Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 problem

2010-02-03 Thread Morris, Patrick
Rick Mangus wrote: > Well, I have more information to add. > > I found a script that was being launched at midnight to purge old data > from the database. The tables being pruned are used by perfparse to > store perfdata and the like. They have > 180M rows, are 30-60GB, and > are actively bein

Re: [Nagios-users] Customizing notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Chip Burke wrote: > I have a request to “plain English”-ify my notifications. One item I have > been asked for is when the service state changes, to report the duration of > the previous service state. > > Example: HTTP is now OK after 00:02:35 of down time. > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Customizing notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Lindsey
Chip Burke wrote: > I have a request to “plain English”-ify my notifications. One item I > have been asked for is when the service state changes, to report the > duration of the previous service state. > > Example: HTTP is now OK after 00:02:35 of down time. > > Is there an easy way to do this?

[Nagios-users] Customizing notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Chip Burke
I have a request to "plain English"-ify my notifications. One item I have been asked for is when the service state changes, to report the duration of the previous service state. Example: HTTP is now OK after 00:02:35 of down time. Is there an easy way to do this? It seems Nagios doesn't o

Re: [Nagios-users] Asterisk Questions

2010-02-03 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Wolfe, Robert [mailto:robert.wo...@robertwolfe.org] > Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2010 01:52 > > Hi all! > > I am wanting to write a plugin that will tell Asterisk to make a test > call every so often and then report back to Nagios if a call was > successful or

Re: [Nagios-users] Event Handlers

2010-02-03 Thread Mike Lindsey
Marc Powell wrote: > On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Jeff wrote: > >> I have a service that needs to be monitored every minute. I need some help >> understanding how services go from soft to a hard state > > When a service check results in a non-OK state, services go from a Soft to a > Hard state

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.5 problem

2010-02-03 Thread Rick Mangus
Well, I have more information to add. I found a script that was being launched at midnight to purge old data from the database. The tables being pruned are used by perfparse to store perfdata and the like. They have > 180M rows, are 30-60GB, and are actively being inserted into all the while. A

[Nagios-users] Change From Address in notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Chip Burke
That's got it, thanks! Chip Burke -Original Message- From: Christian Schneemann [mailto:schneem...@b1-systems.de] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 2:10 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Change From Address in

Re: [Nagios-users] Change From Address in notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Christian Schneemann
Hi, On Wednesday 03 February 2010 07:31:32 pm Chip Burke wrote: > Is there a way to statically set the from address in notifications? Our > notifications are all being generated as nag...@localhost which causes them > to be blocked by various spam filters. just edit the command in your nagios con

Re: [Nagios-users] Could not expand hostgroups error

2010-02-03 Thread Chris Weiss
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 8:46 AM, Morris, Patrick wrote: > Chris Weiss wrote: >> >> When I run nagios -v with cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg >> present, it complains: >> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service >> (config file '/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg', star

Re: [Nagios-users] Change From Address in notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Chip Burke wrote: > Is there a way to statically set the from address in notifications? Our > notifications are all being generated as nag...@localhost which causes them > to be blocked by various spam filters. This is a configuration problem with your mailer daemo

Re: [Nagios-users] Exclusions to check_procs plugin?

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:28 AM, Camron W. Fox wrote: > Alle, > > I've searched and found this question has been asked before, but there > don't seem to have been any responses. > Is it possible to exclude a process with the check_procs plugin. The --help details no such option so bein

[Nagios-users] Change From Address in notifications

2010-02-03 Thread Chip Burke
Is there a way to statically set the from address in notifications? Our notifications are all being generated as nag...@localhost which causes them to be blocked by various spam filters. Thanks! Chip Burke

Re: [Nagios-users] check load oddity

2010-02-03 Thread DAve
Morris, Patrick wrote: > DAve wrote: >> This is making no sense to me at all. It is obvious to me that my load >> is less than the critical threshold, why is the plugin reporting a >> critical state? >> >> [r...@monitor1 plugins]# ./check_load 2.0 1.8 1.5 3.0 2.8 2.5 >> CRITICAL - load average: 1.9

[Nagios-users] Exclusions to check_procs plugin?

2010-02-03 Thread Camron W. Fox
Alle, I've searched and found this question has been asked before, but there don't seem to have been any responses. Is it possible to exclude a process with the check_procs plugin. I have John the Ripper running on one of my machines which consistently uses 100% of one of the four

Re: [Nagios-users] check load oddity

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:59 AM, DAve wrote: > This is making no sense to me at all. It is obvious to me that my load > is less than the critical threshold, why is the plugin reporting a > critical state? Almost certainly because these don't match (e.g. you're using it wrong) - > [r...@monitor1 plug

Re: [Nagios-users] check load oddity

2010-02-03 Thread Morris, Patrick
DAve wrote: > This is making no sense to me at all. It is obvious to me that my load > is less than the critical threshold, why is the plugin reporting a > critical state? > > [r...@monitor1 plugins]# ./check_load 2.0 1.8 1.5 3.0 2.8 2.5 > CRITICAL - load average: 1.96, 1.01, 0.75|load1=1.960;0.000

Re: [Nagios-users] Could not expand hostgroups error

2010-02-03 Thread Morris, Patrick
Chris Weiss wrote: > When I run nagios -v with cfg_file=/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg > present, it complains: > Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service > (config file '/etc/nagios/objects/twiki.cfg', starting on line 24) >Error processing object config files! > > I

Re: [Nagios-users] check load oddity

2010-02-03 Thread Justin T Pryzby
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[Nagios-users] check load oddity

2010-02-03 Thread DAve
This is making no sense to me at all. It is obvious to me that my load is less than the critical threshold, why is the plugin reporting a critical state? [r...@monitor1 plugins]# ./check_load 2.0 1.8 1.5 3.0 2.8 2.5 CRITICAL - load average: 1.96, 1.01, 0.75|load1=1.960;0.000;0.000;0; load5=1.010;0

Re: [Nagios-users] Event Handlers

2010-02-03 Thread Marc Powell
On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Jeff wrote: > I have a service that needs to be monitored every minute. I need some help > understanding how services go from soft to a hard state When a service check results in a non-OK state, services go from a Soft to a Hard state when they reach max_check_atte

[Nagios-users] Asterisk Questions

2010-02-03 Thread Wolfe, Robert
Hi all! I am wanting to write a plugin that will tell Asterisk to make a test call every so often and then report back to Nagios if a call was successful or not. The caveat here is that Asterisk is on one server and Nagios is on its own dedicated server. If anyone knows of any script or plugi

[Nagios-users] Event Handlers

2010-02-03 Thread Jeff
I have a service that needs to be monitored every minute. I need some help understanding how services go from soft to a hard state and if an event handler can be run after a service has gone into a hard state. I'm sure everyone has a very dynamic and custom environment to some extent. I have eve

[Nagios-users] more nagiosgraph issues

2010-02-03 Thread Assaf Flatto
Hello List I've been struggling with nagiosgraph (1.4) and nagios 3.2 for the last 3 weeks and can't get it to work, my setting are as follows : Nagios.cfg # PROCESS PERFORMANCE DATA OPTION process_performance_data=1 service_perfdata_file=/var/spool/nagios/perfdata.log service_perfdata_file_tem