Re: [Nagios-users] DNS down and false alerts...
Really the best choice is to using caching DNS on the Nagios server. I'd recommend dnsmasq, it just does caching locally without needing to do big zone transfers. It has low overhead and simple configuration as a result. Enjoy. On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 11:19:20AM -0400, Andrew Davis wrote: I've observed an interesting issue with Nagios. Our environment is a mix of UNIX, Linux, Apple, and Windows. The core of the network is Active Directory including two AD servers that are both our primary, internal DNS servers. All non-Windows systems have a resolv.conf that looks like: *nameserver 10.1.1.13 nameserver 10.1.1.14 domain int.our.domain search int.our.domain* About half of the servers have the nameserver entries inverted (ie: .14 first, .13 second). The issue is that anytime one of the nameservers is rebooted (at least once a month if staying current on patches thanks to Black Tuesdays), whichever hosts have that nameserver listed first in its resolv.conf start throwing the following errors: *CRITICAL - Plugin timed out while executing system call.* This occurs for multiple tests for each host. Obviously, there's a name resolution correlation here. If the nameserver with .13 is rebooted, all hosts (about half of them) that list this IP first in their resolve.conf then timeout for multiple tests. If the .14 server is rebooted, all the other hosts timeout. Interestingly, none of the Windows clients issue errors... only UNIX, Linux, and Mac's... only those with an /etc/resolv.conf. The end result is a host of false positives, but more importantly it looks bad on availability reports and causes phones/pagers to go ballistic with unneeded emails. I'm trying to find a solution and I can't find one that I like: Solution 1) is to cluster the DNS servers. We have lots of clusters here. This isn't good, though, as you don't normally cluster DNS servers... they're meant to be redundant for a reason... one fails and it uses the next one. Solution 2) is to setup a service/host dependency. My thought would be either a host dependency that says if either .13 or .14 are down, then don't alert for any other host that uses them. Or a service to host dependency... if the DNS service is down, then don't alert on any of these dependent hosts. Honestly, I'm not sure if you can mix host and service dependencies like this... plus... if the DNS server is actually down, then the DNS service is down, so better to use a host dependency. The problem is that now we're not alerting on any dependent hosts which themselves could have a legitimate issue we want to know about. Plus, what happens if the DNS server actually dies and take a few hours/days to rebuild/restore? At this point, the dependent hosts aren't watched for a very long time. Solution 3) is to setup a UNIX/Linux DNS server that slaves all zones from the AD servers and have all UNIX/Linux/Apple clients query from this server. This would work except that A) I need two of them to keep redundancy and B) I've now added an extra layer of complication to resolve an application (Nagios)... not exactly good practice. Solution 4) is to set the timeout value of a host querying a DNS server. Perhaps adjust the client to timeout on the first listed nameserver after only 10 seconds, then try the next one? Since most Nagios tests have a minimum timeout value of 30 seconds, if the first DNS query timed out after 10 seconds, it would go to the next one with, hopefully, enough time to respond. The downside is having to adjust every single server. Has anyone else seen this? Anyone else using Windows AD servers to provide DNS for *nix servers? -- A. Davis Email: ncc...@gmail.com There is no limit to what a man can accomplish if he doesn't care who gets the credit. - Ronald Reagan -- 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Crystal Reports - New Free
Re: [Nagios-users] Auto-Discovery
It doesn't appear to me that the configuration syntax has changed significantly, but I haven't used 3.x yet. NACE updates your templates, so the syntax shouldn't matter much. If you write Nagios 3.x configs, and let NACE reuse them with variable replacement, there shouldn't be a problem. Thanks. On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:52:31PM +, Christopher McAtackney wrote: 2009/3/24 Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com: NACE is a toolkit that you can use to build your own configuration. It was creating during the Nagios 2.x days, if you have any problems let me know. Once queries were created, it was incredibly low maintenance. Thanks. Hi Russell, I haven't attempted to use NACE yet, but can you think of any potential problems that I might run into using it with Nagios 3.x ? This is the version that I have to work with, so it'd be quite handy if NACE was compatible with it. Cheers, Chris -- ___ 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- ___ 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] Auto-Discovery
NACE is a toolkit that you can use to build your own configuration. It was creating during the Nagios 2.x days, if you have any problems let me know. Once queries were created, it was incredibly low maintenance. Thanks. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 03:31:34PM +, Christopher McAtackney wrote: Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone had some pointers on Auto-discovery? Both hardware / services preferably. I've found something which looks promising, NACE (http://freshmeat.net/projects/nace/), but I'd like to hear other people's opinions on it and their experiences with it. Cheers, Chris -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM)based development software that enables intelligent coding and step-through debugging. Download the free 60 day trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-adobe-com ___ 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] Using a modem with Nagios as backup alert path
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:05:54PM -0800, Frater, Greg J wrote: Greetings All, We are setting up a new Nagios instance running version 3. With it we are adding a modem so that alerts can be sent via the phone system even if the data network goes down. In the testing I've done messages sent via the modem take quite a bit longer to be received than alerts sent via SMTP, this is because the modem goes through the dial up connection process and then sends the messages to each recipient in separate sessions, so I want to keep SMTP as the primary method and use the modem as a backup path. What is the best way to do this, can we do it without a bunch of work to implement? Suggestions and advice gladly accepted. Thanks, -greg What are you sending via modem, SMS, text pages? Are you connecting to an ISP via PPP to fire off one SMTP message? I have successfully used Sendpage with Nagios to send to IXO/TAP text pagers, and it supports piggybacking to send out multiple pages in a single phone call. I think it supports sending SMS too. Good luck. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H ___ 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] lun monitoring
