Hi,
great, but I did nothing, you found the solution. What a pity, I do not deserve
the reward ;-)
Ciao,
Giorgio
Il giorno 18/mag/2011, alle ore 15:26, "Stephanie Gelder"
<stephanie_gel...@walkergreenbank.co.uk> ha scritto:
> Hi Giorgio
>
> THANK YOU.
>
> What an idiot I am. I copied a load the stuff over from the old server but of
> course, I had not copied over the printer-service settings, as a quick check
> I changed it back to generic-service and it's started to work straight away,
> as soon as you said that I realised what I have done. I've tested and had
> the services go onto the second attempt which is when they put it off for a
> week, and it's worked.
>
> One last time. THANK YOU, I could kiss you I'm so happy!!!!!!
>
> Stephanie
>
> >>>
> From: Giorgio Zarrelli <zarre...@linux.it>
> To: Nagios Users List <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> CC: "<Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net>"
> <Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Date: 18/05/2011 13:50
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Services Not being checked
> Hi
>
> I'm on mobile so I can miss something.
>
> Can you show me the printer-service template definition?
>
> Ciao,
>
> Giorgio
>
> Il giorno 18/mag/2011, alle ore 13:54, "Stephanie Gelder"
> <stephanie_gel...@walkergreenbank.co.uk> ha scritto:
>
>> Hi.
>>
>> I'm ok with Nagios, but I'm not linux guru so treat me gently :)
>>
>> I have reinstalled Nagios onto a new Server it was running on a very old pc
>> that had hardware issues. So I've now re-installed it on a Dell R300 with
>> 16 Gig of memory complete overkill but it's what I had available.
>>
>> I am running Nagios Core 3.2.3 on Fedora Linux.
>> [root@nagios]# uname -a
>> Linux nagios.***.*** 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue May 3 13:23:06 UTC
>> 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>
>> I have problems with checking services I have at the moment 107 devices on
>> it printers and switches, (the old bashed up PC had around 300 devices on it
>> and worked fine before the hardware died). Anyway I am trying to monitor
>> services and for all the switches it seems fine, but for all of the printers
>> it's not working. Automatically so I am wondering if i've done something
>> wrong but I cannot work out what is wrong it all appears to be fine, please
>> see below. But when I try monitoring services it will start and for the odd
>> printer work fine but the next printer in the list it will not work for and
>> what happens is it check the service once and it's fine but then when it
>> comes to do the second check on either the check_ping or check_printer
>> service it either disables checking the service or moves the date forward a
>> week for the next check.
>>
>> I'm stuck as to why these services are either not being checked or put
>> forward to only check them in a weeks time.
>>
>> All my switches that work are in a group called generic-switch
>>
>> I've tried putting half a dozen of the printers into generic-switch instead
>> of novell-printer and they have exactly the same results so I don't think
>> it's got anything to do with that. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Stephanie
>>
>> In the nagios.log file after trying to run a service the second time it
>> shows up as below:-
>>
>> Warning: Check of service 'PING' on host 'ANS-ACCOUNTS01' could not be
>> rescheduled properly. Scheduling check for next week...
>> [1305715325] Warning: Check of service 'Printer Status' on host
>> 'ANS-ACCOUNTS01' could not be rescheduled properly. Scheduling check for
>> next week...
>>
>> So using this example:-
>>
>> printers.cfg includes
>>
>> define host{
>> use novell-printer
>> host_name ANS-ACCOUNTS01
>> alias Dell Colour Laser 5110cn
>> parents LGH-242
>> icon_image printer.png
>> statusmap_image printer.gd2
>> address ***.***.***.***
>> }
>>
>>
>> define hostgroup{
>> hostgroup_name LGH-NOV
>> alias *** - Novell Printers
>> members **,ANS-ACCOUNTS01,**,**,**,**,**
>> }
>> define service{
>> use printer-service
>> host_name ANS-ACCOUNTS01,**,**,**,**,**
>> service_description Printer Status
>> check_command check_printer!
>> normal_check_interval 2
>> retry_check_interval 1
>> }
>>
>> define service{
>> use printer-service
>> host_name ANS-ACCOUNTS01,**,**,**,**
>> service_description PING
>> check_command check_ping!3000.0,80%!5000.0,100%
>> normal_check_interval 5
>> retry_check_interval 1
>> }
>> In the templates.cfg file:-
>>
>>
>> define host{
>> name generic-host ; The name of this
>> host template
>> notifications_enabled 1 ; Host notifications
>> are enabled
>> event_handler_enabled 1 ; Host event handler
>> is enabled
>> flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is
>> enabled
>> failure_prediction_enabled 1 ; Failure prediction
>> is enabled
>> process_perf_data 1 ; Process
>> performance data
>> retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status
>> information across program restarts
>> retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status
>> information across program restarts
>> notification_period 24x7 ; Send host
>> notifications at any time
>> register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS
>> DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>> }
>>
>> define host{
>> name novell-printer ; The name of this
>> host template
>> use generic-host ; Inherit these
>> default values
>> check_period 24x7 ; By default,
>> printers are monitored round the clock
>> check_interval 2 ; Actively check the
>> printer every 2 minutes
>> retry_interval 1 ; Schedule host
>> check retries at 1 minute intervals
>> max_check_attempts 10 ; Check each printer
>> 10 times (max)
>> check_command check-host-alive ; Default command to
>> check if printers are "alive"
>> notification_period 24x7 ; Printers are only
>> used during the workday
>> notification_interval 60 ; Resend
>> notifications every 30 minutes
>> notification_options d,r ; Only send
>> notifications for specific host states
>> contact_groups admins ; Notifications get
>> sent to the admins by default
>> register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS
>> - ITS JUST A TEMPLATE
>> }
>>
>>
>> In the timeperiods.cfg file:-
>> define timeperiod{
>> timeperiod_name 24x7
>> alias 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week
>> sunday 00:00-24:00
>> monday 00:00-24:00
>> tuesday 00:00-24:00
>> wednesday 00:00-24:00
>> thursday 00:00-24:00
>> friday 00:00-24:00
>> saturday 00:00-24:00
>> }
>>
>>
>>
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