Re: [Nagios-users] check postgres - parsing password

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/09 12:37 AM, Chris wrote: > I am using the check_pgsql plugin to check my postgres database on a > remote server. My postgres password has special characters "$" and > "#". It works fine from the command line when I parse my password > using t

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternate check interval when state become CRITICAL

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/09 06:57 PM, Justin Pasher wrote: > Hello, > > (I have included the applicable nagios definitions at the end of the email). > > I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible. I am running Nagios > 3.0.6 on Debian Etch. I have some servi

[Nagios-users] check postgres - parsing password

2009-02-09 Thread Chris
I am using the check_pgsql plugin to check my postgres database on a remote server. My postgres password has special characters "$" and "#". It works fine from the command line when I parse my password using the "\" escape sequence. But I tried from Nagios configuration file and it says "Password a

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagvis

2009-02-09 Thread Simon Finch
Martyn, Your config looks good to me, are you sure there is data going into the ndo database ? Check your nagios.log for: ndomod: Successfully connected to data sink. 0 queued items to flush. Rgds - Simon >>> "Martyn" 10/02/2009 10:32 am >>> Hi all, I'm' hoping that you have the heart

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Monitoring Windows Host's clock

2009-02-09 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi Robby, If you want just the Windows System Time NC_NEt using Check_nc_net instead of Check_nt can provide this through the CLIENTTIME command Otherwise you should be able to find Scrits (outside the nagios comunity) that get and print the system time when you do, call it via NRPE, Or you can

[Nagios-users] Alternate check interval when state become CRITICAL

2009-02-09 Thread Justin Pasher
Hello, (I have included the applicable nagios definitions at the end of the email). I'm trying to figure out if this is even possible. I am running Nagios 3.0.6 on Debian Etch. I have some service checks setup to see if a web site is still reachable. The check itself is pretty simple. It inheri

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Max
Rahul, On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Thanks for the blog. Just found a very useful snippet there: "ps -e -a -x -f > -o %u | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn" there. If I use this I find that the > "nagios" owned processes seem to fluctuate a lot. Suddenly it goes as high > as 54 a

[Nagios-users] Nagvis

2009-02-09 Thread Martyn
Hi all, I'm' hoping that you have the heart to help me out again on my quest :) Anyway I'm trying to install Nagvis but hit a small problem. When I point my Web browser to the map I created I get the following error backendInstanceNameNotValid: NDOMy: Instance name not valid (Backend ndomy_1) T

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Max wrote: > Yes, definitely do that. I talk about how my team set up nagios and > PNP to minimize delays in polling on my blog, though be warned that we > break some of the rules that the documentation says to always follow, > like doing a fork() in a NEB module

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Max
Rahul, On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Thanks Marc. I have: max_concurrent_checks=0 Our experience has been that with max_concurrent_checks set to 0 and inter-check delay and nagios sleep set very low we get high reported service check latencies as we are basically asking Na

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Max wrote: > Rahul, > > On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > > Thanks Marc. I have: max_concurrent_checks=0 > > Our experience has been that with max_concurrent_checks set to 0 and > inter-check delay and nagios sleep set very low we get high repor

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Max
Hi Rahul, On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > Thanks Max. That is a pretty intricate issue that I had no idea about! I'm > still trying to figure out the exact implications of what you describe. > Maybe I need to visit the Nagios manual again to re-read nagios's scheduling > logi

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Monitoring Windows Host's clock

2009-02-09 Thread Kahlon, Robby
I need to monitor the Windows NTP client's time against the Windows NTP server time. I was reading about a similar issue on the Mail Archive and Hari Sekhon has suggested using check_ntp on each remote host against the ntp server. http://www.mail-archive.com/nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg2

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > >- not allowing nagios to run sufficient concurrent checks for your > configuration. running 'bin/nagios -s etc/nagios.cfg' will provide you > with a recommendation. Make sure max_concurrent_checks is that high or > higher. Thanks

Re: [Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 9, 2009, at 12:19 PM, Rahul Nabar wrote: > What exactly is the "Service check Latency" in nagios? My processor > load averages are still ok after I enabled PNP but my latencies have > shot through the roof. Should I be worried or not? I have latencies > around 46k millisecs and execu

[Nagios-users] how is "Service check Latency" defined in nagios?

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
What exactly is the "Service check Latency" in nagios? My processor load averages are still ok after I enabled PNP but my latencies have shot through the roof. Should I be worried or not? I have latencies around 46k millisecs and execution times of 800 millisecs for my services. -- Rahul

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE and redundant calls to remote hosts.