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:42:05AM -0700, Tom Ammon wrote: That is probably where our differing environments cause us to need different things. In my environment I monitor hundreds, but not thousands of devices. And they are all in my control. If I worked for a large ISP, I'm sure I would see things differently. Even in a regular corporate environment, a single Nagios administrator is a bottleneck. If you work with other people and they have to make requests to have updates made, you could benefit from some form of discovery. With Torrus, on a router, for example, what kind of detail would it typically give you outside of the normal interface statistics? Would it be able to discern cpu usage, memory usage, etc. without you specifying some kind of template for it to use as a reference? I think their Cisco templates are very good. CPU/Memory statistics, model detection, in addition to all the normal port data. You only give Torrus the IP address, it must figure out the rest. Cacti has sort of solved this with their data templates. For example, there is a Unix Host Template that you can download and then apply to a device, and it gives you all of the parameters that are built in that template, for example, cpu/mem/disk. But the author of the template had to know the OIDs (and use the correct OIDs). It wasn't really autodiscovered. Templating is the first step toward a discovery solution. Next after templating comes automatic creation and discovery. ;] Thanks. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ 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] lun monitoring
What would you monitor? Path availability would be the only item of note, and querying that information will vary by SAN driver and OS. Otherwise a LUN should show up as a disk with a filesystem that could be monitored with existing tools. On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:14:57AM +0800, Marc Ismael wrote: Hi, Anyone implemented any sort of lun monitoring plugin? Just gathering ideas on what is already out there before I get my hands dirty. Thanks. Marc -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ 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] lun monitoring
Marc, In the spirit that each tool is supposed to fill one function and do it well, I don't use Nagios for trending. Nagios is operational status monitoring only. I'd suggest you look at other tools for that level of performance. One issue you will have is where will you query it? On certain OS's you can query disk statistics, or you may be able to get the data from the backend storage, or perhaps an aggregate from the SAN switch. I am not aware of any integrated solutions except those high dollar packages sold by storage vendors (ala TPC). Good luck. On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 06:59:52AM +0800, Marc Ismael wrote: Thanks Russell, I've already got the path and target visibility monitoring covered. How about in terms of performance though? Is there value in monitoring io, e.g. via iostat or another utility? On 2/3/09, Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com wrote: What would you monitor? Path availability would be the only item of note, and querying that information will vary by SAN driver and OS. Otherwise a LUN should show up as a disk with a filesystem that could be monitored with existing tools. On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:14:57AM +0800, Marc Ismael wrote: Hi, Anyone implemented any sort of lun monitoring plugin? Just gathering ideas on what is already out there before I get my hands dirty. Thanks. Marc -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ 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 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ 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 -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ 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] lun monitoring
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 05:22:12PM -0700, Tom Ammon wrote: I'll give a strong second to that - we use Cacti to graph 10,000+ data sources, and it works great. It's a strong tool. Tom Tom, I have progressed through MRTG, Cricket, and now Torrus in my search for a good trending tool. They all use RRDTool because its simply the best at time series data, the differences are the frontend. MRTG was the basic model, required complete manual configuration. Cricket was better, more web layout and a little less configuration. Torrus is what I've settled on. The autodiscovery feature was the selling point. Cacti's web UI is nicer, but I love the autodiscovery. Discovery is fairly easy to customize in XML and Perl. What has your experience with Cacti been? Do they have good autodiscovery now? How is support for adding new device types? Thanks. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ 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] lun monitoring
On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 07:10:45PM -0700, Tom Ammon wrote: Russell, Cacti is pretty SNMP-centric, but in our environment that is about all we are using it for anyway. I'm no cacti expert, but to me, that's the beauty of it - I don't really know the inner workings of cacti, and I am not a programmer or scripter, but I got it up and running pretty quickly. SNMP is a great place to start, and very open. Its certainly more reliable than the CIMOM implementations I see. I'm not sure if you would call it autodiscovery, but cacti does do an snmpwalk on the devices that you specify, and the pre-built data collection methods that come with it are designed for getting snmp interface statistics. You can, of course, add other data collection methods, but out of the box, it is basically an interface traffic grapher. You still have to manually input each device that you will collect data for. Once you have specified the basic host information, it gives you a table showing all of the interfaces on that device and a checkbox for each item that can be graphed. Torrus is configured by feeding it a list of IP addresses and it identifies the device and sets up all the counters to be monitored. The detail is very good, more than just interface stats. To be fair, though (and this applies to nagios as well as cacti) most of the effort you put in to setting up a monitoring solution is a one-time thing. It takes time to input all of the devices, but for the most part once the devices to be monitored are specified, that work is over. I think people incorrectly place a lot of emphasis on this or that product's autodiscovery function. Cacti's interface makes it really easy to maintain the configuration, and I think that is a bigger win than autodiscovery. I consider autodiscovery to be absolutely critical. Maintaining a handfull of machines is one thing, hundreds or thousands or machines outside of your control are another. I wrote NACE to allow me to perform fast autodiscovery for Nagios, and I've been pleased to couple it with Torrus so they both have the same list of hosts. What do you mean by new device types? Device types are essentially templates for what to monitor on a given device. Hosts are cpu/mem/disk/net, switches might be ports/traffic/cpu/mem/temp, etc. Thanks. -- Russell Adamsrlad...@adamsinfoserv.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 -- Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com ___ 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] Monitoring for Stale AIX Processes with Nagios ?
