Re: [Nagios-users] Servicegroups and web interface

2008-12-12 Thread Jon Angliss
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:11:39 -0700, Matthew Shanker wrote: >I'm having what I think is some sort of permissions issue but I can't >put my finger on it. I've got a situation where I've got an empty >servicegroup that shows up in the web interface. As soon as I add the >servicegroups line to the

Re: [Nagios-users] Error: Could not open command file 'nagios.cmd' for update!

2008-12-12 Thread Aldo Foot
On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 5:02 PM, Aldo Foot wrote: > I'm running CentOS 5 and Nagios 3.0.6. > > When I click on "Re-schedule the next check of this service" I get an error: > > Error: Could not open command file > '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! > The permissions on the external c

[Nagios-users] Error: Could not open command file 'nagios.cmd' for update!

2008-12-12 Thread Aldo Foot
I'm running CentOS 5 and Nagios 3.0.6. When I click on "Re-schedule the next check of this service" I get an error: Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be incorrect. Read the FAQs on

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Well, operator error (I made a mistake). I found that inside nrpe.cfg there is a lines tha I needed to modify: allowed_hosts=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx I modified that and now I get a different error: nrpe[2779]: [ID 813741 daemon.error] Error: Could not complete SSL handshake. 1 On the nagios server, I'

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi Marc, Well at least I'm understanding you now :-> Yeah, I can ping the private IP address of the nagios server. The public address I'm seeing is NAT'ed IP address. I'm not going to make the box dual-home, but an option seems to me to just give the Nagios server an external DNS name and

Re: [Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi is missing

2008-12-12 Thread jorg.schulz
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Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:45 PM, Grant Lowe wrote: > Hi Andy, > > Bear with me. I'm trying to understand all this > > Hmm. That makes sense. Judging by the IP address in the NRPE logs, > that looks like its a problem. The IP address it says its not > allowed to talk to is the NAT'ed IP address

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi Andy, Bear with me. I'm trying to understand all this Hmm. That makes sense. Judging by the IP address in the NRPE logs, that looks like its a problem. The IP address it says its not allowed to talk to is the NAT'ed IP address, not the real IP address, of the Nagios server. I can ping t

Re: [Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi is missing

2008-12-12 Thread Seth Simmons
Check for missing libraries. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=55&expand=true&showdesc=fa lse -Original Message- From: Aldo Foot [mailto:luni...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 2:49 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi i

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Shellam
Hi Grant, What I meant was NRPE is denying a connection from a host you've not allowed in your config (i.e. it's not your Nagios server.) Can you identify the server that NRPE is not allowing to connect? Is it one of your own IP addresses? The fact that your NRPE system is inside a DMZ may b

[Nagios-users] statusmap.cgi is missing

2008-12-12 Thread Aldo Foot
Hello nagios users: I'm new to nagios and I trying to get some info. I first tried installing nagios-3.0.2 and for the most part it worked fine. Then, I compiled nagios v3.0.6 and the statusmap.cgi file does not get installed. Why? When I click on the Status Map on the web page, I get an error:

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi Andy, The remote nrpe client (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is on a DMZ at work, and the nagios server is internal. You're saying the remote nrpe system should not be able to accept requests when queried from the nagios host. There shouldn't be any port scanning going on. I had the networking folks op

[Nagios-users] Servicegroups and web interface

2008-12-12 Thread Matthew Shanker
I'm having what I think is some sort of permissions issue but I can't put my finger on it. I've got a situation where I've got an empty servicegroup that shows up in the web interface. As soon as I add the servicegroups line to the definition shown below the servicegroup dissapears from the web

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Andy Shellam
Grant, Are remote checks from your Nagios server to this NRPE client succeeding? Is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx one of your own, or an external IP address? I'm thinking there may be a remote system trying to talk to your NRPE system that it's not allowing (which is correct.) It could potentially be som

Re: [Nagios-users] question about hostgroups

2008-12-12 Thread Seth Simmons
So you have ServerA ServerB and ServerC as part of Hostgroup1. You have services defined for the Hostgroup, but you want to exclude ServerC from that one service. In the service command, exclude ServerC by putting a ! in front of it. Example: define service{ use

