[Nagios-users] Patches for inclusion to Nagios 4

2013-08-06 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! We've published a list of patches for Nagios 4: http://www.opsview.com/whats-new/blog/opsview-patches-nagios-4 We'd be happy if you could review if these are acceptable for future inclusion or if anyone else finds them useful. Ton -

Re: [Nagios-users] perfdata-file not working the same since upgrade from 3.0.2 to 3.3.1

2011-09-07 Thread Ton Voon
On 7 Sep 2011, at 10:08, Michael Friedrich wrote: > On 2011-09-06 21:35, Joe Hoot wrote: >> Yep. I had seen your post earlier and was hoping that there was an >> additional variable that I could add to tell nagios to include non-perfdata >> information in that file. This is a shame. In the p

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http + headers

2011-07-29 Thread Ton Voon
On 29 Jul 2011, at 14:35, af.at.w...@gmail.com wrote: > I am trying to mimic this in Nagios with check_http like so: > > ./check_http -H mysite.com -u http://mysite.com/home/index.aspx -f > follow -s Welcome -k 'Cookie: user=4reqrerqwr;userlogin=123adsfjlk324' > -v You should use multiple -k to

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios with mysql

2011-04-21 Thread Ton Voon
On 21 Apr 2011, at 08:32, Marco Borsani wrote: > I am using Nagios since 2004 with all the configuration in the text files. > > Now, I’d like using mysql DB. > > I do not need a migration procedure, I just need to understand how to > configure a Nagios to start with mysql DB. If you create

Re: [Nagios-users] Hiding service checks from certain contact_groups ...

2011-03-23 Thread Ton Voon
On 23 Mar 2011, at 16:19, Marc Fournier wrote: > > I'm working on cleaning up our local nagios setup, and one of the things I'd > like to do is have certain contact_groups see a host, but only certain > service checks within that host … > > For instance, I have > > Host A, with Service A, B

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Nagios Configuration with Passive Checks

2011-03-21 Thread Ton Voon
On 21 Mar 2011, at 02:43, Samuel Kidman wrote: > I am trying to set up a distributed nagios configuration that will monitor n > mine-sites. There is a single master server that will accept passive checks > from all of the mine sites providing a unified view of network status > throughout the o

Re: [Nagios-users] Weird failure-to-count error

2011-01-17 Thread Ton Voon
On 17 Jan 2011, at 19:59, Steven Schwartz wrote: I have a test (proprietary internal test) that runs, reports critical (not surprising, as it’s doing a web submit to a non- running webserver), which then fails again every 15 minutes; and never moves from “Current Attempt: 1/3”, and therefor

Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement

2010-12-17 Thread Ton Voon
On 17 Dec 2010, at 17:33, Michael Friedrich wrote: > Original Message > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] hostgroup with no members - Enhancement > From: Max Schubert > To: Andreas Ericsson , Nagios Users List > > Date: 2010-11-29 15:07 >> Thank you, Andreas - I actually really enj

Re: [Nagios-users] Suppress "Max concurrent service checks" messages.

2010-11-12 Thread Ton Voon
On 12 Nov 2010, at 15:30, Paul M. Dubuc wrote: > We're running Nagios 3.2.3 with concurrent service checks set to > 40. We can't > go much higher than this due to resource constraints outside of > Nagios but > we're running 329 services at 5 minute intervals (this is a "load > test" of > s

Re: [Nagios-users] host_port objects - Enhancement Request

2010-10-28 Thread Ton Voon
On 28 Oct 2010, at 16:16, Jason Frisvold wrote: > Nagios Enhancement Proposal > > Overview > > Currently, there are two primary ways to add individual physical ports > for a port-based device. Each method has both advantages and > disadvantages, but neither fully satisfies the needs of Lafayette

[Nagios-users] Time scheduling bug

2010-10-27 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just a reminder for people that are running older versions of Nagios that since DST will be ending soon, the DST time scheduling bug may affect you. The bug affects Nagios 3.2.0 and is fixed in Nagios 3.2.1. More details at: http://bit.ly/cnhf5S Ton ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Service dependency for nrpe on nagios 3.2.3

2010-10-21 Thread Ton Voon
On 21 Oct 2010, at 19:41, Mathieu Gagné wrote: > I applied the patch to HEAD but did not have the chance to test it. > However I'm confident it will work fine. > > Hopefully this patch will be applied to the HEAD of Nagios as it is > really useful to us. :) That's a very useful feature. In Opsvi

[Nagios-users] check_snmp new feature

2010-09-02 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just want to let you know about a new blog article about the new feature in check_snmp where it measures rate changes in SNMP. http://bit.ly/cdNQlu It was developed for a customer of Opsview (http://opsview.com), but is now in Nagios Plugins for everyone to use. Enjoy! Thanks to Holger

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios reload from crontab on 5 mins ?

