Re: [Nagios-users] check snmp logic

2013-08-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 Aug 2013 02:46, Mark Campbell mcc...@psu.edu wrote: So I need to utilize some logic in my service checks. I have a chiller that if it is not running the discharge temp is not of concern. However if it is running the discharge temp needs to be lower than 50 degrees. Is there a way to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios check latency

2013-08-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 Aug 2013 05:22, Muhamad Faiz muhamad.f...@asia.xchanging.com wrote: My Nagios setup are having high service check latency. Check nagios latency result is 240 seconds! ... Any advice will be much appreciated. If you haven't stopped / started the nagios daemon lately, then do that

Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring

2013-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 Aug 2013 16:50, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: Hello all, I have a lot of host servers as VM’s on our ESXi infrastructure, managed with vCenter. We also use vSphere DRS to help keep the load on host systems balanced. Due to the DRS, our VM’s can sometimes move around

Re: [Nagios-users] ESXi/vCenter Monitoring

2013-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 Aug 2013 21:49, Daniel Ceola daniel.ce...@occfiber.com wrote: I did that, but it made the map a complete mess of lines that I couldn’t make out. Yes. The map doesn't scale well. I haven't used it for some years now.

Re: [Nagios-users] how to start nagios with non nagios user

2013-08-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 31 Jul 2013 14:30, , Roy rp...@njit.edu wrote: Hi guys, I want to start nagios with non root, nagios user. How do I do that. Something like.. sudo /etc/init.d/nagios start should do it. You'll need to edit /etc/sudoers to allow your non-root user to do this. Enter 'man sudoers' to

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Woes Monitoring Windows Servers

2012-01-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28 January 2012 15:52, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote: Hope someone can point me in the right direction. For any  check_nrpe command (except CheckVersion) I get the following: CHECK_NRPE: Received 0 bytes from daemon. Check the remote server logs for error messages. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Can passive results cause active check rescheduling?

2012-01-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24 January 2012 15:07, Craig Stewart craig.stew...@corp.xplornet.com wrote: Good day! Here is a question.  Can the processing of a passive service check schedule a pending active service check? Here's a simple example from a distributed monitoring setup. Lets say we have a service

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Active Sessions

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 January 2012 13:09, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know how to return the number of active sessions from a Windows Terminal server? I have installed the NSClient++ service on the Windows server and obviously have the NRPE plugin installed on my Nagios host.

Re: [Nagios-users] Windows Active Sessions

2012-01-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 January 2012 14:56, Robert Jackson r...@walkermartyn.co.uk wrote: Hi Jim, Managed to get some output, but not what I expected: I (0.3.8.75 2010-05-27) seem to be doing fine I get the same manually running check_nrpe from the Nagios host command line. Any ideas? I've not seen that

Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledge link on service commands

2012-01-10 Thread Jim Avery
On 10 January 2012 11:36, Saulo Zimbaro saulo.zimb...@acotel.com wrote: I want to know if have a solution for link acknowledge bug in nagios services commands. I´ve already upgrade to nagios 3.3.1 but the link still not appears for some services. The Acknowledge button is only available if

Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 January 2012 07:53, Claudio Kuenzler c...@claudiokuenzler.com wrote: I created a fake host (with IP 0.0.0.0) for the cluster with active checks and notifications disabled. This way I have one and the same parent for all VM's in that cluster. Let me show it this way: switch ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Parent/Child relationship for HV/VM

2012-01-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 January 2012 20:58, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: I have few hyper-visors that running bunch of VMs. Each VM runs on a HV and can be migrated from one host to another at any given time for whatever reason(s). Should I specify all HVs (where VM can run) for each VM as a parent? That's

Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working

2011-12-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 27 December 2011 13:32, JM jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote: Jim Avery jim at jimavery.me.uk writes: Is the the relevant entry for that service check in your objects.cache file correct? I believe so. Do you see something out of the ordinary:        host_name       xxx

Re: [Nagios-users] scheduled downtime nagios.cmd

2011-12-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 December 2011 19:23, Jeremiah D. Jester jj...@u.washington.edu wrote: I’m attempting to integrate a downtime schedule script I downloaded from nagios.org into my installation (http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Scheduled-Downtime/Downtime-Scheduler/details) The script is

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie: controlling bad packets.

