On 29 Mar, 2007, at 10:39, UnixAdmin wrote:
Hi All,
We are interested in using Nagios, and would like to know how
Nagios communicates with clients to run monitoring scripts.
There are many ways that lead to Rome, or in this case a monitored
system. I've made a comparison between the
do we have a pluggin to monitor temperature of the router / network
devices. Or rather do we have any mechanism through which distinct
OIDs can be monitored in nagios.
Well, of course there is the lovely check_snmp ;)
Can I get a specific example of using check_snmp.
Well, ./check_snmp
On 24 Jan, 2007, at 0:35, David Rivera wrote:
I was wondering is anyone has done this, I am wondering if there
are plugins already out there I can use to check the health of Sun
boxes and linux boxes.
Some Sun servers have SNMP objects for their HDD status LEDs, like
the V240 and the
On 28 Nov, 2006, at 17:23, Patrick Proy wrote:
To run local test using snmp, you can use the exec command in
snmpd.conf (man snmpd.conf for details): the results will be in the
OID table at 1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.8.
While I'm sure that the U.C. Davis (that's who 2021 belongs to)
would be more
On 28 Nov, 2006, at 18:01, frank wrote:
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
Actually, why don't you check through the following list to see if
you company already _has_ a subtree of its own? - http://
www.iana.org/assignments/enterprise-numbers
Dude, chill.
Yea, sorry... Reading
On 27 Nov, 2006, at 20:14, Manu Linux Lookit wrote:
The question is : without writing all the hostname in the config
file (
too much servers to declare ), it is possible to declare servers by
their range ?
No.
This question was covered last week, in an e-mail discussion titled
Multiple
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 11:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
id have to admit straight away that im not proficcient with nagios,
but im learning
with that said do i need to add a seperate command in the
checkcommands.cfg ?
or update the existing config line?
It'd be a good idea to create a
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 15:08, satish kumar wrote:
I have a problem during the the nagios plugin (1.4.5) installation
on a RHEL AS 2.
After ./configure, and giving the make command it is giving me the
below error and the installation stops abruptly. Can someone have a
look at it and let me
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 21:00, Hari Sekhon wrote:
I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a nagios
instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if this is not the
case.
This is not the case :)
You could indeed, as you suggest, create a simple shell script that
is run
On 23 Nov, 2006, at 21:09, Morris, Patrick wrote:
I've looked at nsca but it appears to me that this requires a
nagios instance to run on every machine. Please correct me if
this is not the case.
Let me be the first to correct you
Nelson Haha! /Nelson
First post :p
o/
On 22 Nov, 2006, at 13:04, Saraj Mohammed wrote:
check_command check_http!--onredirect=follow -I
10.100.152.89 -
p 8101 -u /cfi/application_store/ -a nagiosadmin:nagios
If I were you, I'd put as much of that command into the command
definition, instead of in the
On 2 Nov, 2006, at 10:41, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:
Can you send me a screenshot? NLG was developed on Firefox 2.0, and
I've tested on IE6, but obviously it's all Windows based.
In the meantime I can verify that the tool/site works like a treat on
Mac OS X.4, with both Safari and
On 27 Oct, 2006, at 1:55, Dan Finkle wrote:
I'm trying to compile the NRPE daemon on a Mac OS X box. Anyone
have some
documentation they know of for this?
Compiling stuff on the Mac shouldn't be any different from other
Unices, in general.
At what point do you run into problems?
On 26 Oct, 2006, at 16:25, Paul Houselander wrote:
Ive looked in nagios exchange and couldnt find a plugin that would
check for
an open relay and wondered if anyone knew if one existed. Ive got a
few
basic scripts that I use at the moment to check if one of my
customers has
gone open
On 25 Oct, 2006, at 14:07, Alexander Harvey wrote:
I have written a number of plugins, some of which I believe others
might
find very useful, and I was wondering if anyone can advise me on
where I'll
find what I need to know about becoming a Nagios plugin developer?