2010-09-01 Thread Ton Voon
On 1 Sep 2010, at 07:43, b2 wrote: > I have to do rebuild my nagios2 configuration. The idea is to get > hosts.cfg and hostgroups.cfg dynamically from MySQL DB , the > 'get_config.pl' script first connects to db , retrieve hosts and then > print values to hosts.cfg. , then reload nagios. Everythi

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Setup of Nagios

2010-08-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Aug 2010, at 15:38, Max wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Ton Voon wrote: >> You may want to look at Opsview (http://opsview.com). >> >> From a single point of configuration, it pushes out the nagios >> configuration to the remote slaves which are ind

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed Setup of Nagios

2010-08-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 17 Aug 2010, at 15:26, Bradley Radjoo wrote: > Please can you assist me as I a 1st timer to Nagios itself as I need > assistance on a Distributed Monitoring Setup of Nagios. > Where one server manages other instances of Nagios Servers in > differant locations. You may want to look at Opsv

[Nagios-users] Nagios Plugins 1.4.15 released!

2010-07-28 Thread Ton Voon
The Nagios Plugin development team are proud to announce a new release of the Nagios Plugins! More details at http://nagiosplugins.org/nagiosplugins-1.4.15 -- The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the

Re: [Nagios-users] failover setup help

2010-07-15 Thread Ton Voon
On 9 Jul 2010, at 18:16, Shadhin Rahman wrote: > All, >I have a failover setup with nagios. I also have ndoUtils setup > for collecting historical data. My setup is described below. > > master server - running nagios and ndoutils collecting data. The > master is also sending host stat

Re: [Nagios-users] How to find active check status for a service?

2010-07-15 Thread Ton Voon
On 15 Jul 2010, at 22:08, Paul M. Dubuc wrote: > Is there some programmatic way to find out whether or not active > checks are > enabled or disabled for a service in Nagios. We have a requirement > for an > audit to provide notifications for certain critical services that > may have > the

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios DST bug and upcoming DST-time switch in Europe

2010-03-09 Thread Ton Voon
On 9 Mar 2010, at 08:19, Mark Elsen wrote: > Nagios 3.2.0 > > > - By the end of the month, Europe will switch to DST. > Will I be affected by the Nagios DST-BUG which , which results in > NAGIOS becoming > dis-functional ? > > Which countermeasures can I take to prevent b

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios web configurator

2010-03-04 Thread Ton Voon
On 4 Mar 2010, at 09:20, wale Ajayi wrote: Hello every one, i need a very good web interface configurator for my nagios3.0.6 can anybody help me to get one , thanks very much. And since everyone else seems to be linking to theirs, Opsera produce Opsview: http://opsview.org Ton -

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 3.2.0 process dies silently - help!

2010-02-05 Thread Ton Voon
On 5 Feb 2010, at 16:41, Tony Johansson wrote: Hello, Our nagios 3.2.0 installation is having major problems. The nagios process dies silently about 10-60 seconds after beeing started. No record as to why in any logfiles. Have tried setting max debug (debug_level=-1 and debug_verbosity=2)

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 30 seconds initial delay

2010-01-28 Thread Ton Voon
On 17 Dec 2009, at 08:12, Brandino Andreas wrote: > I have much less hosts and services (for the moment). > After deleting "retention.dat" I still face the same delay... > When did this slow down occur? I can see how Jonathan's patches speed up the system but these look like long-term bottlene

Re: [Nagios-users] Time Conversion Bug (Was: no email notifications sent)

2009-11-03 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Albrecht, On 3 Dec 2008, at 20:01, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Am 01.12.08 21:59 schrieb(en) Albrecht Dreß: >> I have a self-compiled nagios 3.0.5 running on a 64-bit Xeon box >> with Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Everything went perfectly (including >> notifications) until I upgraded from 3.0.1 (iirc) to

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

2009-10-26 Thread Ton Voon
On 26 Oct 2009, at 12:53, Matthias Flacke wrote: this change is causing the wrong reschedule: http://nagios.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagios/base/utils.c?r1=1.236&r2=1.237&view=patch It has been applied on 15th of January 2009 and introduced some statements t->tm_isdst=-1; into base

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios disfunctional , perhaps due to time change ?

