Re: [Nagios-users] Eventlog monitoring through NSClient++

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Griffin
You could install NagEventLog on your Windows machines to do this as well. This would involve setting up passive checks on your Nagios server as there is no plugin involved if you go this route. Get it here: http://www.steveshipway.org/software/ Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com

Re: [Nagios-users] About check_by_ssh

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Griffin
with a public hostname. Then use check_by_ssh with the local IP, e.g. 192.168.0.2 Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 02/23/2012 10:34 AM, Carlos Albornoz wrote: Hi, i try to run a check_by_ssh, my ssh config is here http://pastebin.com/jvSZSAvR but when i run ./check_by_ssh -H

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Griffin
. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 02/24/2012 09:43 AM, Edwin Zoeller wrote: I have downloaded and installed XI to review and possible by. My question is can nrpe v2.0 run with XI? PPlease consider the environment before printing this e-mail

Re: [Nagios-users] Howto monitor udp ports using nagiosxi wizard

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Griffin
just need to know something about the underlying protocol of what you're monitoring. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 02/24/2012 05:30 AM, moses neah wrote: Can anybody help me? I am running nagiosxi version Nagios XI 2011R2.1, I have problem configuring the wizard because what

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-24 Thread Alex Griffin
Did you modify your XI installation at all (e.g. replace the included nrpe version with an older)? You may want to check your logs on the client for more specific error messages from nrpe. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 02/24/2012 12:02 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote: First Alex

Re: [Nagios-users] Exclude Notifications during certian hours

2012-02-27 Thread Alex Griffin
00:00-00:29,06:31-24:00 } Then in the appropriate host definitions add 'check_period exclude_nights'. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Andrew Thompson wrote: Hi all, I have all my servers (approx. 70) monitored by PING using the 24x7 time period and notifications

Re: [Nagios-users] How to import modified host and service files in DB from CLI

2012-03-14 Thread Alex Griffin
You can simply run /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/reconfigure_nagios.sh after dropping your config files into /usr/local/nagios/etc/import/. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Manish_Kmr wrote: Hi, We are using NagiosXI, but still we prefer to do most of the things from CLI. Most

Re: [Nagios-users] SSL and multiple disk checker plugins

2012-04-09 Thread Alex Griffin
Thanks for sharing this! I'm sure other people will find these plugins useful as well. Please consider submitting them to Nagios Exchange (exchange.nagios.org) for better exposure. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Roger Burton West wrote: I have uploaded a couple of nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugins to monitor HTTP latency, page load times

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Griffin
that, like selenium. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Serge Dukic wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a Nagios plugin to be able to monitor the latency of a web page i.e. how long from when the HTTP request is sent, until the first response is received As well as a plugin for measuring page

Re: [Nagios-users] A plugin to act as a reminder based on date

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Griffin
Try using check_doomsday for this! http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Others/Doomsday-Check/details Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Seth Low wrote: I have a lot of third party software licenses to manage that expire on specific dates. Instead of trying to write

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugins to monitor HTTP latency, page load times

2012-04-18 Thread Alex Griffin
as well use it for the authentication too. (Also, I meant to say It *can't* do in my last email, rather than It do) Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Gary Every wrote: you can use your nagios users .netrc file to overcome basic auth. On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Alex Griffin

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-20 Thread Alex Griffin
How are you connecting to these boxes (what check commands are you using)? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Alex wrote: Hi, I have a few fc16 boxes and often times alerts are generated for timeouts while connecting to a remote service on a client such as clamd or smtpd

Re: [Nagios-users] Question - System Restart

2012-04-23 Thread Alex Griffin
I don't really understand where you're seeing that. Can you clarify a little bit or maybe provide a screenshot? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Edwin Zoeller wrote: When looking at availability of a host/service I see in the listing “System Restart” Can someone explain what

Re: [Nagios-users] Enhance Nagios check_ftp command to check remote server for file

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
#List_of_FTP_commands Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Porter Warren wrote Does Nagios check_ftp plugin have the capability to check the remote ftp server to check for a file and return the results if the file is found? Plz advise *PG Warren *Enterprise Management Engineer http

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout and critical error false alarms

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
between your Nagios server and this host (e.g. wireless connection, maybe a virtual machine, etc.)? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Alex wrote: Hi, How are you connecting to these boxes (what check commands are you using)? For clamd, I'm using check_nrpe!check_procs_clamd

Re: [Nagios-users] Re SMS notification

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
Unfortunately, this task is different for different hardware and I was unable to find an existing plugin that would work. Hopefully I'm wrong, but I believe you will need to create a custom notification plugin for this. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Nick Price wrote: Can

Re: [Nagios-users] puzzling no output from nrpe run of check_load

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
Does the nagios user have read access to /proc/loadavg? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Peter N. Steinmetz wrote: Hi, hoping someone may be able to help with this odd problem running check_load on a remote nrpe server. I am running a nagios3 server on ubuntu 10.04 server

