[Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'd like to be able to create a hostgroup with no members assigned, but doesn't appear to work. The reason being is that I'm generating the host configs using a third-party tool, and it puts in that host file which hostgroups a host belong to. This works great, but there has to be at least 1

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 2:34 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/01/2010 08:57 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I'd like to be able to create a hostgroup with no members

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/01/2010 08:57 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I'd like to be able to create a hostgroup with no members assigned, but doesn't appear to work. Empty hostgroups work just fine. The check that says

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
-Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:10 AM To: Daniel Wittenberg Cc: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/02/2010 02:59 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Ok, so this was a basic

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Maybe it could just be considered a warning and not a fatal error? I can ignore warnings :) Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 9:43 AM To: Daniel Wittenberg Cc: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Very cool, look forward to using it! Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 12:56 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/02/2010 04:54 PM, Max Schubert wrote: To

Re: [Nagios-users] More than one command defined

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm looking at the same issue and our thoughts are to use NDO utils or possibly custom NEB to grab perf data that way, but then still let pnp4nagios run the 'normal' way. Dan From: Deborah Martin [mailto:deborah.mar...@kognitio.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:26 AM To: 'Nagios

[Nagios-users] server profiling options

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm looking at minimizing the CPU impact that nagios has on our server, and done some of the basic performance tuning stuff, but what I see right now is a lot of the nagios worker procs generating a lot of CPU and curious if there was a way people have used to watch what those processes and

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I was curious if we were able to make any progress on getting this patch included? Thanks! Dan -Original Message- From: Max Schubert [mailto:m...@webwizarddesign.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 7:04 AM To: Andreas Ericsson; Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup

Re: [Nagios-users] server profiling options

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Yup, already enabled... Dan -Original Message- From: Breandan Dezendorf [mailto:brean...@dezendorf.com] Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 3:05 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] server profiling options On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Wittenberg

Re: [Nagios-users] server profiling options and pre-caching macros

2010-11-18 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
options On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: I'm looking at minimizing the CPU impact that nagios has on our server, and done some of the basic performance tuning stuff, but what I see right now is a lot of the nagios worker procs generating

Re: [Nagios-users] server profiling options and pre-caching macros

2010-11-19 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'll see what I can do...with holiday coming up not sure how much will get done but I'll see... Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:20 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] server

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-11-19 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 3:17 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement On 11/18/2010 09:19 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I was curious if we were able to make any progress on getting

Re: [Nagios-users] server profiling options

2010-11-19 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm a bit suspicious about the external_command_check_interval directive ( see http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html ) If it's set to -1 (as mine was until recently) then Nagios will check external commands as often as possible. I suspect it helps if you set it to a definite

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
From: Assaf Flatto [mailto:nag...@flatto.net] Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 11:26 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency dan there were a couple of discussions on the list that dealt with latency issues . Have you tried looking

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Yeah, been running that since day one, since when rollout is done we'll probably have about 18k servers and around 3 million service checks... I can probably post my relevant config options if someone wants to peak. Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com]

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 06:05 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Yeah, been running that since day one, since when rollout is done we'll probably have about 18k servers and around 3 million service checks... 170 services per host

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
-backed vm host. I turned off embedded perl this morning and our latency has been holding at 10 seconds so far, so that seemed to help a lot. Dan -Original Message- From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 11:42 AM To: Andreas

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Question.. Monitoring Lnux machines.

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Take a look at NRPE for Linux/Unix clients. There are RPM's available from rpmforge which will get you going. Dan From: Maxime Alarie [mailto:mala...@processia.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:21 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Newbie Question.. Monitoring Lnux

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie Question.. Monitoring Lnux machines.

