[Nagios-users] changing behavior of check times etc

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Kinghorn - MWEB
Good morning List Apologies for posting such a dumb question but I cannot seem to find a definitve answer: I am monitoring sip connections from a session border controller to our various providers. The normal check times are too short and causing us to receive an excessive amounts of "critica

Re: [Nagios-users] flushing alerts queue

2009-07-23 Thread Eugene Vilensky
> Easy enough to verify though. In your recent maillog, do you see > submission by nagios and then delivery by postfix for all those > messages or just the delivery by postfix? Thank you for your detailed explanation. You were correct in all aspects. :) Cheers, Eugene --

Re: [Nagios-users] flushing alerts queue

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
Please always respond on list. More below -- On Jul 23, 2009, at 3:20 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote: >> Nagios doesn't queue alerts. They're handed to the mail system in >> real >> time. If the mail system doesn't accept them, they're gone forever. > > Hi Marc, > > I could be wrong, but this doesn'

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification oddity

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin Davison
Possible. I stopped Nagios and ps ax revealed no more running after a few seconds. Once I start it up again I see multiple Nagios.cfg running for numerous active checks that are going on. I see several Notifications in the Nagios.log file. The two that I received at midnight as well as the few Cri

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification oddity

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 3:11 PM, Kevin Davison wrote: > Clearly I’m missing something. I would appreciate any advice. Multiple nagios daemons perhaps? Definitely some oddness. Do you see the notifications in nagios.log? -- Marc ---

[Nagios-users] Notification oddity

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin Davison
I've just started a new job and naturally Nagios was the first order of business. Having lived with Nagios for over 4 years I felt naked without it. I have Nagios 3 up and running on an openSUSE 11.1 Virtual Machine with postfix relaying through an onsite SMTP server. Everything has been working pe

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin for collisions on host

2009-07-23 Thread Kevin Keane
Keep in mind that if you measure collision rates on the host and on the network device, you are really measuring two very different things (unless you really have a hub rather than a switch); it's not a choice about where to measure the data, but rather about what, exactly, you are interested i

Re: [Nagios-users] flushing alerts queue

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Eugene Vilensky wrote: > Is there a specific alerts queue flush feature that I could perform to > ensure this doesn't happen again? Nagios doesn't queue alerts. They're handed to the mail system in real time. If the mail system doesn't accept them, they're gone for

[Nagios-users] flushing alerts queue

2009-07-23 Thread Eugene Vilensky
Greetings, I had a test nagios 3 installation running, with postfix disabled, logging and attempting to send weeks worth of warnings and criticals. The moment I enabled postfix on this machine (without restarting nagios) I was immediately mailbombed by the backlogged alerts. Is there a specific a

Re: [Nagios-users] canon printers

2009-07-23 Thread Mike Saldivar
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 9:35 AM, SYS ADMIN wrote: > I have managed to monitor all my HP Laserjet printers using check_hpjd. > I have several networked Canon copier/printers on my LAN, and can't seem > to get any response back from them, although snmp is installed, and I > try check_snmp. > Does a

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios host limits

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Conor Shovlin wrote: > Hi, > > I installed a ubuntu server and installed nagios to test our > configuration on a new version of linux other than Fedora > > We have the same problem in that we cannot add more than 226 hosts > and we get the below error > > Process

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios host limits

2009-07-23 Thread Conor Shovlin
Hi, I installed a ubuntu server and installed nagios to test our configuration on a new version of linux other than Fedora We have the same problem in that we cannot add more than 226 hosts and we get the below error Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/.cfg'.

Re: [Nagios-users] canon printers

2009-07-23 Thread Max
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, SYS ADMIN wrote: > I have managed to monitor all my HP Laserjet printers using check_hpjd. > I have several networked Canon copier/printers on my LAN, and can't seem > to get any response back from them, although snmp is installed, and I > try check_snmp. > Does an

[Nagios-users] canon printers

2009-07-23 Thread SYS ADMIN
I have managed to monitor all my HP Laserjet printers using check_hpjd. I have several networked Canon copier/printers on my LAN, and can't seem to get any response back from them, although snmp is installed, and I try check_snmp. Does anyone have any experience/idea what to do? I can't seem to eve

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping

2009-07-23 Thread asam30
I rebooted the nagios server and that fixed it. thanks a lot On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 6:14 PM, wrote: > Marc, > > As you said, correct. I have multiple nagios daemons running on the host. > How do I get rid of this? > > I tried, > > killall -9 nagios > > service nagios start > > [r...@lnx-nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping

2009-07-23 Thread asam30
Marc, As you said, correct. I have multiple nagios daemons running on the host. How do I get rid of this? I tried, killall -9 nagios service nagios start [r...@lnx-nagios local]# ps -ef | grep nagios nagios2672 1 0 19:23 ?00:00:01 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nag

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin for collisions on host

2009-07-23 Thread Max
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Tom Brown wrote: > Errors, I would say yes; collisions, maybe. Unfortunately collision counters are not a part of the IF-MIB that 99% of the SNMP agents support out of the box; switches all support collision count

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin for collisions on host

2009-07-23 Thread Max
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Max wrote: > MIB, would love to know if there is one as the ETHERLIKE MIB also > exposes duplex settings for host-based interfaces .. and if we had I should drink caffeine before i type. Not host-based interfaces, just network interfaces. - Max -

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 6:28 AM, asa...@gmail.com wrote: > Hi All, > > I am using check_ping to checking the status of server (up or down). > we have two nagios servers (one at production site, USA and another > one at DEV site, India). I am now monitoring some of the network > devices (using p

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin for collisions on host

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 4:05 AM, Tom Brown wrote: > any way we can monitor for collisions and errors on host interfaces > rather than doing this on the switch? Errors, I would say yes; collisions, maybe. ifInErrors and ifOutErrors is pretty standard SNMP. If you install an snmp daemon on the host

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: Can nagios recognize newly added disks

2009-07-23 Thread Max
If you are using a vendpor-specific host agent like dell openmanage or hp insight manager it will send snmp traps when a disk is removed or added; these traps can be received by snmptrapd, filtereed by SNMPTT and then submitted to Nagios as assive checks.. We use this extensively though we do not

Re: [Nagios-users] Can nagios recognize newly added disks

2009-07-23 Thread Marc Powell
On Jul 23, 2009, at 1:43 AM, keshav murthy wrote: > Objective: > Is Nagios capable of re-scanning the disk drives or recognize if > there are newly added disks/removed disks from existing servers that > are being monitored in Nagios. I am assuming that these are linux/unix-like hosts. If you

[Nagios-users] check_ping

2009-07-23 Thread asam30
Hi All, I am using check_ping to checking the status of server (up or down). we have two nagios servers (one at production site, USA and another one at DEV site, India). I am now monitoring some of the network devices (using ping) resides at USA from Nagios server located in India. All I am gettin

[Nagios-users] plugin for collisions on host

2009-07-23 Thread Tom Brown
any way we can monitor for collisions and errors on host interfaces rather than doing this on the switch? thanks -- ___ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge

[Nagios-users] Antwort: Can nagios recognize newly added disks

2009-07-23 Thread Sascha . Runschke
> Objective: > Is Nagios capable of re-scanning the disk drives or recognize if > there are newly added disks/removed disks from existing servers that > are being monitored in Nagios. No, that's not possible out-of-the-box and I cannot imagine anyone working on something like this - it's just not