Dear Folks,
I am writing to request comments on a proposal to reduce the risk of
loss of Network visibility/spurious alerts etc caused by the failure of
the Nagios host's default gateway.
When the Nagios host is connected via multiple links, it is still
necessary to ensure that data flow either
Dear Folks,
Initial indications from RC2 are that event handlers are called with the
_correct_ values of the macros.
(This is a simulation: ie disable host/service checks and then submit a
passive host check result to
DOWN and UP a host)
Tue Feb 12 07:47:01 2008 PASSIVE HOST CHECK: wtmrt200;1;Te
Dear Hugo,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> | "If you want to use alpha/rc1, 2, 3 .. nagios, don't whine
> about it on
> | Nag users".
>
> The point is that doing a bug report on 3.0alphaX where there are at
> least 2 release candidates have f
Dear Hugo,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> Message: 8
> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:23:29 +0100
> From: Hugo van der Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Have you considered that the changelog might not be complete?
Of course !
But don't you think a _major_ change in behaviou
Dear Folks,
Please would someone help me out with what may be a bug in global event
handlers in 3.0 alpha (not
rc1 or 2 since there is nothing in the Changelog that seems to warrant
upgrade) ?
I have a (gloal host) event handler called like so
command_line$USER2$/global_host_event_handler $
Dear Folks,
The debug options in Nag 3.x are wonderful (especially for embedded
Perl. It is no longer necessary to enable debugging in p1.pl. This Is a
MASSIVE simply MASSIVE improvement. Thank you).
(FWIW the debug options for event handlers in nagios.cfg are
debug_level=16
# DEBUG VERBOSITY
Dear Folks,
In sehandlers.c I see
if(log_event_handlers==TRUE)
logit(NSLOG_EVENT_HANDLER,FALSE,"GLOBAL HOST EVENT HANDLER:
%s;%s;%s;%s;%s\n",hst->name,macro_x[MACRO_HOSTSTATE],macro_x[MACRO_HOSTS
TATETYPE],macro_x[MACRO_HOSTATTEMPT],global_host_event_handler);
which suggests that if
Dear Folks,
I am writing to ask for help with global event handlers in Nagios 3.0
(b7).
The handler that worked Ok with Nag 2.9 seems to work erratically (ie
only some of the time; more often than not it doesn't do anything) with
3.0.
Nag would log (in nagios.log) this message with 2.9
[1186030
Dear Folks,
I am writing to present my observations on 3.0b6.
The synopsis is excellent but there are a few non show-stopping
problems.
Firstly, the performance of host detection is simply excellent and those
contemplating mega installations should take great heart. As soon as the
service check
Dear Folks,
A quick look at the docco (on Nagios.ORG eg what's new, upgrading from
2.x) suggests there is no significant change in the processing of the
$ARG$ macros in 3.0 (3.0b6) compared to 2.9.
Unfortunately, my Perl plugins fail to run under 3.0 when the plugin is
defined (in checkcommands.
Dear Folks,
I am writing to to express my gratitude for all the valuable (and good
natured) contributions about this matter.
All the suggestions were valuable and helpful.
Thank you very much,
Yours sincerely.
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED
--
Dear Folks,
After giving up on the cfg_dir directive, changing the cfg_file
directives to point to Windows
shares containing the Nagios config files seems to work Ok.
The Nagios parser/line read routines seem to tolerate an extra 0x0d at
the end of the line.
Does anyone have any experience
Dear Tim,
(Yes, I am the nitwit).
> -Original Message-
> Mr Hopcroft,
>
> My first reaction was an unqualified "yuk!, what nitwit would even
> consider this", then I noticed it was you, and having seen your ever
> useful posts since the Netsaint 0.0.7 days, I relented. Although
> hea
Dear Folks,
Has anyone used the nagios configuration directive cfg_dir to point to
an SMB (Windows) share ?
The interest in doing this is that my colleagues hate vi and 'nix; they
are qualified Cisco/Window admins who
respect Nagios but have no sympathy with anachronistic editors. They
would b
Dear Larry,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
>
> Check the SVN, I submitted a small patch for this. You may have had a
> better way to do it as I don't do heavy development.
>
(CVS ?)
Cool !