2009-10-26 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! On 26 Oct 2009, at 10:18, Mattias Ryrlén wrote: This can be solved with issue the following error. service nagios stop; now=$(date +%s); sed -i "s/^next_check=.*/ next_check=$now/" /usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav; service nagios start this will only work if: 1. you can issue command

Re: [Nagios-users] About Nagios3 and arbitrary code execution

2009-07-08 Thread Ton Voon
On 8 Jul 2009, at 10:44, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > According to I see in changelog of the version 3.1.1, it > incorporates a > security fix for statuswml.cgi where arbitrary shell injection was > possible. Somebody could confirm to me that this vulnerability is the > same that is mentioned in the

Re: [Nagios-users] Escaping broke i 3.1.1 ?

2009-06-25 Thread Ton Voon
orked on Nagios 3.0.6. I've tried almost any combination of escaping the dollar sign, $$, \$, \\$$,\\\$ You name it! Thanks for your help,Tore  Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:52:07 +0100 From: Ton Voon <ton.v...@opsera.com> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Escaping broke i 3.1.1 ? To: Nagios U

Re: [Nagios-users] Escaping broke i 3.1.1 ?

2009-06-23 Thread Ton Voon
Tore, Can you send the configuration for the host and service too? Can you also send the check_nrpe_parameters command definition. On the command line, what works? Also, you said a previous version of Nagios worked with this definition - which version of Nagios was that? Ton On 23 Jun 2009

Re: [Nagios-users] passive service check where display_name larger then 128 characters

2009-06-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Paul, On 9 Jun 2009, at 18:13, Paul Vaes wrote: > The issue is that if I define a nagios service where the service > description is larger than 128 characters, everything seem to work > properly except that running a script which sends a passive service > check via send_nsca the service

[Nagios-users] New perl module: Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize

2009-05-29 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just to let you all know there is a new perl module on CPAN: Nagios::Plugin::WWW::Mechanize. You can use this to monitor your website, POSTing your login credentials, navigating through your site, and picking out specific content information. The example shows how I use it to capture th

Re: [Nagios-users] HTTP and Web Form based Auth

2009-05-28 Thread Ton Voon
On 28 May 2009, at 19:17, Paul Weaver wrote: >> How are folks checking site functionality with sites that use auth >> *other* than basic (apache) auth? >> I didn't find any plugins that support populating forms and posting. > > I use a perl script and WWW:Mechanize. Great minds think alike :

Re: [Nagios-users] Periodic Overrides

2009-03-13 Thread Ton Voon
On 12 Mar 2009, at 15:29, Jason Frisvold wrote: > > For any given service, what is the accepted method for overriding > test > values for a specific time period? For example, we have servers that > are backed up at a given time each night. During the backup period, > load is driven up o

Re: [Nagios-users] Any recommendations

2009-03-10 Thread Ton Voon
On 9 Mar 2009, at 21:45, Martyn wrote: Hi Group, anybody used or can recommend ant of the below, or any others, I think if I can build a few via a GUI it will give me a better understanding. Nagmin Nagat Nagiosweb Thanks Martyn You may also want to consider Opsview: http://opsview.org

[Nagios-users] Opsview 3

2009-02-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just wanted to announce that Opsera have recently released Opsview 3. This is our GPL product, based on Nagios, which covers: * web front end for configuration * AJAX status views * NDOutils for status data * simple distributed setups, including clustered failover nodes And a ne

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed monitoring without direct networkconnection

2008-11-28 Thread Ton Voon
On 28 Nov 2008, at 16:00, Nick Lunt wrote: So I'll have nagios clients -> nagios -> send_email -> primary nagios server -> postfix -> mail filter -> send_nsca -> nagios If I get this working I'll treat myself to curry :) You deserve a vindaloo. So basically, you are using email from the

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed monitoring without direct network connection

2008-11-28 Thread Ton Voon
Thanks for the plug, but Opsview is not really suitable for this. We have distributed monitoring out-of-the-box, but it requires the permanent connection between slaves and the master which Nick says he hasn't got. If you will have temporary connections (that go up and down), we have been

Re: [Nagios-users] Auditing External Commands

2008-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2008, at 20:15, Laack,Jacob C wrote: > I'm running Nagios 3.0.3 with httpd on RHEL 5. I have CGI > Authentication enabled for a couple dozen users. Some of them make > "mistakes" when issuing External Commands and I'm looking for a way > to log or know who turned of notifications

