Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 04:34:34PM +1300, Steve Shipway wrote: > So many different ways to do this. We do it thusly. > > 1) Set up a host for your border router. > 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect > web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsof

[Nagios-users] Nagios Book - Feedback Welcome

2006-01-24 Thread Chris Burgess
I¹m pleased to announce the launch of NagiosBook.org. At NagiosBook.org you will find a free downloadable and printable (PDF and HTML) book covering how to install, configure, extend and customise Nagios. Written to complement the official Nagios documentation, it will hopefully become a useful r

RE: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Steve Shipway
So many different ways to do this. We do it thusly. 1) Set up a host for your border router. 2) Within this, sefine a number of http check services that try to collect web pages from popular internet sites ( google, microsoft, ibm...). Disable notifications on them. 3) Use check_summary (from na

[Nagios-users] Tactical Overview

2006-01-24 Thread barry.maclean
Is it possible to have a tactical overview per hostgroup?   Thanks Barry

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Guy B. Purcell wrote: > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 23:56, Marc Haber wrote: > > > some services, most notably DNS, depend on the Internet to be > > available. I'd like to express this in Nagios configuration. I'd > > probably need to have a service "Internet" for that where my DNS

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Guy B. Purcell
On Jan 23, 2006, at 23:56, Marc Haber wrote: some services, most notably DNS, depend on the Internet to be available. I'd like to express this in Nagios configuration. I'd probably need to have a service "Internet" for that where my DNS service definitions could depend on to avoid DNS being rep

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Toto Capuccino wrote: > When i write a remote server i mean a server that is not the nagios server. > When i say that it is on the same subnet i made certainly a mistake as > actually the nagios server get an address 10.1.1.13 and the dhcp server i am > trying to ping is 10.2.

Re: [Nagios-users] processing bottleneck & staled results

2006-01-24 Thread Jason Martin
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 01:42:06PM -0200, Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano wrote: > Running nagios -s don't give me any indications that could be of use. > > My config is as follows: > * almost 12k services (all passive: send_ncsa & ncsa) There is a limit to the amount of data that can be written to t

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Toto Capuccino
When i write a remote server i mean a server that is not the nagios server. When i say that it is on the same subnet i made certainly a mistake as actually the nagios server get an address 10.1.1.13 and the dhcp server i am trying to ping is 10.2.1.1. I think that the packets are sent through a ci

Re: [Nagios-users] Snmpstatus/aggregate bandwidth

2006-01-24 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 24, 2006, at 1:50 PM, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Welch, John wrote: So after looking around nagiosexchange and a quick search of the list archives with no success... Is there a plugin that either uses the total traffic for a device, ala snmpstatus, or can present

Re: [Nagios-users] Snmpstatus/aggregate bandwidth

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Welch, John wrote: > So after looking around nagiosexchange and a quick search of the list > archives with no success... > > Is there a plugin that either uses the total traffic for a device, ala > snmpstatus, or can present the aggregate traffic in and out for all ports on >

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Toto Capuccino wrote: > I want to run a check_dhcp on a remote server inside the same subnet but > never get a reply : This can not be true. Either the DHCP server is remote or in the same subnet. But it can not be both. (Unless you got a L2 bridge in there.) Perhaps you ment

Re: [Nagios-users] sending two lines with check_tcp plugin

2006-01-24 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > I am trying to monitor one of my servers with check_tcp plugin. With > this, I could send a string to the server (to the specified port) and > analize the answer in order to get an OK, warning or critical message. > > But the problem I have

RE: [Nagios-users] I: Autentications problems

2006-01-24 Thread Tedman Eng
Please always respond to the list. The FAQ section on the Nagios website provides answers to your question. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=48&expand=false&showdesc=false http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=47&expand=false&showdesc=false The upper left hand box of the mai

Re: [Nagios-users] sending two lines with check_tcp plugin

2006-01-24 Thread Eli Stair
How about a quickie bash/perl wrapper around netcat? /eli Angel L. Mateo wrote: Hello, I am trying to monitor one of my servers with check_tcp plugin. With this, I could send a string to the server (to the specified port) and analize the answer in order to get an OK, warning or critic

RE: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime comments

2006-01-24 Thread Don Lewis
If you have the file permissions correctly done and the CGI permissions setup properly along with making sure that your .htaccess stuff is setup right it shouldn't be giving you any issues, I followed the setting privileges and CGI authorization section thoroughly and my example shows: Host NameEn

RE: [Nagios-users] SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME and DEL_HOST_DOWNTIME

2006-01-24 Thread Lori Adams
I actually do all of this kind of work by looking at the GUI.  Meaning, I have the script get the appropriate page and find the downtime id.   This information may be in the status.log.  I also think there is a downtime.log.  Check in there.  You’d have to parse the file.   -Lori    

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

2006-01-24 Thread Brian Scanlan
On 24/01/06, Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On a second thought, how do I check DNS? I mean, even with the > Internet down, my local DNS servers probably can correctly serve DNS > records for my local network which they're authoritative for. So, does > it make sense to check the DNS server

