I'll check out the book. Thanks, Kevin
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:18 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Nagios-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 24 Send Nagios-users mailing list submissions to nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can reach the person managing the list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Nagios-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Palle Jensen) 2. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Palle Jensen) 3. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Palle Jensen) 4. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Max Hetrick) 5. Statistics Collection (Kaplan, Andrew H.) 6. Custom messages (Matthew Joyce) 7. Re: Custom messages (Patrick Morris) 8. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Steve Shipway) 9. front end tools for Nagios (RR) 10. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Jim Avery) 11. Re: Newbie configuration questions (Jim Avery) 12. nsclient4j varient for linux (Fahad javed) 13. Re: nsclient4j varient for linux (Morris, Patrick) 14. Re: Newbie configuration questions (RR) 15. Re: Newbie configuration questions (RR) 16. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Hugo van der Kooij) 17. Re: nsclient4j varient for linux (Hugo van der Kooij) 18. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Hari Sekhon) 19. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Pablo Escobar L?pez) 20. Re: front end tools for Nagios ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 21. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Jim Avery) 22. Re: open files on windows server. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 23. how to configure different views for different user?? (Pablo Escobar L?pez) 24. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Tobias Klausmann) 25. Re: Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs (Palle Jensen) 26. Re: front end tools for Nagios (Peter Edmonds) 27. Re: how to configure different views for different user?? (Morris, Patrick) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:39:44 +0200 (CEST) From: Palle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Max Pardon a newbie, i installed Nagios 3 weeks ago and i am still learning :=) You say that you are reading from SNMP, are you still using check_nt plugin in Nagios, or are you using any different plugin? Thanks for you help! - Palle ----------------------- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_p i1[showUid]=1200 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:40:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Palle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Max Pardon a newbie, i installed Nagios 3 weeks ago and i am still learning :=) You say that you are reading from SNMP, are you still using check_nt plugin in Nagios, or are you using any different plugin? Thanks for you help! - Palle ----------------------- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_p i1[showUid]=1200 ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:40:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Palle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Max Pardon a newbie, i installed Nagios 3 weeks ago and i am still learning :=) You say that you are reading from SNMP, are you still using check_nt plugin in Nagios, or are you using any different plugin? Thanks for you help! - Palle ----------------------- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_p i1[showUid]=1200 ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:08:23 -0400 From: Max Hetrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Palle Jensen wrote: > Hi Max > > Pardon a newbie, i installed Nagios 3 weeks ago and i am still learning :=) > > You say that you are reading from SNMP, are you still using check_nt plugin in Nagios, or are you using any different plugin? > > Thanks for you help! > No need to apologize. Well, I use a lot of different plugins, especially for Linux. For my Windows boxen, I just use the stock SNMP installed through the usual Windows stuff along with some of these plugins on the Nagios side. http://nagios.manubulon.com/index_snmp.html I think you're confused about my approach. The way I do graphing, doesn't involve Nagios at all. I just use SNMP and MRTG which does the talking, then I link URLs into Nagios. Nagios doesn't actually process, create, or have anything to do with the graphs. The reason I mentioned my approach is being I think it's easy to setup and use. Everyone has a different way, though. I just happen to also do some checks across Nagios with the SNMP plugins I just listed since SNMP is already running on my hosts. If you're getting confused, you might also want to think about Cacti for this purpose. I've heard good things, and from what I understand it's easy to setup. Nagios for monitoring, and then cacti for reporting and showing pretty graphs. http://cacti.net/ A search on this list provided a thread about nagios2cacti. http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios2cacti/ Tools like NagiosGrapher might be able to assist you as well. There is definitely more than one way to do what you want, so you first have to determine which tool and method you like and want to use first. Do a search on this list for graph/nagiosgraph/nagiosgrapher etc. and many of your questions should already be answered. There's a ton of information already posted. I didn't mean to confuse you before. :) Regards, Max -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGS2S3HoeeepPau2ERAuZYAKCtsbg7U9UB3inB1jYRnnSWw5JCZwCfYZ0o 1+NZtRKxmpZyjoPZCvcpukY= =uATy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 16:19:53 -0400 From: "Kaplan, Andrew H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Nagios-users] Statistics Collection To: <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi there - I am running Nagios 2.8, and I wanted to add a statistics collection component to it in order to check the usage of disk space on one of our servers. The plan was to use APAN because we had used it on a Nagios 1.3 system. Will APAN work on Nagios 2.8, or can anyone suggest an alternative to APAN? Thanks. 