You could write a simple cron job and use NCSA to push the results to Nagios. I suggest send_ncsa.pl so you don't have to compile any software. On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 06:09:36PM -0700, Mirza Dedic wrote: Hello, We have AIX 5.3 running on our production servers and the way things are setup we need to make sure there are no STALE processes on the box, by STALE I mean any idle process that has been running for more than 5 hours. Sure we can monitor this with topas -P and have a terminal session open at all times but this is not ideal. Does anyone know of a script or a way to accomplish this? Even if we would need to write a script/cron job to get the job done? Any help is appreciated and thank you. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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] SNMP disk checking in Windows NTFS mounted system
You may have to investigate a different method or plugin that is Windows native. I don't know of one off the top of my head. On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:06:17PM -0300, Marcos Marinho wrote: Hello Russell, Thanks for your answer The NTFS Mounted Point File System in Windows is a File System mounted in a Subdirectory, but still a Mounted File System., but a got your point. Do you Known any other way in other to get the free space percent in this kind of cenario ? Regards **Marcos Marinho*** *** Russell Adams escreveu: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 04:03:16PM -0300, Marcos Marinho wrote: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN Please configure your mail program to send text too, not just html. html ... If I was using the same command with only the drive letter the plugin had worked just fine.br SNMP will only allow you to access the total utilization of the drive (total, free, used, %) as a whole, you cannot monitor subdirectories with it. Thanks. -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ___ 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 Config Script
Nair, I favor using SNMP for monitoring CPU/MEM/HDD/Processes. NACE can help perform SNMP scans to detect disks to monitor, common processes you wish to monitor, etc. You can use a file of IP addresses for input, I like using DNS zone transfers and regexps to sort out hosts by naming convention. NACE is a toolkit for writing scripts to create and update configurations. You'll have to pickup some scripting to perform most types of automation. There are some examples included, though the docs could be better. Let me know if you have some specific questions, we can work through some examples. Thanks. On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:50:19PM -, Nair wrote: Sure. I need to monitor CPU/MEM/HDD/Application etc on a Data Center Environment having more than 200 Servers right now and it keeps on adding. I need to automate Nagios *.cfg file creation and updation. Say i will mention all system IPs and services, contact , contact group etc in a tab seperated text file and a script should take care of file creation and updation. Could not find much details NACE and not good at scripting :( Can you give some ideas, how to go ahead on this. Thanks, Nair. -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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] Ethernet based sensors
See this thread: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=Pine.LNX.4.64.0711280946090.24823%40kernel.panic.unc.edu On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:18:58AM -0600, Jeff Chapin wrote: Hello, I am in the market for Nagios compatible environmental sensors, mainly concerned with temperature, but humidity, etc would be a plus. We are looking to buy 1-5 of them, and I was wondering if people have any good (or bad) experience with these things, and have any recommendations. Only real requirement is Nagios friendly. Thanks, Jeff JEFF CHAPIN SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR T8DESIGN.COM | P 319.266.7574 - x267 | 877.T8IDEAS | F 888.290.4675 This e-mail, including attachments, is covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. 2510-2521, is confidential, and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any retention, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Please reply to the sender that you have received the message in error, and then please delete it. Thank you. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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] SNMP/Windows disk usage
Mark, I have used NACE in the past to configure one service per disk according to criteria like include hard drives, exclude CDROM, etc, with varying host groups (C: D: were OS, others were applications) and more. Also, if you're in the Houston area you ought to stop by HLUG. I'm often at the Wednesday working session. Enjoy! On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:51:21AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Melanie, I have setup the plugin available here: http://nagios.manubulon.com/snmp_storage.html and it works perfectly for our needs. It uses SNMP so you would have to have SNMP setup on all of your Windows boxes but with that caveat it is the best solution I have found for monitoring windows partitions. If you are looking for something slightly less complicated or with fewer options there are many plugins on nagiosexchange.com that will do the job. I would recommend check_snmp_storage though due to the options and the robustness of the plugin. Best Regards, Mark L. Potter Systems Engineer Academy Sports Outdoors 1800 N. Mason Rd Katy, Texas 77449 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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] snmp
It doesn't look like you are giving it a warning or critical
range. Are you checking the value returned?
