Re: [Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-17 Thread Mirza Dedic
-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use? - Original Message - > From: "Mirza Dedic" > I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual > infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for > some of the more "critical" notifi

[Nagios-users] SMS Alerts, what do you use?

2011-02-17 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I currently have Nagios running on a Ubuntu 10.04 VM on our virtual infrastructure, what I would like to do is enable SMS notification for some of the more "critical" notifications. Just wondering what you guys use out there and how you have it setup? Anyone share their experience on gettin

[Nagios-users] Nagios email notification, nothing for "aditional information" section.

2011-02-15 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I recently re-installed my Nagios environment and recently found that using my old configuration that used to work, is not working now; more specifically the email notification parsing seems to not send information regarding "additional information" part. Example email notification mess

[Nagios-users] Monitoring email messages in an Exchange environment?

2010-10-15 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I have a request where we want to "monitor" a mailbox, our environment is Exchange 2007 SP1, the end clients use Outlook 2007/2010. Basically we have email that comes in which are simple "notification messages" from a server, but because it generates a lot of notification messages it is no

[Nagios-users] question about check_by_ssh

2010-09-17 Thread Mirza Dedic
My nagiox box uses check_by_ssh to run a remote check_log script on a box, I have a tricky situation where I need to "generate" the log right before check_log is invoked. This is the setup I have done: On my local Nagios box, created a dummy shell script to invoke check_by_ssh twice, one to ru

[Nagios-users] Help hacking a script to montior my AppServers?

2010-08-30 Thread Mirza Dedic
I am trying to monitor our OpenEdge Database Application Servers on our AIX box with Nagios, and to send an alert based on a "tricky" situation, described below: The tool that I run locally on the AIX host to check our servers outputs the following: #asbman -name production -query PID State

Re: [Nagios-users] Service Check Timed Out- Error

2010-08-27 Thread Mirza Dedic
Make sure that you have properly configured NSClient++ and that you can connect to It from the Nagios box? Does your check work from the cmd prompt? From: ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com [mailto:ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com] Sent: August/27/2010 3:06 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.n

Re: [Nagios-users] The output of $SERVICEOUTPUT$ macro is blank ?

2010-08-24 Thread Mirza Dedic
Justin Dorfman Mahalo.com Inc. > Jr. Systems Engineer @jdorfman<http://www.twitter.com/jdorfman> | @MahaloSysops<http://twitter.com/MahaloSysops> | Blog: http://bit.ly/aNiWSk On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Mirza Dedic mailto:mi...@oppy.com>> wrote: I recently upgraded my Ubun

[Nagios-users] The output of $SERVICEOUTPUT$ macro is blank ?

2010-08-24 Thread Mirza Dedic
I recently upgraded my Ubuntu OS (8.04 >> 10.04) and Nagios from 3.0 to 3.1.2, and recently I ran into an issue where the data for "$SERVICEOUTPUT$" is never included in my email notification. It is defined properly in the notification.cfg file as per below: define command{ command_name

[Nagios-users] Email notification for service/host alerts issue ?

2010-08-19 Thread Mirza Dedic
SC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$ } Any idea why this could be happening? Thanks. _____ Mirza Dedic | Senior Technical Analyst/DBA - IT | mi...@oppy.com<mailto:se...@oppy.com> | (O) 604-461-6779 (C) 778.895.8950 P P

[Nagios-users] Error with PNP4Nagios / RRDTools

2010-07-14 Thread Mirza Dedic
My RRD graphs were working fine, but for some reason I get this on one of my graphs: ERROR: STDERR => *** attempt to put segment in horiz list twice (red background with that error) Is there a way to clear this and have the graph continue graphing? Thanks. The Oppenheimer Group CONFIDENTI

[Nagios-users] Help with creating a pnp4nagios template

2010-06-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I was hoping someone out there can help me here, below is my perfdata output for checking disk space on remote Win32/64 servers that have NSClient++ installed. The perfdata received is in the format of: 'C:'=35.62G;3.99;1.99;0;39.98; The command used to query the C:\ is: define command{ c

Re: [Nagios-users] [op5-users] Cannot get pnp4nagios graphs using NSClient++ & check_nrpe ?

2010-06-28 Thread Mirza Dedic
threshold |-|-|- critical threshold |-|- minimum value |- maximum value From: Mirza Dedic Sent: June/28/2010 5:37 PM To: 'Nagios Users List' Subject: RE: [op5-users] Cannot get pnp4nagios graphs using NSClient++ & check_nrp

Re: [Nagios-users] [op5-users] Cannot get pnp4nagios graphs using NSClient++ & check_nrpe ?