2011-12-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 27 December 2011 14:22, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg n...@eurofmc.com wrote: Hi the List, I would control if bad packets has been rejected on a given lan for any or several machines A command like this : check_rejected_packets -L lan address, i.e 192.168.0.0, or a lot of

Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working

2011-12-27 Thread Jim Avery
On 27 December 2011 13:32, JM jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote: Jim Avery jim at jimavery.me.uk writes: Is the the relevant entry for that service check in your objects.cache file correct? I believe so. Do you see something out of the ordinary: I can't see anything wrong with that at all

Re: [Nagios-users] freshness checks not working

2011-12-23 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 December 2011 18:48, jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu wrote: Hi there, consider the following template: define service { name                           x_trap register                       0        ; DONT REGISTER  - ITS NOT REAL,JUST A TEMPLATE! host_name                      host

Re: [Nagios-users] Feeding status information to SCOM?

2011-12-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 December 2011 13:58, Troels Arvin tro...@arvin.dk wrote: Thoughts/comments? In the other direction, we have an IBM Director system which simply forwards alerts to Nagios as SNMP Traps. It seems to work pretty well on the whole. I would think you could configure your Nagios system to

Re: [Nagios-users] permissions issues with nagiosql

2011-12-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 December 2011 16:11, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys im having permissions issues and getting the following message Cannot open/overwrite the configuration file (check the permissions)! i did some googling and game up with

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor memory on cisco router

2011-12-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 December 2011 16:41, moses neah mssn...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all, Where can I find a plugin to monitor cisco routers memory. I got the one that monitors CPU, fan and temperature. I haven't tried it myself, but this one should do the trick:- http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_mem.html

Re: [Nagios-users] timeperiod definition for election day?

2011-12-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 December 2011 20:31, Paul M. Dubuc w...@paul.dubuc.org wrote: I didn't see this in the documentation, but I wonder if there is a way to specify a timeperiod for the first weekday after another weekday.  For example, election day in the U.S. is on the 1st Tuesday after the 1st Monday of

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive monitoring multiple servers with 1 NAT IP

2011-12-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 December 2011 17:46, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote:   ok great if its possible, however I did try setting this up and it didnt seem to work. I am using the NSClient++ on Windows servers, and under the NSCA section I have defined what is described as LOCAL HOST NAME correctly on each client.

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive monitoring multiple servers with 1 NAT IP

2011-12-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 December 2011 18:14, a.sm...@ukgrid.net wrote: Hi, in the case where I want to monitor several servers in a remote office where all outbound traffic from that office originates from a single IP (NAT) is there any way I can monitor those with Nagios without putting a Nagios server in

Re: [Nagios-users] monitor printer from Windows server

2011-12-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 December 2011 12:39, James Osbourn james.osbo...@citrix.com wrote: I have a Windows 7 server acting as a print server and I would like to check the status of these printers and make sure that they are still online etc. I cannot seem to find a way of checking printers shared from a

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a Microsoft SQL Server

2011-11-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 November 2011 15:17, Kaplan, Andrew H. ahkap...@partners.org wrote: Hi there -- Thanks for your reply. I tried your suggestion on the two plugins, and here are the results. When the command syntax for check_mssql was the following: ./check_mssql -H ip address -U domain\\username -P

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios timeout checks

2011-11-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11 November 2011 16:11, Gustavo g.macha...@gmail.com wrote: hello, this is my first email I've just installed nagios 3.2.3 And i would like to know if is there a way to configurate nagios to send time-out cheks to other group of users. The problem is that if some times the

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Jim Avery
On 8 November 2011 22:18, Corey Quinn co...@sequestered.net wrote: What's the canonically proper way to check an external website (that I don't control) within Nagios?  WHat I've done historically has been to define a dummy urlhost that I then hang various check_http checks off of, but that

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt wrapper

2011-11-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 November 2011 14:18, mazar ma...@autistici.org 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: ./check_diskio_win.sh 1.1.1.1 C Disk Reads/sec is 5 ; Disk Writes/sec is 25 I'm able to accomplish

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Web Interface does not notify when nagios service is killed!

