Re: [Nagios-users] check_udp error message

2013-09-06 Thread Roger Bell_West
ich you still refuse to give any detail, is expecting something and will return something else. You need to send it that something, and look for the something else in the response -- just as you send a URL and look for body text when you're using check_http. Roger ---

Re: [Nagios-users] R: R: check_udp error message

2013-09-06 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 08:19:37AM +0200, Marco Borsani wrote: >I have not any idea how to construct a packet to send/receive...I did not >thing was necessary to use that plugin.. Try reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_Datagram_Protocol since you clearly don't understand UDP. You are s

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Plugin for IPTABLES Monitoring

2013-05-14 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 01:12:23PM +0200, Werner Flamme wrote: >Sunil Sankar [14.05.2013 12:41]: >> try setting the suid for this script >Set a script suid? Which operating system supports that? Better would be to enable the NRPE user to run a specific iptables invocation via sudoers. ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin check_md_raid

2013-05-06 Thread Roger Bell_West
On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:58:29PM -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: >Hari, if you're out there, do you know what could be the problem? Looks to me as though "clean " is not the same as "clean". These days I use check_linux_raid out of the standard plugins package. (Haven't upgraded to wheezy yet.) -

Re: [Nagios-users] check_file_age help

2012-07-30 Thread Roger Burton West
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Jeremy Page wrote: >Hello list, I am trying to use check_file_age on Ubuntu 10.04 to check a >local file system. When I specify the file name it works but using a >wildcard fails saying it cannot find the file. I need to use the >wildcard - the files have u

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios3 Plugin - check_http SSL connection fails

2012-05-11 Thread Roger Burton West
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 07:35:45AM +, Sebastian Rupp wrote: >I installed the plugins for https connections but it doesn't work. >Invalid option - SSL is not available. Perhaps it's telling you it can't find the system's SSL libraries. Try it against some other (known good) SSL servers? -

Re: [Nagios-users] 2 Nagios boxes running together in different locations

2012-05-09 Thread Roger Burton West
On Wed, May 09, 2012 at 11:53:56AM +0100, FTL Nagios wrote: >Interesting - How does it work though - I mean if the firewall plays up at >Site A, it thinks everything in Site B is down - so Nagios GUI marks >everything as down - what happens then if say a server in Site B does >actually go down - w

Re: [Nagios-users] Confusion on nrpe

2012-05-07 Thread Roger Burton West
When starting a new topic, please don't reply to earlier mail. Some of aren't using Microsoft, and have threading. On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 01:23:18PM -0400, Meyer, Bruce wrote: >My goal for a group of machines behind a DMZ is to query some plugins, and >send the reulsts from the Monitored server

Re: [Nagios-users] puzzling no output from nrpe run of check_load

2012-04-25 Thread Roger Burton West
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[Nagios-users] SSL and multiple disk checker plugins

2012-04-07 Thread Roger Burton West
I have uploaded a couple of nagios plugins I've found useful on my own network. check_ssl-cert is a generic SSL checker - for cases where you're running a non-standard protocol behind SSL, or where you want a more detailed certificate chain report. It'll give WARNING and CRITICAL messages about ex

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios plugin for external viewing

2012-04-03 Thread Roger Burton West
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 03:13:12PM -0700, Jonathan Nilsson wrote: >I definitely agree that it is frustrating to refresh and then be taken back >to the frameset home page. The workaround I use is to just bookmarked this >URL directly (so I don't use the side-bar frameset at all): >http://server.doma

[Nagios-users] cool Nagios + DNX tutorial

2008-11-07 Thread Roger
My buddy Pat at Petta Tech just put up a great DNX + Nagios tutorial http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Nagios_%2B_DNX He did a good job of documenting how he worked out the various kinks. He's running about 5000 checks on 800 hosts, and the servers that have this running are HP DL360 G5s, dua

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.x rpms?

