[Nagios-users] sending service/host notification status to failover server

2008-04-16 Thread Heiko
Hello, i have 2 nagios servers, where one acts as an failover(with disabled checks/notification.). I use send_nsca to send the current servcie/host status to the failover server, since we have some notifications disabled on main server, how can i transfer these settings to the failover server?

Re: [Nagios-users] passive checks for non-24x7 hosts going staleoutside check_period

2008-04-16 Thread Gareth Watson
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Wagner Sent: 15 April 2008 19:06 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] passive checks for non-24x7 hosts going staleoutside check_period I have a distributed

[Nagios-users] [Nagio-users] SMS Docs

2008-04-16 Thread Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
List, Does anyone out there have any documentation that they have written up for getting sms notifications up and running on an ATT/Cingular network? We are wanting to implement the technology at our company, but the documentation is kind of spacey, and the list not clear cut

[Nagios-users] Need help with Nagios, PERC, and likely false warning

2008-04-16 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Dell PE2950 with PERC 5/i. The server suffered a failed disk under RAID 0. I obtained a replacement disk, rebuilt the system from the ground up (new logical volumes within the controller, new OS install) and the system is happy now. I installed nagios on a low-end PC (CentOS 5), and

Re: [Nagios-users] Need help with Nagios, PERC, and likely false warning

2008-04-16 Thread Andrew Cruse
Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: I have a Dell PE2950 with PERC 5/i. The server suffered a failed disk under RAID 0. I obtained a replacement disk, rebuilt the system from the ground up (new logical volumes within the controller, new OS install) and the system is happy now. I installed nagios on

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagio-users] SMS Docs

2008-04-16 Thread Beau Walker
Would this be what you're looking for? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_gateways#Email_to_SMS_.2F_Web_to_SMS Just use a regular email notification, but use [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] where number is a 10 digit att number. I hope that helps. Beau Walker - CCNA, Linux+

[Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Israel Brewster
Running nagios 3.0, I have set up a number (most) of my hosts without services, since all I am interested in monitoring is the hosts themselves. However, this is causing a number of little annoyances, such as the hosts not showing up when I type their name into the nagios sidebar search,

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Ford, Andy
advice tag='unsolicited' There must be some reason for each server or device to be on the network, it must provide some service, even if it's just a lowly(?) sshd. Do yourself and your organization a favor and monitor that reason! /advice -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Paul Weaver
You can use check_ping -- I assume the boxes are pingable, and you want to check they are pingable, even if they do nothing else that can be monitored. If you don't want to check they work via ping, why are you even modelling them? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Israel Brewster Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:01 PM To: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services Running nagios 3.0, I have set up a number (most) of my

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagio-users] SMS Docs

2008-04-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:25:06PM -0400, Steven Valdinger wrote: Does anyone out there have any documentation that they have written up for getting sms notifications up and running on an ATT/Cingular network? We are wanting to implement the technology at our

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Israel Brewster
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Paul Weaver wrote: You can use check_ping -- I assume the boxes are pingable, and you want to check they are pingable, even if they do nothing else that can be monitored. If you don't want to check they work via ping, why are you even modelling them? I AM

[Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-16 Thread Victor Lanza
Hi, Does anyone have a detailed doc written for configuring check_logfiles. I'm new to Nagios and Linux :-) and I've managed to install Nagios, NRPE, as well as the check_logfiles plugin. I've set up a few hosts, commands, and service checks with and without the use of NRPE and everything is

Re: [Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-16 Thread kyle . odonnell
http://www.consol.de/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles Theres an english flag in the top left. Near the bottom of the page there's a link with a load of examples. On 4/16/08, Victor Lanza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Does anyone have a detailed doc written for configuring check_logfiles.

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Israel Brewster
On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Ford, Andy wrote: advice tag='unsolicited' There must be some reason for each server or device to be on the network, it must provide some service, even if it's just a lowly(?) sshd. Do yourself and your organization a favor and monitor that reason! /advice To

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagio-users] SMS Docs

2008-04-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 02:46:56PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: (I'm assuming that you want to take at least the SMTP service out of the critical path. If you want to take the entire Internet out of the critical path, then you'll need dialup, and I don't know if they still have such a

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:20:29AM -0800, Israel Brewster wrote: To some extent, yes, but not necessarily a service we can monitor. There are cases that fit this description, but I'm not sure if the examples you provide are. There are quite a few devices on the network that it is important

Re: [Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-16 Thread Victor Lanza
Kyle, Thanks, but using this resource I wasn't able to get far. I'm sure that I'm making a small mistake. Here is how I have my setup so far: Nagios Monitoring Server: version 3.0.1 Commands.cfg: define command { command_name check_nrpe_arg command_line

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Israel Brewster Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:20 PM To: Ford, Andy Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services On Apr 16, 2008, at 10:10 AM, Ford,

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Israel Brewster
On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:20:29AM -0800, Israel Brewster wrote: To some extent, yes, but not necessarily a service we can monitor. There are cases that fit this description, but I'm not sure if the examples you provide are. For example,

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Israel Brewster
On Apr 16, 2008, at 11:32 AM, Marc Powell wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios- users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Israel Brewster Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:20 PM To: Ford, Andy Cc: Nagios Users Mailinglist Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Israel Brewster Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:49 PM To: Jay R. Ashworth Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services this imposes, is

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Ford, Andy
Well, if you dig, I think you will find that you can monitor much more than you think. In fact, to take one example you mentioned: printers. If I was in charge of monitoring the availability of the boss's printer, I would have Nagios run a test printout every morning that would either return a

Re: [Nagios-users] check_logfiles documentation

2008-04-16 Thread Victor Lanza
That was copy and paste and it was incorrect in my config file as well. Thanks for pointing it out. :) I used that port (as a newbie that I am) because I saw it in the examples provided online. I have no clue what this value should really be. You're right, the way I've configured NRPE is to used

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts w/o services

2008-04-16 Thread Emanuel Massano
Hi, After reading this thread I just couldn't passed without commenting it. We also have this problem, we are an NREN and so a kind of ISP. We connect clients through rented lines and we want to monitor the lines we rent. How we can do this is simple: just ping the host in the other end of