Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios full copied reserve server

2008-01-29 Thread Peter Hallam
On Tue, 29 Jan, 11:25 -0500 Scott Sanders wrote: > I was able to create a true failover (hot-spare) setup using Linux-HA and > DRBD. The two machines use a primary/secondary DRBD drive setup for > /usr/local/nagios, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue. Linux-HA > manages the virtual IP f

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 similar services for different contact groups?

2008-01-29 Thread Max
On Jan 29, 2008 4:21 PM, seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do I need 2 similar service entries in order to have different contact > > groups for warning and critical? > > i'd rather play with host_notification_options and > service_notification_options : make one contact > receive only warnings a

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt: Could not parse arguments

2008-01-29 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi, To help clarify, -s is for the password while $ARG1$ was missing from the orriginal command causing the missing ARGUMENT error THe Hostname is needed since the plugin does not know what host it is without that. the port in this case is needed since check_nt.c compiles with the default port of

Re: [Nagios-users] Error: Could not read object configuration data!

2008-01-29 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of doug fink > Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 5:08 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Error: Could not read object configuration data! > > > FAQ ID F033

[Nagios-users] Error: Could not read object configuration data!

2008-01-29 Thread doug fink
FAQ ID F0332 describes the problem I am having, but I do not understand the meaning or how to check/verify the third item (3.) Specifically I do not understand (default text file or template-based file) Are these separate configure options? I can start over and re-configure everything, but wante

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Petersen, Mark
While Sun might have a way to monitor server health, I use check_logfiles (http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Misc.54.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bp_view %5D=538) to monitor the logs for errors more than anything. I have checks for power supplies, fans, SAN mounts, memory, cpu and SCSI errors, etc. setup

[Nagios-users] notify-host-by-email - Variable problem

2008-01-29 Thread Patrick Kremer
I am running 3.0rc2. I am trying to get the variable $HOSTNOTES$ to appear in notify-host-by-email This is the notify-host-by-email command definition that I changed. I added "Notes: $HOSTNOTES$\n\n" in the spot shown below: # 'notify-host-by-email' command definition define command{ co

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread andrew2
Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > Lars Stavholm wrote: >> Edwin Zoeller wrote: >>> We are monitoring ~75 Sun Servers via Nagios. What information >>> would you like to know. >> >> Top down... >> 1. method used (nsca, nrpe, snmp) and why? >> 2. what specific checks are you using? > > Servers in themselv

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars Stavholm wrote: | Edwin Zoeller wrote: |> We are monitoring ~75 Sun Servers via Nagios. What information would you |> like to know. | | Top down... | 1. method used (nsca, nrpe, snmp) and why? | 2. what specific checks are you using? Servers in t

[Nagios-users] Checking for a stale NFS connection

2008-01-29 Thread Jim . Melin
Anyone have an idea on how to have nagios check for a stale NFS network connection? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse012

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 similar services for different contact groups?

2008-01-29 Thread seb
> Do I need 2 similar service entries in order to have different contact > groups for warning and critical? i'd rather play with host_notification_options and service_notification_options : make one contact receive only warnings and the other critical alerts, and but both of them in the same cont

[Nagios-users] nagios-3.0rc2 application/wav

2008-01-29 Thread Lars Stavholm
Hi All, downloaded nagios-3.0rc2, installed and seems to work nicely. However, in my Firefox browser, when looking at the nagios web interface, I get a message saying that I should install missing plugin for application/wav (both on Linux - Firefox 2.0.0.10 - and Windows XP - Firefox 2.0.0.11). W

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Lars Stavholm
Edwin Zoeller wrote: > We are monitoring ~75 Sun Servers via Nagios. What information would you > like to know. Top down... 1. method used (nsca, nrpe, snmp) and why? 2. what specific checks are you using? That's about it, I think R /L > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt: Could not parse arguments

