Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup expansion and regex

2009-08-29 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/29 Terry td3...@gmail.com: I am overlooking something simple. Nagios Core 3.2.0 use_regexp_matching=1 use_true_regexp_matching=0 define hostgroup {        hostgroup_name  allhosts        members         * Error: Could not expand members specified in hostgroup (config file

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/27 Terry td3...@gmail.com: The other thing we have tried with clusters is to monitor cluster services and cluster resources on a specific cluster IP and only monitor stock windows services and drives on the actual host. Absolutely this is what I do. I monitor the clustered services

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/28 Terry td3...@gmail.com: The other thing to consider is determining when a failover event has occurred.  I imagine this can be done with eventlog monitoring but any other tricks out there? For AIX HA/CMP failover, we edit the failover script so it sends a check to Nagios using

Re: [Nagios-users] Why are there commands?

2009-08-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/28 David Dyer-Bennet d...@dd-b.net: I don't really understand the purpose / utility of the command level of abstraction in Nagios configuration.  (2.10; we're still on Centos 4.7). If you use some of the plugins with quite complex arguments (check_snmp_storage.pl from

Re: [Nagios-users] number of notifications

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/26 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: All,    Is there anyway to control the total number of notification that nagios sends for hosts or services?  I did not see any indication of such parameter in object definition documentation.  Please advise on this.  Thanks You can achieve this

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd problem with services listing

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Avery
I haven't seen anything like this myself, but here are some thoughts in case any of them might help ... Try a different browser. Do a 'view source' of the defective page (and the good one) to see if that holds any clues. Do your Apache logs show anything? Were there any errors during

Re: [Nagios-users] large map

2009-08-26 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/26 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com: Hello Guys I have a silly question , and i know there must be a simple solution to it - but it somehow eludes me . I am trying to make the map of my nagios to be some what readable , i have 366 hosts and in the map they are all clustered

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications severely impacting Nagios performance. Ideas?

2009-08-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/25 Ryan Bowlby rbowlb...@yahoo.com: Hello Everyone, We are experiencing issues with Nagios notifications. Apparently when a large amount of services become critical and trigger notifications the system all but stops processing new service check results (passive). The last check

Re: [Nagios-users] windows serivces in graph mode

2009-08-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/25 K Ramanujan kramanu...@johndeere.com:  Hi All,  I have configure nagios on redhat 4  Nagios version- 3.0.5  Plug in version-1.4-12  NRPE -2.12 I want to configure my entire windows server in graph... I can able to see all windows nodes in host details and service details.

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS Reporting

2009-08-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/25 csi...@lightspeedresearch.com: Is there a good tool that someone is using or can suggest that can provide below mentioned reports (or something closer)? I used pnp4nagios to gather the data and drraw - the version at http://github.com/perldork/drraw-pnp/tree/master - to do the

Re: [Nagios-users] Measuring the LAN performance metric.

2009-08-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/24 Goksie Learner perlsk...@gmail.com: Hi all, Apart from Network reachability, Delays (return time average) and Link capacity. what other metric can I use to measure the LAN performance? The check_snmp_int.pl plugin from Patrick Proy can also alert on number of errors and discards.

Re: [Nagios-users] Services on Host Templates

2009-08-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/20 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: Hi all, If I create a host template, and associate a number of services with it, will hosts which inherit from that template also inherit the service associations? No. You can only associate actual hosts or hostgroups with a service. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Servicegroups with stats

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/18 Alex Huth a.h...@tmr.net: Hi! I am really new to Nagios and read the doc and tested some things. Now i want to have all webservices (45) grouped together. Not so difficult, but i want to see also the stats in this servicegroup. The main reason is to have a quick overview over the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring linux quotas

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/19 Kenneth Holter kenneho@gmail.com: Hello all. I'm considering setting up quotas on our RHEL-servers, and were wondering if there are any Nagios plugins that can monitor quotas. Btw, we're running Nagios 3.0.3. There's a plugin check_quota on Nagios Exchange

Re: [Nagios-users] high load on nagios server due to status.cgi

2009-08-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/19 rakesh kakde rakesh.ka...@gmail.com: Problem:  We are facing the problem while browsing the servers from Nagios web portal. Rendering of the server details is too slow that we need to wait around 2 min to get details about the server. We are continuously seeing that server load is