2011-10-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28 October 2011 18:55, Ashwin discoverash...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am working as UNIX administrator in Data Centre having more than few hundred servers(RHEL 5.5/6). I have installed Nagios (core) 3.3.1 and Nagios Plugins 1.4.15 and NRPE (Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) 2.12 to monitor

Re: [Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3

2011-10-07 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 October 2011 04:36, Stuart Browne stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au wrote: Hi, I know this topic has been covered many times, but I've tried those tweaks and I have the remaining issue. After a few days, the latency on checks explodes.  It goes along quite happily with small values,

Re: [Nagios-users] Historical Reports

2011-09-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 September 2011 11:43, Lingan Vairavamoorthy lin...@avantiagroup.co.uk wrote: I’ve looked through the posts and haven’t seen anything on full logging information. What we are looking for is the ability to view all the checks that have occurred on a host/service regardless if there was

Re: [Nagios-users] Historical Reports

2011-09-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 September 2011 01:16, Samuel Kidman samuel.kid...@panres.com wrote: The only gripe I have with it is the graphs are rarely ever up-to-date when you get them- you're always about 5-10 minutes behind. It would be nice if there was a way of triggering the  databases to be updated and graphs

Re: [Nagios-users] suddenly, cgi stopped working...

2011-09-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16 September 2011 11:25, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Jim, this directive is not in nagios.cfg. actually there is no such directive in any conf file... when i issue into /etc/nagios3 this command grep status_file *  i get no results i did this find / -name status.dat

Re: [Nagios-users] running an external script for sms notification

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 September 2011 10:35, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote: hello all, i have a shell script which takes two arguments, the mobile phone number and the text message, which sends sms notifications. for example /usr/local/bin/sendsms 69 host problem when i debug Nagios, i can

Re: [Nagios-users] suddenly, cgi stopped working...

2011-09-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 September 2011 13:42, Metron 6 (six) metr...@gmail.com wrote: hello all, I have nagios installed with centreon interface to add hosts, services, etc.. Suddenly Nagios stopped showing data, in web interface. i get the message: Whoops! Error: Could not read host and service status

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios.log not updating

2011-09-09 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 September 2011 16:01, Mailing Lists mailing.lists.a...@gmail.com wrote: I currently have a centreon / nagios setup with one central centreon box with three pollers. The newest poller is working fine with in terms of updating the central centreon system. However, the one issue I am running

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file

2011-09-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 September 2011 07:49, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello again Jim, I have followed your suggestion and seems better. However, from time to time, for short periods ( which take 1-2 checks) the status flaps to unknown and afterwards gets back to normal. Any more clues, please?

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file

2011-09-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 September 2011 08:13, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: So your suggestion is to have the -d option set to 60s for a 20s check interval? No. The plugin will allow an interval of up to 300% above the -d value, but only 10% below the -d value. This implies you could go up to -d = 21 . This

Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency

2011-09-05 Thread Jim Avery
On 5 September 2011 12:53, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: We also had to do some tuning with our pnp4nagios for latency.  I ended up using a ramdisk for the perfdata folder (that it uses while processing data, not the rrd's). Thanks for that - good idea I must

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_int - No usable data on file

2011-09-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 September 2011 10:53, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello, I am using check_snmp_plugin to monitor a couple of switches. The command template I use is:  $USER1$/check_snmp_int.pl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $USER5$ -2 -r -n $ARG1$ -fY -kqB -g -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -d $ARG4$ And the

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: check_snmp_int - No usable data on file

2011-09-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 September 2011 11:42, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello Jim and thanks for your answer! I have double checked the files in /tmp created by the script and they are all owned by nagios group and nagios user, so fully writeable. The actual check interval of the port is 20 seconds ( I

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications for Services that are Up

2011-09-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 September 2011 15:59, Michael Loiselle mloise...@chan-nh.org wrote: Is it possible to receive a notification for a specific service that is in the “up” position? If you really must do that, then assuming the check is an active one, then it should be pretty trivial to run the plugin from

Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency

2011-08-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 31 August 2011 09:13, trm asn trm.nag...@gmail.com wrote: Please suggest , how I can reduce the latency .. One not-so-obvious thing I found that reduces latency on my heavily-loaded system is to stop and then start the Nagios daemon (don't just do a reload) once a week or so.

