Re: [Nagios-users] nagiosgraph for paging file

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/9 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com: Hello I've been using nagiosgraph for a while , and i am slowly adding new graphs to the nagios , now i am trying to add a graph for our windows based machines , to show the Page file use , this is what i have now now in my map file : #

Re: [Nagios-users] Pppnp4nagios graph customization

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/9 mohanda...@tcs.com: Hi All, We have installed nagios (3.0.5) on Solaris sparc box and configured rrdtool (1.2.19) along with pnp4nagios- npcd (0.4.13) for dashboard/graph. By default we are getting following graph for locolhost free swap. I want to configure  following

Re: [Nagios-users] nagiosgraph for paging file

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/9 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com: Jim Thanks for the advise , i will try it . My confusion is that i am able to get graphs from the check_nt for other checks : # Service type: ntdisk #   check command: check_nt -H Address -v USEDDISKSPACE -lc -w 75 -c 90 #   output: L: -

Re: [Nagios-users] Excluding a hostgroup from a service check

2009-04-09 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/9 Edward Trochim ejtroc...@alaska.edu: I have a service template that specifies several host groups and one host to check. One of the services that inherits this template should not be executed by one of the host groups defined. I read the object tricks documentation page and found that

Re: [Nagios-users] more than a variable in a pnp4nagios graph

2009-04-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/6 Sergio Ariel sergio.ar...@iris.uh.cu: I'm using pnp4nagios and now I need to graph more than a variable in the same graph. Somebody does know how to obtain that? You can use DRRAW http://web.taranis.org/drraw/ . I believe it can be done within PNP too, but I haven't tried it. This

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios: Adding Windows Servers to monitor

2009-04-07 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/6 Dei Bertine deibert...@yahoo.com: Thanks for the detailed explanation, Jim. So far I'm not getting a successful rate on adding my Windows server in Nagios. Followed detailed instructions in Nagios but still getting errors.

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios - view graph for disabled service

2009-04-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/4 Dhaval Thakar dhaval.tha...@networthdirect.com: Hi, I am using pnp4nagios to generate rrd graphs for all nagios hosts services. It is working fine for active services, If I am trying to view graph for disabled / removed service, graph is disabled. e.g I am monitoring traffic for

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Error: Could not find any host matching/Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts

2009-04-04 Thread Jim Avery
Error: Could not find any host matching 'win4503' Nagios has found an object which refers to a host called win4503, but can't find a host definition for it anywhere in your configuration files. Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service (config file

Re: [Nagios-users] Assigning Services to Hosts/Hostgroups

2009-04-03 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/3 Chris Pepper pep...@cbio.mskcc.org:        Thanks! It seems somewhat backwards to me that I cannot specify in the service directly, and this keeps tripping me up. A service is always uniquely identified by both the host name and the service description. If you keep that in mind,

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

2009-04-02 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/1 ben amar benamar.moha...@free.fr: How to configure Nagios to monitor the temperature of the server room? What plugin? I can't say I've tried it myself, but this one is advertised on www.nagios.org :- http://www.nagios.org/products/environmental/esensors/em01b.php hth, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with installation past the first host/switch/service

2009-04-02 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/2 John BORIS jbo...@adphila.org: I have nagios 3.x setup and installed on Fedora 10. Works fine but I only have 1 server, 1 switch, 1 printer, 1 windows server setup. How do you add more of the same type? The instructions (all that I could find) say Do this for the first one but then

Re: [Nagios-users] Internet speed

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/30 Idriss ARABBAJ arab...@gmail.com: Hi all, I want to know the  Internet speed on my network, there is already a plugin of that? You'll find some plugins which might be useful to you (depending on what your equipment is and whether you can query it using SNMP) at

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring applications through NSCA

2009-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/30 Kumar, Ashish xml.de...@gmail.com: Hello, I am planning to move application/process monitoring setup from active to passive monitoring. I read http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/contrib/documentation/misc/NSCA_Setup.pdf but it doesn't really help on how to setup scripts and

Re: [Nagios-users] NDO update delay

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/26 Rodney Ramos rodne...@gmail.com: Hi everybody. I´ve installed NDOUtils (nodutils-1.4b7) whith Nagios (nagios-3.0.6) and it´s working. However I´ve noticed that it´s taking more than 30 minutes to update the MySQL tables. I´ve detected the problem making a query on the field

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios customization question...

