Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread C. Bensend
> You can also run, if memory serves, the "nagiostats" command located in > your Nagios "bin" directory to see this information as well. I actually > use that nagiostats data in a custom check and graph a lot of those > latencies and other Nagios performance related info. Boy, would I *love* to

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread Mathieu Gagné
On 2010-10-23 18:31, Litwin, Matthew wrote: > > I have set up MRTG to track nagios performace and it is reporting that > latency for host and service checks are next to nothing and service execution > time is just under 400 ms, however, host checks are coming back at around 4 > seconds. Based on

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread Litwin, Matthew
On Oct 22, 2010, at 6:53 PM, Frost, Mark {PBC} wrote: > Matthew, > > You don't say, but my guess would be that you have high latencies. That is > for one of several reasons, Nagios is not able to run checks when it thinks > it should. You can see this information and other stats by looking a

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread Litwin, Matthew
On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:09 PM, Jonathan Angliss wrote: On 10/22/10 19:29, Litwin, Matthew wrote: --Service information-- Last Updated: Sat Oct 23 00:19:02 UTC 2010 --Service State Information-- Current Status: OK (for 7d 16h 14m 46s) Status Information: CPU STATISTICS OK : user=0.12% system=0.

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread Litwin, Matthew
For the Total Services, what are the three X / X / X values mean? Is it last 1/5/15 min? On Oct 23, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Litwin, Matthew wrote: > Here are my stats... definitely have a problem if latencies are between 5-10 > minutes! > > check_reaper_frequency was set at 10, which seems high. I a

Re: [Nagios-users] Scheduled checks falling far behind

2010-10-23 Thread Litwin, Matthew
Here are my stats... definitely have a problem if latencies are between 5-10 minutes! check_reaper_frequency was set at 10, which seems high. I am going to try 5 as used in the core nagios guide and see what that does. Nagios Stats 3.2.1 Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (www.nagios.org) La

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Mark Elsen
> Hello list, > > is the following setup possible : > > host A : Nagios Server > host B : server being monitored > host C : backup server > > If Nagios (host A) can not ping host B (or any other check via nrpe), can > Nagios then execute a command on host C ?? > > > I want Nagios to activate the ba

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 10/23/2010 12:03 PM, Jonas Kellens wrote: > On 10/23/2010 11:49 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: >> On 10/23/2010 11:38 AM, Jonas Kellens wrote: >>> I want Nagios to activate the backup server (host C), when the >>> production server (host B) has problems. >>> >>> >> Look through the docs for eventha

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Jonas Kellens
On 10/23/2010 11:49 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > On 10/23/2010 11:38 AM, Jonas Kellens wrote: >> I want Nagios to activate the backup server (host C), when the >> production server (host B) has problems. >> >> > Look through the docs for eventhandlers. > The documentation says : define

Re: [Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Andreas Ericsson
On 10/23/2010 11:38 AM, Jonas Kellens wrote: > Hello list, > > is the following setup possible : > > host A : Nagios Server > host B : server being monitored > host C : backup server > > If Nagios (host A) can not ping host B (or any other check via nrpe), > can Nagios then execute a command on

[Nagios-users] Execute program on remote host

2010-10-23 Thread Jonas Kellens
Hello list, is the following setup possible : host A : Nagios Server host B : server being monitored host C : backup server If Nagios (host A) can not ping host B (or any other check via nrpe), can Nagios then execute a command on host C ?? I want Nagios to activate the backup server (host