Re: [Nagios-users] distributed nagios ?
On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 4:49 AM
>> To: nagios List; doc...@yahoo.com
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] distributed nagios ?
>>
>>> Any pointers to docs on how to set it up?
>>>
>>
>> http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=blob;f=HOWTO;hb=master
>> http://git.op5.org/git/?p=nagios/merlin.git;a=blob;f=README;hb=master
>> https://wiki.op5.org/merlin:start#guides
>>
>> If I were you, I'd wait til tomorrow with installing it though, when 1.0.0
>> is released as stable. Reading up on the docs and whatnot beforehand is
>> still a good idea though.
>>
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>
> Hooray!
>
> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the
> most recent version of merlin recently. At the heart of my issues
> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring
> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree.
>
> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for
> the socket and the binlogs. I'm assuming that's intentional, but it
> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different
> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process.
>
The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in
the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no
option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid.
> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right. In
> our case, it made a lot more sense to change
>
> cp apps/mon.py $root_path/usr/bin/mon
>
> to
>
> cp apps/mon.py $bindir/mon
>
> otherwise it would put 'mon' in a really weird spot.
>
> I'm guessing these are design decisions on your part, but in case they're
> not, I thought I'd point them out.
>
Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
I suppose it should.
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraper
Right, pnp4nagioS seems slicker.
However, after i've installed it, i got this error , did you get that also? If
so, how did you work around it? :
"
PNP Error
Please check the Kohana documentation for information about the following error.
application/models/data.php [104]:
perfdata directory "/usr/local/pnp4nagios/var/perfdata/" is empty. Please check
your Nagios config. Read FAQ online"
/Rik
From: pwilliam...@twgi.net
To: ej_...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraper
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:56:05 +
Just the normal documentation. I just need to “turn off” nagiosgrapher now.
Setup on pnp4n is much nicer. From: Rikard Dahlberg [mailto:ej_...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:51 AM
To: Paul Williamson
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraper
Thanks paul, i might just look into that.
Did you follow a specific guide or just the normal documentations?
/RikFrom: pwilliam...@twgi.net
To: ej_...@hotmail.com
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraper
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 14:52:04 +I just went down the same road, and I
think you’d be better served to go with pnp4nagios. It’s what the “official”
Nagios commercial distribution uses, so there’s more hope for longer term
support. Plus, setting up nagiosgrapher, while not bad, is way more involved
than pnp4nagios. Paul From: Rikard Dahlberg [mailto:ej_...@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 9:42 AM
To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraper Heya!
im currently trying to get a decent graphicsystem online to somewhat replace
our Cacti. I know nagiosgraph doesn't really do that but it does fit our needs
:)
Im trying to re-write this config file to create nice shiney graphs for my
monitored services, but so far no luck.
This is the template for ping, but if i would change it for maybe checking CPU
Load, how would I do so? What are the variables i need to change, this is what
i cant figure out.
Worth knowing is that our more or less whole system is built on passive checks
that now (Thanks alot to Greg on this mailing list) works flawless.
I have also edited nagios.cfg to enable performance graphing, so that is OK
:)#---
#NagiosGrapherTemplateforcheck_ping
#Author:MariusHein
#---
define ngraph{
service_namePING
graph_log_regexloss = (\d+)
graph_valueLoss
graph_units%
graph_legendLoss
graph_legend_eolnone
page2 Loss
rrd_plottypeLINE2
rrd_colorff
}
#PingDEFRTA
define ngraph{
service_namePING
graph_log_regexrta = (\d+[,\.]\d+)
graph_valueRTA
graph_unitsms
graph_legendRTA
page1 RTA
rrd_plottypeAREA
rrd_color00a000
}
#PingVDEF,AverageRTA
define ngraph{
service_namePING
typeVDEF
graph_valuevdef_ping_average
graph_units
graph_legendRTA Average
graph_calcRTA,AVERAGE
graph_legend_eolLEFT
page1 RTA
rrd_plottypeLINE1
rrd_colorff
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Re: [Nagios-users] Return code of 127 is out of bounds - only on high cpu load though
On 12/14/2010 06:39 PM, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
> I ran a full strace of nagios daemon and children and it looks like it
> was the enable_environment_macros that was causing:
>
> [pid 20478] execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", . . . . . ] = -1 E2BIG
> (Argument list too long)<0.000337>
> [pid 20478] exit_group(127) = ?
