends on how you installed Nagios, but is specified in nagios.cfg, the status_file= directive. In a default install from tarballs it will be /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat . Check if it exists and what the ownership/permissions are. It should be readable by your apache daemon. I would stop nagios:- /etc/init.d/nagios stop Then verify the config:- /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Then check there are no nagios processes running (using ps), then start Nagios again:- /etc/init.d/nagios start It's always best to verify the config before restarting or reloading the Nagios daemon. I hope that gives you some pointers. Cheers, Jim (Capacity Planner for my sins) -- Doing More with Less: The Next Generation Virtual Desktop What are the key obstacles that have prevented many mid-market businesses from deploying virtual desktops? How do next-generation virtual desktops provide companies an easier-to-deploy, easier-to-manage and more affordable virtual desktop model.http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426474/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios.log not updating
On 9 September 2011 16:01, Mailing Lists mailing.lists.a...@gmail.com wrote: I currently have a centreon / nagios setup with one central centreon box with three pollers. The newest poller is working fine with in terms of updating the central centreon system. However, the one issue I am running into and haven't been able to find an answer to is that the newest poller isn't logging to the nagios.log when a service is checked. It logs the initial service state and that's it. Any idea what could cause this? I have googled for hours. Have you checked the various option in nagios.cfg? See:- http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/configmain.html log_service_retries and log_passive_checks etc,. -- Why Cloud-Based Security and Archiving Make Sense Osterman Research conducted this study that outlines how and why cloud computing security and archiving is rapidly being adopted across the IT space for its ease of implementation, lower cost, and increased reliability. Learn more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51425301/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file
On 5 September 2011 07:49, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello again Jim, I have followed your suggestion and seems better. However, from time to time, for short periods ( which take 1-2 checks) the status flaps to unknown and afterwards gets back to normal. Any more clues, please? Thanks! The documentation page seems to suggest that the -d option should be a slightly longer than the check interval. http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html If there's anything in your nagios system which will cause the nagios daemon to do something other than scheduling checks for a few seconds, then with a 10s standard interval it wouldn't take much to throw the plugin off kilter. I don't know for sure which activities would do this, but suspect one would be writing to the status.dat file and another might be processing the command file. Having said that, with the check_snmp_int.pl plugin allowing up to 300% of the -d value before complaining, it should be fairly forgiving. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file
On 5 September 2011 08:13, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: So your suggestion is to have the -d option set to 60s for a 20s check interval? No. The plugin will allow an interval of up to 300% above the -d value, but only 10% below the -d value. This implies you could go up to -d = 21 . This would mean it will allow a gap of up to 63 seconds rather than 60. I suppose to be honest that's not likely to make much difference to you! I would look at what it is in your config which might cause the nagios daemon to stop running scheduled checks for 60 seconds or more. One indicator which is useful in assessing this sort of thing is the service check latency. Moving status.dat on to a ramdisk might help - it didn't work for me, as I suffered locking issues, but with a different Linux distro it might work better. I was using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Alternatively you could maybe look at running these checks using check_snmp instead. The very latest version has the options you need to record the delta rather than absolute values. If you can increase the check interval even only a little that would help. I use a 5 minute check interval for these interface checks, and usually only see the same errors whenever I reload the Nagios config. You might also consider configuring Nagios in a hierarchical setup, with each slave Nagios server handling fewer checks. I would think DNX would be an easy way to set that up ( http://dnx.sourceforge.net/ ), but I've not tried it yet myself. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency
On 5 September 2011 12:53, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: We also had to do some tuning with our pnp4nagios for latency. I ended up using a ramdisk for the perfdata folder (that it uses while processing data, not the rrd's). Thanks for that - good idea I must try it. I don't have a problem with latency at the moment, but I suspect that anything I can do to improve disk performance will improve the responsiveness of the Nagios CGIs. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_int - No usable data on file
On 4 September 2011 10:53, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote:
Hello,
I am using check_snmp_plugin to monitor a couple of switches. The command
template I use is:
$USER1$/check_snmp_int.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $USER5$ -2 -r -n $ARG1$ -fY
-kqB -g -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -d $ARG4$
And the particular one for a certain port/device is:
# Monitor bandwidth and port status - port 23
define service{
use generic-service ; Inherit
values from a template
Host_name switch1
Service_description Port 23.
Check_command
check_snmp_int!GigabitEthernet0/23!60,60,100,100,10,10!80,80,200,200,20,20!11
Normal_check_interval 2 ; Check the service
every 2 units under normal conditions
retry_check_interval--1 ; Re-check the service
every one unit until its final/hard state is determined
}
The interval length in nagios.cfg is set to:
interval_length=10
Can you please let me know a good value for the -d parameter in order to
tweak the check_snmp_int.pl script properly?
I believe that with check_interval of 2 minutes, you need -d 120.
With the plugin working in this way, you need to set your
retry_interval to be the same as your check_interval, otherwise the -d
value won't be correct for the interval when the check starts
retrying!
Note that in Nagios 3, the syntax normal_check_interval and
retry_check_interval is deprecated. The equivalent directives are
now simply check_interval and retry_interval. See:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objectdefinitions.html#service
If you are still having problems with the No usable data on file
error, make sure the files created by the plugin are writeable by the
user 'nagios' (if I recall they are under /tmp or maybe /var/tmp - I
don't have my nagios system to hand to check for sure). If you have
been testing the plugin from the command line while logged in as
another user, it's quite likely the files will have the wrong
ownership/permissions in which case you can simply delete them to let
nagios recreate them next time it runs the plugin.