Re: [Nagios-users] how to change nagiosadmin password - forgot it

2011-08-26 Thread Jim Avery
On 26 August 2011 17:06, Stan Laughlin stan.laugh...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I have a Nagios installation on a RedHat enterprise system. I deployed and successfully logged to the Nagios system several months ago. Then was pulled to other projects.  Now I can get back to the Nagios thing. I

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios father and nagios son concept

2011-08-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 August 2011 01:19, Saulo Zimbaro saulo.zimb...@acotel.com wrote: I have more then one data centers to monitoring. I´d like to know if there is a way to use various nagios instances and one main nagios to centralize information. The relevant page in the documentation is:

Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments

2011-08-19 Thread Jim Avery
Ok, I've written the script and submitted it to Nagios Exchange - it should appear there in the next few days. I doubt it's the prettiest code you've seen as this is probably the first perl script I've written from scratch but it works pretty well (for me anyway - ymmv). I haven't yet tried to

Re: [Nagios-users] using check_snmp to chart page counts

2011-08-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 August 2011 01:24, Phil Kennedy phillip.kenn...@yankeeairmuseum.org wrote: I'm using check_snmp to monitor page counts on various printers. The output is returning the correct values, and PNP is charting, but it's showing the differences in page counts per polling interval, rather than

Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 August 2011 08:36, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote: Hello. I want to check a service only once a day. So I tried this configuration: define timeperiod {     timeperiod_name once-a-day     alias       On mornings     monday      08:00-08:30     tuesday     08:00-08:30    

Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 August 2011 10:37, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote: So I guess documentation is wrong then? That's what I would think, yes. I don't think what Nagios does is anything like as clever as the documentation would imply, although for checks with small check_interval values it might

Re: [Nagios-users] checking service once a day

2011-08-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 August 2011 15:03, Silver Salonen sil...@serverock.ee wrote: Ah yes, previously I just restarted Nagios every day (from crontab) so that the checks would be re-scheduled, but in the new installation Nagios does not re-schedule the checks on startup. Is there an option for that? I don't

Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments

2011-08-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11 August 2011 15:17, William Muriithi w.murii...@syncapse.com wrote: Jim, Why would you want to delete old comments against a host?  I usually like them, as it can help identify a recurring problem on the hardware. Generally, it's a documentation of the hardware past performance.

[Nagios-users] Deleting old comments

2011-08-10 Thread Jim Avery
I'm about half way through writing a perl script to delete old comments (more than n days old) from Nagios. Before I spend more time on it though, if anyone else already has something that does that, please shout! --

Re: [Nagios-users] Install Error with fresh install of Nagios (nagios.cfg - Line 465)

2011-08-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 August 2011 01:56, matlnx1...@gmail.com wrote: ... The line in the nagios file is: check_result_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/spool/checkresults ... Error: Error in configuration file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg' - Line 465 (Check result path is not a valid directory) If it's

Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs

2011-07-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25 July 2011 10:34, Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com wrote: is it possible to specify an ip with this check? No, that plugin is only designed to run locally. You should be able to run it on the remote machine if you have nrpe installed though. See the NRPE manual which you will

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE client issues

2011-07-20 Thread Jim Avery
On 20 July 2011 17:29, Julie S. Lin j...@livescribe.com wrote: Hi I am monitoring a windows box with very basic out of the box plugins using nsclient However, whenever we start using this box there is great load on this box (which is a server class machine)  and causes the nagios checks to

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: parameter starting with dollar sign

2011-07-18 Thread Jim Avery
On 18 July 2011 14:37, Frank Van Damme frank.vanda...@gmail.com wrote: I was hoping for some generic escaping rules :) If only! I usually end up using a generous portion of trial-and-error to find something that works. Sometimes you have to escape the escape characters that will be used

Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification need on configuring nagios to monitor multiple hosts

2011-07-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 14 July 2011 12:14, Zaman quesz...@yahoo.in wrote: Is it possible any way to maintain a single entry for all the servers like we did for the service object . You could write a script to create your host definitions based on the contents of your CMDB (if you have one), or you could configure

Re: [Nagios-users] Clarification need on configuring nagios to monitor multiple hosts

2011-07-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 July 2011 12:24, Zama Ques quesz...@yahoo.in wrote: Hi All , I am new to nagios configuration . I  successfully installed nagios on one of my linux server  and now monitoring two hosts . Welcome! You've made a good start there. For monitoring of remote hosts , I created a new

Re: [Nagios-users] Help: How to use check_snmp plugin to get the monitor APC PDU?