>
> I turned them off and that fixes things, but potentially breaks some
> other things in our setup, but for right now it's working. Still odd
> that as I change the number hosts the env changes enough to push over
> the edge. I ran same tests with only 300 hosts and it worked fine, just
> looks like at about 500 or so something changes in env.
>
Ah. One of the environment macros contains a list of all hostgroups the
host is a member of, and unless I'm mistaken, a list of all member hosts
of the "first hostgroup" that the host is a member of. Those lists can be
huge so they can quickly fill up the environment variables. My guess is
that you pushed it over the limit when you added more services.
It's the same with 'servicegroups' and 'servicegroup members' for services
btw.
In short; Don't enable environment variables. In fact, I think I'll add a
deprecation notice for it in the code and warn people that it'll be removed
in early 2012, or at least modified so that the superhuge lists are no
longer created as environment variables no matter if they're enabled or not.
That should alleviate problems like this, which are quite frustrating to
track down.
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Re: [Nagios-users] Cisco Monitoring Problem - Interface Down state not recognize
On 14 December 2010 15:01, Matias Damian wrote: > Hi, i have a problem when i want to monitoring a Cisco device (Switch 2960). > Qhen i configured Nagios, never show the CRITICAL state, when the port / > interface is down, because always receibe a message for SNMP, that it´s Ok. > > Doing a research, i see this. When i use the terminal of Linux Server the > command with the string that use Nagios "hardcoded" vía snmp the devide send > me this message, and nagios don´t know how understand this. > > r...@nagios:# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -C COMUNIDAD -o > ifOperStatus.10001 -r 1 -m RFC1213-MIB -H IP_HOST > > If the interface it´s Ok: > SNMP OK - 1 | RFC1213-MIB::ifOperStatus.10001=1 > > But if the interface is down: > SNMP OK - 2 | RFC1213-MIB::ifOperStatus.10002=2 > > So, i understand the 1 is "Ok" and the 2 id "down", how evener, nagios > understand "ok" in both cases. > > Thanks in advance for the help, and sorry for my english. > Matias (matlnx) You need to specify the warning and critical ranges when you run the check_snmp plugin. For example, I guess the following might do what you want: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_snmp -C COMUNIDAD -o ifOperStatus.10001 -r 1 -m RFC1213-MIB -H IP_HOST -c 0:1 I don't have Cisco equipment here though so I can't test it for sure. See: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#THRESHOLDFORMAT for information on how to specify the warning and critical threshold ranges. The syntax is a bit weird, but quite powerful, allowing you to be very specific about what ranges of values you will alert on. For monitoring a specific interface, you might find the check_snmp_int plugin more useful. You will find it at http://nagios.manubulon.com/ Whenever you run a plugin from the command line, be careful to run it as the same user which runs the Nagios daemon (usually the user 'nagios'). If you forget this then you will sometimes have problems with permissions when Nagios runs the plugin, and sometimes you will find the plugin creates a temporary file which then can't be written to (or overwritten) when you come to run the plugin under Nagios. I don't think this is too much of a problem with check_snmp, but it can be a real problem with check_snmp_int and various other plugins. hth, Jim -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] distributed nagios ?
> -Original Message-
> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:46 AM
>
> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>>
>> Hooray!
>>
>> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the
>> most recent version of merlin recently. At the heart of my issues
>> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring
>> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree.
>>
>> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for
>> the socket and the binlogs. I'm assuming that's intentional, but it
>> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different
>> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process.
>>
>
> The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in
> the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no
> option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid.
"Binlogs cannot" meaning it can't be moved without modifying the code
directly, right? Because that's what I did :-).
>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right.
> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
> I suppose it should.
