[Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
What are peoples opinions on a decent web based management/configuration front end for Nagios, ideally PHP? Olly --- All the advantages of Linux Managed Hosting--Without the Cost and Risk! Fully trained technicians. The highest number of Red

Re: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Greg Cope
Jacob, I noticed the same thing today. We run a few distributed servers that do about 150 checks (at the moment) and submit this to our central server. That's allot of send_nsca processes that get spawned. I like you fix! send_nsca would not appear to be scallable for those running lots of

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Morris, Patrick
How are you guys running the nsca daemon? I've got systems that perform thousands of checks with no problem. I'm looking at a system right now that submits over 5300 checks to a central server running nsca via xinetd, and it has a average service latency of .153 secs. -Original

Re: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Az
Oliver Marshall wrote: What are peoples opinions on a decent web based management/configuration front end for Nagios, ideally PHP? I would recommend searching the list as this has been done to death a few times. --- All the advantages

Re: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread nagios
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 09:20:39AM +0100, Oliver Marshall wrote: What are peoples opinions on a decent web based management/configuration front end for Nagios, ideally PHP? looking forward to it - my boss sure would like it. :-) -- --- All

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Greg Cope, e-DBA Team
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 04:53 -0400, Morris, Patrick wrote: How are you guys running the nsca daemon? I've got systems that perform thousands of checks with no problem. I'm looking at a system right now that submits over 5300 checks to a central server running nsca via xinetd, and it has a

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Deborah Martin
This has been discussed to death. I'd suggest use google and look around to see what is out there - try them out because everyone has difference preferences to what will work for them. Alternatively, write your own and then you only have yourself to please! :) regs, deborah -Original

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
I cant barely get this linux machine turned on :) Writing my own isn't an option :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Deborah Martin Sent: 24 May 2006 10:26 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE:

RE: [Nagios-users] Jabber Custom Notification Script Not Working

2006-05-24 Thread Norman Harebottle
I have saved the file in /usr/bin but have also tried having it in /usr/local/bin and it does not make a difference. The name of the script on my machine is notify-jabber and the notification command that I have tried in the nagios configuration is the following: # This command is used to notify

Re: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Jacob Ritorto
There's the rub, I bet. If you run nsca as a daemon, it only allows one connection per instance, whereas running it via inetd (or setting up smf to handle multiple instances) will spawn enough instances to handle any ingress. Thanks for the hint, Patrick. I'm currently in the

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Jorg . Schulz
Hi Like Deborah says This has been discussed to death. I'd suggest use google and look around to I tried the Fruity, Nag2Web,NagiosQL and som other configtools But for me the best is NagiosQL - www.nagiosql.org It´s a php tool with mysql . very handy I serve about 2500 services and around

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Thanks Jorg. I actually have it working ( /me waits for applause and confetti) with one minor issue. Whats the nagios.cmd file it needs in order to restart nagios? I have to admit, NagiosQL isn't grabbing me. Seeing the options laid out on a page makes my knees weak. Saying that, I *think* I

[Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Im just at the last stage of setting up NagiosQL and it seems I'm missing a nagios.cmd file, which should be in /usr/local/nagios/var/ Does anyone know what this is/does, and where I might get it or how I can create it ? Olly --- All the

[Nagios-users] RE: Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Norman Harebottle
I am unclear how that would actually help in getting the Jabber Notification script running. Apparently I am missing something obvious? Norman -Original Message- From: Oliver Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:32 AM To: Aaron K. Moore; Norman

[Nagios-users] Auth problems

2006-05-24 Thread Nicola Agnelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i've installed Nagios 2.3.1 on a Gentoo Linux box, but i've a problem during autentication: when i go to http://ip/nagios tha nagios main page appears to me, and when i click on host details for example it require me the authentication so i

[Nagios-users] RE: Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Eit doesn't. It was a new thread. -Original Message- From: Norman Harebottle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 24 May 2006 13:37 To: Oliver Marshall; Aaron K. Moore; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: Reloading nagios config I am unclear how that would actually

[Nagios-users] NIC bonding issues?

2006-05-24 Thread James E. Pratt
I check a number of interfaces via ping - some running RH ES4 with bonded nics - Lately I've been getting this sometimes.. -- James Pratt Unix Systems Administrator Norwich University - Information Technology http://www.norwich.edu ph: 1(802)485-2532

[Nagios-users] NIC bonding issues?

