Re: [Nagios-users] montitoring a system only via email-transport of status-informations

2008-09-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
to. Process the message and provide an output accordingly to a file. Process this file as either an NSCA or NRPE plugin and see if you get the correct results! Is there any reason why you can't use ssh-wrapped nrpe commands? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem to monitor remote server due to dynamic IP at local PC

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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Re: [Nagios-users] Nagvis alternatives

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:23:03 + Alex Dehaini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apart from nexsm, are there others? Nagios Looking Glass? It's read only and it doesn't do maps but it does give a pretty interface to Nagios. What are you trying to achieve? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagvis alternatives

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
what you want, I know what to recommend! Kind regards, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagvis alternatives

2008-09-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
at the moment is Nexsm as previously discussed, however if I find anything else, I'll post it here! Cheers, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Nagios-users] Using Nagios to check if webpage is really shown

2008-09-02 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
will allow you to write complete tests to simulate users browsing your site. Hope this helps, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your

[Nagios-users] Issues with Authentication in Nagios3

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
have any ideas why this is happening? Thanks in advance, Matt. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge

Re: [Nagios-users] ADSL modem checking

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
is also check the internet forcefully from the lan card. Why not have this script touch a file when it changes the current interface (something like /var/tmp/eth0 or /var/tmp/eth1) and then write a basic plugin to read the file and set the Nagios status accordingly? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace

Re: [Nagios-users] Issues with Authentication in Nagios3

2008-08-27 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
a treat! Thanks. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios plugin for coldfusion

2008-08-26 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
don't use it!) or using webinject to take a given path through a CFM-based website to ensure that the site is up? M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email

Re: [Nagios-users] nagvis ideas?

2008-08-20 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
could have hours of fun dreaming this kind of thing up, but I have to work... M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Looking Glass - what do you want to see?

2008-08-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
time to do so!). M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

[Nagios-users] Virtual devices in Nagios2

2008-08-01 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
an alert fired that the switch is down, but only if more than one server has that interface off-line at the same time. If it's not possible, is there a better way of doing this with the kit that I have, or do I need to upgrade to managed switches? TIA, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE

2008-07-22 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
IP Addresses, however we use a firewall such as shorewall to limit connections to port 5666 to only certain IP addresses. It's basically a firewall rule that states: DROP EVERYTHING UNLESS: IP ADDRESS IS AN AUTHORISED IP Hope this helps, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace

Re: [Nagios-users] Help - I am unable to send notifications

2008-07-22 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
provided earlier. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications

Re: [Nagios-users] server monitoring

2008-07-17 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
, I've not tested this, but in theory at least it should work. Kind regards, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move

Re: [Nagios-users] Bandwidth Utilisation by Nagios Clients to Nagios Server

2008-07-16 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
are using residential ADSL lines for connectivity, and the Nagios traffic certainly isn't noticeable during day-to-day useage. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - This SF.Net

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0.1 Web UI Question - Refreshing a page

2008-07-11 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
it's not just a Nagios 3 issue. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your

Re: [Nagios-users] Question about setup

2008-07-03 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
can either setup NAgios to monitor on a number of different ports and just use NATing on your router, or use something like OpenVPN from the clients (any machine running NRPE/NSCA) to the Nagios server. We do both here and it works like a charm! :o) M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL

Re: [Nagios-users] Fwd: CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.

2008-06-30 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:36:52 +0530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to fix this myself. Can you tell us how so that people who have a similar problem in future know what to do? Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk

Re: [Nagios-users] Questions about Nagios Looking Glass

2008-06-25 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
the services on that host but I'm not having much luck - if you can help me in any way, that would be great! Thanks in advance, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk - Check out the new

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring capabilities question

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
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Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring capabilities question

2008-06-19 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:22:37 -0600 Aaron M. Segura [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correction -- Exit Codes 0 == OK 1 == Warning 2 == Critical Mea Culpa... /me blushes...I should know this stuff by now... :o) M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk

Re: [Nagios-users] different notification email

2008-06-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
the appropriate template accordingly - there's no reason why you couldn't do something similar based on the notification type. Hope this helps, Matt -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk

[Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi All, I currently help maintain and monitor around 50 servers across various parts of the UK using Nagios 2. At the moment, we have a configuration file for each host (%hostname%.cfg) and in that file we specify all the services for the named host. We are trying to reduce the number of

Re: [Nagios-users] A couple newb questions

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:35:50 -0400 Forsaken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are hostgroups pretty much just a cosmetic gathering for viewing in a web interface, or can they serve some practical use during configuration. Absolutely! We've got a hostgroup called debian servers and any server in this

Re: [Nagios-users] Which platform to run NAGIOS ?

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:31:19 +0200 Frank Bonnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tested on several UNIXs ( Debian lenny , Opensuse 11 , FreebSD 6.3 ) and I cannot really decide where to go ... It runs fine on Debian Etch if you don't want to use an unstable version of Debian. There's a quick

Re: [Nagios-users] Change nagios monitoring port

2008-06-13 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
on the public IP to port 5666 on the private IP and it all works. Having said all of that, we're moving to an OpenVPN-based solution for any machines that are in the current setup to remove the reliance on a single point of failure. M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd

[Nagios-users] Installing Nagios 3 on Debian Etch

2008-06-12 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
required etc, Cheers, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.truthisfreedom.org.uk/ - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open

Re: [Nagios-users] newbie sms question

2008-06-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
. Is there a FAQ for Nagios where this information can be held? M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone Business Park

Re: [Nagios-users] Log in query

2008-06-03 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
to their servers. What is it you are trying to achieve? Kind regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone Business Park

Re: [Nagios-users] reinstall nagios plugin but it is giving me following error

2008-04-14 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
will probably need to install libssl-dev before you can recompile correctly, just having ssl installed is not enough. Kind regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company

Re: [Nagios-users] reinstall nagios plugin but it is giving me following error

2008-04-14 Thread by way of Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using Ubuntu , and ssl dev package is already installed. Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/14/2008 06:43 PM To nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net cc Subject Re: [Nagios-users] reinstall nagios plugin but it is giving me following error

Re: [Nagios-users] Too stupid? Services are available, but nagios reports host to be down!

2008-04-09 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
, not the server. Hope this helps, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone Business Park, | Wyastone Leys, Monmouth, NP25 3SR

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification - escalation question

2008-04-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
on the 12th and 13th message? Try setting the first_notification to either 1 or 2. I've not tested this, it just seems to be logical. Regards, Matt -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0330 088 1511 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered

[Nagios-users] Very basic notifications question

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
it checks? I've had a read of the docs and I can't see how I'd achieve this, however if anyone knows of a good primer on this kind of thing, I'd be very grateful. Thanks in advance, Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http

Re: [Nagios-users] Very basic notifications question

2008-03-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
contain the hostname/IP and the services are listed elsewhere? Thanks again, Matt. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone

[Nagios-users] Monitoring Connection attempts

2008-03-05 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
for firefox here). Like I say, if it doesn't exist, I'll try and write it, I just thought someone might have a way of doing this already! Cheers, M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring windows servers

2008-03-04 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
more details on the ready2run site about configuring the system. Cheers, M. -- |Matthew Macdonald-Wallace |Tiger Computing Ltd |The Linux Specialists | |Tel: 0845 373 3579 |Web: http://www.tiger-computing.co.uk | |Registered in England. Company number: 3389961 |Registered address: Wyastone Business