Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring AIX

2006-11-22 Thread Russell Adams
Since AIX ships with perl now (all the 5.x series) I recommend using the perl version of send_nsca, and then making checks with shell scripts. It is much easier than trying to compile on AIX. If you've got further interest, let me know, I'll try to hunt up the ones I was using with 5.2. Russell

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring AIX

2006-11-22 Thread SpEnT
The majority of the default plugins should work and compile on AIX 4.3 (all ML's but check your oslevel -r to verify becasue there were a couple of df switches that were different). I and another colleage wrote quite a few AIX plugins but not many of them were being downloaded ... I'll see if I can

[Nagios-users] Child Process Spawning

2006-11-22 Thread Andrew Tjang
Hello all! I think I'm experienceing a problem with runaway child processes. I read the FAQ and found the service_reaper_frequency entry... But I don't think that's the problem (I've set it to 4 just to be sure) A little about my setup: I'm monitoring several hundred machines, and a couple th

Re: [Nagios-users] Testing quality (rtt and packet loss) of Internet connection?

2006-11-22 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Chris Hardie wrote: > In our old system, we monitored the health of our connection to the > Internet by checking packet loss and round trip times in ping packets > sent to www.google.com and www.yahoo.com. Because either site was > liable to have localized, temporary problems

Re: [Nagios-users] Testing quality (rtt and packet loss) of Internet connection?

2006-11-22 Thread karl . kornel
I think you're looking for the check_cluster2 program, which is in the contrib/ directory of the plugins package. You can use that to define a host/service whose state is influenced directly by the states of one or more other hosts/services. -- A. Karl Kornel, Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. [EMA

[Nagios-users] help with special character in check command

2006-11-22 Thread Rob Brown
I am trying to use the check_snmp command to do a check against some network gear. The problem is that the community string is "xyz123!" (not really but example) and I cannot figure out how to get this to pass thru to the check command without it stripping the "!" character. For example: define com

[Nagios-users] Testing quality (rtt and packet loss) of Internet connection?

2006-11-22 Thread Chris Hardie
Greetings, all. I'm in the process of transitioning from Mon to Nagios, and have a few holes to fill in when it comes to "recreating" our old configuration. I was hoping someone could comment on this one: In our old system, we monitored the health of our connection to the Internet by checking pa

Re: [Nagios-users] Segfault: I'm still dying here

2006-11-22 Thread karl . kornel
I wish I could say that I had fixed the problem, but I think I've experienced the same problem, or at least a similar one. I've covered all of my experiences in the message, posted 17 August 2006, titled "BUG? Segfault & coredump with scheduled downtime, downtime scheduled horked". To cover th

Re: [Nagios-users] How do distributed setups work? (longish)

2006-11-22 Thread Patrick Morris
Hi Tobias! On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Tobias Klausmann wrote: > 1) Documentation for NSCA is - mildly put - lacking. As far as I > can tell, send-NSCA expects data tab-separated on stdin. It > would've been nice to actually see an example for getting host > and service data into it. Am I supposed to do

[Nagios-users] Monitoring AIX

2006-11-22 Thread Horvath Tamas
Hello Lists! I will have to monitor several IBM machines. Lot of them has AIX 4.3 on them, but there are some AIX 5.x boxes as well. I did not find lot of AIX plug-ins in Nagios Exchange. How can I compile official plugins (Nagios Plugins 1.4.5)? Is there a similar web pagfe than sunfreeware.com

[Nagios-users] How do distributed setups work? (longish)

2006-11-22 Thread Tobias Klausmann
Hi all, I'm having a conceptual/logical/mindset problem which I hope you can help me with. It's a bit long, but the question/problem I have is complex, so please bear with me. What I dream of: I have a central machine which is the interface to the users. Using the/a web interface, the users can

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with SonicWall 1260

2006-11-22 Thread Francisco Vila
Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null __ Información de NOD32, revisión 1877 (20061122) __ Este mensaje ha sido analizado con NOD32 antivirus syste

Re: [Nagios-users] (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - pluginmay bemissing)

2006-11-22 Thread Morris, Patrick
> >[snip] > >check_nrpe does not exist in the location you're telling > Nagios to run > >it > from. > > Thks for your quick response... > > Here is on main server list of /usr/local/nagios/libexec : > 201022 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 54932 nov 22 10:17 check_nrpe > You'll notice it is avail

Re: [Nagios-users] (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may bemissing)

2006-11-22 Thread Cardiff - ML
>[snip] >check_nrpe does not exist in the location you're telling Nagios to run it from. Thks for your quick response... Here is on main server list of /usr/local/nagios/libexec : [EMAIL PROTECTED] lib]# ls -ali /usr/local/nagios/libexec total 4900 200952 drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 nov 2

Re: [Nagios-users] (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may bemissing)

2006-11-22 Thread Morris, Patrick
> I may be wrong in ML subscription and was hesitating wether > to post here or in plugin ML... > > I have a problem trying to execute a nrpe daemon in order to > monitor under nagios 2 different linux servers... > > I have setup nagios on Main server, which works since approx > 2 years w

[Nagios-users] (Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)

2006-11-22 Thread Cardiff - ML
I may be wrong in ML subscription and was hesitating wether to post here or in plugin ML... I have a problem trying to execute a nrpe daemon in order to monitor under nagios 2 different linux servers... I have setup nagios on Main server, which works since approx 2 years without any problems

[Nagios-users] please help with ignored service checks problem...

