Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Dave Augustus
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 17:05 -0700, Jason Ross wrote:

> I tried the rpms but I had already used 3.0 and so it was pretty
> confusing.
> I followed the quickstart guide for fedora on the nagios site with
> only minor changes.
> 
> Nagios is up and running, i have it checking linux servers, windows
> servers, firewalls and a web sensor.
> I even have it emailing me through my postfix box.
> 
> I just have issues with lockups, in truth it could be some thing other
> than Nagios however, all my other servers run CentOS 4.5 and this one
> is the only one with the issue, and i have tried it on 2 separate
> servers, so i assume it is nagios.
> 
> 
> Is there a methodology for properly diagnosing issue with nagios and
> thus eliminating it as the cause??
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Perrin wrote: 
> 
> > On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   
> > 
> > >  No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no 
> > > large
> > > logs.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, lets back up a bit here, because nagios is definitely not the
> > easiest of applications.
> > Dag/RPMForge maintain rpm packages for nagios, which eliminate 99% of
> > the setup headache. Those packages handle permissions, user creation,
> > etc. Mostly all you have to do is configure the monitoring portion of
> > it, and edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf to allow access as you see
> > fit.
> > 
> > There's a wiki how-to on wiki.centos.org at
> > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios and while it references older
> > versions of nagios, the instructions still hold true for the 2.x tree.
> > 

I have been running with these packages for 3 years- no worries. On
Centos since 3.x with nagios 2.x

Works great!



> > Note that the 3.x tree is still in beta, and has several issues which
> > may keep new users from getting it working properly.
> > 

Ditto!
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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross




I tried the rpms but I had already used 3.0 and so it was pretty
confusing.
I followed the quickstart guide for fedora on the nagios site with only
minor changes.

Nagios is up and running, i have it checking linux servers, windows
servers, firewalls and a web sensor.
I even have it emailing me through my postfix box.

I just have issues with lockups, in truth it could be some thing other
than Nagios however, all my other servers run CentOS 4.5 and this one
is the only one with the issue, and i have tried it on 2 separate
servers, so i assume it is nagios.


Is there a methodology for properly diagnosing issue with nagios and
thus eliminating it as the cause??



Jim Perrin wrote:

  On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
 No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no large
logs.

  
  
Okay, lets back up a bit here, because nagios is definitely not the
easiest of applications.
Dag/RPMForge maintain rpm packages for nagios, which eliminate 99% of
the setup headache. Those packages handle permissions, user creation,
etc. Mostly all you have to do is configure the monitoring portion of
it, and edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf to allow access as you see
fit.

There's a wiki how-to on wiki.centos.org at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios and while it references older
versions of nagios, the instructions still hold true for the 2.x tree.

Note that the 3.x tree is still in beta, and has several issues which
may keep new users from getting it working properly.

  





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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jim Perrin
On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no large
> logs.

Okay, lets back up a bit here, because nagios is definitely not the
easiest of applications.
Dag/RPMForge maintain rpm packages for nagios, which eliminate 99% of
the setup headache. Those packages handle permissions, user creation,
etc. Mostly all you have to do is configure the monitoring portion of
it, and edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/nagios.conf to allow access as you see
fit.

There's a wiki how-to on wiki.centos.org at
http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios and while it references older
versions of nagios, the instructions still hold true for the 2.x tree.

Note that the 3.x tree is still in beta, and has several issues which
may keep new users from getting it working properly.

-- 
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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross




No dice. The entire /var dir is less than 120 megs, and there are no
large logs.

-jason

Alain Spineux wrote:

  On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
  
  
First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues
have come back to haunt me.

The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is
identical as are the problems.
Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal
will hang before it finally just locks up.
The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the
services doesn't work.
Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to
be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.
After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
Any guesses or suggestions?

