Re: [Nagios-users] Problem sending passive results using NSCA with multi-line output

2013-02-13 Thread Stuart Browne
Sadly, the way NSCA works at the moment isn't capable of doing multi-line responses (when I investigated about 6 months ago at least) as it uses the external command file (which is a single-line command/response FIFO). What I ended up doing to simulate the behaviour was to implement gearman/mod

Re: [Nagios-users] Linux Kernel Version

2012-06-28 Thread Stuart Browne
Current as in installed, or current as in available? We wrote this a while ago to see if the most recently installed kernel is the bootable kernel: #!/bin/bash # # Check if current kernel is being used. # GRUBBY=/sbin/grubby GREP=/bin/grep UNAME=/bin/uname OUTPUT="Current kernel running." EXIT

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_ibm_imm.sh Plugin Help

2012-05-31 Thread Stuart Browne
What happens when you run this check as the user Nagios runs as (usually 'nagios')? Stuart From: peter.shankl...@ricoh-rpl.com [mailto:peter.shankl...@ricoh-rpl.com] Sent: Thursday, 31 May 2012 8:14 PM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_snmp_ibm_imm.sh Plugin He

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol 71, Issue 9

2012-04-19 Thread Stuart Browne
Jeremy, You can have HARD WARNING state as well. SOFT is when you have not yet reached max_check_attempts. Stuart From: Jeremy Page [mailto:jeremy.p...@gilbarco.com] Sent: Friday, 20 April 2012 1:35 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios-users Digest, Vol

Re: [Nagios-users] one shot check at specific time of day

2012-03-21 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Marki [mailto:jm+nagios-us...@roth.lu] > Sent: Wednesday, 21 March 2012 9:13 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] one shot check at specific time of day > > Hi people, > > I have problems defining a check so that it only runs o

Re: [Nagios-users] Where can arguments go?

2012-02-21 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, > -Original Message- > From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:d...@dd-b.net] > Sent: Wednesday, 22 February 2012 10:42 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Where can arguments go? > > I'm looking to use a special check command to verify routers are in > opera

Re: [Nagios-users] Oracle plugin

2011-11-20 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, One of the errors is saying you're not using $sqlplus variable for execution, but we can't see the code that actually does the executing (you probably just left off the $). The language isn't being set properly. Possibly this is the shell you're executing from doesn't have it, thus all th

Re: [Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3

2011-10-23 Thread Stuart Browne
hanges often and 2) because we take the metrics from the checks and > put them in a time series data warehouse that is sensitive to interval > skew...any poller that hits 10 seconds latency has to be bounced. > > We are at 12 pollers or so right now and we will be up to almost 20 by >

[Nagios-users] Average Check latency and execution time growth - 3.2.3

2011-10-02 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, I know this topic has been covered many times, but I've tried those tweaks and I have the remaining issue. After a few days, the latency on checks explodes. It goes along quite happily with small values, then after (about) 3 days, the values rise quite sharply. I've recently been graphin

Re: [Nagios-users] checking web applications beyond 'check_html'

2011-09-27 Thread Stuart Browne
I don't have a generic solution, but we write all such things using Perl and WWW::Mechanize. What are your perl skills like? Stuart > -Original Message- > From: Mark Elsen [mailto:mark.el...@gmail.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2011 5:43 PM > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: [Nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] Different notification behaviour depending on daytime?

2011-09-05 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Axel Rosenski [mailto:rosen...@wave-computer.de] > Sent: Monday, 5 September 2011 5:35 PM > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: [Nagios-users] Different notification behaviour depending on > daytime? > > Hi, > > I want to know whats the "best" or common way to ge

Re: [Nagios-users] Question about notification_period

2011-05-23 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Andre Tann [mailto:at...@alphasrv.net] > Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2011 4:32 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Question about notification_period > > Hello everyone, > > I want my servers to be checked in a 24x7 period, and I wa

Re: [Nagios-users] IBM System x3650

2011-05-22 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: trm asn [mailto:trm.nag...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, 20 May 2011 6:24 PM > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: [Nagios-users] IBM System x3650 > > Dear List, > > Is there any way we can monitor hardware device health for IBM System > x3650 , like we can do for H

Re: [Nagios-users] compact definition of multiple hosts or service groups?