2009-03-26 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/26 michael.washing...@fitchratings.com: The gurus have asked me to include the following scripting in our branch office Nagios server configuration in order to monitor a remote co-location site DNS server .   I understand how/where to include the host/service/contact/command

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and MySQL

2009-03-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/25 Mark Weaver mwea...@compinfosystems.com: Hi List, I was wondering if anyone has connected their standard Nagios installation up to a MySQL backend? Yes, NDOUtils. I'm looking at this from a purely disaster recovery aspect. It's easy enough to backup the configuration, but the data

Re: [Nagios-users] how to do check_command argument with space

2009-03-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/24 shadih rahman shadhi...@gmail.com: can someone please show me how to do check command with space.  So one of the argument will have space.  Thanks check_command   check_https_reverse!/cms/enter.cfm!courseworks!error occurred I normally just put it in quotes like so:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios with Trouble Ticket system or Managment System integration

2009-03-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/23 Florence Luk lukk...@netvigator.com: Dear all, I am new to Nagios and now my company want to try let Nagios to integrate with our new Service Desk system (Management System). For this project our aim is to inject Nagios's alert message to Service Desk system and it can create a

Re: [Nagios-users] Example setups for a newbie

2009-03-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/23 Fredrik Rambris fredrik.ramb...@it.cdon.com: Hi! I'm relatively new to Nagios but for a number of reasons we want to migrate away from Hobbit. I've read the manual, read some of the book Nagios 3 Enterprise Network Monitoring, setup most of our hosts and some services but I cannot

Re: [Nagios-users] Difference between % Total Time and % Known Time

2009-03-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/21 Ayotunde Itayemi ayotunde.itay...@zain.com: Hi All, Please what’s the difference between % Total Time and % Known Time on the NAGIOS interface (availability etc)? I could be completely wrong, but I've always thought total time includes the time even before you started monitoring.

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration Insanity: Multiple site configurations

2009-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/20 Mark Weaver mwea...@compinfosystems.com: Hi All, I've got an insane problem that is driving me crazy and there doesn't seem to be any logical reason for it. I've attached the pertinent information concerning the insanity. I'd really appreciate it if someone could help make sense of

Re: [Nagios-users] Need high frequency ping checks

2009-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/20 Todd Blum to...@mbsnetinc.com: Hello,     At my organization, our monitoring requirements for our client's WAN interfaces is to ping them once per second. That begs the question - why do they want to ping them once per second? If it is because they want to know the very instant

Re: [Nagios-users] pnp4nagios or nagiosgraph?

2009-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/20 Sergio Ariel sergio.ar...@iris.uh.cu: I wanna to graph plugin output. What do I should install? pnp4nagios or you could install nagiosgraph :-) I use pnp4nagios myself. -- Apps built with the Adobe(R)

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring remote networks

2009-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/19 Mark Weaver mwea...@compinfosystems.com: Hi Jim, There's the rub... they're not remote or child branches of the same company or parent. These are separate entities. Actively monitoring the router is like falling out of bed, however there is a single IP for that remote client router

Re: [Nagios-users] blank perfdata: not parsing macros

2009-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/19 M P r...@eyesopen.org: Just wanted to update the mailing list on how this was fixed. Thanks for the cautionary tale. I'm glad you found it so quickly. That kind of thing can be stared at for weeks before being found out. Cheers, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] blank perfdata: not parsing macros

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 M P r...@eyesopen.org: Hi, I have nagios3 running (installed via apt-get on Debian). Everything worked pretty well until I tried to add graphing support. As described in numerous how-tos, I added the following to nagios.cfg: ... What kind of graphing support are you trying to

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring remote networks

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/18 Mark Weaver mwea...@compinfosystems.com: Hi All, I'm running Nagios 3 on a CentOS 4.7 server. I've got it monitoring other windows and linux servers on the LAN as well as all the Windows Desktops, both XP Pro and Vista. All runs very well, however now I've got to take the next

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-SNMP

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/18 Joseph Ribin Roy ribin@mformation.com: Any feedback or other ways of integrating of Nagios-SNMP will be grateful. I use NagTrap. It's probably not everyone's cup of tea but is easy to install and maintain (compared with the scripts I used before anyway). http://nagtrap.org

