I've installed a basic Nagios 2 config. I have 50 service checks working
perfectly and 12 hosts.
Even when services on a host go down host checks never seem to be executed.
I've setup network packet captures to see if pings leave the Nagios host
but they never do.
I created a host with an IP
service_descriptionHTTP Admin
check_commandcheck_http
}
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/8/06, Matthew Jurgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've installed a basic Nagios 2 config. I have 50 service checks working
perfectly and 12 hosts.
Even when services on a host go down host checks never seem
!
}
define service {
use std_service
host_namenoddy
service_descriptionHTTP Admin
check_commandcheck_http
}
Jim Perrin wrote:
On 5/8/06, Matthew Jurgens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've installed a basic Nagios 2 config. I have 50 service checks
working
I'm wondering if anyone can think of a better way to configure the
following scenario:
Assume I have 2 services being monitored, service1 and service2.
User1 wants to be able to see both services through the CGI interface
and hence is defined as a contact for both of them.
User1 wants
The check_http plugin with the --ssl option will do what you need
Jeff Koch wrote:
Hi:
Does anyone know of a plugin or method of checking that the https service
is working on a server? We're already checking for http but need to be sure
that https is functioning also.
Thanks
Best
If your check_http command is defined like:
define command{
command_namecheck_http
command_line$USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ $ARG1$
$ARG2$ $ARG3$ $ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$
}
Then you can just modify your service definition:
replacing
If I define a contact with the following attributes:
define contact {
--- other attributes skipped -
address1 1
address2 2
address3 3
address4 4
address5 5
-
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Nagios v3 now has multiline plugin output, but from what I can find the
only place you can see the detail of it or even discover that multiple
lines exist is on the service details screen (refer attachment
DetailStatus.jpg). The service summary screen (refer attachment
MainStatus.jpg) does not
If the community string, in your case public, is incorrect, this is
enough to generate a timeout.
Additionally, if the printer does not even have SNMP capability, you
will also get a timeout.
You'll need to check the printer firmware config.
Why have you titled this message Compaq Printer
There appears to be nothing wrong with what you are doing so far.
Can you send your command definition?
Can you make it work from the command line?
You might need to check your environment eg firewalls etc
Izz Abdullah wrote:
SNMP is enabled, public is the community. I changed the title of
It is of course possible now to use multi-line plugin output.
But I'm trying to get multi-line passive result submission going with no
luck.
It seems that the command file can only handle one line of input and as
soon as you terminate the first line by a linefeed it finishes
processing the
gubbu gubbu wrote:
b) Have a publishable link without password so people can view it
One way to achieve this might be to use Nagios Looking Glass
http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F2292.html;d=1
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:
#
SCHEDULE_SVC_DOWNTIME;mail.optusnet.com.au;SMTP;1188879530;110130;1;0;7200;Matthew
Jurgens;COMMENT
# if $servicename is set it will supply its own ;
cmdline=\[$datetime\]
$downtime_cmd;$host;$servicename$starttime_sec;$endtime_sec;1;0;$duration;$author;$comment
# append the command
Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
With nagios you could install a local server for each customer where the
objects will have local addresses for the hosts. And let each local
instance report to a global server. But then you must make sure that the
hostnames will remain unique on a global level.
Hugo
Has anyone every come across some documentation that is aimed at new
Nagios users that describes how to use the standard CGI interface,
explains concepts of acknowledgements, downtime, etc etc?
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Tore Lønøy wrote:
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone have used FastCGI on apache or similar, to
speed up the nagios interface?
Are you experiencing any specific problems? Are you accessing it over a
WAN or LAN? Is the server overloaded?
The reason I ask these questions is that for me the
Assaf Flatto wrote:
Hello List .
This may be a stupid oversight of myself but I'm trying to understand how to use the check event
log - but seem to missing something .