2011-03-23 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Justin T Pryzby [mailto:just...@norchemlab.com] > Sent: Thursday, 24 March 2011 9:56 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] compact definition of multiple hosts or service > groups? > > Hi Everyone, > > Is there any way to add mu

Re: [Nagios-users] Create a virtual service - How to?

2011-02-02 Thread Stuart Browne
Have you had a look at the 'check_cluster' plugin? It allows you to team multiple services into a single service. You tell it how many can fail/not-fail before raising an alert etc. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/clusters.html We use this for our SMTP MX target availability. Stuart

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking a Web Site

2011-01-19 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: Edwin Zoeller [mailto:edwin.zoel...@ama-assn.org] > Sent: Thursday, 20 January 2011 7:28 AM > > I was wondering if someone out there can help me with this. I am trying to > monitoring a website to which I login with a username/password then from > there as that user access another site th

Re: [Nagios-users] Check behavior during the notification event

2011-01-05 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Yu Watanabe [mailto:yu.watan...@jp.fujitsu.com] > Sent: Thursday, 6 January 2011 5:04 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Check behavior during the notification event > > Hello all. > > I would like to ask a question regarding

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-25 Thread Stuart Browne
> > Perhaps you'd like to run the plugin (as nagios) when it is erroring > > and show us the output? > > I was just about to ask the same question, when this thread appeared. I > have exactly the same problem. In my case it is a Python script. The > output is fine for the OK state, but missing for

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Alexander Haas [mailto:a...@geloet.de] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin > > Hi Stuart, > > you got me on that one :) > > The output did in fact contain a empty new line. I did not pay very much > attention to this fact because my o

Re: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin

2010-11-24 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Alexander Haas [mailto:a...@geloet.de] > Subject: [Nagios-users] No output returned from plugin > > Hi list, > > it's me again :) > > I wrote a plug-in which does work great. It works from the shell as > root, from the shell as nagios and from nagios executed

Re: [Nagios-users] Status Information in to Logfile

2010-11-08 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Jim Avery [mailto:j...@jimavery.me.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2010 4:16 AM > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Status Information in to Logfile > > On 8 November 2010 16:45, wrote: > > If a Service state is ok and its state has not chan

Re: [Nagios-users] tim format in nagios.log

2010-10-24 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] > Sent: Monday, 25 October 2010 14:11 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net List > Subject: [Nagios-users] tim format in nagios.log > > how can I change time from unix time to human readable? There are a number o

Re: [Nagios-users] significant bug in 3.2.2 - nagios.cfg -- execute_service_checks=0 completely ignored

2010-09-30 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Robert Wolfe [mailto:robert.wo...@robertwolfe.org] > Sent: Friday, 1 October 2010 11:38 > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] significant bug in 3.2.2 - nagios.cfg -- > execute_service_checks=0 completely ignored > > Hi all. My first post here.

Re: [Nagios-users] can't get host to display in Host Detail panel

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
NRPE: Unable to read output do I actually need to supply arguments at the end of the check_nrpe command? e.g., -w 5,4,3 (i've tried doing so, but to no avail) On Sep 21, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Stuart Browne wrote: what's the command line that is called from nrpe when it's aske

Re: [Nagios-users] can't get host to display in Host Detail panel

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
what's the command line that is called from nrpe when it's asked for a 'check_load' ? There should be a line similar to this in there: command[check_load]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_load -w 5,4,3 -c 8,6,4 Does this exist in the nrpe.cfg? If you run the command from your configuration as

Re: [Nagios-users] Handling different states

2010-09-21 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: sandma...@libero.it [mailto:sandma...@libero.it] > Sent: Tuesday, 21 September 2010 16:31 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Handling different states > > Hi all, > > I've written a plugin that looks for number of record process

Re: [Nagios-users] Building RPM's from provided nagios-plugins.spec

2010-07-28 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: Tracy Phillips [mailto:tracy.phill...@amerinap.com] > Sent: Thursday, 29 July 2010 13:03 > > Hi List! > > I am building RPM's (on RHEL 5.5 x86_64) from the provided > nagios-plugins.spec file. > > The build goes well, however after the install when I try to install > the RPM's I get the

Re: [Nagios-users] setting ENV for checks in commands.cfg

2010-07-07 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] > Sent: Thursday, 8 July 2010 13:01 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] setting ENV for checks in commands.cfg > > Hi, I need to set up my checks in command.cfg to source an ENV file >

Re: [Nagios-users] a test for an expired pw on account?

