Re: [Nagios-users] randomize a service's check interval

2010-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 July 2010 00:56, Jaden Bentley jaden.bent...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, One of the services we monitor is a web server which we've installed bot detection on.  The bot detection works by looking at the standard deviation of requests from a specific host.  We don't want our own monitoring to

Re: [Nagios-users] Assign contact_group to a host without notifications

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 01:34, Matthew Angelo bang...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Nagios Users, We have a super modular config.  Essentially [almost] all Service Checks are defined to HostGroups, and then Hosts merely assign themselve to that HostGroup. # # # HostGroup { #     LINUX_SERVER #        

Re: [Nagios-users] Additional states in Nagios

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 03:18, Jason W. jwellb...@gmail.com wrote: (I've tried Googling for the answer, but there seems to be some ambiguity in defining terms - even in the Nagios docs) I've got Nagios monitoring a bunch of things on our servers and I also have events being sent to Nagios via passive

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 08:58, sandma...@libero.it sandma...@libero.it wrote: Hi, I'd need to keep traffic on a UMTS router monitored, i.e. I'd need to set up something that counts bytes passed and gives an alarm when a particular thresold is reached. The router gives no SNMP information about it.

Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 06:40, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg n...@eurofmc.com wrote: Hi everybody, I'm looking for a way to check out the mapping between a hostname and IP address. Example: IP 192.168.0.1 exists and if the hostname foo.mylan.com is not associated with this IP, I would have

Re: [Nagios-users] Using PNP4Nagios

2010-06-21 Thread Jim Avery
On 21 June 2010 03:56, Daniel Bareiro daniel-lis...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, all! I'm testing PNP4Nagios, but for some reason I'm just looking graphics for services in the Nagios server. For the rest of the remote hosts, when I click on the some red star, I get something like this: Initalising

Re: [Nagios-users] bandwidth monitoring and presentation?

2010-06-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 18 June 2010 22:02, Roderick A. Anderson raand...@cyber-office.net wrote: Similar to what Solarwinds does? I'm back.  Last August I asked about monitoring Tranzeo wireless radios and SNMP. Did some more searching and found my own posts :-) and a few more but nothing really substantial.

Re: [Nagios-users] Missing -l parameters.

2010-06-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 June 2010 18:18, Gustavo Araujo gustavocamposara...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone. I´m monitoring a lot of servers in my nagios. Today I´m trying to use the check_nt plugin. But when i try to use it i always get the error message. What does the error message say?

Re: [Nagios-users] CGI Permissions issue

2010-06-08 Thread Jim Avery
On 8 June 2010 14:50, Jason Gauthier jgauth...@lastar.com wrote: All,  I am fighting with a permission issue I cannot seem to figure out. Here is the important pieces of my cgi configuration: use_authentication=1 default_user_name= authorized_for_system_information=

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance Data given by check_snmp_int not shown in PNP4Graphs

2010-03-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30 March 2010 12:28, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I used the plugin check_snmp_int from the following site: http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_int.html The following command was executed on the nagios server: [r...@pc-fedora-1 libexec]# ./check_snmp_int  -H x.x.x.x -C -n

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios sending alerts even the server is up

2010-03-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 March 2010 15:17, Deepak Joshi djos...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi All, We are using Nagios 3.03 with Ubantu. Nagios continously sending server up alerts even the server is up and running fine. This behavior is only for one server. Can anyone help me to troubleshoot this problem. Thx,

Re: [Nagios-users] Does anyone have event log monitors that *work*?

2010-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 March 2010 00:18, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: And anyone else out there that is monitoring Windows event logs successfully, PLEASE chime in with thoughts/suggestions!  I *know* there are a bunch of you out there, I'd love to hear how you do it!  :) Likewise please ask again

Re: [Nagios-users] Servive showing Unknown Status

2010-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 March 2010 08:35, ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, I am using Nagios 3.2.4 with Nagios plugins 1.4.14 on Linux with Fedora 10.1. I have configured a server with six services for it. All services are showing OK except one service i.e.‘ Physical Memory Usage ‘

Re: [Nagios-users] Servive showing Unknown Status

2010-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 March 2010 13:40, ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, I am able to see the following in nsclient.log file.Please suggest. ... error:modules\NSClientListener\NSClientListener.cpp:313: Unauthorized access from: x.x.x.x ... 2010-03-18 00:43:37:

Re: [Nagios-users] Servive showing Unknown Status

2010-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 March 2010 13:53, ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com wrote: Hi, Please ignore the previous mail. This is present in the nsclient.log file. 2010-03-19 22:02:22: error:modules\NRPEListener\NRPEListener.cpp:289: Unauthorize access from: x.x.x.x ... 2010-03-19 22:38:29:

Re: [Nagios-users] Does anyone have event log monitors that *work*?