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Hiren Patel wrote: > Marc Powell wrote: > > > > > Passive checks with NSCA is pretty close, minus the 'if there is a > > status change' part. You could build that logic into whatever wrapper > > you are using to run the plugins on the remote host though. From the >

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE clutters /var/log/messages

2009-02-09 Thread Rahul Nabar
On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Hiren Patel wrote: > Rahul Nabar wrote: > >> My /var/log/messages shows hundreds of entries of this sort: >> >> Feb 6 23:33:00 star256 xinetd[15109]: START: nrpe pid=17610 >> from=:::11.0.0.100 >> Feb 6 23:33:01 star256 xinetd[15109]: EXIT: nrpe status=0 pid=

Re: [Nagios-users] normal_check_interval misbehaving?

2009-02-09 Thread Hiren Patel
Jason Marshall wrote: >> is the active-service template set to check freshness, if so what is its >> value? I suspect the check results are getting stale and forcing an >> active check, this can be verified from the nagios logs on the nagios >> server though (perhaps depending on logging options?)

[Nagios-users] automated response

2009-02-09 Thread Nigel Heaney
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Re: [Nagios-users] normal_check_interval misbehaving?

2009-02-09 Thread Jason Marshall
> active-checks should be a template, so there wouldn't be a check_command > for it. normally your active check won't go stale, because they're > scheduled to run more often than the freshness threshold. check your > logs for signs of: I have a check_command for my passive checks, but it just exit

Re: [Nagios-users] normal_check_interval misbehaving?

2009-02-09 Thread Jason Marshall
> is the active-service template set to check freshness, if so what is its > value? I suspect the check results are getting stale and forcing an > active check, this can be verified from the nagios logs on the nagios > server though (perhaps depending on logging options?) Thanks Hiren, the check_f

Re: [Nagios-users] problems with check_openmanage

2009-02-09 Thread Trond Hasle Amundsen
Trond Hasle Amundsen writes: > Nicole Hähnel writes: > >> The problem is only on older servers. The newer ones work fine with snmp. >> And I used check_om_snmp before on all servers without any problems. For the list archive: A new release of check_openmanage has been uploaded to Nagios Exchang

Re: [Nagios-users] latency performance critical performance when set "servicegroup" in a service

2009-02-09 Thread Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/02/09 05:29 AM, Emmanuel Vargas wrote: > Hi, > > > > Don’t know if somebody already have this issue but if I set a > “servicegroup” in a service my “check latency” is very very high. From > 1s without the servicegroup to 30 or 40s with servic

[Nagios-users] Development on NDO utils?

2009-02-09 Thread Roderick Derks
Hi, Anyone knows if there is still some development being done on the NDO utils? I had a problem using the NDO 1.4b7 beta version with Centreon and had to use a nightly version. And it doesn't support multiline output, something new in Nagios 3.0. And 1.47b7 is from 31-10-2007. Regards, Roderic

[Nagios-users] Opsview 3

2009-02-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just wanted to announce that Opsera have recently released Opsview 3. This is our GPL product, based on Nagios, which covers: * web front end for configuration * AJAX status views * NDOutils for status data * simple distributed setups, including clustered failover nodes And a ne

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple hostgroup(s) membership

2009-02-09 Thread Alex Dehaini
Yeah, very possible - here is how I do it define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name GIX alias GIX members core,bhmas...@gix,bhsl...@kokomlemle2gix,rou...@gix } On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:13 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Axel Schm

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple hostgroup(s) membership

2009-02-09 Thread Falk Brockerhoff - smartTERRA GmbH
Am 09.02.2009 um 12:56 schrieb Axel Schmalowsky: > is it possible to assign a host to multiple hostgroups? I Do you mean a configuration like this? define host{ [...] hostgroups freebsd,ssh,ftp,http,https,mysql,mailda,mailta,backuppc [...] } > Freundliche Grüße / Kind re

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple hostgroup(s) membership

2009-02-09 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 9, 2009, at 5:56 AM, Axel Schmalowsky wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello list, > > is it possible to assign a host to multiple hostgroups? I need some > hosts to be a subset (own hostgroup) of an existing hostgroup. Yes, either within the host definition or

[Nagios-users] Multiple hostgroup(s) membership

2009-02-09 Thread Axel Schmalowsky
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello list, is it possible to assign a host to multiple hostgroups? I need some hosts to be a subset (own hostgroup) of an existing hostgroup. Thanks in advance for any hints. - -- Freundliche Grüße / Kind regards Axel Schmalowsky Platform Engine

[Nagios-users] latency performance critical performance when set "servicegroup" in a service

2009-02-09 Thread Emmanuel Vargas
Hi, Don't know if somebody already have this issue but if I set a "servicegroup" in a service my "check latency" is very very high. From 1s without the servicegroup to 30 or 40s with servicegroup set! define service{ host_name apc service_descriptio