Re: [Nagios-users] Contacts and notifications - services

2009-01-30 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Mathieu Gagné a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> But this also leads to a duplication of a service that is currently >> stated only once. >> > > Is there any host left in the first service check which could be member > of the hostgroup used in th

Re: [Nagios-users] Contacts and notifications - services

2009-01-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Mathieu Gagné a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> Mathieu Gagné a écrit : >>> Why don't you add the contactgroup "dbas" and remove "sysadmins" from >>> the "load" service definition for all database servers? &g

Re: [Nagios-users] Contacts and notifications - services

2009-01-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Mathieu Gagné a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We've been using nagios for a long while, but only needed one group. >> However, we now want to add a "DBA" contact group, so that the database >> administrators g

Re: [Nagios-users] Contacts and notifications - services

2009-01-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Mathieu Gagné a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> Hi, >> >> We've been using nagios for a long while, but only needed one group. >> However, we now want to add a "DBA" contact group, so that the database >> administrators g

[Nagios-users] Contacts and notifications - services

2009-01-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, We've been using nagios for a long while, but only needed one group. However, we now want to add a "DBA" contact group, so that the database administrators get notfications by e-mail if something goes wrong, but only on database servers. I've created the contacts, the conta

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2009-01-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Ugo Bellavance a écrit : > Julian Hein a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> Ugo Bellavance wrote on 13.05.08 14:19: >> >>>> Multitech has Modems with Ethernet Interfaces. You just connect them to the >>>> Network and send a text oder sms via Telnet commands

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2009-01-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Julian Hein a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance wrote on 13.05.08 14:19: > >>> Multitech has Modems with Ethernet Interfaces. You just connect them to the >>> Network and send a text oder sms via Telnet commands: >>> http://www.multitech.com/PRODUCTS/Categ

Re: [Nagios-users] Tests not restarting after timeouts

2008-05-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Marc Powell a écrit : > On May 21, 2008, at 7:54 AM, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > >> This is on the page of the web interface. I just found out that if I >> click on the test's link (somethime it needs a few tries), the test >> kind >> of refreshed and

[Nagios-users] Tests not restarting after timeouts

2008-05-21 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, Sometimes on my nagios servers, I find tests that are hung somewhere in the past. Right now, I have some tests that are "Last Check" 05-06-2008 13:52:19 (or around that time). When I check in my logs, I can see that around 13:50 on this date, there is a lot of nagios tests that en

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-15 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Julian Hein a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09.05.08 16:10: > >> Terry a écrit : >>> We just utilize sms and have a different ring profile for SMS >>> messages. The ring profile says that it will go nuts if it gets a &

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-13 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Julian Hein a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 13.05.08 14:19: > >>> Multitech has Modems with Ethernet Interfaces. You just connect them to the >>> Network and send a text oder sms via Telnet commands: >>>

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-13 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Julian Hein a écrit : > Hi, > > Ugo Bellavance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09.05.08 16:10: > >> Terry a écrit : >>> We just utilize sms and have a different ring profile for SMS >>> messages. The ring profile says that it will go nuts if it gets a &

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-09 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Terry a écrit : > We just utilize sms and have a different ring profile for SMS > messages. The ring profile says that it will go nuts if it gets a > phone call or SMS message but all other notifications are off. I set > this before I go to bed. Ok, but we don't have a SMS gateway yet, we use e-

Re: [Nagios-users] check_load --- divide by number of cpus?

2008-05-09 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Terry a écrit : > I am sitting here racking my brain on this one. Is dividing the load > average by the number of CPUs a smart thing to do? the 'uptime' > command on a box does not do this. So, if I have an 8 core box > sitting with a load average of 8, its the same as a single core box > sittin

Re: [Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-08 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Jay R. Ashworth a écrit : > On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:11:11AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> The goal of all this is that , outside work hours, our staff would read >> their regular e-mail if they'd like to, but wouldn't be bothered by the >> BB device for regul

[Nagios-users] Slightly-OT - Notification management

2008-05-08 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, This is only indirectly related to nagios, as it is more related to notifications management. We are currently using nagios and receive alerts by email and by text messages (e-mails) sent to our cell phones. I am looking for using Blackberry devices instead, but I have one

Re: [Nagios-users] Retention?

2008-02-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Adam Kennedy wrote: > State retention data is written to the retention file at the interval > specified by retention_update_interval > The default is to write it every hour. [EMAIL PROTECTED] nagios]# grep retention nagios.cfg state_retention_file=/var/log/nagios/status.dat retention_update_interv

Re: [Nagios-users] Retention?

2008-02-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Marc Powell wrote: > > You need to set the values of retain_status_information and > retain_nonstatus_information in your service definitions. > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service define host{ namestd_host_templ alias

[Nagios-users] nrpe oddity

2008-02-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I'm trying to use a nagios plugin to monitor sendmail instances. When I run the plugin locally, using user nagios, I get the right result: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/log> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_sendmail_instances --sender [OK sender] However, if I run it via nrpe, I get anothe

[Nagios-users] Retention?