Re: [Nagios-users] blank perfdata: not parsing macros

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/18 M P r...@eyesopen.org: Other than compiling from source, any other tips? I would suggest you try PNP4Nagios, but again if you installed Nagios from repositories you're going to find it more difficult to get it working than if you installed it from source. Cheers, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Circular Map setup

2009-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/18 Albrecht Dreß albrecht.dr...@arcor.de: Hi all, I use Nagios to monitor several servers, redundant switches, and Windows PC's and printers.  Works perfectly, except for the circular status map...  The problem is that the icons of the components in the outer ring are overlapping (see

Re: [Nagios-users] Test SMS

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 Simon Kainz simon.ka...@tugraz.at: Hi! I usually setup a service as normal, including sms notification. Then T simply submit as many CRITICAL PASSIVE service results as necessary, to make the service CRITICAL, ususally 3. Do this quickly, so Nagios has no time to recognize the

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring IBM server-hardware (x3650) running Windows

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/16 Klaus Umbach treibh...@sozial-inkompetent.de: I can't see anything via SNMP that makes sense and the IBM Director Agents sends no traps if a drive fails. The IBM Director server can be configured to send traps, and I believe if it's set up properly it will notify for failed disks

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped working : process running, no errors, but nothing in the web server

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 Toussaint OTTAVI t.ott...@medi.fr: Hi, I've been running Nagios for months, without any problem. Today, I tried to restart it, as I do each time I do a change in the config files. But it does not want to work anymore ! - Web server always displays Error: Could not read host and

Re: [Nagios-users] Decrease service check time

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 Brandon Munger bmun...@edison.edu: Hi Everyone... I need to have the service checks happen more often.  It seems to only check about 10-15 minutes and that isn't very useful.  I have seen some options but what is the best way to check more often?  Thanks! Brandon Change

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped working : process running, no errors, but nothing in the web server

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 Toussaint OTTAVI t.ott...@medi.fr: As far as I remember, I installed MySQL and NDOUtils to test the NagVis extension. But it was just a test, and I don't use it. So, maybe I could disable NDO completely. Are there any good reasons for me to use NDO (Other than writing my own software

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped working : process running, no errors, but nothing in the web server

2009-03-17 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/17 Toussaint OTTAVI t.ott...@medi.fr: Then, I'll investigate further how NDO and MySQL work... And, maybe, I'll offer a new server with decent performance to my Nagios (in replacement of the good old hp Proliant of 8 years old...) Marc DeTrano from Gridshield recently contributed an

Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks instead of service checks

2009-03-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/16 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com: Hi Folks, Currently, the main nagios box (running old version of SuSE) and Nagios 2.0b4 is running just with service checks, one of which is an ssh check (we don't allow ping) So in the web interface, I see all hosts as up. However,

Re: [Nagios-users] Host checks instead of service checks

2009-03-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/16 Deborah Martin deborah.mar...@kognitio.com: So on changing the ssh check  from a service to a host definition (to prevent PENDING on the hosts), the pre-flight warnings now complain there are no services associated with the hosts. On big systems here (100 nodes+) this makes the

Re: [Nagios-users] WMI's

2009-03-13 Thread Jim Avery
The learning curve is indeed steep at first. I found the book Nagios by Wolfgang Barth invaluable in flattening that curve. http://nostarch.com/nagios_2e.htm It's available as a .pdf download or in traditional book form. I'm not sure the book would answer your original question in this thread

Re: [Nagios-users] snmptt and nagios, access to nagios.cmd file

2009-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/12 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: They look like this: For nagios.cmd prw-rw 1 nagios nagcmd    0 2009-03-11 18:53 nagios.cmd for the rw catalog: drwxrwsr-x  2 nagios nagcmd   4096 2009-03-11 18:14 rw Please let me know if something looks obviously wrong. No, those

Re: [Nagios-users] snmptt and nagios, access to nagios.cmd file

2009-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
p.s. I'd be interested to know what instructions you followed to get your method working? I moved to using NagTrap because I found that maintaining the submit_check_result script was rather time-consuming, but if things have moved on a bit since I last set mine up I'd be interested to see if