Yes, I believe that would work for me. I'm not setting $root_path at all.
Thanks, Andreas.
Mark
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Re: [Nagios-users] distributed nagios ?
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 03:46, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right. In
>> our case, it made a lot more sense to change
>>
>> cp apps/mon.py $root_path/usr/bin/mon
>>
>> to
>>
>> cp apps/mon.py $bindir/mon
>>
>> otherwise it would put 'mon' in a really weird spot.
>>
>> I'm guessing these are design decisions on your part, but in case they're
>> not, I thought I'd point them out.
>>
>
> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
> I suppose it should.
I thought the convention was $DESTDIR , which is also used by
autotools, which is a fairly common tool in that domain. I'd strongly
recommend marching to the same drummer when possible.
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Re: [Nagios-users] distributed nagios ?
On 12/15/2010 03:25 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se]
>> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 4:46 AM
>>
>> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>>>
>>> Hooray!
>>>
>>> Actually, I wanted to point out a few things I found when building the
>>> most recent version of merlin recently. At the heart of my issues
>>> is that our team is not allowed root access on these servers (long boring
>>> corporate story...) so I'm installing everything in an alternate tree.
>>>
>>> 1) There are a couple of hard-coded paths in ipc.c and node.c for
>>> the socket and the binlogs. I'm assuming that's intentional, but it
>>> does mean one has to manually edit the source files to point to different
>>> paths rather than specifying anything like that during the build process.
>>>
>>
>> The socket location can be configured. Binlogs cannot. I'll amend that in
>> the next release though. The core functionality is there, but there's no
>> option to set it in the config files, which is kinda stupid.
>
> "Binlogs cannot" meaning it can't be moved without modifying the code
> directly, right? Because that's what I did :-).
>
That's correct.
>>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right.
>
>> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
>> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
>> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
>> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
>> I suppose it should.
>
> Yes, I believe that would work for me. I'm not setting $root_path at all.
>
Sweet. I'll add something to that effect then. For us, it won't make a
difference, but if it makes life easier for you, then that's just all
the better.
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[Nagios-users] converting distributed Nagios setup to Nagios+Merlin
Our site currently uses a somewhat traditional distributed Nagios setup. I'm setting up merlin on some new Nagios servers and am looking at what configurations I'm going to want to change. As part of that, I realize that there are some Nagios config directives that I wanted some clarification on before I started changing things. I haven't seen these documented elsewhere (at least not that I could find). I was looking for clarification on the following: 1) Obsessive (ocsp/ochp) configuration directives get turned off. Merlin does all that. Plus ocsp/ochp is deemed detrimental to performance making that another reason to turn it off. 2) Freshness checking. Nagios would probably still try to do this if I left it in, but there's no point since Merlin will also do this. 3) Passive/Active checks. If I understand things correctly under Merlin everything is an active check. Or rather, anything that Nagios is supposed to run on some host or another is an active check. Things that are truly sent via NSCA from some monitored host out there would still be passive, but otherwise everything's configured to run actively Merlin takes care of where it runs. 4) In a load balanced/redundant configuration (such as 'yoda' and 'obi' in the HOWTO doc), which of 'yoda' or 'obi1' sends out notifications? Or do they both send them out but Merlin somehow only has one of them send it? I'm guessing that this is handled in the more traditional way where notifications are enabled on say, 'yoda' but disabled on 'obi1'. If 'yoda' crashes, you manually enable the alerts via the command file on 'obi1'? It would of course be super-cool if Merlin handled all that :-). 5) Other parameters such as process_perf_data - still probably only on the master(s), but that's really up to how crazy we'd want be. event handler settings - unchanged by this configuration retain status information - unchanged by this configuration Thanks Mark -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ 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] distributed nagios ?
On 12/15/2010 03:32 PM, Allan Clark wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 03:46, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>> On 12/14/2010 08:39 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote:
>>> 2) Because we're trying to put all the files into an alternate tree, the
>>> installation of 'mon' from install-merlin.sh didn't really work right. In
>>> our case, it made a lot more sense to change
>>>
>>>cp apps/mon.py $root_path/usr/bin/mon
>>>
>>> to
>>>
>>>cp apps/mon.py $bindir/mon
>>>
>>> otherwise it would put 'mon' in a really weird spot.
