[Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
As the user sent this mail to me - i am forwarding it to the list , so all will be able to know what he needs and may be able to help more. Assaf -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration files obfuscation Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009 From: edward baddouh ebadd...@gmail.com To: Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. That's my need for obfuscation. My idea is to keep an original readable-configuration in a safe place and set the obfuscated config-file in production. 2009/6/16 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com On Tuesday 16 June 2009 15:53:11 edward baddouh wrote: Hi, is ther a way to obfuscate configuration files? edward You want the files to be more confusing then they are now ??? the easiest way is not to give self explanatory names to the files / directories . btw - i have a question about this ... Why ?? Are you trying to make the work on the configuration worse for yourself ? -- Assaf Flatto IMPORTANT . this email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email and any attachments from your system. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belong to Select Service Partner UK Limited. Should you communicate with anyone at Select Service Partner UK Limited by email, you consent to us monitoring and reading any such correspondence. Nothing in this email shall be taken or read as suggesting, proposing or relating to any agreement concerted practice or other practice that could infringe UK or EC competition legislation. Select Service Partner UK Limited is a company registered in England and Wales (company number 05687183) whose registered office is at 1 The Heights, Brooklands, Weybridge. Surrey. KT13 0NY -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 --- -- Assaf Flatto SSP Ops Team Linux System Administrator 169 Euston Road, London, NW1 2AE Along with a few colleagues I am doing The Three Peaks Challenge again this year to raise money for The Railway Children. Please sponsor me by making a donation online, simply click on the link below and give via your switch/credit card. Thank you. http://www.justgiving.com/londonnorththreepeaks IMPORTANT . this email and the information in it may be confidential, legally privileged and/or protected by law. It is intended solely for the use of the person to whom it is addressed. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to any other person, use it for any purpose, or store or copy the information in any medium. Please also delete all copies of this email and any attachments from your system. We cannot guarantee the security or confidentiality of email communications. We do not accept any liability for losses or damages that you may suffer as a result of your receipt of this email including but not limited to computer service or system failure, access delays or interruption, data non-delivery or mis-delivery, computer viruses or other harmful components. Copyright in this email and any attachments belong to Select Service Partner UK Limited. Should you communicate with anyone at
Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
Obfuscating the config files is going to be difficult, because almost everything in them is either a Nagios keyword, or something that shows up verbatim in the user interface, or an IP address. The only thing you could reasonably obfuscate is the names of the various commands. But you may be able to use either encryption or permissions to accomplish the same goal even more securely. Using permissions: If you have problems trusting administrators, you shouldn't give them root access. Instead, give each administrator a personal non-root account, and use sudo to give them only access to what you want them to manage. With that approach, you can then give only the authorized administrator sudo access to the nagios config files. It also lets you track, in the log files, who executed which command. Another option is to put the configuration files onto a different machine that the untrusted admins do not have access to. Export that directory using NFS and make it only accessible to user nagios. NFS prevents root from accessing the directory. Using Encryption: Here are a few methods I could think of. They all take advantage of the fact that Nagios doesn't read the config files once it is running (at least, I believe that's the case). - Use some form of encrypted file system that only user nagios can read. - Put the configuration files into an ISO or a cramfs file system. Encrypt the file using gpg. Decrypt and mount that file system only right before Nagios starts up, and umount it and delete the decrypted version right away (you may even be able to mount the encrypted version somehow and decrypt on the fly - I'm not an expert on that). Modify the nagios.cfg to point to the mount point, as appropriate. - Put the configuration files into an ISO, burn an actual CD, and put the CD into the machine only right before starting up Nagios. That way, the config files physically aren't there at all. Something that is not on the machine can't be stolen. - I'm not sure if Nagios is able to read config files from a script instead of a file - if it is, you could encrypt the config files using gpg, and have Nagios decrypt it on the fly. Or you could modify the Nagios startup script to decrypt the config files right before starting Nagios, and delete the decrypted config files after Nagios has started successfully. Assaf Flatto wrote: As the user sent this mail to me - i am forwarding it to the list , so all will be able to know what he needs and may be able to help more. Assaf -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration files obfuscation Date: Tuesday 16 June 2009 From: edward baddouh ebadd...@gmail.com To: Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. That's my need for obfuscation. My idea is to keep an original readable-configuration in a safe place and set the obfuscated config-file in production. 