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See the docs and examples. ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:39:40 +1200 From: "Steve Shipway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Max wrote: > Palle Jensen wrote: > > You say that you are reading from SNMP, are you still using check_nt > plugin in Nagios, or are you using any different plugin? ... > I think you're confused about my approach. The way I do graphing, > doesn't involve Nagios at all. I just use SNMP and MRTG which does the > talking, then I link URLs into Nagios. Nagios doesn't actually process, > create, or have anything to do with the graphs. The reason I mentioned > my approach is being I think it's easy to setup and use. Everyone has a > different way, though. We use a similar setup, with MRTG for graphing and Nagios for alerting. MRTG can also retrieve data for graphing from the Nagios NSClient and NRPE agents (using the mrtg-pnsclient and mrtg-nrpe plugins) as well as via SNMP. You can set up Nagios to associate a URL with a host or service, which can point at the MRTG graphs. Similarly, if using MRTG with routers2 as the frontend, there is a Nagios plugin to allow Nagios status to be embedded in the MRTG frames. There are also plugins for Weathermap to allow it to read from both Nagios and MRTG (and Cacti, for which it was originally written). I don't use Cacti here because MRTG is simpler to set up, and is a good match for our requirements. Steve ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 20:22:43 -0700 From: RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools to managing the config files. Of these, which ones do other users recommend? http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nagiosweb.htm Or are there other good ones out there that might be a bit better, particularly for beginners? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 10 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:08:01 +0100 From: "Jim Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed On 16/05/07, Palle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When looking at Trends and the different services, it shows graphs of ? > Warnings, Critical and so fort. > > Does anyone know if it is possible to show more specific data on the graph > for different services. > > For example showing Disk Space or Mem Usage - size and percentage of > disk/mem use on the graph. > > I looked at the log files and I saw the data is saved there. I heartily recommend PNP for graphing the performance data from Nagios. http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en It's very easy to setup and use, and doesn't use much disk space. hth, Jim ------------------------------ Message: 11 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 07:17:05 +0100 From: "Jim Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie configuration questions To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 16/05/07, O'Brien, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can some one please point me to some decent documentation on how to set this > up or send me some simple steps. I tried googling it but have not found any > decent examples. I found Wolfgang Barth's book 'Nagios' published by No Starch Press extremely useful as it explains the concepts very well. It's written for Nagios 2.6 if I recall, so may not include all the Nagios 3.0 functionality you need. I haven't looked at Nagios 3.0 yet myself so can't say if that will me much of an issue for you. The book can be purchased in .pdf or printed form (or both!) from the publishers' website. There are other books on Nagios which might be worth a try too, none of which I have read (yet) so I can't say one way or another if they are better or not. hth, Jim ------------------------------ Message: 12 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:41:26 +0500 From: "Fahad javed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Nagios-users] nsclient4j varient for linux To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi, I was looking for an API to monitor network and host stats such as CPU load etc. I understand that nagios is a tool which allows this. Can any one guide me to an java api like nsclient4j which I can use for linux/unix? Thanks Fahad -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 13 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 02:55:31 -0400 From: "Morris, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nsclient4j varient for linux To: "Fahad javed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > I was looking for an API to monitor network and host stats > such as CPU load etc. I understand that nagios is a tool > which allows this. Can any one guide me to an java api like > nsclient4j which I can use for linux/unix? Any of the billion or so SNMP Java client libraries works well on Linux boxes... Though it's not clear what you're trying to accomplish here, and it sounds like you may be asking for something outside the scope of what Nagios does. ------------------------------ Message: 14 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:30:31 -0700 From: RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie configuration questions To: "O'Brien, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Can some one please point me to some decent documentation on how to set > this up or send me some simple steps. I tried googling it but have not > found any decent examples. > Perhaps fire up this live cd and then look at the sample configs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 15 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 00:30:51 -0700 From: RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie configuration questions To: "O'Brien, Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On 5/17/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can some one please point me to some decent documentation on how to set > > this up or send me some simple steps. I tried googling it but have not > > found any decent examples. > > > > Perhaps fire up this live cd and then look at the sample configs. > Whoops, sorry, here's the URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/NagiosOnCD.126.0.