Re: [Nagios-users] Sendmail setup with Nagios

2008-10-08 Thread Hugo van der Kooij
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Izz Abdullah wrote: > I've read the documentation, and have two options: > 1. relay alerts from the Nagios server to our local Exchange server (which is > too much company politics) > 2. setup sendmail correctly to send alerts > > So, I know now how

[Nagios-users] Sendmail setup with Nagios

2008-10-08 Thread Izz Abdullah
I've read the documentation, and have two options: 1. relay alerts from the Nagios server to our local Exchange server (which is too much company politics) 2. setup sendmail correctly to send alerts So, I know now how to do number one (I think), but number 2, cannot. I am an experienced linux u

[Nagios-users] Windows Eventlog agent v1.9.0 released

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Shipway
An updated version of the Nagios Windows Eventlog agent has been released and is available on the Nagios Exchange. This fixes a fairly large bug in the filter code so you are advised to upgrade. http://www.nagiosexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1689.html;d=1 This version contains a n

Re: [Nagios-users] Slow response from command remote call using SSH

2008-10-08 Thread Bret Goodfellow
That fixed my problem. The 'multipath' command now takes longer to complete since upgrading to RHEL 4 Update 7. By adding the '-t 20' field to 'check_by_ssh', the time outs have now disappeared. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Marc Powell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, Octob

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange NRPE issue

2008-10-08 Thread Francis Dube
Andreas Ericsson a écrit : > Francis Dube wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my >> display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes >> and then i compare it with the last screenshot. My script is working >> very well when it'

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange NRPE issue

2008-10-08 Thread Oscar Elfving
Perhaps enable running the command with sudo in nrpe.cfg? It seems like a security issue. 2008/10/8, Francis Dube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my > display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes and > then i

Re: [Nagios-users] Strange NRPE issue

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Francis Dube wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my > display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes and > then i compare it with the last screenshot. My script is working very > well when it's ran locally but when i'm calling

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with external commands and custom variables

2008-10-08 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Stefan Strandberg wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to implement some custom variables for hosts. Supposedly > the external command to change the custom variable for a host is > CHANGE_CUSTOM_HOST_VAR with a certain syntax. Unfortunately for me, it > doesn't seem to be working. > > Nagios receive

[Nagios-users] Strange NRPE issue

2008-10-08 Thread Francis Dube
Hi, I'm using Nagios nagios-2.12_1 with NRPE nrpe2-2.11_1 to check if my display is working properly. I'm taking a screenshot every 4 minutes and then i compare it with the last screenshot. My script is working very well when it's ran locally but when i'm calling it from the server the screens

[Nagios-users] Problem with external commands and custom variables

2008-10-08 Thread Stefan Strandberg
Hi, I'm attempting to implement some custom variables for hosts. Supposedly the external command to change the custom variable for a host is CHANGE_CUSTOM_HOST_VAR with a certain syntax. Unfortunately for me, it doesn't seem to be working. Nagios receives the command and logs it, but doesn't se

Re: [Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

2008-10-08 Thread Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
The first place that I would look would be your mail and Nagios logs. There is probably something in one of them related to your troubles. Stephen Valdinger MIS Helpdesk Coordinator 330.365.3622 -O 740.491.0958 - C [EMAIL PROTECTED] Never agrue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level and

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE way too fragile ?

2008-10-08 Thread Mark Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Jayson Broughton wrote: > Guillaume, > > We actually have the same problem here where Nagios is setup. I use > the > NRPE daemon on both windows and linux servers. Two of our servers do > backups early in the morning

Re: [Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

2008-10-08 Thread Francis Dube
Few things to check : 1- In your service definition, check the following : contact_groups, notification_period, notification_enabled 1. 2- In your contact definition, check the following : host_notification_period, service_notification_period, host_notification_commands, service_notification_com

Re: [Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

2008-10-08 Thread Guillaume Rousse
M. Sébastien LELIÈVRE a écrit : > I do not know where to start my investigation Set your debug level to macro expansion (or some other value), and check in the debug file (not the log file). -- Guillaume Rousse Moyens Informatiques - INRIA Futurs Tel: 01 69 35 69 62 -

Re: [Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

2008-10-08 Thread Assaf Flatto
I'll ask a silly point , what is your notification time and notification commands ? do you see in the nagios log that it is actually going to the notification commands ? Assaf On Wednesday 08 October 2008 16:21:23 M. Sébastien LELIÈVRE wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm experiencing some odd issue

[Nagios-users] How-to debug a NAGIOS-not-sending-email problem ?

2008-10-08 Thread M.
Greetings, I'm experiencing some odd issue with my nagios server. It dosen't notify by email anymore When I execute the corresponding command in the nagios (user) shell, I receive an email A. So it is not postfix nor a system problem, just nagios which doesn't send email Reload/R

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE way too fragile ?

2008-10-08 Thread Jayson Broughton
Guillaume, We actually have the same problem here where Nagios is setup. I use the NRPE daemon on both windows and linux servers. Two of our servers do backups early in the morning and during that time we get NRPE Timeout messages from the two servers. I have set the timeout on the server and t

Re: [Nagios-users] Simulating downtime in nagios

2008-10-08 Thread Tom Throckmorton
On Oct 07 20:30, Kelly Jones wrote: > On 10/6/08, Tom Throckmorton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 06 18:57, Kelly Jones wrote: > >> Thanks, Tom. > >> > >> Yes, I'm trying to simulate a host/service outage, not scheduled downtime. > >> > >> The problem w/ submitting a passive check is that th

Re: [Nagios-users] Negating regular expression matching a host_name

2008-10-08 Thread Oscar Elfving
Sure, I use it to put the hosts in different host groups and so forth... the problem is just when I want to use the exclamation mark to exclude hosts AND use regular expressions to match the hosts. If I write the full hostnames there is no problem. Best regards, Oscar Elfving On Wed, Oct 8, 2008

Re: [Nagios-users] Negating regular expression matching a host_name

2008-10-08 Thread Christian Schneemann
On Wednesday October 8 2008 02:23:45 pm Oscar Elfving wrote: > Hello everyone, > I'm currently trying to exclude a range of hosts that do not share > certain hardware with the rest of the cluster, and I want to exclude > them by using regular expressions. > Whenever I try to use the exclamation mar

[Nagios-users] Negating regular expression matching a host_name

2008-10-08 Thread Oscar Elfving
Hello everyone, I'm currently trying to exclude a range of hosts that do not share certain hardware with the rest of the cluster, and I want to exclude them by using regular expressions. Whenever I try to use the exclamation mark with the star, nagios tells me it can't find any matching hosts. I'm

[Nagios-users] NRPE way too fragile ?

2008-10-08 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Hello list. I'm using nrpe quite heavily for testing lots of local service on all my machines. It work usually well, but seems a bit unreliable: too much often, nrpe itself fails to accept incoming connections, and test fails: CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds. stracing nrpe process s

Re: [Nagios-users] [Nagios-devel] how to specify multiple dependencies

2008-10-08 Thread Guillaume Rousse
Andy Shellam a écrit : > Hi Guillaume (again!) > > I think you've got these the wrong way round. > > In your example, if service A depends on B or C, then hosts B and C > become the dependent hosts. Does this work? (I've not used service > dependencies a great deal so forgive me if I'm wrong.

Re: [Nagios-users] Alarming on coredumps on Linux?

2008-10-08 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/10/08 01:26 PM, Tim Pushor wrote: > Hello everyone, > > While not specifically a nagios issue, I am setting up a nagios > installation to monitor a server that is used to run an interactive > application by several users at once (> 50). The pr