2010-12-02 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
is on the local network there is no reason to use the client. It can monitor if the system is up or down. I believe the client is just for if your not on the local lan From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:32 PM To: Nagios Users

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:39 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] high latency On 12/02/2010 08:38 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: Someone else noticed that nagios is generating a ton of minor page faults, and curious

Re: [Nagios-users] Check size of large directory

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not sure how those other scripts are doing it, if using an ls maybe? As a test, can you do: time find path -type f |wc -l See how long it takes for that? Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:26 AM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Sorry for confusion on that..I added 9 checks to *each* host, and there's about 700 hosts. No, it's all the nagios daemon itself (nagios -uxd). It feels like if I add that many more checks that it has a hard time doing the checks and processing the results since if I either move the active

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-03 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, then die, rather than just performing one task? That seems like it would still maintain stability and offer higher performance gains ? Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 03, 2010 5:22 AM To: Daniel Wittenberg Cc: Nagios Users List Subject

Re: [Nagios-users] high latency

2010-12-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I did some testing today with epn on and off and it didn't seem to make any difference in our latency times. Not overly scientific though, but looked about the same running few hours each way. Dan -Original Message- From: Max Schubert [mailto:m...@webwizarddesign.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring remote hosts

2010-12-06 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You might want to check: netstat -nap |grep 5667 That will show you what's actually listening on that port, if anything. That's usually oen big reason xinetd couldn't start up. Like maybe you have an RC script starting up NSCA outside of xinetd. Dan From: Rikard Dahlberg

Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high load reported by check_load plugin

2010-12-06 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
In top, does it show the same load values? The status of your memory shouldn't cause the nagios plugin to report high cpu. What does the uptime command say? Try running the check_load script by hand on that host and verify it returns the same results. Dan From: Marc Powell

Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high loadreportedby check_load plugin

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, 1 user, load average: 73.36, 73.29, 73.21 From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 4:40 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Determining what is causing a high load

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with hostgroup members definition

2010-12-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
You could do it the other way, and in the host definition assign it to a hostgroup, using the hostgroups directive, and give it a comma-separated list of groups? We did it that way so basically the host definition file is all self-contained. Dan -Original Message- From: Forrest Aldrich

[Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I noticed something odd the other day while stressing my servers. I noticed that when I overload it with too many hosts/checks, that I start getting active check failures with the standard 127 code. But, if I slowly reduce the number of hosts/checks, I’ll get to a point where it starts

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
, 2010 10:12 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though On 12/14/2010 05:08 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I noticed something odd the other day while stressing my servers. I noticed that when I overload

Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though

2010-12-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
in env. Always something fun in nagiosland :) Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 11:22 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load

Re: [Nagios-users] CPU monitor for a single Linux user spaceprocess ?

2010-12-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I also modified one of the other plugins to do a user-space, check_ps.pl I think was it, so I added a -u user option that basically does a ps aux for all that user and then totals all the results. I can probably get a copy if you wanted it. Mainly because I don't use snmp for process checks

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Couple questions 1) Why do you have to reboot your monitoring server weekly? 2) How is the reboot being done? Reason I ask 2) is because the standard rc script will remove the lockfile when nagios is told to stop. So if you are having this problem is sounds like you are not doing a clean

Re: [Nagios-users] tracing nagios actions

2010-12-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Also you probably want to make sure you run the command as the nagios user, or whatever the user is that the service runs as, to make sure you are getting the right environment and permissions. Dan From: Polifemo, Salvatore [mailto:polife...@conedsolutions.com] Sent: Monday, December 20,

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot by lockfile

2010-12-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
that is in it's PID file isn't an active process? Thanks. Eric -Original Message- From: Daniel Wittenberg [mailto:daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com] Sent: Monday, December 20, 2010 11:56 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios kept from restarting after reboot

[Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We're looking at a service that has problems from time-to-time, and it gets auto-restarted when needed (Windows). What I've been looking for is a way to say that it needs 3 restarts ir order to go critical, but only within a 1 hour time frame. Anyone come up with a way to do time frames like

Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I want to know if a service restarts 3 times in one hour. Right now I can only find a way to do 3 times, ever, using max_check_attempts. Better ? Dan -Original Message- From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 22, 2010 1:12 PM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

2010-12-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
19:42, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: I want to know if a service restarts 3 times in one hour. Right now I can only find a way to do 3 times, ever, using max_check_attempts. Better ? Dan If the service writes an event to the Windows event log each time

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows event viewer.