2006-05-24 Thread James E. Pratt
I check a number of interfaces via ping - some running RH ES4 with bonded nics - Lately I've been getting this sometimes.. State: WARNING Date/Time: Wed May 24 08:41:51 EDT 2006 Additional Info: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND! Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 1.58 ms does my bonding driver have a

Re: [Nagios-users] Auth problems

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Perrin
On 5/24/06, Nicola Agnelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i've installed Nagios 2.3.1 on a Gentoo Linux box, but i've a problem during autentication: when i go to http://ip/nagios tha nagios main page appears to me, and when i click on host

Re: [Nagios-users] Auth problems

2006-05-24 Thread Nicola Agnelli
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jim Perrin wrote: On 5/24/06, Nicola Agnelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, i've installed Nagios 2.3.1 on a Gentoo Linux box, but i've a problem during autentication: when i go to

[Nagios-users] RE: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #3188 - 5 msgs

2006-05-24 Thread Bryce, Jennifer
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RE: [Nagios-users] Check that a process is running!

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
Please always respond on-list so that others may benefit from your experience. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:35 AM To: Marc Powell Subject: SV: [Nagios-users] Check that a process is running! Hi! I cant get

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread jeff vier
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 13:32 +0100, Oliver Marshall wrote: For the sake of google, using Mandriva (and prob loads others), you can do this to reload the nagios config files; /etc/init.d/nagios reload And when you get weirdness with your CGIs the phrase you'll be looking for is 'zombie

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Ben O'Hara
On 5/24/06, Oliver Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the sake of google, using Mandriva (and prob loads others), you cando this to reload the nagios config files;/etc/init.d/nagios reloadOllyIs this actually nagios related or general *nix admin skills? Ben -- A Scientist will earn a living by

[Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread nagios
Hi gang, I have found a slightly disturbing behaviour in status.cgi: Sometimes it duplicates the status of a service onto another. I discovered this once and can since reproduce it using the reload button of my browser. This is Nagios 2.3.1 and NRPE 2.5.1. Right operation: (I cranked the

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
I have 3 separate central servers (2 production and 1 for testing), all running nsca as a daemon and all receiving the same 3590 passive service results every 5 minutes. I've never had a problem with missed checks or high latency numbers. Stats from my clients -- Client1 submits 504(x3) passive

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread jeff vier
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 16:45 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang, I have found a slightly disturbing behaviour in status.cgi: Sometimes it duplicates the status of a service onto another. I discovered this once and can since reproduce it using the reload button of my browser. This is

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread Ben O'Hara
On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi gang,I have found a slightly disturbing behaviour in status.cgi: Sometimes itduplicates the status of a service onto another. I discovered this onceand can since reproduce it using the reload button of my browser. This is Nagios 2.3.1 and

RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jeff vier Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:33 AM To: Oliver Marshall Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config On Wed, 2006-05-24 at

RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ben O'Hara Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:37 AM To: Oliver Marshall Cc: Aaron K. Moore; Norman Harebottle; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread nagios
Ben O'Hara wrote: Check you havent got multiple nagios processes running Ah. I got 2 nagios processes running. Killing them and starting nagios seemed to help: I cannot reproduce the behaviour any longer. Ben Thanks, that was damn fast. Chris

RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread jeff vier
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:53 -0500, Marc Powell wrote: And when you get weirdness with your CGIs the phrase you'll be looking for is 'zombie processes'. That should only occur on restart, when a new daemon is started, not reload since the currently running daemon is maintained. should,

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread Ben O'Hara
On 5/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben O'Hara wrote: Check you havent got multiple nagios processes runningAh. I got 2 nagios processes running. Killing them and starting nagiosseemed to help: I cannot reproduce the behaviour any longer. BenThanks, that was damn fast.Nothing

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread Jim Perrin
Nothing much to do at work when youve got nagios running correctly ;-) How many times do I have to tell you not to say this in public? What if our bosses are reading this list? They'll actually want something produced :-P -- This message has been double ROT13 encoded for security. Anyone

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread Ben O'Hara
On 5/24/06, Jim Perrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nothing much to do at work when youve got nagios running correctly ;-)How many times do I have to tell you not to say this in public? Whatif our bosses are reading this list? They'll actually want something produced :-PHaha, now, now, you should

RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: jeff vier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:01 AM To: Marc Powell Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 09:53 -0500, Marc Powell wrote: And when you

RE: [Nagios-users] Reloading nagios config

2006-05-24 Thread Tiernan, Michael C.
I have found that since /etc/init.d/nagios is unavailable to the nagios user since it requires root privs (in my paranoid world), I created a simple script owned by nagios itself called trigger-restart based on one of the samples which says: # This is a sample shell script showing how you can

RE: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:01 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Cc: Ben O'Hara Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up? Ben O'Hara

[Nagios-users] check_radius Segmentation Fault

2006-05-24 Thread Scott Smith
I have recently upgrade from Fedora Core 3 to Fedora Core 5. At the same time I upgraded Nagios from 2.0b4 to the latest 2.x version. All my configs seemed to work fine. I recompiled the Nagios-Plugins as well. Everything seems to be working fine except check_radius. When I run

Re: [Nagios-users] status.cgi mixing services up?

