Re: [Nagios-users] stupid question about upgrading nagios? (2.12 -> latest)?

>Planning to upgrade old nagios install (2.12) to latest? How about config syntax? does it work directly or requires major modifications to configuration files? Using a latest-binary issue : % nagios -v your-nagios.cfg It will give a list of possible syntax issues, if any. M.

Re: [Nagios-users] Old value still being used after replacement in config

>I have this issue whereby after changing the ip value in one host.cfg, restarting nagios, when I checked the logs it still pinging the old ... Please verify online-config using the right-pane, down button 'Configuration' ; check wether host addresses found are value as intended. M. On Wed, Ma

Re: [Nagios-users] Version Check Incorrect

>Nagios version incorrect, Tx for your efforts - yet the download menu for Nagios Core, advertises 3.4.4. as being 3.4.3; - The ChangeLog file does not contain any 3.4.4. information (ref : http://www.nagios.org/download/core/thanks?t=1358230874) M. On Mon, Jan 14

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a host behind VPN/Firewall

> Hi folks.. > > I'm trouble here... > We have a thousand host behind VPN/Firewall. > For now, we use NC_NET to collect WMI data from server, and send this > datas to Nagios server, throught NSCA. > We do it in passive mode... > What happen here is that, even host came down, I still see the status

Re: [Nagios-users] No response from check_snmp (Plugins version 1.4.16)

Yes , while doing the sample run from the /usr/local/nagios/libexec dorectory i see that there is no response from the check_snmp plugin. I used the command in the following way: > > ./check_snmp -H -o -C -t 30 > > > There is no response , it just stays on there forever. > > - Check /var/lo

Re: [Nagios-users] No response from check_snmp (Plugins version 1.4.16)

> On Saturday 20 October 2012 03:41 PM, Jatin wrote: > > Hi > > > > I follwed the quick installation guide to install Nagios and then > > installed the plugins with the link for the steps. > > > > I installed everything and got the UI for both Nagios and PNP4Nagios. > > Installed the check_mysql_he

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.4.1 and IE 8 problem

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Matsushita, Nobuo < nobuo.matsush...@childrenscolorado.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I installed and configured nagios 3.4.1. When I use Firefox, everything > works fine. But when I use Internet Explorer 8 ( under Windows 7), I get > the following error message: > > Intern

Re: [Nagios-users] Defining passive checks

> I'm a long-time user of Nagios with active checks. Today I started using > passive checks with NSCA and I'm having a problem. > > The documentation states "A service must be defined in Nagios before you > can submit passive check results for it". > > I defined a config block like this, to define

Re: [Nagios-users] How Do I Generally Specify timing constraint in Nagios?

> Hi all, > > > I'm new to nagios. I need to know how I can specify the timing > constraints. For example if I want to do something : > > > if something is down for 10 min then alert me. > > In this case where do I specify the timing constraints? > > There are numerous timing vars, determining t

Re: [Nagios-users] How Do I Find the no of connections in Tomcat?

> Hi all, > > I'm very new to Nagios. I have certain doubts. > > > I need to find a way to find the number of tomcat connections. More > precisely, I need to know: > > If Number of connections (< 500 for 1 min) or else alert. > > > Is that possible to do so ? There are a number of plugins out t

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Mikrotik router

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Andrea Cappelli wrote: > Hi list, > I would monitor a not so large Mikrotik network (about 100 host) via > SNMP, but I have some questions > > 1) Where can I find OID for my devices (different version of RouterOS) > and how use it? > SNMP MIBS, for particular equ

Re: [Nagios-users] notification bug in Nagios Core 3.4.1

> I have upgraded to Nagios Core 3.4.1 last week. There are a couple of > issues I noticed. > > 1. notification for service check failures are being sent when the host is > in downtime. > 2. downtime are not being remove when it is expired. > > > http://tracker.nagios.org/view

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.1 keeps sending notifications for hosts and service(s) in scheduled shutdown time

