[Nagios-users] FW: Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Matt White
I have done something similar except I have defined hostgroups for the different services. I have Domain Controllers hostgroup, Web Servers hostgroup, Mail Servers etc then assign the relevant services to those groups. There are certain specific checks that need to be applied to the server but

Re: [Nagios-users] Custom Status Field strings and warning levels

2008-06-17 Thread Izz Abdullah
Ok...I guess I should have played around a bit more before posting. The -w and -c switches work accordingly for the COUNTER defs. Would still ask assistance in formatting the Status Information field. Regards, Izz > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tue, 17 Jun 2008

[Nagios-users] Custom Status Field strings and warning levels

2008-06-17 Thread Izz Abdullah
Hi all, I would like to format the data returned from check commands in the status information field of the GUI. For example, I would like to add text after the check command has returned only an integer value, or another example I have brought up previously, divide the result by say 1024 to v

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi, Using REgExp and Object Templats is a key for optimizing maintenance. I read some good details on handling what needs to be configured and what can be inhereted and automatically associated in the current Nagios 3 Documentation. I think much of the framework was in Nagios 2, but the documen

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi Rene, Sorry for joining this response late, For checking Software RAID on Windows the best way is to use a Windows Plug in that gives connectivity to a standard widows location of the data you need. With that said, I recommend NC_Net (not only because I wrote it but also since it provides mec

Re: [Nagios-users] check_hpasm error

2008-06-17 Thread Gerhard Lausser
Hi Tom, > UNKNOWN - hanging hpasmdcli processes check_hpasm executes the hpasmcli command which connects to the hpasmd daemon. If this daemon becomes unresponsive, hpasmcli just hangs. The next run of check_hpasm detects this hanging process and exits with the above error message. It would not ma

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Marcos Marinho
Ops sorry , I lost the windows part , my mistake. I will be looking for some alternative ; again sorry for this. As alternative, there is a place called windows script center and I think that there would be an script in order to check sofwate raid on windows, or some example in order to get t

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question about nagios and snmp

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> >In my debian I can't find that check_snmp_disk, the only thing I have > found in /etc/nagios-plugins/config/snmp.cfg is: > > # 'snmp_disk' command definition > define command{ > command_namesnmp_disk > command_line/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp -H > $HOSTADDR

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question about nagios and snmp

2008-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Arnau wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Tom Brown wrote: >> >>> >>> 2.- Is there a way to ask the free disk of / instead of /dev/sda1? >>> >>> >> >> check_snmp_disk > > In my debian I can't find that check_snmp_disk, the only thing I > have > found in /etc/nagios-plugins/con

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question about nagios and snmp

2008-06-17 Thread Arnau
Hi Tom, Tom Brown wrote: > >> >> 2.- Is there a way to ask the free disk of / instead of /dev/sda1? >> >> > > check_snmp_disk In my debian I can't find that check_snmp_disk, the only thing I have found in /etc/nagios-plugins/config/snmp.cfg is: # 'snmp_disk' command definition define

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question about nagios and snmp

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> > 2.- Is there a way to ask the free disk of / instead of /dev/sda1? > > check_snmp_disk - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Sour

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
> Yes. I could be going down the wrong path but, how does the Nagios > install know what the document root of the webserver is? It would seem > to me that there should be some reference to nagios in the document > root so the webserver know where to direct the requests, or does > nagios not wo

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 08:32:43AM -0700, Jim Miller wrote: >Yes. I could be going down the wrong path but, how does the Nagios install >know what the document root of the webserver is? It would seem to me that >there should be some reference to nagios in the document root so the >w

[Nagios-users] different notification email

2008-06-17 Thread Wim De Geeter
Hi, I have a small question. Is it possible to use different email templates for notification. One for warning and critical and another one for recovery. Many thanks - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Miller
Yes. I could be going down the wrong path but, how does the Nagios install know what the document root of the webserver is? It would seem to me that there should be some reference to nagios in the document root so the webserver know where to direct the requests, or does nagios not work that way?

[Nagios-users] Newbie question about nagios and snmp

2008-06-17 Thread Arnau
Hi all, I have about 15 servers to monitor, some of them are windows and the rest run Debian. To do so, I have installed Nagios to send me alarms and cacti to show graphs and historical data. The things I'd like to monitor, for the time being are very basic CPU usage, disk space, ... To mo

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Yost, Karl
Did you restart apache after you configured the aliases and directory options? Thanks, Karl From: Jim Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:21 AM To: Yost, Karl; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty This did not w

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2008, at 10:09 AM, Jim Miller wrote: > Hello everyone > > I have downloaded and installed Nagios per the instructions posted > for Fedora. Everything "worked" according to the instructions > however when I start Nagios and try to navigate to http://localhost/nagios > I get a 404

