Re: [Nagios-users] need expert advice/suggestions

2009-12-07 Thread Taylor Dondich
Yes, I I consider that a workaround, as many people have hostgroups just for this purpose, where I see hostgroups as more of a grouping of devices for visibility sake. So both are solutions, but I think assigning services (checks) directly to a host template is a stronger solution, as it may no

Re: [Nagios-users] need expert advice/suggestions

2009-12-07 Thread patrick . morris
Hi Taylor! On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Taylor Dondich wrote: > I hate to toot our own horn here in the Nagios Users mailing list (not > the reason why I joined it). However, our configuration tool really > does support what you are trying to do. Lilac Configurator has support > for templates, but w

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition)

2009-12-07 Thread dOE
>From the VMware Infrastructure client under "Health Check" you ca see vital hardware health statistics such as processor, memory, hard drives power supplies, and fans. The information is gathered by WBEM, and can be done with HP SIM too. The script is able to poll this information and return the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition)

2009-12-07 Thread James Pratt
>> -Original Message- >> From: dOE [mailto:doep...@gmail.com] >> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 12:13 PM >> To: Nagios User-List >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition) >> >> I have created a monitor using the "check_esxwbem.py", but it returns an "OK" a

[Nagios-users] Nagios monitor for VMware ESXi (free edition)

2009-12-07 Thread dOE
I have created a monitor using the "check_esxwbem.py", but it returns an "OK" and *null* It is not doing what it is intended to do. The script pulls the hardware resources of the host server through WBEM. I know WBEM is working because I am able to pull this information from HP SIM, but I want Nag

[Nagios-users] Scheduled downtime, availability report and dependencies

2009-12-07 Thread Michael Durket
Suppose I have 2 services, A and B. Further suppose that A depends on B. Now if I need to take B out of service for some maintenance, and schedule downtime in Nagios for B, will the availability report for A during the time that B's scheduled downtime occurs indicate that A's outage was schedu