>... >... > > >One question though: > >The original "return early" patch was meant to fix a problem where > >contacts were being re-notified of downtime when Nagios restarted in > >the middle of a downtime period. Is that problem still fixed with the > >patch found in the issue tracker? > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.1 keeps sending notifications for hosts and service(s) in scheduled shutdown time

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Randal, Phil wrote: > Does the patch in > > > > http://tracker.nagios.org/view.php?id=338 > > > > fix the issue (notifications during scheduled downtime) for you? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Phil > > Initial testing seems to indicate that it does. M. ---

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.4.1 keeps sending notifications for hosts and service(s) in scheduled shutdown time

- After upgrading to 3.4.1 I have the problem that NAGIOS sends out (bogus?) notifications for hosts and services which are in scheduled shutdown period. I had to DOWNGRADE to 3.3.1 , to get the expected behavior w.r.t no notifications being send during a scheduled shutdown for a particular hos

Re: [Nagios-users] Loosing NAGIOS_* env variables in 3.4.1

> > - I have some 'home-written' notification scripts launched from NAGIOS > ; > > now when using > > nagios 3.4.1 , all NAGIOS_* variables are gone. (printenv listing). > > > > How come ? > > How can I get them back ? > > > > >+ Make sure you're not using large_installation_twea

[Nagios-users] Loosing NAGIOS_* env variables in 3.4.1

- I have some 'home-written' notification scripts launched from NAGIOS ; now when using nagios 3.4.1 , all NAGIOS_* variables are gone. (printenv listing). How come ? How can I get them back ? M. -- Live Securit

Re: [Nagios-users] accept trap snmp

> Hi all > > ** ** > > Actually I make many query via snmp to routers, fw, etc. > > ** ** > > Is it possible (and how) received trap snmp from Nagios server? > -Checkout theNagios SNMP Trap Interface

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

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, MAD wrote: > Hi list, > > I was trying to monitor events on a Windows server through the > CheckEventLog functionnality built in NSClient++. > > I didn't notice first while I was adding my checks but memory usage and > cpu load started raising as I was asking for

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe ssh handshake error

> Dear List, > > > > I am monitoring some HP-UX servers on which we have installed nrpe. It was > working fine until from last few days it started giving SSL handshake error. > I have checked nrpe.cfg and it is perfectly fine. The nrpe on HP-UX has been > started from commandline on the HP-UX serve

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe ssl handshake error

> Hi, > > In nrpe.cfg only_from has my nagios server IP Address. What else can i check > for this issue. > - Check the equivalent of /var/log/messages on HP-UX. I think it is /usr/adm/syslog Grep on nrpe (error) messages if any. M. ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Segmentation fault under 3.2.3 on CentOS release 5.7

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Tom wrote: > On 17/01/12 15:32, Mark Elsen wrote: >>>> I upgraded my nagios to the 3.2.3 base rpm from rpmforge and I'm >>>> seeing seg faults... >>> >>> This is the strace of "strace /usr/bin/nagios  /et

Re: [Nagios-users] Segmentation fault under 3.2.3 on CentOS release 5.7

>> >> I upgraded my nagios to the 3.2.3 base rpm from rpmforge and I'm >> seeing seg faults... > > > This is the strace of "strace /usr/bin/nagios  /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg" > > > stat("/usr/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/x86_64-linux-thread-multi", - Check /var/log/messages on your system; watchout

[Nagios-users] checking web applications beyond 'check_html'

- I am looking for best plugins, concerning , web application checking, 'going futher' then check_html, like dealing with advances auth. challenges, tokens etc. Giving me the most flexible solution for checking webapps in Nagios ? M. -

Re: [Nagios-users] Nrpe and Windows

> Folks, > > > Nagios 3.2.0 is running on SLES 10 SP 1 > NRPE  running on Windows > > It all seems to work fine for a while (10 mins)  and then I start seeing > socket timeout errors. The only way to fix this is to restart the nrpe > service on the node that is being monitored. > > Has anyone els

Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?

