RE: [Nagios-users] Use SNMP and check_ping to check the server downtime

2006-01-11 Thread Nigel Bruin
I had wrote a perl script to execute "check_ping" and manipulate the result. Now, I would like to add in the SNMP uptime checking to get a more accurate downtime data. Just want to know what are the mechanism can be used to achieve the SNMP uptime checking? In Perl? Use Net::SNMP http://search

RE: [Nagios-users] Use SNMP and check_ping to check the server downtime

2006-01-11 Thread Lui.external
I had wrote a perl script to execute "check_ping" and manipulate the result. Now, I would like to add in the SNMP uptime checking to get a more accurate downtime data. Just want to know what are the mechanism can be used to achieve the SNMP uptime checking? -Original Message- From: [EMAI

Re: [Nagios-users] Use SNMP and check_ping to check the server downtime

2006-01-11 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am planning to use SNMP + check_ping to get the availability of server > in Nagios. > Can anyone guide me on this? And just what effort have you put into this yourself? What do you want to obtain? What have you tried? How did it go? Hugo. --

[Nagios-users] Use SNMP and check_ping to check the server downtime

2006-01-11 Thread Lui.external
I am planning to use SNMP + check_ping to get the availability of server in Nagios. Can anyone guide me on this? Thanks. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJA

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration via Templates and Hostgroups

2006-01-11 Thread Jason Martin
On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:21:37PM +1100, Parkinson, Alex wrote: > came to the following conclusions about object inheritance and hostgroups > configuration. Can someone confirm that these two points are correct? I > wasn't able to find a specific reference in the documentation. You are correct on

[Nagios-users] Configuration via Templates and Hostgroups

2006-01-11 Thread Parkinson, Alex
Title: Configuration via Templates and Hostgroups Hi All, After spending some time configuring new objects in Nagios (version 1.2) I came to the following conclusions about object inheritance and hostgroups configuration. Can someone confirm that these two points are correct? I wasn't able to

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative web interfaces for limiting web access?

2006-01-11 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michael T. Halligan wrote: We monitor N different customer infrastructures with Nagios. Some of our customers are starting to request access to the web interface. Beyond writing our own custom interface, are there any good projects out there to allow users with specified acc

[Nagios-users] Alternative web interfaces for limiting web access?

2006-01-11 Thread Michael T. Halligan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 We monitor N different customer infrastructures with Nagios. Some of our customers are starting to request access to the web interface. Beyond writing our own custom interface, are there any good projects out there to allow users with specified a

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp issue

2006-01-11 Thread Mike Holloway
Ravi, has your device on 192.168.x.x been configured with an snmp community string of "public"? Assuming so, perhaps first try from the command line manually something like: snmpget -v 1 -c my_community_string 192.168.1.2 sysUpTime.0 which works for me on one of my hosts. It's possible

Re: [Nagios-users] snmp issue

2006-01-11 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 1/11/2006 9:05 PM, Ravi Kumar wrote: I'm having issue with snmp in 2.0Beta version. /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp -H 192.168.xxx.xxx Connection refused SMTP CRITICAL - 0.001 sec. response time|time=0.000781s;;;0.00 /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -P 1 -H 192.168.xxx.xxx

RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime. What works for you?

2006-01-11 Thread Hernandez, Moses
For me I usually like to change the 24x7 default time to our scheduled maintenance window. For systems that don't adhere to this I create a different monitoring time group. This however is probably because I haven't gotten external commands working :(. I will enjoy this more when the windows versi

RE: [Nagios-users] Downtime. What works for you?

2006-01-11 Thread Steve Shipway
> What method works best for recurring downtime? What method > does everyone here use? In some cases, it is appropriate to define a special timeperiod in Nagios, and use that for check_time and notification_time. However, in most cases, this would mean hundreds of smalltimeperiod definitions. We

[Nagios-users] snmp issue

2006-01-11 Thread Ravi Kumar
I'm having issue with snmp in 2.0Beta version. /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp -H  192.168.xxx.xxxConnection refusedSMTP CRITICAL - 0.001 sec. response time|time=0.000781s;;;0.00   /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -P 1 -H 192.168.xxx.xxx -o sysUpTime.0 -C publicSNMP problem - No data re

RE: [Nagios-users] problem check_traceroute

2006-01-11 Thread Tedman Eng
You'll want to traceroute by IP rather than by name. Google uses DNS round robin, so each time you traceroute, you'll get a different IP, and likely a different path. You may also want to notify Google that you're using their resources for your automated tests. > -Original Message- > Fro

RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios check_ping times

2006-01-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Title: [Nagios-users] Nagios check_ping times I had issues with check_ping under MS Virtual Server. The plugin would routinely timeout. We suspected it could be a clock drift issue because MS does not have VM Aditions for *nix yet. I switched to check_icmp and things have been good...  

[Nagios-users] escalations for large shop

2006-01-11 Thread David Schlecht
Hi list Does notification escalation scale well to large shops? >From the docs it appears that each host/service pair must have its own record in the serviceEscalations.cfg file. I see no support for host groups. If I have to enter and maintain many hundreds of host/service pairs in th

Re: [Nagios-users] Downtime. What works for you?

2006-01-11 Thread Hendrik Baecker
David Schlecht schrieb: Hi list What method works best for recurring downtime? What method does everyone here use? There are some shell Script to put some hosts/services via the external command pipe into your nagios. Take a daily cronjob and it will work for you. I think these shell

[Nagios-users] Downtime. What works for you?

2006-01-11 Thread David Schlecht
Hi list What method works best for recurring downtime? What method does everyone here use? I can't seem to get it to work the way I like. We have a few hosts that go down for maintenance, nightly, at 19:30-20:00. I use notification timeperiods to avoid notifications during these times,

RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios check_ping times

2006-01-11 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Reg > Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 11:19 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios check_ping times > > I sporadically ( 1 or 2 times/day for 50 hos

[Nagios-users] Problem with compiling NRPE on Tru64

2006-01-11 Thread Kannberg, Andy
Title: Problem with compiling NRPE on Tru64 Hello, I am trying to compile NRPE on Tru64 UNIX, but when doing a 'make all', I get an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> make all cd ./src/; make ; cd .. cc -g -I/usr/local/ssl/include/openssl -I/usr/local/ssl/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o nrpe nrpe.c uti

[Nagios-users] problem check_traceroute

2006-01-11 Thread basile au siris
hi i do check_traceroute -r and obtain a route i do check_traceroute -R this route and have errors can someone explain me what it means ? here are logs ./check_traceroute.pl -r -H www.google.fr Ok. Traceroute to host "www.google.fr" via route "195.220.107.253-195.221.127.97-195.221.127.110-19

[Nagios-users] info about freshness_threshold in extinfo.cgi (detailed service informations)?

2006-01-11 Thread Stephan Lauffer
hi all! I'm monitorung a passive service with the freshness_threshold feature. I'm wondering because I can't see something like "expected freshness: " in the "Service State Information". Q: is there somewhere in the cgis the information when the next check result must be reported or is this "hi