Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Seth Simmons
Thanks, that did it. Wasn't sure if it was OS or nrpe; i also had issues before when trying to do check_mail with sudo but now it's obvious what the issue is. -Original Message- From: Matthias Flacke [mailto:matthias.fla...@gmx.de] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 11:19 PM To: Seth Simmon

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Matthias Flacke
Seth Simmons wrote: > I think I found the problem. When I ran check_yum locally I forgot it was > running as root which explains why it worked. Running locally as nagios > caused the error. Apparently it isn't the plugin. If, as nagios, I run yum > check-update it tells me I need to be roo

Re: [Nagios-users] cfg files reference via http location?

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Keane
Take a look at LUFS; it may be able to do what you need. http://sourceforge.net/projects/lufs/ or http://freshmeat.net/projects/lufs/ Brian Phipps wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible in the nagios.cfg file to reference the location of > hosts, command.cfg, etc via an http location instead of a l

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Seth Simmons
I think I found the problem. When I ran check_yum locally I forgot it was running as root which explains why it worked. Running locally as nagios caused the error. Apparently it isn't the plugin. If, as nagios, I run yum check-update it tells me I need to be root to access RHN repositories.

[Nagios-users] cfg files reference via http location?

2009-04-15 Thread Brian Phipps
Hi all, Is it possible in the nagios.cfg file to reference the location of hosts, command.cfg, etc via an http location instead of a location on disk on the local machine? -Brian smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature --

Re: [Nagios-users] Access as an application vendor from outside a firewall

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Keane
I actually have a very similar problem, and wrote some software to solve it. I am a consultant, and want to proactively monitor my customer's systems for all kinds of performance problems. Like your situation, my monitoring requires access to private data that is not published outside the firew

Re: [Nagios-users] OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Keane
All that really depends on exactly how you are working. If you are manually applying the patches, and if you can take the machine offline for that period of time, your method will work. You'd simply have to tell tripwire to update its database. That's not a huge deal. I am using automatic updat

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-15 Thread Simon Finch
Centreon requires NDO for a multiple Nagios server environment, I am not sure about a single server system.   Simon Finch | ESM Specialist Ground Floor, 4-16 Montgomery St, Kogarah NSW 2217 (+61 2 9952 2574 7 +61 412 256 814 Email: fin...@stgeorge.com.auwww.stgeorge.com.au___

[Nagios-users] Access as an application vendor from outside a firewall

2009-04-15 Thread Michael Arney
I have been tasked by my company to compare system monitoring tools. We are a small Java software development shop. Our product runs on several servers (Windows or Unix) at each of our clients, and has a web front end, file system storage, and database (PostgreSQL, Oracle, or MS SQL Server).

Re: [Nagios-users] "Service check did not exit properly"

2009-04-15 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:48 PM, Livio Zanol Puppim wrote: > Just to inform, that I've had this problem... After googling it, > couldn't find an answer. Only a similar problem in the past > > Well, > this has happend to me with a perl script. the problem was a > "Switch" statement. > I was using

[Nagios-users] "Service check did not exit properly"

2009-04-15 Thread Livio Zanol Puppim
Just to inform, that I've had this problem... After googling it, couldn't find an answer. Only a similar problem in the past Well, this has happend to me with a perl script. the problem was a "Switch" statement. I was using "use Switch;", and the scripts works, as root and as nagios user, but does

Re: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 30 seconds (-) forcheck_http nagios plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Seth Simmons wrote: > Did you use –p in your command to specify the port? > > If you don’t use –p it will default to 80. > > > > > > *From:* Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:kaushalshri...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:06 PM > *To:* nagios Mailing

Re: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 30 seconds (-) forcheck_http nagios plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Seth Simmons
Did you use -p in your command to specify the port? If you don't use -p it will default to 80. From: Kaushal Shriyan [mailto:kaushalshri...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:06 PM To: nagios Mailinglist Subject: [Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 30 seconds (-)

[Nagios-users] CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 30 seconds (-) for check_http nagios plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Kaushal Shriyan
Hi I have a weird issue here on a particular host for jboss service running on port . I am using check_http Nagios Plugin.I get the below notifications. *CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 30 seconds (-) for check_http nagios plugin.* I have increased the -t parameter value from 15 secs to 30 s

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Seth Simmons
I refreshed the checks for my CentOS systems and now it shows how many updates are there, which is nice. However, there is still an issue with my RH 5 system. If I use this check_yum plugin, it tells me in Nagios "UNKNOWN: Security plugin for yum is required." I did install this on all my Cen

Re: [Nagios-users] Customize "service detail" page

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/15 : > hi all, > > is there a possibility to customize the service detail page of nagios? > > i think about adding one column to the table that calls my perl script > and prints the specific output to the cell. > the call-parameters for my perl script need to be host and service from > the

Re: [Nagios-users] OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

2009-04-15 Thread Onotsky, Steve x55328
We use AIDE for some systems here; it's included with recent Red Hat distributions (and possibly others) and can be compiled for pretty much any other *nix platform. My ISO is quite keen on it. Cheers From: Ken Netzorg [mailto:knetz...@gmail.com] Sent: Ap