>>>
>>> I'm guessing these are design decisions on your part, but in case they're
>>> not, I thought I'd point them out.
>>>
>>
>> Yes. The install-merlin.sh script is designed to be usable from the
>> rpm spec file, and it's meant to aid people who want to install
>> everything in its default location. Would $root_path/$bindir/mon
>> work for you? Since you can set $root_path to whatever you want,
>> I suppose it should.
>
> I thought the convention was $DESTDIR , which is also used by
> autotools, which is a fairly common tool in that domain. I'd strongly
> recommend marching to the same drummer when possible.
>
It is when you're using make, but internally the install-merlin
script uses $root_path. So
"make install DESTDIR=/some/random/path"
will install everything to the root path /some/random/path.
The autotools default path is called --dest-dir, which is what
install-merlin.sh uses, even though I detest the autotools with
an unsurpassed passion.
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Re: [Nagios-users] check_logs.pl doesn't return output on RHEL 6 - RESOLVED
Temporary SOLUTION! FYI - when I installed Nagios on RHEL6 I brought down nagios-3.2.3-3.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm. This package included the check_logs.pl (1-2-2007). I replaced check_logs.pl (1-2-2007) with a backlevel version check_logs.pl (6-7-2005). This version works on RHEL6! I am getting output now [messages ==> OK]. At this point in time I'm just going to use the older version of check_logs.pl (6-7-2005). Thanks to all that responded. Bret Goodfellow Questar Gas S.L.C., UT From: Bret Goodfellow [mailto:bret.goodfel...@questar.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 2:57 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_logs.pl doesn't return output on RHEL 6 Yes, my servers are x64. The perl release on RHEL4 is v5.8.5, and the perl release on RHEL5 is v5.8.8, and the perl release on RHEL6 is v5.10.1. From: Hugo van der Kooij [mailto:hvdko...@vanderkooij.org] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2010 8:47 AM To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_logs.pl doesn't return output on RHEL 6 On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:12:24 +, Bret Goodfellow wrote: [r...@server ~]# cd /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/ [r...@server plugins]# ./check_logs.pl -c /etc/nagios/check_logs_linux.cfg [r...@server plugins]# I strongly suspect that this is a perl issue as RHEL 6 is using a newer perl version that is not entirely identical or compatible to the one used by RHEL 4 and RHEL 5. Are you sure the other servers are x64 as well BTW? Hugo. -- hvdko...@vanderkooij.org http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/ PGP/GPG? Use: http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/0x58F19981.asc -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d___ 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] Make a Host Group not visible on web interface?
Good Morning All - Is there anyway to define a host group, assign hosts to that host group but not have the membership or the host group show up on under "Host Groups" on the web interface? I have several things which run like services and several that don't, for the purposes of defining service checks, I would much rather set the services up to look at host groups instead of hosts but I'm ending up with so many host groups that the host groups become almost meaningless in the web interface. Example - I'm watching about 65 printers with Nagios. Different makes, different models. Each printer has any number of physical trays but monitoring them, they are all a bit different. One of the things I need to monitor is paper tray status. Some printers count manual feed tray as tray 1, some as tray 2, some as tray 3. Some have a tray 2 and tray 3 but not tray 1. So on my service checks, I'm applying this to all my network printers and then on the different tray checks, exclude certain printers. A little difficult to keep track of. I would like to put the printers in some host groups such as Tray1, Tray2, Tray3, etc, set services to check those host groups rather than keep excluding hosts on the services. But host groups Tray1, Tray2, Tray3 are meaningless via the web interface so I would like them not to show. Nagios Core - 3.2.3 ML Mark A. Lappin, CCNA, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator | Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry Director of Information Technology 11314 Cloverland Ave | Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Ph: 225.291.9094 ext 245 | Fax: 225.368.3675 | Mobile: 225-362-2770 www.lmfj.com This communication is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this communication . -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] Help with check_smb error message
Let me start off ny saying Windows is something I do not know much about. I am setting up a new Nagios instance to monitor a mainly Windows subnet, and I am trying to use the check_disk_smb plugin. I have it working to a Samba shared on the Linix Nagios host, and I know the machine name, and share name on the Windows but when I run the plugin by hand, I get: r...@pm2v40:/etc/nagios3/conf.d# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk_smb -H aw201b -s ia Result from smbclient not suitable Any idea, what I am doing wrong here? -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] Make a Host Group not visible on web interface?