Judging by what you
On 25 Oct, 2006, at 14:51, Alexander Harvey wrote:
Judging by what you said, you're already one :) Feel free to share
all your plugins on the Exchange, so all Nagios users can benefit
from them. That's all there is to it :)
Well I suppose in that sense I am a plugin developer but I was
Actually, putting all the active probing solutions aside, wouldn't
it be better to go about things the other way around?
What we plan on doing is the following:
Each of our servers gets installed with a standard build, consisting
of OS, patches and various pieces of software + configuration.
On 22 Oct, 2006, at 22:36, js wrote:
I'm very interested into the PHP/perl http interface which is planned
for Nagios 3. Is there a place where I can track the progress made
on Nagios version 3
and it's features?
I don't know if there's a place that allows you to track the
development
On 19 Oct, 2006, at 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in nagios ver. 2.5, which are the number optimal of hosts and/or
services that are supported?
5.
Or was it 20.000? *ponders deeply*
Meaning: we really cannot give any sensible answer to your question.
Please tell us something about your
On 13 Oct, 2006, at 10:49, Greg Cope wrote:
Anyone have v2.5 nrpe binaries for solaris 2.6 available? With ssl?
I have a few hosts that are 2.6 without compliers.
Uhm... So you do have a few Solaris 6 boxen with compilers, but not
all of them?
What's to prevent you from copying the
On 9 Oct, 2006, at 11:09, Brandino Andreas wrote:
Yes, i dont like v1.2 too.
However, suse provides only 1.2 rpms and as everyone wants the server
to have only rpms i have to stuck with v1.2
You _could_ do that... Or you could build your own 2.x RPM... It
really isn't that much work and
On 9 Oct, 2006, at 20:38, Brandino Andreas wrote:
btw, should i prefer source rpm or just install from source? Is there
any howto for installing source on suse?
Installing from source on Suse should be just about the same as
installing from source on any other Linux. So just follow the normal
On 5 Oct, 2006, at 15:52, Yogesh Hasabnis wrote:
Is it possible to use this notification without subscribing to any
specific paid service ?
I've seen a few options IRL:
* attach a cellphone to your server and install SMS sending software
* subscribe to an email-to-SMS gateway
* subscribe to
On 2 Oct, 2006, at 3:46, Timothy Lane wrote:
When I do the yum install nagios. it seems to download and install
for me,
but I can't start the service
Fedora Core 4
nagios-2.5-2.fc4 i386
Uhm, yeah...
A few additional details -would- come in handy, thank you...
This is like saying: I got
Yay, debugging! \o/
Could be handy if we move this off-list, unless no-one objects to us
handling this through the list.
bha! end of the script now looks like this
### FINALLY... RETRIEVING THE VALUES ###
EXITCODE=`$SNMPWALK -v 1 -c $COMMUNITY $HOST $STATUS`
[ $DEBUG -gt 0 ] echo
Right then... Clean slate for this e-mail...
I've set up my snmpd.conf to include the following.
exec .1.3.6.1.4.1.6886.4.1.4 check_d_root /usr/local/nagios/libexec/
check_disk -w 15 -c 5 -p /
SNMPWalking through that gives me:
$ snmpwalk -v 2c -c management localhost
any ideas or am i being dumb?
You're not dumb... it's my script that's forcing you to use -v 2c.
Just switch it over to -v 1 and you should be fine.
I really should make that a config parameter at the top of the
script, since different people use different SNMP versions...
I wrote a script for this a few weeks back.
http://www.kilala.nl/Sysadmin/retrieve_custom_snmp.php
It's also available from the Exchange, if you like :)
On 29 Sep, 2006, at 15:10, Tom Brown wrote:
Hi
I have added some things to my snmp config that i would normally use
nrpe for so that i
On 29 Sep, 2006, at 18:11, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
but it there a way to remove the UCD-SNMP-MIB::ucdavis.55.101.1 =
STRING: so i just see the text of the string?
to whatever command you're running it should work pretty ok, although
with decently recent tools you should also be able to
On 29 Sep, 2006, at 23:46, Thales Maia Chagas wrote:
Does anybody running nagios on VMWare machines? Experiencing any
problem?