2009/6/16 Assaf Flatto assaf.fla...@ssp-intl.com On Tuesday 16 June 2009 15:53:11 edward baddouh wrote: Hi, is ther a way to obfuscate configuration files? edward You want the files to be more confusing then they are now ??? the easiest way is not to give self explanatory names to the files / directories . btw - i have a question about this ... Why ?? Are you trying to make the work on the configuration worse for yourself ? -- Assaf Flatto -- Kevin Keane Owner The NetTech Find the Uncommon: Expert Solutions for a Network You Never Have to Think About Office: 866-642-7116 http://www.4nettech.com This e-mail and attachments, if any, may contain confidential and/or proprietary information. Please be advised that the unauthorized use or disclosure of the information is strictly prohibited. The information herein is intended only for use by the intended recipient(s) named above. If you have received this transmission in error, please notify the sender immediately and permanently delete the e-mail and any copies, printouts or attachments thereof. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin
Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that whoever you *think* is stealing configuration from you has actually read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that whoever you *think* is stealing configuration from you has actually read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. +1 And who knows ... one of the people who takes your config might improve it and tell you how! -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include std_disclaimer.h -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
Hi, I have installed the nagios on fedora 10 OS. how can i get alerts from nagios? where to configure the nagios alerts on contacts group for my mail ID(pr.sekharre...@gmail.com). Please let me know your suggestions. thanks in advance. Thanks Sekhar Reddy P R On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Alain Williams a...@phcomp.co.uk wrote: On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 11:09:10AM +0200, Andreas Ericsson wrote: edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that whoever you *think* is stealing configuration from you has actually read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. +1 And who knows ... one of the people who takes your config might improve it and tell you how! -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include http://www.ukuug.org/%0A#include std_disclaimer.h -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 -- P.R.Sekhar Reddy +91-9916727650 -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
I want to add new windows server on nagios. how can i configure that let me know. on hosts.cfg file Thanks Sekhar Reddy P R On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Julian Hein jh...@netways.de wrote: Am 17.06.09 11:09 schrieb Andreas Ericsson unter a...@op5.se: edward baddouh wrote: Yes, I want the configuration files to be worse (readable). The idea is to difficult as-much-as-possible config-files theft from ohter people who admin that server.. There have been times that configuration files were implemented on different installations (different sites) with minor changes without the admin's consent.. I don't want nobody to get credits for work I've done and receive no profit at all.. This is just stupid imo and would be far better solved with some social conventions. The problem is that there's a limited way of configuring Nagios for a particular setup, so it's always entirely possible that whoever you *think* is stealing configuration from you has actually read the nagios docs for 15-30 minutes and then figured out how to do it themselves. It's not exactly rocket science, and a nagios config isn't a super-fast cryptographically secure hash algorithm that you (sometimes) need to jealously protect. The fact that you're trying makes me feel dirty all over, to be honest. Why you want an opensource community help you *not* share your work, I really do not fathom, but you'll get absolutely no help from me. And it would not work, because the config always gets de-obfuscated in the objects cache and is visible in the Webinterface with view config Makes no sense to me as well. Julian -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 -- P.R.Sekhar Reddy +91-9916727650 -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Can nagios replace whatsup
Hi Guys, My company uses nagios and whatsup together. Nagios helps us to monitor services and send out notifications and whatsup does live network monitoring. Recently, my supervisor wants me to scrap whatsup for nagios. I am not very comfortable with his decision. What's up is a spot-check tool. Both products views are different. Our nagios server checks over 800 hosts and services while whatsup checks less than 80 devices. Is there a way to configure nagios to be a spot check tool? What do you guys suggest? I will not mind getting an open-source graphical spot-check tool like whatsup -- Alex Dehaini Developer Site - www.alexdehaini.com Email - alexdeha...@gmail.com -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Host/service comments
Hello, there is a possiblity to insert comments in which I can describe fox example the reason of host crash. First: can I insert comment to the past Second and IMPRTANT: is it possible to have comments hidden from regular user view? Thank you Ales -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Fwd: Re: Configuration files obfuscation
On Jun 17, 2009, at 5:04 AM, Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy wrote: Hi, I have installed the nagios on fedora 10 OS. how can i get alerts from nagios? where to configure the nagios alerts on contacts group for my mail ID(pr.sekharre...@gmail.com). How is this related to configuration obfuscation? -- Marc -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] nagios future?