[Nagios-users] Request to test pst3 on solaris systems

2008-06-17 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! This is a request to test the latest pst3 in the nagiosplugins snapshot. My colleague, Duncan Ferguson, has been making some optimisations so that is runs much faster on systems with a large number of processes - on a Solaris 10 server with multiple zones, it runs about 94% faster! I'

[Nagios-users] Nagios Plugins 1.4.12

2008-05-27 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! I'm proud to announce the availability of Nagios Plugins 1.4.12. Included in this release is the --extra-opts syntax, available on all the core C based plugins, so you can now specify extra options that would act as if they were passed via the command line. This allows sensitive informa

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOUtils --- not compiled on Solaris

2008-03-31 Thread Ton Voon
On 31 Mar 2008, at 15:41, Marcin Praczko wrote: > Is there anybody who install ndoutils on Solaris ? > http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2008/03/ndoutils-on-sol.html Ton http://www.altinity.com UK: +44 (0)870 787 9243 US: +1 866 879 9184 Fax: +44 (0)845 280 1725 Skype: tonvoon

Re: [Nagios-users] Getting ndoutils 1.4b7compiled under freeBSD 6.3 with mysql support

2008-02-27 Thread Ton Voon
On 27 Feb 2008, at 08:11, Denny Schierz wrote: > i really have problems to get ndoutils compiled under freeBSD 6.3 with > mysql support. MySQL headers are under /usr/local/include/mysql and > libs > are /usr/local/lib/mysql. > > ./configure --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local --with-mysql-inc=/usr/loca

[Nagios-users] Fwd: Just a general concensus

2008-01-25 Thread Ton Voon
On 24 Jan 2008, at 20:50, Brian Loe wrote: > what's the view on Opsview? We like it, but then, we wrote it! > Is it just, more or less, a wrapper for > Nagios? A lot of people complain about managing the configuration files, so Opsview provides a web front end to do this: http://opsview.org/a

Re: [Nagios-users] Monarch like interface for Nagios 3.0rc1

2008-01-08 Thread Ton Voon
On 8 Jan 2008, at 03:26, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We are brand new to Nagios/*ix. > I’ve been nagging my head against the wall, and got it running. > Config seems to be a nightmare. > Anyone know where I can find a Monarch like interface for Nagios > 3.0rc1 which is d

Re: [Nagios-users] monitor Network Time Protocol

2007-12-20 Thread Ton Voon
On 20 Dec 2007, at 11:37, trevor obba wrote: > use check_ntp In fact, use check_ntp_time (in the 1.4.11 release). This will check the local (to the plugin) time against the NTP server. check_ntp will be deprecated in future releases. If you want to check your NTP server against its peers, us

Re: [Nagios-users] Slow Nagios reloads with NDOUtils

2007-11-17 Thread Ton Voon
On 16 Nov 2007, at 21:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My first problem, and I am not sure it is actually a problem, is > that when I do a reload of nagios (/etc/init.d/nagios reload) it > takes, what seems to me to be, a long time. It is usually around > 90-120 seconds for Nagios to start al

Re: [Nagios-users] Global users and time zones

2007-10-30 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Benny, On 29 Oct 2007, at 20:56, C. Bensend wrote: >I realize this is borderline relevant, but I'm sure some of you > have had to deal with this in the past. How do you do it? I'm > trying to avoid having times displayed in a single time zone and > having the local admins do time calcula

Re: [Nagios-users] New Nagios Plugins website

2007-10-09 Thread Ton Voon
ted a whole bunch off stuff recently. I have > attached a > MS word doc with what I have. Hope this doc saves you or some others > some work > > Regards > > Tom > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ton > Vo

[Nagios-users] New Nagios Plugins website

2007-10-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just to let you all know that a new website for the Nagios Plugins project has just been launched: http://nagiosplugins.org We'll be using this as a way of keeping you all up to date on the latest information about the plugins. But it is your site too. We've enabled comments so you can a

Re: [Nagios-users] Standard Nagios Plugins 1.4.9 and IPv6 problem?