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Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file
On 4 September 2011 11:42, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello Jim and thanks for your answer! I have double checked the files in /tmp created by the script and they are all owned by nagios group and nagios user, so fully writeable. The actual check interval of the port is 20 seconds ( I check every 2 units and the time unit is 10 seconds in the nagios.cfg). The correct value for the plugin time is in this case 20s? I see, yes, in that case you should use -d 20. I will give it a try with making the normal check interval and retry interval at the same value. I think that will most likely solve your problem. Cheers, Jim -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications for Services that are Up
On 2 September 2011 15:59, Michael Loiselle mloise...@chan-nh.org wrote: Is it possible to receive a notification for a specific service that is in the “up” position? If you really must do that, then assuming the check is an active one, then it should be pretty trivial to run the plugin from cron and email you whatever based on the exit code. All that is done completely outside Nagios. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency
On 31 August 2011 09:13, trm asn trm.nag...@gmail.com wrote: Please suggest , how I can reduce the latency .. One not-so-obvious thing I found that reduces latency on my heavily-loaded system is to stop and then start the Nagios daemon (don't just do a reload) once a week or so. -- Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free Love Thy Logs t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] how to change nagiosadmin password - forgot it
On 26 August 2011 17:06, Stan Laughlin stan.laugh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I have a Nagios installation on a RedHat enterprise system. I deployed and successfully logged to the Nagios system several months ago. Then was pulled to other projects. Now I can get back to the Nagios thing. I happily displays the web site login. I can not remember the nagiosadmin password. I can find sites telling me how to create a new account w/a related password but I don't think I need a new account. I just need the password. Is there a method for simply changing the password for the existing nagiosadmin account? htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users nagiosadmin -- EMC VNX: the world's simplest storage, starting under $10K The only unified storage solution that offers unified management Up to 160% more powerful than alternatives and 25% more efficient. Guaranteed. http://p.sf.net/sfu/emc-vnx-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios father and nagios son concept
On 19 August 2011 01:19, Saulo Zimbaro saulo.zimb...@acotel.com wrote: I have more then one data centers to monitoring. I´d like to know if there is a way to use various nagios instances and one main nagios to centralize information. The relevant page in the documentation is: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/distributed.html Which should give you a start. There are a few other solutions out there too, in particular op5's Merlin gets a lot of mention here. http://www.op5.org/community/plugin-inventory/op5-projects/merlin Personally I'm still squeezing all the performance I can from a single server (with PNP and MySQL on a second one), but it won't be long until I need to do something similar. -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments
Ok, I've written the script and submitted it to Nagios Exchange - it should appear there in the next few days. I doubt it's the prettiest code you've seen as this is probably the first perl script I've written from scratch but it works pretty well (for me anyway - ymmv). I haven't yet tried to make it do the 'more than X number per host' thing. That's just too clever by half! :-) -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] using check_snmp to chart page counts
On 15 August 2011 01:24, Phil Kennedy phillip.kenn...@yankeeairmuseum.org wrote: I'm using check_snmp to monitor page counts on various printers. The output is returning the correct values, and PNP is charting, but it's showing the differences in page counts per polling interval, rather than an overall chart of growth (e.g., the chart says there are 100 pages, then an hour from now it bumps up to 110, and so on.) From what I've found, this is due to the output from SNP being a counter, rather than a gauge, is this something I can circumvent in the name of pretty charts and graphs? The command I'm using in the commands.cfg is as follows: $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $ARG1$ -o .1.3.6.1.2.1.43.10.2.1.4.1.1 -l 'page count' -u 'pages' The very latest version of check_snmp has a --rate option which is just what you need for this sort of thing. http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_snmp -- uberSVN's rich system and user administration capabilities and model configuration take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. Learn more about uberSVN and get a free download at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day
On 12 August 2011 08:36, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote:
Hello.
I want to check a service only once a day. So I tried this configuration:
define timeperiod {
timeperiod_name once-a-day
alias On mornings
monday 08:00-08:30
tuesday 08:00-08:30
wednesday 08:00-08:30
thursday 08:00-08:30
friday 08:00-08:30
saturday 08:00-08:30
sunday 08:00-08:30
}
define service {
use generic-service
check_period once-a-day
normal_check_interval 1440 ; 24 hours
...
}
Now when I check the service's next schedule time, Nagios is still
showing that the next check is scheduled to 24h after the previous check
and at 22:53 (pm). Restarting Nagios does not change that. Any tips for
what's wrong in the configuration?
If Nagios wants to schedule a check at a certain time, but it's not in
the timeperiod then it won't run it.
If you don't mind what time of day your check is run, then use the
standard 24x7 timeperiod.
If you want a check to run at a specific time of day, you need to run
it from cron so it submits the check result to Nagios as a passive
check.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/passivechecks.html
Alternatively, if you don't mind your check being run a couple of
times each day, I would think you could leave your config as it is,
but set the normal_check_interval to 12 (minutes) or so to give it a
good chance of being scheduled within your 30-minute window.
Personally I would use cron, but it can be a bit fiddly to set up the
first time you try it.
hth,
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Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day
On 12 August 2011 10:37, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote: So I guess documentation is wrong then? That's what I would think, yes. I don't think what Nagios does is anything like as clever as the documentation would imply, although for checks with small check_interval values it might seem like it is. Having said that, I've not dared to attempt reading the source code myself! -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day
On 12 August 2011 15:03, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote: Ah yes, previously I just restarted Nagios every day (from crontab) so that the checks would be re-scheduled, but in the new installation Nagios does not re-schedule the checks on startup. Is there an option for that? I don't seem to find it... It's been a while since I've played with any of those options myself. I think you'll find it's this directive in nagios.cfg which controls whether Nagios re-schedules checks on startup .. # USE RETAINED SCHEDULING INFO # This setting determines whether or not Nagios will retain # the scheduling info (next check time) for hosts and services # based on the values saved in the retention file. If you # If you want to use retained scheduling info, set this # value to 1. If not, set this value to 0. use_retained_scheduling_info=1 Cheers, Jim -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments
On 11 August 2011 15:17, William Muriithi w.murii...@syncapse.com wrote: Jim, Why would you want to delete old comments against a host? I usually like them, as it can help identify a recurring problem on the hardware. Generally, it's a documentation of the hardware past performance. William Unfortunately performance eventually suffers if there are too many comments in the system. I agree, if I could keep them there with impunity I would. -- Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
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Re: [Nagios-users] Install Error with fresh install of Nagios (nagios.cfg - Line 465)
On 4 August 2011 01:56, matlnx1...@gmail.com wrote: ... The line in the nagios file is: check_result_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults ... Error: Error in configuration file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' - Line 465 (Check result path is not a valid directory) If it's any help to you, the permissions and ownership of that directory on my system (which was installed from source tarballs) is: drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 507904 2011-08-04 09:29 checkresults -- BlackBerryreg; DevCon Americas, Oct. 18-20, San Francisco, CA The must-attend event for mobile developers. Connect with experts. Get tools for creating Super Apps. See the latest technologies. Sessions, hands-on labs, demos much more. Register early save! http://p.sf.net/sfu/rim-blackberry-1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs
On 25 July 2011 10:34, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: is it possible to specify an ip with this check? No, that plugin is only designed to run locally. You should be able to run it on the remote machine if you have nrpe installed though. See the NRPE manual which you will find here: http://library.nagios.com/library/products/nagioscore/manuals/ Also/instead, take a look at check_snmp_process which you will find at http://nagios.manubulon.com/ . This obviously requires that you have the monitored system configured to allow SNMP. If it's a Windows server you want to monitor then take a look at NSClient++ http://www.nsclient.org/nscp/ I hope that helps! -- Storage Efficiency Calculator This modeling tool is based on patent-pending intellectual property that has been used successfully in hundreds of IBM storage optimization engage- ments, worldwide. Store less, Store more with what you own, Move data to the right place. Try It Now! http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51427378/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE client issues
On 20 July 2011 17:29, Julie S. Lin j...@livescribe.com wrote: Hi I am monitoring a windows box with very basic out of the box plugins using nsclient However, whenever we start using this box there is great load on this box (which is a server class machine) and causes the nagios checks to time out and falsely page. Has any one run into this issue and how to resolve? I come across this sort of thing more so with Unix test servers than Windows. I expect the easiest way to resolve this would be to configure NSClient++ to run the checks and send the results to Nagios using nsca. That way the agent will run them in its own sweet time and if they are rather slow it shouldn't matter too much. Alternatively you might be able to reduce the number of notifications you get by setting up a servicedependency so all of the checks are dependent on just one of them. If the alerts are Unknown rather than Warning or Critical then you can probably filter out the notifications using the notification_options directive either on the service definition or even on the contact definition. As ever, there are lots of different ways to approach the same problem! I hope that helps a little. -- 10 Tips for Better Web Security Learn 10 ways to better secure your business today. Topics covered include: Web security, SSL, hacker attacks Denial of Service (DoS), private keys, security Microsoft Exchange, secure Instant Messaging, and much more. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51426210/ ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign
On 18 July 2011 14:37, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping for some generic escaping rules :) If only! I usually end up using a generous portion of trial-and-error to find something that works. Sometimes you have to escape the escape characters that will be used further down the chain. The most egregious example of multiple escapgin in my configs at the moment looks like this: check_nrpe!-c CheckFile -a MinWarn=0 filter-written=\\8d file=D:directorysubdirectory\\*.\\* In another example, I set the $USER10$ macro in resource.cfg to contain a single semi-colon like so: # Set this macro to contain a semi-colon so we can use it as a command separator. $USER10$=; And that's just so that it can then be used in an action_url directive pointing to a DRRAW graph like so: action_url http://nagios/drraw-pnp/index.cgi?Mode=view#59$USER10$Graph=1281540323.16309 Of course the #59 also translates to a semi-colon. I can't remember why I have both in there, but it works! -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification need on configuring nagios to monitor multiple hosts
On 14 July 2011 12:14, Zaman quesz...@yahoo.in wrote: Is it possible any way to maintain a single entry for all the servers like we did for the service object . You could write a script to create your host definitions based on the contents of your CMDB (if you have one), or you could configure an auto-discovery tool to generate the information needed to populate your host definitions. I don't think there is anything like that in Nagios Core itself though, no. -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification need on configuring nagios to monitor multiple hosts
On 13 July 2011 12:24, Zama Ques quesz...@yahoo.in wrote:
Hi All ,
I am new to nagios configuration . I successfully installed nagios on one of
my linux server and now monitoring two hosts .
Welcome! You've made a good start there.
For monitoring of remote hosts , I created a new config file by renaming
localhost.cfg file under objects directory.
I renamed the entries hostname and address and other entries under
DEFINE HOST directive to point to the new server which I am planning to
monitor . The settings looks like this
define host{
use linux-server ; Name of host
template to use
; This host definition will inherit all variables
that are defined
; in (or inherited by) the linux-server host
template definition.
host_name node1
alias node1
address 192.168.122.167
}
define host{
use linux-server ; Name of host
template to use
; This host definition will inherit all
variables that are defined
; in (or inherited by) the linux-server
host template definition.
host_name node2
alias node2
address 192.168.122.218
}
Those look fine.
Also modified DEFINE SERVICE directive to monitor few services on both the
remote hosts . Few of the settings looks like this
define service{
use local-service ; Name of
service template to use
host_name node1
service_description Current Users
check_command check_nrpe!check_users
}
define service{
use local-service ; Name of
service template to use
host_name node2
service_description Current Users
check_command check_nrpe!check_users
}
The checks are working fine . But my confusion here is in terms of scalabilty
.
What if I want to monitor 100 servers and 5 services in each of the servers.
Does that mean I need to create 100 define host directives for each of
these servers . Also , monitoring 5 services means i have to create 5 define
service for each host , that means 500 define service directives.
If this is the case , then it will be really painful to configure and manage
if there are many servers to monitor.
You'll find useful help on that here:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objecttricks.html
Can't I use comma separated ip address and hosts like this
define host{
use linux-server ; Name of host
template to use
; This host definition will inherit all variables
that are defined
; in (or inherited by) the linux-server host
template definition.
host_name node1,node2
alias node1
address 192.168.122.167,192.168.122.218
}
No. You do need separate host definitions, but you can add each host
to the same hostgroup for example by adding a directive like this to
the host definition:
hostgroup_name linux-group
(in fact you can add that to the host template instead if you like).
You will need to define this new hostgroup:
define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name linux-group
aliaslinux-group hostgroup containing all
monitored linux servers
}
define service{
use local-service ; Name of
service template to use
host_name node1,node2
service_description Current Users
check_command check_nrpe!check_users
}
In that example, you can now use the hostgroup like so:
define service{
use local-service ; Name
of service template to use
hostgroup_name linux-group
service_description Current Users
check_commandcheck_nrpe!check_users
}
I hope that helps a little.
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Re: [Nagios-users] Help: How to use check_snmp plugin to get the monitor APC PDU?
On 9 July 2011 15:02, Lee Eric openlinuxsou...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Does anyone ever use check_snmp plugin to get the monitor APC PDU? I
know there are some plugins can do this but I'd like to use this one
to do more standard. I have downloaded the Powernet MIB file.
An example of how I monitor output percent load is:
check_commandcheck_snmp!-C community -o
UPS-MIB::upsOutputPercentLoad.1 -l \'Output Load\' -u \'%\' -w 10:80
-c 5:90
This is a 3-phase UPS, so I also have checks for the other phases:
check_commandcheck_snmp!-C community -o
UPS-MIB::upsOutputPercentLoad.2 -l \'Output Load\' -u \'%\' -w 10:80
-c 5:90
and
check_commandcheck_snmp!-C community -o
UPS-MIB::upsOutputPercentLoad.3 -l \'Output Load\' -u \'%\' -w 10:80
-c 5:90
The command definition looks like:
define command{
command_namecheck_snmp_ups
command_line$USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
}
I'd be interested to see what other people do though, particularly as
some of the metrics are *10 the expected value (presumably so they can
be presented as integer rather than floating-point). I've not been
able to work out the best way of handling those myself yet.
Cheers,
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Re: [Nagios-users] Users unable to authenticate, and access the ../nagios site.