2006-05-24 Thread nagios
Marc Powell schrieb: And a cleverly disguised FAQ =) Dammit! Did not recognize that one. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=21expand=falseshowdesc=false Hosts and services will occassionally disappear from the web interface. Could someone please add the words or seem

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Dan Hopkins
Out of interest, how many of your clients submit checks to each master? (or do you mean they all submit their results to every master?) and do you see many failed OCSP command submissions in the client logs? An install I'm testing at the moment has around 4000 services on 3 minute check split

RE: [Nagios-users] Best web front end

2006-05-24 Thread Randal, Phil
A quick look at the NagioSQL web page gives me little confidence. No documentation or screenshots. I've been playing with both Monarch and Fruity. Both are (to me) Alpha quality, regardless of any RC monnikers the developers attach to them. I needed to patchboth to make them usable:

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: Dan Hopkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 10:56 AM To: Marc Powell Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number Out of interest, how many of your clients submit

[Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Terry
Good afternoon, I am sure I am not seeing the big picture here but I want to have a single contact and have nagios use the pager for critical/ok and email for warning/ok messages. It doesnt appear that the default notification commands allow for this. Here is a contact example: define

RE: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Cruse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I am sure I am not seeing the big picture here but I want to have a single contact and have nagios use the pager for critical/ok and email for warning/ok messages. It doesnt appear that the default notification commands allow for this. Do I

Re: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Terry
Andy, I neglected to say that I do that today, use 2 contacts, one for warning and one for critical. That just seems to defeat the purpose of having both pager and email in one contact. On 5/24/06, Andrew Cruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I am sure I

[Nagios-users] (no subject)

2006-05-24 Thread Ganesh Vembu
hi all not a big time linux guy but do have to get this done at work i am installing Nagios the latest one on Redhat enterprise4 i ccan get till the web interface whr i can enter my UN and PW but none of the stuff to the left works except the ones under general = ofcourse I get an=20

RE: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Cruse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/06, Andrew Cruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I am sure I am not seeing the big picture here but I want to have a single contact and have nagios use the pager for critical/ok and email for warning/ok messages. It doesnt

[Nagios-users] NSClient++ checkeventlog

2006-05-24 Thread Oliver Marshall
Hi, Im using the following line in my checkcommands.cfg file. It works, as in i dont get an error code, but it returns 0 results and stays in the green. Can anyone see why this would return 0 results, even though I have made sure I have a load of errors and warnings in both the app and sys event

RE: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Andrew Cruse
Andrew Cruse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/24/06, Andrew Cruse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good afternoon, I am sure I am not seeing the big picture here but I want to have a single contact and have nagios use the pager for critical/ok and email for warning/ok

RE: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact

2006-05-24 Thread Lawrence, Lynne
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Cruse Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:53 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] utilizing pager/email in single contact Andrew Cruse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Nagios-users] RE: Jabber Custom Notification Script Not Working (Frederik Vanhee)

2006-05-24 Thread Stanley.Hopcroft
Dear Folks, I am writing to thank you for your letter and say, -Original Message- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:52:22 +0200 From: Frederik Vanhee [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Norman Harebottle [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Jabber

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file

2006-05-24 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:15 +0100, Oliver Marshall wrote: Im just at the last stage of setting up NagiosQL and it seems I'm missing a nagios.cmd file, which should be in /usr/local/nagios/var/ Does anyone know what this is/does, and where I might get it or how I can create it ? It is

RE: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file

2006-05-24 Thread Morris, Patrick
That's not entirely accurate. That file is a pipe created by Nagios at runtime. It should be wherever your config file says it should be. Look for command_file in nagios.cfg. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano

RE: [Nagios-users] Re: How to reduce a very high latency number

2006-05-24 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:09 -0500, Marc Powell wrote: [snip] Each submits all check results to each master in series -- $ tail -3 submit_check_result /bin/echo -e $1\t$2\t$return_code\t$4\n | /usr/local/nagios/bin/send_nsca master1 -p 5668 -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/send_nsca.cfg

Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

2006-05-24 Thread Marcel Mitsuto Fucatu Sugano
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 11:28 -0700, Ganesh Vembu wrote: hi all not a big time linux guy but do have to get this done at work i am installing Nagios the latest one on Redhat enterprise4 i ccan get till the web interface whr i can enter my UN and PW but none of the stuff to the left works

[Nagios-users] Some nagios promblem need help!

2006-05-24 Thread SYSIT
Hi,all I have been used nagios monitor our web site two years! Now about 500 hosts and 3,000 services on my nagios system. because now my nagios server load is very high. I have to use distribution system to reduce pressure.I found if nsca server work at inetd or single mode cant deal