Didn't have the time to catch up on Merlin, but I ran a few more Tests with Icinga IDO and libdbi Oracle - it fails hard. Tested against Oracle 11g, DB connection successfull but error in address mapping while doing a simple DB insert. Meaning the oracle driver for libdbi is broken and in case of using the libdbi and Oracle we'll have to fix the driver or code a new one eventually based on the ocilib (check libdbi-devel list) Ah, and the DB scheme is modified in the following parts: - kicked table prefix (saves characters for renaming only one table) - serviceescalation_contactgroups = serviceescalationcontactgroups - the PKs are [tablename]_id - that sucks a lot, so it is only id and the queries need to be modified partly (since the IDO is only an INSERT and DELETE by date tool it is not that much work) Andreas Ericsson wrote the following on 11.06.2009 21:33: I'll sneak a peak at them. Thanks. Let me know if you need any help with getting Merlin up and running. It works for me, but external testing is surely required in order to make sure I haven't done something that only works here. -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at Tel: +43 1 4277 14359 Vienna University Computer Center Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Proper use of this list
On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 06:36:50PM +0530, rajashekar.s wrote: Hi, For monitoring windows machines (a) Edit /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg Pallavolu Reddi Sekhar Reddy wrote: I want to add new windows server on nagios. how can i configure that let me know. on hosts.cfg file When you start a new topic, please: 1) Change the subject line -- leaving as the old one only confuses! 2) Remove the ''In-Reply-To'' mail header -- or preferably just start a new mail (ie don't reply). Why ? Because those of us who used a MUA that supports threading get confused if you do not. While I am at it: please remove irrelevant/old stuff at the bottom of emails that you reply to. Thank you -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php Past chairman of UKUUG: http://www.ukuug.org/ #include std_disclaimer.h -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] NDO Utilities install NDO database error for ndoutils-1.3.1
Hello I am attempting to install NDO Utils - I am at the Create NDO Database section...except I don't have this installdb file in my db directory I have what is below: as you can see I am installing ndoutils 1.3.1 since I am using nagios 2.11 [r...@nagios ndoutils-1.3.1]# cd db [r...@nagios db]# ls -lat total 80 drwxrwxr-x 7 nagios nagios 4096 2009-06-17 11:38 .. drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios 4096 2006-02-15 18:06 . -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 55070 2006-02-15 18:06 mysql.sql -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 2970 2006-02-15 18:06 mysql-upgrade-1.1.sql -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 89 2006-02-15 18:06 mysql-upgrade-1.2.sql -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 467 2006-02-15 18:06 README [r...@nagios db]# These were directions from http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/NDOutils_on_CentOS all was going just fine until I got to this sectionCAN SOMEONE HELP? Creating NDO database It's time now to create the NDO MySql database Run the DB installation script in the /tmp/ndoutils-1.4b6/db/ subdirectory of the NDO distribution to create the necessary tables in the database. (-u = user; -p = password; -h = name of computer; -d = MySQL DB) cd /tmp/ndoutils-1.4b6/db./installdb -u nagios -p nagios -h localhost -d nagiosDBD::mysql::db do failed: Table 'nagios.nagios_dbversion' doesn't exist at ./installdb line 51.** Creating tables for version 1.4b6 Using mysql.sql for installation...** Updating table nagios_dbversionDone!NatalieNetwork Operations Center Manager Experis Data Center LLC 8209 Valley Pike PO Box 535 Middletown,VA 22645 phone:540-869-8702 cell:240-988-3267 fax:540-869-8710 e-mail:na...@experisdatacenters.com -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] NDO Utilities install NDO database error for ndoutils-1.3.1