2010-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 March 2010 14:31, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: Hey folks,   I have been beating my head against various and sundry walls, tables, and desks for quite some time now, and my brain is starting to get very, VERY mushy. I agree, it's not easy. If it's any help, the best I've

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE performance data

2010-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 March 2010 21:33, Polifemo, Salvatore polife...@conedsolutions.com wrote: I have configured the nagios check_nrpe plugin to check memory usage and it displays the graphs as %. Is it possible to graph the performance as MB ? check_nrpe is just a way of running a plugin remotely. If the

Re: [Nagios-users] switch off send a notification for acknowledgement

2010-03-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2010 23:53, patrick.mor...@hp.com wrote: Hi Jim! On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Jim Avery wrote: On 12 March 2010 07:54, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya I tried googling. Would anyone know how to switch off send a notification when there is an acknowledgement

Re: [Nagios-users] Two IP for the Same server

2010-03-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16 March 2010 21:08, Marcel mits...@gmail.com wrote: Well, This could be completely out of line, but what if custom macros and a custom host check was baked for this kind of situation? He could associate a custom macro and a custom host check that uses that custom macro to try to achieve

Re: [Nagios-users] Overall Service Status

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2010 12:24, nigel.le...@uk.bnpparibas.com wrote: I maybe missing something very obvious, or this may not be possible at all, but I'm trying to find a way of displaying an individual service status across all my hosts. For example, I collect the kernel version on all my servers,

Re: [Nagios-users] Whos Disabling Notifications

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2010 13:27, Charles Breite charles.bre...@altertrading.com wrote: Somehow our notifications are getting disabled. I assume a user is doing this via the Process Info page. What and where can I grep to find out who is running this command from the Web interface. Thanks for any

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2010 22:02, Eduardo Barreto lec...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Could anybody tell me what's better, checking hosts through icmp protocol or snmp? What are the risks or may set the network at all on a poor status? In Nagios, you should check a host using ICMP (the Nagios host check is

Re: [Nagios-users] NagioSQL

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2010 21:14, Ron Wilson r...@tvnz.co.nz wrote: I am using NagioSQL and find some of the tables are growing quite rapidly. nagios_externalcommands is quite large and I would like to reduce it. Has anyone any tips for general maintenance of the sql tables in ngaios. I don’t want to

Re: [Nagios-users] switch off send a notification for acknowledgement

2010-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 March 2010 07:54, Mark Elsen mark.el...@gmail.com wrote: Hiya I tried googling. Would anyone know how to switch off send a notification when there is an acknowledgement.  - This is an option which you can de-select. Check the NAGIOS menu  closely. It should be, but I don't think

Re: [Nagios-users] HI ALL

2010-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 March 2010 14:43, wale Ajayi werty...@gmail.com wrote: Please i need info on web sms + Nagios integration, thanks for your response It is often a lot easier to use an email-SMS gateway service rather than setting up web sms directly. For example I used to use http://www.intellisms.co.uk/

Re: [Nagios-users] Grafical Interface searchin alternative for groundworks

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11 March 2010 06:35, prengel ralf.pren...@comline.de wrote: Hallo, we are using the free groundworks version for managing nagios. But know we are on a point to have a loook for alternatives beause 1) the support-forum is spammed 2) we don t find answers for our problems 3) we ve

Re: [Nagios-users] problem creating hostgroup

2010-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11 March 2010 14:39, Gezina Dekker gezin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, When I restart after adding this host-group using split.cfg I get the following. Running configuration check. CONFIG ERROR!  Restart aborted.  Check your Nagios configuration To check your nagios configuration, enter:

Re: [Nagios-users] Host/Svc Deps

2010-03-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 March 2010 02:47, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: Is it possible to make hosts dependant on single services from another host? An example being a monitored vpn tunnel on a firewall, and the hosts it provides. The firewall may very well be up, but the tunnel status alone

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value.