Re: [Nagios-users] Web interface issues

2009-08-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/17 Gabriel - IP Guys gabr...@impactteachers.com: When I run nagios –v nagios.config.file I get no errors, but if I do /etc/init.d/nagios restart – It fails. Where is the file nagios.config.file? Any idea why you're not using the usual standard nagios config file

Re: [Nagios-users] (Service Check Timed Out) returns critical

2009-08-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/17 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: Hello Users:  I believe this question has popped out before in the forum but I still have not seen any direct answer. I have some problems with a couple of checks that return (Service Check Timed Out) with a critical state. I would ike to know

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

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/13 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: I am monitoring bunch of vif which is served by one actual host.  Is it possible to achieve the following just by defining host/service definition host - A vif1.com has parent A vif2.com has parent B vif3.com has parent C I am checking the

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive Checks and state changes

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/13 Joseph L. Casale jcas...@activenetwerx.com: What am I missing, I use some passive checks for backups which update only when send_nsca runs on the client. After editing the configs and restarting nagios, only sometimes do they turn critical, as if it decided to perform the freshness

Re: [Nagios-users] windows updates thru check_nt

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/14 Trnka Tomas tomas.tr...@podravka.cz: Hello everyone , I want to check  updates on windows machine, i like to use check_nt , not nrpe. Please tell if you have any idea , thanks What do you mean when you say 'updates'?

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

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/12 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: Hello users: I would like to know what is the easiest way to detect when a failover occurs in an MSSQL cluster. I need a simple check that tells me when our database cluster fails from physical node X to node physical node Y Has anybody done

Re: [Nagios-users] windows updates thru check_nt

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/14 Trnka Tomas tomas.tr...@podravka.cz: I want to check  updates on windows machine, i like to use check_nt , not nrpe. Please tell if you have any idea , thanks What do you mean when you say 'updates'? Hello, i mean windows updates distributed by wsus or windows update web

Re: [Nagios-users] strange check interval behavior

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/14 rjustinwilli...@gmail.com: I have my normal_check_interval for a service set to 5. As I understand it, that is supposed to mean 5 minutes between checks. Usually, yes, but technically it just means 5 interval lengths between checks, where the interval length is set in the

Re: [Nagios-users] searching howto use snmp

2009-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/14 irado furioso com tudo ir...@vfemail.net: hi, all I found (google) lots of crypt information on how to query remote hosts about disk usage but none I can understand :( also, there are no search engine for previouos posts on the subject in older lists, so: can anyone point me

Re: [Nagios-users] Additional action_url or notes_url

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/10 Nicole Hähnel m...@nicole-haehnel.de: Hi, I'm running nagios 3.1.2. Is it possible to add a second action or notes url? Thanks! Nicole It isn't, no, but you can be a bit clever about it and write a wrapper script around the plugin which alters the plugin output text to include a

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios taking too long to start

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/7 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: Also, in another post Jim Avery mentioned the following.   innodb_flush_log_at_trx_commit = 2 What does innodb flush means when it comes to master-master replication between primary and secondary. Please advise on this.  Thanks I don't use MySQL

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable email notifications, keep all sound options

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/10 Brian br...@texnet.com: I've been using Nagios for 5 or 7 years, currently monitor 600 or 700 hosts/services on this host, with a few custom plugins for mysql (as an example), 3rd party plugins like Jboss JMX checks. Just installed nagios 3.1.2 from source, which is an upgrade from

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios sent alert to wrong contact

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/11 Seth Simmons ssimm...@cymfony.com: I have a service defined in my config that should send warning, critical, recovery to david, who is the only contact defined for that service. If I go in nagios to configuration – services, it shows that service and the contacts as being david and

Re: [Nagios-users] Error

2009-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/11 Jnaneshwar Bantanur jnaneshwar.banta...@kavach.net: Hi All I have configured nagios on Gentoo.Now when I try to remove the nagios by using command emerge -C  nagios Now whenever I want to want to

