RE: [Nagios-users] Tracking MySQL threads?

2006-04-11 Thread David Johnson
Nagios plugins are just scripts. Write a bash script (or your favorite language) to do something like: #!/bin/bash /usr/local/Nagios/libexec/check_mysql -H mysql_host -u read_only -p ro_passwd | grep Threads | awk "{ print $4 }" Etc. Then you can just put into your check commands in your confi

RE: [Nagios-users] POLL: nagios integration with other tools

2006-03-16 Thread David Johnson
We've done little integration, except automatically building the configuration scripts based upon hosts in a database. It is likely we will integrate with Zope soon. I would suggest Zope might be a great environment long run for maintenance. > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring a mail server

2006-01-31 Thread David Johnson
Depending upon what you want to check, there are many solutions. I'm not familiar with Amavisd, so I can't say for certain. However it seems that you may to look at: check_smtp, check_mailq, check_proc, and check_tcp (among others). You can even write your own quickly. I'm not sure I understand,

RE: [Nagios-users] Question about Nagios configuration

2006-01-26 Thread David Johnson
Title: Question about Nagios configuration No. Just install the plug-ins – you can even build the ones you like separately (some of them, like mysql, require libraries you probably don’t have).       From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kannberg, Andy

RE: [Nagios-users] Question about Linux Distros

2006-01-13 Thread David Johnson
We use Debian across the board - Debian is of course very much a philosophy as well as an OS. In my experience Red Hat tends to be bleeding edge and not very Posix or Standards compliant, although it will have all the latest software and packages. Debian tends to be slightly out of date in its pac

RE: [Nagios-users] check_http

2006-01-12 Thread David Johnson
I second that advice. Although I prefer awk. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Holloway Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:47 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_http Easiest way would probably

RE: [Nagios-users] check_mysql

2006-01-05 Thread David Johnson
We do this a lot. Where is the mysql server relative to the nagios server?  Would NRPE be an option?  We used to do SSH and find NRPE better because of the passwords issue. We used to due key authethentication to by pass the passwords with SSH if you still want to go that way.  We have also

RE: [Nagios-users] Commands after a service/host failure

2006-01-05 Thread David Johnson
Yes – “monit” another monitoring tool might be better suited for that.   We use Debian and it is easily installed and configured.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris McKeever Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:10 PM To: nagios-users@lists.source