2010-06-28 Thread Mirza Dedic
Checking disk space using NSClient++ (NRPE) and check_nrpe (2.12), trying to get RRD graphs (pnp4nagios): Configuration: NSClient++ v.0.3.8.76 (2010-05-27 x64) Check_nrpe 2.12 Nagios Merlin 0.6.7-beta2sp1 Nagios 3.2.1 Ninja 1.0 PNP 0.4.14 RRDTool 1.2.19 Error log in perfdata.log: 2010-06-28 16

[Nagios-users] Cannot get pnp4nagios graphs using NSClient++ & check_nrpe ?

2010-06-28 Thread Mirza Dedic
Checking disk space using NSClient++ (NRPE) and check_nrpe (2.12), trying to get RRD graphs (pnp4nagios): Configuration: NSClient++ v.0.3.8.76 (2010-05-27 x64) Check_nrpe 2.12 Nagios Merlin 0.6.7-beta2sp1 Nagios 3.2.1 Ninja 1.0 PNP 0.4.14 RRDTool 1.2.19 Error log in perfdata.log: 2010-06-28 16

Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA + NSClient

2010-06-24 Thread Mirza Dedic
sive fail. I would rather cut a ticket "service stale".The nagios doc clearly shows how to configure passive service checks so give it a read. So you need "my_cpu_check" to be a service description so nagios knows what to match that incoming nsca message to. Ash From: M

[Nagios-users] NSCA + NSClient

2010-06-24 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I have NSCA configured on my Nagios host, and enabled the necessary plugins on NSClient++ to support NSCA, configure XINETD appropriately inside my NSClient config I have: [NSCA Commands] my_cpu_check=checkCPU warn=80 crit=90 time=20m time=10s time=4 my_mem_check=checkMem MaxWarn=80% MaxCri

[Nagios-users] check_by_ssh plugin; how to ignore pulgin timeout being critical?

2010-05-26 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi List, I have Nagios currently using check_by_ssh (check_by_ssh v2002 (nagios-plugins 1.4.13)) to check some of my remote servers, it calls a log script on the remote server and the log script returns a warning if the log files matches the criteria. Every now and then, the check_by_ssh s

[Nagios-users] aix 5.3 plugin to monitor for long running processes ?

2010-05-20 Thread Mirza Dedic
Is there such a plugin to monitor aix topas utility (topas -P) and report back processes that have a long running "TIME" value? Better yet, TIME combined with high CPU value? The output of topas -P on a AIX box looks like this: USERPIDPPID PRI NI RES RES SPACETIME CPU% I/O

[Nagios-users] Service / Host Dependency Check - logic

2010-04-01 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I just want to make sure I understand the logic here correctly before implementing it; basically my goal here is to "minimize" the amount of notifications that come through. Right now, as an example I have in my definitions: My host cfg: define host{ use window

[Nagios-users] Icinga fork.. and the many well established open source projects..

2010-03-31 Thread Mirza Dedic
So first time I hear about the fork, but just something that pounders my mind.. Why reinvent the wheel of a UI when there are projects out there focusing on this? Op5 Ninja is super fast and great, wouldn't it be a better use of development time if you integrate Icinga with Ninja and Merlin as t

[Nagios-users] How to monitor a log file on a windows box?

2010-03-31 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi, I have a few Windows boxes where I want to monitor a specific log files for matching errors, and if they are there; I want Nagios to warn the appropriate users. I have accomplished this on our AIX box using consol's check_logfile plugin, however I need this function for Windows. My windows

[Nagios-users] How to update Merlin 0.6.4p2 and Ninja <1.x ?

2010-03-05 Thread Mirza Dedic
I have Merlin, Ninja, and NagVis installed.. Wanting to update the products to their latest version, does anyone out there have a tutorial on doing so? Ideally, do not want to lose ½ a year of nagvis graphs and trends. Thanks. The Oppenheimer Group CONFIDENTIAL This message is for the des

[Nagios-users] Configuring Serce Dependencies in Nagios 3.1.2

2009-10-27 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I have a Nagios setup and I am monitoring LAN/WAN servers/services including network devices, smb shares, squid service status, server pings, and our frame relay. Now if my frame relay goes down between the two offices, obviously my Nagios will not be able to check the server and smb/sq

Re: [Nagios-users] Using Nagios to monitor Exchange 2007 Queues, etc.. ??

2009-10-05 Thread Mirza Dedic
of network problems. A long send queue, in particular, tells me that the Internet connection is down, or something along those lines. If you look at the source code for the plugin, you can also see the WMI query used. Mirza Dedic wrote: > I cannot seem to find any solid information with Google.c

[Nagios-users] Using Nagios to monitor Exchange 2007 Queues, etc.. ??