> Ok, so it sounds like there might be 3 "best" ways to monitor Windows in > general. > I will have to check them out in detail before deciding which way to go. I > do note that the following though from reading about them - > > 1. Checkwmiplus > > - I switched from NSclient++ to checkwmiplus, b

Re: [Nagios-users] What the best way to monitor Windows?

> I've got a Nagios installation all up and running and working just fine. > Now I have to start monitoring some Windows Servers. > > There are so many different plugins. What are the recommendations for doing > this? > > We have some Win Server 2003, 2008 as well as Exchange and SQL. >

Re: [Nagios-users] wiki spam?

> > I was looking for something in the wiki, and happened upon this page: > > http://wiki.nagios.org/index.php/Diet_Coffee_-_How_To_Combine_Green_Tea_And_Weight_Loss > > Nagios Enterprises is really branching out, eh? > It's probably a bit like, Google ; once you become too rich ... :

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.3.1 ./configure error

Forwarding this to the list, as another post indicates, this might be a 'broader' problem : (check for further list-replies) : On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Bereket Zeselassie wrote: > i appreciate ur help. > configured it without perl and it went good until i 'make install' which > gives me

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 3.3.1 ./configure error

> I was installing nagios3.3.1 and got this message > i have shown the lines ending in 'no' > > please help > root@ubuntu11:~/software/open_source/nagios/nagios# ./configure > --enable-embedded-perl --with-perlcache --with-command-group=nagcmd > > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > ch

[Nagios-users] Nagios 'check for updates' not (yet) advising 3.3.1

- My Nagios Home -> Check for updates still says I am 'current' no need to update, despite 3.3.1 being available and running 3.2.3 ! M. -- Got Input? Slashdot Needs You. Take our quick survey online. Come on, we don't

Re: [Nagios-users] Make Install error on 3.3.1

On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Andrew Morum wrote: > We're seeing an error during make install of 3.3.1. > I have checked the install & upgrade docs for 3.3.1, all prerequisites > are already installed. 3.2.3 still installs with no errors. > > OS: Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS (fully up-to-date from apt-ge

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > On 06/09/2011 08:15 AM, Patrik Båt wrote: >> Hello! >> >> How is the IPv6 support in Nagios Core? with macros, and address6 ? >> > > Nagios core doesn't care one whit about ip addresses. Handling DNS > lookups and ipv6 addresses is a job f

Re: [Nagios-users] Socket.h:(677): bind failed

> Good afternoon list! > > I'm having trouble with NSClient++ in the Windows Server 2008 x64. > > I try reinstall NSClient++ and the Nagios Server can't connect to > NSClient++. I'm sending an log attached. > - Check your windows server 2008 firewall settings. M. --

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe CheckEventLog

> Thanks for the reply. > > I fear the main problem here is the lack of knowledge that's sat in-between > my chair and my pc :) > > I've edited the ini file on the server to allow both arguments and nasty > chars and restarted the service. > > If I use the -a switch after -c checkEventLog all I g

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe CheckEventLog

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Tristan Drinkwater wrote: > Hi guys, > > I hope someone can help me. > > I'm trying to set up Nagios to return a warning for all red error logs in > both the system and application logs on a windows 2003 server. > > So far no matter what I try I always get 'Eventl

Re: [Nagios-users] What happened during night for services that failed and timeperiod was off

> Hello there, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to make nagios send notification for > services which failed during non notification timeperiod ? > ' Truly remarkable, although in quantum logic,even the obvious answer is not 'guaranteed' ... M.