[Nagios-users] question about hostgroups

2008-12-12 Thread Arnar Þórarinsson
hi all, Say I have a hostgroup defined that has serveral services attached to it, like a typical linux server so its easy to add a server, just assigned it to this hostgroup and all the basic stuff come in automaticly. Now lets say that I'm adding a new host and I want him to have all the same s

Re: [Nagios-users] Last Check Time Issue

2008-12-12 Thread Calhoun, Matthew
This is running Nagios 3.0.5 on RHEL 5. Thanks, Matt From: Calhoun, Matthew [mailto:mcalh...@iodatacenters.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 10:08 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Last Check Time Issue All: We have about 1500 services that are being passively

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios doesn't die when killed

2008-12-12 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008, James Pratt wrote: > Unfortunately - not really ... I guess you could modify your init script to > run an strace on a quick start and stop, and redirect to file, but that may > produce a lot of unwanted garbage/goop. I've already straced the stop, and there's nothing even r

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi Marc, Thanks for the quick reply. Yes, I have the correct IP. Also I already have debugging turned on in nrpe.cfg. I have other clients connecting just fine. I just restarted nrpe and I got this message: Dec 12 09:18:22 nagiosclient svc.startd[7]: [ID 748625 daemon.error] network/cswnrp

[Nagios-users] Last Check Time Issue

2008-12-12 Thread Calhoun, Matthew
All: We have about 1500 services that are being passively checked (custom scripts that write to the external command file). We've noticed an issue where the "Last Check" time for the service is many hours behind, but the "Last Update" time is correct and the service is alarming, etc. properly.

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi Christian, No, nrpe doesn't run under xinetd or inetd. Thanks for asking. - Original Message From: Christian Schneemann To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:36:29 AM Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us! Hi, On Friday

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Dec 12, 2008, at 10:23 AM, Grant Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting a message from the syslog of my nrpe client that says: > > Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not allowed to talk to us! > > In the nrpe.cfg file I have the IP address of the nagios server: > > allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,172.20.40.45 Th

Re: [Nagios-users] WG: Can't force active check in Nagios 3.0.6?

2008-12-12 Thread Seth Simmons
ok that could be the difference; previous postings showed active checks. -Original Message- From: Frost, Mark {PBG} [mailto:mark.fro...@pepsi.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 9:48 AM To: Seth Simmons; Thomas Borger Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] WG

Re: [Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Christian Schneemann
Hi, On Friday December 12 2008 05:23:01 pm Grant Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm getting a message from the syslog of my nrpe client that says: > > Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not allowed to talk to us! > > In the nrpe.cfg file I have the IP address of the nagios server: > > allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,172.

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios doesn't die when killed

2008-12-12 Thread James Pratt
> >-Original Message- > >From: Chris St. Pierre [mailto:stpie...@nebrwesleyan.edu] > >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 11:02 AM > >To: James Pratt > >Cc: Nagios Users > >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios doesn't die when killed > > > >On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James Pratt wrote: > > > >> I've s

[Nagios-users] Host is not allowed to talk to us!

2008-12-12 Thread Grant Lowe
Hi all, I'm getting a message from the syslog of my nrpe client that says: Host xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is not allowed to talk to us! In the nrpe.cfg file I have the IP address of the nagios server: allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,172.20.40.45 I can ping the server just fine. This is nrpe v 2.10, and server

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios doesn't die when killed

2008-12-12 Thread Chris St. Pierre
On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, James Pratt wrote: > I've seen this before if there is a service check that is hung, or rather not > returning output, causing nagios not to exit. > > Do you have other nagios processes left running after sending the sigterm via > init script? If so, it could be the culprit

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios behaviour when scheduling checks

2008-12-12 Thread Sean McAfee
Mohr James wrote: > Hi All! > > We are running Nagios 3.0.1 and have serveral services with a check > interval of 5 Minutes and retry of 1 minute. The problem is that the > checks have a timeout of 65 seconds. I looked through the documentation > but couldn't find out how Nagios behaves in this cas

