Re: [Nagios-users] Reverse checks possible?

2007-07-09 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Rogelio Bastardo wrote: > On 7/9/07, Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Sure. See the "negate" plugin. > > > Thanks! > > For whatever reason, I'm not getting what I'm expecting. > > Oddly, I get the same OK result, regardless of whether or not I use the > negate c

Re: [Nagios-users] Dependencies question

2007-07-09 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: > "Here's a group of , i.e. hosts or services. > If any number of them fails, just send a notification for > the first one. I will look at the Nagios status page anyway and > probably something else connecting them in some way failed." Have you seen ch

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring remote routers on different networks

2007-06-25 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007, reed wrote: > On one of my nagios servers hosted by a third party, the monitoring often > alerts me about bad RTA or lots of packet loss for these multiple routers > at same time. > > It appears that the problem is the local network and not the remote > routers. You can use S

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed to Central Configuration

2007-06-07 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Marcus Fleige wrote: > Afterwards, i run a small shell script which connects to the nagios > slave servers, > updates the local replica of the repository and reloads the nagios daemon. Hi Marcus, Thanks for your note. You are the second person to reply saying you have a mast

[Nagios-users] Distributed to Central Configuration

2007-06-06 Thread Demetri Mouratis
Hi Nagios Users, I'm migrating my Nagios monitoring setup from three standalone Nagios servers to a Distributed/Central configuration. In a past job, I had written some fancy rsync/perl scripts to push the configs to Central, whack them up, and then restart the nagios daemon on Central to take

Re: [Nagios-users] one host in two or more hostgroups

2007-05-16 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Jesús Oliván wrote: hi! I want to add the same host in two or more hostgroups, but when i tried to restart nagios, it told me that PING service is already defined. Is there any way to solve it? Thanks in advance! Hi Jess, I have many hosts in multiple hostgroups as well

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Change at SOFT 2 ?

2007-05-16 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 15 May 2007, Martin Schichl wrote: > > My problem is, that I get within my 200 watched services often CRITICALS al= > thought > there is just a simple network-problem and not a REAL problem. This network= > -problem is > normally gone at the next query. Hi Martin, It sounds like you coul

Re: [Nagios-users] check_nagios and system log

2007-03-20 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, chiel wrote: > check_nagios -e 5 -F /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log -C > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios > > -e, --expires=INTEGER >Minutes aging after which logfile is considered stale > > > Just raise -e I found that raising -e *and* setting: retention_update_interval=1

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios, syslog, splunk

2007-03-14 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > I've been playing with Splunk of late, can anyone tell me how I might > forward Nagios event logs to a remote splunk server ? > Is there a way to configure Nagios to send to two syslog servers, one > remote ? Hi Matthew, Me too. Try Splunk-2-Splunk.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring UDP Packets using ping

2007-01-29 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sekhar wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I want to monitor for one ip address UDP Packets using ping how do i do > this normal ping is working for icmp packets.One of my client stop > access to icmp packets and he is only allowing udp. > First, tell your client to allow at least some

Re: [Nagios-users] Charts and Graphs and Nagios Oh My!

2006-10-25 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Matthew Joyce wrote: > We use Cacti, on the Nagios machine, but in isolation, though I > understand this needn't be the case. > Cacti is nice, but imo, a bugger to make do what you want unless you're > prepared to invest significant time/coffee. > > It's one of those products

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Checks in Distributed mode

2006-08-21 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ian Marks wrote: > My 2 current nagios servers are running on Dell 1750's. Each has a > 2.4GHz Xeon Processor and 2 Gigs of Ram. What type of specs would be > needed if I were to add a central server that only deals with passive > checks? I am pretty sure I could come up wit

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Checks in Distributed mode

2006-08-21 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Ian Marks wrote: > I have 2 nagios 2.5 servers running; both are doing active checks, but > one acts as the "central" server and receives passive checks from the > other. I have it set up this way so our analysts will only have to > monitor "one" server. I am seeing major de

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Light?