2006-11-22 Thread Jeremiah Coleman
I've been having a problem with some service checks not being run and not being rescheduled. For example, at 11:06:37, the scheduling queue will shoe these services with N/A for the last check, and the next check in the past. I get no messages in the log whatsoever regarding these checks. I can

Re: [Nagios-users] Help with SonicWall 1260

2006-11-22 Thread Bob DeBolt
On Wednesday 22 November 2006 7:31 am, Francisco Vila wrote: > Someone has experience configuring Nagios to monitor WAN and OPT > interface of a Sonicwall 1260 ??? Exactly what type of information are you attempting to aquire from the Sonicwall interface? Bob  -

[Nagios-users] Help with SonicWall 1260

2006-11-22 Thread Francisco Vila
Someone has experience configuring Nagios to monitor WAN and OPT interface of a Sonicwall 1260 ??? Thanks a lot Francisco Vila - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and y

[Nagios-users] statusmap background

2006-11-22 Thread John Longland
Hi all Would like to change my 3D-display. Want to see if a white background doesn't make the display look a bit better. I generated a .png file that just is "white". Loaded it onto my nagios machine and converted it to .gd2 with /usr/bin/pngtogd2 /usr/bin/pngtogd2 blank.png blank.gd2 0 1 It

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagiosplug-help] check_http problems

2006-11-22 Thread Thomas Sluyter
On 22 Nov, 2006, at 13:04, Saraj Mohammed wrote: > check_command check_http!--onredirect=follow -I > 10.100.152.89 - > p 8101 -u /cfi/application_store/ -a nagiosadmin:nagios If I were you, I'd put as much of that command into the command definition, instead of in the

Re: [Nagios-users] Flat map

2006-11-22 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Varaillon Jean Cristophe wrote: > Ok but then I have an issue here: > > Each host is define with a single address, right? > > In this case, how woud you configure nagios if you want to have this > map: > > Server_1--<10.10.10.0/24>---ROUTER1---<20.20.20.0/24>---Server_2 >

[Nagios-users] NRPE / Oracle

2006-11-22 Thread Niels Hamaker
Hi there, I'm having some problems with an oracle check I want to execute over NRPE. The check works locally, even when I run it as user nagios: # /usr/local/nagios-nrpe/libexec/check_oracle --login PROD OK - dummy login connected But when I run the check through NRPE I just get: # ../libexe

Re: [Nagios-users] Flat map

2006-11-22 Thread Varaillon Jean Cristophe
Ok but then I have an issue here: Each host is define with a single address, right? In this case, how woud you configure nagios if you want to have this map: Server_1--<10.10.10.0/24>---ROUTER1---<20.20.20.0/24>---Server_2 How would you define the host ROUTER1 since I also need to monitor both

Re: [Nagios-users] Query about smsclient

2006-11-22 Thread Morris, Patrick
> I am trying to use smsclient for SMS alerts. I have one basic question. > If one uses an analog modem to send SMS alerts, how does the service > provider charge us for using his services? Check with your provider. The number used to send the message may be charged, and you may also be charge

[Nagios-users] MGE UPS snmp info poller plugin (alpha, semi-beta quality)

2006-11-22 Thread Einar Indridason
Hi folks. I'm writing a plugin for MGE UPS Galaxy 5000, based on the SNMP values found in their MIB. Now, I have a basic skeleton available, and it is more or less usable as a Nagios plugin. I want to add RRD support into it as well, and log down the SNMP values into a file, but that can wait a

Re: [Nagios-users] Customized map for customers

2006-11-22 Thread Varaillon Jean Cristophe
Thank! Given that I precise - use_authentication=1 - in cgi.cfg. Did you mean that I should have this set-up from the beginning for basic security reasons ;) Christophe -Original Message- From: Donnell Lewis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 6:59 PM To: Vara

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Multiple host in hosts.cfg

2006-11-22 Thread Thomas Sluyter
On 22 Nov, 2006, at 4:44, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > GOOD EXPLANATION FROM YR SIDE. > > SO IF I WANT TO ADD MORE HOSTS THEN I NEED TO ADD IN ONLY HOSTS.CFG > FILE NOT > IN ANY OTHER FILE(LIKE SERVICE/HOSTGROUPS ETC)AS OTHER FILES ARE > LOOK HOSTS > DETAILS FROM HOSTGROUP NAME. > > RIGHT ? > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Query about smsclient

2006-11-22 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote: > I am trying to use smsclient for SMS alerts. I have one basic question. If > one uses an analog modem to send SMS alerts, how does the service provider > charge us for using his services? Ask your provider. They are the people to answer this question.