2010-12-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Doesn't syslog-ng just consolidate the logs, it doesn't really monitor anything right? Dan -Original Message- From: Polifemo, Salvatore [mailto:polife...@conedsolutions.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 8:38 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking multiple TCP ports for a single status?

2010-12-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Write a simple script that does both checks and returns results? Dan -Original Message- From: stan [mailto:st...@panix.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 12:39 PM To: nagios List Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking multiple TCP ports for a single status? I think I need to verify

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows 2008 event log?

2011-02-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Also look at check_logfiles if you need something a little more flexible, both are great. Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 8:40 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring Windows

Re: [Nagios-users] ePN Trouble

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Add this to your script in the first 10 lines to keep epn from parsing: # nagios: -epn Dan From: Juan-Francisco Diez [mailto:moch...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 4:29 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] ePN Trouble Hi all, I use a

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-common RPM Package

2011-02-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm not sure what that is, but I tend to stick with the RPM's from rpmforge for Nagios stuff. I have to tweak them, but they are good. You should be able to get nagios (all server stuff), then things like nagios-plugins, nagios-nrpe, nsca, and the nsca client and that would get most of what you

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This is kind of what I did when testing backup system. I had a process tailing the nagios.log and when it got incoming messages it would just forward a copy to the other server so all but passive checks the secondary system appeared to be the same as the primary. Seemed to work pretty well. Dan

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy

2011-02-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
the time. Dan -Original Message- From: Morty [mailto:morty+nag...@frakir.org] Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 3:52 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios server redundancy On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 06:59:23AM -0700, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: This is kind of what I did when

Re: [Nagios-users] A question on my distributed server set up

2011-02-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
That looks right. First nagios is telling you that it has received an external command, and the value is X. Then it is telling you that it is processing the results of the passive check. Does that make sense? Dan From: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 15,

Re: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios Monitoring Windows Hosts

2011-03-14 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Everyone's configs can be very different. How about posting your error and part of your configs and we can help fix those? Dan From: TINOS ROUSOS [mailto:ti...@ebnet.org] Sent: Monday, March 14, 2011 8:56 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios

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

2011-03-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
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 -Original Message- From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 9:28 AM To: Nagios Users List

Re: [Nagios-users] Create services dynamically for a specific host

2011-03-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This is something you could write, to watch the logs and create the service config files for services it doesn't know about, but would require some knowledge about what services you had coming in. It could be an interesting add-on. Dan From: Jarlath Lyons [mailto:jarlath.ly...@tideworks.com]

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring

2011-03-30 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
My vote is to look at Multisite and livestatus from check_mk project. Dan From: Gerheim [mailto:wallacegerh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:01 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed Monitoring Hello folks, I'm new on Nagios and

Re: [Nagios-users] Mass Acknowledge a Service

2011-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
If you are using multisite for your interface you can filter the view to only show those and then ack them all at once. Dan From: steve f [mailto:a31mod...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 1:00 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Mass Acknowledge a Service

Re: [Nagios-users] Best practices for running Nagios across multiple data centers

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Might be simpler than that, just tie the front-end viewing together. We're using Multisite to tie together over 30 Nagios servers in 3 different data centers. Dan -Original Message- From: David Rosenstrauch [mailto:dar...@darose.net] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 11:35 AM To:

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

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
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. Dan -Original Message- From: Edwin Zoeller [mailto:edwin.zoel...@ama-assn.org] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 1:08 PM To: Nagios Users List

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

2011-07-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] Sent: Friday, July 01, 2011 2:37 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly 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