Re: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Miller
This did not work either. - Original Message From: "Yost, Karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jim Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:14:39 AM Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Install difficulty Try using http://localhost/nagios/ The tra

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
No, don't try that. Python is a great language, I code in it myself, but... 1. It is not portable across windows systems without installing add-ons 2. It checks *LINUX* software raid, not windows software raid. -h Marcos Marinho wrote: > Try this : It is a python script > ==

[Nagios-users] Install difficulty

2008-06-17 Thread Jim Miller
Hello everyone I have downloaded and installed Nagios per the instructions posted for Fedora. Everything "worked" according to the instructions however when I start Nagios and try to navigate to http://localhost/nagios I get a 404 error. I suspect My webserver is unaware of nagios' exsistance ho

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Marcos Marinho
Try this : It is a python script #!/usr/bin/python # check_swraid - plugin for nagios to check the status of linux swraid devices # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GN

[Nagios-users] Request to test pst3 on solaris systems

2008-06-17 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! This is a request to test the latest pst3 in the nagiosplugins snapshot. My colleague, Duncan Ferguson, has been making some optimisations so that is runs much faster on systems with a large number of processes - on a Solaris 10 server with multiple zones, it runs about 94% faster! I'

Re: [Nagios-users] About check_udp plugin

2008-06-17 Thread Marc Powell
On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Yu Watanabe wrote: > Hello, > > I just want to confirm that whether the UDP 161 port is > available not . We don't need to know if the service is up or not. > > Like you mentioned , I think the best way is to access to the agent. > However, is there any plugin that ju

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem: Server is UP??

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 06:27:04PM +1200, Steve Shipway wrote: > > I really need some help with this guys. My setup was working for the > > longest time and I can't think of any changes made to it that would > > cause this behavior. I get random (and quite annoying!) Nagios alerts > > that say "Pro

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Problem: Server is UP??

2008-06-17 Thread Mark Felder
Here are the notify commands that come with debian. I don't modify them. # 'host-notify-by-email' command definition define command{ command_namehost-notify-by-email command_line/usr/bin/printf "%b" "* Nagios *\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOS

[Nagios-users] check_hpasm error

2008-06-17 Thread Tom Brown
Hi I monitor my HP stuff using check_hparray and check_hpasm, generally things work OK However i have noticed that 1 box keeps alerting that the chassis is not OK with the following error. UNKNOWN - hanging hpasmdcli processes Does anyone know of a workaround to this apart from perhaps incre

Re: [Nagios-users] About check_udp plugin

2008-06-17 Thread Yu Watanabe
Hello, I just want to confirm that whether the UDP 161 port is available not . We don't need to know if the service is up or not. Like you mentioned , I think the best way is to access to the agent. However, is there any plugin that just confirms that the UDP 161 port is available or not ? If

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
> -Original Message- > From: nagios-users On Behalf Of Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > Sent: 17 June 2008 13:14 > > I currently help maintain and monitor around 50 servers across various > parts of the UK using Nagios 2. At the moment, we have a configuration > file for each host (%hostname%.

[Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi All, I currently help maintain and monitor around 50 servers across various parts of the UK using Nagios 2. At the moment, we have a configuration file for each host (%hostname%.cfg) and in that file we specify all the services for the named host. We are trying to reduce the number of configu

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Hari Sekhon
Rene Fertig wrote: > Hello Hari. > > >> Have you checked NagiosExchange.org? I didn't see anything but then I >> didn't look too closely. Otherwise you could just write one. VBS is an >> easy language and universal enough for this. I'd write this in fact, if >> I had any servers poor enough to h

[Nagios-users] Problem with timeperiods with exact days (Nagios 3.0)

2008-06-17 Thread Huober, Reiner (EXT-Other - DE/Munich)
Hello, I am using nagios-3.0 (with a patched trends.cgi from 3.0.1). Yesterday, I added easter dates to german holidays (etc/objects/timeperiods.cfg): define timeperiod{ namede-holidays timeperiod_name de-holidays alias German

Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor windows software raid

2008-06-17 Thread Rene Fertig
Hello Hari. > Have you checked NagiosExchange.org? I didn't see anything but then I > didn't look too closely. Otherwise you could just write one. VBS is an > easy language and universal enough for this. I'd write this in fact, if > I had any servers poor enough to have windows software raid... O

[Nagios-users] Antwort: Problem: Server is UP??

2008-06-17 Thread Sascha . Runschke
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb am 17.06.2008 04:28:23: > I really need some help with this guys. My setup was working for the > longest time and I can't think of any changes made to it that would > cause this behavior. I get random (and quite annoying!) Nagios alerts > that say "Problem: $SERVER is UP!