[Nagios-users] Thoughts / request for feedback on extending servicegroup syntax to support host group -> services associated with a second hostgroup syntax

2009-08-12 Thread Max
* We make extensive use of service -> hostgroup -> host mappings. * We use this for sets of services that are used by multiple 'customers' within our Nagios instance (not paying customers, more like project teams) So this leads to a growing number of requests where our users want to have service g

[Nagios-users] Injecting URL-encoding into Nagios Macros

2009-08-12 Thread Richard Remington
Is there a way that anyone knows for URL-encoding the value of the $SERVICEDESC$ macro? Our service descriptions have spaces in them so our email notices that include the URL to return to the Nagios Web admin page is broken at that space. Anyone have any ideas or thoughts on how I might do

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_dns Error

2009-08-12 Thread jmoseley
How do you have the check command defined? How do you have the service command defined? It appears you are not supplying an address in either the check command or service definition... James Moseley Dei Bertine wrote: Thanks for the reply. Here's my output: [r...@terri.csaa.com libexec

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_dns Error

2009-08-12 Thread Dei Bertine
Thanks for the reply. Here's my output: [r...@terri.csaa.com libexec]# ./check_dns -H terri.csaa.com -v /usr/bin/nslookup -sil terri.csaa.com Server: 10.11.109.15 Address:10.11.109.15#53 Name: terri.csaa.com Address: 10.11.109.14 DNS OK: 0.005 seconds response time. terri.csaa.c

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_dns Error

2009-08-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 12, 2009, at 4:01 PM, Dei Bertine wrote: > Hi All, > > I got this error today but wasnt sure on what is this about. > > No changes again were made, it just decided to appear out of no > where... > > DNS CRITICAL - '/usr/bin/nslookup -sil' msg parsing exited with no > address > > Please

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_dns Error

2009-08-12 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/12/2009 05:01 PM, Dei Bertine wrote: > Hi All, > > I got this error today but wasnt sure on what is this about. > > No changes again were made, it just decided to appear out of no where... > > DNS CRITICAL - '/usr/bin/nslookup -sil' msg parsing exited with no address > > Please kindly ad

[Nagios-users] NagiosGraph - perfdata not recognized

2009-08-12 Thread Rutul Patel
Hi, I've configure Nagios and NagiosGraph (v0.9), after I increased debug level I found following error in nagiosgraph.log, "perfdata not recognized" Please help !! Just you know - rrd folder is empty. - all logs files (perfdata and nagiograph.log) populating correctly. Thanks, Wed Aug 1

[Nagios-users] Check_dns Error

2009-08-12 Thread Dei Bertine
Hi All, I got this error today but wasnt sure on what is this about. No changes again were made, it just decided to appear out of no where... DNS CRITICAL - '/usr/bin/nslookup -sil' msg parsing exited with no address  Please kindly advise... Cheers! DB

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios FrontEnd for Newbie

2009-08-12 Thread Romain Le Merlus
Hi Tom, On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Tom Denham wrote: > Any recommendations for a good front end for nagios newbie? > I'm using nagiosql right now, but interested in others. > You may try Centreon: http://www.centreon.com http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/Frontends-(GUIs-and-CLIs

[Nagios-users] Export Nagios for new server

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Denham
I'm planning to move our existing Nagios server to a new system. Is there a way to easily export all the configs using Nagiosql or is there a safer/better method to do this to ensure I do not loose all my templates, services, hosts, etc? Thanks:) -- There's no place like $HOME.

[Nagios-users] Nagios FrontEnd for Newbie

2009-08-12 Thread Tom Denham
Any recommendations for a good front end for nagios newbie? I'm using nagiosql right now, but interested in others. Thanks:) -- There's no place like $HOME. -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Rep

Re: [Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

2009-08-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:02 PM, arly arly wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an easy but confusing question. Command for checking hard disk > on my system is defined as > > define command { >command_namecheck_nt_disks >command_line/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H > '$HOSTADDRESS

Re: [Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

2009-08-12 Thread Sean McAfee
arly arly wrote: > I have an easy but confusing question. Command for checking hard disk > on my system is defined as > > define command { > command_namecheck_nt_disks > command_line/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H > '$HOSTADDRESS$' -p 12489 -v '$ARG1$' -l C -w '$ARG2$'

Re: [Nagios-users] Preventing "plugin timed out while executing system call" notifications?

2009-08-12 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Grant Sewell wrote: > Hi all, > > Nagios 3.0.6 (current default on Debian Lenny). > > We have a number of activities that will periodically trash our network > bandwidth, thus causing all of our external checks to fail. Now, > although I am quite happy to be notified if a s

[Nagios-users] C:\ Drive Space wrong CRITICAL alarm

2009-08-12 Thread arly arly
Hi all, I have an easy but confusing question. Command for checking hard disk on my system is defined as define command { command_namecheck_nt_disks command_line/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt -H '$HOSTADDRESS$' -p 12489 -v '$ARG1$' -l C -w '$ARG2$' -c '$ARG3$' } and i

Re: [Nagios-users] check hardware raid

2009-08-12 Thread Trond Hasle Amundsen
There are many Dell plugins. Most of them use Dell's OpenManage Server Administrator software, which provides detailed insight into the hardware, including hardware RAID controllers. For a comprehensive list of Dell plugins, visit http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Har

Re: [Nagios-users] Doubt about ngraph

2009-08-12 Thread Tomas Zulberti
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Tomas Zulberti wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Hardip Zhim wrote: >> Hi, >> >> What kind of documentation are you looking for? >> >> I am having problems installing the rrdtool on ubuntu. >> > > For example, which are the posible values for rrd_plottype a

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7 - Abwesenheitsnotiz

2009-08-12 Thread t . lai
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Re: [Nagios-users] http_check with tags in hostaddress to check.

