Re: [Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
That's exactly what I described. Altho the docs don't describe toggling active checks on/off, which is the requirement here. You can still do the same using the external commands process. Taylor On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 22/08/08 03:45 PM, Taylor Dondich wrote: >> So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable active >> checks on the service initially. Then when your passive check script >> detects a problem, not only does it send nagios a passive check >> RESULT, but it also sends a command to enable active checks on that >> service. Then your active check script, when it determines the >> problem has resolved itself, could also send nagios itself a command >> to disable active checks on that service. Fun way to do it. >> >> Information on the commands you need, their description, and sample >> shell scripts which execute them, are at: >> >> http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php >> > > I would rather implement the "adaptive monitoring" part using > eventhandlers. I there's even a section in Nagios doc about adaptive > monitoring. > > Don't miss the list of external commands neither; they're available here: > http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/ > > Some of them are very useful for altering the monitoring logic. > > - -- > Thomas > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFIr7kw6dZ+Kt5BchYRAhW0AJ4iIj/mYdtG1m9wYAHwcjyNRK5+pgCg+Yva > d3+4EueprfHxB84t7qXtovY= > =KAlq > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > -- Taylor Check out my Shortcut with O'Reilly Press: Network Monitoring with Nagios: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528195/index.html - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/08/08 03:45 PM, Taylor Dondich wrote: > So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable active > checks on the service initially. Then when your passive check script > detects a problem, not only does it send nagios a passive check > RESULT, but it also sends a command to enable active checks on that > service. Then your active check script, when it determines the > problem has resolved itself, could also send nagios itself a command > to disable active checks on that service. Fun way to do it. > > Information on the commands you need, their description, and sample > shell scripts which execute them, are at: > > http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php > I would rather implement the "adaptive monitoring" part using eventhandlers. I there's even a section in Nagios doc about adaptive monitoring. Don't miss the list of external commands neither; they're available here: http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/ Some of them are very useful for altering the monitoring logic. - -- Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIr7kw6dZ+Kt5BchYRAhW0AJ4iIj/mYdtG1m9wYAHwcjyNRK5+pgCg+Yva d3+4EueprfHxB84t7qXtovY= =KAlq -END PGP SIGNATURE- - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
For this functionality, to make it easier, you may want to make wrapper scripts which do the actual command sending to nagios, but a command parameter to that script could be the actual check command to run (the script), along with any other command parameters. That way you're not writing duplicate scripts for all your plugins. -- Taylor Check out my Shortcut with O'Reilly Press: Network Monitoring with Nagios: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528195/index.html On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Douglas K. Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Taylor> So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable > Taylor> active checks on the service initially. Then when your > Taylor> passive check script detects a problem, not only does it send > Taylor> nagios a passive check RESULT, but it also sends a command to > Taylor> enable active checks on that service. Then your active check > Taylor> script, when it determines the problem has resolved itself, > Taylor> could also send nagios itself a command to disable active > Taylor> checks on that service. Fun way to do it. > > "Fun" Clearly a word with many meanings. :) > > Thanks for the tip, I never considered that approach. I'll give it a > shot. > - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
Taylor> So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable Taylor> active checks on the service initially. Then when your Taylor> passive check script detects a problem, not only does it send Taylor> nagios a passive check RESULT, but it also sends a command to Taylor> enable active checks on that service. Then your active check Taylor> script, when it determines the problem has resolved itself, Taylor> could also send nagios itself a command to disable active Taylor> checks on that service. Fun way to do it. "Fun" Clearly a word with many meanings. :) Thanks for the tip, I never considered that approach. I'll give it a shot. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
So a nice round-about way of doing it would be to disable active checks on the service initially. Then when your passive check script detects a problem, not only does it send nagios a passive check RESULT, but it also sends a command to enable active checks on that service. Then your active check script, when it determines the problem has resolved itself, could also send nagios itself a command to disable active checks on that service. Fun way to do it. Information on the commands you need, their description, and sample shell scripts which execute them, are at: http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php -- Taylor Check out my Shortcut with O'Reilly Press: Network Monitoring with Nagios: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528195/index.html On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Douglas K. Rand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to find a way to have a passive check of a service suffice > as an active check of the same service. We are using Nagios 2.9. > > We have lots of filesystems we check via SNMP for both block and inode > usage, and doing active checks for all of these overwhelms our > server. So we run via cron a single process that goes and checks all > these filesystems and submits them results via passive checks to > Nagios. All this works fine. > > But what I'd like to do is if the passive check results in a problem > that that'd kick the service into a SOFT problem state and then Nagios > would re-check the service much more frequently (say every minute) up > until max_check_attempts. > > My problem is that I can't seem to persuade Nagios to alter the > scheduling of the active checks when passive checks come in. I'd like > to have normal_check_interval set to 10 minutes, retry_check_interval > set to 1, and have my cron that generates passive checks run every 5 > minutes. So that when everything is OK the passive checks take care of > all the work and Nagios never fires off an active check unless the > passive check results in a non-OK state, or the passive check fails > for some reason. > > But regardless of how many passive check results are seen by the > server, it always keeps scheduling and firing off those active checks > regardless. > > - > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > ___ > 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 > - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
[Nagios-users] Active and Passive checks of the same service
I'm trying to find a way to have a passive check of a service suffice as an active check of the same service. We are using Nagios 2.9. We have lots of filesystems we check via SNMP for both block and inode usage, and doing active checks for all of these overwhelms our server. So we run via cron a single process that goes and checks all these filesystems and submits them results via passive checks to Nagios. All this works fine. But what I'd like to do is if the passive check results in a problem that that'd kick the service into a SOFT problem state and then Nagios would re-check the service much more frequently (say every minute) up until max_check_attempts. My problem is that I can't seem to persuade Nagios to alter the scheduling of the active checks when passive checks come in. I'd like to have normal_check_interval set to 10 minutes, retry_check_interval set to 1, and have my cron that generates passive checks run every 5 minutes. So that when everything is OK the passive checks take care of all the work and Nagios never fires off an active check unless the passive check results in a non-OK state, or the passive check fails for some reason. But regardless of how many passive check results are seen by the server, it always keeps scheduling and firing off those active checks regardless. - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ ___ 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
