[Nagios-users] VMWare and Host Parents

ESX cluster and to use check_summary to test for at least one OK ESX server. The check_summary didn't work for me, I wondered if there was another way to achieve the same result ? Thanks Matthew Joyce | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia | 02

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp and disk monitring

ugins NRPE cons - have to compile NRPE and the Nagios plugins (first time is the hardest) Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices?

rvice dependencies will become less long winded and more flexible. (grumble) Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > O

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices?

is going on and a notification blizzard. I'd also propose only monitoring what you need to, seems obvious but it's easy to start monitoring because you can. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Ori

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices?

file version control. It's a breeze to setup, requires python. After any significant changes I just run `bzr commit -m 'tweaked foo'` and a new revision is created. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research >

Re: [Nagios-users] Ndomod v1.4 b4 - no worky

Thanks Marc. I had renamed ndomod-2x.o to ndomod, the config was referring to ndomod.o I'm appropriately embarrassed. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Nagios-users] Ndomod v1.4 b4 - no worky

Using nagios 2.9, and wanting NDOMOD (sockets) with mysql. Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o' -> /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any idea, I'm not sure how to proceed ? Matthew Joyce

[Nagios-users] SQL 2005

bs. Or perhaps SQL2005 have some snmp OIDs I can query ? Any ideas ? Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. St

Re: [Nagios-users] service depenency templates

ck, I've always found service dendancies irksome to implement. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Chapin

[Nagios-users] Service dependencies

Is there a way to configure service dependencies to cater for redundancies ? Service_A depends on (Service_B OR Service_C) Or does it only do Service_A depends on (Service_B AND Service_C) Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Me

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS SNMP

apt-get install snmp test, using snmpwalk and snmpget there's also a good Nagios plugin for querying windows servers, check_snmp_win, have a look on Nagios Exchange. Of course this assumes you want simple snmp checking and not traps, or agents. On 6/7/07, Raphael SurcouF Bordet <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: [Nagios-users] [-users] Best Distro

I would opt for whatever is most familiar to your team. Reuse the knowledge you have (backups, dr, patch management, etc), and avoid introducing another os if you can. Debian for me. Fwif. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Res

[Nagios-users] Custom messages

I'm using v2.8, is it possible to customise the notification messages ? I have some which are sms and they are being truncated. Ideally I'd like separate messages formats for mail and sms. Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Austra

Re: [Nagios-users] PDI Power Distribution Unit monitoring

If they support SNMP it should be reasonably easy. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of lunaslide > Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] Sharepoint DB check.

check the db too. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lacayo, Luis F Sent: Thursday, 5 April 2007 12:

[Nagios-users] Nagios, syslog, splunk

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 ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Aus

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting too many Nagios notifications

e the attitude; what are the fewest things I can monitor to adequately determine the health of this infrastructure. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mail

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: Re: Service Dependencies - How do you doyours?]

t and pass the host name to it. It works well, I'll probably do the same for NRPE. The only thing that stops me sharing the script is that it's a real kludge and once it worked I stopped working on it. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Austr

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications by SMS

or load balancing of sms servers, but if there is a lot of messages they don't arrive in order. I'm considering having a GSM phone attached to the nagios servers, or a pci card like this http://www.amplified.com.au/GSM_Modem.aspx I would if I could be sure linux was supported and I could c

Re: [Nagios-users] Reverse service in Windows

There's a check command which can check a service via SNMP. (Nagios Exchange) You can specify the name of the service and the number of services you expect to see running with that name, in your case that would be zero. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer

[Nagios-users] Minimum permission required for reading WMI data via NRPE+NRPE_NT ?

ssions are required to read WMI data ? And how are they assigned ? I thought perhaps I would create limited access account and assign perms using WMI Control, but that hasn't worked. Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Dependencies - refer to self

I like to see this issue come up time and time again, if only to hopefully get address in v2.8 or v3 It would be so much simpler if there was a parent_service directive in the service definition. Andy, will you share you php script ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Strategies

AIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 22 December 2006 11:05 AM To: Matthew Joyce Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Strategies Hi, Just my quick two cents - I've seen several times on our servers (mostly on Windows 2000) that the SNMP service will be shown a

[Nagios-users] Nagios Strategies

Hi all, I've found myself in a quandary and I'm wondering how other Nagios uses have address similar problems. We've recently upgraded to 2.6 and I've been tidying up the configs, sorting out service groups, etc. I've been adding checks for specific windows services, Exchange, Backup Exec, vario

Re: [Nagios-users] help please

Can you post your hosts.cfg and services.cfg file for us to look at ? Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: F

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios installation

You will need to do at least some configuring before nagios will run. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/config.html Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[

[Nagios-users] Scheduling downtime

a cmd will be fine, I see there are several on Nagios Exchange, can anyone recommend one over the others ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Importing Configuration Information from Nagios 1.xfiles to Nagios 2.x file

http://fruity.sourceforge.net/ "Supports Importing Nagios 2.x and 1.x Configurations" I had problems, but I may have set it up wrong. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research ___

Re: [Nagios-users] Watch Printers/Print Server?

