[Nagios-users] check_multi advice to check "Internet available"

hiding in my use of check_multi. Any comments will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Wino

Re: [Nagios-users] check_multi advice to check "Internet available"

at its uplik. > Also, remember to take off the 'u' notification flag of the uplink's > children, otherwise you'll still be buried under a pile of > notifications. Sure. Greetings Marc -- ----- M

Re: [Nagios-users] check_multi advice to check "Internet available"

Hi, On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 04:58:21PM -0700, Gordon Messmer wrote: > On 05/24/2010 02:51 PM, Marc Haber wrote: > > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 03:37:13PM -0400, Matt Simmons wrote: > >> Have you considered adding your upstream router as a host, and making > >> it the

[Nagios-users] NAGIOS_ environment variables in a notification script

om Debian lenny. Any hints will be appreciated. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS_ environment variables in a notification script

Hi Mike, thanks for replying. On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 06:36:39PM -0800, Mike Lindsey wrote: > On 12/22/10 6:17 AM, Marc Haber wrote: >> Despite having set enable_environment_macros=1 in my nagios.cfg, the >> notification script only sees NAGIOS_PLUGIN=/path/bin/notify. >&g

Re: [Nagios-users] Host/service escalation notification

? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an Americ

[Nagios-users] Service Escalation via Host Group

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Re: [Nagios-users] Service Escalation via Host Group

  120 > >        escalation_options              w,u,c,r > >        escalation_period               24x7 > > } Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Head

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Escalation via Host Group

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:46:04AM +0100, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:15:29 +0100, Marc Haber > wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 12:06:21PM +0800, Yueh-Hung Liu wrote: > >> but by your configuration, all services will be escalated, not only > &g

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Escalation via Host Group

On Sat, Jan 01, 2011 at 03:19:24PM +0800, Yueh-Hung Liu wrote: > if only services of norm-notify should be escalated, " host_name * > " is no need. That was helpful, thanks! Greetings Marc -- ----

[Nagios-users] How to Monitor VMware ESX Server and Storage Units

er possibilities of connecting Nagios to ESX and MSA devices? I'd appreciate your input. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: [Nagios-users] How to Monitor VMware ESX Server and Storage Units

On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 10:38:31AM -0500, Max Hetrick wrote: > On 01/05/2011 10:28 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > > Are there other possibilities of connecting Nagios to ESX and MSA > > devices? I'd appreciate your input. > > Have a look at the check_esx.pl plugin. You can do q

Re: [Nagios-users] How to Monitor VMware ESX Server and StorageUnits

? > I'm not sure if you can get any SMART drive status from snmpd/HP, but > you can check RAID status on local disks, and there are also ways to > check ESX datastore free space usage too. Power Supply Status? Greetings Marc -- ---

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

th Nagios (see web server, or a host which serves multiple services on different IP addresses). Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany |

Re: [Nagios-users] IPv6 support

ple services on different IP > > addresses). > > You can, but with custom variables. How many "official" addresses should > Nagios support? 3? 5? It should be an array. Arbitrary limits suck. Greetings Marc -- ------

[Nagios-users] Nagios monitor Windows diskspace

Hi all. I am currently deploying a Nagios installation to monitor several hundreds of nodes within our company. I installed NSClient++ on the WXP machines and configured Nagios to query it. Standard monitoring plugins work flawlessly (CPU load, Memory usage, NSC++ version), but I can't seem to make

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios monitor Windows diskspace

On Thu, June 30, 2011 1:51 pm, Assaf Flatto wrote: > Change the command to be : > > check_command check_nt!USEDDISKSPACE!-l c -w 80 -c 90 > > (drop the ":\") > > > > > > > > Marc Haber wrote: >> Hi all. >> I am currently deploying a N

Re: [Nagios-users] re-execute an event handler just in case the service stays DOWN

Hi Ludse, this issue was completely lost in space, sorry about that. [quoting fixed to get things back in context] On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 06:05:00PM +0100, Ludse Verhoeven wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: >> I would like one event handler to be re-executed just in case it >> faile

[Nagios-users] Log rotation with Logrotate

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Re: [Nagios-users] Log rotation with Logrotate

Hi, let me come back to a very old issue regarding log rotation of Nagios. On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:10:36PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Marc Haber wrote: > >Packaging Nagios for Debian means doing things in a way that users > >might expect them to be done to avoid confusi

Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Gateway

any case. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make a

[Nagios-users] re-execute an event handler just in case the service stays DOWN

there any way to accomplish this or am I better of with a cronjob which will initiate the dial-up from outside nagios? Any hints will be appreciated., Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trus

Re: [Nagios-users] re-execute an event handler just in case the service stays DOWN

one does not want to be notified once a minute ;) Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs NCSA

I think that there should be a "glue binary" written in C that calls the plugin and then hands over the results to nsca_send. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mail

[Nagios-users] User-defined host/service attributes

er ideas how to solve this? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordis

Re: [Nagios-users] User-defined host/service attributes

y hope that the way of solving this with Nagios 3 is a little less ugly. Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."

[Nagios-users] How to not send out first service notifications?

a way to do this any easier than having no notifications set in the service definition and have a service escalation having the list of contacts that used to be in the service definition? Greetings Marc -- - Marc

[Nagios-users] Service escalation for service groups?

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Re: [Nagios-users] Service escalation for service groups?

groups HOST-CONTACTGROUP-SMS,HOST-CONTACTGROUP-MAIL > notification_interval 10 > escalation_period 24x7 > escalation_options w,c,r > } Ah. That possiblity is not in the docs. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- ------

Re: [Nagios-users] Antwort: How to not send out first service notifications?

d checks until you throw > a hard state, so you do not get too many false warnings. Actually, it is fine (and desired) for the service to show up in the web interface as DOWN, and that the history is correctly written. Greetings Marc -- -----

[Nagios-users] Debian Bug #401738: statuswml.cgi cannot schedule check commands

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[Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

DNS server checks? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How

Re: [Nagios-users] How to check Internet access and/or DNS?

ke that. Thanks! Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to

[Nagios-users] Service on an IP address different from the host

tely familiar with system architecture. Which approach would, in your opinion, be appropriate for a new installation? I am currently inclined towards (4). What is your opinion? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "

Re: [Nagios-users] Service on an IP address different from the host

osts for the different interfaces, That's my solution (4), which is indeed most probably the least ugly one. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Hea

Re: [Nagios-users] Service on an IP address different from the host

> names. Wouldn't they then be looking for the wrong host in the web interface? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | los

[Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

each host which might have all other properties set from a template. Is there any reason for keeping this distinction and not including hostextinfo into main configuration? Am I missing something here? Greetings Marc --

Re: [Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 04:31:36PM -0600, Ethan Galstad wrote: > On 3 Feb 2006 at 12:42, Marc Haber wrote: > > Is there any reason for keeping this distinction and not including > > hostextinfo into main configuration? > > > The distinction has been maintained primaril

Re: [Nagios-users] Why the distinction between host definition and hostextinfo definition?

ified to work. Thanks for pointing this out. The availability of hostgroup_name in hostexinfo should definetely be in the docs for the 2.x release. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers

[Nagios-users] Two questions about outage processing

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Re: [Nagios-users] I have a problem!!! Help

; > > > It will be that somebody could feel a help, because I already tried of > everything and I don't get to solve. Well, I have a gut feeling that more information about this error might be available in the server error log. Greetings Marc -- -----

Re: [Nagios-users] I have a problem!!! Help

rror] Looks like a permission problem on /usr/lib/nagios/cgi/extinfo.cgi. Sheesh. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.1 on Debian Sarge ?

nagios 2.1 yet, and the mysql interface is gone. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *

[Nagios-users] nagios-to-visio?

figuration (comments, long host names, parent hosts etc) into some file format which visio 2003 can import without too much hassle? Greetings Marc -- - Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | M

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios-to-visio?

etings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Qui

[Nagios-users] Parsing a Nagios 2 configuration file from perl

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Re: [Nagios-users] what mail server to use?

r does when the smtp server is not reachable. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp_peer reports stratum off-by-one?

. Is the check the wrong way around? Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things."Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 31958061 Nordisch

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp_peer reports stratum off-by-one?

Hi, On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 02:51:31PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > * Marc Haber [2012-07-14 21:02]: > > $ ntpq -c pe torres.zugschlus.de > > remote refid st t when poll reach delay offs

[Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

have Nagios monitor hosts without reporting them as down when they are down? I know this may sound strange, but I would like to have statistics about how long the machines have been up and when. Greetings Marc -- - Marc

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 03:34:49AM -0700, Patrick Morris wrote: > On 7/29/2012 1:51 AM, Marc Haber wrote: > > I have a number of hosts that are not always turned on, such as my > > Notebook, my home server (which sleeps if not used) and a number of > > test VMs. To get a

Re: [Nagios-users] How to deal with hosts that are not always on

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 01:11:45PM +0200, Werner Flamme wrote: > we use action handler scripts to schedule downtime in this case. very dirty hack, but neat. Thanks. Greetings Marc -- ----- Marc Haber | "

[Nagios-users] check_ntp_peer parsing error

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Re: [Nagios-users] check_ntp_peer parsing error

On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 04:01:55PM +0200, Holger Weiß wrote: > JFTR: > * Marc Haber [2013-06-26 21:22]: > > I have a system running Debian oldstable with Nagios-Plugins 1.4.15. A > > few weeks ago, my check_ntp_peer checks have started acting up: > > > > $ /usr/lib