2008-08-18 Thread Roger
Is there a way to install Nagios 3 via rpm on RHEL 3 boxes? (I don't find any googling, just ones for 2.x) Or do I need to just compile from scratch? And where might I go to find out this sort of thing? - This SF.Net email is

[Nagios-users] nagios to monitor 'seamless mobility' solutions

2008-04-25 Thread Roger
Just recently, I've gotten into mesh networking and am now researching into some of the "seemless mobility" solutions (802.11r, 802.21, etc). Any ideas on how to use Nagios (or any other F/OSS tool, for that matter) to somehow monitor what the users might be experiencing? I could monitor the heal

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to monitor remote hosts with nrpe

2008-04-06 Thread Roger Dierauer
hi you have to configure (normaly) /usr/local/nagios/etc/nrpe.cfg file... there is the config for the check commands kind regards Roger 2008/4/4, Rodrick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I recently built a nagios 3.0 server and having a bit of problem getting > remote hosts moni

[Nagios-users] checking all partitions on Windows host via check_nt?

2008-04-01 Thread Roger
In the nrpe.cfg file on my montored box, I have the following command (which works beautifully). check command[check_disks_proc_mounts]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 15% -c 10% $(for x in $(cat /proc/mounts |awk '{print $2}')\; do echo -n " -p $x "\; done) I am looking to make a check_nt

[Nagios-users] tier 3 nagios support needed

2008-03-25 Thread Roger
If anyone is in (or is looking to move to) Southern CA (in Newport Beach) and does tier 3 level Nagios work, please email me I can refer you to an integrator that is hiring full time people in that area. - Check out the new Sou

[Nagios-users] using DNX to run 30K service checks?

2008-03-24 Thread Roger
Someone just showed me a real life scenario with ~30K service checks, and I am wondering if DNX would be the best way to distribute these checks? (I'm guessing that doing this via NSCA would be too cumbersome) - This SF.net em

[Nagios-users] MOM - Nagios connector

2008-03-19 Thread Roger
Has anyone played with this MOM/Nagios connector? http://tinyurl.com/hjzjw >From the webpage "The MOM to Nagios allows you to send alerts to/from MOM to/from Nagios. This is a bi-directional connector." Here is a page telling how it works http://tinyurl.com/fckdd a snippet from the last URL:

[Nagios-users] Can Cacti poll passively via Nagios client?

2008-03-19 Thread Roger
Is it possible to use Cacti to poll via passive checks on servers? Since Nagios has a problem with a high numbers of active checks, I'm hoping to use Cacti's poller to tell servers buried behind firewalls to check neighboring internal devices and then report back to the centralized Cacti servers i

Re: [Nagios-users] Suggestions on Nagios-friendly performance monitoring devices?

2008-03-02 Thread Roger
On 3/1/08, Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I suggest using PNP (pnp4nagios.sf.net), with it you can do snmp > checks and get trending graphs from the data as a side effect using > perfdata output. I have been migrating all of my custom Cacti trending scripts to > Nagios checks that output gr

[Nagios-users] Suggestions on Nagios-friendly performance monitoring devices?

2008-03-01 Thread Roger
I'm looking for Nagios-friendly devices that I can put in a network to monitor network performance. Someone recommended to me Netscout, and I'm wondering if anyone here had good experience integrating it with Nagios (using check_snmp, I assume). (I'm guessing that I'll have to poll this sort of de

Re: [Nagios-users] auditing Nagios configs

2008-02-27 Thread Roger
On 2/26/08, Mark L Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 16:20 -0800, Roger wrote: > > Does anyone have any tools or tips on auditing Nagios configs when > > you're consolidating boxes? > > > > > I would be pretty easy

[Nagios-users] check_nt_proc_count with NSClient++ ?

2008-02-25 Thread Roger
Has anyone used the following script with NSClient++, instead of NC_net? http://nagiosexchange.altinity.org/nagiosexchange/check_proc_count_nt/check_proc_count_nt - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challen

[Nagios-users] auditing Nagios configs

2008-02-25 Thread Roger
Does anyone have any tools or tips on auditing Nagios configs when you're consolidating boxes? (It sure would be nice to have a tool that "ate" configs and then showed you which hosts were missing from each one, particularly when there are different versions of Nagios in different boxes, etc.)

Re: [Nagios-users] autogenerating NRPE handlers for nrpe.cfg

2008-02-25 Thread Roger
For what it's worth, I finally got this to work Here is a quick wiki entry I wrote on the subject for those new to Nagios http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Checking_/proc/mounts_on_remote_server - This SF.net email is spon

[Nagios-users] Fwd: plugin for iostat readings?

