Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Anthony Montibello
IF the machines are rebooted at or between a particular time, then setup DOWNTIME, (potentially setting it up in a script) with downtime, there is both fixed and dynamic, using dynamic I find best resembles a reboot senario; you can set it up so that the downtime will begin within a particular ti

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped alerting (and not sure why)

2007-07-27 Thread Anthony Montibello
Notification could have been disables, or things may have been put into downtime, but for things that may have been done via the web GUI there should be something saying it on the GUI for example if in downtime or notification turned off on a individual service/system there should be an icon signi

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring multiple windows clients behind a firewall

2007-07-27 Thread Anthony Montibello
dear Jeff, how about setting up a VPN tunnel between Nagios and the external network? then via the VPN you will have access to the communicate to the remote hosts. One thing to be carefull of is if the remote host is on a DSL and has a dynamic IP assigned by the ISP, instead of a static IP.(in t

Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Hamilton
What was it ... D'oh! Thanks for the eyeballs Marc... -Rob -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Powell Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:21 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http > -

Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http

2007-07-27 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamilton > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 12:57 PM > To: Marc Powell > Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http > > Hey Mark, > >

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Jim Avery
I've been having a similar problem and have thought about the solution but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Mark Powell's suggestion to rely on the service check notification is absolutely right when you want to ignore brief bounces or lost pings. I'm going to do just that, but I wil

Re: [Nagios-users] check_mx plugin?

2007-07-27 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
> Why would you need to check this though? I'm thinking of providing a service of using Postfix to provide MX backups. I'd like to make sure that I am *not* their primary MX record. I want to be a backup, not the main gateway for a company's email. Also, when people have problems, this would le

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped alerting (and not sure why)

2007-07-27 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
> If your alerts are done via email, then check your mail logs. They are. I ran "tail /var/log/maillog" and see that the last email was sent over a week ago. Any idea of what might have gotten changed on the web GUI level?

Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Hamilton
Hey Mark, Thanks for the great response. My nagios check_http plugin seems to be a bit newer than yours. I'm using Nagios V2.9 with what appears to be newer plugins. [EMAIL PROTECTED] libexec]# ./check_http -V check_http (nagios-plugins 1.4.9) 1.104 Here are the test cases. All exit codes look

Re: [Nagios-users] Netsaint monitoring windows issue

2007-07-27 Thread Jim Avery
On 27/07/07, Anthony Montibello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not sure if anyone ever responded to this I don't recall seeing it either, but now you come to mention it there is sometimes a problem if the Windows server is running MS-Exchange server which also sometimes uses port 1248. Using NC_Net

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Dani
A Divendres 27 Juliol 2007, Lalita Drolia va escriure: > Hi, Hi Lalita, > I have nagios configured for our lab here. But the problem I am > facing is that every time a user reboots his machine for some > practical purposes, We get a down and subsequent up mail. > I would not like to receive thes

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios stopped alerting (and not sure why)

2007-07-27 Thread Jeremy C. Reed
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > In some way, shape, or form, Nagios is not alerting me about down > hosts. I suspect that someone toggled something in the > http://box/nagios web GUI, but I looked around and don't see anything > that could have changed. > > The cfg files are the sa

Re: [Nagios-users] Forcing recovery notifications to email only

2007-07-27 Thread Benjamin Krein
For the sake of others who may care... I fixed this by making the *-recovery contacts the default contacts which get added to the admins contactgroup. These contacts get notifications for [d|c],[u|r] for hosts/services. In addition, I only make paging contacts for those who are on pager duty and

[Nagios-users] Nagios stopped alerting (and not sure why)

2007-07-27 Thread Rogelio Bastardo
In some way, shape, or form, Nagios is not alerting me about down hosts. I suspect that someone toggled something in the http://box/nagios web GUI, but I looked around and don't see anything that could have changed. The cfg files are the same as I left them. Any ideas on what might have changed?

Re: [Nagios-users] host problem

2007-07-27 Thread Siwei Zhang
Thanks Patrick for the help. It worked. Kevin SZ _ From: Morris, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 2:50 PM To: Siwei Zhang; nagios-users Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] host problem From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siw

Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http

2007-07-27 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rob Hamilton > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 10:58 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Need help with check_http > > > > The check_http plugin doesn't s

[Nagios-users] Need help with check_http

2007-07-27 Thread Rob Hamilton
The check_http plugin doesn't seem to be catching critical events and connection refused events: Localhost.cfg define service{ use local-service ; Name of service template to use host_name app3, app4, app5, app6,

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring multiple windows clients behind a firewall

2007-07-27 Thread Jeff Platter
Thanks for the reply. How would I go about configuring the NSC.ini file to report back to the nagios server? And then I'm not totally sure I understand how to setup the host config file on the server itself. Do I use the external IP of all the machines in the config file on the server? Or do I not

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios pop up feature?

2007-07-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
yes that is exactly correct. smbclient -M hostname <<< "message" as your notification command. obvious make "message" contain all the macros and info you want" -h Hari Sekhon Don Munyak wrote: > Would/could someone please give some additional information regarding > this solution. > > Am I

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios pop up feature?

2007-07-27 Thread Don Munyak
On 7/11/07, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yes that is what I did for important services and it works. > you do have to maintain the windows host list mapping for this to work. > > -h > Hari Sekhon > moshe sharon wrote: > > Hello > > > > its is also possbile to do this with notifications

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lalita Drolia > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:56 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots > > Hi, > > I have nag

Re: [Nagios-users] $HOSTALIAS$

2007-07-27 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sander Klein > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:42 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] $HOSTALIAS$ > > Hi, > > when I do the following: > > define servic

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Lalita Drolia
Kyle, Thank you for your help. But I am not using nsca. In fact I read about it but am not sure what it does. Besides, the other steps that you have suggested are way beyond my technical skills. I am a beginner at this. But have been able to configure nagios for my organization's lab and use it.

Re: [Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Kyle O'Donnell
Have the reboot initiate a send_nsca notification to your nagios server. Write a wrapper for reboot command, edit the alt+ctrl+del marco, the new power management tools should even be able to let you exec something when the power buttons been pressed. --kyle On 7/27/07, Lalita Drolia <[EMAIL PROT

Re: [Nagios-users] check_mx plugin?

2007-07-27 Thread Hari Sekhon
writing your own plugin here is the way to go if you can't find anything on nagiosexchange.org, and I think the dig suggestion is a good start. Why would you need to check this though? Shouldn't it be set once and then stay ok after your deploy + test? My records are tested at deploy time and t

[Nagios-users] dont want notification when machine reboots

2007-07-27 Thread Lalita Drolia
Hi, I have nagios configured for our lab here. But the problem I am facing is that every time a user reboots his machine for some practical purposes, We get a down and subsequent up mail. I would not like to receive these mails. But I have not found a way where nagios would wait for 5 minutes a

[Nagios-users] $HOSTALIAS$

2007-07-27 Thread Sander Klein
Hi, when I do the following: define serviceextinfo{ hostgroupname somegroup service_description something notes_url http://somewhere/$HOSTALIAS$ } then $HOSTALIAS$ doesn't get substituted. When I use $HOSTNAME$ it does work. Is this expected behaviour? Regards, Sander --