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... ------------------------------ Message: 16 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:04:28 +0200 (CEST) From: Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote: > I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools to > managing the config files. > > Of these, which ones do other users recommend? vi. ;-) But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be fit for the job and I do not care what they look like that much. Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ This message is using 100% recycled electrons. Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows" I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?" (Thanks JFK, for the insight.) ------------------------------ Message: 17 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:06:39 +0200 (CEST) From: Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nsclient4j varient for linux To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On Thu, 17 May 2007, Fahad javed wrote: > I was looking for an API to monitor network and host stats such as CPU load > etc. I understand that nagios is a tool which allows this. Can any one > guide me to an java api like nsclient4j which I can use for linux/unix? This sounds more like a job for cacti. Hugo. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ This message is using 100% recycled electrons. Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows" I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?" (Thanks JFK, for the insight.) ------------------------------ Message: 18 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:10:54 +0100 From: Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed adding my 2 cents... I agree with Hugo, I also use vi(m). front end configuration tools? more fluff and less understanding, why bother? -h Hari Sekhon Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote: > > >> I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools to >> managing the config files. >> >> Of these, which ones do other users recommend? >> > > vi. ;-) > > But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be fit for > the job and I do not care what they look like that much. > > Hugo. > > ------------------------------ Message: 19 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:13:54 +0200 From: Pablo Escobar L?pez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Im using Monarch (http://freshmeat.net/projects/monarch/) and it works great. I haven?t tried any other similar soft so I can?t compare. On Thursday 17 May 2007 05:22:43 RR wrote: > I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools to > managing the config files. > > Of these, which ones do other users recommend? > > http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/nagiosweb.htm > > Or are there other good ones out there that might be a bit better, > particularly for beginners? ------------------------------ Message: 20 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:17:21 +0100 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" I agree, I feel it is much better to understand the layout and structure to the config files than to hide it all behind a gui type front end. You learn a lot more about how nagios hangs together by making config files, running pre-flight checks and getting errors. You then correct the errors, normally a simple typo or an omitted name in another config file. This all builds a great understanding of Nagios. And well who needs cool, vi is brilliant and in its on way is "cool" as you get it on most flavours of unix/linux. Well that's my six shillings worth -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hari Sekhon Sent: 17 May 2007 11:11 To: Nagios Users mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios adding my 2 cents... I agree with Hugo, I also use vi(m). front end configuration tools? more fluff and less understanding, why bother? -h Hari Sekhon Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote: > > >> I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools >> to managing the config files. >> >> Of these, which ones do other users recommend? >> > > vi. ;-) > > But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be fit > for the job and I do not care what they look like that much. > > Hugo. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null ------------------------------ Message: 21 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 11:41:22 +0100 From: "Jim Avery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed I think my four most favourite cool front ends (in no particular order) are: NEXSM: http://nexsm.gridshield.net/Overview.html PNP: http://www.ederdrom.de/doku.php/nagios/pnp_en Nagvis: http://www.nagvis.org/doku.php The nuvola theme: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Image_Packs.75.