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with active web testing

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 Todd Nine t...@spidertracks.co.nz: Hi all,   I've been using nagios for a while, and we're needing to perform more active testing on our site than simply HTTP GET and POST operations.  I'm looking for a plugin to Nagios that can execute steps and report that assertions passed or

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade from 1.3 version to 3+

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 James Pratt jpr...@norwich.edu: First, I'd rebuild a new linux server to run it on and get the latest version running, even if it's only checking localhost and emailing me. Examine very closely *all* old config files, figure out your old installation and what checks will replace (if

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX with performance data

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 post...@weingaertner-ukro.de: I’m searching for NRPE-Plugins for Linux / AIX including Performance Data. Are there any plugins out there? I have found some modified for Windows but not for Linux. You'll find most of what you need on Monitoring Exchange. In particular for AIX 5.3,

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for AIX

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 Ales Rikovsky ales.rikov...@upol.cz: Please. Do exist any plugins for AIX performance (CPU, memory, disk usage...) measuring?  Thank you.          Ales Yes, you'll find various plugins for AIX on Monitoring Exchange. In particular you'll find nrpe and various compiled plugins

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade from 1.3 version to 3+

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/14 venu_vustipa...@readersdigest.com: Can anyone tell me the benifits/features in the Nagios version 3 when we compared to version 1.3. I'm too young to remember version 1.3! I know the latest version is always better but, Just trying to see if it's worth the effort. Where can I

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 - Migration to mysql

2009-05-14 Thread Jim Avery
I can't help wondering if you're running all your checks at 1-minute intervals? If you're not doing so already, you might like to consider running your less time-critical checks at 5-minute intervals or more. hth, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring hosts/services in seconds

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/12 Ales Rikovsky ales.rikov...@upol.cz: Is it possible to monitor  hosts/services in interval specified in second? Seems that interval could be given in minutes. Am I right or not? Or is there another way to monitor/be informed/have history of suspected switch, host or printer dropouts

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: hi

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/12 harish tyagi harishtyagi...@gmail.com: dear sir i am use the mutt command .i am receive the mail but nagios not send the mail .please send me the solution of nagios 3.0 Assuming it is possible to send an email through mutt using a script, you will need to modify your

[Nagios-users] bzipping Nagios archives (was: Monitoring hosts/services in seconds)

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/12 Ales Rikovsky ales.rikov...@upol.cz: I have to agree, but the reason is not to react so quickly, but to have host/service performance written in history. I have suspicion that same host has blackouts Anyway it maybe the goal for specialized switch monitoring software... You

Re: [Nagios-users] Understanding Nagios Setup

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/12 chethan@wipro.com: Dear All, I need some help on Understanding the Existing Nagios setup in one of our client system. a.    How to check what all plugins installed? Usually, plugins are found under /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ . If the Nagios system uses passive checks, you

Re: [Nagios-users] hostescalation and default contact_groups

2009-05-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/12 Sebastian Cabrera scabr...@portachtzig.de: Hi everybody, I just wanted to know if the following is expected behaviour: I created a hostescalation definition telling that a special contact group should be notified with the first notification and now the default contact_groups do not

Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle monitoring

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/11 chethan@wipro.com: Dear All, I have a Nagios setup. I need to monitor Oracle DB. Need to know what n all Nagios can monitor in Oracle and hw to configure the same. Waiting for some valuable suggestions. First place to look for plugins and so on is

Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle monitoring

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/11 chethan@wipro.com: Thanks Jim :) How do I go about next after installing the all the oracle plugins available on http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?d=1;... Please suggest. Briefly, the steps are as follows: First choose which plugins you think will be

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios mail problem

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/11 harish tyagi harishtyagi...@gmail.com: dear Sir i am use the nagios 3.0 and nagios plugin version is 1.4.7 all fuction is working but nagios not send the mail notification.please help me. Please read http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/notifications.html Check whether you can

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP4nagios-Implementing drraw

2009-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/11 mohanda...@tcs.com: Hi, I am currently working on drraw but i have been finding it very difficult to configure the same. So can anyone please help me to implement it. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, Mohandas Kudva K Mailto: mohanda...@tcs.com I doubt I've remembered

Re: [Nagios-users] Do you use IPMI with nagios?