2008-02-24 Thread Roger
UPDATE ON MY QUESTION On 2/24/08, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm looking for a solid *proven* plugin (that I can run via NRPE) that > will give me a good idea of disk i/o on *nix servers, particularly AIX ones. > > I'm thinking that maybe there is some

[Nagios-users] ideas on virtualization for traveling Nagios lab?

2008-02-24 Thread Roger
Not sure if this is the best place to ask this, but I'm hoping that you guys might be able to answer this as you tend to know Nagios' load in a training sort of environment (20 virtual servers @ less than about 50 checks per box) under various types of hardware. I'm building a sort of traveling tr

Re: [Nagios-users] autogenerating NRPE handlers for nrpe.cfg

2008-02-22 Thread Roger
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 2:58 PM, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Roger wrote: > > > I have hundreds of hosts, each of which needs an npre.cfg file to > > > reflect the t

Re: [Nagios-users] autogenerating NRPE handlers for nrpe.cfg

2008-02-22 Thread Roger
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Hari Sekhon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger wrote: > > I have hundreds of hosts, each of which needs an npre.cfg file to > > reflect the true "fdisk -l" and "df -h" output of each box. > > > > >

[Nagios-users] autogenerating NRPE handlers for nrpe.cfg

2008-02-22 Thread Roger
I have hundreds of hosts, each of which needs an npre.cfg file to reflect the true "fdisk -l" and "df -h" output of each box. Anyone have any scripts that they've used? I'm in a bind, otherwise I'd think about writing my own... ---

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ssh to find "corrupt" keys that need regeneration?

2008-02-21 Thread Roger
On 2/20/08, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have ~300 Foundry routers, and periodically something (not sure what) > "happens" that resets some sort of key that prevents me from SSH'ing in with > a tool like PuTTY and Teraterm (have not tried this from a Linu

[Nagios-users] check_ssh to find "corrupt" keys that need regeneration?

2008-02-20 Thread Roger
I have ~300 Foundry routers, and periodically something (not sure what) "happens" that resets some sort of key that prevents me from SSH'ing in with a tool like PuTTY and Teraterm (have not tried this from a Linux ssh box). check_ssh, I know, checks the ssh handshake but (to my knowledge) does not

[Nagios-users] NagiosPluginsNT scaling to 400 sites?

2008-02-19 Thread Roger
I have about 400 sites, each of which has a Windows server with LogMeIn that is dedicated to the IT department. I'm wondering if one centralized Nagios server can use the NagiosPluginsNT project (http://tinyurl.com/2y8ykr) to effectively monitor certain critical internal services from that locatio

[Nagios-users] autogenerate nrpe.cfg file

2008-02-17 Thread Roger
What is the best way to autogenerate nrpe.cfg files across lots of servers? Googling, I've found things like Puppet, but that requires a bit more overhead and planning than I have right now. - This SF.net email is sponsored by:

[Nagios-users] checking disk i/o

2008-02-16 Thread Roger
What is the "best" Nagios way to measure disk i/o on both Windows and Linux? (Usually, I've just used some other tool to measure and/or trend it) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

Re: [Nagios-users] Fping tweaks

2008-02-16 Thread Roger
On 2/16/08, Larry Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I personally use Smokeping to monitor latency, packet loss, etc. I then > have nagios check the RRD files for the data and alert on parameters. > Which check_rrdtool plugin do you use? I've seen it referenced and googled for it, but haven't be

[Nagios-users] Fping tweaks

2008-02-16 Thread Roger
What fping tweaks do you guys use on Nagios? Primarily, this question is a general one (just to see what people check with). A bit more specifically, however, this question is designed to approach the answer on which fping plugin switches / parameters people use to scale Nagios checks to gazillio

Re: [Nagios-users] using fping to find missing A records

2008-02-16 Thread Roger
On 2/13/08, Tom Throckmorton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If I understand correctly what you're shooting for, it can be done in one > step: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] fping -ang 192.168.1.0/24 > > ...would return > > - all hosts that are alive > - by name (if one exists) > - for a generated range (192

