Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_storage.pl - check disk space for /

On Jan 28, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Chris wrote: > Is there any way to get it check only the / partition and not the > other ones? > > Here is the commands I tried: > > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_storage.pl -H server -C foo -m / - > w 20 -c 21 > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp_storage.pl

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils and Nagios startup speed

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/09 08:05 PM, Mathieu Gagné wrote: > Hi, > > Marc Powell wrote: >>> Is there a way to speed things up? Any help would be appreciated. >>> Thanks. >> I'm interested in tips as well. >> > > One way to speed up Nagios start when using NDOutils

[Nagios-users] check_snmp_storage.pl - check disk space for /

I'm trying to check the disk space for / (I have a partition called / which sits on /dev/sdb1) but check_snmp_storage.pl is giving me information on all the partitions (/, /tmp, /usr, /var) Is there any way to get it check only the / partition and not the other ones? Here is the commands I tried:

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils and Nagios startup speed

Hi, Marc Powell wrote: > >> Is there a way to speed things up? Any help would be appreciated. >> Thanks. > > I'm interested in tips as well. > One way to speed up Nagios start when using NDOutils is to tweak "event_broker_options". Here is my new configuration, based on constants defined i

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Mathieu Gagné wrote: > >> > According to cpubenchmark.net, my el cheapo CPU is better than yours: > > Intel Xeon 2.80GHz > Score: 495 > Rank: 281 > Link: http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+2.80GHz > > Intel Core2 4300 @ 1.80GHz > Score: 983

Re: [Nagios-users] NSClient Error Message

Thanks Tony. I will try it again after upgrading the NSClient. There is one more error message in the logs: The description for Event ID ( 1 ) in Source ( pNSClient.exe ) cannot be found. The local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display mess

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

Hi, Rahul Nabar wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Marc Powell > wrote: > > > On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > > > Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM > > Its about 5 years old now I think. > > > A minor correctio

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > > > Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM > > Its about 5 years old now I think. > A minor correction. Mine is just a "hyperthreaded" machine. I don't think it is two real cores.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp: monitor a process

On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:19 PM, Chris wrote: > How do I monitor if this process is running via my Nagios server's > check_snmp plugin? My nagios version is 3.0.6 and check_snmp version > is 2021. You can't (to the best of my knowledge). It's not meant for that but rather for checking values of sp

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Jan 28, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz dual core. 2 GB RAM > Its about 5 years old now I think. For comparison, my most heavily loaded data collector is a 2x Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 275 (2.1Ghz), 2GB RAM. It is running -- - Nagios 2

[Nagios-users] check_snmp: monitor a process

I want to monitor the process ID of portsentry (a program I'm running in one of my Linux servers) via SNMP. If I do snmpwalk -c -v1 server | grep "portsentry" I get: HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSWRunPath.30605 = STRING: "/usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry" where 30605 is the process ID and which w

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems Compile Nagios Plugin 1.4.13

Hello Felipe! To compile MySQLPerf plugin i just did it: - compile the nagios plugins $ tar -zxvf nagios-plugins-1.4.13.tar.gz $ cd nagios-plugins-1.4.13 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin $pwd /usr/local/s

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

no active host checks just active service checks (few passive too) To disable change the host definition/template option active_checks_enabled 0 Host checks are done on demand when any service returns a critical state (maybe a non-OK state I can't remember). This is default nagios functionality

[Nagios-users] Hostgroups and contact_groups...

I am rolling out a new nagios 3.x server and it looks like they changed the ability to add contact_groups to hostgroup definitions. Is this correct? If so is there any other way to assign contact_groups, other then to hosts, or services, or their respective templates. -

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > > Just out of curiosity, what is the magnitude of the 'edging upwards' > that you are seeing? Its not bad right now .But the trend is what I am wary about. My load factors are around 3. But I am still planning on adding more hosts and se

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Mathieu Gagné wrote: > We have +2000 hosts and +4700 services configured on one of our Nagios > instance. Load average is between 1.3 an 2.0 which I find acceptable. Wow. That's way bigger than what I have. Mine's a cluster of 256 machines and around 6 services

[Nagios-users] Problems Compile Nagios Plugin 1.4.13

Problems Compile Nagios Plugin 1.4.13 All this big mess started because I need the MySQLPerf plugin, whitch is a really cool plugin, but it needs the source of the official plugin. The version I am compiling is the 1.4.13 and by running the config I got quite a few (WARNINGS): configure:22140

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Jan 27, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > I set up my nagios system to monitor 256 odd nodes each with about 6 > services (direct and NRPE). It is working fine but my load averages > have started edging upwards. Not critical yet but I wanted some tips > to make things more efficient

Re: [Nagios-users] debug notifications

> > You have no notification_options specified for this service. Nagios > will not notify for it. > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service > I found this following the hint of reading the .dat files ! yes, I was missing the options notification_options

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Kyle O'Donnell wrote: > I use service deps. Most of my services are nrpe checks and I create > a dep on nrpe. If a check comes back critical (or which ever state > you choose to execute the dep) it does an nrpe check, if nrpe returns > critical (or whichever sta

Re: [Nagios-users] debug notifications

On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:36 AM, Nicolas Laurance wrote: > I have sent the config used as a first reply Yup, I missed it -- > define service{ > namegeneric-service > active_checks_enabled 1 > passive_checks_enabled 1 >