[Nagios-users] service config question

2006-01-24 Thread Bill Gunter
I've configured a hostgroup of machines and service checks for that hostgroup. However, I'd like to define a different service check command for one of the hosts in the hostgroup. An example might help. define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name foo alias foo servers mem

Re: [Nagios-users] VMRL problem

2006-01-24 Thread J�rg Schulz
Hi Did you install the vrml viewer 4.2 from http://www.parallelgraphics.com/ products/cortona/ If so it should work /jörg - Jörg Schulz (josclz) --- This thread is located in the archive at this URL: http://www.nagiosexchange

Fwd: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Toto Capuccino
-- Forwarded message --From: Toto Capuccino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: 24 janv. 2006 17:17 Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not workingTo: "Sloane, Robert Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>yep make is betterlinuxserver:/usr/local/nagios-1.3 /libexec/OssOp5/plugins.op5# ./plugins/check

[Nagios-users] VMRL problem

2006-01-24 Thread Mark.Law
I have a VMRL viewer. When I click on “3-D Status Map”, it asks if I want to open the file, I click open, but I get a dialog box that says “Internet explorer cannot download statuswrl.cgi?host=all from nadcnagios.tshmg.com”.  Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?

RE: [Nagios-users] Cheking Windows server Hardware Temp.

2006-01-24 Thread Paessens, Daniel
Try to use tools like MIBWalker which allows you to view all mibinfo on the system. If the necessary soft (read drivers of vendor) is installed then Windows will know these features. >From that moment on it just question to retrieve the correct value. But once again the exact value depends of who i

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Toto Capuccino
Hi I tried to compile the plugin check_ dhcp from op5 but unsuccesfully:linuxserver:/usr/local/nagios-1.3/libexec/OssOp5/plugins.op5/plugins# gcc -o check_dhcp check_dhcp.cIn file included from check_dhcp.c:40: common.h:69:21: config.h: No such file or directorycommon.h:225:21: gettext.h: No such f

[Nagios-users] processing bottleneck & staled results

2006-01-24 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
Hi there, I am scratching my head here for a couple of weeks, my central Nagios has been acting strangely, too many stale results with no apparent reason. So, trying to workaround this situation, I made a question wich I could not answer. That is: "How to measure a server capacity in terms of numb

[Nagios-users] Snmpstatus/aggregate bandwidth

2006-01-24 Thread Welch, John
Title: Snmpstatus/aggregate bandwidth So after looking around nagiosexchange and a quick search of the list archives with no success... Is there a plugin that either uses the total traffic for a device, ala snmpstatus, or can present the aggregate traffic in and out for all ports on a device

RE: [Nagios-users] Cheking Windows server Hardware Temp.

2006-01-24 Thread Richard.Luys
I am not a Windows-guru, but my colleagues are ;-) They have been working on this also, so I might have some usefull information: First of all: this is a Hardware-issue. Depending on the vendor of your system there are different ways of monitoring the temperatures, voltages, fan speeds, etc. Most

RE: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime comments

2006-01-24 Thread Richard.Luys
Morten, I think the problem you are having is the strange way in which downtime-comments work: When you schedule downtime, Nagios automatically generates a message like 'This host has been scheduled for downtime ...' or something similar. This message is called a comment, and is shown in the comm

[Nagios-users] Host Status problems

2006-01-24 Thread Chris Goosen
Hello group..   I have been having this problem for some time now and I am getting desperate..   My Nagios central server reports certain hosts as being down with the errors:  “(No Information Returned From Host Check)” or “Plugin timed out after 10 seconds”   The distribution server

RE: [Nagios-users] Email Notifications missing $DATETIME$ and $OUTPUT$

2006-01-24 Thread Lawrence, Lynne
Though these macros are valid for Nagios 1.x, they do not appear to be supported for Nagios 2.x. If using Nagios 2.x, consult the doc on macros. Regards, Lynne Lawrence QSS/USCG > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Rex Chan > Sent

RE: [Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime comments

2006-01-24 Thread Morten Bekkelund
Anyone know how to get around this? Author "nagios process" overwrites the commentfield value so the users can not place a comment while scheduling downtime. Now they have to schedule downtime and then post a comment after. -Original Message- From: Morten Bekkelund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

[Nagios-users] check_dhcp not working

2006-01-24 Thread Toto Capuccino
Hello,I want to run a check_dhcp on a remote server inside the same subnet but never get a reply :/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_dhcp -s 10.2.1.1DHCP problem: No DHCPOFFERs were received. /usr/local/nagios/libexec#  ./check_dhcp -s 10.2.1.1 -r 10.2.10.98 -vDHCP socket: 3Hardware address: 000f20

[Nagios-users] Cheking Windows server Hardware Temp.

2006-01-24 Thread VINAY_SHARMA
Hi Techies, I need to check windows servers hardware Tempreture.if any one has idea please tell me. using nagios 1.2 on RH linux box and NSclient for windows client.other services is working good like CPU uses,memory,hard disk space check. Thanks & regards **