2011-07-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 July 2011 15:02, Lee Eric openlinuxsou...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Does anyone ever use check_snmp plugin to get the monitor APC PDU? I know there are some plugins can do this but I'd like to use this one to do more standard. I have downloaded the Powernet MIB file. An example of how I

Re: [Nagios-users] Users unable to authenticate, and access the ../nagios site.

2011-07-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 12 July 2011 22:07, dOE doep...@gmail.com wrote: Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.10 Release: 10.10 Codename: maverick Nagios: 3.0.3 I executed the following commands htpasswd -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users users_name service apache2 reload I have a local user

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Re: PNP4Nagios watermark font colour

2011-07-04 Thread Jim Avery
On 4 July 2011 13:48, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: This modifies the entire color font, not only watermark. Reading the page Joerg mentioned ( http://oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc/rrdgraph.en.html ) I would guess you could try the --pango-markup option and format the text in the watermark using

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration

2011-07-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 July 2011 07:36, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello again, Can you please give some guidelines how to customize the PNP4Nagios background page? I have tried using the $conf['graph_opt'] = --watermark 'Test' option, but it does not take it. Also modifications done on the

Re: [Nagios-users] Whoops! Could not read object configuration data!

2011-07-02 Thread Jim Avery
On 2 July 2011 21:57, cris...@videotron.ca wrote: Hi Community! i have a little problem here with Nagios (web interface). It's not that old chestnut selinux stopping it from working is it? -- All of the data

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-nrpe socket timeout error

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 July 2011 12:12, rahul kumar rahul@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have installed nagios on server and i am monitoring client from this machine. Sometimes it shows socket timeout error and next cycle error disappear. there is no firewall . All the firewall services are disabled on the

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 July 2011 16:22, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: can u let me know the on-fly process in detail. You can send a HUP signal to the Nagios daemon to tell it to re-read the configuration. Make sure you verify the configs first though: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread Jim Avery
On 1 July 2011 20:19, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: If I remember right though this will only re-read what is there, so if you add/remove files it won't pick those up so we just always use a restart. I sometimes add/remove a directive

Re: [Nagios-users] Clearing previous flapping states?

2011-06-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 30 June 2011 11:42, Tim Philips t...@rndgroup.co.nz wrote: Hi All, Tell me, is it possible to pass a command to the Nagios command file to clear (previous) flapping?  I'm picking no - based on my understanding of the documentation but thought I would ask. The scenario is we have a

Re: [Nagios-users] How to use check_esx3 Blacklists

2011-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2011 09:52, Mies, Christian christian.m...@it-novum.com wrote: Hi List, I try to monitor my Datastores by check_esx3 by Datacenter. I want to exclude each local_* Datastore. The following command is not working .. ./check_esx3.pl -D 10.1.82.34 -u user -p pw -l vmfs -x local_*

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration

2011-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2011 11:45, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Was a typo error of the community string, after putting public instead of Public everything looks cool. Still 1 question: If I try to query interface GigabitEthernet0/2 I get the response: GigabitEthernet0/21:DOWN,

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: RE: MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration

2011-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2011 13:23, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: After adding the -r option it works like a charm! Now in pnp4nagios I can see both values on the same graph: bytes in and bytes out. I see them as two thin lines. Any way to make the lines thicker and change their colour? Well done.

Re: [Nagios-users] MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration

2011-06-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28 June 2011 13:31, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: Hello, I am using Nagios to monitor the bandwidth usage of a couple of switches/routers via the check_local_mrtgtraf command. The graphs I handle via pnp4nagios. The problem I encounter is the following: if the monitored bandwidth is at

Re: [Nagios-users] MRTG graphs problem - measurement units not taken into consideration

2011-06-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28 June 2011 15:14, radu.p...@technomatic.de wrote: I have tried the SNMP plugin a few minutes ago and here is what I get when running it from the command line: ./check_snmp_int.pl -H 192.168.2.1 -C public -n GigabitEthernet0/24 -k -w 200,400 -c 0,600 GigabitEthernet0/24:UP No usable

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios/Sendmail issue

2011-06-28 Thread Jim Avery
On 28 June 2011 18:59, Manish Kumar manikuma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Frnds, I have a setup in which nagios 3.2.3 is monitoring a number of servers and network devices like cisco switches and routers. The issue is that i am getting the email notifications very late for any problem. Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Thanks and configure SENDMAIL for sending mails to other domains