2007-09-21 Thread Ton Voon
On 20 Sep 2007, at 19:36, Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote: > We're looking to changes the modules file for this box to prevent any > component of IPv6 being loaded, but I'm still not convinced that will > dissuade the plugins from going on their merry way. Sorry to jump in late on this thread. In the p

Re: [Nagios-users] Disabling Host Commands CGI for a user

2007-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2007, at 18:32, Mick wrote: > Is there a way to disable access to the Host Commands CGI on a user > by user > basis? > > For some users I want to only allow them to view the settings and > status of > different services, but not to allow them to change these. I think you mean to st

Re: [Nagios-users] dont check service when host down

2007-09-18 Thread Ton Voon
On 18 Sep 2007, at 15:08, Marc Powell wrote: >> I'm using nagios to check a lot of host and service. When a host is > coming >> down, nagios continue to check the service attached to this host. >> It's >> consume a lot of performance, it's trivial to know that when a >> host is >> down, we do

Re: [Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-13 Thread Ton Voon
On 12 Sep 2007, at 19:32, Ton Voon wrote: > Can you try the Altinity patched version of NDO Utils? http:// > altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2007/04/better_mysqlcli.html > > This incorporates a better detection of mysql (based on the Nagios > Plugins' one). > > I'm tryi

Re: [Nagios-users] Further problems with NDO Utils

2007-09-12 Thread Ton Voon
Tom, Can you try the Altinity patched version of NDO Utils? http:// altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2007/04/better_mysqlcli.html This incorporates a better detection of mysql (based on the Nagios Plugins' one). I'm trying to get Ethan to apply to the core NDO, so every success is an encouragement

Re: [Nagios-users] Disks not reporting correctly

2007-09-10 Thread Ton Voon
On 7 Sep 2007, at 15:33, Craig Jackson wrote: > Here's the relevant lines from nrpe.cfg: > command[check_disk_sda1]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20 - > c 10 > -p /dev/sda1 > command[check_disk_sdb1]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 20 - > c 10 > -p /dev/sdb1 > command[check_disk_s

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed config admin tool?

2007-08-31 Thread Ton Voon
On 30 Aug 2007, at 22:55, Rob Brown wrote: > Anyone using OpsView? (http://opsview.org/node/10) Sounds like it has > this capability: > "With Opsview, one of the big features is the simple distributed > monitoring - you just select a drop down to associate a host with a > slave server and then wh

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOUtils 1.4b4 OpenBSD build issue

2007-08-30 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Israel, On 29 Aug 2007, at 21:31, Israel Brewster wrote: > Ok, I have now attempted to build ndoutils 1.4b4 on a RHEL 4 box, > only to get the following error: > > gcc -O0 -g -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -D BUILD_NAGIOS_2X -o ndo2db-2x ndo2db.c > dbhandlers-2x.o io.o utils.o db.o -L/usr/lib/mysql -lz -l

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils on FreeBSD -- solved

2007-08-22 Thread Ton Voon
On 22 Aug 2007, at 16:44, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > checking for type of socket size... size_t > checking for linker flags for loadable modules... -shared > checking for mysql_config... /usr/local/bin/mysql_config > checking for mysql_init in -lmysqlclient... yes > MySQL library and include file(

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils on FreeBSD -- solved

2007-08-22 Thread Ton Voon
On 22 Aug 2007, at 15:49, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:37:21PM +0100, Ton Voon wrote: >> I'll try and create a new tarball for ndoutils later today for you to >> try. I'll post on our blog site. > > Let me know, I'm happy to test. The

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils on FreeBSD -- solved

2007-08-22 Thread Ton Voon
On 22 Aug 2007, at 15:20, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:11:38PM +0100, Ton Voon wrote: >> >> On 22 Aug 2007, at 14:23, Michael W. Lucas wrote: >> >>> No joy. I did the following: >>> >>> download the patch and the np_my

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils on FreeBSD -- solved

2007-08-22 Thread Ton Voon
On 22 Aug 2007, at 14:23, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > No joy. I did the following: > > download the patch and the np_mysqlclient.m4 into my home dir. > > extract a clean ndoutils, go into it > > patch < ../ndoutils_better_mysql_detection_cvs.patch > > mkdir m4 > mv ../np_mysqlclient.m4 m4/ > > Ran

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOutils on FreeBSD -- solved

2007-08-22 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Michael, On 21 Aug 2007, at 22:16, Michael W. Lucas wrote: > The problem is in ndoutils-x/include/config.h . The configure script > puts all the libraries under /usr/lib instead of letting mysql be > under /usr/local/lib. I edited config.h as shown, and ndoutils > compiled just fine. Can yo

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios project help required

2007-08-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Sekhar, On 9 Aug 2007, at 13:59, Sekhar wrote: > I have a new monitoring project now i am planning to implement > nagios with some good GUI for configuration files. > > Can someone help me which web interface is good for configuration > files like adding hosts,hostgroups etc You might lik

Re: [Nagios-users] Hierarchical representation in hostgroups.