Re: [Nagios-users] Ways and tweaks to make nagios more efficient. load average on monitoring host edging up.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Jake wrote: > > > I use ping as both a service check and a host check because i want to ping > all of the time to measure latency, etc. I wouldn't think so much about > eliminating service checks that aren't directly redundant as much as making > sure the checks yo

Re: [Nagios-users] perl external command example

On Jan 28, 2009, at 11:22 AM, shadih rahman wrote: > Can someone please give me an example how to submit external command > using perl script. I am trying to do this and its now working. The > command I am passing to named pipe is something like this. Thanks > } > sub send_to_named_pipe {

Re: [Nagios-users] debug notifications

Marc Powell a ecrit: First thank you for your answer > > Nagios doesn't believe it's supposed to send notifications. Either the > notification_options for the host/service or contact don't include the > notification type you are trying to send, their notification period > doesn't include t

[Nagios-users] ExtInfo for Hostgroup display

Hi list ! Could somebody give me a clue as how to achieve some kind of "extinfo" for the hostgroup display ? I would need the possibility to add an external link to the hostgroup display, with hostgroup-specific parameters. TIA, -- Simon Kainz, BSc Graz, University of Technology Department Compu

[Nagios-users] perl external command example

Can someone please give me an example how to submit external command using perl script. I am trying to do this and its now working. The command I am passing to named pipe is something like this. Thanks "ACKNOWLEDGE_HOST_PROBLEM;hostname;1;1;1;1;sr2690;testing "1233162775 my code is like this.

[Nagios-users] Nagios command line interface

All, Just wanted to know if there is any project going on for nagios command line interface? What is the process to request something like that. I would like to actively participate in a project like that. I know there is "cnagios" and also there are external command macros. However, I am pr

Re: [Nagios-users] service notfication problems

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 12:06:53 Nicole Hähnel wrote: > Hi, > > we have about 20 servers with up to 25 service checks on each server. > The services are running directly on a vpn gateway. > If the connection dies, I get emails from all services because i cannot > implement a hierachy. You wan

Re: [Nagios-users] Mail Notifications by external SMTP

On Jan 28, 2009, at 4:37 AM, Jaume Soler i Mir - A.D.S. S.L. wrote: > Hi people! > > I'm just configuring the nagios3 and I have some trouble about the > notifications by email. > I don't want to use a local smtp server (defined on the > commands.cfg) I > want to use a external smtp server to s

Re: [Nagios-users] debug notifications

On Jan 28, 2009, at 5:24 AM, Nicolas LAURANCE wrote: > hello all, > > I'm using nagios 2.11 on fedora > > I think I configured correctly (but obviously not) the notification > for the host, service and contacts > > in the web interface Notifications : ENABLED Is this the global setting or the

[Nagios-users] notifications not triggered

hello all, I'm using nagios 2.11 on fedora I think I configured correctly (but obviously not) the notification for the host, service and contacts in the web interface Notifications : ENABLED however notifications never trigger I configured to have notifications logged, but I don't see any in

Re: [Nagios-users] debug notifications

nagios.cfg log_notifications=1 notification_timeout=30 enable_notifications=1 service : define timeperiod{ timeperiod_name 24x7 alias 24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week sunday 00:00-24:00 monday 00:00-24:00 tuesday 00:0

Re: [Nagios-users] Define notification contacts based on hostgroup

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/01/09 05:16 AM, Kenneth Holter wrote: > Hi. > > > Is there a way to configure Nagios to define contacts based on > hostgroups? In other words: I'd like to send all notifications for a > hostgroup A to the contact X. Is this possible? I use h

[Nagios-users] service notfication problems

Hi, we have about 20 servers with up to 25 service checks on each server. The services are running directly on a vpn gateway. If the connection dies, I get emails from all services because i cannot implement a hierachy. How can I enhance the configuration of nagios to prevent me from beeing flo

[Nagios-users] Antwort: Mail Notifications by external SMTP

"Jaume Soler i Mir - A.D.S. S.L." schrieb am 28.01.2009 11:37:03: > I'm just configuring the nagios3 and I have some trouble about the > notifications by email. > I don't want to use a local smtp server (defined on the commands.cfg) I > want to use a external smtp server to send the notificati

[Nagios-users] debug notifications

hello all, I'm using nagios 2.11 on fedora I think I configured correctly (but obviously not) the notification for the host, service and contacts in the web interface Notifications : ENABLED however notifications never trigger I configured to have notifications logged, but I don't see any i

Re: [Nagios-users] Mail Notifications by external SMTP

I define some more the problem: I see the commands.cfg and I will write a new command or modify the notify-host-by-email by using some external packet like msmtp. I tryed this and I have no success. Anyone with this problem? Is msmtp the best way? It's possible with mutt with an e-mail account

[Nagios-users] Mail Notifications by external SMTP

Hi people! I'm just configuring the nagios3 and I have some trouble about the notifications by email. I don't want to use a local smtp server (defined on the commands.cfg) I want to use a external smtp server to send the notifications e-mails. Is this possible? Is some packet to do this? Thanks

[Nagios-users] Define notification contacts based on hostgroup

Hi. Is there a way to configure Nagios to define contacts based on hostgroups? In other words: I'd like to send all notifications for a hostgroup A to the contact X. Is this possible? Regards, kenneho -- This SF.net emai

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp - sendmail on localhost

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:26 PM, Ian Masters wrote: >> I'm trying to monitor if sendmail is running on localhost for one of >> my servers via Nagios. > > Is there a reason you don't want to use check_smtp? check_smtp doesn't work when SMTP is listening on 127.0.0.1 on a remote server. -