Re: [Nagios-users] Need a daily report plugin

2009-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/12 Max Alex max.aster...@gmail.com: Hi All, I have installed and configured nagios on my linux server, It is working fine, I need a daily base report of the system, I need a report for the all services which is running in nagios per day by email. Can anybody suggest the plugin for

Re: [Nagios-users] snmptt and nagios, access to nagios.cmd file

2009-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/12 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: Hello Jim: Thank you very much for the help, after changing the last line in the submit_check_result script from the default of: `$echocmd $cmdline $CommandFile` to: sg nagiocmd -c echo '$cmdline' $CommandFile everything works fine. As

Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms to mobile phone using Nagios

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 tsedendorj oyunbat t_oyun...@yahoo.com: I'm new one in Nagios system. I work in mobile cellular operator company. And I need to know is there any chance to get notification alert via sms to my mobile phone when BSC or HLR equipments go down or stop working? Is there any

Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledge problem

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 Marco Borsani m.bors...@it.net: Hi all. Last night we acknowledge a warning status over a check_nt service about a disk space controll (using nsclient++). After approximately an hour we received another warning notification ?!?! Normally the acknowledgment procedure works

Re: [Nagios-users] nsclient++ and network counters

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com: Hello List i must admit - my understanding of Windows is limited , now i need to find a way to monitor network usage on a windows machine , i tried the snmp route and got to the understanding ( from googling the subject ) that the way MS

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Acknowledge problem

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 Marco Borsani m.bors...@it.net: I did it. In the period : - 1st warning notification - acknowledge notification - 2nd warning notification Nothing happened regarding the service status, no changes (always warning). I see that Nagios was reloaded few minutes before the 2nd

Re: [Nagios-users] showing critical problems and host downs

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 rko...@gmail.com: Folks, I am almost done with creating a NOC using Nagios as it's primary event issue engine. however, one of the last things I have on my task list I have not been able to figure out! I want to be able to show my unacknowledged critical problems AND unacknowledged

Re: [Nagios-users] snmptt and nagios, access to nagios.cmd file

2009-03-11 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/11 Marco Tirado marco.tir...@gmail.com: My snmptt.conf file for the trap I am testing looks like: EVENT ospfOriginateLsa .1.3.6.1.2.1.14.16.2.0.12 Status Events Normal FORMAT $D. $Fn VARIABLE VALUES: $-* EXEC /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/submit_check_result myhost

Re: [Nagios-users] Web server behind firewall,

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/10 Mohammad Ammad Shah mammads...@hotmail.com: i wan to monitor a webserver, its behind the IPS. when i try to monitor using nagios check_http, nagios alerts me host down. can any one help. this is my client Server, and i want to check apache/jboss and need to restart if service is

Re: [Nagios-users] A group of Nagios users are:

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/9 Martyn mar...@chetnet.co.uk: Just on a lighter note, what do we call a bunch of Nagios users; Nagiothions? A contactgroup. :-P -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Windows hosts...

2009-03-10 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/10 Andrew Davis ncc...@gmail.com: What are your opinions of the best combination to A) get the best overall support Be prepared to learn, contribute and if necessary pay. and B) have the least impact/installation on a Windows server? SNMP (probably not compatible with A though). I

Re: [Nagios-users] check_local_disk basic question

2009-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/5 Lance Raymond lraym...@weatherflow.com: Still new to it, but so far things are good.  I have added a remote host, monitoring load via snmp successfully, but my old alarm keeps tripping due to disk space. df -h shows; Filesystem       Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /fs here        

Re: [Nagios-users] Ndoutils MySQL performance problem?

2009-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/4 Marc DeTrano m...@gridshield.net: 2009/3/3 Livio Zanol Puppim livio.zanol.pup...@gmail.com: I'm no expert at MySQL performance, but we found a couple of things that helped speed up NDO significantly: -We are using a my.cnf based on the my-innodb-heavy-4G.cnf example that comes with

Re: [Nagios-users] 2-D map question..

2009-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/6 matt wells phan...@gmail.com: I've not found a good tool to draw the 2d map yet so I'm taking any suggestions.. Also the 2d map as it is now looks pretty cool but I have some icons for my systems.  Is there a way to have the boxes that hold the icons auto-size so they at least stop

Re: [Nagios-users] alternative Status Map?

