patrickm wrote:
> Is it possible to reply to a txt message that is sent from the nagios server
> as acknowledgement when an event occurs, like an unreachable server or other
> events?
The short answer is, yes.
The long answer is, it depends on how you sent the SMS in the first
place. If you are
Lars Stavholm wrote:
> I'm trying to use the check_fping plugin and when
> I run it separately on the command line it works
> just fine, but when I let nagios run it I always
> get a warning status. Anyone seen this?
>
Have you tried running fping itself as the nagios user? You'll probably
get
edalB wrote:
> Why does it look like that nagios does not have a check_dns command?
>
> I need to beable to check DNS aswell.
The nagios-plugins bundle from SF has...
check_dns (nagios-plugins 1.4.5) 1.54
Copyright (c) 1999 Ethan Galstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Copyright (c) 2000-2006 Nagios Plugin De
Brian Loe wrote:
> Okay, well it WAS working. I had restarted the Nagios process and it
> created the pipe. I then deleted several comments from services. Just
> now I went back to continue doing so and the first delete worked, the
> second failed. I go look and sure enough the pipe is gone again.
Craig Van Tassle wrote:
> My boss wants to be able to look at pie charts when ever we are looking at
> history for various services. So far I have only been able to get a bar graph
> that is showing the uptime and down time, but not I have not been able to get
> a
> pie chart to display.
>
> I am
Marc DeTrano wrote:
> Just wondering is anyone has done electrical power measurement, and been
> able to get that data back into Nagios. Mainly, I am curious if there
> is a device that would allow us to measure a draw of up to 200A, and
> some way or another get the reading from a PC.
We're a big
stucky wrote:
> I use the check_by_ssh plugin for most of my stuff and I noticed that
> if the primary nameserver is unavailable nagios starts freaking out.
> All of a sudden all plugins time out. I tested it using the 'host'
> command and it only takes about 1 second longer to lookup hosts using
Michael Jewett wrote:
> again, I think I'm not explaining myself clearly. I want to be able to
> get the host_name in the hosts.cfg file, like this:
>
> define host{
> use edgeswitch-host
> host_name 5510-Toole
> alias
Tobias Klausmann wrote:
> The altinity people have created a patch for the "view some,
> change none" scenario[0]. Unfortunately, what I'd need is a
> mechanism for the "view some, change a few" scenario I outlined
> above.
Is that to say that "view _all_, change some" wouldn't work for you?
That'
Michael Belik wrote:
> I have stoped service and nagios was changed status for this service
> to DOWN. After this I stop active and other checks.
>
> But service has still status DOWN.
>
I would consider that normal behaviour. The last state is remembered.
Disabling checks won't change state.
>
> On 10/19/06, Az <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Brian Loe wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a way, at all, to specify that if pings are lost - but at
>>> least one gets through - or get slow, then nagios waits until the next
>>> check before
Brian Loe wrote:
> Is there a way, at all, to specify that if pings are lost - but at
> least one gets through - or get slow, then nagios waits until the next
> check before alerting on it. However, if all pings fail, it alerts on
> the first check?
>
The check_ping plugin allows you to specify
Kyle Vorster wrote:
> What i am trying to do is give a more detailed email notification to my
> clients.
You can define your notification commands
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#command) with
whatever you want in them using the relevant macros
(http://nagios.sourceforge
Hari Sekhon wrote:
Indeed, that would be ok too, since then you can disable the host check
and rely entirely on service checks so you get all the service checks.
Almost as good. Of course it won't say host down, but it will say ping
failed so you can tell from that.
Another down side
Darbin wrote:
> Hi all
> has somebody implemented notification via SMS but not via INTERNET, but
> using any cell/gsm modem ???
> What kind of equipment and soft did you use.
For a more complete set of responses, I would recommend searching the
archives as this topic has been done to death.
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Bret Goodfellow wrote:
I'm wondering if this could be
some sort of authentication problem. When I run the ssh command as
nagios, I get the expected reponse:
dev02: # su - nagios
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> ssh -i
/usr/local/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa olympus
"/usr/local/nagios/libexec/che
Robin Ericsson wrote:
> I'm looking for a small front-end cgi that should be extremely simple.
>
> ...
>
> Is there something like this available? Otherwise I guess it could be
> wrapped out pretty quick if I get some tips on how :)
Have a look on Nagios Exchange. There are a number of alternative
> Are there any plugins for nagios to to be able to check ESX servers?
> Something like checking that the vmware servers is running as expected
> etc that sort of thing.
>
> This would be on nagios-2.
check_esx on Nagios Exchange might suit your requirements.
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Linux
> I was just looking for some input as to what people do in terms of
> on-call calenders and integration into Nagios.
>
> I've just setup Bluez and Gnokii so I can SMS alerts to an on-call
> engineer and I'm wondering how best to go about automating the process
> of who gets called when.
>
> Are t
Mike Koponick wrote:
> Tom, thanks for the quick response. I wonder..how many notifications get
> buffered up? There are times when will see up to 100 notifications,
> basically because of the network setup.