Oh come one :) You're gonna have to give us a bit more than that...
Anything specific you're looking for? And run Nagios on VMWare in
what way? With the Virt
Hi all,
I've run into something that irks me, while working with contact and
host groups. Something that I hope you guys will know a way around.
I'm running version 2.5 by the by.
Membership of these groups can be defined in two locations:
* In the definition of the member itself, eg the host
On 26 Sep, 2006, at 14:51, John Longland wrote:
I have a love-triangle-situation here and wherever there's a love-
triangle,
things gets messy
...
( Hope that makes sense !!! )
Can this be done ?
Heck yeah, you can do this! That's what distributed monitoring is
for...
On 21 Sep, 2006, at 12:14, Einar Indridason wrote:
So... if possible, please make the presentations available to those
of us
poor souls, that can't make it to the conference.
We've been told repeatedly by the Netway staff that all presentations
will be available for download from the
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 7:47, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
Zing!
Yes ladies and gentlemen, yet another beautiful piece of flaming
sarcasm, fired onto the web by Hugo! What will he come up with next?!
How will Kaushal respond? And more importantly: what
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 15:47, Vasiliy Boulytchev wrote:
Looking for a IBM DS400 Storage Nagios client.
Nice of you to tell us :)
But I'm assuming that you would like help with that. I've quickly
checked and I don't think there are any plugins that pertain
specifically to the DS400. So
On 10 Sep, 2006, at 22:20, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Jim Perrin wrote:
Top posting because there's no actual question here.
What's your point?
Read the docs. Configure nagios to taste. You haven't defined
anything.
In fact the answer is a duplicate either ;-) But it
Sorry for the dupe...
My mail app crashed while editing another message. Restarting cause
this message to be resent, leading to the dupe...
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 3:46, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
On 10 Sep, 2006, at 22:20, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Jim Perrin wrote:
Top
On 10 Sep, 2006, at 20:30, Richard Galvez wrote:
Hello everyone, I was wondering if anyone knew a good doc that showed
how to set up nsca and use it.
Well, there's the Nagios documentation which is available in both
HTML and PDF. It provides a basic overview of how NSCA works and how
it
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 3:47, LDB wrote:
Do I HAVE to use NSCA when using NRPE?
Nice way of hiding a completely new question at the bottom of your
previous discussion :)
And no. The two are completely unrelated.
NRPE is used to actively run check scripts on a remote client.
NSCA is used to send
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 3:18, LDB wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am having a problem getting NRPE and checks to work with Nagios
...
(Return code of 126 is out of bounds - plugin may be missing)
...
define command{
command_namecheck_nrpe
command_line$USER1$
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 4:44, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 4:06, LDB wrote:
Thomas Sluyter wrote:
NRPE is used to actively run check scripts on a remote client.
NSCA is used to send in status updates for passive checks, to a
Nagios server.
Then with that said, I am not sure what
On 11 Sep, 2006, at 4:45, LDB wrote:
command_line$USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
was the missing component ...
Doh!
I noticed that while reading your e-mail and it even made a small
warning light flicker on. I've no clue why it didn't register with me
as being -the-
You are incorrect. To my knowledge check_nrpe has no option -a. The
command definition posted by Tom is correct for his purposes.
Come again! :)
...
Usage: check_nrpe -H host [-p port] [-t timeout] [-c
command] [-a
arglist...]
Great :) I was looking at an older version of check_nrpe.
On 4 Sep, 2006, at 12:09, Hari Sekhon wrote:
Alexander Harvey wrote:
Note to Hari: my understanding is that sudo won't work for account
that doesn't have a valid shell. Certainly all my testing led me to
that conclusion.
So it would seem that this is not correct. A valid shell is not
On 31 Aug, 2006, at 16:34, Hari Sekhon wrote:
I have a difficult customer who won't sign off changes based on
the security risk using suid plugins, for example, check_logfiles.
What does one do about this situation?
use sudo, that's what it's for.
