Re: [Nagios-users] PNP

2007-06-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/06/07, Jerad Riggin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the PNP stuff setup so I can create some graphs for the disk usage of my servers. I have it installed and configured correctly as far as I can tell. However, no performance data is being generated in the perfdata folder.

Re: [Nagios-users] Soft critical state and sound alarms

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20/06/07, S-linuxale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Dear, I've a question on how avoid that my Nagios System avoid to play the sound when it is on an attempt 1/4 or 2/4. What I like would be that Nagios play the sound only when definitively the process was down ( after 4/4 ). And

Re: [Nagios-users] new install

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Avery
The way Ubuntu works (which is a little different from other versions of Unix/Linux) is that you don't have a root account. If you want to do anything as root in a terminal session, you need to use the 'sudo' command. One site useful for getting started with Ubuntu is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios inventory

2007-06-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 16/06/07, Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SELECT DISTINCT * FROM ... weeds out the doubles Jo Excellent. Thanks Jo. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2

Re: [Nagios-users] host-down notification can take 50 mins to be sent

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, stucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys I'm trying the latest stable 2.x version (2.9) and on top of the 2 already existing default host templates I added a 3rd one since the documentation states that there is no limit. I added a host and started monitoring. When I took it down it

Re: [Nagios-users] host-down notification can take 50 mins to be sent

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, stucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, flapping is turned off globally in nagios.cfg and although it's still turned on in the host template it shouldn't matter right ? No, my understanding is that the global setting overrides everything else (I've never turned it off globally

Re: [Nagios-users] Help optimizing nagios for when things go wrong

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, George Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm having a big problem with nagios service check latencies. What do you use for your host check command? You want to use something which runs as quickly as possible. I use check_icmp with only one ping. I believe check_fping is

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios inventory

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, Jesús Oliván [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! i'm looking for some kind of Nagios plugin that allows to do inventory from a Nagios installation... is it possible? Thanks in advance! If you run ndoutils then you can query the MySQL database using SQL. Admittedly whenever I've tried

Re: [Nagios-users] host-down notification can take 50 mins to be sent

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, stucky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim I'm confused 1. Nagios 2.9 comes with flapping turned off globally by default : # Values: 1 = enable flap detection # 0 = disable flap detection (default) enable_flap_detection=0 2. It also comes with

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios inventory

2007-06-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/06/07, Naim Abu Darwish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe its not you, I'm having the same problem too, hosts and services listed twice. That's reassuring to know! fwiw, I cheat and pipe the output through sort -u to get rid of the duplicates. thanks, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] AIX NRPE v2.5.1

2007-06-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 11/06/07, Steven Fishback [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea as to the problem? Not to the problem, no. As to the solution, is nrpe for AIX available on nagiosexchange.org? I've certainly downloaded nsca and the plugins from there most of which work fine on 5.3. I don't use nrpe myself.

Re: [Nagios-users] R: sensor temperature

2007-06-13 Thread Jim Avery
I haven't tried these myself yet. http://www.audon.co.uk/1wire_humidity.html They look promising though. - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios end-user interfaces

2007-06-08 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/06/07, Michael W. Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to offer Nagios information to end users without granting them access to the CGIs. Ideally, I don't want users to even know that the CGIs exist. The users need a bank of green/red lights and a network map. Have a look at Nagvis:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios box latancy + tuning

2007-06-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 04/06/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having one heck of a time trying to get my service checks to be something reasonable. They are 60 seconds or less for a few minutes after starting nagios, then the service latency increases to 80 seconds or higher (usually if left go, it

Re: [Nagios-users] how to unsubscribe????

2007-06-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 02/06/07, Aidan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Go to https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users Go to the bottom of the page to the section headed Nagios-users Subscribers and follow the instructions for unsubscribing. You'll need your password. It's even easier than

Re: [Nagios-users] Notificatiosn - best common practice

2007-05-31 Thread Jim Avery
During working hours, most notifications go to the service desk. It's up to them to make sure they get routed to the right people. Outside normal hours, only issues which can't wait until the morning get notified to the on-call team. That's just my take on it :-) Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] requirements to use check_oracle in my nagios server

2007-05-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30/05/07, Luis Gardea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have tnsping in nagios PATH [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# find / -name tnsping /home/oracle/oracle/product/10.2.0/client_3/bin/tnsping [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# exit exit [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ echo $PATH

