Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: Apache Server configuration for Nagios 3.0

2009-04-16 Thread Jimmyboy
Hi James, You are right. '/etc/httpd/conf.d/' does not exist. Unfortunately, I do not know how to find out the directory, Apache on my system refers to '/etc/httpd/conf.d/'. However, I successfully keyed in the 'ScriptAlias' and 'Alias' directives into my '/usr/local/apache2/httpd.conf' config fi

Re: [Nagios-users] Limit the alert notifications

2009-04-16 Thread Klaus Umbach
On 16/04/09 17:33, Martyn wrote: > Hi all > I would like to change the email alerts per users if I may, is there a way > of setting up so only 3 mails get sent to users "A" but only two mails to > user "B" even if the fault is still there, if not per users then across the > board. > > I have searc

[Nagios-users] Consolidating Log Files

2009-04-16 Thread Christopher McAtackney
Hi all, I'm thinking of setting up my Nagios system in a "Redundant Monitoring" configuration - two servers (a primary and secondary) which both monitor all hosts / services, but only one of which has notifications enabled (the primary). Upon failure of the primary, the secondary will enable its

[Nagios-users] Limit the alert notifications

2009-04-16 Thread Martyn
Hi all I would like to change the email alerts per users if I may, is there a way of setting up so only 3 mails get sent to users "A" but only two mails to user "B" even if the fault is still there, if not per users then across the board. I have searched around but finding anything, not sure if I'

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

2009-04-16 Thread Niall O Broin
On 16 Apr 2009, at 15:10, Marc Powell wrote: >> 2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce : > >>> hostgroup_name Win_All, !WinNT_old >> >> You can indeed do that. I do something similar myself to check all >> Wintel servers, but not those in a group called 'BRONZE'. > > And the doc link for reference -- > > http:

[Nagios-users] nagios plugin configure:3377: error:

2009-04-16 Thread Tobias Exner
Dear list, I've got a problem while compiling the nagios-plugins on a suse 10 box. I already searched through the web, but I didn't any helpful information. As I understood the compile needs the path /usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.0.2/include I don't know if that's right and how to fix it. Th

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring critical servers - best practices

2009-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 16, 2009, at 7:02 AM, alfonso baldaserra wrote: > Greetings, > > We are using Nagios version 3.0.6 on Fedora core 9. > > I was just looking for some ideas how do you guys monitor critical > servers and services, what are the best practices etc.? Ping and those services that I consider c

Re: [Nagios-users] check_by_ssh

2009-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 16, 2009, at 8:55 AM, Melanie Pfefer wrote: > > Hi > > I want to use check_by_ssh with a script that uses an argument > > ./check_by_ssh -l myuser -H myhost -t 120 -C myscript > my_script_argument > > > The script gives an output as if the my_script_argument is empty > > any idea? Quote

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

2009-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 16, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Jim Avery wrote: > 2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce : >> hostgroup_name Win_All, !WinNT_old > > You can indeed do that. I do something similar myself to check all > Wintel servers, but not those in a group called 'BRONZE'. And the doc link for reference -- http://nagios.s

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

2009-04-16 Thread Marc Powell
On Apr 15, 2009, at 6:15 PM, 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 location > on disk on the local machine? No. Nagios expects the files to be 'local'. That being said,

[Nagios-users] check_by_ssh

2009-04-16 Thread Melanie Pfefer
Hi I want to use check_by_ssh with a script that uses an argument ./check_by_ssh -l myuser -H myhost -t 120 -C myscript my_script_argument The script gives an output as if the my_script_argument is empty any idea? thank you

[Nagios-users] monitoring critical servers - best practices

2009-04-16 Thread alfonso baldaserra
Greetings, We are using Nagios version 3.0.6 on Fedora core 9. I was just looking for some ideas how do you guys monitor critical servers and services, what are the best practices etc.? On a related note I just figured we have been missing a lot of alerts lately. Today we had to reboot couple o

Re: [Nagios-users] Centreon

2009-04-16 Thread Cedric Temple
Hi, 2009/4/16 Simon Finch > Centreon requires NDO for a multiple Nagios server environment, I am not > sure about a single server system. > Centreon requires NDO for a single server system. regards. -- Stay on top of

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd errors in nagios.log

2009-04-16 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Jim Avery wrote: > You don't have more than one instance of the Nagios daemon running do > you? Try stopping the Nagios daemon, make sure all instances of > nagios are stopped (using ps -ef | grep nagios), and kill any which > remain then start the Nagios daemon using /etc/init.d/nagios start . I

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

2009-04-16 Thread borkmann
thanks for your answers! i'm just wondering how nagiosgrapher got their grapher icon into the service page ... i mean ... at first view they doesn't seem to have any patched c file or command. in their configuration (ngraph.ncfg) they have sth like this: icon_image_tag ' dot.png' alt=

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd errors in nagios.log

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/16 Martin A. Brooks : > Hi > > I've recently been seeing many of the following kind of errors appearing > nagios.log: > > [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file > '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkSfWj1n' to > '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cs7QqHJ': No such file or director

Re: [Nagios-users] Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

2009-04-16 Thread Jim Avery
2009/4/16 Andrew Bruce : > Is it possible, in a service definition to tell the service to not check a > group of hosts? > > > > For example, I have a hostgroup that contains some basic checks for every > Windows server. > > > > But some of the servers are still on NT, so don't support a particular

[Nagios-users] Odd errors in nagios.log

2009-04-16 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Hi I've recently been seeing many of the following kind of errors appearing nagios.log: [1239869767] Error: Unable to rename file '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/checkSfWj1n' to '/var/lib/nagios3/spool/checkresults/cs7QqHJ': No such file or directory [1239869767] Warning: Unable to move f

[Nagios-users] Can you not check a certain hostgroup?

2009-04-16 Thread Andrew Bruce
Is it possible, in a service definition to tell the service to not check a group of hosts? For example, I have a hostgroup that contains some basic checks for every Windows server. But some of the servers are still on NT, so don't support a particular check, and I want to disable it for just