Re: [Nagios-users] nagios / cacti integration question

2007-07-20 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
On 20/07/07 07:29 PM, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking for some ways to import the Nagios results (OK checks, not > OK checks) into Cacti so that I can start creating some graphs to show > SLA-type stuff. > > I have a good Nagios setup, and on that box Cacti is working. How do > I merge the

[Nagios-users] NC_NET Scripts

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Broadwith
Hi, I've moved from NSCLient++ to NC_NET and trying to get the external scripts working. I've created an event_handler in the nagios config, I've created the script and the script is run when the service goes up or down. However teh script stops and restarts all of the relevant services. I only

[Nagios-users] Services dependences

2007-07-20 Thread Mark Wagner
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 04:30:07PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Message: 19 > Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:01:39 +0200 > From: shacky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Services dependences > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Ty

[Nagios-users] nagios / cacti integration question

2007-07-20 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
I'm looking for some ways to import the Nagios results (OK checks, not OK checks) into Cacti so that I can start creating some graphs to show SLA-type stuff. I have a good Nagios setup, and on that box Cacti is working. How do I merge the two?

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitor remote server over the internet

2007-07-20 Thread Anthony Montibello
I am sure there are many ways to accomplish this, the method you proposed looks ok to me, However shouldn't security should be thought of first if your sending over the internet as opposed to behind your firewall. Other suggestions may include looking into check_by_ssl (Although I never tried th

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative to Ping

2007-07-20 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Corey Mosher > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:51 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Alternative to Ping > > If my hardware and software firewalls block

Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output onSolaris

2007-07-20 Thread Marc Powell
Please always respond on list. > -Original Message- > From: Vinícius de Figueiredo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 1:01 PM > To: Marc Powell > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output > onSolaris > > On 7/20/07, Marc Powell <[EMAIL P

[Nagios-users] Services dependences

2007-07-20 Thread shacky
Hi. I'm using NRPE to monitor services on the remote servers. I wish to make the checks made by NRPE dependent with the NRPE service itself. I create a service to check the availability of the NRPE daemon on the remote host: define service{ use remote-service ho

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative to Ping

2007-07-20 Thread Patrick Morris
Hi Corey! On Fri, 20 Jul 2007, Corey Mosher wrote: > If my hardware and software firewalls block ping requests, what do you > guys suggest as an alternative to ping to determine that a server is up > and running? I intend to eventually setup check_by_ssh checks for each > server for various t

Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output onSolaris

2007-07-20 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: Vinícius de Figueiredo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 12:38 PM > To: Marc Powell > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output > onSolaris > > On 7/20/07, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can y

Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output onSolaris

2007-07-20 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vinícius de Figueiredo > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:52 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output > onSolaris >

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin)

2007-07-20 Thread shacky
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Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin)

2007-07-20 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of shacky > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 11:23 AM > To: Aidan Anderson; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin) > > Yes, I se

[Nagios-users] Custom Plugins - NRPE: Unable to read output on Solaris

2007-07-20 Thread Vinícius de Figueiredo
I wrote two simple shell scripts to check CPU and RAM usage and return output in percentage. I tested locally and both scripts worked fine on Solaris and Linux servers. When I tried to run these scripts via NRPE from my Nagios server I got this error only on my Solaris machine: # ./check_nrpe -H

[Nagios-users] Alternative to Ping

2007-07-20 Thread Corey Mosher
If my hardware and software firewalls block ping requests, what do you guys suggest as an alternative to ping to determine that a server is up and running? I intend to eventually setup check_by_ssh checks for each server for various things like hard disk space, etc but I was wondering if there

Re: [Nagios-users] change control on Nagios / Cacti servers

2007-07-20 Thread Esben Bach
if you cannot rely on the others using version control systems, then you might consider tripwire. Be careful though, you might end up getting a LOT of "spam" mails. -- Esben Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > I'm looking for some sort of change control solution. On several > Cacti/Nagios servers, I w

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin)

2007-07-20 Thread shacky
2007/7/20, Aidan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Have you set up the command definition correctly in commands.cfg or wherever you store your commands on your Nagios server. Also check that Nagios has permission to execute the pluggin on the remote machine. Test by re-trying your check_nrpe comman

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios reporting Load Usage

2007-07-20 Thread Giles Coochey
Unless you have process accounting and logging running on that system, you can't. You could always run a check through Nagios to gather the most resource intensive processes in the output of your check load, I don't know whether anyone has implemented it, but you can always search on Nagios Exch

[Nagios-users] Nagios reporting Load Usage

2007-07-20 Thread Jake Solid
Nagios did a good job reporting a high level of load on one of my servers during the morning CRITICAL - load average: 59.62, 31.70, 13.53 Then it sent a recovery alert showing the load as: OK - load average: 1.72, 1.72, 4.56 How can I find out what exactly put the load a that high level? Rega

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE (No output returned from plugin)

2007-07-20 Thread Aidan Anderson
shacky wrote: > Hi. > > I'm using NRPE to monitor a remote server. > The most part of the plugins works without problems, but > check_backuppc returns the error "(No output returned from plugin)" in > the Nagios web interface. > > The check_backuppc stanza in the Nagios configuration is the follo

Re: [Nagios-users] Perfdata-file is gone after running nagiosgraph

2007-07-20 Thread Nagios
thanks for the patch url. I just found that our Nagios is built with embeded perl option, and I have to mention the path to perl before each plugin. that was the reason perfformance cammand was not executed through nagios.cfg. however still I had some weired problems with nagiosgraph. 1-I don'

Re: [Nagios-users] watching Layer 2 device

2007-07-20 Thread Patrick M. Hausen
Hello! > Check the ARP table on a host that communicates with this layer 2 > device. ARP is to match IP addresses to layer 2 addresses. IP addresses are layer 3. No IP, no ARP. Sorry. If the layer 2 device in question is a bridge, you could watch if it emits BPDU frames regularly and raise an al

Re: [Nagios-users] watching Layer 2 device

2007-07-20 Thread Giles Coochey
Ah yes, very true... I'l revise my suggestion to check the mac address table on the switch that the device is connected to... my guess is a check by ssh or telnet that executes something like: Show mac-address-table abcd.abcd.abcd And checks for any output, would work. Of course the mac addre

[Nagios-users] Monitor remote server over the internet

2007-07-20 Thread Paul Broadwith
Hi, I'm sure I've seen documentation on this, but can't now find it! Can somebody point me in the direction of some docs on how to get Nagios to monitor remote systems over the internet? The scenario I have is I want to monitor a number of customer Windows servers over the internet. Would it b

Re: [Nagios-users] Perfdata-file is gone after running nagiosgraph

2007-07-20 Thread Stephan Windmüller
On Fri, 20. Jul 2007, Nagios wrote: > I had the same problem, because insert.pl rename the perfdata file, > but does not create a new one, you can add a line to insert.pl to > create a new file, so another file will be created after processing > old data, however for now, because I am debugging na

Re: [Nagios-users] watching Layer 2 device

2007-07-20 Thread Giles Coochey
Check the ARP table on a host that communicates with this layer 2 device. Best regards Giles Coochey Technical Department Sapphire Networks -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kurt Yoder Sent: 19 July 2007 16:03 To: Brandino Andreas Cc: Nagi