Re: [Nagios-users] Deleting old comments

2011-08-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I have seen cases where there can be enough comments to start slowing the interface down considerably. We have a script that removes them if they are 30 days old or more than X number per host. Dan -Original Message- From: William Muriithi [mailto:w.murii...@syncapse.com] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure

2011-08-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
So will we see a point release at some point? 3.3.2? Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 7:19 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure On 08/18/2011 04:15 PM, Jaco Lesch wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure

2011-08-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Yeah I figured so...time to update my resume :) Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 9:18 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.3.1 Installation Failure On 08/23/2011 04:12 PM

Re: [Nagios-users] Observing latency

2011-09-05 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
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) and modified it to run with a nice of 20 to make sure that Nagios always had enough priority to get its work done (which is

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members

2011-09-23 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not sure about in the old version, but what we do is not put the membership info in the hostgroup definition, but give the host definition a list of hostgroups it belongs to which is a much shorter list. Dan -Original Message- From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] High check latency in a machine with low load

2011-10-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I think you have the enable_high_latency option enabled :) j/k Do you have any particular checks that are taking a long time? i.e. can you watch top and see checks taking a while? Dan From: Javier Vela Diago [mailto:jv...@s2grupo.es] Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:23 AM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] programmatic access to nagios state

2011-11-01 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We use the livestatus event broker for that purpose, there is also a JSON web services frontend for livestatus as well. Dan -Original Message- From: Richard Clark [mailto:n...@fohnet.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 3:44 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking External URLs

2011-11-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Couldn't do a host alive check that just checks port 80 instead of ping, and then have services with check_http for URL's you want to check? Dan -Original Message- From: Corey Quinn [mailto:co...@sequestered.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 4:18 PM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts without any contacts or contactgroups

2011-11-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I have a user called Nobody with no contact times and no contact information but it's enough to make the system happy. Dan -Original Message- From: Brandon Phelps [mailto:bphe...@gls.com] Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 1:02 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject:

[Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I've started playing with making a bunch of dependencies and at first it appeared to be working, right now I've got a pretty basic test setup. I've added one service to be dependent on the other one, but it seems that the freshness might be mucking with it. Two services below: define service

Re: [Nagios-users] Basic Question: Apache needed on client ?

2011-12-22 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
On the client? None unless you have some odd agent that uses http protocol, but normally on unix/linux you have NRPE which has no requirements for apache. Dan -Original Message- From: Dan White [mailto:y...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:40 PM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would second that, use the RPM's and then it's super-simple RPM installs and a few tweaks for performance and you should be good. Dan -Original Message- From: Alain Williams [mailto:a...@phcomp.co.uk] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 10:13 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re:

Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
. Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:09 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working On 12/16/2011 04:38 AM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote: I've started playing

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not meaning to toot my own horn, but for larger scales I did a presentation that has config examples and stuff, based on RHEL-5, but should apply the same to RHEL/CentOS 6 as well. http://planet.nagios.org/archives/84-nagios-exchange/3850-daniel-wittenberg-scaling-nagios-at-a-giant-insurance

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Not at all, we're all here to help... What are you using for your ping check? What is the output from 'nagiostats'? Dan -Original Message- From: mpeder...@choopa.com [mailto:mpeder...@choopa.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2011 3:21 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re:

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Optimization on CentOS

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 21:26:15 +, Daniel Wittenberg daniel.wittenberg.r...@statefarm.com wrote: Not at all, we're all here to help... What are you using for your ping check? What is the output from 'nagiostats'? And now I'm going to admit to feeling like a blooming idiot. As it turns out

Re: [Nagios-users] servicedependencies not working

2011-12-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
be nice if you could have a setting that would tell it that freshness checks should be treated the same way as active checks. Dan -Original Message- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Friday, December 23, 2011 7:09 AM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Daniel Wittenberg Subject: Re