Re: [Nagios-users] Best Place to Keep Our Plug-ins

2007-05-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30/05/07, adi yesaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nagiosers, Im curious about this thing: Where is the best place to keep our home-made plug-ins ? Any ideas? Thanks for sharing, Adi Yesaya On your remote systems. Passive checks are best! :-)

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios site down

2007-05-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 28/05/07, James Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd say in classic IT style that someone scheduled a change on Memorial Day weekend, didn't test and then went away. Wouldn't be the first time... According to the blurb at the bottom of the page it was Last modified: Monday May 28th, 2007

Re: [Nagios-users] requirements to use check_oracle in my nagios server

2007-05-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/05/07, Luis Gardea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Oracle client installed and configured. In my CLI's oracle user, works very well, but when a put in my Nagios GUI with user and group NAGIOS a recived this messages with user oracle [EMAIL PROTECTED] libexec]$ ./check_oracle --tns

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios site down

2007-05-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28/05/07, James Turnbull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Nagios website seems to have died: Seems fine now. :-) - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and

Re: [Nagios-users] Increasing Nagios performance

2007-05-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/05/07, magic_rooter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody! Thank you very much for your assistance!! You helped me a lot!! Nagios performance increased! Now all my 2160 check performed on 5 min instead of 15 min! It is interesting can I increase it to 1 min?May be there are any other

Re: [Nagios-users] One defined service for all hosts

2007-05-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/05/07, Patryk Lasoń [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it possible to define a service check for a hostgroup? I have 100 nodes in cluster and would like to define sth like this: define hostgroup{ hostgroup wns members wn1-wn100 } define service{ hostgroup

Re: [Nagios-users] Unusual request....

2007-05-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/05/07, Lacayo, Luis F [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was asked by one of my users to see if there is a way that NAGIOS can check to see if a certain file was updated with in the last 10 minutes, and it is not updated then to issue an alert. Is there a plugging for NAGIOS to handle this? If

Re: [Nagios-users] Increasing Nagios performance on multiprocessor server

2007-05-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24/05/07, magic_rooter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... But I think that Nagios can work faster. What directives I must change? May be by setting service_inter_check_delay_method=d and host_inter_check_delay_method=d? In my experience the first thing to change (if you haven't done so already)

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Increasing Nagios performance on multiprocessorserver

2007-05-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24/05/07, Marco Borsani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree about check_icmp, but when I replaced check_ping with check_icmp inside checkcommands.cfg file for command check-host-alive I received many errors like: (No output!) I think that kind of thing I think is usuall down to permissions.

Re: [Nagios-users] Trending in Nagios

2007-05-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23/05/07, Rajagopal, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you do trending in nagios ? http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en there are various other tools; that one happens to be my favourite as it's very easy to set up and use. hth, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs

2007-05-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 17/05/07, Palle Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for all help! The different graphs, PNP, MRTG do they store the perf. data in a database or logfile? See http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/perfdata.html Put simply, recording of performance data is optional - if you want to use

Re: [Nagios-users] requirements to use check_oracle in my nagios server

2007-05-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15/05/07, Luis Gardea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI I need know, what are the requirements to use check_oracle in my nagios server. I guess so that I must install the oracle client for linux. You need an Oracle client installed and configured to be able to access your databases. Last time

Re: [Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11/05/07, Aidan Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lot of people have mentioned using fping to speed things up but if my average service latency is only 0.479 seconds in normal circumstances, I can't see how tweaking this will help in a major outage situation. check_ping won't finish

Re: [Nagios-users] configure notification

2007-05-10 Thread Jim Avery
On 10/05/07, trevor obba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running nagios version 2.5 and I have configured nagios to only sent one notification when host is down or up however when host is in single user mode or have an high cpu usage and still reachable via network, I get alert about all

Re: [Nagios-users] docs for status.cgi

2007-05-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 08/05/07, Greg Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I went looking and hand no luck trying to find the documentation for status.cgi parameters. Are they documented anywhere? Thanks \\Greg They're documented in Wolfgang Barth's book Nagios published by No Starch Press. Cheers, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios - AIX, SAP, DB2, Storage ?

