Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Avery
2009/8/27 Terry : > The other thing we have tried with clusters is to monitor cluster > services and cluster resources on a specific cluster IP and only > monitor stock windows services and drives on the actual host. Absolutely this is what I do. I monitor the clustered services associated with

[Nagios-users] Occasionally "Return code of 127 for check of host/service was out of bounds. Make sure the plugin you're trying to run actually exists."

2009-08-27 Thread Morten Guldager
'Aloha! This might be common knowledge, but it was new to me, and took me quite a while to figure out, so i think I better share my experience. I have a not so small nagios installation, 1795 hosts and 3980 at this holy moment (nagios 3.2.0 on a linux/debian/etch box) Sometimes my nagios st

[Nagios-users] What kind of checks/minute numbers are you getting for single host / non-distributed setups?

2009-08-27 Thread Max
Just curious, we are starting to move to a distributed setup because we appear to be maxing out our current HW. Nagios 3.0.3 Dual quad-core Compaq server, 16 GB RAM, SCSI disks. We have one server that does trap receiving and polling .. * Notification requests are sent off to a second machine * T

Re: [Nagios-users] network interface naming on windows machines

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin Keane
First of all, determine what exactly you are trying to measure. I don't think that the custom names always translate 1:1 to physical devices. For instance, a VPN would show up as a separate network connection, but go over the same physical device. Maybe you can write a short batch file that aut

Re: [Nagios-users] Sending SNMP traps to a management host-netcool

2009-08-27 Thread Max
Hi Scott, On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Scott Xiao wrote: > Hi, I am encounter some issue when I try  to snmp traps out to netcool. > It even to output for local testing. > I refer to the url below and tested.I cannot capture anything with > tcpdump as below ,when I run a test command for snmp

[Nagios-users] Nagios Crashes after host exits from flexible downtime

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Szmandiuk
Running Nagios 3.0.6 with DNX. We are finding that Nagios often crashes after a host exists out of a scheduled flexible downtime period. The logs typically look like this: ... [2009-08-28 03:04:32] HOST DOWNTIME ALERT: host_xyz;STOPPED; Host has exited from a period of scheduled downtime

Re: [Nagios-users] network interface naming on windows machines

2009-08-27 Thread Anthony Montibello
HI Arlen, Look into setting up your own custom performance counters via Microsoft, Technet or MSDN (or google it) I do not have any links to how to do that, however I have spoken with NC_NEt users that have custom counters for different reasons. I am sure a support call to microsoft will be able

[Nagios-users] Sending SNMP traps to a management host-netcool

2009-08-27 Thread Scott Xiao
Hi, I am encounter some issue when I try to snmp traps out to netcool. It even to output for local testing. I refer to the url below and tested.I cannot capture anything with tcpdump as below ,when I run a test command for snmp. Can you advise what I missing?thanks ! [r...@nagios sbin]# snmptra

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Terry wrote: > I guess maybe I need to get over the fact that its red in the status > cgi. It needs to check the health of this service regardless. I can > just see my NOC always looking at these 'down' services. Acknowledge it and have them only look at unacknowle

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http and regular expressions

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Masoud Tabrizi wrote: > I am running the command as you suggested but it seems like there is > something missing; what am I doing wrong? Nothing, you just don't know how nagios determines status. It's not the plugin text output, that's just for humans. Nagios det

[Nagios-users] Nagios & NRPE Multiline Output trouble

2009-08-27 Thread Daniel Szmandiuk
Any ideas (See below)? Does anyone have notifications with $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ macro definitions working? Thanks, Daniel Running Nagios 3.06 and NRPE 2.12. Nagios is running check_nrpe against a remote server running the NRPE daemon. One of the NRPE commands kicks off a perl script which

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http and regular expressions

2009-08-27 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Masoud Tabrizi wrote: > I am running the command as you suggested but it seems like there is > something missing; what am I doing wrong? > > All commans are run from /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory; > > > > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H x -u /sample/test.htm

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-27 Thread Terry
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Terry wrote: > Hello, > > I have seen some discussion on this but want to throw some > concerns/ideas out to the group.   The check_cluster is pretty neat. > However, there is always 1 of the cluster nodes with a failed service. >  Any way to hide this from the UI?

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http and regular expressions

2009-08-27 Thread Masoud Tabrizi
I am running the command as you suggested but it seems like there is something missing; what am I doing wrong? All commans are run from /usr/lib/nagios/plugins directory; /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http -H x -u /sample/test.html -p 80 –a user:password -s TAPE Response: HTTP OK HTTP

[Nagios-users] monitoring windows clusters

2009-08-27 Thread Terry
Hello, I have seen some discussion on this but want to throw some concerns/ideas out to the group. The check_cluster is pretty neat. However, there is always 1 of the cluster nodes with a failed service. Any way to hide this from the UI? The red/critical flag for the service is troublesome in

[Nagios-users] Host depend on another host's service?