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios on CentOS

2011-12-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
future system updates. Compiling nagios from source is dead simple and well documented. Cheers, Steve Glasser | Senior System Administrator | visp.net Direct: 541-955-6903 | Fax: 541-471-0821 On 12/28/11 6:12 AM, Assaf Flatto wrote: On Tuesday 27 December 2011 10:23 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I'm using Multisite for front-end to Core and do this all the time. Dan From: Jake Xu [mailto:j...@demonware.net] Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 1:54 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once Hi everyone, From time to

Re: [Nagios-users] How to reschedule multiple/all services at once

2012-01-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Scalability might still be an issue with Multisite, there are some things that make it perform really slow to be aware of, but I have it accessing 34 nagios servers, about 36,000 devices and 1.5 million service checks, so it's definitely do-able. Dan From: Jake Xu [mailto:j...@demonware.net]

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts?

2012-01-12 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Another reason something like Multisite is handy :) Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 8:11 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime for mass hosts? Tonight I will be

Re: [Nagios-users] Centralized Dashboard

2012-02-08 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Check out multisite, part of check_mk suite of tools. Dan From: trm asn [mailto:trm.nag...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 7:40 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Centralized Dashboard Dear Friend, I have 7 Nagios core server running at 7 different location. I have

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically add/remove hosts on Nagios

2012-02-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
As far as passive checks, just use your script as an eventhandler. As for dynamically adding, I wish too :) My restart times are now like 15-20 minutes whenever I make a config change or update hosts. Dan From: Felipe Cecagno [mailto:fceca...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically add/remove hosts on Nagios

2012-02-10 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
That depends on your definition of dynamically. I would like to see it be able to add/remove hosts without requiring a restart of the service. I currently use puppet, but it's still just updating files and then you have to restart to pickup the changes. Dan From: ranjib dey

Re: [Nagios-users] Have we reached some kind of Nagios limit?

2012-02-20 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Have you tried running in debug mode? Dan From: Frost, Mark {BIS} [mailto:mark.fro...@pepsico.com] Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:48 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Have we reached some kind of Nagios limit? A couple of days ago, I ran into a problem I've never seen

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

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We actually use check_logfiles with NSClient so haven't seen this, and we have tons of rules. Might be worth looking at. Not that anything is wrong with NSClient :) just check_logfiles also has more regex and options. Dan -Original Message- From: MAD [mailto:m...@b-care.net] Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] socket time out error from cluster server in passive node in nagios tools

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
So getting timeouts sending messages from a node - NSCA on the nagios server? If that's the case how is your NSCA configured, stand-alone or via xinetd? Dan -Original Message- From: chandra moger [mailto:cdac.chan...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:18 AM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios plugins output strings

2012-02-24 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
This might help: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html Dan -Original Message- From: DENNY, MICHAEL [mailto:md2...@att.com] Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 10:45 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios plugins output strings Hey,

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Usually I've seen that when you have a mismatch in the buffer sizes, so maybe XI has a larger buffer size? Dan -Original Message- From: Steve Kemp [mailto:st...@dedicatedserversaustralia.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 6:48 AM To: 'Nagios Users List' Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE

2012-02-27 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
of error. Dan -Original Message- From: Steve Kemp [mailto:st...@dedicatedserversaustralia.com.au] Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:28 PM To: Daniel Wittenberg; 'Nagios Users List' Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] XI - NRPE Not sure im following you on this about buffer sizes? Regards Steve

Re: [Nagios-users] Recommendation needed

2012-03-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I like pnp4nagios, easy to integrate and flexible. Using it with multisite as the front-end make it all just work out of the box. Dan -Original Message- From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 4:02 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] use_large_installation_tweaks

2012-04-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
We did the same, too much over from NDO to justify any benefit. Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 10:18 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] use_large_installation_tweaks Does anyone

Re: [Nagios-users] empty hostgroups only for service defs?