2007-08-03 Thread Ton Voon
On 3 Aug 2007, at 08:08, Lalita Drolia wrote: > I have configured nagios to monitor about 800 servers. I have made > various hostgroups on the basis of operating systems, databases > installed, teams using the machines etc. > > Now I want to view them in hostgroups on web interface in the for

[Nagios-users] Simple SMS alerting

2007-07-18 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just wanted to make you aware of a simple way of getting SMS alerting from your Nagios system. For Opsview, we've been working with a company called AQL (http://aql.com) who provide an SMS gateway. We've been speaking to their technical guys and David Precious, a perl developer who has

Re: [Nagios-users] Unable to installed the plugins

2007-07-02 Thread Ton Voon
On 2 Jul 2007, at 20:07, Paikray, Manas (GE Money, consultant) wrote: > +Error+ > if gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\"/usr/local/nagios/share/locale\" - > DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../lib -I../gl -I../intl -I/usr/ > include/ldap -I/include -I/usr/include-g -O2 -MT check_apt.o

Re: [Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Ton Voon
On 11 May 2007, at 20:25, Aidan Anderson wrote: > First of all, thank-you for the replies! > > The majority of devices that I monitor are routers/vpn devices and I > have (on the documentation's advice) not set active checks on the > hosts > and instead I've added check_ping as a service on eac

Re: [Nagios-users] Severe peformance issue during major network outage

2007-05-11 Thread Ton Voon
On 11 May 2007, at 19:03, Jim Avery wrote: > On 11/05/07, Aidan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> A lot of people have mentioned using fping to speed things up but >> if my >> average service latency is only 0.479 seconds in normal >> circumstances, I >> can't see how tweaking this wil

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.8 + NDO 1.4b2 + NDO2DB = high service latency

2007-05-10 Thread Ton Voon
On 4 May 2007, at 11:39, Robin Ericsson wrote: > On 5/4/07, Ton Voon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just to let you know that we've found DB contention issues with >> Nagios 2.8 with NDO 1.4b2. Mysql takes a very long time (around 30 >> seconds) to ru

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios 2.8 + NDO 1.4b2 + NDO2DB = high service latency

2007-05-04 Thread Ton Voon
On 3 May 2007, at 21:07, Jim Avery wrote: > On 03/05/07, Janet Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Is anyone else experiencing high service latency when using NDOUtils? >> If I disable the event broker in the nagios config file, I have >> service >> latency of 0.00/1.59/0.592. When

Re: [Nagios-users] Log startup time for nagios 2.7

2007-05-02 Thread Ton Voon
On 3 May 2007, at 03:04, Marantz, Roy wrote: > No, but I was looking into it. I didn't think it would help the > nagios > process startup, does it? In fact, NDO slows it down because it has to send a lot of data for large installations. Scratch that idea. Do you have a distributed environm

Re: [Nagios-users] Log startup time for nagios 2.7

2007-05-02 Thread Ton Voon
On 2 May 2007, at 21:48, Marantz, Roy wrote: > I'm using Nagios 2.7 and it seem like I just passed some threshold > such > that the startup time for nagios is > long (> 2 minutes) now. Any ideas on how to improve this would be > appreciated. I notice that nagios 3.x > has some nice sounding

Re: [Nagios-users] check cluster plugin

2007-04-23 Thread Ton Voon
James, Can you try the snapshot at http://nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot. check_cluster2 has been recently moved into core and renamed as check_cluster. Ton On 23 Apr 2007, at 21:23, James wrote: > Hi i was trying to use the check cluster plugin from the contrib > directory in the nagios plugin

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios menagemente

2007-04-12 Thread Ton Voon
On 12 Apr 2007, at 03:39, Thomas Guyot-Sionnest wrote: > On 11/04/07 08:26 PM, Jason Rojas wrote: >> An ex-coworker just brought this to my attention, looks promising: >> >> http://www.opsview.org/ > > Interesting. However it does not seems to be well documented. I'm > particularly wondering what

Re: [Nagios-users] NDOUtils 1.4 Stability

2007-04-11 Thread Ton Voon
On 11 Apr 2007, at 21:20, Patrick Morris wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Janet Post wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> I would -really- like to use the NDOUtils for my nagios 2.8 install. >> But the big **DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENT** warning is a >> little >> scary. >> >> Here are some q

Re: [Nagios-users] What do you not like about Nagios' notification/escalation system?

2007-03-30 Thread Ton Voon
On 30 Mar 2007, at 12:35, Andreas Ericsson wrote: > Ton Voon wrote: >> There probably needs to be an order to the contactprofiles so that a >> notification alert only alerts through at most 1 contactprofile. > > In my experience, people always want email but not always sms.