2010-03-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 March 2010 09:15, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I am getting this error when i monitor my windows box using NSClient++ NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value. Please let me know what can be done. Thanks Jatin I think it simply means it can't get the performance

Re: [Nagios-users] priority: host or service who's really on top?

2010-03-08 Thread Jim Avery
On 8 March 2010 22:16, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: if i define my host to be checked/notify only at certain time frame, let's say 10-18 yet service states 24/7 ... who takes priority? host's definition or service? If the service check fails, I think Nagios would check the host anyway. You

Re: [Nagios-users] Patterns in serviceextinfo.conf?

2010-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 6 March 2010 01:04, Litwin, Matthew mlit...@stubhub.com wrote: Is it possible to set up entries in serviceextinfo.conf to match a pattern to avoid having to re-enter similarly named services with the exact same notes_url definition? For instance, can entries like this: define

Re: [Nagios-users] Using NSClient with NRPE

2010-03-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 March 2010 19:37, Ron Wilson r...@tvnz.co.nz wrote: It does not work. Here is my output Wordpad was running libexec]# ./check_nrpe -H aks4mpp02 -u -c CheckProcState -a ShowAll wordpad.exe=started CRITICAL: wordpad.exe: stopped (critical) Wordpad is not running libexec]# ./check_nrpe

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Interval set to 0 not working as per doc

2010-03-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 March 2010 10:16, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi The Nagios documentation says that when you set the Notification Interval to 0 , it will notify with an email alert only once when the service state goes to down from up , it will then again notify when the service comes back to

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios web configurator

2010-03-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 March 2010 12:25, wale Ajayi werty...@gmail.com wrote: Hello jimmy, thanks for your quick response, please how can i remove this Nagios® Core™ 3.2.0 from the header of the Nagios. Append noheader to the URL in side.php . This removes the rest of the header too of course.

Re: [Nagios-users] Using NSClient with NRPE

2010-03-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 March 2010 01:27, Ron Wilson r...@tvnz.co.nz wrote: I have NSclient on my servers and use NRPE to access client. On the whole it works fine but I have great difficulty detecting if a windows process is running or stopped. I have a java.exe that has to run in a cmd window. I need to know

Re: [Nagios-users] Using Check_nt to monitor 4 java.exe processes

2010-03-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 March 2010 06:34, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I used the following check_nt command to get the running status of a process on remote windows machine, check_nt!PROCSTATE!-d SHOWALL -l java.exe The process above is java.exe , i have a situation where in i need to make

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios web configurator

2010-03-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 March 2010 09:20, wale Ajayi werty...@gmail.com wrote: Hello every one, i need a very good web interface configurator for my nagios3.0.6 can anybody help me to get one , thanks very much. Nagios XI of course includes web configuration. I haven't tried it yet, so can't say whether it is

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting Notifications Outside of Defined Time Periods

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 March 2010 00:07, Matt Baer m...@baerconsult.com wrote: I'm having an issue with Nagios sending me notifications during time periods that are not included within the designated period.  I've tested this by setting the time period to 'never', restarting Nagios and I STILL get

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications for a passive Nagios check

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 March 2010 10:43, wadud.m...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: I have a Nagios passive check which doesn't send out any alerts when it's in a critical status: define service{  name                                  hpcsg-service  register                              0  max_check_attempts            

Re: [Nagios-users] VMware Appliance

2010-03-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 March 2010 13:30, Antonio Pereira apere...@rha.ca wrote: I was looking around for VMware nagios appliance and I see a couple but they are old and I can't find any to download. Is there anymore of these around? Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Nagios XI supplied as a VMWare appliance?

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor Java Process

2010-03-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 March 2010 11:26, Jatin Davey jasho...@cisco.com wrote: Hi I want to know how i can monitor the java process running on remote box , basically i want to keep monitoring it and raise an email alert if it has re-started or stopped functioning. Please let me know how this can be achieved

Re: [Nagios-users] multiple check_interval with single service check

2010-03-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 March 2010 19:47, shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com wrote: All,    Is it possible to use multiple check_interval based on the hours of the day for a single check?  For example during day time service should be executed every 15 minutes and during night it will get executed every 2 hours. 