On 12 July 2011 22:07, dOE doep...@gmail.com wrote: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Codename: maverick Nagios: 3.0.3 I executed the following commands htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users users_name service apache2 reload I have a local user named user_name as well And my cgi.cfg has the usernames as follows: use_authentication=1 authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin,users_name authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin,users_name However the user_name can not authenticate with Apache to access the site. Does the user need to belong to any particular group other than their own? Note that users_name is not the same as user_name. I appreciate your example name might not be the actual name you are thinking of, but you might need to check you have the spelling spot on. You can cat the htpasswd.users file to make sure you have the name spelled right in there too (it's just a text file). It might be worth setting the password again using htpasswd /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users users_name just in case the password was spelled incorrectly the first time you entered it. Also, check the file /etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf to make sure that apache is looking for htpasswd.users in the right location. -- AppSumo Presents a FREE Video for the SourceForge Community by Eric Ries, the creator of the Lean Startup Methodology on Lean Startup Secrets Revealed. This video shows you how to validate your ideas, optimize your ideas and identify your business strategy. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appsumosfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: PNP4Nagios watermark font colour
On 4 July 2011 13:48, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: This modifies the entire color font, not only watermark. Reading the page Joerg mentioned ( http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html ) I would guess you could try the --pango-markup option and format the text in the watermark using pango markup tags. The link to the relevant page describing the pango syntax is broken - I assume it's this one now: http://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/PangoMarkupFormat.html I'll leave it to you to find out whether you have a version of Pango which supports the required tags (and whether it works at all on the watermark text or not). Cheers, Jim -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration
On 2 July 2011 07:36, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello again, Can you please give some guidelines how to customize the PNP4Nagios background page? I have tried using the $conf['graph_opt'] = --watermark 'Test' option, but it does not take it. Also modifications done on the background.pdf file are not updated. Already restarted apache and nagios services. In general I would like to add some logos and/or text. I can't say I've ever tried that. I would think you need to append to rather than replace the graph options though, so wouldn't it be .. $conf['graph_opt'] .= --watermark 'Test' (note the .= rather than just = and the space added before --watermark ) I don't have my Nagios system to hand at the moment so can't take a look myself. Remind me on Monday if you're still stuck and I'll have a play with that myself. Another option is to create some graphs outside of PNP altogether (but using the .rrd databases created by PNP). See: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdcgi.en.html Again, I can dig out some examples for you if you remind me during the week (or do a search - I'm sure we've covered this topic before either here or on the PNP email list some time in the last few months). -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Whoops! Could not read object configuration data!
On 2 July 2011 21:57, cris...@videotron.ca wrote: Hi Community! i have a little problem here with Nagios (web interface). It's not that old chestnut selinux stopping it from working is it? -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-nrpe socket timeout error
On 1 July 2011 12:12, rahul kumar rahul@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed nagios on server and i am monitoring client from this machine. Sometimes it shows socket timeout error and next cycle error disappear. there is no firewall . All the firewall services are disabled on the machine. Some things to look for .. - high CPU on the target system - a mis-match between speed/duplex on the lan interface and speed/duplex on the switch interface - a problem with link aggregation (if the system is connected to the network with more than one interface) - other network or performance issues Also look at what the check at the remote end is actually doing. If the plugin you are running is particularly slow or inefficient you will get timeouts. I have found this particularly with the check_esx3 plugin but also with some other plugins. Try running your check_nrpe command from the command line using 'time' a few times to see how it's normally behaving. You might find that it's usually taking 8 seconds or so to run and occasionally taking 10 or more seconds. hth -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly
On 1 July 2011 16:22, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: can u let me know the on-fly process in detail. You can send a HUP signal to the Nagios daemon to tell it to re-read the configuration. Make sure you verify the configs first though: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Then: kill -1 `cat /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock` -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly
On 1 July 2011 20:19, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: If I remember right though this will only re-read what is there, so if you add/remove files it won't pick those up so we just always use a restart. I sometimes add/remove a directive cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/test without any problem so I guess it's behaving better now than it used to. I do find it's best to do a full stop / start once a week or so regardless though, as Nagios seems to use increasing amounts of CPU otherwise. Mine is quite a busy system though - I need to find some more beefy hardware to host it! -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Clearing previous flapping states?
On 30 June 2011 11:42, Tim Philips t...@rndgroup.co.nz wrote: Hi All, Tell me, is it possible to pass a command to the Nagios command file to clear (previous) flapping? I'm picking no - based on my understanding of the documentation but thought I would ask. The scenario is we have a number of check software updates that run and as such we schedule these daily. There is a scenario within the flapping period where there are and aren't updates some of the future warning or critical warnings get suppressed. The simple answer that springs to mind for me is to disable flapping for things that are scheduled over x number of hours. How are other people dealing with such things? You're right - there is no command you can pass to Nagios to clear the previous flapping state. You could try disabling flap detection and then enabling it again, but my guess is that Nagios will immediately re-assess the flapping state based on the last 21 checks as soon as you re-enable flap detection and you'll be back where you started. If your checks are only run daily, then I would say almost certainly flap detection is of no benefit to you and should be disabled for those services. If Nagios is basing it's assessment of whether the service is flapping on the last 21 checks as described in the documentation ( http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/flapping.html ), then since your checks are daily, it could be a couple of weeks sometimes before Nagios decides that flapping has stopped! IMHO, flap detection is only usually useful for those services which are checked quite frequently. -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] How to use check_esx3 Blacklists
On 29 June 2011 09:52, Mies, Christian christian.m...@it-novum.com wrote: Hi List, I try to monitor my Datastores by check_esx3 by Datacenter. I want to exclude each local_* Datastore. The following command is not working .. ./check_esx3.pl -D 10.1.82.34 -u user -p pw -l vmfs -x local_* What am I doing wrong? At first glance, my guess is your shell is interpreting the * as a file wildcard. You probably need to put quotes around it like so: ./check_esx3.pl -D 10.1.82.34 -u user -p pw -l vmfs -x local_* Alternatively, backslash-escape it like so: ./check_esx3.pl -D 10.1.82.34 -u user -p pw -l vmfs -x local_\* It's not clear whether check_esx3.pl supports wildcard notation though. Without actually looking at the code I would guess not, or if it does it might use regular expressions in which case the syntax would be: ./check_esx3.pl -D 10.1.82.34 -u user -p pw -l vmfs -x local_.* -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration
On 29 June 2011 11:45, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Was a typo error of the community string, after putting public instead of Public everything looks cool. Still 1 question: If I try to query interface GigabitEthernet0/2 I get the response: GigabitEthernet0/21:DOWN, GigabitEthernet0/23:DOWN, GigabitEthernet0/24:UP No usable data on file (40 rows) , GigabitEthernet0/2:UP No usable data on file (1 rows) , GigabitEthernet0/22:DOWN, GigabitEthernet0/20:UP No usable data on file (1 rows) : 3 int NOK : CRITICAL So ti seems that it takes all interfaces starting with 0/2 string. Any way to limit this? Do I have to enter any escape character? Thank you! I think you need the -r option, which means Do not use regexp to match NAME in description OID. -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration
On 29 June 2011 13:23, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: After adding the -r option it works like a charm! Now in pnp4nagios I can see both values on the same graph: bytes in and bytes out. I see them as two thin lines. Any way to make the lines thicker and change their colour? Well done. Yes, you can create a custom template. Take a look under /usr/local/pnp4nagios/share/templates.dist and find the file named check_snmp_int.php . Copy it to the directory /usr/local/pnp4nagios/share/templates and then edit it to get the wider line. For example the line which reads: $def[1] .= LINE1:var1#003300:\in \ ; Change it to read: $def[1] .= LINE3:var1#003300:\in \ ; You will find documentation on how the LINE instruction works at: http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph_graph.en.html and some general help on PNP templates at: http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/tpl -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration
On 28 June 2011 13:31, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello, I am using Nagios to monitor the bandwidth usage of a couple of switches/routers via the check_local_mrtgtraf command. The graphs I handle via pnp4nagios. The problem I encounter is the following: if the monitored bandwidth is at one point expressed in KB/s and then I bring a lot of traffic through the router the, unit is changed into MB/s. The graphed values seem not to take into consideration the change of the measurement unit meaning that the 50KB/s seems to be at the same height as the 50MB/s value in the graph. Can anyone please help? Unless you have already invested a lot of effort in mrtg, I would recommend using check_snmp_int.pl instead. You will find it at http://nagios.manubulon.com/ . -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration
On 28 June 2011 15:14, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: I have tried the SNMP plugin a few minutes ago and here is what I get when running it from the command line: ./check_snmp_int.pl -H 192.168.2.1 -C public -n GigabitEthernet0/24 -k -w 200,400 -c 0,600 GigabitEthernet0/24:UP No usable data on file (1 rows) :(1 UP): UNKNOWN The interface name I took it from listing all available interfaces on the switch. Any ideas, please? The plugin stores the metrics in a temporary file the first time you run it. It will then use that data the next time you run it to calculate the metrics. This error shows either that the file did not exist yet, or the interval between this time the plugin is run and the last time is wrong. You therefore need to run the plugin at regular intervals (say 5 minutes). It helps if you use SNMP v2 so you can retrieve 64-bit counters (the -2 command line option and the -g option). And you might also need to use the -d option to tell the plugin at what interval you will usually run it (for example -d 300 for 5 minute intervals). You need the -f option to tell the plugin to output performance data. I normally specify -fY to get the output in bits/s. In Nagios you need to set the check_interval and the retry_interval both to the same 5 minutes (or whatever interval you like so long as it matches the -d parameter). Note that if you ran the plugin from the command line as an ordinary user, it may have created temporary files under /tmp which are not writeable by Nagios. When you configure this check to run in Nagios you may need to delete those temporary files so the nagios user can write them. Here is an example of the options I normally use when monitoring switch interfaces: -H 198.236.3.4 -C $USER4$ -2 -n Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5510-48T Module - Unit 2 Port 5 -fY -kqB -g -w 60,60,100,100,10,10 -c 80,80,200,200,20,20 -d 300 Note that $USER4$ is a macro which I specify in the resources.cfg file which holds the read-only community string. You'll find there are a couple of default templates for PNP under the templates.dist directory - check_snmp_int-bits.php and check_snmp_int.php - you will of course need your check_command definition to be named appropriately to pick up whichever of those templates you need. hth, Jim -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios/Sendmail issue
On 28 June 2011 18:59, Manish Kumar manikuma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Frnds, I have a setup in which nagios 3.2.3 is monitoring a number of servers and network devices like cisco switches and routers. The issue is that i am getting the email notifications very late for any problem. Nagios will normally send a notification when the service or host goes from a soft state to a hard state. When that happens depends mainly on the max_check_attempts and retry_interval directives. Only after the last check attempt fails will Nagios send the notification. If you want immediate notification, set max_check_attempts to 1. Take a look and if you still can't find the problem, please find the relevant host definition in your objects.cache file and post it here. There are various things that can cause Nagios to run slowly. Important metrics to check are host_check_latency and service_check_latency - you will find those on the tactical overview screen. If either of those are more than 15 seconds or so I would start investigating why. Of course you could genuinely have a performance problem in your email system... That should be easy to check by sending an email from the command-line on your Nagios server and checking it arrives reasonably quickly. hth, Jim -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c2 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Thanks and configure SENDMAIL for sending mails to other domains
On 25 June 2011 12:57, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: There is no specific reason for choosing sendmail , if you can provide me information for configuring through postfix i will accept it.. How you configure postfix depends a lot on what linux distro you are using. Each one I've tried packages it differently, but all have been quite easy to configure. A quick google query for postfix configuration for whatever distro you are on will probably get you some instructions. If you're using either Mandriva or Ubuntu I can probably point you in the right direction. -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Thanks and configure SENDMAIL for sending mails to other domains
On 24 June 2011 12:16, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all of you for helping me to configure Nagios.It's running well But, i need one more thing.I am thinking to configure sendmail such way that if any service is down or warning , mail should be delivered to some specific person stating the state of the service.For this i need to configure SENDMAIL first for sending mails to other domains can you help. Is there any particular reason you want to use sendmail? Personally I find postfix a lot easier to install and configure (on Ubuntu and Mandriva versions of Linux - I've not tried RedHat or Suse, etc,.). -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. Business sense. IT sense. Common sense.. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2d-c1 ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] More SNMP CONF files
On 22 June 2011 03:59, Chris Schaft ch...@mkadvantage.com wrote: We have posted several hundred more conf files for trap handling. You can get them at http://www.mkadvantage.com. Once you get here, go to Tools on the Menu Bar, then go to SNMP Trap Conf files on the left side. That looks extremely useful - it can be a right pain tracking down the relevant MIB file otherwise. Many thanks! Jim -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime and host checks
On 31 May 2011 17:18, Kumar, Ashish xml.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I had been under the impression that no service checks would be executed on a server during scheduled downtime but it seems otherwise. Would I be right in assuming all service checks will still be performed on a server during a scheduled downtime? I tried checking the documentation but there seems to be no information regarding this. Any hints are most welcome. No, scheduled downtime only affects notifications, and the stats you see in the availability cgi. Service and host checks run as normal during scheduled downtime. This is useful because it allows you to check the stats of those hosts and services are ok before the scheduled downtime period ends. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/downtime.html -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Data protection magic? Nope - It's vRanger. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-sfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Passive check windows clients
On 17 May 2011 10:31, Andre Tann at...@alphasrv.net wrote: Don't use a mac personally, but you can schedule the check locally at a frequency you desire, and submit this to a passive job def with its freshness check disabled so it will never timeout. Ok. And what piece of software would be needed on the windows side to check disk/load? Thanks, Andre The NSClient++ agent will do this quite nicely. You will of course need nsca installed on your Nagios server to receive and process the incoming alerts. The config directives in the NSClient++ configuration file will need to look something like this: [modules] NSCAAgent.dll [NSCA Agent] ;# CHECK INTERVAL (in seconds) ; How often we should run the checks and submit the results. interval=300 ; ;# ENCRYPTION METHOD ; This option determines the method by which the send_nsca client will encrypt the packets it sends ; to the nsca daemon. The encryption method you choose will be a balance between security and ; performance, as strong encryption methods consume more processor resources. ; You should evaluate your security needs when choosing an encryption method. ; ; Note: The encryption method you specify here must match the decryption method the nsca daemon uses ; (as specified in the nsca.cfg file)!! ; Values: ; 0 = None(Do NOT use this option) ; 1 = Simple XOR (No security, just obfuscation, but very fast) ; 2 = DES ; 3 = 3DES (Triple DES) ; 4 = CAST-128 ; 6 = xTEA ; 8 = BLOWFISH ; 9 = TWOFISH ; 11 = RC2 ; 14 = RIJNDAEL-128 (AES) ; 20 = SERPENT encryption_method=1 ; ;# ENCRYPTION PASSWORD ; This is the password/passphrase that should be used to encrypt the sent packets. password=obfuscate ; ;# BIND TO ADDRESS ; Allows you to bind server to a specific local address. This has to be a dotted ip adress not a hostname. ; Leaving this blank will bind to one local interface. ; -- not supported as of now -- ;bind_to_address= ; ;# LOCAL HOST NAME ; The name of this host (if empty computername will be used. ;hostname= ; ;# NAGIOS SERVER ADDRESS ; The address to the nagios server to submit results to. nsca_host=100.1.2.3 ; ;# NAGIOS SERVER PORT ; The port to the nagios server to submit results to. nsca_port=5667 ; [NSCA Commands] CPU=CheckCPU warn=98 crit=99 time=1m warn=90 crit=95 time=5m warn=80 crit=90 time=15m ShowAll Disks=CheckDriveSize ShowAll MaxWarnUsed=90% MaxCritUsed=95% CheckAllOthers FilterType=FIXED Drive=E:\ You will probably want to include a passive host check too - I haven't configured one here as I use an active check myself for those. hth, Jim -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] RFC/RFP: Service parents