Re: [Nagios-users] What do you not like about Nagios' notification/escalation system?

2007-03-28 Thread Ton Voon
On 26 Mar 2007, at 19:14, Taylor Dondich wrote: > I'm working on a project, and it requires feedback from you, the > Nagios community. > > What do you not like about the way Nagios handles escalations and > notifications? What features would you add? What features would you > change? What logi

Re: [Nagios-users] Out of memory failures on Nagios master server

2007-03-09 Thread Ton Voon
Jonathan, On 9 Mar 2007, at 16:39, Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: > My configuration has a master server and 2 slave servers with about > 730 > hosts and 16000 service checks. All our systems are running > Linux. For > some time now the master server has been running out of memory between >

[Nagios-users] FOSDEM talk about Nagios Plugins

2007-02-19 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! If any of you are going to FOSDEM in Brussels this coming weekend, please pop round and say hello! I will be in giving a 15 minute "Lightning Talk" about the Nagios Plugins, which will comprise a quick introduction to Nagios and the Plugins and a "how to write a plugin in 8 minutes" de

Re: [Nagios-users] Bug in check_disk when using mount points?

2007-02-14 Thread Ton Voon
On 14 Feb 2007, at 18:49, frank wrote: > (Please pardon my top-posting) > > The first problem is that the --help listing has a typo. Mount > points are > checked with '-M', megabytes are checked with '-m', but both are > listed > in lowercase when you use --help. Thanks. This is fixed in CVS

Re: [Nagios-users] popen timeout received, but no child process

2007-01-03 Thread Ton Voon
Mike, As you correctly found, slow name resolution is one possible problem of the popen error. Jay, please try the CVS snapshot at http:// nagiosplug.sf.net/snapshot as this has reduced the number of getaddrinfo calls that are made. Ton On 2 Jan 2007, at 19:53, Mike Holloway wrote: You

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk

2006-12-20 Thread Ton Voon
On 20 Dec 2006, at 19:43, Marc Powell wrote: Thanks for the quick fix Ton. I was just confirming a bug for Matthias Haider though and am happy with my 1.64 version ;) Did you also see that the CRITICAL logic appears to have been inverted between releases? Was that just due to the improper in

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk

2006-12-20 Thread Ton Voon
On 20 Dec 2006, at 15:51, Marc Powell wrote: 1.64 (from plugins-1.4.3) works successfully here (RHAS3.7 checking an ext3 formatted LVM partition) -- $ ./check_disk --version check_disk (nagios-plugins 1.4.3) 1.64 $ ./check_disk --icritical 91% / DISK CRITICAL - free space: / 2546 MB (32% i

Re: [Nagios-users] Packet loss reported by check_ping?

2006-12-13 Thread Ton Voon
On 13 Dec 2006, at 15:58, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: Yes I had enabled check_freshness, however the freshness_threshold was set to 0, so would this still take effect? Having been bitten by this one: freshness_threshold = 0 means "let Nagios calculate the threshold period". http:

Re: [Nagios-users] check if spoole directoty is epmty

2006-11-14 Thread Ton Voon
On 14 Nov 2006, at 12:02, Giles Coochey wrote: Hendrik Baecker schrieb: Hi Ralf,For Mail:what about checking the local mailq? check_mailq out of the  standard  plugins might help.try to use check_smtp for connecting directly to your smtp port? Actually, on my system check_mailq returns OK status w

Re: [Nagios-users] timeouts when using secondary dns

2006-11-09 Thread Ton Voon
Hi!Just to let you know that I've made a change to CVS today, reported by Pawel Malachowski, where it looked like the plugins were making too many calls to resolver/DNS when the plugins were compiled with IPv6 options enabled.This should reduce the occasions of timeouts. However, I do like the idea

Re: [Nagios-users] Can't install Plugins :- 'make' error after running configure

2006-11-08 Thread Ton Voon
Sam, Can you try the 1.4.5 release as we updated libtool and I think this removes the dependency on cpp. Please let us know if this fixes it for you.TonOn 8 Nov 2006, at 12:38, Sam Fraser wrote:Hello All Nagios users, I'm trying to install Nagios and it's plugins but have a problem when I run throu

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties

2006-11-06 Thread Ton Voon
On 6 Nov 2006, at 16:43, Alex Burger wrote:I haven't tried Nagios 3 yet, but it doesn't look like my patch will work with it.  I'll see if I can port it over.  Any idea when the release date is for v3?Ethan stated at the Nagios Conference that he was aiming for v3 to go stable by end of this year.T