2009-08-27 Thread Chris Adams
I'm monitoring a network with Nagios, and I monitor router interface status via SNMP with a service check. Is there a way I can make the remote hosts depend on the state of the local interface service check? Specifically, I have a channelized DS3 in router-A with a bunch of T1s to various places.

Re: [Nagios-users] large map

2009-08-27 Thread Max Hetrick
Simone Felici wrote: Hello! I would be interested too. BTW I've tested the script and it generates my an image 32767px × 119px, also not easy readable, due 800hosts and 1700services. Yeah, it's a rather large map too, but it's more readable than some of the Nagios maps. I only have 160 Hosts

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios not honoring large check_interval

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Gius
It turns out that the problem was a bad time on the nagios server that got fixed between checks. So between the two hour checks the clock jumped forward an hour, and the next check went off right on schedule. What are the odds... -Gius Mark Gius wrote: > Running stock Nagios 3.0.6 compiled fo

Re: [Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, K Ramanujan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Could some one let me know how to configure status map. I have configure all > the host and service definition also > > > But when I am click on service status the hosts are display as? mark on all > side of the map > > > [cid:imag

[Nagios-users] Nagios not honoring large check_interval

2009-08-27 Thread Mark Gius
Running stock Nagios 3.0.6 compiled for Red Hat 4. I have a service check that I only want performed every 2 hours. I've set up the service check as follows define service { name my_service stuff not shown register 0 check_interval 120 retry_interval 15

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd problem with services listing

2009-08-27 Thread Jim Avery
I haven't seen anything like this myself, but here are some thoughts in case any of them might help ... Try a different browser. Do a 'view source' of the defective page (and the good one) to see if that holds any clues. Do your Apache logs show anything? Were there any errors during compilatio

[Nagios-users] Odd problem with services listing

2009-08-27 Thread Joe Hartley
I've got a problem with listing services that's driving me nuts. I noticed this in my Nagios 3.0.3 installation, and it's persisted after upgrading to 3.2.0. This is on a CentOS 5.3 machine. If I try to show all the services for all my servers, or all the services for a particular hostgroup,

Re: [Nagios-users] not set

2009-08-27 Thread Morris, Patrick
On Mon, 24 Aug 2009, Bruce Thayre wrote: > Hello, > I have a question that i'm assuming has a quick answer. I've defined a > command as: > > define command{ > command_namecheck-site > command_line$USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% > -p 5 -t 10 > } > >

Re: [Nagios-users] nuvola for nagios 3

2009-08-27 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
I'm using a Debian 5 with apache and php packages from apt-get, but the nagios itself was compiled from the source. All the stuff is residing in /usr/local/nagios. The directory used by apache is /usr/local/nagios/share. Here is how it looks like: veltracappserver01:/usr/local/nagios# ls -R

Re: [Nagios-users] nuvola for nagios 3

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Remington
Whoops! Same URL you'd already been to but I'm having no issues installing it myself. Which OS are you using? The installation instructions for this package seem to be specific to only one Linux variant. R. Richard Remington wrote: > Presado Leonardo, > > This URL might help: > http://trinec.d

Re: [Nagios-users] nuvola for nagios 3

2009-08-27 Thread Richard Remington
Presado Leonardo, This URL might help: http://trinec.de/nuvola-skin-for-nagios3/ I lived for 7 months in Apucarana e sinto-me suadades from time to time for Northern Parana. I was there in 1992. How long have you lived in 'Little London'? Richard Leonardo Carneiro wrote: > do you guys know

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread VINCENT BOB-DMHG67
Thanks Terry, Here is the beginning and the tail end of the debug output generated by adding the settings below. It doesn't seem to indicate any reason why it stops. I'm hoping that someone more familiar with Nagios than I can help. Bob [1251387030.622896] [001.0] [pid=16370] drop_privileges()

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 27, 2009, at 9:27 AM, VINCENT BOB-DMHG67 wrote: > Hoping to resolve the issue, I updated the system to 3.2, but it too > fails within seconds of starting. > > I have been unable to find any log messages regarding the failure. Where have you looked? nagios.log should have *something*. If

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread Michael Friedrich
Hi, Assaf Flatto wrote: > Are you using NDO ? > > I had similar issues , turns out it was a problem with the connection to the > DB . > If you are using the NDO , check the size of the DB , in some cases nagios as > issues connecting and > starting with very large tables in the nagios DB. > Unc

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread Assaf Flatto
Are you using NDO ? I had similar issues , turns out it was a problem with the connection to the DB . If you are using the NDO , check the size of the DB , in some cases nagios as issues connecting and starting with very large tables in the nagios DB. Assaf On Thursday 27 August 2009 14:27:2

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple daemon processes?

