Re: [Nagios-users] Cannot disable individual servers / hosts

2008-11-23 Thread Jay Chandler
table release, but I might get around to it after Thanksgiving if I get the opportunity before 3.0.6 drops. -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: UBNC (user brain not connected) - T

[Nagios-users] Monitoring Shared Storage

2008-09-29 Thread Jay Chandler
ge fills up I don't get paged by every system we've got? I don't want to give up monitoring /home on these hosts since our configuration monkey has screwed up before and NOT mounted the NFS share, leading to the mountpoint on local disk filling up instead. Thanks-- my apol

Re: [Nagios-users] Service alerts after host down?

2008-09-15 Thread Jay Chandler
Marc Powell wrote: > On Sep 15, 2008, at 6:30 PM, Jay Chandler wrote: > > >> Howdy. >> >> I fear I have something misconfigured. A host in our environment will >> go down, and I'll get a notification that the host is down. However, >> I'll

[Nagios-users] Service alerts after host down?

2008-09-15 Thread Jay Chandler
f its services should return as up. Assuming I'm not mistaken in this belief, what portion of my config files shall I submit for review? Regards, -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Communist revolutionaries taking over the server room and deman

[Nagios-users] Invisible Hostgroups

2008-09-05 Thread Jay Chandler
Is there a way to set some hostgroups up so that they don't display in the Hostgroups view? We have a lot of meta-groups that are merely collections of other groups, and would like to unclutter the display... -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse:

Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe and check_mailq

2008-08-22 Thread Jay Chandler
(01) is below threshold (300/500) | mailq = 01 > > Sorry if this is obvious, but are you sure that's the command defined in the nrpe.cfg on the test host? I had a similar issue once, turned out I'd had a 64 bit path defined on a 32 bit box (redhat changed the paths at on

Re: [Nagios-users] Service / Host dependencies

2008-08-21 Thread Jay Chandler
rge.net/docs/3_0/statetypes.html > You're right-- I wasn't clear. I still want to know if the services die, but in the event that the services die because the host is dead, I'd rather get a single "host down" message instead of eight "X Service on $HOST isn&#x

[Nagios-users] Service / Host dependencies

2008-08-21 Thread Jay Chandler
ay to build in a dependency so that if a service goes down, it checks to see if the host itself is up before it sends an alert? -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Just type '

[Nagios-users] What to Monitor

2007-02-17 Thread Jay Chandler
a smidgen overboard on their monitoring... -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: A star wars satellite accidently blew up the WAN. - Take Surveys.

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios vs intel itanium

2007-02-06 Thread Jay Chandler
S 4.4, and had severe issues with how outdated packages were, with regard to security updates. Made the switch to FreeBSD and haven't looked back since, but that's enough advocacy for one post. :-) -- Jay Chandler Network Admini

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios CGI authentication woes.

2007-01-22 Thread Jay Chandler
sic >> AuthUserFile /local/nagios/etc/nagios.users >> require valid-user >> > > Is that *really* the path to nagios.users? I would expect that to be > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.users. I place my bets here ;) I'd go one further and bet it's /usr/local/nagi

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring question

2007-01-16 Thread Jay Chandler
27;s called the Event Handler-- check the documentation for more on this. It's part of the service definition, and it runs a command defined like most other commands. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin issue

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
m where the ping would choke unexpectedly. I solved this by installing a replacement compiled with IPv6 turned off, and it hasn't recurred since. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Atilla the Hub

Re: [Nagios-users] sending email out

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
syntax a bit, but when the command line works, so'll the Nagios alerts. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: Atilla the Hub - Take Surveys

Re: [Nagios-users] sending email out

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
caused by a soft fail state, wherein the service recovered before it entered a hard state? If so, you won't receive a notification about it. -- Jay Chandler Network Administrator, Chapman University 714.628.7249 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Today's Excuse: emissions from GSM-phones --

Re: [Nagios-users] sending email out

2007-01-15 Thread Jay Chandler
quot;* Nagios 2.6 *\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mail -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } Then I se

Re: [Nagios-users] Interval setup

2007-01-12 Thread Jay Chandler
check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% > > > > It seems that he check every 5 minutes or so... > > Any ideas? I use Nagios 2.6 > > Works correctly here-- stupid question, but did you reload Nagios? Failing that, what's the output of nagios -v /your/config/f

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios not executing sms script

2007-01-12 Thread Jay Chandler
edalB wrote: > Sure NP. > > Just note I wrote this script in Ruby. > > And it uses a South African sms provider that allowes me to do a post > to there sms portal. > Thanks! I'm using TMobile here in the states, but [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to work after

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios not executing sms script

2007-01-12 Thread Jay Chandler
gt; command_namehost-notify-by-sms > command_line/usr/bin/sms.rb -m "* Nagios 2.6 > *\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: > $HOSTNAME$\nState > : $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: > $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n"

[Nagios-users] popen timeout received, but no child process

2007-01-02 Thread Jay Chandler
weeks of trouble free running. I restarted the Nagios service and haven't had a recurrance since, but has anyone else experienced this? The OS is FreeBSD 6.1 with Nagios installed from the ports tree. Thanks very much in advance-- any other information I can provide, will be! -- Ja