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/8 Marco Borsani m.bors...@it.net: Hi all ! I am looking for a method to control many internal server entities like: -  Temperature -  Disks (how can we check them when are configured in Raid 1 or Raid 5 ??? ) -  Fan -  Power supply - 

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3 ACK author

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/8 Sven Wiedeck sven.wied...@wunderloop.com: Hi everybody, a few words before: - we're running a Nagios 3 installation - logins are disabled - everybody is nagiosadmin per default (only internally reachable) Now I'm searching for a possibility to force the users to enter their name

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Do you use IPMI with nagios?

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/8 Marco Borsani m.bors...@it.net: -- I configure the Dell OpenManage agent to send SNMP traps to the Nagios server, then use NagTrap to process them.  I'm not 100% sure if this will give you everything you are asking

Re: [Nagios-users] [OT] Network help?

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/8 Israel Brewster isr...@frontierflying.com: I apologize for the off-topic post, but I figure the people here tend to be involved with networking, so perhaps someone can direct me to the right place to post a question about some networking problems I am having. Any suggestions? If it's

Re: [Nagios-users] [OT] Network help?

2009-05-08 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/8 Israel Brewster isr...@frontierflying.com: We are going bald here tearing our hair out trying to figure out what could be causing this issue. Sabre technical support is no help - they just say it's our problem. Management is coming down on us pretty hard to get something working here,

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Service Dependencies

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/7 Dei Bertine deibert...@yahoo.com: Basic question guys: Which file do you normally place your service dependencies in? It stated here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html to place in objects cfg file which I thought placing it in my nagios.cfg But when I

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

2009-05-07 Thread Jim Avery
I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this yet... http://www.icinga.org/ I only noticed it myself when I visited Nagios Exchange today. Not being a developer myself, I'm not quite sure what to say or think, except that I'm continuously deeply grateful to everyone who bring us Nagios itself, and the

Re: [Nagios-users] Im confused about scheduled downtime and notifications

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/5 Frater, Greg J gjfra...@bechtel.com: Hi All, We've just migrated from Nagios 1 to 3.0.6.  I have a host that was in scheduled downtime and turned off.  I turned it back on, while still in scheduled downtime, and got a HOST UP alert for it.  Is this expected behavior?  Could I have a

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

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/5 Ken Tang kent...@berkeley.edu: I'd like to monitor a few user laptops in our environment.  They use wireless so they often get dynamic IP addresses.  Is there a way that Nagios can accept any connections, or, a range of addresses for a host? I don't have control of the DHCP server so

Re: [Nagios-users] Only hard status on tactical display?

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Divan Santana divan.sant...@gmail.com: Hi again... Sorry to bother all but surely someone has wanted to get the tactical display to only show hard status' and not soft errors. Yes indeed! Has anyone managed to get this to work? I haven't. Although the Nagios Checker plugin for

Re: [Nagios-users] checking host alive or service ping check

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Felipe Ferreira fferre...@osiatis.es: Hello all, What is the difference between checking a host is alive with a check in the host template (check_command check-host-alive), witch I have defined as a PING. And creating a ping service applied to the host ? I did a test with both

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Ayotunde Itayemi ayotunde.itay...@zain.com: I noticed also that all my graphs use the Default Template and the XML files for all of them have TEMPLATEcheck_nrpe/TEMPLATE. As these files are generated automatically, how do I get the SWAP graph to use the SWAP template? You'll notice

Re: [Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Mirza Dedic mi...@oppy.com: After some more trial and error, I got the command check fixed but there is still an issue. The command I am sending is: r...@van-nagios:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_nt -H van-mail01 -s xr1p71c -p 12779 -v COUNTER -l  MSExchangeIS

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk and CD/DVD in Solaris

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Andrew Davis ncc...@gmail.com: I have check_disk setup to do monitor all local disks so that I don't have to make edits everytime I add a new filesystem or mount point. Unfortunately, on Solaris, mounted CD's and DVD's show as local volumes and as 100% full. Unfortunately, check_disk