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:13:33PM -0600, Rich Sasko wrote:
I am using the following service to check the power supply on my dell
power edge system.
define service{
use generic-service
host_name DHCP server
service_descriptionPower Supply
check_command check_snmp!-C public -o
.1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.200.10.1.9.1
}
The problem is it reports as ok no matter what snmp returns as the
value. When it is normal it returns 3 and Nagios says the system is OK.
I pull the power cord on one of the redundant power supplies and it
returns 4 and Nagios still says it's OK
Anyone have any ideas?
System Running on
RHES 4.5
Nagios 3.0rc1
Plugins 1.4.7
Richard Sasko
Niagara Lasalle Corp
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Re: [Nagios-users] net-snmp raid check
Net-snmp has the potential to run commands and return their exit code or output. See http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/man/snmpd.conf.html regarding the exec and extend directives. You could script a RAID check and then query that OID via check_snmp, just be sure to lock your OID in the extend directive. Russell On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:04:39PM +0100, Lars Stavholm wrote: Anyone know of a way to use net-snmp to check for Linux sw raid status? /L - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace ___ 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] AIX log monitoring with check_log
Wow, that is right up my alley. I know very little about AIX and am getting used to their funky way of doing logs! Roger, I've posted a short HOWTO for using the ODM to perform error notification at: http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/AISTWiki/bin/view/AIS/AixErrorLogCustomization You could easily adapt this to trigger a passive Nagios service. Also note that syslogd logs to /dev/null by default on AIX. I strongly recommend that you configure syslogd and optionally use a central syslog server. I normally advocate using a log processing software in conjunction with Nagios. It isn't practical to configure a service for every matching log condition in Nagios. Having a single service triggered by a log processor, resulting in Nagios managing the notifications is much preferred. I prefer Logmuncher for reporting with syslog-ng as the backend. Let me know what you end up doing on AIX. I'd be keen to hear what you decide on. Thanks! -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace___ 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] AIX log monitoring with check_log
Roger, I have an ODM snippet I use which logs the errpt data into syslog. Then your syslog monitoring software (not necessarily Nagios) can pick it up. AIX's ODM has the ability to call scripts or commands in response to error log entries, if you want to differentiate. If you'd find it useful, I'd be happy to post it here. Thanks. On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:49:59PM -0800, Roger wrote: I'm looking for other AIX log monitoring recipes and am hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. I see (sorta) how AIX creates logs and am wondering if anyone here has specific AIX-ish queries that they run with Nagios' check_log plugin. - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ 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] Environmental monitoring
I've had good results with AKCP devices for environmental monitoring. http://www.akcpinc.com/ The smallest sensorprobe with 2 sensor ports including a single temperature / humidity sensor is under $500. These run on Ethernet with an SNMP and Web interface, and integrate nicely with Nagios. Russell On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 09:48:51AM -0500, Kevin Scott Sumner wrote: This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for environmental? I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two server rooms. Integration with Nagios is a huge plus. Cheers, Kevin - Kevin Sumner [EMAIL PROTECTED] (919) 962-6494 Assistant Systems Administrator Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 ___ 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] SNMP autodiscovery / Puppet Naginator question
Have a look at NACE: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.20.0.html?tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=277 NACE provides a toolkit for creating queries to generate Nagios configurations from any kind of data. One of the examples is creating disk space check services for every drive autodetected via SNMP on a remote host. This would be similar to your route issue. Let me know if you find it useful! Russell On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 03:56:57PM -0800, Roger wrote: I'm looking for ways to autocreate Nagios config files, using Puppet's Naginator, but before I can do that, I need to clear up an autodiscovery problem I have. I'm hoping someone here on the list has done something like that before. I would like to query a network device (e.g. Cisco) and get all its routes (as if I typed in something like show ip route). Is SNMP standardized to the point where I can send one query to any network device and have it return to me the route statements, regardless of the make, model, or vendor of my networking device? If anyone could point me in the right direction of what I should be looking for, I would be eternally grateful! - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012070mrt/direct/01/ ___ 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] configuration directory and file directives ... perplexity (long and boring). [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Real quick, how about allowing them FTP access to the config directory, and letting them use FileZilla to edit with Notepad via FTP? Russell - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 config admin tool?