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties

2006-11-06 Thread Ton Voon
On 6 Nov 2006, at 11:29, Hari Sekhon wrote: This is a very interesting thread, especially since I am currently wondering how I can do this sort of thing. I want to give a web interface to consultants to view our web site availability. I have created a user and contactgroup which shows only the serv

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties

2006-11-06 Thread Ton Voon
On 4 Nov 2006, at 16:43, Alex Burger wrote:Ton Voon wrote: Hi Alex,I think the "read/write" attribute needs to be associated with the contact. So this implementation looks more obvious (to me):define contact {name personcontactgroups cg1,cg2,cg3 # means can submit commandscontactgroups_viewonly cg5

Re: [Nagios-users] alloca.h does not exist in FreeBSD.

2006-11-03 Thread Ton Voon
Andy,Yup, that was easier than having to upgrade to a newer coreutils!Turns out I was missing the alloca_.h and alloca.c files from coreutils-5.96. I've just committed it into CVS. Still compiles on my MacOSX box. Please try the snapshot when it is next created.If you want to make sure the plugins

Re: [Nagios-users] alloca.h does not exist in FreeBSD.

2006-11-03 Thread Ton Voon
(couple weeks) I'll be upgrading my test system to it so can check again with it.Andy.Ton Voon wrote: Hi!I replied to Jason earlier, but forgot to copy the list. I'd like to know if anyone else on a recent *BSD is having these problems with coreutils 5.96.TonOn 3 Nov 2006, at 09:03, Ton V

Re: [Nagios-users] alloca.h does not exist in FreeBSD.

2006-11-03 Thread Ton Voon
Hi!I replied to Jason earlier, but forgot to copy the list. I'd like to know if anyone else on a recent *BSD is having these problems with coreutils 5.96.TonOn 3 Nov 2006, at 09:03, Ton Voon wrote:Hi Jason,The Nagios Plugins uses a lot of the libraries from GNU's coreutils, of which a

Re: [Nagios-users] Advanced permissions/user properties

2006-11-03 Thread Ton Voon
Hi Alex,This is a really interesting idea. We've recently made a patch to Nagios so that a contact will only see the services in the CGIs based on their contact groups - currently Nagios 2.x will show all services if that contact is a contact for the host (which you would normally do so they receiv

[Nagios-users] Caching nsca data from slaves to master

2006-11-02 Thread Ton Voon
Hi!Just to let you know that we've put a blog post up about caching passive service results from Nagios slaves in a distributed setup. We've also included the script that we use.This helped on several of our customer's distributed setup and I'm keen to find out if it works for you too. It lowered o

Re: [Nagios-users] check_mailq plugin

2006-10-26 Thread Ton Voon
On 25 Oct 2006, at 13:57, Paul Houselander wrote:If I run/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H remote_server_name -c check_mailqI always get backOK: mailq is emptyThis is a bug in Nagios Plugins 1.4.3 with check_mailq. If the nagios user runs "mailq", it comes back with a permissions error. However

Re: [Nagios-users] check_snmp on Sol 10 mangling data

2006-10-19 Thread Ton Voon
Kyle,Thanks for the report. Applied in CVS.For future reference, please raise a tracker item in SF so it doesn't get lost in mailing lists. Thanks.TonOn 6 Mar 2006, at 18:58, Kyle Tucker wrote:After playing with gdb all day, I found the culprit. The array of charsnamed "type" was getting initialize

[Nagios-users] Attending LinuxExpo in London

2006-10-16 Thread Ton Voon
Hi!Just wanted to announce that I will be at the LinuxExpo show in London next week (http://www.linuxworldexpo.co.uk). I'll be there officially under the guise of my role at Altinity (at stand A7), but if any of you are in the area, please pop round - I'd love to meet up and chat with my Nagios Plu

[Nagios-users] Availability of Altinity's source code repository

2006-10-03 Thread Ton Voon
Hi! Just wanted to announce that my company, Altinity, have made our patch repository (http://source.altinity.org) available. This is our latest CVS HEAD of the GPL software that we distribute with Opsview, our monitoring software based on Nagios. In this repository, there are makefiles wh

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http can't follow redirect properly, no cookies!

2006-08-17 Thread Ton Voon
No cookies in check_http, I'm afraid. It would be a nightmare enhance it to hold sessions.If you are good with perl, look at WWW::Mechanize. This allows you to store cookies and interact with a website as if you were a browser. We use this to login to monitor a betting site and retrieve funds infor

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