[Nagios-users] using fping to find missing A records

2008-02-13 Thread Roger
I have a specific question on how to do something, and a larger question addressing other "better" ways to do the spirit of what I'm asking. I'm setting up Nagios, and am trying to make sure that all of the subnets have A records, as IP addresses will be changing very, very rapidly, and when that

[Nagios-users] Weird PerfParse errors ("fixed" with kill -9 NagiosPIDs)

2008-02-12 Thread Roger
I am getting tons of errors in Nagios (CentOS 4, Nagios 2.10) while integrating PerfParse e.g. Error: Command 'process-host-perfdata' has already been defined Error: Could not register command (config file '/etc/nagios/perfparse/etc/nagios_perfparse.cfg', starting on line 19) The only way that I

[Nagios-users] Using PerfParse *and* PNP?

2008-02-12 Thread Roger
Is it possible to use both PerfParse and PNP? I'd like to use PerfParse's MySQL backend for some hosts and PNP's rrdtool backend for others. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visu

[Nagios-users] locating check_rrd.pl plugin

2008-02-08 Thread Roger
I'm looking for check_rrd.pl, but cannot seem to find it ( http://tinyurl.com/2ulzjh). I see lots of check_rrd_??? plugins, but don't seem the find the "original" by that name. Am I missing something? - This SF.net email is s

Re: [Nagios-users] snmpwalk works, but check_snmp does not

2008-02-06 Thread Roger
On Feb 5, 2008 5:40 PM, Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Roger! > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008, Roger wrote: > > > From CentOS (does not work) > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] plugins]# pwd > > /usr/lib/nagios/plugins > > [EMAIL PROTEC

[Nagios-users] snmpwalk works, but check_snmp does not

2008-02-05 Thread Roger
I have an interesting issue when using the Nagios plugin to make an SNMP query to a Netscreen 208. I have two Nagios servers -- Gentoo and CentOS -- and one of the check_snmp commands are not working on CentOS server (Nagios03) when I run it *exactly* from the command line like I do in Gentoo (Nag

[Nagios-users] ~5000 second for 'Active Service Latency" (could this delay my checks?)

2008-02-04 Thread Roger
I am having a helluva time getting lots of SNMP checks to properly show up in my Nagios GUI after I create them and restart the /etc/init.d/nagios service. I have about 900 hosts, all of which are not checked (via ping) very much (like every 5 minutes). My services are checked about every 10 minut

[Nagios-users] HOWTO I did on installing NRPE on AIX

2008-01-22 Thread Roger
For what it's worth, I've written a HOWTO on installing NRPE on AIX. http://www.hackmyidea.com/wordpress/2008/01/22/installing-nagios-nrpe-on-aix/ I am not an AIX adminstrator, so please feel free to correct any errata. (I'm assuming the best place for this stuff to go is in /opt ? Any advice he

[Nagios-users] 2.x cfg -> 3.x install?

2008-01-12 Thread Roger
I thought I remembered seeing somewhere that Nagios 2.x cfg files can be imported into Nagios 3.x with no problems. Can anyone confirm this? - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell se

[Nagios-users] email response plugin?

2008-01-09 Thread Roger
Has anyone here seen a plugin that emails (say an autoresponder) and then ensures that an email gets returned by that autoresponder? (I'm looking for some end-to-end checks that not only check for necessary requirements, but give us better ways of sufficiently checking everything to better ensure t

Re: [Nagios-users] 10g

2008-01-08 Thread Roger
On Jan 8, 2008 10:16 AM, Mad Unix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does Nagios work with 10g ? Are you talking about Oracle 10g? - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for ju

Re: [Nagios-users] http://nagios/pnp -> "Hostname is not set" (using CentOS 4 / NagiosQL / Nagios 2.10)

2007-12-18 Thread Roger
Nevermind on this problem. I finally fixed it. It was several things. I'll do a write up on how to integrate this with CentOS and then post my solution on the list. Thanks for your help, everyone! - SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Nagios-users] http://nagios/pnp -> "Hostname is not set" (using CentOS 4 / NagiosQL / Nagios 2.10)

2007-12-18 Thread Roger
On Dec 18, 2007 10:35 AM, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed PNP for Nagios and am having problems with the RRD > output displaying. I installed Nagios 2.10 from package on CentOS 4 (via > RPMforge). Everything works well with NagiosQL. > &g

[Nagios-users] http://nagios/pnp -> "Hostname is not set" (using CentOS 4 / NagiosQL / Nagios 2.10)

2007-12-18 Thread Roger
I recently installed PNP for Nagios and am having problems with the RRD output displaying. I installed Nagios 2.10 from package on CentOS 4 (via RPMforge). Everything works well with NagiosQL. Per this doc, http://www.ederdrom.de/pnp/doc_complete I downloaded the PNP code and ran "./configure" an

Re: [Nagios-users] problems 'make install'-ing PNP on CentOS 4.x+Nagios 2.10

2007-12-17 Thread Roger
On 12/17/07, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having problems "make install"-ing PNP (PNP is not Perfparse), and I > suspect it's because I have not inserted the correct parameters on configure > for CentOS 4.x / Nagios 2.10 (installed via RPMforge

Re: [Nagios-users] problems 'make install'-ing PNP on CentOS 4.x+Nagios 2.10

2007-12-17 Thread Roger
On 12/17/07, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having problems "make install"-ing PNP (PNP is not Perfparse), and I > suspect it's because I have not inserted the correct parameters on configure > for CentOS 4.x / Nagios 2.10 (installed via RPMforge

[Nagios-users] problems 'make install'-ing PNP on CentOS 4.x+Nagios 2.10

2007-12-17 Thread Roger
I'm having problems "make install"-ing PNP (PNP is not Perfparse), and I suspect it's because I have not inserted the correct parameters on configure for CentOS 4.x / Nagios 2.10 (installed via RPMforge package). When I run the following: ./configure --bindir=/usr/bin --libexec=/usr/lib/nagios/p

Re: [Nagios-users] Perfparse on CentOS 4 / Nagios 2.10 ?

2007-12-16 Thread Roger
On Dec 16, 2007 3:09 PM, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone here installed perfparse on latest CentOS 4.x and Nagios 2.10? > I'm having a difficult time running the configure script so that I can > properly "make & make instal" the binaries. Each tim

[Nagios-users] Perfparse on CentOS 4 / Nagios 2.10 ?

2007-12-16 Thread Roger
Has anyone here installed perfparse on latest CentOS 4.x and Nagios 2.10? I'm having a difficult time running the configure script so that I can properly "make & make instal" the binaries. Each time I run "./configure" (even with all the parameters), I get the following error

Re: [Nagios-users] nagiostats plugin?

2007-12-16 Thread Roger
On Dec 16, 2007 1:16 PM, Jeronimo Zucco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did it just running iostat as a service and logging results in a log > file, > then I just did a script with read and parse last entries of the log file. > It > works better for me. Interesting. I see in 'man nagiostats' tha

[Nagios-users] HOWTO on Nagioswiki: Checking Blacklisted MTAs using CentOS + Nagios 2.x + check_bl.pl

2007-12-16 Thread Roger
I threw up another HOWTO for those relatively new to Nagios and CentOS, this one on how to use check_bl to check for blacklisted IPs http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Checking_Blacklisted_MTAs_with_CentOS_%2B_check_bl (I have this script checking approximately 100 Exchange servers for various

[Nagios-users] nagiostats plugin?

2007-12-16 Thread Roger
Has anyone here created a plugin that parses the output of the 'nagiostats' command to alert you on various critical / warning levels? (Just curious...if not, I'm going to consider making one) - SF.Net email is sponsored by: Ch

Re: [Nagios-users] check_proc on NRPE gives "System call sent warnings to stderr"

2007-12-15 Thread Roger
While googling, I found this, which suggested it's an issue with ps http://www.cyberpro.com.au/Tips_n_Tricks/Linux_Related_Tips/Nagios_check%11proc_Plugin_Fails/ "The problem is due to differences in the way the ps command uses switches. Modifying source to take out the "-" in referenced code fo

Re: [Nagios-users] check_proc on NRPE gives "System call sent warnings to stderr"

2007-12-15 Thread Roger
On Dec 15, 2007 11:13 AM, Paul Lathrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger, > > What kernel version are you running? When I was using Nagios on some > rather old kernels, there was a kernel bug that made this happen after > the system had been up for a certain amount of time.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_proc on NRPE gives "System call sent warnings to stderr"

2007-12-15 Thread Roger
On Dec 15, 2007 11:13 AM, Paul Lathrop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger, > > What kernel version are you running? When I was using Nagios on some > rather old kernels, there was a kernel bug that made this happen after > the system had been up for a certain amount of time.