2009-08-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 12, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Sharada wrote: > My http_check comamnd for this is : > > $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -u /nagios -S -s "The user ID or > password is invalid" > > > PROBLEM: > Hostaddress is secure.abc.net > > How do I send something/some_transaction.dll also in the link? Is

Re: [Nagios-users] check hardware raid

2009-08-12 Thread jmoseley
In order to check hardware RAID performance on Dell box running Linux, you need to download (from Dell) and install the appropriate perc agent on each system - there are at least three different versions - as well as use the appropriate plugin (basically, all the plugins are the same, just with dif

Re: [Nagios-users] check hardware raid

2009-08-12 Thread Kevin Keane
There is a plugin check_dell that calls Dell's own omreport tool. I am using the Windows version of it, but I believe it also exists for Linux. I could be wrong, but I believe the check_raid plugin would test software RAID, not hardware raid. Marco Borsani wrote: > > Hi all ! > > I am testing c

Re: [Nagios-users] MS Exchange 2007

2009-08-12 Thread Kevin Keane
There is no "best" way, only the way that works for you - that's the beauty of Nagios. I wrote my own plugin that uses WMI to monitor a number of performance counters; it's part of the plugins in my collection at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/tntmonitoringplugin . The plugin is a Windows

[Nagios-users] http_check with tags in hostaddress to check.

2009-08-12 Thread Sharada
Hi, I need to check if a service is up and running on a secure server. The only way I can do it is to check the link - https://secure.abc.net/something/some_transaction.dll If the service is up and running I get a message saying - "The user ID or password is invalid" If the service is not runni

Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-12 Thread Brian O'Mahony
>From the nrpe.cfg # COMMAND ARGUMENT PROCESSING # This option determines whether or not the NRPE daemon will allow clients # to specify arguments to commands that are executed. This option only works # if the daemon was configured with the --enable-command-args configure script # option. # # ***

Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-12 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 12, 2009, at 7:54 AM, Brian O'Mahony wrote: > [r...@nagios-server servers]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe - > H beatrix -c check_load -a 1,1,1 2,2,2 > OK - load average: 0.05, 0.05, 0.05|load1=0.051;1.000;2.000;0; > load5=0.051;1.000;2.000;0; load15=0.047;1.000;2.000;0; > [r...@n

Re: [Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-12 Thread Voigt, Thomas
Hi Brian, Brian O'Mahony wrote: > So it looks like the args are not being passed to the solaris box. I just > don't understand what im doing wrong here. (I am also looking at check_mem > and check_users but have forgon those until I get the issue with the ARGS > resolved) did you read the fol

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[Nagios-users] How to detect MSSQL cluster failover?

2009-08-12 Thread Marco Tirado
Hello users: I would like to know what is the easiest way to detect when a failover occurs in an MSSQL cluster. I need a simple check that tells me when our database cluster fails from physical node "X" to node physical node "Y" Has anybody done this? Maybe with a passive check? Any comments or

[Nagios-users] Check issues on Solaris with NRPE not dealing with ARGS

2009-08-12 Thread Brian O'Mahony
Im setting up nagios to monitor a number of Solaris servers. I am going to be testing processes, load etc, however a lot of my tests are not working. I installed the SUN SPARc package with all the precompiled checks. On my solaris machine, tests work as nagios user (there was an issue with chec

[Nagios-users] check hardware raid

2009-08-12 Thread Marco Borsani
Hi all ! I am testing check_raid plug-in in some Dell computer with linux (hardware raid 1 or raid 5). Using "check_raid" or "sudo check_raid" I always receive following answer : No RAID configuration found. Any ideas? Regards M.Borsani -

[Nagios-users] MS Exchange 2007

2009-08-12 Thread Marco Borsani
Hi all ! Have you ever control MS Exchange 2007 ? What's the best way to do it with nagios ? Regards M.Borsani -- Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your

[Nagios-users] Preventing "plugin timed out while executing system call" notifications?

2009-08-12 Thread Grant Sewell
Hi all, Nagios 3.0.6 (current default on Debian Lenny). We have a number of activities that will periodically trash our network bandwidth, thus causing all of our external checks to fail. Now, although I am quite happy to be notified if a service genuinely goes down, I would really rather not be

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ldaps incompatibility with libldap-2.3

2009-08-12 Thread Shaun Staff
You may need to recompile the check_ldaps plugin since you have upgraded. Regards, Shaun. - Original Message From: Joe Hammerman To: "nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" Sent: Wednesday, 12 August, 2009 1:57:02 Subject: [Nagios-users] check_ldaps incompatibility with libldap-2.3 Hel