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Ayotunde Itayemi ayotunde.itay...@zain.com: Jim: The SWAP graph looks OK and I haven't noticed any changes in the other graphs (CPU, RAM, filesystems, PING, etc) - possibly because the check_nrpe defaults are the same as in the nwstat.cfg-sample file I created the check_nrpe.cfg

Re: [Nagios-users] PNP swap template HOWTO

2009-05-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/6 Tobias Klausmann klaus...@schwarzvogel.de: I did something else: I patched PNP so that it removes the check_nrpe! prefix if it's there, then does processing as usual. I've sent this (trival, four-line) patch to the PNP maintainer but never got an answer :/ Where would you stop

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios PNP4nagios reporting

2009-05-05 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/5 mohanda...@tcs.com: Hi All, I am using Nagios along with pnp4nagios/rrdtool for reporting/graph. I am able to view services dashboard for individual host. is it possible to view single graph for service/resource (i.e memory utilization) graph for all hosts/hostgroups ? as of

Re: [Nagios-users] Only one notification on Warning

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/4 John Andrunas j...@andrunas.net: Is it reasonably possible to make Nagios only send one notification when a host or service hits a warning, but continue sending notifications based on the notification_interval directive when it is critical? You can do this using service escalations

Re: [Nagios-users] Bug or feature?

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/4 Shon Elliott selli...@unwiredbb.com: Hi everyone, When scheduling downtime, it asks to put in comments in the box and select the time and what not. When you click submit, and it submits it for processing, it puts all this data into the event log, but after it's processed, the host

Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledgement after escalation, sends email to the escalation email?

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/5/4 Peter Doherty dohe...@crystal.harvard.edu: Hi all, Okay, here's the problem.  I set up nagios to send emails to our RT I believe you can control this mechanism best if you use an eventhandler. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html and check what macros might be

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-nagvis animated icon sets

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/29 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: Hello users: We currently use nagios and nagvis for the visualization of the state of our monitoring system. Nagvis is an excellent tool and allows us to have many different customized views. However the default iconsets in nagvis for showing

Re: [Nagios-users] Private Addreses

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/29 cr...@hooters-uk.com cr...@hooters-uk.com: Hi all, just a query this time on how I would achieve the following. We have an site that needs monitoring which has a broadband connection with a single IP address and 4 servers sitting behind it, 1 running Web, 1 running Mail and 1

Re: [Nagios-users] Audio Alert

2009-04-29 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/29 Eduardo Barreto lec...@gmail.com: Hi All, Try to use sms notification through Nagios, I've installed sms_client, but ain't got a clue on how to set it. What do I have to do to get notifications via sms? Are you able to send a message using sms_client from the command-line? If not

Re: [Nagios-users] User x Hostgroup

2009-04-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/27 Fernando - IT faugusto...@gmail.com:   Hi All,  Anyone knows how I can create a user for each hostgroup?  I need to create users with view right only, but each user can see only one hostgroup. I need do that for delegate some hostgroups. For example: Hostgroup_A can be seen

Re: [Nagios-users] Check Service at a specific time...

2009-04-28 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/28 Gavin Williams gavin.willi...@card.co.uk: HI there, I’ve got a requirement to run a service check at a specific time of day. This is to check a backup log and ensure they have run correctly… This check needs to be run at this time each and every day… I’ve had a look at all

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring temp - cheap and simple

2009-04-27 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/27 Tobias Exner tex...@eoipso.com: Hi list, I'm very new to nagios and I hope someone may give me an advice. I'm searching for a cheap solution to monitoring the temperatur of a room using an ip-sensor. Of course, it should be usable with existing plugin of nagios. Cheap is good

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple host service detail on one page

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/23 Nick Millen nick.mil...@connaught.plc.uk: Hi All, I was wondering if anybody had anything place to see multiple hosts services on one page. For example I'm monitoring 3 individual exchange servers. I can add these to a hostgroup then check each individually :

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios - layered monitoring:

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/24 Jones, Stuart stuart.jo...@health.wa.gov.au: I'm running Nagios 3.1 on Ubuntu 8.1 monitoring routers and switches. Has anyone come up with a methodology of limiting the alerts when say the primary router at a site fails impacting visibility to switches etc beyond the primary router?