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration error with no explanation

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:44 PM, wrote: > Greetings. > > I'm working on a distributed nagios system, with two "master" servers > running the web interface to view status, and several dozen "slave" > servers running the actual tests. So far it's working pretty well, but > I've run into a very stra

Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts over time

> 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 l

Re: [Nagios-users] Not a valid parent

> What causes this error message: > > Error: 'pm2fwi' is not a valid parent for host 'pm2fw'! > > This is the insdie, and outside of a firewall. They are in 2 diferent > subnets, and 2 different domains. Still, this relatiionship is corect, and > I would expcect Nagios to allow me to define it, >

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE

> Hi List > > I have a problem using check_nrpe: > > The script on the remote machine is running this command: > > #/bin/bash > > output=`sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -X |grep tomcat| wc -l` > > max=$1 > > if [ "$output" -lt "$max" ]; then > > echo "OK |value is "$output"" > > exit 0; > > else > > echo "CRI

Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA - Status is changing after 10 seconds to OK

> Hi all, > > I am trying to configure nagios with NSCA. > NSCA is successfully receiving  the messages (sent with send_nsca), updates > the services state and the message info. > The problem is that after 10 seconds, the service is returning to "OK" > state; in the meantime I haven't send any othe

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

> Hello list, > > is the following setup possible : > > host A : Nagios Server > host B : server being monitored > host C : backup server > > If Nagios (host A) can not ping host B (or any other check via nrpe), can > Nagios then execute a command on host C ?? > > > I want Nagios to activate the ba

[Nagios-users] Implementing live title-bar in NAGIOS

- I wonder if the developers would ever contemplate , implementing , a live title-bar in NAGIOS, including for instance the all service/host problems counter(s) ? M. -- Beautiful is writing same markup. Internet Explore

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios XI

> Can someone please help me installing Nagios XI. Trying to install the trial > version on my test enviroment. > If someone can send me the download link and proper steps to install and > configure the XI version would be really helpful to me. > - What about following the needed info and downloa

Re: [Nagios-users] TEST to Nagios Users List

> >        This is just a test. I haven't received any mail from the list in > almost a month. > Both philosophically and technically it can be argued that this test won't help you. Unless you reply (but there's more to think about here,then you may be aware of) :-) M. -

Re: [Nagios-users] Large Installation

> We are looking to do an large installation of Nagios. Is it possible to > monitor over 800 machines and over 14000 services? Works like a charm :-) > > Has anyone tried doing anything like this? If you have how successful was it > and how did you configure it? > Same as for a small installat

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Scom collector

> > Did  anybody ever use the collector between Nagios and Scom ?? > > I do , M. -- ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit.

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios-Plugins [make errors]

> Hello list, > > I have encountered the following 'make' error while trying to compile > nagios-plugins-1.4.14 (after successfully running the 'configure' command) > on a Solaris 10 client host. > >... Try 'gmake' (GNU Make) , M.

[Nagios-users] Expiration of passive check results

- Is it possible in NAGIOS, to let the result of a passive check , 'expire' after a given time period ? (this could be used for errors, which are considered less important, and are being considered 'dead weight' for the time being). I mean if I a get a CRITICAL (passive) test result, f

[Nagios-users] Confused about (new) 'Schedule downtime for this host and all services' in NAGIOS 3.2.1

The new link ' Schedule downtime for this host and all services' in NAGIOS 3.2.1 confused me. Does it schedukle shutdown for host's services only as described in ChangeLog and or is scheduled shutdown for the host itself included ? The naming seems to suggest scheduling shutdown for BOTH host

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios DST bug and upcoming DST-time switch in Europe

> > Unless I'm mistaken, we had this timeperiod problem occur here.  Some > alerts were sent during a timeperiod for which notifications > are not enabled.  I did restart Nagios after DST went into affect > just for fun, but that was before these alerts went out. > > I know that the fix for this wh

Re: [Nagios-users] Whos Disabling Notifications

> Somehow our notifications are getting disabled. I assume a user is doing > this via the Process Info page. > > What and where can I grep to find out who is running this command from the > Web interface. > > - Check .../var/nagios.log , configure proper authentication setup(s) for NAGIOS M. -

Re: [Nagios-users] switch off send a notification for acknowledgement

> Hiya > > I tried googling. Would anyone know how to switch off send a notification > when there is an acknowledgement. > > - This is an option which you can de-select. Check the NAGIOS menu closely. M. -- Download

