Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamic warning/critical thresholds

2012-07-10 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
As indicated, make a plugin that gets the info and set thresholds so high they're never likely to "ring the red bell". But in addition to this, I'd set it up with something like nagiosgraph to generate graphs that you can watch. This will save/show historical data and show you the norm. Thus you m

Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup Members

2011-09-24 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Actually, that raises an interesting tangential question. Can/should your nagios server handle mail delivery to many many people? Unless it's tuned for higher capacity email delivery, I'd expect SMTP functions to negatively impact nagios checks. In other words, why not just use a single address th

Re: [Nagios-users] Single host, multiple HTTP services

2011-07-21 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
One way might be to use the check_http plug-in but have it look for a specific string in each web-page being hosted and use the warn/critical-time returns for empirical threshold On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 9:02 AM, wrote: > Hey gang, I am having some difficulty getting a single host setup that > wo

Re: [Nagios-users] Better way to check Cisco switches?

2011-07-05 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Nagios is a phenomenal tool but isn't necessarily a silver bullet. Nagios does try a certain number of times before a soft failure becomes a hard failure. This can be adjusted. Also, many people have replaced a very tight check_ping with check_icmp and looser return times. But in general, you migh

Re: [Nagios-users] Reloading configuration on-the-fly

2011-07-01 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
To get all checks to run in a shorter amount of time, take a look at reducing max_service_check_spread and max_host_check_spread. You might also be interested in the "fast startup options" in the documentation. This will also point you to such parameters as use_large_installation_tweaks On

[Nagios-users] acknowledge triggers a script

2011-05-10 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We have an interesting need. When a particular service goes red on our Nagios 3.2.1 server, we'd like to be able to click on "Acknowledge this service problem" and have that activate a local script. Anyone have any idea how this can be accomplished? TIA ---

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring who is connected to Samba share

2011-03-02 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I don't know of any plug-in but you can roll your own. If you're already running samba on a linux box, you can mess with the output of net status shares assuming users pick up (mount) their homes when they login to Windows. I believe this also shows login times For a more generic solution (i

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring unmounted partition

2011-02-08 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Write a plugin. It could search the output of the command, "mount" On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Javier Rivera wrote: > Good Morning, > > Im having a problem with check_nrpe. Im monitoring a partition /mnt/2 > f.e. If i dont have this partition mounted, it just returns the value of "/" >

Re: [Nagios-users] What happened during night for services that failed and timeperiod was off

2011-01-31 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'd try to write a wrapper for an event handler that checked the time and kept a log. A morning cron could then check for presence of the log and if it exists, email to you On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Tntteam wrote: > Hello there, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to make nagios send notif

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking multiple TCP ports for a single status?

2010-12-29 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Wrapper? $NAGIOS/libexec/check_tcp -H myhost -p 135 && $NAGIOS/libexec/check_tcp -H myhost -p 445 On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, stan wrote: > > I think I need to verify that both port 135, and 445 are avaialble on some > Windows amchines. As I understand it, both of these need to be up. I'd l

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios configuraion best practice

2010-12-08 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
e a host-group called for example "dell-servers" to which all Dell >> hosts and related service checks are linked. New Dell servers are then >> linked to this host group. >> >> I'm thinking this may be a good idea, but would like to hear how others have >> struct

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios host search

2010-11-29 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
The most common way of doing this is running nmap. Of course it's likely to pick up things you don't want to monitor so you'll then need to filter the results. Additionally, if one of the hosts you DO wish to monitor doesn't happen to be available at the time On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:11 AM, G

Re: [Nagios-users] is there a way to pass contact username thru url to status.cgi for authentication?

2010-10-07 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Yes http://nagiosuser:nagiospassw...@nagioshost.domain /nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi\?host=server... Note the backslash before the question mark. BTW, I think IE blocks this for what MicroSloth calls "security reasons" On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:48 AM, Steve Kemp < st...@dedicatedserversaustralia.com

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring several ethernet ports with check_mrtgtraf

2010-09-15 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
How about wrap it. Run a script that calls check_mrtgtraf for each interface, parse and collect the output then spew them all out in a single line. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Dayo Adewunmi wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to monitor several ports on a switch with check_mrtgtraf. > Unfortunately,

Re: [Nagios-users] Mail sending issue.

2010-08-16 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Sounds like a postfix error. You DID configure postfix mail, right? Take a look at http://www.postfix.org/BASIC_CONFIGURATION_README.html This isn't a nagios question On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 3:10 PM, i...@toonz wrote: > Hi all, > > > > We are testing with "Fully Automated Nagios". Have installed

Re: [Nagios-users] Executing a script based on text from a web page

2010-08-06 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We've had a lot of luck with check_http with the params -u and -s -u points to the particular path on the web server and -s is the return string it expects. And then there's the hacky way of doing it; wget the page and search for presence/absence of a particular string On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 10:1

Re: [Nagios-users] checks per host

2010-07-12 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
As pointed out, normal depends on your environment. Some sites only check a handful of things per host; some check more. The bigger issue is if your server can handle the number of checks and in a timely fashion. Look at nagios parameters Max_service_check_spread, max_host_check_spread as well as

[Nagios-users] Are NSClient++ and NRPE mutually exclusive?