Have a peek at NACE. I've been curious to see someone use it to generate configurations for a central server from passive checks in a distributed environment. Russell On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:38:55PM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Brown Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:25 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Distributed config admin tool? How are you admins with distributed sites managing them? Rsync over ssh has worked great here for ~6 years. 1 master machine, 6 distributed config receivers. Configs are updated hourly. -- Marc - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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] snmp over internet best practice
On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:17:43AM +0200, Tobias Klausmann wrote: Hi! On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Russell Adams wrote: The argument was always SNMP (inferring v1), versus NRPE. I've been an advocate of using SNMP because there was little client software to maintain. That said, the only disadvantage of NRPE (security-wise) I can see is that probably more people look at and dissect snmp daemons than NRPE. But NRPE is smaller, so that may compensate. I find NRPE to have scaling issues. Most OS's have an snmpd either installed by default or readily available in the package manager (including Windows!). The majority of embedded devices have one too, whether you configure it or not. This equates to little to no client software or configuration. Ever. Now take NRPE. I have to distribute plugins and the agent, then keep the NRPE configuration and plugins on every system in sync with what I'm monitoring in Nagios. That's not a problem for a few servers, but try maintaining it in a large mixed environment. I frequently work in environments which are not always hospitable to OSS, and the idea of distributing an OSS agent to every system is not an option. I can ask that the native SNMPD be turned on with a specific configuration, because it is supplied with the OS and supported by the vendor. Now, SNMPD can't monitor everything that NRPE can. There's no cure-all, but for 90% of my monitoring needs SNMPD can do it out of the box as long as the Host Resources MIB is supported. Thanks! -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ 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] snmp over internet best practice
I bet you're referencing my post. ;] Perhaps SNMP v3 is better, but the crux of the matter is that SNMP v1 was completely insecure. There used to be a mindset of anything but SNMP v1, which is where my comment originated. The argument was always SNMP (inferring v1), versus NRPE. I've been an advocate of using SNMP because there was little client software to maintain. So I'll clarify: SNMPv1 should be ok when used on a trusted internal network, setup for read only access limited to the Nagios host only (and a spare). Do not use SNMPv1 over the internet or other untrusted networks. That being said, perhaps someone more familiar with the advances in SNMPv2 and v3 can speak up as to whether the problems have been resolved. Remember, it isn't strictly limited to encryption and authentication in the protocol, but the implementation of each SNMPD. I'm not familiar with the history of exploits or broken daemons across OSes. The protocol may be fixed, but if there are known problems with vulnerable SNMPD's, then there's still an issue using it on the net. Common sense would indicate that the same best practices for SNMPv1 (read only access and limiting queries to the Nagios host IP address (and a spare!)) should help minimize any issues with SNMPv3. Hopefully we can start a useful discussion on the relative merits of SNMPv3. Russell On Fri, Aug 24, 2007 at 11:42:30AM -0500, Aaron wrote: I joined the list recently and while doing some searching for answers came across a best practices thread. One of the things listed in the thread was using snmp whenever possible with the statement that it should only be used on the local networks. I'm wondering if this is also the popular belief best practice even if you're using snmp v3 and if so why. I was about to deploy snmp v3 active checks to check things like cpu and disk loads and then i saw this post. I thought that was the whole point of v3 with SHA and AES encryptions and authentication so that we could use it over the net. Thanks in advance. Aaron - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ 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] Syslog Event Log
This is such a common topic! I just gave a presentation to the local LUG a week or two back regarding using Syslog-ng and Logmuncher for log monitoring. http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/AISTWiki/bin/view/AIS/Presentations Perhaps you will find it useful. On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:55:41AM -0400, Syd Alsobrook wrote: On Tuesday 21 August 2007 10:43, Manoj Velayudhannair wrote: But as Tivoli is taken care by a separate team, can u suggest me an open source which can analyze the logs, preferably having a web interface. There are many. Go to www.freshmeat.net. http://freshmeat.net/browse/148/ http://freshmeat.net/browse/245/ http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=log+file+monitoringtrove_cat_id=862section=projectsGo.x=0Go.y=0 http://freshmeat.net/browse/862/ Syd -- Syd Alsobrook IT Tag Team, Inc. 518-598-6025 http://www.ittagteam.com - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 best practices?