Re: [Nagios-users] customized init script

2010-02-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26 February 2010 07:43, Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com wrote: Any recommended method to monitor customized init scripts. I know check_tcp will only monitor ports. I would edit the init script to use send_nsca to send an appropriate check result to Nagios. Of course you will need

Re: [Nagios-users] check_cluster - Wrong service state

2010-02-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24 February 2010 11:27, Brandino Andreas ampra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I configured check_cluster plugin to monitor two services that work redundant (1 is up, 1 is down all the time). The plugin that check the services, returns UNKNOWN state for the service that are down. However,

Re: [Nagios-users] Local firewall changes on Nagios core server

2010-02-22 Thread Jim Avery
On 22 February 2010 09:06, Jerry Joy jerrya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have setup a Nagios server on RHEL 5 and it has the local firewall ON. What exactly are the changes required on the local firewall so that Nagios core server is able to accept reports from NRPE and NSClient++ agents. I

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp net utilization

2010-02-21 Thread Jim Avery
On 21 February 2010 03:58, Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com wrote: I have a crappy windows app that provides no way of remotely monitoring its status. In fact, the only way I can be assured it's in a state I depend on is if the net utilization is up. Checking whether the application

Re: [Nagios-users] E-mailing separate group for subset of hosts(and their services)

2010-02-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 February 2010 02:02, Ryan Rawdon r...@u13.net wrote: Hi, I've had a smallish deployment of Nagios for a while now, but now I need to add some more functionality to it.  I need to have Nagios notify certain people when there is an issue with a host or any service on it.  I see that

Re: [Nagios-users] Can I run both Nagios V2 and V3 in parallel while I migrate?

2010-02-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 18 February 2010 02:29, Lylex Ryan lylexr...@yahoo.com wrote: In upgrading from nagios (v2) to nagios3, I'd like to do a fresh install of nagios3 and start with a clean sheet of  (config) paper.  But can I do this while V2 is running production? Since the packages have different names,

Re: [Nagios-users] Help required

2010-02-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 February 2010 17:36, Digital Edge reachta...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi List, It will be really helpful if i can get any response on my below mentioned query. I have an URL , say.. http://www.example.com/sigin.jsf , After login in, it'll redirect to

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp disk space monitoring

2010-02-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 February 2010 19:45, David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net wrote: I'm playing with using check_snmp to look at disk space, with commands (working from the command line so far) like: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -C public -P 2c -H localhost -o dskErrorMsg.2 -r '^\s*$' ([[:space:]]

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime doesn't clear?

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 10 February 2010 15:52, Michael Durket dur...@highwire.stanford.edu wrote: We're running Nagios 2.5. Every night we take hundreds of services being monitored by Nagios down for a quick restart. The restart process takes no more than 15 minutes and just before each service goes down, a

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Availability Report issue

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 February 2010 14:26, Assaf Flatto nag...@flatto.net wrote: Hello I have an odd issue with the Service Availability Report . The setup is as follows , i have a distributed nagios (3.2.0 from source)  with a server running 6 http queries from and external network and submitting the

Re: [Nagios-users] changing the status map

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 February 2010 15:11, Assaf Flatto nag...@flatto.net wrote: Hello I want to have the map start in another map entity then the Nagios Process ( for instance the nagios host itself ) . Is there a way to impact the CGI to do so ? I am not a coder  , so my understanding of the code is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5 stalling

2010-02-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16 February 2010 10:37, Sean O'Brien sean.obr...@jp.fujitsu.com wrote: Dear All, I currently am having a some problems with an older version of Nagios (2.5). The situation is that at random intervals and for no apparent reason Nagios just halts. It doesn't process alerts, forward

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Question

2010-01-04 Thread Jim Avery
2010/1/4 steve f a31mod...@hotmail.com: Hello Happy New Year, Is it possible to have Nagios notify me of a service problem once an hour AND tell me how many times it alerted during that hour time frame? For example, if I run a plugin, I don't necessarily want to have a notification every

Re: [Nagios-users] peer review debian check

2009-12-29 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/29 Brent Clark brentgclarkl...@gmail.com: Hiya I was hoping someone would be kind to peer review my service check. I got a nrpe check to check that the debian packages on my servers are up to date. I would like for this check to run once a day. This is what I was able to come up

Re: [Nagios-users] When to HUP and when to restart?

2009-12-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/24 Jonathan Call jc...@verio.net: If you’re using the embedded Perl interpreter a restart is probably better since the interpreter leaks memory. If you have a very large solution (thousands of service checks) a restart will take a considerable amount of time so a HUP would probably

[Nagios-users] When to HUP and when to restart?

2009-12-24 Thread Jim Avery
Thanks to Patrick mentioning you can send a HUP to get Nagios to reload it's config, (how on earth did I now know that??), it got me wondering... When, if at all, do I need to do a full restart of the Nagios daemon? Cheers and Happy Christmas everyone. Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with notification interval.

2009-12-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/22 Kasper Lund kas...@nordal-lund.dk: Hi List. I have just upgraded my nagios from 2.12 to 3.20 - everything seems to be running just fine except for my notification interval. Usually i use 0 as interval as i only want to receive the message once, but nagios does not accept this

[Nagios-users] When to HUP and when to restart?

2009-12-24 Thread Jim Avery
Thanks to Patrick mentioning you can send a HUP to get Nagios to reload it's config, (how on earth did I now know that??), it got me wondering... When, if at all, do I need to do a full restart of the Nagios daemon? Cheers and Happy Christmas everyone. Jim (p.s. I'm sorry if this is the second

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with notification interval.

2009-12-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/22 Kasper Lund kas...@nordal-lund.dk: Hi List. I have just upgraded my nagios from 2.12 to 3.20 - everything seems to be running just fine except for my notification interval. Usually i use 0 as interval as i only want to receive the message once, but nagios does not accept this

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems With Availability Reports

2009-12-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/21 Tata, Joseph jt...@gpworldwide.com: I am having problems with availability reports in Nagios 2.x.  There are two that are of concern to my manager: First Nagios does not seem to be taking into account scheduled downtime against the Total Uptime percentage, this is throwing off our

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios is logging Service Check Timed Out for certain service

2009-12-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/21 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hello Jim. I still cannnot solve why this had occured. So , would you please give us an advice? In the previous mail , I have realized that the detail about the situation was not articulated. Following are the details about the situation:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios is logging Service Check Timed Out for certain service

2009-12-01 Thread Jim Avery
2009/12/1 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hello Jim. Thank you for the reply and sorry for the late reply from me. Well , my situation was using plugin that scans through the syslog file and whenever any regular expression match occurs it sends an passive check alert to nagios.

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check a host, ping disabled

2009-11-26 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/25 Samir Pathan sa...@eprs.co.in: Hello All, I have few servers with ping enable and disabled in two different locations. I am currently monitoring ping enables servers successfully. Can we monitor ping disabled servers using Nagios? If yes, please suggest how to configure it and

Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/24 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: This is not an issue.  nagios search bar does regular expression search.  do ffs-* in your box and it will result in all the hosts. Nagios is a monitoring tool.  I think nagios users and administrators are some what involved with technology. 

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios is logging Service Check Timed Out for certain service

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/25 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hello All. I am gathering information for a problem I had experienced in nagios v2.10. I was running Nagios on RHEL 4.5. The story is that Nagios suddenly started returing Service Check Timed Out on a certain service, not on other

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check a host, ping disabled

2009-11-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/25 Samir Pathan sa...@eprs.co.in: Hello, I need to monitor the servers which has ping disabled. Where and what configuration I have to change. Please suggest. Best regards, Sam. If it is a server then presumably it has some other port open? For example if it's an email

Re: [Nagios-users] How to Schedule regular weekly downtime?

2009-11-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/21 Les Fenison l...@deltatechnicalservices.com: Looks like a nice idea but doesn't work on Nagios 3.2 In case you're tempted to try and get it working in Nagios 3 (as I did), here are the changes I made to the perl script to get it working: # diff

Re: [Nagios-users] How to Schedule regular weekly downtime?

2009-11-22 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/22 Marc Powell m...@ena.com: On Nov 21, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Les Fenison wrote: Looks like a nice idea but doesn't work on Nagios 3.2 Tested? I don't use it but I don't see why it wouldn't. The things it touches haven't changed between versions. There was a change between Nagios 2

Re: [Nagios-users] How to Schedule regular weekly downtime?

2009-11-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/21 Les Fenison l...@deltatechnicalservices.com: I am monitoring a server that runs windows update and reboots every week on Saturday at the same time.  Is there any way to schedule this downtime without having to go enter it every week manually? You will find a few utilities to try at

Re: [Nagios-users] What would you want in a replacement web interface?