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

> Should it be placed at both the nagios server and the target box which > is being monitored ?? > No (NAGIOS server only), by definition, because it queries the SNMP daemon on the remote Linux box, for the required memory stats. M. --

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

> Hi Mark > > I saw the website : http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_mem.html > > I have a few questions: > > 1. When i click on the download version 1.1 , i get one text file with > some code in it , What do i need to with this file ?? Save it as a perl script; in the libexec dir of your NAGIOS dis

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin to check memory usage on linux boxes

> Hi > > Is there a plugin bundled with nagios-plugins that helps us in checking > the memory usage on the linux box. I basically want to know the used > memory and the total available , Even if it is given in percentage i am > fine. Please let me know if there are plugins to do so. > > I checked t

Re: [Nagios-users] active checks vs. passive checks

>... > > We have some servers, which are located outside from our network and > without a permanent connection to our main nagios server. > >... >... > > how do I have to check the services on the servers which are outside of > our network? Do I have to install a hole nagios environment (like a > s

Re: [Nagios-users] active checks vs. passive checks

> Hi everyone, > > at the moment I'm playing around with passive checks. > > maybe I'm to stupid, but will I be on the right way? > > I've set up a new Server group called "passive-servers' with only one test > server called "muninbsd" > > this server will be monitored like a active server. I've on

Re: [Nagios-users] event handler script not executing

> Hi all: > > Got Nagios core 3.2.0 on CentOS5. Been trying to get an event handler to > execute > but it will not. My configs; > > define service{ >    use                               local_service >    host_name                    my_host >    service_description         NFS Check >    check_p

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient - ERROR: Failed to get PDH value

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Jatin Davey wrote: > It did not help , Still getting the same error. - Try re-starting the nsclient service afterwards (too). M. > > Thanks > Jatin > > On 3/10/2010 2:10 PM, Verhaeghe, Koen wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> You need to reset the windows performance coun

[Nagios-users] Nagios DST bug and upcoming DST-time switch in Europe

Nagios 3.2.0 - By the end of the month, Europe will switch to DST. Will I be affected by the Nagios DST-BUG which , which results in NAGIOS becoming dis-functional ? Which countermeasures can I take to prevent being struck by this problem ? M. ---

[Nagios-users] Using Unix groupnames in contact definitions or cgi authorization schemes

Nagios 3.x - I was wondering wether one can use UNIX groupnames in contact defintions , or in cgi auth. directives such as 'authorized_for_all_service_commands=..." ; instead of having to use individual usernames ? I need to make a simple distinction between a couple of division

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

Ref : service nagios stop; now=$(date +%s); sed -i "s/^next_check=.*/next_check=$now/" /usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav; service nagios start

[Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

- Nagios 3.2.0 --- - This morning, I find nagios stopped death in it's tracks. Single daemon running, servcie and host checks are no longer executed. Stopping and restarting NAGIOS does not help. How can I remedy this ? We left DST in Europe. Can this be due to a time change

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http not returning expected 502

> Hello, > > I've got nagios installed and seems to be running ok except for one thing. > I'm running https checks with "check_http" and get the expected result when I > run it on the command line: > > ./check_http -H somehost.com -S > > HTTP CRITICAL: HTTP/1.1 502 Bad Gateway > > > But in the UI

[Nagios-users] Problem disabling notifications - combined with 'Disable for Host Too'

Nagios [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.6.9-22.ELsmp : - I recently have the problem that the function 'Disabling notifications for all services on this host' combined with flagging 'Disable for Host Too' is no longer working. This may have started after upgrading to Na

[Nagios-users] Monitor daemon running on remote linux host

- I need to monitor whether a remote daemon is running on a Linux host and have a NAGIOS alert if it crashes (or disappeared for whatever reason). Is 'check_nrpe' my best option, if so what syntax do I need ? M. - This SF.

[Nagios-users] Windows mscs cluster services monitoring with NAGIOS

Hello, Can I monitor mscs-windows-cluster services with NAGIOS ? Best plugins and or solutions ? Idea's and other suggestions welcomed. Tx, Marc. - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies h