Re: [Nagios-users] Connection Refused

2007-12-07 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Have you checked other services running on it? Particularly non-Microsoft services (smb/cifs, rdp, etc). Checked it with nmap to see if the port is (or at least looks) open to the outside world? Is the config exactly the same as the other clients, or is there something *special* about it? Th

Re: [Nagios-users] RES: RES: NRPE question

2007-12-05 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Once you get into using cron for pulls and scripts to automate configuration, it's probably time you start thinking about cfengine or something like it. I hate to sound like a broken record, but cfengine et al have already built the wheel you're trying to reinvent with cron/scripts. Also, I t

Re: [Nagios-users] How to get reboot messages

2007-11-29 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
We have our site-specific init script do this on Linux and Solaris. We also dump the users from last into the mail just in case a user rebooted a lab machine. The general algorithm is: -build the input to /usr/lib/sendmail in some file -mail it with `cat $file | /usr/lib/sendmail -oi $emailAddr

Re: [Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
s Hünseler wrote: > > > Hi Kevin, > > what about self made humidity and temperature sensors on serial line? I > remember several how to's online... > If this could be one option for you ask google how to :-) > > kind regards, Dennis > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 09:48

[Nagios-users] Environmental monitoring

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
This is somewhat off-topic, but can anyone recommend a vendor for environmental? I would like to monitor the temp. and humidity of our two server rooms. Integration with Nagios is a huge plus. Cheers, Kevin - Kevin Sumner [EMAIL PROTECTED] (919) 962-6494 Assistant Systems Administrator Phy

Re: [Nagios-users] Bad group on cmd pipe after restart.

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
31 > > > > > > -Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Scott > Sumner > Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 6:15 PM > To: Cipriani, Robert C > Cc: 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net' > Subject: Re

Re: [Nagios-users] Centralizing NRPE Configuration

2007-11-28 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
I'd like to emphasize that if you're going to have multiple things to manage (even later on), bash/perl/etc scripts are inefficent. You'll spend more time coding in the long run. Don't get me wrong, the learning curve for a configuration engine (CFengine, puppet, et al) is moderately steep, b

Re: [Nagios-users] Centralizing NRPE Configuration

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Robert, I second Aaron's CFengine suggestion. Moving an infrastructure towards using something like CFengine or puppet will make you saner in the long run. Much, much saner. Setting it up to push a single config is a little overboard, but it makes syncing and sanitizing all of your machines

Re: [Nagios-users] Bad group on cmd pipe after restart.

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Robert, Affecting the apache user will affect *all* instances of apache in our infrastructure (regular website, as well as BackupPC's apache, etc). I know this seems like a broken setup -- it is. :) We're in planning phases for better machine user/group management, but creating a one-off m

[Nagios-users] Bad group on cmd pipe after restart.

2007-11-26 Thread Kevin Scott Sumner
Hi all, I've got nagios 3.0b6 running on Debian/etch with Debian's default Apache. Apache runs as www-data:www-data. Nagios runs as nagios:www-data, set this way via nagios.cfg's nagios_group command. In /etc/passwd, nagios has the default group of nagios. (Confusing, I know, but I'm trying n