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/16 Taylor Dondich tdond...@lilacnetworks.com: #1) What is the most important thing you want to see in a Tactical Overview replacement?  What are the most essential components? I think most if not all of it is useful except ... for quite a few of my services I have deliberately

Re: [Nagios-users] About Nagios Avail Report

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/19 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hello All. I have a question regarding to Nagios availability report. Could someone help me out? I am now using Nagios v3.0.6 on a RHEL 5.1 machined. I was looking at the Undeterimined state area and realized that the Nagios Not Running

Re: [Nagios-users] About Nagios Avail Report

2009-11-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/19 Yu Watanabe yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com: Hello All. I have a question regarding to Nagios availability report. Could someone help me out? I am now using Nagios v3.0.6 on a RHEL 5.1 machined. I was looking at the Undeterimined state area and realized that the Nagios Not Running

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios to monitor job progress?

2009-11-13 Thread Jim Avery
2009/11/9 Todd Mcneill todd.mcne...@pmigroup.com: Hi- I have a batch process that runs on a Windows box that I’d like to monitor through Nagios.  Currently, the job writes all status output to a log file, and this log file is parsed by another monitoring agent (NetIQ) in order to alert when

Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

2009-09-30 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/30 nadia kheffache nadiakheffa...@yahoo.fr: Hi, I wont to monitor an onduleur, can you helpe me to find a plugin? I expect you will find some on monitoring exchange. http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Check_Plugins%2FHardware%2FDevices%2FUPS%2Findex.html;d=1 hth,

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin for AIX6

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Avery
i wont to monitor a server AIX with nagios, but i have a probleme to complil them. Can you give me please the binaire plugin for AIX if any one have already compliled them?? Kyle O'Donnell kindly compiled nsca, nrpe and plugins for AIX 6.1 recently and made them available on monitoring

Re: [Nagios-users] Different notifications times for same service on different hosts?

2009-09-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/28 Glyn Astill glynast...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi Chaps, I've got a nagios server that constantly performs various checks on database servers.  I have one set of services that serve as the checks for all of the database servers since they are all identical. What I want to do is prevent the

Re: [Nagios-users] DHCP hosts

2009-09-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/23 G. S. Marzot gmar...@marzot.net: Does anyone have a good solution for monitoring DHCP hosts which may come and go? I would like to see them in some hostgroup when they are active but not generate any alerts when gone... ideas? I can't say I've tried it myself, but I guess you could

Re: [Nagios-users] Using Nagios W/O loging in

2009-09-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/23 stan st...@panix.com: BTW does it matter that he implemente  nagvis? Probably. Nagvis will probably have certain users authorised to edit maps. If your users don't authenticate to Nagios, it's quite likely none of them will be able to make changes to your nagvis maps. This might, or

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios and dns

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/22 Kyle O'Donnell kyleodonn...@gmail.com: All, I recall reading some nagios documentation which had the reasons why using dns resolution was not a great idea, but I cannot remember where it was? Does anyone have/or can they point me to that doc? Thanks, Kyle Put simply if your

Re: [Nagios-users] sqlservers and nagios

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/21 Melanie Pfefer melanie_pfe...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi, it is a ASE server, not mssql. Usually to connect to ASE, we define the server in interfaces file. The issue here is that in Sybase, the hostname can be while the servername can be B (a totally different name). The same

Re: [Nagios-users] Remove ACK

2009-09-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/21 Ivan imun...@xtec.cat: Hi, it's possible that nagios automatically remove the ACK Icon if the state changes from WARNING to CRITICAL? I guess you could configure an eventhandler to submit a command to remove the ack. See: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html

Re: [Nagios-users] notifications

2009-09-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/19 alexus ale...@gmail.com: why this won't work? i dont get notifications define service {        hostgroup_name                  nrpe-disk        service_description             disk        use                             alarm,check        check_command                  

Re: [Nagios-users] permission on directory /libexec

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/18 nadia kheffache nadiakheffa...@yahoo.fr: Hi, can you tell me what are the permissions on the directory /libexec (plugins nagios) please? my directory is for root:root, is this ok, or i will change this for nagios:nagios?? Mine here is drwxrwxr-x nagios nagios if that's any