On 17 May 2011 09:57, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: Comments and patches welcome. That sounds good - servicedependencies can be quite painful to understand. Ultimately I would quite like it if the cgi could display the child services indented below the parent to make it more obvious what the relationships are to the end user. Likewise, I would like the option, much like the 'blocking outages' screen to be able to view only the blocking service, not the affected child services. Cheers, Jim -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Question
On 16 May 2011 14:47, Matty Sarro msa...@gmail.com wrote: This is for mysql. I saw a plugin called check_mysql_query but it doesn't seem to be included in the plugins package I downloaded. I'm going to try reinstalling the plugins in case something got borked. I can't find it on exchange either. I may have one other possibility after some more searching: check_mysql_count Any further suggestions would really be appreciated though. If you can't find anything suitable 'off the shelf' then there is a plugin check_snmptraps.pl included with the NagTrap addon which is supposed to be for checking the number of traps in the nagtrap database but I expect it would be easy to rewrite it to query whatever MySQL database you like. -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notification after Acknowledgment
On 13 May 2011 08:34, Andre Kruger andre.kru...@trw.com wrote: Hi Can you guys please give me your input on how you handle the following situation. Lets take monitoring a disk as an example. For arguments sake lets say when the disk reaches 80% capacity I send out a warning and at 90% I send out a critical. There is also a Service Escalation configured to send out notifications when this service reaches critical. So at 80 percent I get my notification all is well. I then go ahead and acknowledge the event and in doing so Nagios will not send out any further notifications. Which according to the Nagios logic is correct. The problem is if the disk in the mean time reaches critical, 90% capacity, I won't get another notification. Not even the Service Escalation helps here, because the event has already been acknowledged. Do you guys have any suggestions on how this problem can be solved? Regards Andre The way I sometimes use for prolonged issues like this is I will acknowledge the alert, but then raise the warning and critical thresholds in Nagios. The problem with this approach is that Nagios then reports the status as OK which might give a false impression to other users. It is also important to remember to reduce the warning threshold back to its usual level once the issue is resolved. For issues which might be fast-moving I would suggest that it is not appropriate to acknowledge the issue unless you are in a postion actively to manage it until resolution. -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Notification after Acknowledgment
On 13 May 2011 09:01, Andre Kruger andre.kru...@trw.com wrote: I just read how non-sticky acknowledgments work from 3.2.3. I think this solves my problem. http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Acknowledgementlogic Neat! Thanks I hadn't noticed that. -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Message Subject - PROBLEM Service Alert: hostname is UP
On 13 May 2011 16:09, Terry Carmen te...@cnysupport.com wrote: I've been receiving a continuous stream of these messages and can't seem to figure out why or make them stop. Nagios is sending repeated notifications that various hosts are up even though they have never been down. I've googled a number of similar problems, but unfortunately no applicable solutions. Does anybody have any ideas what I could check? I would find the relevant host entry in the file /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache, then make sure you understand all the directives in that host definition - by all means post it here too if you want a group opinion. Check that you don't have more than one contact defined having the same email address. Also, check the status history for that host and see if anything is happening in-between those times when it is UP. Maybe it's going DOWN in-between but you're just not getting the DOWN alerts! It would be useful to know a bit more about what you're seeing, for example are these repeat emails occurring with a particular frequency? Do you get a whole bunch of them at once and then none for a while? Do they eventually stop and if so after how many repeats? hth, Jim -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios + Jasper
On 11 May 2011 12:22, trm asn trm.nag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, Has anyone configured Nagios with Jasper Report or anyone having any better solutions with existing nagios(3.2). I haven't tried it myself at all, but (in no particular order and according to their web sites listed below) ... it looks like Netways have: http://www.netways.de/en/de/produkte/jasper/integration/ and it's used in Opsera's reports module: http://www.opsview.com/sites/default/files/Opsview%20Reports%20Module_0.pdf and OpsView uses it too: http://opsview.com/products/opsview-enterprise/reporting-dashboards hth, Jim -- Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Before I RTFM....
On 3 May 2011 19:43, Dj Lien dj_l...@hotmail.com wrote: .. does anyone have any links/pointers for getting Nagios to process SNMP traps. snmptt is what you need. I've written some stuff about what you can do here: http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Howtos:snmp-windows You might also/instead like to look at a tool called NagTrap. Shout again if you get stuck. hth, Jim -- WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Freshness Checking not working correctly
On 21 April 2011 01:51, Samuel Kidman samuel.kid...@panres.com wrote: Hello I've got this in my logs: [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host 'LFMISS1' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm forcing an immediate check of the service. [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host 'PR-LNM-BCMF01' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm forcing an immediate check of the service. [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host 'PR-LNM-BW-AV01' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s). I'm forcing an immediate check of the service. Why is Nagios forcing an active check before the freshness threshold runs out? I've been seeing something that looks similar to that. An example in my log is: [1303254000] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: xx;BACKUP;OK;HARD;1;backup_app: Completed with no errors. ... [1303284031] Warning: The results of service 'BACKUP' on host 'xx' are stale by 0d 0h 0m 52s (threshold=1d 2h 0m 0s). I'm forcing an immediate check of the service. In my case, it seems Nagios thought the service was stale only 8 hours or so after the previous passive check, whereas the freshness threshold for this service is 93600 (26 hours). I'm not sure why, then, the warning message says it's stale by only 52s. One thing I have done recently is to move the status.dat file from its usual location to a ramdisk. This has improved performance in the web front end, but the web front end occasionally loses sight of the services. I wonder if the freshness checking also reads status.dat and is having similar problems? I expect I might have to back out the change and move status.dat back to its original location on the ext3 filesystem. Out of interest, have you moved any of your Nagios files to a ramdisk? I notice the Nagios documentation no longer makes any mention of moving files to ramdisk to improve performance (if it ever did - I can't seem to find the Nagios 2 documentation online any more). If anyone can shed any light on this I'd appreciate it. For the record I'm using Nagios Core 3.2.3 on Ubuntu 08.04.01 LTS Server, installed from tarballs, not packages. Cheers, Jim -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Bandwidth Question
On 19 April 2011 00:33, David Barszcz dbars...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I need help monitoring bandwidth of my router. I am currently running nagios on Ubuntu and monitoring a router flashed with DD-WRT. My plan is to monitor the bandwidth throught MRTG. I seem to be having a problems creating a log file of router's Bandwidth to point to. This should be an easy one so a Litle guidance would appreciated. If the router can accept SNMP queries then you should be able to use http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html and rather than use MRTG I would recommend PNP4Nagios as this can get the performance data from Nagios. Note that check_snmp_int.pl will write temporary files to keep a record of counters so be careful of ownership and permissions when testing. Also, you need to specify the 64-bit counters otherwise they wrap round back to zero too frequently. hth, Jim -- Benefiting from Server Virtualization: Beyond Initial Workload Consolidation -- Increasing the use of server virtualization is a top priority.Virtualization can reduce costs, simplify management, and improve application availability and disaster protection. Learn more about boosting the value of server virtualization. http://p.sf.net/sfu/vmware-sfdev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Running configuration: Additional macros or sourcing files for passwords
This is standard stuff in Nagios. Usually the password is stored in a
macro which you define in the resource.cfg file, for example:
$USER3$=trustnoone
Then you can refer to the macro name in your service or command
definitions for example:
define service{
use srv-pnp,generic-service
host_name coreswitch1
service_description Unit04-Port18
check_command check_snmp_int!-C $USER3$ -2 -n Unit 4 Port
18 -fY -kqB -g -w 60,60,100,100,10,10 -c
80,80,200,200,20,20 -d 300
}
Permissions are set appropriately on the resource.cfg file, and the
resource.cfg file doesn't have to be in your code repo.