2010-06-07 Thread Stuart Browne
As you've not said what system you're wanting to check account expirations on, it makes it a bit hard to give decent advice. On a Linux box, about the closest I can think of is to run 'passwd -S ' on every user on a box. This specific command only works for local accounts however. If in an ld

Re: [Nagios-users] monitoring for exactly 1 process on 3 hosts

2010-06-07 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Litwin, Matthew [mailto:mlit...@stubhub.com] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 June 2010 08:57 > > I need to monitor that a process is running on one of three hosts and > that is not running on the other two. Is there a way to set up a > service such that a check must return

Re: [Nagios-users] How to override a command definition?

2010-05-13 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Scot Wilcoxon [mailto:s...@wilcoxon.org] > > I want to make all check_http commands use a different timeout. How > can > I replace the check_http command without altering the original > definition file? > > I tried redefining the command in the directory wher

Re: [Nagios-users] Odd long URL

2010-05-10 Thread Stuart Browne
Does 'check_http' not work for you? From: ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com [mailto:ward.p.fonte...@wellsfargo.com] Sent: Tuesday, 11 May 2010 09:45 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Odd long URL Hello, After scratching my head until my head fell I have come to ask this

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing

2010-04-06 Thread Stuart Browne
Oops, wrong scale. Milli as Romain suggests. > -Original Message- > From: Stuart Browne [mailto:stuart.bro...@ausregistry.com.au] > Sent: Wednesday, 7 April 2010 09:09 > To: Nagios Users List > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing > >

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagiosgraph and load graphing

2010-04-06 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: Paras pradhan [mailto:pradhanpa...@gmail.com] > > Just installed nagiosgraph and nagios (bothe latest) . Nagios seems to be > working fine. When i see Load graph, I am seeing something like 350m, 440m, > 200m instead of 0.03, 0.04, 0.02. I don't know what this "m" is and how/why > this is

Re: [Nagios-users] NAGIOS 3: Adjusting fields which appear in the default nagios log

2010-03-17 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Morris, Patrick [mailto:patrick.mor...@hp.com] > Traiano Welcome wrote: > > Hi All > > > > I'm sending nagios logs to a 3rd party application (Netcool) for > > processing, and there is a requirement for the IP address of the > > monitored device to appear in the

Re: [Nagios-users] Accessing Nagios for the first time

2010-03-10 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: Tim Tompson [mailto:tt.rexp...@gmail.com] > > Ok, really dumb question. > > I have successfully configured and installed Nagios, according to: > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html on my > webserver. No problems at all throughout the process. > > My problem com

Re: [Nagios-users] event handler script not executing

2010-03-10 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Rick Garland [mailto:rick.garl...@quantum.com] > >On Mar 10, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Rick Garland wrote: > >> Hi Marc: > >> > >> In the script I have it doing a couple of arcane things for testing. > >> I have it touch a file called 'test' and I have it echo the macr

Re: [Nagios-users] event handler command not executing

2010-03-08 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] > > > Try adding a bit at the top of the script to touch a file or something > to see if it really ran and is maybe failing further into the script > (i.e. because of a potential sudo restriction). exec > /tmp/$(/bin/basename

Re: [Nagios-users] Can we change the IP address of the Linux box after installing Nagios.