Re: [Nagios-users] Use of customized macro in CONTACT definition

2012-04-25 Thread Alex Griffin
You said you tried to echo “EMAILID=$NAGIOS__CONTACTEMAILID”, but echoing this string will not set EMAILID to the value of $NAGIOS_CONTACTEMAILID. You should set EMAILID, and then echo it afterwards. Otherwise, looking over your settings they seem to be fine. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_Doomsday plugin

2012-04-27 Thread Alex Griffin
I haven't come across any plugins that do this by default but it would be an incredibly easy plugin to write. If you or anyone you know have some programming ability you could make it yourself. Otherwise Nagios Enterprises offers custom plugin development. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios based distributed monitoring systems out there?

2012-05-02 Thread Alex Griffin
integrates pretty well with DNX too. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com James Whittington wrote: This is not entirely Nagios related, more nagios backend architecture related. We had been a long time user of Opsview Community Edition. We were monitoring multiple sites so we were

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios based distributed monitoring systems out there?

2012-05-04 Thread Alex Griffin
We've just released a beta of NRDS here at Nagios Enterprises, which adds exactly that functionality to our commercial product, Nagios XI. It should also be much cheaper than OpsView. Check it out here: http://labs.nagios.com/2012/04/20/nagios-remote-data-sender-beta/ Alex Griffin --- Tech

Re: [Nagios-users] status-txt: easier for other applications/services to use Nagios data

2012-05-04 Thread Alex Griffin
Thanks for posting this, it looks pretty useful! Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/02/2012 10:57 PM, Wenhua Zhang wrote: Hi all, Recently, we need a API or application to get the nagios data as other easily readable format such as XML, JSON or plain text instead

Re: [Nagios-users] printing info from nagios db check script

2012-05-14 Thread Alex Griffin
you find problems. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Tim Dunphy wrote: hey guys, this was kind of interesting so I thought I might report it to anyone who might take an interest in this thread. But I just realized where the 'additional' percentage that the tablespace check

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data not being returned

2012-05-14 Thread Alex Griffin
Are the newlines in your output an artifact of sending this over email or are there really newlines in your plugin output? If they're really there, you should eliminate them. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Jonathan Gazeley wrote: On 10/05/12 16:39, C. Bensend wrote: I've

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data not being returned

2012-05-16 Thread Alex Griffin
on. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Jonathan Gazeley wrote: The newlines were introduced by my mail client. There are no unusual characters in the output of the plugin. As far as I can tell, the perfdata complies completely with the specs. status | key1=value1%;warn;crit, key2=value2

Re: [Nagios-users] Alerts not making it to notifications log or alert history

2012-05-16 Thread Alex Griffin
about when it happens? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Mark Wicks wrote: Hello, I am having a intermittent problem where notifications are not making it into the notifications page from the web interface or the alert history but they show up in the event log and actually do go

Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs and negating regex in --ereg-argument-array

2012-05-21 Thread Alex Griffin
To get around the issue of bash interpreting your regex characters as something else, simply wrap the regex in single quotes: ./check_procs -w 25 -c 35 -m CPU -v --ereg-argument-array='^((?!john).)*$' Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/21/2012 03:04 PM, Camron W. Fox wrote

Re: [Nagios-users] check_procs and negating regex in --ereg-argument-array

2012-05-23 Thread Alex Griffin
sense), and is not supported by most traditional UNIX tools. Unfortunately, I'm not sure there's a good way to make this work. Hopefully someone else can come up with an alternative solution. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/21/2012 05:08 PM, Camron W. Fox wrote: On 12/05/21

Re: [Nagios-users] passive check always Pending

2012-05-30 Thread Alex Griffin
The initial_state parameter is only for active checks. Passive services will remain in a pending state until they receive their first check results. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/24/2012 03:21 AM, Marco Borsani wrote: Hi all. I supposed to use “initial_state” parameter

Re: [Nagios-users] Manually run custom command via nagios dashboard possible?

2012-05-30 Thread Alex Griffin
You could set up something like Ajaxterm so that you could log in to your nagios server from a web browser. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/25/2012 10:19 AM, Ajay Jethani wrote: Is there a recommended or a sample framework (outside of nagios) that would be useful

Re: [Nagios-users] Compile problem linking iconv library (nagios 3.4.1)

2012-05-30 Thread Alex Griffin
check results. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 05/27/2012 11:39 PM, Yu Watanabe wrote: I am using ja_JP.UTF-8 for character code. Yu Watanabe さんは書きました: Hi ! I had some trouble displaying Japanese characters on UI. I am guessing that this occured because of the link error