2009-10-02 Thread Mirza Dedic
I cannot seem to find any solid information with Google.com on how to monitor my Exchange 2007 server, I am interested in knowing the send/receive queues, mainly to know the load at any certain time... On the box, I have NSClient++ installed (0.3.7) and I am already monitoring windows services,

[Nagios-users] Host Check Dependency..

2009-08-06 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I plan to use Host Check Dependency on my services... can someone please confirm that the below will do the following scenario: If Ping fails to the host machine (van-sql01) that is being monitored, Nagios will suppress the services listed in the dependent_service_description portion of

[Nagios-users] Service Check Dependency

2009-07-30 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I am checking my nagios configuration and wanting to implement check dependency, so that I can silence some of the many alerts we get. Could someone help me better understand the service dependency check method.. My service dependency below.. I want all the services on VAN-SQL01 to depen

[Nagios-users] Performance Counters & Outputs

2009-07-30 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello list, I am having an issue trying to run... ./check_nt -H van-sql01 -p * -s * -v COUNTER -l "\\SQLServer:Databases(DWH)\Log File(s) Size (KB)","Log file for DWH is: %.2f Kb" I get: Log file for DWH is: 143352.00 Kb | 'Log file for DWH is: %.2f Kb'=143352.00%;0.00;0.

[Nagios-users] NSClient++ WMI Counters Check Commands ??

2009-07-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I am very inexperienced with using NSClient++ to query WMI Counters, but I want to tap into the resource as it has much information... Does anyone have WMI Counter Check CMDs for any of the following: SQL Server 2005 ISA 2003 OS Communicator Blackberry BES This would be greatly appre

Re: [Nagios-users] Check result from check_mssql.pl returns "null" from nagios, but OK from shell ??

2009-07-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
-list Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check result from check_mssql.pl returns "null" from nagios, but OK from shell ?? On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:33 PM, Mirza Dedic wrote: > The check_mssql.pl is from the op5 dev team as per the start of the > file: > > # License: GPL > # Copy

Re: [Nagios-users] Check result from check_mssql.pl returns "null" from nagios, but OK from shell ??

2009-07-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check result from check_mssql.pl returns "null" from nagios, but OK from shell ?? Sorry, also include your test+output, your host{}, service{} and the command{} definitions. -- Marc On Jul 29, 2009, at 4:04 PM, Marc Powell wrote: > > On Jul 29,

[Nagios-users] Check result from check_mssql.pl returns "null" from nagios, but OK from shell ??

2009-07-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
I am trying to use the check plug-in: Check_mssql.pl If I run it from the shell, using ./check_mssql.pl using my parameters, everything works OK and the DBs report Online. When I run this in Nagios, it reports "null" for all of my checks using check_mssql.pl I checked my nagios.cfg an

[Nagios-users] Ubuntu 9.x and Nagios 3.1.2 - Error "declared with atribute warn_unused_result"

2009-07-22 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, When I try to compile Nagios on my new box I keep getting a lot of: utils.c:4475: warning: ignoring return value of âasprintfâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result utils.c:3352: warning: ignoring return value of âwriteâ, declared with attribute warn_unused_result utils.c: In funct

[Nagios-users] Nagios Alerts to SMS using SMSTools help?

2009-07-02 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I plan to use "smstools" for my Nagios box to send out alerts to our cells if per say, our email gateway was down and Nagios alerts would not be delivered to the blackberries. In order to do this, I see a lot of users are using "smstools", when I checked their site it seems that the dev

[Nagios-users] NConf vs. NagiosQL vs. lilac ??

2009-06-23 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I am stuck at choosing which configuration tool I should use for my Nagios, I plan to refine our checks to steamline them more for performance, and change some of the plug-ins used for checks, and would like to install a web-based configuration utlity. I've noticed there are a few to ch

[Nagios-users] Trying to use NSClient's counters...

2009-05-29 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I have a few boxes where I would like to check deeper in for performance counters such as our Exchange 2007 Server.. I am trying to run.. #Exchange Connection Count define command{ command_name check_nt_exchange_connection_count command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -s password

Re: [Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Mirza Dedic
pecified path. (“MSExchangeISConnection|“MSExchangeISConnection) Where is "“" coming from?? -Original Message- From: Mirza Dedic [mailto:mi...@oppy.com] Sent: May/06/2009 10:32 AM To: 'nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net' Subject: [Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counte

[Nagios-users] NSclient++ Performance Counters Help ??