On Jun 17, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Natalie Aloi wrote: Hello I am attempting to install NDO Utils - I am at the Create NDO Database section...except I don't have this installdb file in my db directory I have what is below: as you can see I am installing ndoutils 1.3.1 since I am using nagios 2.11 1.3.1 is almost 2.5 years out-of-date. You're following instructions for 1.4b7; is there a reason you're not installing that more recent version? -- Marc -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Can nagios replace whatsup
On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:33 AM, Alex Dehaini wrote:Hi Guys,My company uses nagios and whatsup together. Nagios helps us to monitor services and send out notifications and whatsup does live network monitoring. Recently, my supervisor wants me to scrap whatsup for nagios. I am not very comfortable with his decision. What's up is a spot-check tool. Both products views are different. Our nagios server checks over 800 hosts and services while whatsup checks less than 80 devices.Is there a way to configure nagios to be a spot check tool? What do you guys suggest? I will not mind getting an open-source graphical spot-check tool like whatsupI'm not familiar with whatsup myself, but from what you are saying, it sounds to me like the main difference is that nagios is checking many more hosts than whatsup, although they are both doing similar monitoring. Just looking at the less than 80 hosts monitored by whatsup in nagios is problematic because they get lost among all the other hosts that nagios is checking. Is that correct? If so, perhaps you could simply configure a separate contact in nagios, probably with notification options set to none, and only assign this contact to the 80 or so hosts you want to monitor closely. Then when you log in as that user, only those 80 or so hosts are visible. At least, that is my understanding of how contacts work: only the hosts for which you are a contact are displayed. Perhaps someone else could expound on this as a solution?I also seem to recall reading about/brieflylookingatsomesortoffront-endfornagiosthatprovidesamuchmorecustomizableview,whereyoucouldselectjustthehostsyouwant.IthinkitwasNagiosLookingglass: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs)/Web-Interfaces/Nagios-Looking-Glass/details Perhaps this will suit your purposes?---Israel BrewsterComputer SupportTechnician IIFrontier Flying Service Inc.5245 Airport Industrial RdFairbanks, AK 99709(907) 450-7250 x293- Alex DehainiDeveloperSite - www.alexdehaini.comEmail - alexdeha...@gmail.com --Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day TrialCheck out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimitedroyalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment.http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___Nagios-users mailing listNagios-users@lists.sourceforge.nethttps://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/nullBEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Brewster;Israel;;; FN:Israel Brewster ORG:Frontier Flying Service;MIS TITLE:PC Support Tech II EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=WORK;type=pref:isr...@frontierflying.com TEL;type=WORK;type=pref:907-450-7293 item1.ADR;type=WORK;type=pref:;;5245 Airport Industrial Wy;Fairbanks;AK;99701; item1.X-ABADR:us X-ABUID:36305438-95EA-4410-91AB-45D16CABCDDC\:ABPerson END:VCARD -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] ' Need the big picture: Why retention?
