Re: [Nagios-users] checking for errors in messages file using Nagios

2007-02-17 Thread Morris, Patrick
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of David Rivera > Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 6:07 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] checking for errors in messages file > using Nagios > > > Using Nagios,

[Nagios-users] checking for errors in messages file using Nagios

2007-02-17 Thread David Rivera
Using Nagios, How can i get it to check for errors such as CPU/Memory/drive errors that get logged in /var/adm/messages on Solaris and Linux boxes? Currently that is my only place of vulnerability for what we intend to use Nagios for, I need to be able to have Nagios alert me on errors that ge

Re: [Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-17 Thread Sébastien Barbereau
tpc port state service answer mailqueueS (amount of mails per mail queue, size of mailqueueS) => depends on your smtp software disk space number of smtp processes number of AV/anti-spam and related processes number of open ports on the host log file DNS service behabiors (resolv working or cache

[Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-17 Thread Jay Chandler
I'm primarily responsible for mailservers at my site. So far I have monitors running on the host's responding to pings, to load average, and to the mail queue. Anything else anyone can suggest that I monitor? I've only got three or four mailservers, so I don't mind going a smidgen overboard o

Re: [Nagios-users] A question...cascading failures and failure to recover

2007-02-17 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Steven Schwartz wrote: > I've noticed an odd circumstance on two of my four nagios servers > lately, and searching has found me no answers. Has anyone experienced > symptoms similar to these: > > 1) On a given server, a plugin produces a "critical failure" on many > (sometimes