2009-05-06 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I am trying to use NSClient++ to monitor performance counters; previously I only used it to check disk space etc, but I am trying to make sure of the "-v COUNTER -l" switch more now as it is very powerful. In my config I have: define command{ command_name check_nt_exchange_messages_deli

Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms tomobile phone using Nagios

2009-03-13 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hi Andrew, How are you configuring your sanity checks in Nagios? Thanks. From: Andrew Davis [mailto:ncc...@gmail.com] Sent: March/11/2009 9:39 AM To: Martyn Cc: 'Onotsky, Steve x55328'; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to receive notification alert by sms tomobi

[Nagios-users] Nagios Service Check Delay

2009-03-10 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I have Nagios monitoring about 200 services on our network, this includes various services, processes and network devices. With this, we also have NSClient++ monitoring our Windows boxes. Currently, when a service is reported DOWN, Nagios schedules the next service check to be 10minutes

Re: [Nagios-users] AIX & check_logfiles from consol.com issues/errors - please help

2009-01-20 Thread Mirza Dedic
Patel [mailto:tarak.pa...@ec.gc.ca] Sent: January/20/2009 1:28 PM To: Mirza Dedic Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] AIX & check_logfiles from consol.com issues/errors - please help Hi, If I remember correctly each time you execute the script it keeps track of the offset in file. This means that if there a

[Nagios-users] AIX & check_logfiles from consol.com issues/errors - please help

2009-01-20 Thread Mirza Dedic
logfile to a non-existent file it will error out properly. The check script has a chmod of 777 as well and is being executed under root. Thanks. Mirza Dedic Jr. Technical Analyst - The Oppenheimer Group Office #(604) 461-6779 : Cell #(778) 895-8950 ---

[Nagios-users] check_by_ssh for new linxux users.. shed some light...

2009-01-05 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I have a Nagios system running (3.0.X) along with Nagios Plug-ins; while I am able to get Nagios to monitor all the things I need on a Win32 box (using NSClient++ & Check_NT); I am having difficulty getting check_by_ssh to work for me. I have previously never used check_by_ssh; I am als

[Nagios-users] Nagios Notification using 2nd email server?

2008-07-18 Thread Mirza Dedic
rnet is down he can still talk to B). Any idea? Thank you. Mirza Dedic Jr. Technical Analyst - The Oppenheimer Group Office #(604) 461-6779 : Cell #(778) 895-8950 - This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move De

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

2008-06-16 Thread Mirza Dedic
to an external mailbox/SMS gateway to reach the admins. I plan to stick with that idea unless someone has a simpler more centralized solution for this to avoid a 2nd nagios/mailer setup? Thanks. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mirza Dedic Sent:

Re: [Nagios-users] Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

2008-06-16 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I will be using sendmail on the box that Nagios is running and it will be relaying emails to our Exchange Server. -Original Message- From: Patrick Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: June/16/2008 11:21 AM To: Mirza Dedic Cc: 'nagios Users Mailinglist' Subject: R

[Nagios-users] Alternative Notification Method for a Backup

2008-06-16 Thread Mirza Dedic
that to a specific outside-of-our-servers mailbox? (ex, gmail?). Thanks. Mirza Dedic Jr. Technical Analyst - The Oppenheimer Group Office #(604) 461-6779 : Cell #(778) 895-8950 - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It&#

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Exchange 2007?

2008-05-30 Thread Mirza Dedic
I have been trying to get a working plug-in that does this as well; deeper than what I have setup right now. The way I am monitoring Exchange 2007 is with service & process checks, but this wouldn't give you a full monitoring covering as processes & services can be UP but no mail coming through

[Nagios-users] Monitoring for Stale AIX Processes with Nagios ?

2008-05-20 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, We have AIX 5.3 running on our production servers and the way things are setup we need to make sure there are no STALE processes on the box, by STALE I mean any idle process that has been running for more than 5 hours. Sure we can monitor this with topas -P and have a terminal session op

[Nagios-users] FW: Monitoring your office's Coffee Machine?

2008-05-12 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I know, totally off topic but what if you really wanted to? I want to monitor our Coffee Machine to warn me when it is running low (so that I can go there & put a new coffee in for some fresssh coffee). Now I know it has nothing that Nagios can talk to; so my question does anyone know o

[Nagios-users] Monitoring your office's Coffee Machine?

2008-05-12 Thread Mirza Dedic
Hello, I know, totally off topic but what if you really wanted to? I want to monitor our Coffee Machine to warn me when it is running low (so that I can go there & put a new coffee in for some fresssh coffee). Now I know it has nothing that Nagios can talk to; so my question does anyone know o