Re: [Nagios-users] Disk Partitioning for Nagios

2012-06-08 Thread Alex Griffin
are obviously brain dead, but much of it comes down to personal preference too. Using LVM will allow you to flexibly change your partitions as your needs shift, so you should definitely use that if you're unsure of your needs. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/07/2012 02:31 AM

Re: [Nagios-users] monitor number of open files on linux

2012-06-08 Thread Alex Griffin
A quick search turned up 2 plugins that would do the job on Linux, check_open_files and check_linux_stats. [1]: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?option=com_mtreetask=searchItemid=74searchword=open%20files On Windows I would bet WMI exports that information somehow. Alex Griffin --- Tech

Re: [Nagios-users] check windows's manager tasks

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Griffin
What do you mean when you say it doesn't work? That's very vague and not enough information to help you. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/12/2012 07:33 AM, bruno beatrice wrote: hello, i'd like check my windows task manager. i'd like to receive a mail when it doesn't work

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin to monitor tomcat and java applications

2012-06-13 Thread Alex Griffin
There are a few tomcat plugins here: http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?option=com_mtreetask=searchItemid=74searchword=tomcat Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/13/2012 12:49 PM, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Any Nagios Plugin to monitor tomcat and java applications

Re: [Nagios-users] Allow access to custom variables outside Nagios

2012-06-18 Thread Alex Griffin
Custom variables are are case-sensitive. Try using NAGIOS__HOSTserverfunction. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/16/2012 06:05 AM, Ruslan Valiyev wrote: Hi all, We have custom variables like this: define host { use linux-server host_name host.foo.com http

Re: [Nagios-users] Allow access to custom variables outside Nagios

2012-06-18 Thread Alex Griffin
Disregard this. I was clearly wrong... Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/18/2012 12:24 PM, Alex Griffin wrote: Custom variables are are case-sensitive. Try using NAGIOS__HOSTserverfunction. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 06/16/2012 06:05 AM, Ruslan

Re: [Nagios-users] Regarding check_ping plugin

2012-07-09 Thread Alex Griffin
This is likely due to an IPv6 issue. Add '-4' to your command definition to force IPv4, and see if that helps. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 07/09/2012 08:07 AM, Diego Vitoriano wrote: Hello, guys My name is Diego and I got a couple questions about this plugin

Re: [Nagios-users] http://demos.nagios.com/

2012-07-13 Thread Alex Griffin
the statuses from all of them in one interface. [1]: http://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosxi/ Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 2012-07-13 11:05, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: Hi, Can someone please help me understand about various Nagios products as mentioned in http://demos.nagios.com

Re: [Nagios-users] http://demos.nagios.com/

2012-07-13 Thread Alex Griffin
Yes, Nagios Fusion is commercial, but I guess I should clarify that it also works with Nagios Core in addition to Nagios XI. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 2012-07-13 12:17, Kaushal Shriyan wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Alex Griffin agrif...@nagios.com

Re: [Nagios-users] Storing Configuration Files in Database

2012-07-18 Thread Alex Griffin
Nagios Core will still read its configuration from text files, but there's always something like NagiosQL for managing your configuration with a database backend. It will automatically write out the text files when changes to the database are applied. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios servicegroup dependencies

2012-07-25 Thread Alex Griffin
I don't think that this can be done with just Nagios dependencies. You could set up BPI to accomplish this though. Check it out here: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Components/Nagios-Business-Process-Intelligence-%28BPI%29/details Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com

Re: [Nagios-users] Creating a criteria:

2012-08-01 Thread Alex Griffin
it for running too long. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com Aravinth Anto Intern wrote: Hi all, I'm new to nagios. And trying to figure out how do I do this : Response time 2s for 10 continuous requests in a 5 minutes. If this is the case then I need to create a alert. I

Re: [Nagios-users] check_jabber plugins

2012-08-20 Thread Alex Griffin
. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com CORDIER Annie wrote: Hello I’ve downloaded the nagios plugins version 1.4.16, I’ve run configure, make all and make install. But I still don’t find the check_jabber plugins. What did I miss ? Regards annie

Re: [Nagios-users] About nsca and nrpe...

2012-11-06 Thread Alex Griffin
want to use NSCA, or something you're confused about regarding it? Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com -- LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software

Re: [Nagios-users] R: little question about disable notification and schedule downtime

2012-11-20 Thread Alex Griffin
/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd The list of commands is located here: http://old.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 2012-11-20 03:10, Marco Borsani wrote: Thank you. What do you mean with “drop that command into nagios.cmd

Re: [Nagios-users] Defining a service dependency for large number of services

2012-11-29 Thread Alex Griffin
Personally, I would just define a new group with all the same services except that master service in it. You would have two nearly identical groups then; I'm not sure if that would be a problem for you. Alex Griffin --- Tech Team agrif...@nagios.com On 2012-11-28 16:40, Tech Support wrote