2007-05-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 02/05/07, Thiago dos Santos L. Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone knows if Nagios can monitor AIX, DB2, SAP and IBM DS4000 Storage? I used Nagios a long time ago, but only with Linux and Windows, nothing more...help please You'll find some nagios plugins and other stuff pre-compiled

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.8 + NDO 1.4b2 + NDO2DB = high service latency

2007-05-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 03/05/07, Janet Post [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is anyone else experiencing high service latency when using NDOUtils? If I disable the event broker in the nagios config file, I have service latency of 0.00/1.59/0.592. When the event broker is running, the service latency jumps to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 41

2007-04-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30/04/07, Phil Costelloe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hugo van der Kooij wrote: On Mon, 30 Apr 2007, Navdeep Sidhu wrote: I have already installed PNP for graphical output. Just to be sure you meant PHP here? http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en You can use PNP to graph

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios service check latency

2007-04-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/04/07, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok i have a question about setting priority to service checks since i have a handful of service check checking clusters of servers i'd like the priority of those service checks as high as for instance... host checks as in they happen regularly and

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about Status Map

2007-04-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26/04/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do most people handle this kind of thing? I'm fairly haphazard in my approach. Sometimes I set up each physical interface as a host. If, like me, you're not too interested in the details of the network (you only want to know enough

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about Status Map

2007-04-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/04/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suspect I could make more use of the user-defined coordinates, but with 350 hosts and 1800 services, that doesn't seem very practical. You could use nagiosmap which will give you the ability to drag the hosts around the screen to set

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about Status Map

2007-04-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25/04/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, Jim. I tried out Nexsm last night and found that it gave me a huge, unordered picture of all my hosts. You need the parent relationships for Nexsm to work, and with that many hosts you may need to spend a little while dragging

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios NEXSM

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24/04/07, Jean-Francois Liotier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am trying to install NEXSM too but I have that exact same problem as Steve Barnes. I have tried many things (lowering my browser security, giving rights to many users on many folders on my nagios box...) I still get the 2nd

Re: [Nagios-users] host not found when receiving SNMP-Trap

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24/04/07, Masopust, Christian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so, what could be the reason why Nagios doesn't recognize this host? thanks a lot, chris Spot the difference: aptcc7fc-2 atpcc7fc-2 it's easily done! Cheers, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios NEXSM

2007-04-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24/04/07, Israel Brewster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Location /nexsm/jar/ Satisfy Any Allow from all /Location Excellent, thanks! (regarding the signing of .jar files) but if you have more of a how-to available, that would probably make things much

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS?

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23/04/07, Carsten Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i work at a german research institute. We are searching for a good monitoring tool, which can control many PCs with Debian Linux and some with Windows. We already have a Nagios with many selfmade scripts here, but my boss also

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Map

2007-04-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23/04/07, Fabio Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, im trying to install this tool... nexsm... but im with some problems... i installed all the packages.. but i think that something is wrong... when i try to open the url.. the jnlp file is showed.. and i open it with java... but i have

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Map

2007-04-22 Thread Jim Avery
On 20/04/07, Fabio Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, is there any way to get on the status map the STATE of the services of the hosts and not the Status of the host (up or down). If some service goes down or have some problem in the status map it show the host in a red color... tha has

Re: [Nagios-users] logos-statusmap

2007-04-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 12/04/07, Alicia Calvo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Jim, I just do it but is the same effect, quadrate empty. Jim Avery [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: On 10/04/07, Alicia Calvo wrote: Hi, I work with Suse 10.1 and Nagios V2.8. I can't display the *.gd2 images in my statusmap. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Does anyone use and love NDOUtils for availability reporting ? [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 06/04/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Folks, Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or later) for availability reporting ? I believe that NDOUtils inserts rows representing down times in an MySQL table, making it much easier for DIY reporters

Re: [Nagios-users] logos-statusmap

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 10/04/07, Alicia Calvo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I work with Suse 10.1 and Nagios V2.8. I can't display the *.gd2 images in my statusmap. I do, for example: pngtogd2 /usr/local/nagios/share/images/win40.png /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos/win40.gd2 1 1 and it generate a nuw file

Re: [Nagios-users] What do you not like about Nagios' notification/escalation system?

2007-03-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/03/07, Rainer Duffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hand over da phone ;-) That's just too simple! Unfortunately some of our on-call engineers work from home, and live some miles apart so it's not that easy. In fact what I do now is use a commercial email-sms gateway service and have set up

Re: [Nagios-users] What do you not like about Nagios' notification/escalation system?

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26/03/07, Taylor Dondich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on a project, and it requires feedback from you, the Nagios community. What do you not like about the way Nagios handles escalations and notifications? What features would you add? What features would you change? What logic

Re: [Nagios-users] Two maps

2007-03-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26/03/07, Andreas Brandino [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like an interface similar with the current nagios one. Is out there any other project similar to nagvis??? I wouldn't say it's similar to Nagvis at all, but Nexsm is also very well worth a look.

