Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/08 10:14 AM, Mike Emigh wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:31:07AM -0400, Mike Emigh wrote: >>> You're right, it wouldn't work with just a single-threaded process.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/05/08 08:36 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Terry a écrit : >> I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is dividing the load >> average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do? the 'uptime' >> command on a box does not do this. So, if I h

[Nagios-users] retry_interval and retry_check_interval in Nagios 3.0 service definitions

2008-05-09 Thread Gerald N. Ginsburg
Which is the correct directive to use in a service definition? The doc says retry_interval while the sample template with 3.0rc1 has retry_check_interval. Either directive can be used with verification error. But do both give the same behavior? Thanks for any help, Gerry Ginsburg

[Nagios-users] IPSLA - with NAGIOS

2008-05-09 Thread Luis Fernando Lacayo
HI All, Is anyone doing IPSLA against Cisco devices? thanks, Luis - This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priorit

[Nagios-users] run nagios plug-in on proxy server

2008-05-09 Thread trevor obba
I would likes to monitor Novell IDM driver using “check_dxml_drvstate” on a Novell Netware machine. However the plug-in will not work on a local NetWare machine but will work on Linux machine. Hence the solution is to run the plug-in on a Linux machine using –s “IP Address of remote IDM server”

[Nagios-users] no max check attempts for host checking?

2008-05-09 Thread Mark Frost
Hello. I have something that's not working the way I'd expect. We are monitoring services on windows hosts and as is common practice, not explicitly checking the host state. Wehn the host gets rebooted, I expect that a service might fail, then Nagios would attempt a host check. I would like the

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification commands aren't parallelized?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Emigh
I was able to parallelize notifications in our perl script by adding the following lines to the top: exit if (fork()); setsid; Took a while to figure out, but forking alone isn't enough, the setsid must also be present. Mike --

[Nagios-users] SMS and ATT with Nagios

2008-05-09 Thread Luis Fernando Lacayo
Good Morning all, I have to change my NAGIOS platform to a Dell Blade on RHEL 5. I currently use a modem and qpage to send out notifications. Since there is no way to attach a modem to a blade, I am thinking on sending the alerts via SMS. Our carrier is ATT, is there anyone out there currently

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Emigh
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:31:07AM -0400, Mike Emigh wrote: >> You're right, it wouldn't work with just a single-threaded process. >> I'm not sure of the specifics of how this would happen, but with >> Oracle we've seen it

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-09 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Terry a écrit : > We just utilize sms and have a different ring profile for SMS > messages. The ring profile says that it will go nuts if it gets a > phone call or SMS message but all other notifications are off. I set > this before I go to bed. Ok, but we don't have a SMS gateway yet, we use e-

Re: [Nagios-users] wrong information by check_disk !

2008-05-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:01:31AM -0500, Marc Powell wrote: > Uwe Großkinsky wrote: > > define service{ > > use generic-service > > host_name uwe-desktop > > service_description check remote Disk > > chec

Re: [Nagios-users] wrong information by check_disk !

2008-05-09 Thread Marc Powell
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:nagios-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Uwe Großkinsky > Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:06 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] wrong information by check_disk ! > > define service{ > u

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:31:07AM -0400, Mike Emigh wrote: > You're right, it wouldn't work with just a single-threaded process. > I'm not sure of the specifics of how this would happen, but with > Oracle we've seen it maxing two CPUs and raising the load to 56 while > the 6 other cores in the 8 c

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Emigh
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Mike Emigh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 08/05/08 10:31 AM, Mike Emigh wrote: >>> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Terry <[E

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-09 Thread Terry
We just utilize sms and have a different ring profile for SMS messages. The ring profile says that it will go nuts if it gets a phone call or SMS message but all other notifications are off. I set this before I go to bed. On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Mike Emigh
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 08/05/08 10:31 AM, Mike Emigh wrote: >> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is

[Nagios-users] wrong information by check_disk !

2008-05-09 Thread Uwe Großkinsky
hy folks, i have 2 machines (both are linux) machine 1 i have running my nagios server new version 3.0.1 incl. plugins 1.4.11 and nrpe 2.12 machine 2 i have runing nrpe 2.12 incl. plugins 1.4.11 Machine 1 (NAGIOS) i have the following config for my ubuntu.cfg define host{ use

[Nagios-users] High CPU usage.

2008-05-09 Thread pra$h Online!!!! !!
Dear all I am using nagios 2.7 and monitoring 674 host and 6995 service checking . Last few days i found that my web page is slow. When i check my server procs i found that some time apche (status.cgi ) is taking 70 to 90% CPU usage and too many nagios instance also running some time. PID US

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Terry a écrit : > I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is dividing the load > average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do? the 'uptime' > command on a box does not do this. So, if I have an 8 core box > sitting with a load average of 8, its the same as a single core box > sittin

[Nagios-users] NLG Error: Class 'S3_NagiosPoller' not found, Was: NLG Error

2008-05-09 Thread Richard Luys
Hi All, Found the solution (not sure if it's the right solution, but it takes care of this problem) I manually declared the $NLG_Language variable in s3_config_stub.inc.php like so: $NLG_Language = "en"; The Language related messages are gone, but now I have the following problem:

[Nagios-users] plugin build issue

2008-05-09 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I am trying to build the plugins using the latest tarball and creating an rpm from that - i have not made any changes to the .spec The build fails towards the end with this error error: Bad owner/group: /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/nagios-plugins.spec i cant see anywhere in the spec where an owner

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote external commands

2008-05-09 Thread Mark Clarkson
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Re: [Nagios-users] Remote external commands

2008-05-09 Thread Mark Clarkson
On Thu, 08 May 2008 12:40:09 +0100, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Were you thinking of NSCA that uses the nagios.cmd pipe? This only takes > a specific format for service checks only to my knowledge (or at least > that's all I use it for). Otherwise I'd look on NagiosExchange.org, > pret

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/05/08 10:31 AM, Mike Emigh wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:49 AM, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is dividing the load >> average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do? the 'uptime' >> c