2008-02-28 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I have 2 nagios servers, and one is showing an unwanted behavior. When I restart it, it kind of resets the state of the services. Therefore, if I disable a test using an external command, when I reload or restart the nagios process, this 'disable' is ignored. relevant nagios.cfg entri

Re: [Nagios-users] check_dns_random

2006-11-16 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Donnell Lewis wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 12:20 -0500, Ugo Bellavance wrote: >> # 'check_dns1_random' command definition >> define command{ >> command_namecheck_dns1_random >> command_line$USER1$/contrib/check_dns_random.pl 127.0.

[Nagios-users] check_dns_random

2006-11-16 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi there, I'm trying to configure check_dns_random.pl on my nagios server (contrib). I get this error: **ePN /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/contrib/check_dns_random.pl: "Argument "25/etc/nagios/.list" isn't numeric in rand at (eval 6) line 55,". I'm using /etc/nagios/domains.list for domain l

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios performance info

2006-11-07 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Kevin Zhang wrote: > I am using Nagios 2.2. But I have problem with “performance info”: > > > > *Active Service Checks:* > > > > *Time Frame* > > > > *Checks Completed* > > <= 1 minute: > > > > 554 (22.6%) > > <= 5 minutes: > > > > 1803 (73.6%) > > <= 15 m

Re: [Nagios-users] yum install nagios

2006-10-04 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > >> Timothy Lane wrote: >> >> To all: BTW, is it the case also with the source install? >> >> >> If yes, would it be possible to fix it so that one can install, then >> start

Re: [Nagios-users] yum install nagios

2006-10-02 Thread Ugo Bellavance
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 > I went through the same thing. I wrote to the packager (dag wieers) and he told me that the defauld is broken in the source. run nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cf

Re: [Nagios-users] RES: Nagios On VMWare machines

2006-10-01 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Thales Maia Chagas wrote: > Nagios seems to be not parallelizing. What tells you that? How many checks do you do? try nagios -s /config/file/path It will give you, among other info Inter-check delay: 1.67 sec If the checks themselves are not taking more than 1.67 sec, you won

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE dependencies

2006-09-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
John P. Rouillard wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ugo Bellavance writes: >> Hendrik Baecker wrote: >>> Hi, >>> > > Apply the patch mentioned in: > > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/19511/focus=19511 &

Re: [Nagios-users] simple chech using snmp

2006-09-29 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Tom Brown wrote: > Hi > > I have added some things to my snmp config that i would normally use > nrpe for so that i can do a... > > snmpwalk host -v 1 -c community OID_string > > and get the desired response - does anyone know how i can construct a > plugin that would execute that line and the

[Nagios-users] Alternative to NSCA

2006-09-28 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I can't get NSCA to work, so I'm thinking about an alternative for my failover setup. I thought about having nagios running on the master host, and not running on the backup host. I'd rsync the retention.dat file once every 5 minute to the backup host. If the backup hosts

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring windows servers

2006-09-25 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Ranga Nathan wrote: > > I have been asked to investigate how our Nagios server can monitor > Windows servers in our network. I have been monitoring only linux boxes > so far. > > We would like to monitor processes, disk, memory, network etc. > > I would like to hear about your experiences. Any

[Nagios-users] Distributed setup, NSCA, not working

2006-09-25 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I'm trying to make a failover system, so I have added, on the master server, to: nagios.cfg: obsess_over_services=1 ocsp_command=send_service_check ( don't check for hosts) I've defined send_service_check like this: # send_service_check command definition define command{

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hendrik Baecker wrote: > Hi, > > just do so... the services dependency feature is just there for such an > installation. > > Read more about it on: > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#servicedependency Ok, it works. Maybe I went too quickly. What dit not work is that

[Nagios-users] NRPE dependencies

2006-09-25 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, On most of the hosts I monitor, there are many tests done via NRPE. If network connectivity is down for sometime, I receive notifications for all these checks. I thought about creating a service dependency so that if NRPE is u,c, or w, all the other tests (that depend on N

Re: [Nagios-users] [Fwd: Syncing configs between 2 nagios servers -permissions]

2006-09-01 Thread Ugo Bellavance
John P. Rouillard wrote: > Patrick, I assume you must have your two nagios server co-located at > the same site and connected to the same switches. Otherwise do you > have a method for rewriting your configs to change the parent > directives to match the view from your backup/remote nagios machi

[Nagios-users] [Fwd: Syncing configs between 2 nagios servers - permissions]

2006-09-01 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, I have 2 nagios servers that will be setup as redundant, if nagios1 is down, nagios2 will enable its checks + alert. Using NSCA, I can sync the state, but I now have a problem to sync the config and plugin directory. The easiest way to sync would be to have all the files in

[Nagios-users] Recovery while problem is aknowledged

2006-09-01 Thread Ugo Bellavance
Hi, Situation: - Service is in hard warning or critical state - nagios sends notifications - I know the cause of the problem and I know it is normal - I go in the web interface and acknowledge the problem to cease notifications What happens when the service comes back into a hard OK sta