Maybe the output of smbclient could be used to determine printer status, as I think that util can list shared resources. Please let us know how you get on. Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Res

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

days on you can get the hang of it, but then you stop because it works and the next time you look at it you're a noob again.   Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ma

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with plugins for V2.5

om another install. Fixed , thanks. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: Max H. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, 25 October 2006 11:05 AM > To: Matth

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with plugins for V2.5

Does anyone else use the check_snmp_win.pl plugin succesfully with v2.5 ? Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

[Nagios-users] Problems with plugins for V2.5

ks fine. Any ideas, what have I missed ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services,

Re: [Nagios-users] auto-detecting of new hosts, routers etc...

cript, why not have nagios scan a folder for CFGs. A script could add/alter individual CFGs (archive older versins), and send you the result of a `nagios -v`, ready for you to bounce the service. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia f

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring VMWare

The data coming from a VM machine isn't useless as you described it, it's still relevant in the context of the virtual machine. Develop some tailored checks and thresholds for a VM Hostgroup. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institut

Re: [Nagios-users] checking a counter on a website

, even PHP (cmd) can give you easy access to the db.   Or bash : http://www.edlsystems.com/shellsql/   Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: [Nagios-users] Ubuntu Server + Nagios 2.5

When you deploy Debian Sarge with Nagios 2.5, do you build it in the 'Debain way' ? That is, does your 2.5 use the same folder location and config location as earlier Nagios version ? Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Austra

[Nagios-users] Ubuntu Server + Nagios 2.5

or Ubuntu Server ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Tech

Re: [Nagios-users] Version 2

> > Can anyone tell me if with Nagios v2, it's possible to have > same host > > service dependencies ? > > Like httpd on host A requires mysqld on host A to work? I > can't see why it would not work. > Well, it doesn't work on v1.3 and it would be a significant reason to upgrade. I'm gettin

[Nagios-users] Version 2

Title: Version 2 Can anyone tell me if with Nagios v2, it's possible to have same host service dependencies ? Also, are the hosts details stored in mysql or are the config files still required ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Aus

[Nagios-users] Monitoring

x27;m thinking there would be a network enabled, snmp capable, black box with temperature/humidity probes or similar. For power I guess there would be an SNMP UPS or something ? Any ideas ? Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medica

Re: [Nagios-users] Request for posting

  No-one leaves. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | 0412 309745 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of MasayaOtsuSent: Tuesday, 27 June 2006 10:17 AMTo: Joe McCaug

[Nagios-users] Polling question

Title: Polling question Hi, I'm writing some scrips in python to extract data from a Nagios mysql database, that all fine, happy with that. I'd like the script to run as often as Nagios refreshes it's own data, is there any way I can get Nagios to run my scriipt ? Thanks

[Nagios-users] Nagios 2.1 on Debian Sarge ?

Title: Nagios 2.1 on Debian Sarge ? Is anyone able to run Nagios (mysql) v2.1 on Debain Sarge ? The version in Apt is only 1.3. Thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research smime.p7s Description: S

[Nagios-users] SNMP WARNING

Am I missing something fundamental about this command ? Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research

RE: [Nagios-users] Service dependencies

elsewhere... so they aren't > expressible that way. So I've still got megabytes of config > files to generate when there's a change, vs. the idea of > changing a simple template and having it propagate :( > > /eli > > Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > > On

[Nagios-users] Service dependencies

looks like I need to define a dependency for each service, for each host. That's a lot of defining. Is there any tools available to help manage configurations ? thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research

RE: [Nagios-users] SNMP, Dell Hardware

> -Original Message- > From: Subhendu Ghosh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 13 March 2006 2:41 PM > To: Matthew Joyce > Cc: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP, Dell Hardware > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2006, Matthew Joyce

[Nagios-users] SNMP, Dell Hardware

- *3* Have I misunderstood how the warning and critical thresholds work ? Can anyone help ? I feel I'm close, if I can crack this I'll be set. thanks Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research