I'm reading the Nagios docs (a rather long trip - thanks for the great docs!) and I'm seeing plenty of references to retention. I'm new to this and it isn't clicking. Why would I want retention? What's it for? TIA - I'm a bit confused. :) Scott The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] Check not running
Any ideas how I could debug a check that works when using capture_plugin.pl, but never gets scheduled or run otherwise? Thanks, Mike Mike Chesnut wrote: I have a check that never runs. The services I've defined that use it sit at the top of the scheduling queue, with their next check always within a few minutes of the last time I restarted nagios. This remains the case even if I reschedule their next check time in the web interface (while I see a line in the log file confirming that I rescheduled it, the next check does not update and the check is never run). The check is defined like this: command_line /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host $HOSTADDRESS$ --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ What's really weird is that if I change it to use Wolfgang Wagner's capture_plugin.pl*, then everything works as expected. I change the above to this: command_line/etc/nagios/plugins/capture_plugin.pl /etc/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_byportname.pl --host $HOSTADDRESS$ --community mycommunity --port $ARG1$ and then I am able to see the output in /tmp/camptured-plugins.log, the status updates in nagios, these checks get cycled through the scheduler queue normally, and everything is as it should be. check_snmp_byportname.pl is a script I've written that's essentially just a wrapper around the stock check_snmp. It works on its own (from the command line) as expected, and works when called with capture_plugin.pl as a wrapper. If I then remove the capture_plugin.pl part of that command definition and restart (and this is the *only* change I'm making), then this particular check goes back to not working (while everything else continues to work as normal). This is on Nagios 2.9 (I'm using the rpm provided by Dag Wieers, on CentOS 5.2). What else can I do to debug this? I thought that using capture_plugin would show me what was wrong with this check, but instead it just showed me that nothing is wrong, apparently. I'm kind of confused at this point. Sorry this is so long. I wanted to try to include as much information and observations as possible. Thanks in advance for the help, Mike * - from here: http://www.waggy.at/nagios/capture_plugin.htm -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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 -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] NRPE_NT Bad return code for 128
Hi, I am running NRPE_NT on Windows2003. It was running fine. All of sudden it is giving error See the log file: 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 7;Host is asking for command 'nt_check_disk_c' to be run... 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 7;Running command: C:\nrpe_nt_2003\bin\diskspace_nrpe_nt.exe c: 80 90 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 7;Command completed with return code 128 2009-06-17 15:34:13; 844; 4;Bad return code for [No output available from command...]: 128 Thank you -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] ' Need the big picture: Why retention?
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:27 PM, scott.chap...@verizonwireless.com wrote: I'm reading the Nagios docs (a rather long trip - thanks for the great docs!) Good deal... =) and I'm seeing plenty of references to retention. I'm new to this and it isn't clicking. Why would I want retention? What's it for? Retention is useful in at least a couple of cases -- - When nagios is restarted hosts and services are normally put into a PENDING state until they are actually checked again. With retention, information in the retention file will be used to set the initial status of hosts and services to the last known state. It makes restarts essentially transparent. - Several program-wide and host and service specific things can be changed via the GUI (whether checks are enabled, notifications are enabled, etc...). Without retention, those changes are reverted back to their config-file settings on restart. With retention, they are maintained seamlessly across restarts. -- Marc -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects ___ 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] need help with check_sensors
Hello, I'm trying to get check_sensors working for nagios. I already have lm_sensors installed and ran 'sensors' to configure it for my machine. Next, I setup and defined the commands and services in nagios. However, when i run the following command i get the following error. $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H 10.10.10.44 -c check_temp SENSOR CRITICAL - Sensor alarm detected! $tail /var/log/nagios2/nagios.log [1245270237] SERVICE ALERT: pse06-back;CHECK TEMP;UNKNOWN;HARD;3;(No output returned from plugin) [1245270237] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: root;pse06-back;CHECK TEMP;UNKNOWN;notify-by-email;(No output returned from plugin) There doesn't seem to be much information on the web or in my Pro Nagios 2.0 book about this plugin. Any help would be appreciated! JJ -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Need to Configure SMS and Email Notification
Hi All, I need to Configure SMS and E mail Notification from my Nagios Setup. Please let me know how to get this done. Regards, Chethan M N -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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] Return code of 142 is out of bounds
Hi All, I am running Nagios 3.0.2 on FC5 server. I have been encountering this strange error intermittently on a few checks. (Return code of 142 is out of bounds) I am using the nagios with snmp (net-snmp-5.2 net-snmp-5.3) on a few servers. This normally happens with snmp-load checks or snmp-disk checks. I could not find anything related to this problem over the internet. Hoping to get a solution to this problem here. Regards, -- Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects___ 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