Re: [Nagios-users] Looking for a plugin to check print spool queues on Windows 2003 server.

2009-04-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/23 Matthew Stier matthew.st...@us.fujitsu.com: I've adapted a Perl script to do a per-queue check of Solaris print server. I'd like to have the same functionality for my site's Windows 2003 print server. There seems to be a plethora of CPU and DISK plugins, but nothing as simple as

Re: [Nagios-users] Viewing problems of one type

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/22 Nick Urbanik ni...@nicku.org: Dear Folks, Thank you for a great monitoring system. We have nagios monitoring a large number of hosts (1646).  We want to be able to display problems of one type: specifically, the service is 'Web Certificates'; I would like to restrict the status

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios upgrade

2009-04-22 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/22 Anirudh Srinivasan srianir...@gmail.com: Hi Folks, The previous guy installed nagios using nagios-2.9 RPM and right now i am handling the nagios .The following was the nagios directory structure: configuration file     /etc/nagios nagios binary         /usr/bin/nagios log files    

Re: [Nagios-users] Setting up Host Groups in Nagios 2.x

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 Dei Bertine deibert...@yahoo.com: Thank you Jim. I was hoping to find a step by step direction on this other than the default documentation posted. I followed through but did not work which I'm unable to see the host group details in the admin page. I defined the host group under

Re: [Nagios-users] C++ Plugins

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/21 Christopher McAtackney crist...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm trying to develop a plug-in for NSClient++ written in C++, but I'm unsure of how to return the status code and the check result string (e.g. 2 and Service is Critical). Are there any examples of C++ plugins online anywhere

Re: [Nagios-users] Just installed Nagios - NRPE issue

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/21 Gabriel - IP Guys gabr...@impactteachers.com: Dear All, Thank you for taking the time to read this. I’ve just install Nagios 3.0.6 on one of my collocated boxes. Quick question, do I need to configure NRPE on the main Nagios box as well? Or will the current running Nagios process

Re: [Nagios-users] Changing check_http.c

2009-04-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/21 Andrew Davis ncc...@gmail.com: My checkcommands.cfg has an check_http entry that looks like this: # 'check_http' command definition define command{     command_name    check_http     command_line    $USER1$/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$     } My services.cfg has

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

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 Harry John irvine.har...@gmail.com: Hi How do we check concurrent users in a website? Is this possibble in nagios friends? THanks! If it's Microsoft IIS, you can query the performance counter for current connections using NSClient++. In my nsc.ini config, I have:

Re: [Nagios-users] Audio Alert

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 Eduardo Barreto lec...@gmail.com: I've already setted the audio alert, but I got a doubt. May I set it only for one host? The simple answer to your question is 'no'. You could maybe have a look at a firefox addon called NagiosChecker http://code.google.com/p/nagioschecker/ instead.  

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutil problem

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 kaouther mechri kmec...@gmail.com: Dear all, I need t install ndoutil 1.4b7 for my nagios 3. I've Msql-devel-5.1.33 I installed ndoutils with the following command ./configure --disable-pgsql --enable-mysql --with-mysql-lib=/usr/lib/mysql --with mysql-include=/usr/include/mysql

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 Eduardo Barreto lec...@gmail.com: Hi all! My monitor is sending notification through e-mail but I would like to set it to sending also sms, how can I configurate it? Should I use an app like sms-client? Yes, or if you are lazy like I am, you can send by email using an externally

Re: [Nagios-users] Setting up Host Groups in Nagios 2.x

2009-04-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/20 Dei Bertine deibert...@yahoo.com: Hi all, I was wondering if someone in here could point me to the right direction on how to properly set-up Host Groups in Nagios 2.x. Please kindly advise. Much appreciated! DB I guess the best page to start looking is:

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping gives host check timed out instead of packet loss.

2009-04-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/19 Gaurav Ghimire gau...@subisu.net.np: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I don't know if I am missing something here. But shouldn't the check_ping plugin give a 100% packet loss if the host is not reachable instead of  returning 'Host check timed out'. Yes this

Re: [Nagios-users] how can i define check-sequences ?

