Re: [Nagios-users] Web transaction checker

2006-08-18 Thread Peter Ringe
Hi Try check_website (http://www.steveshipway.org/software/f_nagios.html) I think its exactly whjat You are looking for, we use it since some month w/o any problems Peter Tory M Blue schrieb: > Anyone succesfully deploy a url transaction checker. > > Something that will enter data into a fie

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Samuel P Howard
ARG! I had it that way, but must not have had the host defining the hostgroups line yet ... I went around and around and around and never hit the right combination ... sad. OK, now that all of my hosts in each directory have a hostsgroup entry, and my main customer.cfg has the skeleton definit

Re: [Nagios-users] escalation/notification question

2006-08-18 Thread Tory M Blue
On 8/18/06, Jeff Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I have a host called viper with the following definitions, I'm wondering why the group admins gets warning notifications for the service "DISK /" after the first notification. To me, these definitions say that admins should get no more than 5

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 16:25 -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Hedegaard > > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:44 PM > > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Nagios-use

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Christian Hedegaard > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 1:44 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching. > > > The Nagios documentatio

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel P Howard > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 12:07 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Cc: Marc Powell > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup? > >

[Nagios-users] escalation/notification question

2006-08-18 Thread Jeff Williams
If I have a host called viper with the following definitions, I'm wondering why the group admins gets warning notifications for the service "DISK /" after the first notification. To me, these definitions say that admins should get no more than 5 notifications and no warning notifications after the

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 11:44 -0700, Christian Hedegaard wrote: > The Nagios documentation relating to the "regular expression" matching > seems very thin to me. And not quite clear. > > It appears, by example, that the only regular expressions you can use > are "*" and "?", which I would just consi

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread John R. Daily
"*" is not a valid regular expression (the docs are wrong, IIRC). You want ".*", like: >> host_name .* -John On Aug 18, 2006, at 4:05 PM, Christian Hedegaard wrote: > >> define serviceescalation{ >> host_name * >> service_des

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread Christian Hedegaard
> define serviceescalation{ > host_name * > service_description * > first_notification 3 > last_notification 0 > contact_groups > on-duty-pagers,off-duty-pagers,operations-email > notificat

Re: [Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread smiller
I am also interested in hearing more about this... I had no luck trying to use forward assertions in order to omit a few select hosts from a service definition. Thank you, Christian. --- Steve Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Network Engineer Information Technology Department County of San Luis Obispo

Re: [Nagios-users] Web transaction checker

2006-08-18 Thread David Price
Tory, Try WebInject. (http://www.webinject.org/plugin.html) I have it setup to log into a website through a form and check that the logon was successful and that a certain string exists on the page. This is the third time this week that I have suggested this tool for checking web sites. Con

[Nagios-users] Web transaction checker

2006-08-18 Thread Tory M Blue
Anyone succesfully deploy a url transaction checker.Something that will enter data into a field and varify the results (user/pass etc?)I see Nagios-WebTransactBut having a hardtime fully grasping how to use it. Anyone have anything currently in use that I can cheat off?My trans check is fairly stra

[Nagios-users] regular expression matching.

2006-08-18 Thread Christian Hedegaard
The Nagios documentation relating to the "regular expression" matching seems very thin to me. And not quite clear. It appears, by example, that the only regular expressions you can use are "*" and "?", which I would just consider wildcard matching and not regular expressions. Regardless, can any

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Samuel P Howard
> Each defined hostgroup must have at least one member, either within the > hostgroup{} definition itself or in by way of the hostgroups field in > the host{} definition. I encountered the same issue with our automated > config generation and created an anchor host that was never checked and > ass

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel P Howard > Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 11:09 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup? > > Hi. > > Sounds like an

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Jee Kay
register 0 On 18/08/06, Samuel P Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi. > > Sounds like an odd question, but can you define an empty hostgroup? > > Here's why. > > Trying to follow one of the ideas in the "Time Saving Tricks" page of > the docs, I am adding each host to the hostgroup in the "host

[Nagios-users] Can you define an empty hostgroup?

2006-08-18 Thread Samuel P Howard
Hi. Sounds like an odd question, but can you define an empty hostgroup? Here's why. Trying to follow one of the ideas in the "Time Saving Tricks" page of the docs, I am adding each host to the hostgroup in the "host" definition ... this makes it a lot easier for me to automate the creating of

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping and source address

2006-08-18 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
>> Ben, >> >> There is a patch that has been submitted on SF for this >> functionality: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? >> func=detail&aid=1499641&group_id=29880&atid=397599 >> >> Unfortunately, this will not be applied into the main plugin code >> because it is too painful to parse thro

Re: [Nagios-users] how to change plugin timeout option

2006-08-18 Thread Thomas.Zimmer
Did you have a look at the posts from yesterday? Did you search the archives? Thomas Zimmer Produktservice & Betrieb Betrieb & Support Sal. Oppenheim jr. & Cie., Frankfurt a. Main Internet: http://www.oppenheim.de -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] sms_client: In Nagios 1.4 it works, but not in 2.5 ?

2006-08-18 Thread Andre Bergei
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 13:55 +0200, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > In the Nagios events I can see that the message is now correct, but it > still times out > > [2006-08-18 13:47:32] Warning: Contact 'dick_sms' host notification > command '/usr/bin/sms_client -q kpn:x 'RECOVERY: server is UP > (PI

Re: [Nagios-users] sms_client: In Nagios 1.4 it works, but not in 2.5 ?

2006-08-18 Thread D.J. Bolderman
> > At the moment I have Nagios 1.4 running and sending out sms alerts > > when necessary. This works OK. > > > > I installed Nagios 2.5 today (debian unstable) and found out the sms > > alerts are not being sent anymore. > > > > In Nagios 2.5 I am using the same misccommands.cfg as 1.4, so I'm a >

[Nagios-users] how to change plugin timeout option

2006-08-18 Thread Khaled Hussain
Hi list, I understand that on average a service takes less than 10 seconds to execute and that, according to the docs, "most plugins timeout after 10 seconds...", but I cannot find the setting for this variable. A service check is returning a "Plugin timed out after 10 seconds" error. Please can s

Re: [Nagios-users] sms_client: In Nagios 1.4 it works, but not in 2.5 ?

2006-08-18 Thread Andre Bergei
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:01 +0200, D.J. Bolderman wrote: > All, > > At the moment I have Nagios 1.4 running and sending out sms alerts > when necessary. This works OK. > > I installed Nagios 2.5 today (debian unstable) and found out the sms > alerts are not being sent anymore. > > The event log

[Nagios-users] sms_client: In Nagios 1.4 it works, but not in 2.5 ?

2006-08-18 Thread D.J. Bolderman
All, At the moment I have Nagios 1.4 running and sending out sms alerts when necessary. This works OK. I installed Nagios 2.5 today (debian unstable) and found out the sms alerts are not being sent anymore. The event log in Nagios shows that the plug in times out. When I turn on logging on the s