Re: [Nagios-users] Layer 2 connectivity awareness?

2009-03-11 Thread RijilV
2009/3/11 Victor Lee > In the course of my learning (just starting out) how to work with Nagios I > have found that it isn't aware of layer 2 connections. In other words, if I > have 2 switches with a trunk between them Nagios doesn't seem to provide me > a way to either note that manually on the

Re: [Nagios-users] Empty Graphs

2009-03-13 Thread RijilV
2009/3/13 Eric Chatham > Hello, > > > > Can someone help me with this? None of my graphs have any information > being displayed in them. I’ve tried re-reading the INSTALL instructions > thinking I may’ve missed a step. It all seems to check out. What > information do you need from me. I tri

Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts are Critical

2009-03-23 Thread RijilV
2009/3/23 : > Marc, > > it also is giving me the following error: > > Return code of 127 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing > > Sorry for not mentioning that before.  Thanks, > > Andy > yeah, that's probably the problem - nagios can't find / can't run the plugin. Make sure that the plugin

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE vs. check_by_ssh

2009-03-25 Thread RijilV
2009/3/24 Christopher McAtackney : > Hi all, > > I was wondering if someone could give a brief overview of the pros / > cons of using NRPE to monitor my remote hosts versus using the > check_by_ssh command? > > I'm aware that check_by_ssh increases the CPU overhead, but I'm not > clear on the level

Re: [Nagios-users] Additional Info in email?

2009-04-01 Thread RijilV
2009/4/1 Andrew Davis : > Perhaps I need to ask a clarification question... in my checkcommands.cfg, > should I change $SERVICEOUTPUT$ to $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ or should I add the > $LONGSERVICEOUTPUT$ macro to the notify-service-by-email command? I'm > thinking that some tests will write some data t

Re: [Nagios-users] How to upgrade nagios Version 2.12 ?

2009-04-01 Thread RijilV
2009/4/1 J. Bakshi : > Dear list, > > Hope you all are well. > > Nagios 3.x has been released :-) I'm running nagios Version 2.12 and > like to upgrade it to 3.x > Is there any script  which can convert the nagios 2.12 configuration to > 3.X ? > > I did the configuration manually and it was a huge

Re: [Nagios-users] What are the reasons to use NRPE?

2009-04-27 Thread RijilV
2009/4/27 Sean Carolan : >> I just wonder what the reasons are to use NRPE in favour of checks >> over ssh with ssh keys. To me, NRPE seems just one more piece of >> software that may potentioally be broken and more hassle with >> firewalls. Why do people still use it when ssh checks are just as >>

Re: [Nagios-users] The icinga on the cake ...

2009-05-08 Thread RijilV
2009/5/8 Sean Carolan : > This is, IMHO, one of the greatest problems with open source > development.  Too much bickering, splintering and forking dilutes the > value of the product. Yeah, because out of all of the commercial closed source development projects I've worked on, none of them have eve

Re: [Nagios-users] differing notifications

2009-05-20 Thread RijilV
2009/5/20 Neil Dombrowski : > I haven't been able to find an answer to this conundrum looking at the > docs, faq, or googling. I'd love to hear any suggestions. > > > We have two contact groups; group "adminmail" sends an email to our > mailboxes and "adminphone" sends email to our phones. The idea

Re: [Nagios-users] Check result used as an argument for the next check

2009-07-08 Thread RijilV
2009/7/8 Marc-André Doll : > Is there a way to use the result of a check (the return value or the > output for example) as an argument for the next check. I need to keep an > history of the checks of one particular service in order to compare the > previous check result with the current one. > > I

Re: [Nagios-users] Looking for a Nagios answering service

2009-01-07 Thread RijilV
2009/1/7 Baron Schwartz > * filter out obvious spam > mmm, I think you might be designing for failure with that one. .r' -- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It is the best place to buy or sell services

Re: [Nagios-users] Acknowledgement Escalations

2009-01-21 Thread RijilV
2009/1/21 Mathieu Gagné > Hi, > > Here is the situation: > Somebody acknowledges a problem and forget about it. > > How would you implement an acknowledgement escalation? > > Or how would you detect such situation where a host/service is > down/critical for too long while being acknowledged? > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Different notifications depending on warning?

2009-02-16 Thread RijilV
2009/2/16 Israel Brewster > I don't know if this is possible, but is there any way to make nagios > send different alerts (or, rather not send alerts) depending on what > exactly a warning state is? My understanding is that nagios only looks > at the return code, not the status text, so this shou