Re: [Nagios-users] check_proc on NRPE gives "System call sent warnings to stderr"

2007-12-15 Thread Roger
On Dec 14, 2007 2:54 PM, Marc Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > "./check_nrpe -H box -c check_proc_sshd" > > Not sure how this is related. What happens if you do the same for > check_proc_java? What happens if you run the check_procs command above > on the target machine? Remember to perform

[Nagios-users] check_proc on NRPE gives "System call sent warnings to stderr"

2007-12-14 Thread Roger
In my NRPE config, I have command[check_proc_java]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -c 1:100 -C java >From Nagios, I get "System call sent warnings to stderr" when I run "./check_nrpe -H box -c check_proc_sshd" (Interestingly, my check_disk_(vol) commands work ok from the Nagios server) Any

[Nagios-users] nrpe handler: how to 'check_proc -C "X Y" ' ?

2007-12-14 Thread Roger
I'm having a problem with this Tivoli-related command in my nrpe.cfg file command[check_proc_dsmc_sched]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs -c 1:10 -C "dsmc sched" dmsc sched is what it looks like when i run 'ps -ef' e.g. ps -ef --> root 19761 19759 0 Dec03 ?00:00:00 dsmcad root

[Nagios-users] nrpe.cfg 's allowed_host = IP of internal VPN eth?

2007-12-12 Thread Roger
Here is my setup: Site A (Nagios) <-ip sec point to point --> Site B (box with NRPE) To get "check_nrpe -H server -c check_whatever" to work, I've got to allow the internal IP of the VPN box at site B to "allowed_hosts". This is (if I remember right) the only time that I've had to do

[Nagios-users] HOWTO I wrote on installing NRPE from RPMs

2007-12-11 Thread Roger
For what it's worth, here is a HOWTO I made for some of the people I'm currently working with on how to install NRPE on a slew of RHEL-ish systems we currently have in production (Fedora, RHEL, CentOS). http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Installing_NPRE_via_RPM Hopefully this helps others who ar

Re: [Nagios-users] AIX log monitoring with check_log

2007-12-11 Thread Roger
On Dec 11, 2007 5:43 PM, Russell Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Roger, > > I have an ODM snippet I use which logs the errpt data into > syslog. Then your syslog monitoring software (not necessarily Nagios) > can pick it up. Wow, that is right up my alley. I know very

Re: [Nagios-users] AIX log monitoring with check_log

2007-12-11 Thread Roger
On Dec 11, 2007 4:03 PM, Brian A. Seklecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why don't you post us some examples? We'll throw some ideas out. > For example, when the AIX cluster goes from active/passive -> passive/active, then it writes an event to the log. Not sure what that event is, but I'll soon

[Nagios-users] AIX log monitoring with check_log

2007-12-11 Thread Roger
I'm looking for other AIX log monitoring recipes and am hoping someone here might be able to point me in the right direction. I see (sorta) how AIX creates logs and am wondering if anyone here has specific AIX-ish queries that they run with Nagios' check_log plugin.

Re: [Nagios-users] restricting unknown user

2007-12-10 Thread Roger
Not quite what you're looking for, but maybe along those lines is check_find_new_hosts. http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Networking.53.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1[p_view]=275&tx_netnagext_pi1[page]=30%3A10 I posted something up on my wiki a while ago on it http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Check_fi

[Nagios-users] check tcp range?

2007-12-10 Thread Roger
I've got a firewall that is proxying (via port address translations) VNC connections to several internal IP addresses. What is the best way to scan this TCP port range (rather than simply making a separate check_tcp service for each port)? (I thought I remembered seeing a plugin to scan for a rang

[Nagios-users] check_log + mysqld.log

2007-12-09 Thread Roger
I'm thinking about using check_log to monitor mysqld.log e.g. check_log -F /var/log/mysqld.log -O /tmp/mysqdLogTest.log -q STRING_TO_LOOK_FOR I don't know much about MySQL to know which types of errors that I should be looking for and am hoping others here might have some recipes / hacks that the

Re: [Nagios-users] check_x -> automatically make check_a, check_b, check_c?

2007-12-07 Thread Roger
Perfect, thanks Gerhard. This looks (in theory!) to be perfect. Roger On Dec 7, 2007 2:54 AM, Gerhard Lausser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Roger, > > maybe check_multi http://www.my-plugin.de/wiki/projects/check_multi/start is > what you're l

[Nagios-users] scaling check_nt checks on NSClient++/NC_net with passive checks?

2007-12-07 Thread Roger
I just picked up a client with over a thousand check_nt calls, and the system is obviously lagging quite a bit. I'm hoping that tweaking the checks from active->passive is a quick fix to the lag. When a check_nt plugin calls the agent running on Windows (e.g. NSClient++ or NC_net), does it by defa

[Nagios-users] check_x -> automatically make check_a, check_b, check_c?

2007-12-06 Thread Roger
Is there a way to make a check_(whatever) and automatically create other checks? For example, say I want to specify "check_cisco_pix", which automatically creates a lot of other "check_snmp" commands, and when you go to http://IP/nagios, you see like 10 checks that automatically got created on the

Re: [Nagios-users] oracle check

2007-12-05 Thread Roger Dierauer
Hi do you have set the ora environement in nagios .bash_profile? kind regards roger 2007/12/5, Benoit Moeremans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello, > > Since a little upgrade, i've a strange thing in my nagios. I check oracle > services on linux server. > > Everyth

[Nagios-users] any gotchas with AIX + check_nrpe ?

2007-12-04 Thread Roger
I'm looking to monitor AIX machines using the check_nrpe command from Nagios. Anything I should worry about installing NRPE on the AIX box? Or is it all fairly straight forward? - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of

Re: [Nagios-users] CheckNT

2007-12-02 Thread Roger
On 11/19/07, Jerad Riggin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am monitoring the CPU load with NSClient on a host. Here is the > service definition > > define service{ > use windows-service > namecheck-cpu > notification_opt

Re: [Nagios-users] Not getting alerts through email.

2007-11-27 Thread Roger Dierauer
Hello List Users One Question the check_log script is als available for check in intervalls the ora{SID}.log have anybody some experience? kind regard Roger - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business

[Nagios-users] netsnmp SuSE: anyone here have experience using it?

2007-11-23 Thread Roger
I'm looking to possibly install netsnmp for SuSE ( http://www.nagiosexchange.org/SNMP.64.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5Bp_view%5D=435) on an older SLOX machine that doesn't have net-snmp installed (it has ucd-snmp instead). Has anyone actually used this project? I notice that it has no rating, which k

Re: [Nagios-users] PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!

2007-11-21 Thread Roger Dierauer
Hi this phaenomen is also by me so... it seams, wenn you have ospf-network roules configured so the ping retourns on a second wire... its not a problem, but an interpretation issue from nagios kind regards roger 2007/11/21, Dennis Hünseler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hello Stephen, &g

[Nagios-users] checking wmi with Linux (and not using NSClient++)

2007-11-20 Thread Roger
I'm looking for a Linux-based tool that will let me making simple WMI queries on a Windows server. Yes, I know that I can use NSClient++ (or equivalent) on the Windows server to listen for my check_npre commands, but I'm hoping that there is a "quick and dirty" *nix-based tool that will let me do

[Nagios-users] SNMP autodiscovery / Puppet Naginator question

2007-11-20 Thread Roger
I'm looking for ways to autocreate Nagios config files, using Puppet's Naginator, but before I can do that, I need to clear up an autodiscovery problem I have. I'm hoping someone here on the list has done something like that before. I would like to query a network device (e.g. Cisco) and get all i

[Nagios-users] Floating point exception

2007-11-16 Thread Roger Dierauer
exception on my remote host and on my monitoring host CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not complete SSL handshake on 7 other identical maschines, nrpe runs perfectly have anybody an idea? kind regards an thank you for your constructive answers Roger

[Nagios-users] resources on large scale Nagios implementations?