If you add "register0" to your hostgroup definition it won't show up on the web interface, but you can still assign services to it as per normal. Very useful technique. Cheers, Erik Larkin - Original Message From: Mark A. Lappin To: Nagios Users List Sent: Wed, December 15, 2010 9:49:04 AM Subject: [Nagios-users] Make a Host Group not visible on web interface? Good Morning All - Is there anyway to define a host group, assign hosts to that host group but not have the membership or the host group show up on under "Host Groups" on the web interface? I have several things which run like services and several that don't, for the purposes of defining service checks, I would much rather set the services up to look at host groups instead of hosts but I'm ending up with so many host groups that the host groups become almost meaningless in the web interface. Example - I'm watching about 65 printers with Nagios. Different makes, different models. Each printer has any number of physical trays but monitoring them, they are all a bit different. One of the things I need to monitor is paper tray status. Some printers count manual feed tray as tray 1, some as tray 2, some as tray 3. Some have a tray 2 and tray 3 but not tray 1. So on my service checks, I'm applying this to all my network printers and then on the different tray checks, exclude certain printers. A little difficult to keep track of. I would like to put the printers in some host groups such as Tray1, Tray2, Tray3, etc, set services to check those host groups rather than keep excluding hosts on the services. But host groups Tray1, Tray2, Tray3 are meaningless via the web interface so I would like them not to show. Nagios Core - 3.2.3 ML Mark A. Lappin, CCNA, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator | Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry Director of Information Technology 11314 Cloverland Ave | Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Ph: 225.291.9094 ext 245 | Fax: 225.368.3675 | Mobile: 225-362-2770 www.lmfj.com This communication is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this communication . -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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 -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] Make a Host Group not visible on web interface?
>> Is there anyway to define a host group, assign hosts to that >> host group but not have the membership or the host group show >> up on under "Host Groups" on the web interface? > add "register 0" > to your hostgroup definition it won't show up on the web interface Erik - Great, thank you. I will give this a shot in a little while. Mark Mark A. Lappin, CCNA, MCITP: Enterprise Administrator | Lee Michaels Fine Jewelry Director of Information Technology 11314 Cloverland Ave | Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Ph: 225.291.9094 ext 245 | Fax: 225.368.3675 | Mobile: 225-362-2770 www.lmfj.com This communication is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of this communication . -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] Help with check_smb error message
stan wrote: > Let me start off ny saying Windows is something I do not know much about. I > am setting up a new Nagios instance to monitor a mainly Windows subnet, and > I am trying to use the check_disk_smb plugin. I have it working to a Samba > shared on the Linix Nagios host, and I know the machine name, and share > name on the Windows but when I run the plugin by hand, I get: > > r...@pm2v40:/etc/nagios3/conf.d# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk_smb -H > aw201b -s ia > Result from smbclient not suitable > > Any idea, what I am doing wrong here? > > If you want to monitor windows boxes , you may want to use the nsclient++ addon - which is a " NRPE for windows" so to speak . http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus/ Once you install that - connecting and monitoring the windows box filesystems becomes much easier . Assaf -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] execute_service_checks and distributed monitoring
We wre trying to set up our first "child" Nagios instnace. I have it working for checcking some things in the child instance. We have configured the existing "parent" with some of the new checks. In reading the documention, it is stated that we need to set execute_service_checks to 0 for the services that are actuaklly monitored by the "child". My problem is that I do not understand where to put this directive to overide the default, which is located in nagios.conf, and must be1 as we are continuing to monitor all the existing services from it. I have tried several places, but they all seem to give me a syntax error when starting nagios. If it helps, the configuration for the "parent: was initaly created using nagiosql. Thanks. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] execute_service_checks and distributed monitoring
stan wrote: > We wre trying to set up our first "child" Nagios instnace. I have it > working for checcking some things in the child instance. We have configured > the existing "parent" with some of the new checks. In reading the > documention, it is stated that we need to set execute_service_checks to 0 > for the services that are actuaklly monitored by the "child". My problem is > that I do not understand where to put this directive to overide the > default, which is located in nagios.conf, and must be1 as we are continuing > to monitor all the existing services from it. I have tried several places, > but they all seem to give me a syntax error when starting nagios. > > If it helps, the configuration for the "parent: was initaly created using > nagiosql. > > Thanks. > > the definition is in the specific service definition on the Parent nagios http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service That way the service is "passive" and will not be executed , but receive the status from the child nagios via the NSCA transfers. Assaf -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] CPU monitor for a single Linux user space process ?