2011-06-25 Thread Jim Avery
On 25 June 2011 12:57, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: There is no specific reason for choosing sendmail , if you can provide me information for configuring through postfix i will accept it.. How you configure postfix depends a lot on what linux distro you are using. Each one I've

Re: [Nagios-users] Thanks and configure SENDMAIL for sending mails to other domains

2011-06-24 Thread Jim Avery
On 24 June 2011 12:16, nag ios nagiost...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all of you for helping me to configure Nagios.It's running well     But, i need one more thing.I am thinking to configure sendmail such way that if any service is down or warning , mail should be delivered to some

Re: [Nagios-users] More SNMP CONF files

2011-06-22 Thread Jim Avery
On 22 June 2011 03:59, Chris Schaft ch...@mkadvantage.com wrote: We have posted several hundred more conf files for trap handling.  You can get them at http://www.mkadvantage.com.  Once you get here, go to Tools on the Menu Bar, then go to SNMP Trap Conf files on the left side. That

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime and host checks

2011-05-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 31 May 2011 17:18, Kumar, Ashish xml.de...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Everyone, I had been under the impression that no service checks would be executed on a server during scheduled downtime but it seems otherwise. Would I be right in assuming all service checks will still be performed on a

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive check windows clients

2011-05-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 May 2011 10:31, Andre Tann at...@alphasrv.net wrote: Don't use a mac personally, but you can schedule the check locally at a frequency you desire, and submit this to a passive job def with its freshness check disabled so it will never timeout. Ok. And what piece of software would be

Re: [Nagios-users] RFC/RFP: Service parents

2011-05-17 Thread Jim Avery
On 17 May 2011 09:57, Andreas Ericsson a...@op5.se wrote: Comments and patches welcome. That sounds good - servicedependencies can be quite painful to understand. Ultimately I would quite like it if the cgi could display the child services indented below the parent to make it more obvious what

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Question

2011-05-16 Thread Jim Avery
On 16 May 2011 14:47, Matty Sarro msa...@gmail.com wrote: This is for mysql. I saw a plugin called check_mysql_query but it doesn't seem to be included in the plugins package I downloaded. I'm going to try reinstalling the plugins in case something got borked. I can't find it on exchange

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification after Acknowledgment

2011-05-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 May 2011 08:34, Andre Kruger andre.kru...@trw.com wrote: Hi Can you guys please give me your input on how you handle the following situation. Lets take monitoring a disk as an example. For arguments sake lets say when the disk reaches 80% capacity I send out a warning and at 90% I

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification after Acknowledgment

2011-05-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 May 2011 09:01, Andre Kruger andre.kru...@trw.com wrote: I just read how non-sticky acknowledgments work from 3.2.3. I think this solves my problem. http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Acknowledgementlogic Neat! Thanks I hadn't noticed that.

Re: [Nagios-users] Message Subject - PROBLEM Service Alert: hostname is UP

2011-05-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 May 2011 16:09, Terry Carmen te...@cnysupport.com wrote: I've been receiving a continuous stream of these messages and can't seem to figure out why or make them stop. Nagios is sending repeated notifications that various hosts are up even though they have never been down. I've googled

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios + Jasper

2011-05-11 Thread Jim Avery
On 11 May 2011 12:22, trm asn trm.nag...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, Has anyone configured Nagios with Jasper Report or anyone having any better solutions with existing nagios(3.2). I haven't tried it myself at all, but (in no particular order and according to their web sites listed below) ...

Re: [Nagios-users] Before I RTFM....

2011-05-03 Thread Jim Avery
On 3 May 2011 19:43, Dj Lien dj_l...@hotmail.com wrote: .. does anyone have any links/pointers for getting Nagios to process SNMP traps. snmptt is what you need. I've written some stuff about what you can do here: http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Howtos:snmp-windows You might also/instead

Re: [Nagios-users] Freshness Checking not working correctly

2011-04-21 Thread Jim Avery
On 21 April 2011 01:51, Samuel Kidman samuel.kid...@panres.com wrote: Hello I've got this in my logs: [1303346647] Warning: The results of service 'Dummy Service' on host 'LFMISS1' are stale by 0d 0h 1m 0s (threshold=0d 0h 5m 0s).  I'm forcing an immediate check of the service.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Bandwidth Question