Re: [Nagios-users] sqlservers and nagios

2009-09-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/18 Melanie Pfefer melanie_pfe...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi I have a shell script that connects to each SQL server I have. I want to integrate this is nagios 2. However, I noticed that nagios relies on HOSTNAME and HOSTADDRESS and HOSTGROUP. While I am more interested in the servername: For

Re: [Nagios-users] Ignoring a host/service for a period of time

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/17 Kurktchiev, Boris bo...@unt.edu: I have a couple of hosts that I am monitoring that reboot or restart and it takes them about 30 minutes to be fully operational again. Is there a way to tell nagios to ignore certain services/hosts every day? Only way I can think of right now is to

Re: [Nagios-users] messages not viewable on iPhone

2009-09-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/17 Neil Dombrowski n...@pricegrabber.com: We're running an old version of nagios (1.4) and I've been having it send alerts to my iPhone by sending email to  1115551...@txt.att.net. It's been working until two nights ago. Now instead of getting a message something like  PROBLEM server

Re: [Nagios-users] Confusion over timeperiods

2009-09-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/16 Grant Sewell nag...@thymox.co.uk: Am I to presume that I am correct in my assumption that I would need to create a new service entry for the above 4 services for this specific server? Maybe, yes. You might instead consider setting up a repeating scheduled outage for those services

Re: [Nagios-users] status Null

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/14 nadia kheffache nadiakheffa...@yahoo.fr: Hi, i want to check local cpu for my Nagios server, but i have status null on my web interface, and when i execute the commande line, the status is ok. [nag...@server libexec]$ ./check_vmstat -m CPU -wcpu-usg 80 -ccpu-usg 90 OK: Usage CPU:

Re: [Nagios-users] status Null

2009-09-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/14 nadia kheffache nadiakheffa...@yahoo.fr: i use centreon, define service{        host_name                               Centreon-Server        service_description             sys_local_cpu        use                             generic-service        check_command                  

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_http and or Check_url with A string

2009-09-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/11 peter peters pater7...@gmail.com: Dear all, I want not only to see if a webserver in active but (hostname or IP and ping) I also so want to see if a Url is responding. This by checking if there is a string is on this Url. (page) The check_http plugin can check for a given string.

Re: [Nagios-users] CHECK_MSSQL CRITICAL allways as output when use check_sql for MSSQL checking

2009-09-10 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/9 Arlen Drina arly...@gmail.com: Hi all, I am using check_sql for checking MSSQL server ( or I would like to check MSSQL servers ). I compiled freetds with --with-tdsver=8.0 support on my debian system and all went ok, in /etc/freetds.conf I have [global]        # TDS protocol

Re: [Nagios-users] Fake host/services

2009-09-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/7 Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr: Hi all Is that possible to create some (1) fake host/service ? My nagios monitor many hosts/services, some server is on UPS, but many off then is not on UPS. When my power going down I've got many of many of alerte (of course my nagios-server is on

Re: [Nagios-users] check_cluster2 does not work as expected

2009-09-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/5 Werner Flamme werner.fla...@ufz.de: Hi, I want to check a cluster consisting of 2 nodes. The task is simple: show how many nodes are up (respective down, there are two nodes). The command definition is: $USER1$/check_cluster2 -h -l $HOSTALIAS$ -w 1 -c 2 -d $ARG1$ So, the host

Re: [Nagios-users] Fake host/services

2009-09-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/7 Albert Shih albert.s...@obspm.fr: I known that's is a solution but, it's not so simple because we have many hosts on many location, in some those location we don't have the control of what we monitor (just ping), so if the administrator of one server turn it off we don't want nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt : COUNTERS

2009-09-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/4 Marco Borsani m.bors...@it.net: Hi. I need to prepare a monitoring environment on Windows servers performance. I will use check_nt plug-in with its COUNTER variable. Where I can find a complete list of Microsoft counters ? A quick google for Microsoft performance counters would

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a router

2009-09-03 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/2 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net: I'm just looking to use it to filter out failure reports from services beyond failed network links. If that's the case I'd recommend maybe implementing your checks solely (and somewhat pedantically) from the perspective of what is useful for Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a router

2009-09-01 Thread Jim Avery
2009/9/1 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net: Is this best practice in the opinion of the community?  Or is using SNMP to monitor something inside the router better somehow?  And if so, WHAT? Good question. One person's 'best practice' is another person's over-kill or under-kill. My golden rule

Re: [Nagios-users] leaving

2009-08-31 Thread Jim Avery
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