Jason Ross

  
  
Does it had unusual hard disk activities when you rebooted it ?
Can you check if you don't have very very big log files somewhere ?
More than 1Go or 100Mo for a compressed one ?
To find them  use

# find /var -size +100M


  
  




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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Alain Spineux
On Nov 14, 2007 5:09 PM, Jason Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
> Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
> I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues
> have come back to haunt me.
>
> The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is
> identical as are the problems.
> Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal
> will hang before it finally just locks up.
> The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the
> services doesn't work.
> Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to
> be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.
> After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
> Any guesses or suggestions?
>
> Jason Ross

Does it had unusual hard disk activities when you rebooted it ?
Can you check if you don't have very very big log files somewhere ?
More than 1Go or 100Mo for a compressed one ?
To find them  use

# find /var -size +100M


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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross

I couldn't find any for 3.0

-jason

Tom Brown wrote:


Hmm, could i remove then reinstall perl or did you have to rebuild 
the server?




no its a nagios thing not a perl problem - so i just recompiled my 
nagios, although this was when rpm's were not available so i rolled my 
own. Why not try using some of the pre rolled rpm's ??


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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Tom Brown


Hmm, could i remove then reinstall perl or did you have to rebuild the 
server?




no its a nagios thing not a perl problem - so i just recompiled my 
nagios, although this was when rpm's were not available so i rolled my 
own. Why not try using some of the pre rolled rpm's ??


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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross
Hmm, could i remove then reinstall perl or did you have to rebuild the 
server?

-jason

Tom Brown wrote:



First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the 
issues have come back to haunt me.


The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is 
identical as are the problems.
Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a 
terminal will hang before it finally just locks up.
The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the 
services doesn't work.
Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems 
to be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.

After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
Any guesses or suggestions?




i have had load issues on nagios boxes that were built with embedded 
perl i think, it was quite a long time ago and that bug may have been 
fixed. That made the load on a box continue to rise until nagios was 
restarted.



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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Tom Brown



First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues 
have come back to haunt me.


The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is 
identical as are the problems.
Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a 
terminal will hang before it finally just locks up.
The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the 
services doesn't work.
Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to 
be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.

After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
Any guesses or suggestions?




i have had load issues on nagios boxes that were built with embedded 
perl i think, it was quite a long time ago and that bug may have been 
fixed. That made the load on a box continue to rise until nagios was 
restarted.



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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross




I built it myself from the docs. I tried 2.10 but switched to 3.0 so
that i could follow the documentation.

Rick Barnes wrote:

  Jason Ross wrote:
  
  
First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues
have come back to haunt me.

The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is
identical as are the problems.
Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal
will hang before it finally just locks up.
The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the
services doesn't work.
Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to
be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.
After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
Any guesses or suggestions?

  
  
I am running on a C4 server here and haven;t experienced any issues with it.

What version do you have installed and did you built it yourself or use
a repo?

I used rpmforge for the deps but built nagios by hand using the docs on
their site.

Rick
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Re: [CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Rick Barnes
Jason Ross wrote:
> First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
> Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
> I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues
> have come back to haunt me.
> 
> The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is
> identical as are the problems.
> Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal
> will hang before it finally just locks up.
> The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the
> services doesn't work.
> Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to
> be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.
> After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
> Any guesses or suggestions?

I am running on a C4 server here and haven;t experienced any issues with it.

What version do you have installed and did you built it yourself or use
a repo?

I used rpmforge for the deps but built nagios by hand using the docs on
their site.

Rick
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[CentOS] Nagios on CentOS 4.5

2007-11-14 Thread Jason Ross

First off  I am a linux / CentOS newbies so go easy on me.
Just curious if anyone out there is running Nagios on CentOS 4.5.
I have now installed it on a second server due to issue but the issues 
have come back to haunt me.


The OS is running on an IBM NetVista. Every thing in both installs is 
identical as are the problems.
Once I have Nagios up and monitoring every thing hangs. Even a terminal 
will hang before it finally just locks up.
The only thing that brings it back is a reboot. Even stopping the 
services doesn't work.
Disk space seems fine and even during the hangs there doesn't seems to 
be anything taking up a tremendous amount of resources.

After a reboot every thing works fine for several hours.
Any guesses or suggestions?

Jason Ross






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