-# p1.pl for Nagios 2.0
+# p1.pl for Nagios
use
Dear Folks,
I am writing to invite testing of a small patch for the embedded Perl
Nagios feature.
Currently (2.10/3.x) ePN, when a plugin is modified (without a restart)
refuses to run the modified plugin because compilation of the modified
plugin fails when Perl attempts to redefine the modified
Dear Folks,
> -Original Message-
> From: "Cook, Garry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios backup
>
> You can use the 'archive' commands in recent IOS to have your config
> backed up to a TFTP server anytime the config is written to NVRAM, as
> well as at specified
Dear Larry,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Larry
> Low
> Sent: Friday, October 12, 2007 10:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching
> [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>
> Thanks Stanley,
>
> Using my check_ifopers
Dear John,
> From: john <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.9 ePN INC line
>
> I guess that is an option, but I'd prefer not to have to do that for
> all the additional modules/plugins that I end up with. Does version 3
> behave better as I may be able to hold off for tha
Dear Larry,
There are debugging hooks in p1.pl that would be useful to enable.
If you are interested in helping deal with this problem please would you
1 Back up your original copy of p1.pl (path is specified in nagios.cfg
IIRC)
2 Change the DEBUG_LEVEL to
use constant DEBUG_LEVEL
Dear Larry,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:21:35 -0700
> From: "Larry Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> This is without making changes to the script.
>
> Scenario:
>
> 1) ./configure --prefix=/opt/Nagios --
Dear Larry,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> Message: 9
> Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 17:01:41 -0700
> From: "Larry Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.0b5 - ePN and perl caching
>
> The problem I am having is with subroutines
Dear Folks,
There is a comment in base/checks.c that may be relevant to the probs
with embedded Perl in 3.0 betas.
There was apparently a long standing bug of freeing memory associated
with the Perl plugin output _before_
it was copied to Nagios.
The comment says the bug was corrected by a p
Dear Folks,
In the last 4 - 6 weeks there were reports of failures of embedded Perl
in Nagios 3.0 betas.
I am running 3.0b3 with the event broker and ePN with a full complement
of non standard Perl plugins known to work with ePN in 2.9 (my employers
production system).
This site is RHEL 3 + Perl
Dear Matthew,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>
> Hi there,
>
> I wish (well, have been told to..) to produce SLA type reports of our
> IT systems for management. At the moment the requirements are rather
> vague...
>
> As we are currently using NDO I am hoping that Jas
Dear Risto
(Thank you very much for SEC, the king of event correlators).
> Message: 19
> From: Risto Vaarandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Log monitoring with Nagios - recommendations?
> hi all,
>
> few weeks ago I posted a question to this list about passive service
> checks
Dear Folks,
Does anyone have any wisdom to offer about monitoring multicast
applications ?
The context is Cisco PIM, so the Cisco Mroute MIB is an obvious place to
start. What makes it a bit harder is that the application of interest
(TV broadcasting) uses an MS Media server that simply joins any
Dear Folks,
Is anyone interested in a toy like this (Nagios::SLA running here on the
CLI)
foo$ host_down_report -t thismonth | perl -MNagios::SLA -lane 'BEGIN {
$x=Nagios::SLA->new(undef, undef, "24x7", undef, "Nagios") } next unless
/\d{2}-\d{2}/; print $_, "\t", $x->sla_down("$F[1] $F[2]", "$F
Dear Folks,
The reports about this matter are a bit perplexing in that
1 if the Nag internals have changed so that the ePN functions do not
have their return values processed correctly, or the ePN functions are
not called in the same way as 2.x, then the SEGV is expected with ePN.
2 However, if
Dear Folks,
> Message: 8
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 18:47:21 -0700
> From: Daniel Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Any experience with check_tacacs_plus.pl
>
> I don't know this platform, but
>
> A TACACS+ server's password database should be invisible to a
> TACACS c
Dear Folks,
Please would you let me or the list know of experience checking the
TACACS+ server implemented by Cisco in their 'Secure ACS for Windows
3.3' product ?
Nagios Exchange has a plugin named check_tacacs_plus.pl that makes use
of the Authen::TACACSPlus module from CPAN.
I am not sure the
Dear Folks,
I think there is a bug in the Nag 3.x processing of the plugin output
returned by an ePN check.
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:29:11 -0400
> From: "James Whittington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.x + ePN = Garbage data in status
> ..[SE
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:04:09 -0700
> From: "Rob Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.x + ePN = Garbage data in status
> field?
>
> I am also seeing this
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:48:01 -0700
> From: "Kelly Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Using nagios for machine-to-machine reporting?
>
> Nagios does a great job of monit
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 12:24:47 +0100
> From: "Rob Blake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or
> > later) for availability reporting
Dear Folks,
Would anyone like to comment on the use of NDOUtils (Nagios 2.x or
later) for availability reporting ?
I believe that NDOUtils inserts rows representing down times in an MySQL
table, making it much easier for DIY reporters to produce reports.
I am currently using an event handler for
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your valuable letter and say,
> From: Tobias Klausmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Memory leaks
>
> Hi!
>
> (First off: if this should also go to nagios-devel, just yell at
> me.)
>
I don't think so because it deals with the aspect
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> From: "Robert Hajime Lanning" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too1
.. skipped helpful remarks.
>
> The perl code path that runs in the master Nagios process (af
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
> --
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:26:34 +0100 (CET)
> From: Daniel Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Performance issues, too
>
> Hi there, a
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
> -Original Message-
>
> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:31:25 -0600
> From: Craig Van Tassle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Getting pie charts in host's history
>
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>
Dear Folks,
How can I have Nagios (2.4) send a notification ahead of the scheduled
time for next notification ?
I would like to do this to send out notifications after a period of
no-notifications ends (we
have the view that people do not react well to even major crises between
about midnight and
Dear Folks,
For the benefit of the archives,
>Dear Folks,
>
>Is it possible to use the standard plugin distro check_ping to
>distinguish
>a reachability failure brought about by sluggish transport and
>one caused by a routing failure.
>
I think the best way to do this is with a plugin that r
Dear Folks,
Is it possible to use the standard plugin distro check_ping to
distinguish
a reachability failure brought about by sluggish transport and one
caused
by a routing failure.
What occurs to me at the moment is to either
1 don't use check_ping in cases of volatile routing (examine routi
Dear Folks,
Nagios 2.3 defines these host macros
$LASTHOSTDOWN$ This is a timestamp in time_t format (seconds since the
UNIX epoch) indicating the time at which the host was last detected as
being in a DOWN state.
$LASTHOSTUNREACHABLE$ This is a timestamp in time_t format (seconds
since the UNI
Dear Folks,
We like many others have happily deployed the Cisco 370 stackable
switch/routers in stacked
configurations.
Please would anyone with experience of monitoring these units with
Nagios comment on
how best to monitor the performance of the internals.
I am particuarly interested in checki
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2006 14:27:36 +0200
>From: Rene Fertig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] How to monitor complex websites?
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Message-ID: <[
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say
>Message: 13
>Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:47:02 +0200
>From: Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Parsing a Nagios 2 configuration file from perl
>
>Hi,
>
>I'd like
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 06:52:22 +0200
>From: Frederik Vanhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Norman Harebottle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 15
>Date: Tue, 23 May 2006 14:10:03 +0200 (CEST)
>From: =?iso-8859-1?q?jacobo=20garc=EDa?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Undefined subroutine
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>
>I usually define HSRP as a child of the two parent routers
>that are participating. Both routers have to be down before
>the HSRP is marked unreachable. Devices behind those routers
>can then use the HS
Dear Folks,
After many years of using and thinking I understood the use of the
'parent' host
attribute, I find that I don't and hope someone will amplify what is
given in the
FAQ and http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/networkreachability.html
In particular, that document seems to suggest that
Dear Folks,
I have hacked a home-brew Perl plugin (vi) to (mainly) construct
Perl objects only if there is _not_ one from the last run (of the plugin
under
embedded Perl) ie construct one object only and keep using it.
This plugin has been informally tested and continues to
validate that a DHCP s
Dear Folks,
I am writing with some notes about the state of embedded Perl in Nagios
2.3.x
It seems to me that the situation is this
1 There are no problems with the embedded Perl implementation in Nagios
2.3.x
(apart from those documented, namely the memory leak).
2 The different behaviour of
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letters and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 17
>From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCttig?=
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: MSP
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] RE: Nagios 2.3.1, problems with
>pe
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>
>Message: 2
>Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 08:09:13 +0200
>From: Frederik Vanhee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.3.1, problems with perl plugins
>
>Hel
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>Message: 24
>Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 17:47:48 +0300
>From: Brandino Andreas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Nagios-users] (No output!) message
>
>Hi all.
>I will make a question about the famous "(No output!)" error.
>
>I am trying to w
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Friday, 7 April 2006 13:16
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #3123 - 37
Dear Folks,
I am writing to invite ideas about how to report on availability in
cases where there is one
Nagios monitoring hosts located in other time zones (TZ).
In many cases, people want reports of availability in 'business hours'
and Nagios does that
beautifully by (avail.cgi) accepting the
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Nagios-users digest, Vol 1 #3117 - 26 msgs
>
>
>Today's Topics:
>
> 1. Re: check_load is good? (Sim)
> 2. Notifications (Richard Gliebe)
> 3. hostextinfo.cfg (Georg
Dear Sir,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Content-Disposition: inline
>
>Hmm,
>
>it would be a pitty not to develop this thing further. Like
>you say it provides the kind of reports management likes and
>up until now it is the only way I have foun
Dear Folks,
I am writing to say that Nagios::Report 0.002 has been 'released' and is
available at
the usual places.
This relase fixes a bug, and adds limited charting capability and a
weaker alternate interface (provided by the Perl DBD::AnyData module)
that allows client code to select the repor
Dear Folks,
I am writing to report a peculiar behaviour of the availability CGI with
Nagios 2.0
Firstly, I think the avail.cgi is a wonderful beast that turns the
Nagios logs into a very useful and desirable data source.
My reporting requirements are down times minus any down time scheduled.
I
Dear Folks,
>Message: 8
>To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>From: "John R. Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:51:35 -0500
>Subject: [Nagios-users] ePN: notification script
>
>I've been trying to get a Perl script to work as part of the notify-
>by-email command as defined
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letters and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 8
>To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>From: "John R. Daily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 19:51:35 -0500
>Subject: [Nagios-users] ePN: notification script
>
>I've been trying
Dear Folks,
Firstly some observations and corrections to my recent letters about
Reporting.
1 Use of DBD::RAM to at one fell swoop download the Nagios all
hosts/services report and stash it
in an in-core table (prior to filtering with SELECT and saving in an
RDBMS).
DBD::RAM no longer builds
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 19
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 08:32:52 -0500
>From: "Chad Osmond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Embedded Perl and check_disk_smb
>stopped working
>
>I just upgraded to 2.0rc2 and it s
Dear Folks,
Firstly thanks to all that answered either on the list or privately.
I will now attempt to emulate a journalling file system by summarising
the responses.
1 Having Nagios availability in a DB is a good thing.
Doing so reduces the cost of reporting since there is are data
representat
Dear Folks,
I am writing to report a possible anomaly/bug in avail.cgi for Nag 2.0
rc2
(RPM based on Dag Wieers for RHEL3).
The problem is that when a host has exited a period of scheduled
downtime, the 'Host log
entries' shown by avail.cgi look like
Event Start Time Event End TimeEvent
Dear Folks,
I am writing with mainly a rant about Graphing and Reporting.
1 About graphing with Nagios
Why would one bother when
1.1 Cacti does such a good job
1.2 Nagios could check the Cacti RRDs with either check_rrd, or by an
outboard (Cron scheduled) RRD poller that submits pass
Dear Folks,
>-Original Message-
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--__--__--
>
>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:12:03 +0100
>From: Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios ignoring Perl Shebang -
>Was: Notification script
Dear Folks,
I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,
>-Original Message-
>Message: 1
>Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] [Announce] Nagios_Simple_Report on
>NagiosExchange/CPAN.
>From: "Mels Kooijman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hi Hans,
>=20
>I use iReport, a good reporting tool
>http://
Dear Folks,
I am writing to announce that Nagios::Report, a Perl module to munge
data from the Nagios all hosts/services availability report is on CPAN
and NagiosExchange
(where it is called Nagios_Simple_Report).
The class treats the CSV data from the availability report as a flat
file database
Dear Folks,
I am writing to welcome clues about providing an itemised list of
outages and their causes from,
'in some way', Nagios.
The Nagios availability report does ineed provide a useful list of
outages that can be wrapped and
processed to ones hearts content
(eg
HOST_NAME
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