We should start a list of these on the Wiki (we do have a wiki now, right?). I'd be curious to see what feedback is received and what other ideas are proposed. On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:08:01PM +1000, Matthew Joyce wrote: Good advice. I'm happy to say we can tick most of those boxes. For logs I've been using the free Splunk, quite handy for post incident forensics. I'd also add : Pay attention to host parents and service dependencies. Getting them right can be the difference between knowing what is going on and a notification blizzard. I'd also propose only monitoring what you need to, seems obvious but it's easy to start monitoring because you can. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Adams Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:17 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices? My $0.02: Use a text editor and version control. Minimize and automate as much as practical. Try out NACE. Make a template, setup a query to find systems to apply it to. Don't be the administrative bottleneck when systems need to be added, or they won't be. Set standards and let automation do the work for you. Make sure you have two methods for notification. Email is good, backup IXO/TAP/SMS via modem on POTS is better (Sendpage). Have a dedicated UPS on your Nagios system. Power's out, notifications continue. Use a trending (Torrus) and log monitoring (Syslog-ng Logmuncher) tool in conjunction with Nagios to ensure all your bases are covered. Tie them in to use Nagios notification engine as needed. Consider using SNMP for common checks on platforms with decent snmpd's (Linux, Windows 2000+, AIX 5.3, etc). This saves you from deploying NRPE everywhere, minimizing the client side software. (This'll start a flame war, so I'll point out you should only use SNMP on an internal network and use host ACL's to confine SNMP to read only queries from the Nagios server and one alternate for upgrades. ) Check out Patrick Proy's snmp plugins, http://nagios.manubulon.com/ . Choose what you monitor and how you notify carefully. Apathy caused by too many off hours notifications is a real problem when that important message goes out. I'd suggest email for all notifications, but SMS only for critical services in a critical state. Good luck! On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Jim Avery wrote: On 13/08/07, Steve Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon installation; however, setting up Nagios has been more difficult than I had expected, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way. Can you recommend a Nagios best practices document or howto? The relevant page in the official Nagios documentation you need to look for is Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions. I would give you the url, but for some reason I can't get to that page just at the moment. An excellent introduction to Nagios which goes through how to configure it is the book 'Nagios' by Wolfgang Barth published by NoStarch Press. You can buy it online in .pdf form, printed form or both. It's getting slightly dated now, but IMO it's an easier read than some of the alternatives if you're just starting out. Using hostgroups and templates judiciously you should be able to achieve what you want pretty easily. My recommendation would be to start with a simple config and expand from there rather than trying to do everything at once. hth, Jim -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - This SF.net
Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices?
So, there's a wiki on NagiosExchange, and NagiosCommunity. Does someone have a preference? Which is more popular? I'd be happy to start a topic. On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:07:36PM -0500, Russell Adams wrote: We should start a list of these on the Wiki (we do have a wiki now, right?). I'd be curious to see what feedback is received and what other ideas are proposed. On Tue, Aug 14, 2007 at 02:08:01PM +1000, Matthew Joyce wrote: Good advice. I'm happy to say we can tick most of those boxes. For logs I've been using the free Splunk, quite handy for post incident forensics. I'd also add : Pay attention to host parents and service dependencies. Getting them right can be the difference between knowing what is going on and a notification blizzard. I'd also propose only monitoring what you need to, seems obvious but it's easy to start monitoring because you can. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Russell Adams Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 10:17 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices? My $0.02: Use a text editor and version control. Minimize and automate as much as practical. Try out NACE. Make a template, setup a query to find systems to apply it to. Don't be the administrative bottleneck when systems need to be added, or they won't be. Set standards and let automation do the work for you. Make sure you have two methods for notification. Email is good, backup IXO/TAP/SMS via modem on POTS is better (Sendpage). Have a dedicated UPS on your Nagios system. Power's out, notifications continue. Use a trending (Torrus) and log monitoring (Syslog-ng Logmuncher) tool in conjunction with Nagios to ensure all your bases are covered. Tie them in to use Nagios notification engine as needed. Consider using SNMP for common checks on platforms with decent snmpd's (Linux, Windows 2000+, AIX 5.3, etc). This saves you from deploying NRPE everywhere, minimizing the client side software. (This'll start a flame war, so I'll point out you should only use SNMP on an internal network and use host ACL's to confine SNMP to read only queries from the Nagios server and one alternate for upgrades. ) Check out Patrick Proy's snmp plugins, http://nagios.manubulon.com/ . Choose what you monitor and how you notify carefully. Apathy caused by too many off hours notifications is a real problem when that important message goes out. I'd suggest email for all notifications, but SMS only for critical services in a critical state. Good luck! On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Jim Avery wrote: On 13/08/07, Steve Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon installation; however, setting up Nagios has been more difficult than I had expected, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way. Can you recommend a Nagios best practices document or howto? The relevant page in the official Nagios documentation you need to look for is Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions. I would give you the url, but for some reason I can't get to that page just at the moment. An excellent introduction to Nagios which goes through how to configure it is the book 'Nagios' by Wolfgang Barth published by NoStarch Press. You can buy it online in .pdf form, printed form or both. It's getting slightly dated now, but IMO it's an easier read than some of the alternatives if you're just starting out. Using hostgroups and templates judiciously you should be able to achieve what you want pretty easily. My recommendation would be to start with a simple config and expand from there rather than trying to do everything at once. hth, Jim -- --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 best practices?
My $0.02: Use a text editor and version control. Minimize and automate as much as practical. Try out NACE. Make a template, setup a query to find systems to apply it to. Don't be the administrative bottleneck when systems need to be added, or they won't be. Set standards and let automation do the work for you. Make sure you have two methods for notification. Email is good, backup IXO/TAP/SMS via modem on POTS is better (Sendpage). Have a dedicated UPS on your Nagios system. Power's out, notifications continue. Use a trending (Torrus) and log monitoring (Syslog-ng Logmuncher) tool in conjunction with Nagios to ensure all your bases are covered. Tie them in to use Nagios notification engine as needed. Consider using SNMP for common checks on platforms with decent snmpd's (Linux, Windows 2000+, AIX 5.3, etc). This saves you from deploying NRPE everywhere, minimizing the client side software. (This'll start a flame war, so I'll point out you should only use SNMP on an internal network and use host ACL's to confine SNMP to read only queries from the Nagios server and one alternate for upgrades. ) Check out Patrick Proy's snmp plugins, http://nagios.manubulon.com/ . Choose what you monitor and how you notify carefully. Apathy caused by too many off hours notifications is a real problem when that important message goes out. I'd suggest email for all notifications, but SMS only for critical services in a critical state. Good luck! On Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 09:30:19PM +0100, Jim Avery wrote: On 13/08/07, Steve Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello folks! I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon installation; however, setting up Nagios has been more difficult than I had expected, which makes me wonder if I'm going about it the wrong way. Can you recommend a Nagios best practices document or howto? The relevant page in the official Nagios documentation you need to look for is Time-Saving Tricks For Object Definitions. I would give you the url, but for some reason I can't get to that page just at the moment. An excellent introduction to Nagios which goes through how to configure it is the book 'Nagios' by Wolfgang Barth published by NoStarch Press. You can buy it online in .pdf form, printed form or both. It's getting slightly dated now, but IMO it's an easier read than some of the alternatives if you're just starting out. Using hostgroups and templates judiciously you should be able to achieve what you want pretty easily. My recommendation would be to start with a simple config and expand from there rather than trying to do everything at once. hth, Jim - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/ ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 signature.asc Description: Digital signature - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now http://get.splunk.com/___ 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] Getting Nagios and AIX SNMP working together happily
There are no shortage of SNMP-based hard drive checks listed on nagiosexchange.org AIX used to not support RFC2790 (HOST-RESOURCES-MIB) which is required to use most generic snmp plugins to query data. AIX 5.2 and earlier had this problem. I just snmpwalked one of my AIX 5.3 systems and it returned HOSTMIB data. You can also run Net-SNMP on AIX instead of the default snmpd. Good luck! -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ 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] NACE
That sounds like a service definition from one of the included
examples. Make sure you haven't copied the examples into your
production configuration.
Russell
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:40:06PM +0100, Mara Laureti wrote:
Hi list
I used NACE for network discovery. I used IQueryNetwork.sh script and I
find hosts.I have some problems with services.
NACE finds this service:
define service {
contact_groups HomeAdmins
host_name 192.168.1.136
check_command CheckSNMPDisk!^/var$!80!90
service_description Disk /var
use DiskServiceTemplate
}
I start a check for configuration files and I have this error:
Error: Service check command 'CheckSNMPDisk' specified in service 'Disk
/var' for host '192.168.1.136' not defined anywhere!
Can you help me?
Thanks,
Mara
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Re: [Nagios-users] NACE
I agree, she is lacking a service definition.
However, CG HomeAdmins and that check command are right from the
examples that I used from my testing network when I wrote it. ;]
Russell
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:21:33PM -0200, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 11:02 -0600, Russell Adams wrote:
That sounds like a service definition from one of the included
examples. Make sure you haven't copied the examples into your
production configuration.
I don't think that is the case at all. She is running a discovery script
that generates services entries, but not command entries. From what the
configuration check says:
... check command 'CheckSNMPDisk' specified in service 'Disk /var' for
host '192.168.1.136' not defined anywhere.
It cannot be any of the included sample config files, because there are
no checkcommand with that name at all.
Mara, you should declare your command definition to fit your services
definition.
Marcel.
Russell
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:40:06PM +0100, Mara Laureti wrote:
Hi list
I used NACE for network discovery. I used IQueryNetwork.sh script and I
find hosts.I have some problems with services.
NACE finds this service:
define service {
contact_groups HomeAdmins
host_name 192.168.1.136
check_command CheckSNMPDisk!^/var$!80!90
service_description Disk /var
use DiskServiceTemplate
}
I start a check for configuration files and I have this error:
Error: Service check command 'CheckSNMPDisk' specified in service 'Disk
/var' for host '192.168.1.136' not defined anywhere!