Re: [Nagios-users] Host down, still doing active checks, causing multiple unwanted service failures

2008-12-12 Thread Toussaint OTTAVI
Hi, Marc Powell a écrit: Our ideas of accuracy would seem to differ ;) Sometimes, in life, it's necessary to be able to say : "I don't know". When a host is simply powered off, or unreachable due to network/wan failure, Nagios actually displays all the service checks with the results dep

[Nagios-users] Nagios behaviour when scheduling checks

2008-12-12 Thread Mohr James
Hi All! We are running Nagios 3.0.1 and have serveral services with a check interval of 5 Minutes and retry of 1 minute. The problem is that the checks have a timeout of 65 seconds. I looked through the documentation but couldn't find out how Nagios behaves in this case. In our case, we have max

Re: [Nagios-users] WG: Can't force active check in Nagios 3.0.6?

2008-12-12 Thread Frost, Mark {PBG}
>-Original Message- >From: Seth Simmons [mailto:ssimm...@cymfony.com] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 8:55 AM >To: Thomas Borger; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] WG: Can't force active check in Nagios >3.0.6? > >That's interesting...i can't simulate the prob

Re: [Nagios-users] Can't force active check in Nagios 3.0.6?

2008-12-12 Thread Frost, Mark {PBG}
>-Original Message- >From: Joerg Linge [mailto:pitchf...@ederdrom.de] >Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:30 AM >Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Can't force active check in Nagios 3.0.6? > >Frost, Mark {PBG} schrieb: >> Is it just my imagination or can o

Re: [Nagios-users] too much notify

2008-12-12 Thread Alejandro Feijoo Fraga
Hi. how do you? because i have the same problem, i have mails alert every minutes and i have notification_interval=0 where is the problem? Kun Richárd escribió: > >> -Original Message- >> From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] >> Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:07 PM >> To: na

Re: [Nagios-users] Hai

2008-12-12 Thread Alejandro Feijoo Fraga
step 1.- open your favority browser, like firefox, opera, safari... step 2.- go to http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html (like seth say) step 3.- enjoy reading and finding Seth Simmons escribió: > Start with this first. > > > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html >

Re: [Nagios-users] too much notify

2008-12-12 Thread Kun Richárd
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: Alejandro Feijoo Fraga [mailto:alfei...@cesga.es] > Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:25 PM > To: Kun Richárd > Cc: 'nagios-user Mailinglist' > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] too much notify > > Hi. > > how do you? because i have the same problem, i have mai

Re: [Nagios-users] too much notify

2008-12-12 Thread Kun Richárd
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] > Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:07 PM > To: nagios-user Mailinglist > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] too much notify > > > On Dec 11, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Kun Richárd wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I use nagios 3.0.6, mostly with

Re: [Nagios-users] Hai

2008-12-12 Thread Seth Simmons
Start with this first. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/toc.html From: ramesh ramesh [mailto:studyram...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 3:28 AM To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Hai i want to configure email notification on my nagios 3.

Re: [Nagios-users] WG: Can't force active check in Nagios 3.0.6?

2008-12-12 Thread Seth Simmons
That's interesting...i can't simulate the problem. I got 3.0.6 and I took a service that had the next scheduled check in 12 min, did a force check on it and it did the check within a few seconds. -Original Message- From: Thomas Borger [mailto:thomas.bor...@esg.de] Sent: Friday, December

[Nagios-users] Hai

2008-12-12 Thread ramesh ramesh
i want to configure email notification on my nagios 3.0 pleasee give me the step by step configuration thanks -- SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happ

Re: [Nagios-users] Lilac 1.0 beta 1 released! The most robust Nagios3.x configuration tool available!

2008-12-12 Thread Mattias Ryrlén
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 08:45 -0800, Taylor Dondich wrote: > Thanks for the notes Mattias. If anyone would be willing to write > quickstart guides for using Lilac with popular distributions, that > would be fantastic, and I'd post the documentation on the website, > along with credit. > > Taylor >