2007-11-15 Thread Roger
I am looking for resources that help in planning large scale Nagios deployment strategies (e.g. 1000+ checks). Specifically, strategies that help lower the resources (overhead on client and monitoring server, bandwidth, etc) necessary to perform such checks. I'm also hoping to get some sample scri

Re: [Nagios-users] How and where to install NDOUtils ?

2007-11-06 Thread Roger
On 11/6/07, Yana Millis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm having a bad time installing NDOUtils. Yana, for what it's worth, I put up a HOWTO here for CentOS http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/NDOutils_on_CentOS (let me know if there is anything you need that isn't covered there) ---

Re: [Nagios-users] problems defining contact_groups in "definehostgroup" section

2007-11-02 Thread Roger
> It's generating config files that are compatible with 1.x, not 2.x. > There were several config changes made between the versions such as this > change to where contact_groups are associated to hosts. It seems that > nmap2nagios hasn't been updated since April 2003 (at least from the > sourceforg

[Nagios-users] problems defining contact_groups in "define hostgroup" section

2007-11-01 Thread Roger
On CentOS / Nagios 2x, I'm using nmap + nmap2nagios to autogenerate the cfg files, but am having problems with the contact_groups definition that's defined by default. e.g. define hostgroup { hostgroup_name linux alias Linux Servers #admins groups in localhost.cfg, not admin group #conta

Re: [Nagios-users] changing contents of email alerts

2007-10-19 Thread Roger
On 10/19/07, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perfect, thanks! > > I see it here: > > /usr/bin/printf "%b" "* Nagios 2.9 *\n\nNotification Type: > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: > $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $

Re: [Nagios-users] changing contents of email alerts

2007-10-19 Thread Roger
TATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$ On 10/19/07, Patrick Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Roger wrote: > > > I'd like to change the outgoing message that Nagios sends out when a > > host is down and possibly insert a URL in that message. > &g

[Nagios-users] changing contents of email alerts

2007-10-19 Thread Roger
I'd like to change the outgoing message that Nagios sends out when a host is down and possibly insert a URL in that message. Where might I look? - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log file

Re: [Nagios-users] question on passive ping checks via "check_nc_net -s" & NC_net

2007-10-19 Thread Roger
BTW, for what it's worth, I finally got this to work beautifully on NSClient++. (For whatever reason, my passive ping checks work ok on that, but not on NC_net.) - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping

Re: [Nagios-users] question on passive ping checks via "check_nc_net -s" & NC_net

2007-10-18 Thread Roger
On 10/18/07, Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an IPsec tunnel, and on each side of it is a Windows server > running NC_net. > > I would like my offsite Nagios server to send a request to each > Windows server to ping across the tunnel and then report back to me >

[Nagios-users] question on passive ping checks via "check_nc_net -s" & NC_net

2007-10-18 Thread Roger
I have an IPsec tunnel, and on each side of it is a Windows server running NC_net. I would like my offsite Nagios server to send a request to each Windows server to ping across the tunnel and then report back to me (via the Nagios server) the results of that ping. I've been reading the NC_net doc

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios backup

2007-10-18 Thread Roger
> Mike Hawley wrote: >> Has anyone used Nagios as a tool to perform Cisco running-config backups via >> SNMP??? I think TFTP is closer to what you need to do. Try TFTP server (there's a free Cisco client on www.oldversion.com) on a workstation and then type (something like) "copy starting-config

Re: [Nagios-users] Notification by sms

2007-10-14 Thread Roger
On 10/14/07, Peter Edmonds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is what I use for sending sms alerts in Nagios / Groundwork Open Source > > notify-by-sms > > echo -e > "<$HOSTNAME$>\n$SERVICEDESC$\n$SERVICESTATE$\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$\n$LONGDATETIME$" > |gnokii --sendsms $CONTACTPAGER$ >> > /usr/local/gro

[Nagios-users] linux kernel instrumentation + Nagios?

2007-10-14 Thread Roger
I'm looking for tools that will give Nagios some visibility inside the Linux kernel. Anyone used SystemTap (or something similar) with Nagios? Or is there a better tool for the job? -- "Nagios, it's what's for breakfast!" http://www.NagiosWiki.com Email me personally: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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