[Nagios-users] Modifying normal_check_interval breaks nagiosgrapher

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Angelo
Hi, While testing and deploying Nagios I used the following service definition: max_check_attempts 1 normal_check_interval 1 retry_check_interval 1 Everything was configured and tested including nagiosgrapher (rrdtool). It passed proof and concept and we have now

Re: [Nagios-users] how to fix excessive latency

2010-06-29 Thread wwanghongrui
I am sorry for my bad english. My nagios server is not running in virtual server. Nagios3.2.0 + Suse10-sp2 x86_64 + 8 GB mem + 4 x ( Xeon(R) CPU E7420 @ 2.13GHz ), I think this hardware is enough. "I use vmstate to capture system performance", vmstate is a command in SUSE10,not a virtual se

[Nagios-users] Help with creating a pnp4nagios template

2010-06-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I was hoping someone out there can help me here, below is my perfdata output for checking disk space on remote Win32/64 servers that have NSClient++ installed. The perfdata received is in the format of: 'C:'=35.62G;3.99;1.99;0;39.98; The command used to query the C:\ is: define command{ c

Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

2010-06-29 Thread Kevin Keane
You could use the check_dns plugin with the -a argument. From: Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg [mailto:n...@eurofmc.com] Sent: Monday, June 28, 2010 10:40 PM To: Nagios Users List Subject: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control Hi everybody, I'm looking for a way to check out the

Re: [Nagios-users] R: Re: Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread Giorgio Zarrelli
You can use netcat for this purpose and pipe whatever you watt from the net to Nagios Ciao, Giorgio Il giorno 29/giu/2010, alle ore 16:29, "sandma...@libero.it" ha scritto: >> Messaggio originale >> Da: j...@jimavery.me.uk >> Data: 29/06/2010 14.51 >>> The router gives no SNMP inform

Re: [Nagios-users] how to fix excessive latency

2010-06-29 Thread Max
Clock skew can be an issue as well depending on the virtualization platform. On 6/29/10, Giorgio Zarrelli wrote: > I agree, better not to use Nagios on virtual machine. The I/O layer of vms > have poor performances. > > Ciao, > > Giorgio > > Il giorno 29/giu/2010, alle ore 14:23, Andreas Ericsson

[Nagios-users] R: Re: Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread sandma...@libero.it
>Messaggio originale >Da: j...@jimavery.me.uk >Data: 29/06/2010 14.51 >> The router gives no SNMP information about it. >What options are available to you for querying the counter on the router? It is possible to send a string from the router to a particular port of a remote server. Is t

Re: [Nagios-users] how to fix excessive latency

2010-06-29 Thread Giorgio Zarrelli
I agree, better not to use Nagios on virtual machine. The I/O layer of vms have poor performances. Ciao, Giorgio Il giorno 29/giu/2010, alle ore 14:23, Andreas Ericsson ha scritto: > On 06/29/2010 03:57 AM, wwanghongrui wrote: >> Thanks your reply. We are writing to mysql database by ndoutil

Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 06:40, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm looking for a way to check out the mapping between a hostname and IP > address. > > Example: IP 192.168.0.1 exists and if the hostname foo.mylan.com is not > associated with this IP, I would have an alarm.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread Giorgio Zarrelli
Try an snmpwalk and check the output Ciao, Giorgio Il giorno 29/giu/2010, alle ore 14:51, Jim Avery ha scritto: > On 29 June 2010 08:58, sandma...@libero.it wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'd need to keep traffic on a UMTS router monitored, i.e. I'd need to set up >> something that counts bytes passed

Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

2010-06-29 Thread Max
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 1:40 AM, Network Operation Center FMC Luxemburg wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I'm looking for a way to check out the mapping between a hostname and IP > address. > > Example: IP 192.168.0.1 exists and if the hostname foo.mylan.com is not > associated with this IP, I would have

Re: [Nagios-users] Additional states in Nagios

2010-06-29 Thread Parish, Brent
Kevin gave a GREAT answer - succinct and yet informative. It sounds like he answered the first part of the question - clearing the ambiguity of the states. I interpreted the second part (the dream) as the desire to have Nagios differentiating between informational messages and things that perhaps

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 08:58, sandma...@libero.it wrote: > Hi, > > I'd need to keep traffic on a UMTS router monitored, i.e. I'd need to set up > something that counts bytes passed and gives an alarm when a particular > thresold is reached. > > The router gives no SNMP information about it. > > Is there

Re: [Nagios-users] Additional states in Nagios

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 03:18, Jason W. wrote: > (I've tried Googling for the answer, but there seems to be some > ambiguity in defining terms - even in the Nagios docs) > > I've got Nagios monitoring a bunch of things on our servers and I also > have events being sent to Nagios via passive checks. This i

Re: [Nagios-users] IP and hostname mapping control

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Weaver
We have a service that checks dns addresses. We run it against some of our internal DNS servers (we're checking the DNS server is resolving, so the check belongs on the dns server rather than the host you're interested in). define service{ use infrastructure-

Re: [Nagios-users] Assign contact_group to a host without notifications

2010-06-29 Thread Jim Avery
On 29 June 2010 01:34, Matthew Angelo wrote: > Hi Nagios Users, > > We have a super modular config.  Essentially [almost] all Service Checks are > defined to HostGroups, and then Hosts merely assign themselve to that > HostGroup. > > > # > # > # HostGroup { > #     LINUX_SERVER > #         check_c

Re: [Nagios-users] how to fix excessive latency

2010-06-29 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 06/29/2010 03:57 AM, wwanghongrui wrote: > Thanks your reply. We are writing to mysql database by ndoutils.We don't use > nsca. About external_command_buffer_slots, we don't set it up. > status_update_interval =15 > > I use vmstate to capture system performance,like below.Maybe the bottleneck

[Nagios-users] Monitoring traffic

2010-06-29 Thread sandma...@libero.it
Hi, I'd need to keep traffic on a UMTS router monitored, i.e. I'd need to set up something that counts bytes passed and gives an alarm when a particular thresold is reached. The router gives no SNMP information about it. Is there any other way to do that with nagios? Thanks