And then -don't- use sudo to run the
I can't believe I'm the first one to think of this. o_O
NSCA is vitally important to most of our Nagios environments and
nobody has bothered to verify that the daemon itself works properly?
At my current client we've run into many occasions where the NSCA
daemon was running, but was not
On 16 Aug, 2006, at 16:34, Colby Williams wrote:
Has anyone written a plugin? If so, what references (websites,
books) were
used?
Well, judging by nagiosexchange.com there are boatloads of people
writing scripts and plugins :) I'm one of them...
The only reference I used were existing
On 16 Aug, 2006, at 16:47, Colby Williams wrote:
I am trying to check uptime (#uptime) on a Unix box.
Either use the snmp uptime script from Nagios Exchange, or write it
yourself.
Bigger picture, I have never written in bash, so using them as an
example is
kind of confussing.
Ow... Have
On 15 Aug, 2006, at 15:18, Justin Craig wrote:
And here is my service definition:
service_description PING
is_volatile 0
check_period24x7
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 5
Darn... I sent my e-mail to Friedrich personally, instead of to the
list...
Well, here goes again. A bit late I realize...
On 11 Aug, 2006, at 22:25, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
This book helped me get started, with SNMP it is important to know
how
everything fits together. It can seem a bit
Darn I keep using the wrong e-mail account to send these :) Let
me try again...
=
After following your suggestion regarding prinf and checking the
previously unchanged misccommand.cfg I'm not entirely sure what is
going on here. The definition for email is below:
...
This
On 11 Aug, 2006, at 16:41, Travis Rabe wrote:
I have posted my problem in two forums and on this list and I have
yet to
get an answer. Is this what the Nagios community is always like?
Is this
poruct that unsupported?
Dude, this is the first e-mail with your name on it that I see
On 10 Aug, 2006, at 21:06, Ganesh Vembu wrote:
Checking services...
Error: Service check command 'check_nt -H 172.16.1.103 -p 1248 -v'
specified in service 'check-nt' for host 'helpdesk' not defined
anywhere!
Checked 1 services.
Ganesh,
Please don't take this the wrong way, but
On 9 Aug, 2006, at 19:49, Ganesh Vembu wrote:
Hi all
I finally got my Nagios running...
Then I realized that it was checking stuff for the local machine
and not any other machines I specified
Haha! Amazing :)
You made -exactly- the same mistake I made when I began with Nagios...
Ok so
On 20 Jul, 2006, at 14:50, karthik arya wrote:
hey
But i'm getting the error:Error: Service check command 'check_snmp'
specified in service 'SNMP' for host 'example.com' not defined
anywhere!
Obviously i'm missing something.
Yes... This problem seems to be very common and I guess this
On 19 Jul, 2006, at 12:24, Armin Irger wrote:
---
contents of snmpd.conf
---
If i send a trap like
#snmptrap -v 2c -c public localhost ucdStart sysContact.0 s Dave
only in the /var/log/net-snmptrap.log appears
No access configuration - dropping trap.
Your current setup of snmpd.conf
On 18 Jul, 2006, at 10:25, Guillaume wrote:
REMY Julien a écrit :
Hello,
I would like to know how to use the files printers, servers, routers,
switches in nagios2.4.
I discomment them in the file nagios.cfg.
Is it necessary to put a file hosts.cfg in each directory?
The best advise I
Very cool JöÎrg,
Thanks for the feedback -and- the demonstration!
I knew we weren't crazy for making the choices we did... It's just
nice to see this thought confirmed :3
Thanks everyone...
On 17 Jul, 2006, at 17:55, Joerg Linge wrote:
I use net-snmp to execute tho local plugins via snmp
On 14 Jul, 2006, at 16:35, Josh Yost wrote:
Hi all,
Is it possible to create a contactgroup that has viewing rights for a
servicegroup but does not have permissions to the service commands?
Read the docu on cgi.cfg. There are multiple layers of authentication
defined in there which
On 13 Jul, 2006, at 9:20, Alexander Davidsen wrote:
If i comment out this I just get the same error on the next section.