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/17 Hussayn Dabbous hussayn.dabb...@saxess.de: Hi; I have defined a set of ~40 independent (fully unrelated) Tests for a large set of Webapplications (using bash shell scripts). I need all Tests to be executed every morning between 6 am and 8 am. So i have defined an appropriate time

Re: [Nagios-users] how can i define check-sequences ?

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/18 Hussayn Dabbous hussayn.dabb...@saxess.de: But now i got one other problem, that is: Before a particular webapplication check can start, the associated host must be checked to be up. I'm not sure I understand why this is an issue. If the host is down, it is normal for Nagios still

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows plugins

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/18 mohanda...@tcs.com: Hi All, I am planing to monitor windows machine also using Nagios NRPE. I have installed windows NRPE on windows box and downloaded some available plugins also. all are working fine and I am able to do monitoring for windows machiness too.  but I want

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE - Event handler.

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/18 Lacayo, Luis F lflac...@cps.k12.il.us: Good Morning all... I have a question, that someone out there might be able to help me with. I want to setup an event handler, to restart a windows service if a service changes to an UNKNOW Status.  I am not sure of how to set this up on the

Re: [Nagios-users] contactgroups assgined to service groups

2009-04-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/18 Palle L Jensen pall...@gmail.com: Hello, Been searching the manual to see if it possible to assign a contact group to a service group, but not been able to find that it’s possible. Kinda like this: Define Servicegroup ( Servicegroup_name   uptime Alias       

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

2009-04-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/17 Jonathan Winch jwi...@aminocom.com: Hi, I have been running Nagios for while now to monitor the ~150 servers I look after.  Senior management have finally noticed what I have done and want to use Nagios to display the network status on a large display so anyone walking past the IT

Re: [Nagios-users] forcing a check script once every startup

2009-04-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/17 Marc Ismael marcism...@gmail.com: Hi, Is there any way for me to force an active check when nagios starts up? I don't need to execute this check at regular intervals, just once every nagios startup. Thanks, Marc Forgive me if I'm missing something here, but can you not just add

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce abr...@hope-st.ath.cx: Is it possible, in a service definition to tell the service to not check a group of hosts? For example, I have a hostgroup that contains some basic checks for every Windows server. But some of the servers are still on NT, so don't support a

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd errors in nagios.log

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/16 Martin A. Brooks mar...@antibodymx.net: Hi I've recently been seeing many of the following kind of errors appearing nagios.log: [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkSfWj1n' to '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cs7QqHJ': No such

Re: [Nagios-users] Still some basic 101 items

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/15 Lance Raymond lraym...@weatherflow.com: I'm not sure I should say sorry for the basic questions as this is what the group is for, but seeing some of the in depth questions... talk about an inferiority complex.   Well, I now can see how to debug the start (thanks Marc) and figured my

Re: [Nagios-users] No notifications while restarting any services on remote host

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/14 Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshri...@gmail.com: Hi, When i restart any services on the remote client For example tomcat application server running on port 8080. I dont get any notifications or alerts. Just want to understand the technique is it because of the normal_check_interval  5

Re: [Nagios-users] Business objects plugin

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/14 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com: Folks, Does anyone know if a plugin exists for Business Objects. We have a requirement to replicate end users and their use of Business Objects so that we can determine if they are receiving a service within their agreed SLA.

Re: [Nagios-users] downtime scheduling

2009-04-14 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/14 Anirudh Srinivasan srianir...@gmail.com: When we schedule a downtime for a host does it mean it automatically schedules a downtime for its services also? I remember when we were patching our servers , we scheduled downtime for the entire hostgroup by selecting schedule downtime for

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Dependency Config

2009-04-13 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/13 Nair vman...@rediffmail.com: Friends, I need to define mutal dependancy between two web services in different hosts. Define each as individual services in the usual way, then use Nagios Business Process Addons http://nagiosbp.projects.nagiosforge.org/ to define a service view which

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Dependency Config

2009-04-13 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/13 Nair vman...@rediffmail.com: Thanks you, Lei. But, I have two web servers in cluster. Webserver may be online in any one of the servers. So I have defined www services in web servers - host1 and host2. And dont need an alert when www is online in any one of the servers. Is there

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