2012-04-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would imagine that's the case, since I had to patch our version to deal with the depenencies too. Dan From: Erik Larkin [mailto:erik_lar...@gap.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 3:30 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Erik Larkin Subject: [Nagios-users] empty hostgroups only for

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes running together in different locations

2012-05-09 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would agree with this as well, usually easier I think then trying to cross-connect everything together and make sense of all of it. Make them standalone, and then use something like Multisite which can bring all of them together in one view so it all appears to be one box setup. Dan From:

Re: [Nagios-users] Querying nagios object information through command line

2012-05-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I second livestatus, we use it all the time, plus there is a webservice as well, livestatusSlave which might work better with your php. http://nagios.larsmichelsen.com/livestatusslave/ Dan -Original Message- From: C. Bensend [mailto:be...@bennyvision.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 16,

Re: [Nagios-users] Handling large amount of syslogs with nagios

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I would think you could eliminate a good portion of those with the right set of dependencies, but outside of that I would personally look at using an MQ to store the messages instead so you can more easily distribute the work and make it more scalable. Dan -Original Message- From: Yu

Re: [Nagios-users] How many hosts and services are you monitoring with Nagios?

2012-05-17 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I actually wrote a NEB like this as well that we used to send data to a CGI and also used it for Splunk, just sending perf data, worked pretty well with almost no impact on the server side, just some increased network bandwidth. Dan -Original Message- From: Max Schubert

Re: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios

2012-05-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Take a look at pnp4nagios as well. Dan From: vishesh kumar [mailto:linuxtovish...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:33 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] Data Visualization in Nagios Hi Members, I want to present nagios data in graphics . What should i use for simple for

Re: [Nagios-users] Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is POSIX-guaranteed atomic write size (512 bytes).

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I personally haven't seen that, have you looked at using a more recent version? Dan From: Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:kaushalshri...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 11:21 PM To: nagios Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Warning: Size of service_message struct (8376 bytes) is

Re: [Nagios-users] JMX requests without java

2012-05-31 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I don't remember the details, but I thought you could setup one host with jmx4perl and use that as a proxy for the other hosts, something like that work ? Dan -Original Message- From: MAD [mailto:m...@b-care.net] Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 9:58 AM To: Nagios-Users Subject:

Re: [Nagios-users] Large scale installation

2012-06-11 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Take a look at mod_gearman for distributing the checks: http://labs.consol.de/lang/de/nagios/mod-gearman/ Dan On Jun 10, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Andreas Brandino wrote: Hi all, my nagios installation has currently 400+ hosts and around 1400 checks. As the server load grows, delays are appearing.

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes in 1 web interface

2012-06-21 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Check out check_mk multisite, I think that will do what you want. Dan On Jun 21, 2012, at 9:01 AM, Andrew Thompson wrote: Hello, At the moment I have 1 box setup, monitoring 2 sites (1 local and 1 remote) and if I go to www.blablabla.co.ukhttp://www.blablabla.co.uk it routes through to my

Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Kernel Version

2012-06-28 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
I haven't seen one, but would be trivial to write one. You looking to see the rpm -q kernel output or something like uname -a? Dan On Jun 28, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Edwin Zoeller wrote: Does anyone know of or have a plugin that will display the current kernel level for Redhat? Thanks, Ed P

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote event handlers using NRPE

2012-08-29 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
WMI assumes you are running Windows… With NRPE I haven't seen a way to do it without being pass arguments. I'm just careful with scripts that can take arguments that they scrub what's being passed in. Dan On Aug 29, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Nick Smith wrote: I dont have an answer about your NRPE

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin Log Pattern Notification

2012-09-04 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
http://labs.consol.de/lang/de/nagios/check_logfiles/ Works on Windows and Linux, highly configurable. Dan On Sep 4, 2012, at 12:01 PM, Net Warrior wrote: Thanks, I'll take a look. I found several plugins but for windows instead, what I want to do is to find a string I configured with iptables

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