2009-03-05 Thread Jim Avery
Note that NagVis now also has an automap feature which I confess I don't really use, but if your network topology lends itself to that sort of map it could save you a whole load of effort dragging icons around the screen. Another one well worth looking at is NExSM. It can be a bit of a mare to

Re: [Nagios-users] Need to monitor Solaris 10 and am new to Nagios

2009-03-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/27 syed jafar syed_ja...@hotmail.com: I am new to Nagios and would like to monitor Solaris 10 systems (CPU, Disk, ...etc). Nagios server/host is running Redhat LINUX. Could someone let me know step by step process what to do. I have been told that it's kinda dfficult to monitor

Re: [Nagios-users] radius checks

2009-03-04 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/4 Jason Frisvold frisv...@lafayette.edu: Hi all,        I'm at wits end here trying to figure out how to monitor radius with nagios.  I have tried multiple plugins, but all to no avail.        I tried the check_radius plugin that ships with nagios-plugins, but I kept getting Auth

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios do not send hosts notifications

2009-03-03 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/3 Shimon Weinreich shi...@openu.ac.il: Hello, I run Nagios version 3.0.3 on Linux. I have a strange problem. I don’t get any notifications When hosts went down but notifications is working OK for services. Any hint ?? There are various options in the host definition which determine

Re: [Nagios-users] Connection refused question

2009-03-02 Thread Jim Avery
Note that most plugins can be executed from the shell prompt with a --help option. For example: $ /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http --help will tell you what all the possible options are for this plugin, including how to check a particular port number. It's usually best to make sure

Re: [Nagios-users] Alert History seems empty

2009-03-02 Thread Jim Avery
2009/3/2 Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com: If I try View Alert History for this Service I seem to get an error No history information was found for this this service in the current log file The file that it reports File: /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log is indeed correctly present. What else

Re: [Nagios-users] View options for hosts and services

2009-02-26 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/26 Tim Kotterlink t_kotterl...@hotmail.com: Hi all, I have got a problem with my Nagios configuration and hope somebody can help me. I have got 2 different users. The first one is admin-account and the second one is view-account. The configuration for the cgi's is no problem and

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++.exe problem occupy more and more memory !!

2009-02-25 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/25 7up8down 78656...@qq.com: hi all I use NSClient++-Win32(NSClient++-Win32-0.3.5) to monitor three Windows OS servers. I can see  all services are OK in Nagios server. but I find that  NSClient++.exe occupy more and more memory very slowly in all three server. (by Windows task

Re: [Nagios-users] graphing trends across hosts or services instead of a timeseries

2009-02-24 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/23 Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com: Thanks for the pointer. I just looked up ddraw and it does look promising. Do you think you can share some of your ddraw configs with me? Or maybe if you had any other notes. No problem. Note that I'm running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server and have installed

Re: [Nagios-users] graphing trends across hosts or services instead of a timeseries

2009-02-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/12 Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com: One other thing that I haven't figured out yet with PNP-NAGIOS is this: How does one get trending across services or hosts? i.e. It is easy to see time series graphs of pingtimes, load averages disk usages etc. but sometimes what seems more relevant is

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Checks

2009-02-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/20 Alex Dehaini alexdeha...@gmail.com: Hi Guys, I have about 200 hosts and 400 services. My sys spec is about P4 2.4 Ghz and 2Gb of RAM. I want to check each service every 20 seconds and update the CGI interface. Any clues how I can achieve this? See

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios configuration for SAN monitoring

2009-02-23 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/21 Sonika Sachdeva replyson...@gmail.com: Hello List, I have nagios basic configuration up and running as per the quickstart guide. I also have SNMP4nagios installed and running and the command works from the command line as follows /usr/local/bin/check_brocade_port -H x.x.x.x -C

Re: [Nagios-users] Greetings. Anyone using Oracle Grid Control to send alert data into Nagios?

2009-02-22 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/19 jim.me...@co.hennepin.mn.us: I'm looking to have Oracle grid control send alert data into Nagios. Thus far I've only been doing things via NRPE, as it's a fairly small monitoring structure. I was wondering if anyone was interfacing to Oracle grid control, what information you

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.6 Fails to play sound in browser!