Rookie question here. Trying to determine nagios suitability for an embedded app. Can I monitor the CPU utilization for a single user space process on a Linux box with nagios? And, can I define an action if it exceeds a threshold? Thanks -Bruce -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] CPU monitor for a single Linux user space process ?
> -Original Message- > From: Bruce Edge [mailto:bruce.e...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:06 PM > > Rookie question here. Trying to determine nagios suitability for an > embedded app. > > Can I monitor the CPU utilization for a single user space process on a > Linux box with nagios? > And, can I define an action if it exceeds a threshold? > > Thanks > > -Bruce Bruce, I'm not sure that there's an existing check plugin that would do this (might be). I can say that "yes" you can do this, it's just a question of what you're willing to do. If I were to do this for our environment, I'd write a perl script that used the 'ps' command to look at the process and pull the 'pcpu' field (% cpu -- see the 'ps' man page) info for that process. I'd also use the Nagios::Plugin perl module to make the Nagios side easier and probably report the actual pcpu value as performance data suitable for graphing. You could then configure the an event on that service check. That essentially another script that gets called when the state changes on the check. This means it gets called anytime the state changes, including when it goes to an "OK" state so you need to have the script detect when it's called and potentially exit if it hasn't gone into a hard critical state (depending on what you want, actually). You can read up on events on the Nagios documentation. Mark -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] Help with check_smb error message
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +, Assaf Flatto wrote: > stan wrote: > > Let me start off ny saying Windows is something I do not know much about. I > > am setting up a new Nagios instance to monitor a mainly Windows subnet, and > > I am trying to use the check_disk_smb plugin. I have it working to a Samba > > shared on the Linix Nagios host, and I know the machine name, and share > > name on the Windows but when I run the plugin by hand, I get: > > > > r...@pm2v40:/etc/nagios3/conf.d# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk_smb -H > > aw201b -s ia > > Result from smbclient not suitable > > > > Any idea, what I am doing wrong here? > > > > > > If you want to monitor windows boxes , you may want to use the > nsclient++ addon - which is a " NRPE for windows" so to speak . > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/nscplus/ > > Once you install that - connecting and monitoring the windows box > filesystems becomes much easier . > Thanks, I am using this in other locations, but politivly, I cannot install _anything_ on these boxes, so I am forced to use external tools. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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] CPU monitor for a single Linux user space process ?
On 12/15/10 5:05 PM, Bruce Edge wrote: > Rookie question here. Trying to determine nagios suitability for an > embedded app. > > Can I monitor the CPU utilization for a single user space process on a > Linux box with nagios? > And, can I define an action if it exceeds a threshold? Sounds like you need check_snmp_process.pl from here: http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_process.html I've been using it, it works quite well. It requires snmpd, but is basically the swiss army knife of user-space process monitoring. To "define an action" you need to set up an event handler. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/eventhandlers.html -- Mike Lindsey -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d ___ 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