2008-01-29 Thread Palle L Jensen
If I am not mistaken you should not have to add the host address and port# both in the command & service definition. But thanks anyways :-) _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 2:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Loe
On Jan 29, 2008 2:13 PM, Lars Stavholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Loe wrote: > > Can someone monitoring Sun servers, and Sun clusters, contact me > > off-list for pointers and other assorted stuff... :) Thanks! > > Or on-list, I'm interested too, as I'm sure others are as well. > That's kin

Re: [Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Lars Stavholm
Brian Loe wrote: > Can someone monitoring Sun servers, and Sun clusters, contact me > off-list for pointers and other assorted stuff... :) Thanks! Or on-list, I'm interested too, as I'm sure others are as well. That's kinda' why they invented mail lists in the first place. /L > Perhaps nagiosexch

Re: [Nagios-users] Does alert re-escalate when text of alertchanges?

2008-01-29 Thread Aaron M. Segura
No problem. Happens to me all the time. Sometimes I think I should start writing e-mails to the list whenever I have even the smallest problem, since, by way of including all relevant information, it inevitably forces me into finding the solution before ever clicking 'send'. :) On Tue, 2008-01-2

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nt: Could not parse arguments

2008-01-29 Thread narendran.neelamegam
Should your command be $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -v CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 12489 -s $USER7$ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Palle L Jensen Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:32 PM To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with two plugins timing out

2008-01-29 Thread narendran.neelamegam
Does the system in ? have multiple NIC? Are you sure SSH and SMTP are listening on the IP address which you have specified in your command. Can you do a telnet test on these ports? Can you disable iptables and test telnet 25 telnet 22 From: Kaplan, Andrew H. [m

Re: [Nagios-users] Does alert re-escalate when text of alertchanges?

2008-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kamens
Thank you very much for responding. I was composing a reply with the configuration information you requested, and while doing so found the root cause of the problem -- our escalation config generation script had a bug in it. So I apologize for wasting the list's time with a question that was actu

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with two plugins timing out

2008-01-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
> Since the command is failing locally on the client in question, this may not be iptable issue. > Do you have these plugins in the correct location? The location of the plugins is the same as the others: /usr/local/npre/libexec > Do they have required nagios user ownership. The own

[Nagios-users] Sun Monitoring

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Loe
Can someone monitoring Sun servers, and Sun clusters, contact me off-list for pointers and other assorted stuff... :) Thanks! Perhaps nagiosexchange should have add onto their wiki howto section by host type or something - that would be handy. Sample configs and all that.

[Nagios-users] 2 similar services for different contact groups?

2008-01-29 Thread bjlockie
Do I need 2 similar service entries in order to have different contact groups for warning and critical? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.c

Re: [Nagios-users] Does alert re-escalate when text of alert changes?

2008-01-29 Thread Aaron M. Segura
I believe the answer to your first question is "no" and the answer to the second one is "yes", but nobody will be able to root out your problem without at least seeing some configs. On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 11:27 -0500, Jonathan Kamens wrote: > I don't think anyone responded to the message below. I'

Re: [Nagios-users] FreeBSD 6.3 and Nagios

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Haulmark
Hello: > > I can't find it right now but someone sent out an email saying they > could not get Nagios 2.10 to run under FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded two > systems to FreeBSD 6.3, both are running Nagios 2.10 without any > problems. I didn't even have to recompile the port. I do have the > /etc/lib

Re: [Nagios-users] Does alert re-escalate when text of alert changes?

2008-01-29 Thread Jonathan Kamens
I don't think anyone responded to the message below. I'm hoping that somebody can shed some light on this so I don't have to go read the source code to find a definitive answer. If anybody can help, it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Jonathan Kamens -Original Message- From: Jonath

[Nagios-users] Problems with two plugins timing out

2008-01-29 Thread Kaplan, Andrew H.
Hi there - I am monitoring a system that functions as a mail and ssh server. Along with the check_ssh and check_smtp plugins, I am also monitoring the mailq, check_mailq, the diskspace, check_disk, and also the processes, check_procs. The latter three plugins are working fine, but the first tw