2011-04-19 Thread Jim Avery
On 19 April 2011 00:33, David Barszcz dbars...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I need help monitoring bandwidth of my router. I am currently running nagios on Ubuntu and monitoring a router flashed with DD-WRT. My plan is to monitor the bandwidth throught MRTG. I seem to be having a problems creating

Re: [Nagios-users] Running configuration: Additional macros or sourcing files for passwords

2011-04-19 Thread Jim Avery
This is standard stuff in Nagios. Usually the password is stored in a macro which you define in the resource.cfg file, for example: $USER3$=trustnoone Then you can refer to the macro name in your service or command definitions for example: define service{ use

Re: [Nagios-users] backup email notifcation consolidator

2011-04-13 Thread Jim Avery
On 13 April 2011 00:41, Matthew Nickerson mnicker...@silcon.com wrote: Hello, I’m looking for an add-on, and hoping someone has made it, that can consolidate backup email reports.  We have several clients, running multiple version of backup exec, some with NTbackup, and some with Jungle

Re: [Nagios-users] Trend Micro Officescan snmp-trap

2011-04-06 Thread Jim Avery
I'm not sure the specifics of getting Trend to send traps (I simply asked my Trend admin person to set it up!). Trend should be able to provide you with the relevant MIB file. To configure Nagios to receive the traps, I recommend you use snmptt. The specific instructions relating to Nagios are

Re: [Nagios-users] Donwtime_sched not working correctly

2011-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 March 2011 13:12, tom sturme tom.stu...@live.nl wrote: From: tom.stu...@live.nl To: nagios-users-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Donwtime_sched not working correctly Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:00:34 +0100 Hi, I'm trying to run downtime_sched

Re: [Nagios-users] Donwtime_sched not working correctly

2011-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
p.s. I see in your email you are already outputting to a log file. Is there anything interesting in your /usr/local/nagios/logs/downtime.log file? I see you have yours in the system wide crontab. I don't know if it makes a huge difference but I guess it might help to have it in the crontab for

Re: [Nagios-users] Question on encryption for send_nsca

2011-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 March 2011 23:51, Steve F steve_...@hotmail.com wrote: I have a small test Nagios 3.2 environment on a Suse platform ( 11 10 boxes )and was wondering about the encryption methods used. I am working fine with no encryption configured on host or central server. I am getting all of the

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios send_nsca

2011-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 31 March 2011 14:42, julian_grunn...@tdwh.co.uk wrote: Hi - hope someone can help me with the above, I want to use this to send multiple lines of output via send_nsca and them to be displayed as separate lines in Nagios under the Status Information box BUT ALL for the same Service check.

Re: [Nagios-users] monitor http traffic

2011-03-31 Thread Jim Avery
On 31 March 2011 21:51, khurram aziz khurramazizkha...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have a windows server 2003 based web server ( IIS) that has 5 websites running on it and each web site has a application pool allocated to it. What I want to do is to add this web server in my Nagios  so that I can 

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Weekly Service Check

2011-03-30 Thread Jim Avery
On 23 March 2011 09:39, Nair vman...@rediffmail.com wrote: Hi Friends I have below service check defined to perform check every Monday. define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name only_mon alias Only on monday monday 11:00-17:00 } define service{ service_description TEST_SRV host_name

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++. Monitoring the devices behind the Firewall.

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2011 13:47, C. Bensend be...@bennyvision.com wrote: If you're looking to do this without cooperation from the client and their security folks, you're going to run into problems.  If they want you to monitor their hosts, they have to provide some manner of accessing them. Just to

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient++. Monitoring the devices behind theFirewall.

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Avery
On 15 March 2011 14:34, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: You could always have a passive check that calls home to get any new updates so then you wouldn't really have to login to each one to push down changes. Dan That's a neat idea!

Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledgements with hard coded email address

2011-03-12 Thread Jim Avery
On 9 March 2011 18:05, Robert Bailey rob...@briworks.com wrote: I want to set Nagios so that no when you acknowledge either a host or service problem with the Notify checkbox checked, the email goes to a specific email address. Anyone know if this is possible? I've dug through the code a

Re: [Nagios-users] NOC display screen

2011-02-27 Thread Jim Avery
On 27 February 2011 20:04, chiel ch...@gmx.net wrote: Hi all, I was wondering what everybody is using for there noc display screen. We have a display screen where I want to display both the host and service problems (if any). Using the normal nagios webpages we still have to click on either

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