2006-08-02 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, jon.johnston wrote: > After trying to work with Nagios for a while, I've determined that it's > not the best fit for most of the environments I work with. Looks like > great stuff, but takes too long to setup, configure, and get running in > network environments where I would l

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed / Central and hosts in pgsql

2006-04-27 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Shawn Holland wrote: Using some transport protocol to upload the device config from each distributed server to the central server. (SSH/SCP) and drop it into a conf= ig dir. Then restarting nagios on the central server. I wont need another script to concatinate them. I jus

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_ping

2006-03-21 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Jeffrey Montgomery wrote: Under my define service I have this check_command check_ping!300.0,30%!500.00,50% However I am recieving a critial warning at just 106.52ms PING CRITICAL - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 106.52 ms Why is this happening? Let's see th

Re: [Nagios-users] False Alarms in Nagios

2006-03-21 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Travis wrote: I have been getting some false alarms (pages) between 4am and 4:30am for certain hosts and services on my network. We are running cron jobs around this time for backups and a few other things which are causing these checks to fail during this time. This doesn't

Re: [Nagios-users] Local host is Down, Couldnotparse arguements

2006-03-16 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jody Noscov wrote: Usage: check_ping -H -w ,% -c ,% [-p packets] [-t timeout] [-L] [-4|-6] I am not sure what I need to set the following to -w ,% -c ,% [-p packets] [-t timeout] [-L] [-4|-6] Is there a document in the help files someone could point me to Here's how I

Re: [Nagios-users] Making alarms less sensitive

2006-03-13 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006, Nick wrote: Is there any way of making nagios a bit less sensitive to outages? I have it setup monitoring a webserver that will often go away for a few seconds and come back which nagios will quite rightly report on. I just wondered how i'd go about extending the down time

RE: [Nagios-users] Problems with RPM install

2006-03-07 Thread Demetri Mouratis
Ross, Answers inline below. On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Minkov, Ross wrote: Short Question: Where is the nagios sbin directory if you installed from RPM? Run the rpm query command against the nagios package to find out: # rpm -ql nagios|grep sbin /usr/sbin/nagios /usr/sbin/p1.pl Long Story: I

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios with tripwire

2006-02-17 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Dany Allard wrote: Hello everyone Has anyone used Nagios to monitor tripwire events? If someone has done this and could point me in the right direction, that would be great. Dany, It's been a while since I used tripwire but I don't recall it generating any events, pe

Re: [Nagios-users] SPLUNK

2006-02-08 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Jason Martin wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 11:51:55AM -0600, Russell Adams wrote: Syslog-ng and Logmuncher. Email reports. ;] This is getting a bit off topic, but Splunk isn't so much about scheduled pre-defined analysis, but more of a ad-hoc conglomerated log exploration

Re: [Nagios-users] Multi-site Nagios Setup

2006-01-31 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Brady Maxwell wrote: Hello, I have set up several Nagios servers and would now like to tie them all together at a central server. I have been reading the 2.0 documentation and was wondering if anyone had knowledge of additional informational resources on the web or a Doc

RE: [Nagios-users] check-disk-growing ???

2006-01-13 Thread Demetri Mouratis
Hello List, I think I could be pretty interesting to monitor the rate of how much the diskspace increased in an interval x. For example, you have a Disk X where all the Logfiles of my DB are stored. Normally there about 200MB Logfiles/day. Then suddenly there are 200MB/h... Has anyone written a

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative web interfaces for limiting web access?

2006-01-11 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michael T. Halligan wrote: We monitor N different customer infrastructures with Nagios. Some of our customers are starting to request access to the web interface. Beyond writing our own custom interface, are there any good projects out there to allow users with specified acc

Re: [Nagios-users] Installing Nagios RPM

2006-01-04 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Salman Usmani wrote: Doing "rpm -q nagios" shows "nagios-1.2-2.1.el3.rf" How do I remove that? Doing "rpm -e nagios" Shows: error reading information on service nagios: No such file or directory error: %preun(nagios-1.2-2.1.el3.rf) scriptlet failed, exit status 1 All you

Re: [Nagios-users] Using SSH to run remote command checks

2005-12-22 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tested the following command from the command line ~ /usr/bin/ssh -l nagios host1 chkAdminServer.pl and it returns OK with an exit code of 0. Great. When I put it into the following service definition, I get a Status UNKNOWN with STATUS INFORMA

[Nagios-users] RE: Stalking option + notification

2005-12-09 Thread Demetri Mouratis
I'm picking up on a thread from a while back regarding stalking options and notification. I have a bit of an odd case from a custom plugin where I've "rolled up" several different bad cases into one global state. The request I'm getting now is to send an email notification when the state firs

Re: [Nagios-users] passive checks; some work some don't

2005-11-17 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Steve Wray wrote: Demetri Mouratis wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I've been using nagios for quite some time, but never used passive checks or distributed monitoring. I've come across a very strange situation. [big snip] Any clue

Re: [Nagios-users] passive checks; some work some don't

2005-11-17 Thread Demetri Mouratis
On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Steve Wray wrote: Hi there, I've been using nagios for quite some time, but never used passive checks or distributed monitoring. I've come across a very strange situation. This may take some explaining and I'm not sure how lucid this is going to be... We have many se