[Nagios-users] check_nt: Could not parse arguments

2008-01-29 Thread Palle L Jensen
Morning all, I am having an issue with adding cpuload monitoring on windows machines. I know there are no issues on the windows side since I have other services being monitored with no problems. Also the error message tells me the arguments that are specified are not correct. I have googl

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios full copied reserve server

2008-01-29 Thread Brian Loe
On Jan 29, 2008 10:25 AM, Scott Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was able to create a true failover (hot-spare) setup using Linux-HA and > DRBD. The two machines use a primary/secondary DRBD drive setup for > /usr/local/nagios, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue. Linux-HA > manage

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios full copied reserve server

2008-01-29 Thread Scott Sanders
I was able to create a true failover (hot-spare) setup using Linux-HA and DRBD. The two machines use a primary/secondary DRBD drive setup for /usr/local/nagios, /var/spool/mqueue, and /var/spool/clientmqueue. Linux-HA manages the virtual IP for nagios as well as bringing nagios and sendmail service

Re: [Nagios-users] logging active checks

2008-01-29 Thread Maxwell,Brady
Thank you the reason we want to do so is we have a performance and historical trending application that was written in house and we want to be able to import the nagios perf data into the existing system. The guy that designed the system has been pulling the data from the logs and this works great

Re: [Nagios-users] logging active checks

2008-01-29 Thread Hari Sekhon
Maxwell,Brady wrote: > > Hopefully this is a simple question. I looked through the doco for a > setting that I might be missing in my nagios.cfg. basically my issue > is that the system logs all passive checks and this setting is clear > in the nagios.cfg, however I only see the state changes lo

Re: [Nagios-users] logging active checks

2008-01-29 Thread Sean McAvoy
I believe enabling the stalking option for the service will record all results to the nagios.log file. On 29-Jan-08, at 10:46 AM, Maxwell,Brady wrote: > Hopefully this is a simple question. I looked through the doco for > a setting that I might be missing in my nagios.cfg. basically my > is

[Nagios-users] logging active checks

2008-01-29 Thread Maxwell,Brady
Hopefully this is a simple question. I looked through the doco for a setting that I might be missing in my nagios.cfg. basically my issue is that the system logs all passive checks and this setting is clear in the nagios.cfg, however I only see the state changes logged for active checks. I want all

[Nagios-users] FreeBSD 6.3 and Nagios

2008-01-29 Thread Jonathan Call
I can't find it right now but someone sent out an email saying they could not get Nagios 2.10 to run under FreeBSD 6.3. I've upgraded two systems to FreeBSD 6.3, both are running Nagios 2.10 without any problems. I didn't even have to recompile the port. I do have the /etc/libmap.conf entries for l

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios full copied reserve server

2008-01-29 Thread Chris Haulmark
Hello: > Hello everybody. I need to have nagios reserve server which will > replace the main server when it dies. I installed nagios on another > machine, copied all directory /usr/local/nagios and start reserve > service Nagios. > I have thound that statistics differs very much! Of course, nagios

[Nagios-users] New Checks Do not get scheduled

2008-01-29 Thread Maxwell,Brady
So I have this weird circumstance where when I add new service checks and reload nagios the system does not start running these checks. We are using 2.9. The checks are setup as active checks. Checks that existed before the restart seem to take up to an hour to start updating even though all checks

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios full copied reserve server

2008-01-29 Thread magic_rooter
Hello everybody. I need to have nagios reserve server which will replace the main server when it dies. I installed nagios on another machine, copied all directory /usr/local/nagios and start reserve service Nagios. I have thound that statistics differs very much! Of course, nagios was installed in

Re: [Nagios-users] no email notification

2008-01-29 Thread Mohr James
> -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008 10:49 > An: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Betreff: [Nagios-users] no email notification > > I don't receive email notifications

[Nagios-users] no email notification

2008-01-29 Thread beick
I don't receive email notifications on problems. Emailing as user nagios from the command line works (postfix). Email address in contacts.cfg is correct and I have the necessary lines in the service description to (I think): define service{ host_name localhost service