Reference is made to this in the documentation at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/configmain.html
under the heading Resource File - you should also find examples in
the sample config files which come with the standard Nagios install.
hth,
Jim
On 18 April 2011 23:53, d icantplaygui...@gmail.com wrote:
Looking for info on how passwords are handled in configuration files. I
would preferably source them from a hidden file and then insert them via
macros into the nagios config. Has anyone done this (or similar)? I like
having my configuration files checked-in to a code repo but obviously don't
want the PWs.
Thanks.
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Re: [Nagios-users] backup email notifcation consolidator
On 13 April 2011 00:41, Matthew Nickerson mnicker...@silcon.com wrote: Hello, I’m looking for an add-on, and hoping someone has made it, that can consolidate backup email reports. We have several clients, running multiple version of backup exec, some with NTbackup, and some with Jungle Disc. I’d like to get all these email reports consolidated into a single report that shows if a backup ran when it was supposed to run, and if the job was successful. Alternatively, if Nagios can monitor an inbox and parse the emails for failure messages and generate a warning, that would work too. Right now the problem is that I get about 60 reports daily, which clutters up the inbox. I wouldn't know about Jungle Disc, but I can tell you that Backup Exec can (and probably should) be configured to send an SNMP trap showing backup status. I would install and configure snmptt to receive these traps and send passive check results to Nagios. Nagios will then only email you for those backups that have failed not those that have succeeded. Note you should also use freshness checking in the Nagios passive service check config to alert if no check result at all has been received for a given period. I've not tried it myself, but for log file consolidation, I believe Splunk is the recommended tool. http://www.nagios.org/products/enterprisesolutions/splunk/ -- Forrester Wave Report - Recovery time is now measured in hours and minutes not days. Key insights are discussed in the 2010 Forrester Wave Report as part of an in-depth evaluation of disaster recovery service providers. Forrester found the best-in-class provider in terms of services and vision. Read this report now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/ibm-webcastpromo ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Trend Micro Officescan snmp-trap
I'm not sure the specifics of getting Trend to send traps (I simply asked my Trend admin person to set it up!). Trend should be able to provide you with the relevant MIB file. To configure Nagios to receive the traps, I recommend you use snmptt. The specific instructions relating to Nagios are at: http://www.snmptt.org/docs/snmptt.shtml#Nagios-Netsaint You will need to use the snmpttconvertmib utility to convert Trend's MIB file to a config for snmptt. Note I found that the format of the OID's for the traps generated from our Trend systems didn't always match what was in the MIB, so I had to create some new config entries for snmptt based on the ones translated using snmpttconvertmib, but with the OIDs edited to match what we were receiving - for example: # These traps are pretty much same as from trend.mib, but with .999. instead of .141. EVENT virusFound .1.3.6.1.4.1.6101.999.3.3 Status Events critical FORMAT Virus Found Trap: $* SDESC This event trap will be sent when a virus is found Variables: 1: tvcsEventTrapVar PREEXEC /bin/echo $s | /bin/sed -e s/ok/0/ -e s/warning/1/ -e s/critical/2/ EXEC /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/submit_check_result $A SNMP-Trap-Trend $p1 $N $* EDESC # # # Note the PREEXEC and EXEC entries which are used to translate the incoming trap in to a format which can be submitted as a passive check to Nagios via Nagios' command interface. You may need to edit the EVENT line in each config entry to change the severity as appropriate to ok, warning, or critical so it can be processed by the PREEXEC line. I hope that helps a little. Cheers, Jim -- Xperia(TM) PLAY It's a major breakthrough. An authentic gaming smartphone on the nation's most reliable network. And it wants your games. http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-sfdev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Donwtime_sched not working correctly
On 23 March 2011 13:12, tom sturme tom.stu...@live.nl wrote: From: tom.stu...@live.nl To: nagios-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Donwtime_sched not working correctly Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0100 Hi, I'm trying to run downtime_sched 3.2 with nagios 3.2.2 That's interesting. I'm on version .30 myself. I must upgrade sometime! I've done the steps that are defined in the readme file. I can't remember why, but I have the job running at 1 minute past 1 each morning in cron like so: $ crontab -u nagios -l # m h dom mon dow command # Automated scheduled down-time for Nagios. 01 01 * * * /usr/local/nagios/bin/downtime_job.pl /usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.log 21 To be honest it's probably better if it runs later as you have it as it might not run when the clocks change each year the way I have it. Note that unlike the instructions in the README, I have it outputting to a log file. This is really helpful in seeing if the cron job is working or not. Give it a try, see what comes up in the log file the next morning and if you're still stuck I'll take a closer look for you. Cheers, Jim -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Donwtime_sched not working correctly
p.s. I see in your email you are already outputting to a log file. Is there anything interesting in your /usr/local/nagios/logs/downtime.log file? I see you have yours in the system wide crontab. I don't know if it makes a huge difference but I guess it might help to have it in the crontab for user nagios instead. Cheers, Jim -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Question on encryption for send_nsca
On 23 March 2011 23:51, Steve F steve_...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a small test Nagios 3.2 environment on a Suse platform ( 11 10 boxes )and was wondering about the encryption methods used. I am working fine with no encryption configured on host or central server. I am getting all of the checks on the console. Once I set it to any value other than 0 on both the server host, I no longer get anything on the central server. I've tried using the simple XOR and 3DES DES If I send a test job from the command line as per the instructions, with no encryption set ( not even simple XOR ) I see the reply in the nagios.log file on the Nagios server. If I set the encryption on both send the test job again,( restarting nagios on both) it says 1 packet was sent successfully but nothing shows up on the central server. I am still learning my way thru Suse Nagios so not sure if the encryption process is part of the send_nsca or Suse. I don't know what encryption is installed on the suse boxes or even how to check. Is there a way to test or check what encryption(s) are installed on the boxes? Since this is ultimately a totally private network, can I use the value of 0 for no encryption ? I know the cfg file explicitly says its not recommended I was using LOKI97 (can't remember why now) for Unix systems but then found I couldn't get it working for Windows systems and ended up configuring a separate nsca daemon to receive checks from Windows servers with XOR encryption. Personally unless you're exposed to the outside world or have any checks which transfer passwords or other sensitive information over nsca I wouldn't worry about encryption - it's probably more hassle than it's worth. hth, Jim -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] nagios send_nsca