>
While the above seemed a little vague to me (it might just be me and a
lack of coffee
MaxxAtWork wrote:
> I'm planning to monitor temperature & humidity in our server room using
> Nagios.
> Question (admittedly, not strictly related to Nagios): where is best to place
> the probes? At what height?
We placed ours at ceiling height out of air currents as well. The idea
being the cei
Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES wrote:
> We've recently had a problem with heat in a server room. I got messages
> that the room was overheating, but by the time I got there the room was
> really hot and all the machines were running.
I'd take a step back and look at why the room was overheatin
Oliver Marshall wrote:
What are peoples opinions on a decent web based management/configuration
front end for Nagios, ideally PHP?
I would recommend searching the list as this has been done to death a
few times.
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All the advantages o
Hi Geoff,
I used to get my serial based units from OzTrak, but they seem to have
gone belly up. I did find another place in Aus that apparently carries
these sorts of items.
http://www.esis.com.au/Modems-industrial/Modems-industrial.htm#GSM_Modems
Scroll down to the section 'Twist GSM Deskto
Hi Janet,
I am looking for a plug-in that will run a query against an oracle
database and return the results.
I have found plugins that search for specific things -- like tablespace,
and archives, but nothing that will run a sql statement.
Surely this plugin exists somewhere?!?!
I never fou
We had a similar issue with v1.3, but it was when we injected shutdown
commands externally. Oddly, using the web interface didnt cause the
issue. The format of the external command was fine.
I haven't retested it with v2.x yet.
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Using To
Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES wrote:
I was wondering if any of you use the “alias”
command in
your host configurations to link something like a terminal. I know
that you
can add something to make a browser come up using something like
“alias
Switch-1 "http://10.10.10.100/"
IIRC, we ran into the same issue. I dont have access to my configs at
this moment, but I am fairly sure we used two dollar signs.
check_command check_nt_service!SQLAgent$SPSQL
check_commandcheck_nt_service!SQLAgent$$SPSQL
Ugly, isnt it. :)
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Kimura, Bill (US SSA) wrote:
Is there an easy way to disable notifications globally
for a given host, or does it require modifying each
of the individual services, etc.? I was hoping I could
do something like set "notifications_enabled 0" in the
hosts.cfg for the given host, but I'm still recei
Resending the same question after a few days is poor form. Not everyone
reads the list everyday, so you wont always get an answer straight away,
if at all. Not to mention this doesnt appear to be a Nagios issue on the
surface.
You said it works from the command line... but as what user? Did yo
Just thinking out loud... enable the screen saver... if its running, its
likely that no-one is actively using that machine. There are a number of
plugins that could be used to monitor the "screen saver" process already.
Cheers.
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This SF.
You could always avoid the dialup part (what if your local telephone
exchange is dead/lines cut) by using a GSM terminal (like the old
Siemens M20). Get two with diffferent carrier SIMs to give yourself
redundancy using SMS server tools (http://smstools.meinemullemaus.de/)
to drive them. Of cou
Question 1 - Is there a difference between check_cluster and check_cluster2?
Outwardly, just the way you use them. #2 seems tidier in the way you do it.
Inwardly, I would assume #2 does it better but I've not looked into the
code of each to confirm this myself.
Question 2
Since the vari
Brian Sudis wrote:
Can a hostgroup_name be used
in the hostextinfo.cfg file instead of host_name?
No, you cant make up directives. :)
And according to the docs (v1 and v2), you cant use wildcards in
hostextinfo either. Eg, this wouldnt work:
define hostextinfo {
host_name
Jean Frontin wrote:
When I am testing nagios with nagios -v I have a warning with this
message that I don't understand :
Warning: Nothing specified for illegal_macro_output_chars variable!
Have a look at the docs...
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/configmain.html#illegal_macro_output_
Hi Mark,
I can't quite see what problem you're actually facing... but anyhow...
There's probably 100 ways to skin this cat. The way we've done these
sorts of setups in v1.x are along the lines of...
* A host definition for each _physical_ cluster node (eg ahost01a,
ahost01b...)
* Add the usu
Pete Siemsen wrote:
How do I configure Nagios so that when a user logs in to Nagios, they
see only the subset of the hosts, not all of them?
Have a look at
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/contrib/documentation/misc/config_diagrams/nagios-config.png
to understand how each piece of the
This Nagios FAQ entry might be of some help...
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=156
We've used this to create a basic connectivity check, as well as a
generic 'stored procedure' check. The home grown plugin expects results
in a given format (1 row, 2 columns), thus this allows the
Timothy Washburn wrote:
We
have several Windows 2000 File and Print clusters. We would like to
monitor the disk space on each of the cluster drives and have it go
into warning and critical states as the space gets low. The problem we
have is that the drives are only owned by one of t
Is there any other option that could be suitable for us?
http://www.meinemullemaus.de/software/smstools/ is another good place to
start. That being said, try searching the list archives
(http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum=nagios-users) as
this has been asked many times in t
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