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Thanks,
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Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Discovery
NACE. http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Configuration.20.0.html?tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=277 Its a toolkit to allow you to write scripts to manage your entire network via discovery. Russell On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 12:10:53PM +0100, Mara Laureti wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Mara Laureti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 24, 2006 11:53 AM Subject: Fwd: Discovery To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- From: Mara Laureti [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Nov 24, 2006 10:26 AM Subject: Discovery To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi list I have a big network to manage and it isn't possible an hand configuration. Is there a plig-in for auto-discovery? Nagios-version nagios2.5 Plugin-version nagios-plugin-1.4.5 - Mara Laureti (Violetta) --- The mailing list archive is found here: http://www.nagiosexchange.org/nagios-users.34.0.html - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ 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] to anyone monitoring windows machines with nagios (wmi, etc.)
I recall hearing someone else wrote a WMI proxy for this purpose a while ago, though I don't recall the project. Perhaps you should compare? Russell On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 08:22:25PM -0400, Mike Conigliaro wrote: sorry, documentation is a bit light at this point. =/ your guess is correct. if you have to monitor a network of windows machines, its hard to beat doing it with wmi. unfortunately, you cant query wmi directly from *nix (as far as i know), but you can run an nrpe service on one of your windows machines and proxy the checks through that machine. you only need the check_nrpe plugin on the *nix side to do this. my project is simply a collection of plugins, plus a framework for simplifying plugin development in c# .net. i started it because i couldnt find a good replacement for the official nagios plugins for *nix, and i didnt want just a direct win32 port either, because i wanted the power of wmi for windows monitoring. i hope this helps. Trevor Warren wrote: Hello Mike, You indeed have an interesting project here. Was trying to find documentation towards understanding how it works but couldnt make any progress. Am guessing.., You configure a service on the nagios box to call the nagiosnt plugin over nrpe which can then call any other windows machine using wmi. Is this how it works???. Thanks and Regards Mike. Trevor On 8/29/06, mike conigliaro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hey guys, i recently started a project to simplify windows monitoring with nagios. my goal was to create a comprehensive set of plugins similar to the official nagios plugins for *nix, but for win32 nrpe daemons. so far, i have wmi plugins for monitoring basic performance metrics like cpu, memory, disk, swap, service state, etc. i've also written some basic snmp, tcp, and icmp plugins, so this project is not at all limited to monitoring windows machines. a very nice side effect of this project was ending up with a simple object oriented framework for writing future plugins. this has improved my plugin development time immensely. for example, its now possible for me to write a brand new, fully-functional wmi plugin from start-to-finish in literally 2 minutes! the project page is here: http://nagiospluginsnt.getproactivenow.com i hope someone out there finds this stuff useful, and im interested in any feedback you might have. -- Mike Conigliaro ProActive Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] 203.239.0440 ext:317 www.getproactivenow.com - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ 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 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=120709bid=263057dat=121642 ___ 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
Re: [Nagios-users] Scalable Configuration Strategies?
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Re: [Nagios-users] automatic topology discovery tools
NACE. Russell On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 04:28:26PM +0200, Marcin Wasilewski wrote: Hello Robert, can You tell me how exactly do You use nmap to discover and map the network topology? Thanks, Marcin - Original Message - From: Robert Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Nagios-users Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] automatic topology discovery tools nmap http://www.insecure.org ?? wrote: Dear Nagios-users?? I'm looking for a tool which has the feature of automatic discovery and also can map the topology of a net. I have read some documentations and know that nagios can't do this. OpenNMS can discover but can't map it. Are there any other good/small tools support this ? Thanks! ?? ?? [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2006-07-25 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID?VDEV ___ 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 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID?VDEV ___ 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 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.phpp=sourceforgeCID=DEVDEV ___ 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] SPLUNK
My answer? Syslog-ng and Logmuncher. Email reports. ;] Russell On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 08:26:18AM -0800, Jason Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 10:56:48AM -0500, Dimitri Yioulos wrote: I installed the previous version on my firewall a few weeks ago. Believe me when I tell you that it makes looking at logs a whole lot easier, since it's trivial to filter on key words. Installation was easy, and you only need to make a couple of easy tweaks to a couple of files to get it working. Note that the free version will only process 500MB/day of input. -Jason Martin -- Where there's a will, there's an inheritance tax. This message is PGP/MIME signed. -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ 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] Monitoring AIX 5.2 hosts
I've found AIX's SNMP to be limited, and on my hosts I use NCSA and some shell scripts. Russell On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 07:41:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I need to monitor with Nagios the usual system parameters of several AIX 5.2 boxes (disk, cpu, mem, swap, proc, and the like). Any of you have got it to work in this plattform? And what is the best way: snmp, nrpe, ncsa, ...? Any hint will be greatly appreciatted... Un saludo, Pablo Espinar Barcelona (Spain) --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37alloc_id865op=click ___ 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 -- Russell Adams[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint:1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3 pgpfg2Y3EA9V3.pgp Description: PGP signature