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5B p_view%5D=252 All of these are to do with visualising the status of hosts and services though, not configuration. I'm firmly in the "use vi" camp on that one (or use gedit if vi scares you). cheers, Jim ------------------------------ Message: 22 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 16:15:27 +0530 From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] open files on windows server. To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hi, Look at performance counter \Server\Files Open Regards, Narendran Neelamegam ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eugene Liedel Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 10:23 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] open files on windows server. Has anyone found a way to use nagios to monitor open files on a windows server ? 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There are many developers on my office and I would like that when they log on the nagios web interface they just can see the machines they use for work. ??Is there any way to do this with nagios or with other tool?? I couldn?t find anything about it. many thanks in advance for any help. Pablo ------------------------------ Message: 24 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 13:22:26 +0200 From: Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi! On Thu, 17 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hari Sekhon wrote: >> Hugo van der Kooij wrote: >> > On Wed, 16 May 2007, RR wrote: >> >> I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools >> >> to managing the config files. >> >> >> >> Of these, which ones do other users recommend? >> >> >> > vi. ;-) >> > >> > But I never understood the need for 'cool'. I want my tools to be fit >> > for the job and I do not care what they look like that much. >> > >> adding my 2 cents... >> >> I agree with Hugo, I also use vi(m). >> >> front end configuration tools? >> more fluff and less understanding, why bother? >> > I feel it is much better to understand the layout and structure to the > config files than to hide it all behind a gui type front end. > > You learn a lot more about how nagios hangs together by making config > files, running pre-flight checks and getting errors. You then correct > the errors, normally a simple typo or an omitted name in another config > file. This all builds a great understanding of Nagios. > > And well who needs cool, vi is brilliant and in its on way is "cool" as > you get it on most flavours of unix/linux. > > Well that's my six shillings worth Same here, vim. But, and I can not stress this enough, keep your config in some kinde of version control system. I personally use Subversion, but there are lots of others out ther (CVS, RCS, Bitkeeper, git, ...). This is especially true if more than one person edits the config. Regards, Tobias -- In the future, everyone will be anonymous for 15 minutes. ------------------------------ Message: 25 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 14:31:59 +0200 (CEST) From: Palle Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Show disk usage in Trends/Graphs To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Thanks for all help! The different graphs, PNP, MRTG do they store the perf. data in a database or logfile? When i look in the logfiles for nagios, it show only a single check for the perf. data per day. I am running Nagios with a daily rotating file. Is there a way to configure nagios to save the data several times i.e. every time it checks the service? If yes, is there anyway to use nagios logfile to get the data and showing that in graphs? I have been searching in the documentation/forums and mailing lists but cant find any answer for that. I am asking because i want to be sure i am research the right thing, either use nagios logfile for showing the perf. data graph or install an add-on to be able to do it. - Palle ----------------------- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html?&tx_maillisttofaq_p i1[showUid]=1217 ------------------------------ Message: 26 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 22:52:05 +1000 From: "Peter Edmonds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 5/17/07, RR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm relatively new to Nagios and am looking for cool front end tools to > managing the config files. I would recommend using Groundwork Monitor Open Source. I am currently using GWMOS version 4.5 - the current release is 5.0 http://richard.trezza.us/vmach/index.html What do you get ? A complete VMware virtual appliance built using CentOS 4.4, with full GUI configuration, integrated graphing of performance data. While some people might like building config files by hand, using a frontend GUI like Groundwork Monitor Open Source allows sysadmins to quickly deploy large numbers of services across large numbers of hosts, while reducing the possibility of typos / errors in hand coded config files. Peter Edmonds ------------------------------ Message: 27 Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 09:15:08 -0400 From: "Morris, Patrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] how to configure different views for different user?? To: Pablo Escobar L?pez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > I am using the last stable nagios version and i works great > but I can?t find the way to configure different views for > different user. > > There are many developers on my office and I would like that > when they log on the nagios web interface they just can see > the machines they use for work. > > ??Is there any way to do this with nagios or with other > tool?? I couldn?t find anything about it. The default behavior for Nagios is to only show users hosts/services for which they are listed as contacts. Assuming they each have their own logins, as long as you don't enable globals views in the cgi config, that's how it works. ------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users End of Nagios-users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 24 ******************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. 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