2009-08-27 Thread Kevin Freels
Still fighting this one. I was able to put a temp fix in the /etc/init.d/nagios script to do a killall of the nagios processes which at least addresses the problem with making sure everything is no longer running when the "stop" is executed. However, the second daemon process is still being started

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread David Rosenstrauch
On 08/27/2009 10:27 AM, VINCENT BOB-DMHG67 wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a strange problem with my Nagios installation. > > Nagios has been running for about two years on our site. > > It was updated to 3.0.6 in January of this year. > > We just discovered that it stopped running and monitor

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread Terry
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 9:27 AM, VINCENT BOB-DMHG67 wrote: > Hi, > > I am having a strange problem with my Nagios installation. > > Nagios has been running for about two years on our site. > > It was updated to 3.0.6 in January of this year. > > We just discovered that it stopped running and monito

[Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Failure

2009-08-27 Thread VINCENT BOB-DMHG67
Hi, I am having a strange problem with my Nagios installation. Nagios has been running for about two years on our site. It was updated to 3.0.6 in January of this year. We just discovered that it stopped running and monitoring our servers. We restarted the system and it immediately fails.

[Nagios-users] nuvola for nagios 3

2009-08-27 Thread Leonardo Carneiro
do you guys know where i can find nuvola for nagios3 or a way to get properly working the version of nagios2 in nagios3? i've found this link: http://trinec.de/downloads/nagios3-nuvola-1.0.3.tar.gz but did not worked =S -- *Leonardo de Souza Carneiro* *Veltrac - Tecnologia em Logística.* lscarn

Re: [Nagios-users] nsclient++ and checkservicestate return limits

2009-08-27 Thread Terry
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Aug 26, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Terry wrote: > >> It appears my output is getting cut about 1/2 way through the >> service list: >> >> [r...@omajelut01 objects]# /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H >> omajelut02 -t 50 -c checkServiceState -a

Re: [Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread Menard, Chris
I have this: # CRM - Prod sun Host define host{ name prod-sun-server ; The name of this host template use generic-host; generic-host template check_period 24x7; check_command check-sun-host-alive ;

Re: [Nagios-users] large map

2009-08-27 Thread Simone Felici
Hello! I would be interested too. BTW I've tested the script and it generates my an image 32767px × 119px, also not easy readable, due 800hosts and 1700services. Thank's! Simon Max Hetrick ha scritto in data 26/08/2009 23.00: > Assaf Flatto wrote: >> Hello Guys >> >> I have a silly question ,

Re: [Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread K Ramanujan
Yes I have the image in the following location but still I can't see the image can y ou send me the details step where I leave the gap.. /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos From: Menard, Chris [mailto:chris.men...@aspect.com] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 6:26

Re: [Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread Menard, Chris
Try adding an image to your host (or applicable templates) I have, this for my sun box template: statusmap_image sun_server.gd2 and this for M$ boxes: statusmap_image windows_server.gd2 these images are in: /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos From: K R

Re: [Nagios-users] Newly created hosts are not showing neither in Service Detail view nor Service Overview

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Powell
Please always respond on list. More below. On Aug 27, 2009, at 5:36 AM, Yu Watanabe wrote: > TO : Mr.Powell > > Hello Marc. > > I have changed the configuration of nagios.cfg and restarted the > nagios. > > I have turned off "State Retention Option" & "Retain Program State". > > And the the hos

Re: [Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread Marc Powell
On Aug 27, 2009, at 2:10 AM, K Ramanujan wrote: > > Hi All, > > > Could some one let me know how to configure status map. I have > configure all the host and service definition also > > > But when I am click on service status the hosts are display as? mark > on all side of the map I don't us

[Nagios-users] network interface naming on windows machines

2009-08-27 Thread Arlen Drina
For monitoring network interfaces activitties on windows machines I am using for example ./check_nt -H ggg.ggg.sss.sff -p 12489 -v COUNTER -l "\\Network Interface(HP NC373i Multifunction Gigabit Server Adapter _2 - Teefer2 Miniport)\\Bytes Total/sec" where is "\\Network Interface(HP NC373i Mul

Re: [Nagios-users] MERLIN with FreeBSD?

2009-08-27 Thread Andreas Ericsson
Janet Sullivan wrote: > I run Nagios 3.06 on FreeBSD 7.2. I'm trying to decide on the best way > to setup a redundant pair of Nagios hosts. Op5's MERLIN looks > interesting, but it also looks a little rough around the edges. Is > anyone out there successfully using FreeBSD 7.2, Nagios 3.06 and M

[Nagios-users] status map display as question mark

2009-08-27 Thread K Ramanujan
Hi All, Could some one let me know how to configure status map. I have configure all the host and service definition also But when I am click on service status the hosts are display as? mark on all side of the map [cid:image001.jpg@01CA2713.9D631A20] My windows service definition is def