Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios and IPv6

2012-07-10 Thread Robert V. Bolton
I saw in the email thread about you asking if you need to use a patch for Nagios to use IPv6. The answer to your question is no. If you have a IPv6 only host you can use the IPv6 address in the address field. You need to type the entire IPv6 address out, because Nagios doesn’t handle the double col

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
As indicated, make a plugin that gets the info and set thresholds so high they're never likely to "ring the red bell". But in addition to this, I'd set it up with something like nagiosgraph to generate graphs that you can watch. This will save/show historical data and show you the norm. Thus you m

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread C. Bensend
>> You've already received two replies, both stating that you'll >> likely have to write some code to do it. I'm not aware of >> any common plugins out there that calculate rates of change and >> alert appropriately. Maybe they exist, but I don't recall >> seeing any of them. >> >> Have you trie

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
On 10/07/12 14:47, C. Bensend wrote: > >> On 22/06/12 15:11, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: >>> I've got a bunch of Nagios plugins that monitor things like >>> DNS/HTTP/RADIUS hits per second. >>> >>> I've set what I believe to be sensible max/min warning thresholds but >>> what I really want is dynamic t

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread C. Bensend
> On 22/06/12 15:11, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: >> I've got a bunch of Nagios plugins that monitor things like >> DNS/HTTP/RADIUS hits per second. >> >> I've set what I believe to be sensible max/min warning thresholds but >> what I really want is dynamic thresholds. If some quantity suddenly >> doub

Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread Jonathan Gazeley
On 22/06/12 15:11, Jonathan Gazeley wrote: > I've got a bunch of Nagios plugins that monitor things like > DNS/HTTP/RADIUS hits per second. > > I've set what I believe to be sensible max/min warning thresholds but > what I really want is dynamic thresholds. If some quantity suddenly > doubles or ha

[Nagios-users] SNMP Trap monitoring for Dell servers (on IDRAC cards)

2012-07-10 Thread Sven Dohmen
Is there anyone that knows how to configure the snmp trap monitoring for nagios on a debian machine? I have been trying to set it up for a couple weeks now with help from some guides on the internet but i failed each time. In the logs i see the incoming trap appear but after that nothing seems