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/1/9 faris farisli...@yahoo.com: Hi, I am using Nagios 3.0.6 OS : RHEL4 Update 4 Problem: after configuring nagios and when accessing it from a client mechine (winXP) firefox or IE browser, nagios fails to play sound when there is an alert. but if i degrade nagios to a nagios version

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils and Nagios startup speed

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/1/29 Mathieu Gagné mga...@iweb.com: One way to speed up Nagios start when using NDOutils is to tweak event_broker_options. Here is my new configuration, based on constants defined in include/broker.h: # BROKER_EVERYTHING 1048575 # -BROKER_TIMED_EVENTS 2 #

Re: [Nagios-users] added PNP in the default mode; how serious is the performance degradation to warrant a switch to the bulk mode?

2009-02-21 Thread Jim Avery
2009/2/5 Rahul Nabar rpna...@gmail.com: So, I finally succeed in configuring PNP for Nagios (whew!!)! It's been a long bloody battle but I think I eventually won! :) I've just added PNP performance graphs to my 4-switches for now. Am a bit hesistant about adding it to all my 300 hosts due to

Re: [Nagios-users] New Plugins for Windows systems

2008-03-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/03/2008, Sauter, Thorsten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello nagios users, I have writte some checkripts to monitor windows systems. I think some of these scripts could be helpful for other Nagios users too. For this readon I have published my scripts on sourceforge.org

Re: [Nagios-users] Announce: NSClient++ 0.3.1 Windows agent

2008-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 12/03/2008, Michael Medin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Just realized I haven't posted any release notices to this list in a few years so I figured it was about time :) Very many thanks for doing so. NSClient++ 0.2.7 has been extremely useful to us. I'll look forward to trying 0.3.1

Re: [Nagios-users] Unwanted re-notifications

2008-03-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 17/03/2008, Israel Brewster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a service that keeps sending me notifications of the fact that it is critical every half hour or so, even though the notification interval for the service is set to zero. That's strange. It could be that the nagios daemon didn't

Re: [Nagios-users] Unreachable Hosts

2007-08-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 18/08/07, song loesprite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi.I have some unreachable hosts when using ping command. When nagios checks one of their status with the check-host-alive command(actually it is Ping command), it returns a critical status. But the service provided by that host may be

Re: [Nagios-users] Opinion Sought... Essential Nagios 3rd Party Apps.

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16/08/07, Chris Stankaitis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like some opinions of what the must have 3rd party apps are for nagios ... The one I would always install is PNP http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en for graphing performance information. It's a doddle to install and use

Re: [Nagios-users] How do I check the services on remote machines

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16/08/07, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a look at NRPE. I prefer to use NSCA myself, but there are pros and cons to both. As ever, you decide! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk

Re: [Nagios-users] How do I check the services on remote machines

2007-08-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16/08/07, Donnell Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally like the most secure way which is by using the check_by_ssh plugin Is check_by_ssh more secure than nsca? I'd have thought nsca was more secure as no ports need to be 'open' on the server being monitored. I'm ready to stand

Re: [Nagios-users] Handle unknown host in PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT

2007-08-14 Thread Jim Avery
On 14/08/07, Paul Dugas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Per an earlier suggestion from the mailing-list (thanks!), I have a default SNMP trap handler setup to send a PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT command for the TRAP service for the IP of the device that sent the trap. In some cases, the TRAP service

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices?

2007-08-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13/08/07, Steve Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon installation; however, setting up Nagios has been more difficult than I had expected, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way. Can you recommend a Nagios best

Re: [Nagios-users] [nagios-users] load and size of log

2007-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12/08/07, ko0nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i'd like to have informations about monitoring: the load, the memory, the cpu... it's just for some 20 servers. i use a Debian. is it possible that Nagios works fine with just 20 Go of space hard disk, 256 Mo of RAM, with Core Duo that i use

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and MRTG: together at last?