I am reading through the
http://www.nsclient.com/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog/CheckEventLog
Page and i am still not certain
%20Operations%20%E2%80%93%20Using%20The%20Nagios%20Web%20Interfacestructure=User%20Guide
I will be continuing to add to it and hope it helps someone. If you have
any suggestions or submissions let me know.
Matthew Jurgens wrote:
Has anyone every come across some documentation that is aimed at new
I do a similar thing where I dynamically change the service check
definitions configured into Nagios. You've almost got to this solution
but say and couldn't just . Not sure why you say that but I'll briefly
cover what I did. You will need some programming/scripting.
First up in the
You're almost there. You just need to configure NSClient++ a little more.
http://nsclient.org/nscp/wiki/CheckEventLog
If you jump on our demo site I think there is an example of a check
command to look through the event log
Go to http://www.smartmon.com.au/, select the demo menu and then
I can't answer your question directly but I know what you are trying to
achieve (with regards to the large public display).
Instead of showing the status map we developed an application that reads
the nagios status.dat file and builds a high level status view of the
monitored environment.
In
Several ways to do it. Some I can think of right now are
1) check the sarg web page has changed each day, you might even try and
get tricky and check for the specific date
2) Create a script to run the sarg job each day and log a passive result
to Nagios with the result
I personally like 2)
Hi,
I've written a Nagios plugin that performs many Windows checks directly
from Linux without any Windows proxy ie a client-less Window checking
plugin called check_wmi_plus (see
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Windows/WMI/Check-WMI-Plus/details)
Now, I'm
On 11/05/2011 2:46 AM, khurram aziz wrote:
Hi,
i am using Nagios 3.2.3 want to enable SNMP Trap Handling so that I
can check uptime of my servers ( snmp service has already been enabled
on the servers).
can sum1 help me with the configuration.
If it is for Windows servers you can use
Something a little more powerful and generic that can be used in
multiple scenarios
check_multi
See: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Others/check_multi/details
On 30/05/2011 6:11 PM, quanta wrote:
Take a look at this:
http://www.theillien.com/Sys_Admin_v12/html/v14/i12/a6_l2.htm
However, Windows' SNMP implementation does not publish this
information so I was wondering if someone is already monitoring it.
What attributes of a mount point are you wishing to monitor?
check wmi plus will monitor disk space and disk IO for windows physical
and logical drives
On 9/06/2011 4:59 AM, Manish Kumar wrote:
Thanks...@ all for your prompt help..i will try it out..
@Claudio :) exactly.. thanks..
What you might find more useful is not to have to install NSClient++ on
any servers at all, nor to rely on a proxy NSClient++, nor to use NRPE.
All of the
On 11/06/2011 5:28 AM, Manish Kumar wrote:
Hi Frnds,
Is there any nagios plugin to monitor the catch memories of windows
and linux machines.
--
Do any of these sound like the cache you are after for Windows machines?
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa394080%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
On 14/06/2011 4:34 AM, James Pratt wrote:
Hi, starting simple here - have you setup and configured the NSClient
on the windows box you are querying?
From -
http://nagiosplugins.org/man/check_nt
This plugin collects data from the NSClient service running on a
Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
I have a way to check it directly from the Nagios server without
installing anything on any Windows server.
I've tested it only on my practice/development/IsNotLive Exchange server
2010.
I just need someone to test it on a real server before I release it
Its a check defined for use with
'
This 2nd check fails if the database is dismounted - which is what was
originally requested
All of this without having to install anything on any Windows server
On 23/06/2011 12:12 PM, Matthew Jurgens wrote:
I have a way to check it directly from the Nagios server without
installing anything on any
You might like to try monitoring your Windows servers without installing
anything on any Windows server (or introducing a point of failure) by
checking them directly from your Nagios server.
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Windows/WMI/Check-WMI-Plus/details
The easiest way is to forget about NSClient++ and simplify your
monitoring by using
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Operating-Systems/Windows/WMI/Check-WMI-Plus/details
Unless there is some check that only NSClient++ can do
On 2/07/2011 1:17 AM, nag ios wrote:
Default one is
I did a similar thing a while back and from memory I think I found that
there were no pre-coded modules that worked properly.
