Re: [Nagios-users] Passive-only master still pinging

2012-10-23 Thread booleanenator
You can always set the check command for the host to execute the check_dummy plugin so that if it doesn't get the result and decides to run an active check check_dummy will force it to be in an up state. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: Mike

Re: [Nagios-users] Force host assume up when services are up

2012-10-22 Thread booleanenator
In that situation I would use a command other than ping that would be more indicative of the host being down. Like ssh/telnet, or for windows a check_tcp against the remote desktop port, anything that will send a response back indicates the host is up. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my

Re: [Nagios-users] Can't get service failure(warning) to send notification

2012-10-19 Thread booleanenator
One thing that just occured to me and I only thought of it just now. Are you using a PERL script as a notification command? If so, that could explain the wrong information. If Nagios was compiled with the embedded PERL interpreter and the script is not written with that in mind, it could easily

Re: [Nagios-users] Problems with installing Noma

2012-10-18 Thread booleanenator
The line above indicates he need Hash::Merge::Simple. Install that one and try again. If it stops again, install what is indicated as missing. Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry® -Original Message- From: john s. firesk...@emailn.de Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:37:58 To:

Re: [Nagios-users] Host exclusion fail more 4 hosts

2012-10-17 Thread booleanenator
Did you try making a group of the router you want to exclude and then exclude that on the hostgroup_name line instead? That may solve it although I agree it is weird that the host exclusion seems limited to 5 exclusions. The only other thing I can think of is that the Routers group only

Re: [Nagios-users] Can't get service failure(warning) to send notification

2012-10-15 Thread booleanenator
When I have issues like that, I turn up debugging in nagios.cfg then force the service to go critical with passive commands from the CGI. Remember that the debug options are additive, so only include what you need to figure out what is going on. I would say just from this conversation that it