Re: [Nagios-users] scheduling downtime from cron

2007-03-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20/03/07, Tom Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there any way to schedule NAGIOS downtime from the shell? we'd quite like to have a regular maintenance window for a service, and if we could arrange that from cron, our lives would be improved. There are various scripts and utilities you can

Re: [Nagios-users] socket timeout issues with check_nt

2007-03-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 18/03/07, Matthew Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nagios has been running fine for us for months. After a simple change to update the contact list, all check_nt checks are periodically failing with socket timeouts. I have upgraded to Nagios 2.8 and I have tried increasing the timeout to

Re: [Nagios-users] host check delay problem

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 14/03/07, Dinçer Kavraal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi guys, I need a patch for Nagios not to stop all checks during a host check. Does anybody have such a patch to share? Thanks. It looks like we can look forward to some big improvements in Nagios 3. See

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification scripting question

2007-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 14/03/07, Mihai Tanasescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I've read, for check_commands I can define a way to pass arguments at runtime by using command parameter_1!parameter2!parameter_n if I state $ARG1$...$ARGn$ in the definition part. Is there anything like that for the

Re: [Nagios-users] --enable-neb does what exactly?

2007-03-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13/03/07, Steve Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How feasible is it to just replace the current nagios binary with the new one? Or will this fail horribly? That's what I did with my Fedora .rpm installed Nagios here. It worked fine. Cheers, Jim

Re: [Nagios-users] alerting flakey

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/03/07, Ezra Radoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello. I've been using nagios for a couple of months now pretty successfully, but I've noticed that the alerting function is a bit flakey. I've been over the configuration many times, but everything seems fine. The amount of alerting it does

Re: [Nagios-users] alerting flakey

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/03/07, Ezra Radoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, but I'm thinking now that it's always sending warnings and never sending criticals. It's not flapping. We had a server down for hours. It wasn't sending the warnings because it only does it after four. I think that part has been

Re: [Nagios-users] alerting flakey

2007-03-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 07/03/07, Ezra Radoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: define service{ use local-service hostgroup_name cisco_routers service_description Cisco_load check_command

Re: [Nagios-users] Passing a string from services to commands for check_http

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 05/03/07, Tom Cowin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in commands.cfg: define command { command_name check_http_port_string command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_http -I $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$ -s $ARG2$ } That looks okay to me. It wouldn't do any harm to put the string in quotes in

Re: [Nagios-users] Initial checks delayed too much

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
Correct me if I am wrong but I think you need to look at the retain_state_information directive in nagios.cfg . If you don't have this on, then I think Nagios will not know what state each host and service is in when it restarts, so they will all be pending until the relevant service checks are

Re: [Nagios-users] PING is critical

2007-03-06 Thread Jim Avery
On 06/03/07, Patrick Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea what can be wrong?? I expect you have configured the service check (or the command definition) so that Nagios only sends one ping. Pings are not guaranteed to get there and back so sometimes do get lost. Configure your services to

Re: [Nagios-users] Uptime error

2007-02-27 Thread Jim Avery
Now when I start the nagios it will work fine. But after some one or 2 days it will start to give me wrong output. What output does it give you? What output does it give if you login as nagios and run it by hand? See: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/plugins.html#howto

Re: [Nagios-users] cgi.cfg

2007-02-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26/02/07, Michael Weiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am experiencing two issues, which i am having trouble getting around. The first issue, and probably the most concerning is that whenever i define the cgi.cfg in nagios.cfg and run nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg it fails complaining about

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS

2007-02-24 Thread Jim Avery
I use http://www.intellisms.co.uk/ . Their options for formatting the mail for translation to SMS are many and varied. It can split long emails in to multiple SMSs (you specify what the max number is you will allow). SMS replys are fired back by email to the originator (in my case I spoof it

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Options

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Avery
There are lots of options. One thing I do is to have a separate template for each class of host or service. The template will specify the contact_groups option, for example: template for GOLD hosts has contact_groupsme,engineers,on-call template for SILVER hosts has contact_groups

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Options

2007-02-23 Thread Jim Avery
Does the contact_groups section support inheritance or is that a version 3.0 feature? I don't think so, no. I don't know much about what's coming-up in version 3.0. The problem with using a template (at least for us) is that we have a lot of machines that have very specialized contact

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_oracle

2006-06-22 Thread Jim Avery
any plugins which can use it yet. I expect to soon though unless I give up and install the full-blown Oracle client instead. Jim Avery All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red Hat certifications in the hosting

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