2007-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11/08/07, Kelly Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nagios and MRTG seem to perform similar (though not identical) functions, and it seems silly to run both. Indeed. I found PNP works for me - http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en so I haven't tried any of the other popular

Re: [Nagios-users] passive service checks with 1 second interval

2007-08-10 Thread Jim Avery
On 10/08/07, Risto Vaarandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to speed up the processing of CRITICAL service checks? I'd like to get a notification within the same second. br, risto I think I would script something only to write to the command file only if the state changes or once a

Re: [Nagios-users] installation question

2007-08-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/08/07, Samuel V. Green III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there another way I can rename these sample files? Yes. I wouldn't rename them though because they are useful to refer back to if you mess up your config files. I would copy them instead, for example: sudo -s cd /opt/local/etc cp

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-08-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/07/07, Jim Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having a similar problem and have thought about the solution but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Mark Powell's suggestion to rely on the service check notification is absolutely right when you want to ignore brief bounces

Re: [Nagios-users] Trap Handling Scheme

2007-08-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 06/08/07, Paul Dugas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about all the other pending doom traps the UPS can send? Temperatures, bad batteries, etc.? Do I have a corresponding service for every one and manually clear them when they fire? Or, could I have a single generic TRAP service that logged

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30/07/07, Lalita Drolia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Setting up downtime will not be possible. As our servers our being used by individual users for testing purposes. And they may reboot the machine in the normal process of their working. Asking them to schedule a downtime would add overhead

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp to monitor temperature probes

2007-07-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 29/07/07, Patel, H (Hiten) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to implement monitoring for the set of temperature probes using snmp. I've issued the following command: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -H IPADDRESS -o .oid -w 27 -c 28 -C public And got: SNMP OK - 22 |

Re: [Nagios-users] Netsaint monitoring windows issue

2007-07-27 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/07/07, Anthony Montibello [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if anyone ever responded to this I don't recall seeing it either, but now you come to mention it there is sometimes a problem if the Windows server is running MS-Exchange server which also sometimes uses port 1248. Using NC_Net,

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Jim Avery
I've been having a similar problem and have thought about the solution but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Mark Powell's suggestion to rely on the service check notification is absolutely right when you want to ignore brief bounces or lost pings. I'm going to do just that, but I

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 23/07/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: True, NC_NET includes its own client version - I just can't figure out how to get that to run on my Linux Nagios box. :-) You can just replace the standard check_nt.c source file with the new one which comes with nc_net before

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Progress Databases

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 23/07/07, Mies, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christian Mies schrieb am 23.07.2007 11:26 Hi List, has anybody experience in Monitoring Progress Databases? If I see it correctly Progress DBs are only Files, that have a fix Filesize and some Logfiles. Is it right? Or is there a

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Progress Databases

2007-07-24 Thread Jim Avery
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Re: [Nagios-users] Get Notification for some services _only_ per E-Mail and others per E-Mail and SMS

2007-07-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 19/07/07, Thomas Glanzmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, how is it possible to tell nagios that I want notification for some services only via e-mail and for others both per e-mail and sms? Set up each user with two separate contact definitions, for example Thomas-Glanzman-email and

Re: [Nagios-users] Solaris 10/x86 HowTo

2007-07-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16/07/07, Stephan Windmüller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! Since I ran into multiple issues installing Nagios on my Solaris machine, I wrote a howto which could help others with the same problems: http://ls5-www.cs.uni-dortmund.de/~windmueller/nagios-solaris10.html I am not a native

Re: [Nagios-users] checking file status

2007-07-14 Thread Jim Avery
On 13/07/07, Robert Fitzpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We'd like to monitor the status of our huge file share and be notified of any major changes if a rogue employee were to empty or delete the files. Maybe set a threshold of number of files changed? Is there any suggestions on how this

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting Nagiosgraph to create RRD files with LAST/MAX/MIN CF's

2007-07-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13/07/07, Ian Marlier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Is there a better tool than nagiosgraph for doing what I'm doing (creating RRD files from service-perfdata files), especially given that I'm not particularly interested in nagiosgraph's actual graphing ability? I don't know if it's better or

Re: [Nagios-users] mass check_smtp a large range of mail servers?

2007-07-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/07/07, Rogelio Bastardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have approximately 30 mail servers, and rather than writing a separate define service for each one in my cfg file, is there a way that I can add them all to a group and then just check that group? Yes. The documentation is at

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios solution

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 06/07/07, bolovan bogdan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I am in a dillema , I have to monitor a massive network of vpn hosts, ( most of them Cisco CPE routers ) , and all I really need is availability polling. The problem is that active host checking became really sluggish after 500

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios solution

2007-07-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 06/07/07, Rev. Dr. Aaron M. Segura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could make the host check a 'ping' (not active), and assign a single (active) 'ping' service to each host. That way when the service fails, the host is checked, and then the status of the host will change. I'm sorry to have

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