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Seth Simmons
Thanks This version is more verbose and has more options available; I'll see how this works. -Original Message- From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsek...@googlemail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:56 AM To: Seth Simmons Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] how to let nagios think host is online

2009-04-15 Thread Alejandro Sánchez Meroño
Hello, I created an "Always_OK" command for these hosts I couldn't ping and appeared in red even when all their services were green (i.e., check-host-alive does not work). I decided that if all the services are on, it's because the host is on... define host { use

Re: [Nagios-users] problem with check_yum

2009-04-15 Thread Hari Sekhon
Seth Simmons wrote: > > I’m running nagios 3.0.6 and using check_yum on my red hat/centos boxes. > > Today I’ve had all my centos boxes show yum warnings about needed > updates; found out centos 5.3 was released. > > I have one red hat 5.2 box. The problem is, check_yum within nagios > shows ‘o/s

Re: [Nagios-users] Customize "service detail" page

2009-04-15 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 15, 2009, at 7:41 AM, borkm...@cbs.mpg.de wrote: > hi all, > > is there a possibility to customize the service detail page of nagios? Currently only by modifying the source code of status.c and re- compiling. -- Marc ---

Re: [Nagios-users] OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

2009-04-15 Thread Ken Netzorg
Thanks, Kevin. You do raise a valid point about knowing what is changing in the general updates vs what is un-authorized and knowing the difference. My, possibly naive, thought is that I could batch updates/patches and make the assumption the changes are due to that process, but there is that chanc

Re: [Nagios-users] OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

2009-04-15 Thread Kevin Keane
I am not using Nagios for that purpose, but rather Open-Audit. I believe there is a way to have changes in OA propagate to Nagios. Another tool you may want to look into is tripwire; it generates exactly the logs based on changes that you were looking for. Then use the check_log plugin to monit

[Nagios-users] Customize "service detail" page

2009-04-15 Thread borkmann
hi all, is there a possibility to customize the service detail page of nagios? i think about adding one column to the table that calls my perl script and prints the specific output to the cell. the call-parameters for my perl script need to be host and service from the current table line. would

[Nagios-users] Help on Nagios Grapher with Nagios 3

2009-04-15 Thread kaouther mechri
Dear All, I've installed Nagios grapher following its documentation. I've modified the nagios configuration files but, the nagios grapher didn't take into account the configuration I put in the ngraph.d directory. I have only 3 graphs (even no configuration file in ngrap.d): Current users, ping a

[Nagios-users] OS Change Management Auditing using Nagios?

2009-04-15 Thread Ken Netzorg
Is anyone leveraging Nagios for notification of changes done to operating systems? I am looking to deploy a solution that monitors OS changes and generates alerts when a configuration or file change is made. Is anyone doing this type of thing through a Nagios plug-in? My goal would be to know when

Re: [Nagios-users] MySQL replication status plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Thanks to all the people who emailed me off list, to remind me that the check_mysql plugin actually contains the functions I wanted! I appreciate all the help. Thanks. --- Kind Regards, Mr Gabriel > -Original Message- > From: Arno Lehmann [mailto:a...@its-lehmann.de] > Sent: 15 April 2

Re: [Nagios-users] MySQL replication status plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 15.04.2009 11:06, Gabriel - IP Guys wrote: > > > Good morning guys, (and girls), I hope all is well. I’ve been given the > task to, and I quote – “Write a Nagios plugin to test the replication > status of two servers by > comparing the position on the master to that on the slave” > I don

Re: [Nagios-users] MySQL replication status plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Christophe, I appreciate your super fast answer! And I feel stupid for not spotting it before! Have a good day my friend. > -Original Message- > From: Christophe Zwecker [mailto:czwec...@sysctl.de] > Sent: 15 April 2009 10:19 > To: Gabriel - IP Guys > Subject: Re: MySQL replication status

[Nagios-users] MySQL replication status plugin

2009-04-15 Thread Gabriel - IP Guys
Good morning guys, (and girls), I hope all is well. I've been given the task to, and I quote - "Write a Nagios plugin to test the replication status of two servers by comparing the position on the master to that on the slave" To save myself a lot of work, I'd like to know if anything has been

Re: [Nagios-users] Pppnp4nagios graph customization

2009-04-15 Thread MAD
Hi Mohandas, I must confess I don't know how (I didn't need to so I didn't think about it). I assume the X-axis is depending on the step of the RRD file, so even if you change its step size, for example to 10 minutes, the graph probably won't change. You'll probably find your answer on rrdtool

[Nagios-users] Pppnp4nagios graph customization

2009-04-15 Thread mohandas . k
Hi MAD, I have got one more query regarding graph customization. I need to know how can i customize scaling of X-axis and Y-axis in the graph. With reference to graph shown below, the current step size of the X-axis is 20 minutes and Y-axis is 20%. I want to change this scaling as per my con

Re: [Nagios-users] Still some basic 101 items

2009-04-15 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/15 Lance Raymond : > I'm not sure I should say sorry for the basic questions as this is what the > group is for, but seeing some of the in depth questions... talk about an > inferiority complex.   Well, I now can see how to debug the start (thanks > Marc) and figured my one problem.  But bac