On 31 March 2011 14:42, julian_grunn...@tdwh.co.uk wrote: Hi - hope someone can help me with the above, I want to use this to send multiple lines of output via send_nsca and them to be displayed as separate lines in Nagios under the Status Information box BUT ALL for the same Service check. I've done this in the past and can't for the life of me remember how I did it now. So the input file will be something like this: server service check status code This is line 1br This is line 2br This is line 3br etc. Like I say I'm sure at a previous role I was doing it like this and it worked fine, however now all I get displayed in Nagios is: This is line 1br This is line 2br This is line 3br etc. Rather than: This is line 1 This is line 2 This is line 3 etc. I'm not entirely sure, but is it this directive in cgi.cfg you need?:- # ESCAPE HTML TAGS # This option determines whether HTML tags in host and service # status output is escaped in the web interface. If enabled, # your plugin output will not be able to contain clickable links. escape_html_tags=0 -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] monitor http traffic
On 31 March 2011 21:51, khurram aziz khurramazizkha...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have a windows server 2003 based web server ( IIS) that has 5 websites running on it and each web site has a application pool allocated to it. What I want to do is to add this web server in my Nagios so that I can keep an eye on whether these services are running or not and at the same time also to graph their performance using pnp4nagios... can some1 walk me through the configurations plz... Wolfgang Barth walked me through all this sort of stuff. http://nostarch.com/nagios.htm hth, Jim -- Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Weekly Service Check
On 23 March 2011 09:39, Nair vman...@rediffmail.com wrote:
Hi Friends
I have below service check defined to perform check every Monday.
define timeperiod{
timeperiod_name only_mon
alias Only on monday
monday 11:00-17:00
}
define service{
service_description TEST_SRV
host_name localhost
max_check_attempts 1
normal_check_interval 120
retry_check_interval 1
check_period only_mon
check_command TEST_CMD
use template_TEST
}
The service was last reported on 2011-03-14 17:00:00.But,I am expected to get
check reuslt on 2011-03-21 11:00:00. Can you please give me an idea why the
weekly check schedule fails.
Firstly, note that Nagios will usually only record an entry in the log
if the status has changed. Did you check the status of the service
and see what the last check time was?
If you only want one check at a specific time once a week, then
personally I would configure a script to run the check in cron and
send a passive check result to Nagios.It's maybe a bit of a pain
to learn how to do it the first time but a very useful technique for
all sorts of things.
hth,
Jim
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Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++. Monitoring the devices behind the Firewall.
On 15 March 2011 13:47, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: If you're looking to do this without cooperation from the client and their security folks, you're going to run into problems. If they want you to monitor their hosts, they have to provide some manner of accessing them. Just to be thorough, passive monitoring is also a possibility. In that case, each of the clients would be configured to send the service check results to the Nagios server, and would probably not require any changes to the firewall. However, I choose to use active monitoring, so I cannot help with that setup, nor would I necessarily recommend it. I would echo what Benny said there having tried it myself. Passive monitoring is possible, and fairly easy to set up using the NSClient++ agent, but can be more trouble than it is worth as whenever you need to make any change you have to log on to the remote server to change the NSClient++ config. If it's behind two firewalls then I would guess that might not be easy. If it's a large site with lots of servers, I would maybe consider deploying a Nagios server on that site so there is only then one node which needs to communicate back and forth with your central Nagios server. As ever, there are lots of different ways you can slice and dice this problem. -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++. Monitoring the devices behind theFirewall.
On 15 March 2011 14:34, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: You could always have a passive check that calls home to get any new updates so then you wouldn't really have to login to each one to push down changes. Dan That's a neat idea! -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledgements with hard coded email address
On 9 March 2011 18:05, Robert Bailey rob...@briworks.com wrote: I want to set Nagios so that no when you acknowledge either a host or service problem with the Notify checkbox checked, the email goes to a specific email address. Anyone know if this is possible? I've dug through the code a little bit, but I'm not a programmer and I can't find any available configuration options. Robert Robert, I think you can configure a contact with the specific email address, make it a contact (or member of the relevant contactgroup) for the host or service, but most importantly in the contact definition, have: host_notification_options n or service_notification_options n then the contact will still receive Acknowledgement notifications but nothing else for that service or host. Certainly this is what happens if you specify n in the notification_options directive for a service so I expect it's the same when you specify n in the contact definition. Give it a try anyway. This is contrary to the documentation, so I wouldn't be too surprised if it's 'fixed' in a future release, but if that's the case, I would hope a a argument will be added to allow you to specify you want ack notifications. For the time being, give this a try. hth, Jim -- Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
Re: [Nagios-users] NOC display screen
On 27 February 2011 20:04, chiel ch...@gmx.net wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what everybody is using for there noc display screen. We have a display screen where I want to display both the host and service problems (if any). Using the normal nagios webpages we still have to click on either the service or host to display a particular problem. I see there is something called Naglite(v1,v2 and v3) which seems to do the trick. With a bit of tweaking this should work. Before I start configure I would like to know what you are all using. A similar question came up here only a couple of weeks ago. This was my advice.. If it's any help to you, the URL I now use is: http://webserver/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?host=allhostprops=10servicestatustypes=29serviceprops=10sorttype=2sortoption=6noheader Even though this doesn't explictly show hosts, if a host is down you will still see it on this page because its services will also be down (or unknown or whatever). According to the Display Filters panel which appears if you remove the noheader, this one shows: Host Status Types: All Host Properties:Not In Scheduled Downtime Has Not Been Acknowledged Service Status Types: Pending | Unknown | Warning | Critical Service Properties: Not In Scheduled Downtime Has Not Been Acknowledged and the sort is by state duration descending. Of course it won't show downed hosts if they have no services. I make sure all hosts have at least one service (even if that's just ping) so they can be seen on this service page. hth, Jim -- Free Software Download: Index, Search Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev ___ 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 issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