Parsing the nagios status file yourself is quite easy (its a nice
format), so I just wrote my own code.
I use it to generate an html page with a high level graphical
If you install wmic (http://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/?q=Installation
and http://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/?q=node/39)
and then run
/bin/wmic -U USER%PASS //HOST 'Select * from Win32_Volume'
and post the output back here
I will add a check to check_wmi_plus (http://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/)
If you are talking about disk space on Windows then take a look at
www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus
This will check Windows disk space (and many other things) without
having to install a client/proxy and without having to configure
anything related to SNMP as it use WMI.
On 14/10/2011 11:19
No need to write anything, just use this plugin which already does all
of that and heaps more
www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus
On 5/11/2011 1:18 AM, mazar wrote:
Hi list,
I've put together a wrapper for the Disk Reads/sec and Disk Writes/sec
counters, my goal is to have an output as follow:
What are you trying to check?
I'm mean, you look like you are trying to get some basic WMI queries
working so that you can check something?
What is it you are trying to check, maybe there is some other way to do it
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You might like to try
www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus
On 30/01/2012 9:07 PM, Robert Jackson wrote:
Why does the NSClient++ command CheckCPU always sit as a critical
condition within Nagios? The command I have in place is:
$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c CheckCPU -a warn=$ARG1$
On 31/01/2012 3:57 AM, Robert Jackson wrote:
I'm trying out check_wmi_plus at the moment. I've got some basic tests
working from a command line (namely checkuptime, checkmem and
checkdrivesize). All well and good. However my problems start when I
try to run checkcpu within a Nagios
On 31/01/2012 11:13 PM, Robert Jackson wrote:
Hi Matthew,
Many thanks for the reply. I'm really sorry for all the hassle. I
really like check_wmi_plus.pl and it's a bit of a learning curve for
me at the moment. I hope you can bear with me?
Is there a switch on the command that allows
Just dropping this as a note for the mailing list .
It turned out that using versions of perl modules older than the
recommended ones was the cause of the problem - specifically
Config::Inifiles
However, the new version of Check WMI Plus (v1.50), works around the
limitations of the
So I was wondering how is everyone reliably checking and notifying the
intended audience of server reboots with high rate of success.
Get a plugin that checks the actual device uptime value.
You can then alert on it when values of
If you are checking Windows try check_wmi_plus (it is agentless)
http://www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus
It can do all of that and a lot more which means your monitoring of
Windows becomes a lot more consistent as you can use a single plugin for
everything
On 12/05/2012 4:16 AM, James Pratt
Using check_wmi_plus, as well as monitoring the dhcp service (like -m
checkservice -a dhcp)
you can also monitor various DHCP related stats
There is an example here
http://edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus/?q=node/57
On 06/25/2012 05:15 PM, Travis Runyard wrote:
Why use check_nt still? Use NRPE
On 9/10/2012 1:17 AM, Peter Kaagman wrote:
Hi there list,
As I understand service specific event handlers are triggered for every state
change whenever a server is in a SOFT state, and once when a service enters a
HARD state.
Problem is that I have a service (an IPSEC tunnel) which is
On 13/10/2012 7:28 AM, Tech Support wrote:
Thanks for the info. This is good stuff, it really is. Someone
else suggested using check_mk, and I read over all of the
documentation on it. It seems like it was written to solve this very
problem, but it seems to be somewhat involved. What I
For shell based event handlers I normally add these lines to the top of
the script:
set -x
exec /tmp/event.log 21
echo = Started `date`
set
This way, everything the event handler does is written to the file
/tmp/event.log
Also, this page:
Try www.edcint.co.nz/checkwmiplus using the checkmem mode and see if it
works ok for you
On 10/01/2013 7:55 PM, omar saddiki wrote:
this because in your server 2008 you will see that there is a virtual
memory activated, go to Computer proprieties and see in performences
you will have for
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