Re: [Nagios-users] About passive check

2008-04-20 Thread Thomas Stocking
get the result you desire. Thomas Stocking Yu Watanabe wrote: > Hello, > > So , in other words, modifying the source code is necessary for > this feature? > > I mean is there any external commands that changes the > service status into PENDING? > > Yu Watanab

Re: [Nagios-users] live demo

2007-11-26 Thread Thomas Stocking
You can also try out GroundWork Monitor (without the config tool enabled) at: http://adzuki.groundworkopensource.com login guest, pw guest This package uses Nagios to feed a back-end mysql database that is used for multiple displays and reports. It also integrates Cacti, RRDtool graphing and severa

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios performance query

2007-11-21 Thread Thomas Stocking
Carson, I don't see any other responses to this thread, but after seeing your talk, I'll chime in. My experience leads me to believe that: IF - you only define 3000 or fewer services - you set service_inter_check_delay_method=s - you set service and host check timeouts to 10 seconds - o

Re: [Nagios-users] secure connection

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas Stocking
SW, You can use the NSCA encryption options. They are a bit slower than unencrypted, but they work well. On the sending side, match the encryption method in send_nsca.cfg to that specified in the nsca.cfg on the receiving (Nagios) server side. The tricky part is compiling nsca and send_nsca with

Re: [Nagios-users] Memory Usage per plug-in

2007-04-26 Thread Thomas Stocking
Adi, We have found that the answer to this question is dependent upon multiple factors. Total number of service checks is of course one factor, and Nagios 2.5 (the last version we tested) will fail to start at around 24,000 service and host objects combined. We have also found that with typical

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios sents notifi immideatly after recieving syslog error

2007-04-12 Thread Thomas Stocking
e: Mon Mar 19 13:21:07 CET 200 > > > ..Or something like that. > Group those messages together is also a posibility but I prefer the above > methode. > Is this posible with the Groundwork Foundation? or must I write some custom > script? (don't hope so because I'm n

Re: [Nagios-users] Host/Service State Log Entries

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Stocking
Scott, Marc is right - this is neither a bug, nor a misconfiguration. It is purposeful behavior. It was added to Nagios by the developer as a fix for another issue with the reports. You can't control it without modification to the source code, unless both you and I and Marc are all missing some

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios sents notifi immideatly after recieving syslog error

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Stocking
Well, yes...or do it at the plugin level. I mean, what about writing the syslog messages to a log file that you parse every 5 minutes? There are plugins like check_log3 that do this, and they can be set to filter for regex expressions. Another way would be to use syslog-ng to accept and filter th

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios menagemente

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Stocking
The answer is most certainly yes. Monarch has a recently added (with version 2) a Groups feature, and the MonarchDeploy.pm module. You can use these features to manage distributed configurations. We do this often. The Groups allow you to override passive and acive state, so you can maintain a ce

Re: [Nagios-users] Host/Service State Log Entries

2007-04-11 Thread Thomas Stocking
Well, the "log_initial_states" option has this description: "If you want Nagios to log all initial host and service states to the main log file (the first time the service or host is checked) you can enable this option" It then goes on to recommend against setting this option unless you are usin

Re: [Nagios-users] (no subject)

2007-04-04 Thread Thomas Stocking
Curious of it's the log rotation HUP signal that is doing this. Does it do the same thing on a restart of nagios? Also, have you tried shutting down nagios, checking for any old nagios processes hanging around and killing them off, then restarting? Thomas Prigge Scott wrote: > I recently up

Re: [Nagios-users] Notifications and Event Handlers

2007-03-30 Thread Thomas Stocking
Forgive my lack of understanding, here, but are we talking about escalations, event handlers, or external commands? These are all separate functions, and are controlled separately. In my experience, all eventhandlers work fine if notifications are off globally. The config below has nothing to do

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP MIB Dell 2748

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Stocking
Ooops - I meant to say Dell switches, not IBM servers. :) Thomas Stocking wrote: > You might try to modify the daimonic plugins. These are pretty good - > they do a walk of the MIB and pull out fan speed and temperatures. You > will need to adjust them to work with IBM servers - I&#

Re: [Nagios-users] SNMP MIB Dell 2748

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Stocking
You might try to modify the daimonic plugins. These are pretty good - they do a walk of the MIB and pull out fan speed and temperatures. You will need to adjust them to work with IBM servers - I'm sure the MIB values are different from the HPs Gary wrote these for. http://gwfl.daimonic.org/inde

Re: [Nagios-users] check_cpu_usage plugin?

2007-03-29 Thread Thomas Stocking
Here's one that we use. It requires SAR - usually that's not a big deal.     Thomas ffwqe efwa wrote: Andy,   I was under the impression that load was more indicative on process-wait for cpu cycles and general system performance than actual cpu usage.  For example, heavy processor wait

Re: [Nagios-users] check_ping

2007-03-28 Thread Thomas Stocking
In general I like check_icmp better, though it's requirement for setuid root are kind of scary. I did find that it is faster than check_ping, and that the old check_ping had a problem with some of the icmp response codes that check_icmp did not have. The speed issue is especially important if yo

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration tool for large environment

2007-03-28 Thread Thomas Stocking
rmation in the help files. does > anybody ever used the MonarchDeploy.pm script? > > Michiel > > > - Original Message - From: "Thomas Stocking" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 7:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users]

Re: [Nagios-users] Child host notify status problem

2007-03-27 Thread Thomas Stocking
tions. It has happened to me... Thomas James Tran wrote: > Thomas Stocking wrote: >> James, >> Nagios should be setting the dependent hosts to an unreachable status >> when the parent host is down. This is the logic that allows you to >> suppress notification for ho

Re: [Nagios-users] Child host notify status problem

2007-03-27 Thread Thomas Stocking
James, Nagios should be setting the dependent hosts to an unreachable status when the parent host is down. This is the logic that allows you to suppress notification for hosts being down "downstream" of a router that fails. The most common problem I have seen with this is that the host notify o

Re: [Nagios-users] Passive service result check, using host address instead of host name

2007-03-27 Thread Thomas Stocking
Manish, If you are using a script to submit check results to the command file on the Nagios host, you could use the status.log file to look up the hostname before you submit the result. Another way would be to use a tool like Monarch or NagioSQL to store the hostnames and IPs in a MySQL DB. Then

Re: [Nagios-users] Configuration tool for large environment

2007-03-27 Thread Thomas Stocking
That can work, sure. If you are using Monarch, you can use the MonarchCallout.pm to initiate an rsync and/or scp over to the backup server and restart Nagios there. You might also check out the Goups function in Monarch - helps with distributing the config to multiple Nagios servers. Thomas

Re: [Nagios-users] is there a way to set host min_check_attempt?

2007-03-26 Thread Thomas Stocking
Hi Dinçer, Not quite sure I follow your logic, but it looks like you want to control what happens with Nagios host checks. Nagios will check the host if and when a service on that host enters a non-ok state. It then executes the plugin that you select as a host-alive check. If it comes back with