2010-03-08 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: ravishankar.gundlap...@wipro.com > I have approached my security team and they have suggested me that they > can change the IP address of this Linux box and move it to a different > VLan for some time period where we have internet access, so that I can > instal

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk question Nagios

2010-02-22 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: Ennis Ibarra [mailto:en...@nmcourts.gov] >> From: "Stuart Browne" >>> From: akp geek [mailto:akpg...@gmail.com] >>> >>> I have installed nagios on server1. Without installing NRPE on the >>> Server2, would it possible to use the

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk question Nagios

2010-02-22 Thread Stuart Browne
> From: akp geek [mailto:akpg...@gmail.com] >   > I have installed nagios on server1. Without installing NRPE on the Server2 , > would it possible to use the check_disk to monitor the space on server2. > Thanks > for the help Investigate the 'check_by_ssh' plugin that comes with the nagios-plugi

Re: [Nagios-users] Asterisk Questions

2010-02-03 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Wolfe, Robert [mailto:robert.wo...@robertwolfe.org] > Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2010 01:52 > > Hi all! > > I am wanting to write a plugin that will tell Asterisk to make a test > call every so often and then report back to Nagios if a call was > successful or

Re: [Nagios-users] How to run a perl script instead of sending emails?

2010-01-24 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Mr Gabriel [mailto:gabr...@impactteachers.com] > Sent: Monday, 25 January 2010 09:49 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] How to run a perl script instead of sending > emails? > > Dear All, > > I have a perl script that connects

Re: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error with no output (return code: 3)

2009-10-27 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Ricardo Melendez [mailto:rmelen...@utep.com.mx] > Sent: Wednesday, 28 October 2009 10:35 > To: Stuart Browne; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error > with no output (retur

Re: [Nagios-users] RV: check_snmp : External command error with no output (return code: 3)

2009-10-27 Thread Stuart Browne
hat version of the check_snmp plugin are you using? How was it compiled? What was passed to the './configure' as the "--with-snmpget-command=" ? Stuart Browne -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R)

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk plugin

2009-10-12 Thread Stuart Browne
> Hi All > > When I run the check_disk plugin it only detects the first disks > numbers. > > [r...@wsrv1 nagios]# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 80 > DISK WARNING - free space: / 14512 MB (50% inode=97%); /boot 58 MB (62% > inode=99%); /mnt/disk 16522 MB (53% inode=99%); /mnt/dbdata 2445

Re: [Nagios-users] escalation for receiving only recovery events?

2009-10-04 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Justin Pryzby [mailto:just...@norchemlab.com] > Sent: Monday, 5 October 2009 02:50 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] escalation for receiving only recovery events? > > A coworker wants to receive periodic notifies for failing s

Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule downtime for a host and its services

2009-09-27 Thread Stuart Browne
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Powell [mailto:m...@ena.com] > Sent: Friday, 25 September 2009 22:21 > > On Sep 25, 2009, at 6:29 AM, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I am using nagios3 and I'm having problem scheduling downtimes > > for hosts... > > > > The problem is

Re: [Nagios-users] How does an NRPE daemon work with multiple Nagios servers?

2009-09-06 Thread Stuart Browne
NRPE has requests made to it by the nagios server. -Original Message- From: YungWei Chen [mailto:ywche...@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, 7 September 2009 11:21 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] How does an NRPE daemon work with multiple Nagios servers? Hi, Su

[Nagios-users] Nagios 3.1.0 / is_volatile

2009-05-27 Thread Stuart Browne
Hi, I'm trying to get a passive-checked is_volatile service working. Currently, it accepts the passive result, changes to 'WARNING', but that's the end of it. It doesn't return back to an OK state. Service definition exploded out from templates as follows: define service { parallelize

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
Oh crud! Sorry. Brain wasn't awake :( -Original Message- From: Jon Angliss [mailto:j...@netdork.net] Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 13:31 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL On Tue, 26 May 2009 09:08:26 +1000, Stuart Browne wrote:

Re: [Nagios-users] plugin exiting with 127 code

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
Generally, checks will run as the 'nagios' user (nagios_user in nagios.cfg). If the check needs to write to some temporary files, or is in a place where that user cannot read from, it may just be a 'Permission Denied' issue. When you run it from the command line, do you run it as the 'nagios' u

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL

2009-05-25 Thread Stuart Browne
The nagios Plugins has a 'check_mysql' compiled binary which does basic checks, and has plenty of built-in help to get it working. From: Eduardo Barreto [mailto:lec...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 26 May 2009 01:55 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring MSSQL Hi A