What can be wrong? I have attached my config file.
Sounds like maybe you forgot a closing bracket somewhere...
Check your syntax closely...
Hi all,
For the new Nagios roll-out I'm working on at my current client I've
run into an interesting dispute. The matter concerns the running of
remote scripts, to check all kinds of stuff on Nagios client systems.
Why is it that we insist on using NRPE for this? Of course it's very
On 12 Jul, 2006, at 21:27, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
Seriously... How often do questions like this pop up on the mailing
list? I think I've seen this one about ten times the past three
weeks...
I just wonder. Would it help if we put a little
On 11 Jul, 2006, at 9:51, Vinod wrote:
When i run /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/
nagios.cfg
it gives me this error
Error: Unexpected token or statement in file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/
rss.cfg' on line 4
Please suggest do i need to make any changes in the rss.cfg
I'd suggest you browse the recent mailing list archives. We've
discussed this matter over the course of the past two to three weeks..
Î
On 9 Jul, 2006, at 16:59, Janet Post wrote:
Hello,
I am looking for a nice failover and redundancy plan? I am putting
together a plan for a distributed
Hey Remy,
Nagios don't start in my computer (/etc/init.d/nagios start). If I do
/etc/init.d/nagios status, an error message appears :
ERROR: list of process IDs must follow -p
What wants to say this message?
The script probably contains a call to ps -p which requires a
number of PIDs. My
On 23 Jun, 2006, at 11:36, REMY Julien wrote:
In /etc/init.d/nagios :
status_nagios ()
{
if test ! -f $NagiosRunFile; then
echo No lock file found in $NagiosRunFile
return 1
...
and so on...
I know what /etc/init.d/nagios looks like, thank you :)
My
On 23 Jun, 2006, at 12:13, REMY Julien wrote:
I replaced in /etc/init.d/nagios :
if ps -p $NagiosPID;
by
[ if ps -f $NagiosPID == ] || (echo Something went wrong
reading the Nagios PID from $NagiosRunFile);
Is that which is necessary that I make?
No... Either I wasn't very clear, or
Just to be clear, I made a booboo in my e-mail from 11:42:
On 23 Jun, 2006, at 11:43, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
[ -f $NagiosPID == ] || (echo Something went wrong reading the
Nagios PID from $NagiosRunFile);
Should be:
[ $NagiosPID == ] Something went wrong reading the Nagios PID
from
On 23 Jun, 2006, at 14:59, REMY Julien wrote:
In my /etc/init.d/nagios :
NagiosPID=`head -n 1 $NagiosRun`
[ -f $NagiosPID == ] (echo Something went wrong reading the
Nagios PID from $NagiosRunFile; exit 1)
Take out that -f. That was a mistake of mine and doesn't belong
there. It
On 21 Jun, 2006, at 14:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We are looking at a solution to Monitor three datacentre which are
located geographically apart.
Actually,
We just had a discussion about this a few days ago.. I guess you
joined the list quite recently.
Anywho:
* The
Hi :)
Actually, I'll be building a redundant Nagios setup for my current
client. Barring the use of real clustering software I'll make it a
cluster-alike so to speak...
In our setup we'll have three pairs of hosts:
* Internal checkers (through our own networks)
* External checkers (through
On 19 Jun, 2006, at 16:51, Thomas Sluyter wrote:
Why not make things a bit more readable by putting that long
command in a separate script?
Your original question still stands though and I'm curious as well..
On 19 Jun, 2006, at 16:42, Steve Traylen wrote:
Hi,
I've been trying
I'm actually tempted to steer you towards check_tcp :)
Would that be enough for you?
On 16 Jun, 2006, at 13:52, Jan van der Merwe wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm looking for a really simple plugin that will just check whether
a MySQL
server is alive and accepting connections. I've found a few
On 13 Jun, 2006, at 11:02, Mohamed Gombolaty wrote:
- Will I have to write each host dependency on each router on the
traceroute or will the dpendncy of the host on a router reachability,
and then making the router dependant on another router will do the
trick. (as far as I read the answer is
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