2010-07-06 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I've got NSClient++ installed on a number of Windows XP and W2K servers reporting on such things as disk utilization, memory, load. This all works fine. I'd like to take it to the next level defining my own external scripts. But the examples all show using the command, check_nrpe on the linux/nagio

[Nagios-users] monitoring radius on windows

2010-05-05 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We're interested in monitoring radius with nagios 3.2.1. We have IAS installed on two windows boxes providing separate radius aaa authentication. I tried the check_radius.pl plugin as well as another compilable one but they don't appear to work despite providing them with user, password and secret.

[Nagios-users] nagios output as clickable link

2010-01-06 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
This may be stretching nagios beyond its designed intention but... I'm writing a plugin that could produce many many lines of output. Since this obviously wont fit on a status page, what I'd like to do is if the output is not exit-status=0, produce a webpage and in the status information field of

[Nagios-users] tailoring a notification

2009-11-24 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'd like to specify an additional string within the notification message for just a few hosts that will be sent to the contactgroup for those hosts and only those hosts. The string will be static. I presume this can be done with macros somehow? TIA

[Nagios-users] Summary: read-only nagios

2009-11-11 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
It seems that all options will run up against the fact that we have enabled web authentication and are not willing to turn it off. I've come up with a couple of ideas however. 1/ create a htpasswd account called guest with no password. At least that limits the necessary typing/authentication 2

[Nagios-users] read-only nagios

2009-11-11 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We're looking for a mechanism to allow others access to our nagios server for viewing only. The kicker is they want to be able to reach it without any htpasswd so multiple htpasswords and authorization_for_system_commands is not an option. I'm thinking the only practical method to accomplish this

[Nagios-users] multiple views by login?

2009-10-21 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'd like to present multiple hostgroup views of nagios to different users. Since hosts can be in multiple hostgroups, I'd like one group to view one subset of hostgroups and the other to view a different subset. "authorized_for_all_hosts" doesn't appear to provide the granularity I want, or does it

[Nagios-users] monitor nfs share on windows

2009-10-08 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'm trying to check for the size of an nfs share that is accessible from a windows host. The windows host is running NSClient++ but there are a number of problems here. First, the share isn't persistently mapped so at a minimum, I'd have to write a .bat warpper that first mapped it to a letter the

Re: [Nagios-users] can nagios take some pro-active actions?

2009-09-03 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Ok, everyone agrees event handler can take action to fix a problem but bear in mind that this comes with caveats. Affectively, nagios event handler is treating a symptom; the disease goes merely on its way. If a service stops, WHY did it stop in the first place? Most good sysadmins would tackle the

[Nagios-users] disk IO for windows?

2009-06-09 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Anyone know of a plug-in or mechanism to log local disk I/O on windows? My nagios server is currently using check_nt to connect to windows hosts via nsclient++. I was hoping perhaps COUNTER has something buried within it to pull down this info. TIA ---

[Nagios-users] number of acknowledgments

2009-05-11 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'm looking for a way to see if there are any unacknowledged host/service problems within nagios. I've written up my own gosh-awful ugly code that parses nagios logs to search for hosts that went down, haven't come back up, are still in the nagios config and have not been acknowledged. Although t

Re: [Nagios-users] configure Nagios to monitor the temperature of the server room

2009-04-02 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We've had great success with devices from avtech eg http://avtech.com/LP/LP_RMA_1.htm Added benefit; they also sell industrial grade light bars (sorta like traffic lights) that can be triggered by nagios to show overall status http://avtech.com/Products/Environment_Monitors/Room_Alert_Signal_Tower

[Nagios-users] check windows file?

2008-11-18 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'm looking for a plugin that I can run from the unix side to connect to a windows host and at least test for the existance of a file, although checking for its contents would be even more ideal. I couldn't find anything at nagiosexchange unless my search string wasn't specific enough. Anyone? Tha

[Nagios-users] overall status of services

2008-08-08 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Is there any way to determine the status of all hosts and services? If the nagios "Service Detail" page shows all problems in the upper right corner, I'd think it would be easy to say either everything is fine or there is one ore more problems. I presume this can somehow be gotten from $NAGIOSDIR/

[Nagios-users] hierarchical nagios

2008-08-04 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We have a primary nagios install that monitors hosts/services spread across multiple labs (political domains). In one of the labs, I've build a nagios install monitoring all of its local hosts and services. It would be interesting to tie the two together. Ultimatey what I'd like to see is a "30,000

[Nagios-users] nagios plugins on 32 bit

2008-07-22 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'm trying to build nagios plugins (1.4.12) on several 32 bit hosts (suse 10.1). The configs complete but throw a lot of warnings about 32 vs 64 bit. Running the plug-ins generate segmentation faults. I tried setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH but that didn't make a difference. Google shows me one potential s

Re: [Nagios-users] Thoughts about a custom plugin

2008-07-21 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
This can be done without NRPE. We have a cluster on a private net. The head node is visible from nagios so I wrote a plugin that lives on the head node (The dual homed machine, in your case). On the nagios side, a plugin ssh'es to the head node, runs the script which talks to hosts on the private n

[Nagios-users] monitor status of legato backups

2008-06-27 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We're looking for some method to have nagios check the status of our many backups run off a backup server. Currently, we have a perl script search for just one or two specific lines and pass the results to send_nsca. It's crude and doesn't cover all instances. The problem is the nsr logfile has so

[Nagios-users] check_snmp

2008-06-05 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I've got two nagios installs with snmp giving different responses. Details: Host1 is an operational nagios 2.9 install on SuSE 10.1-64bit machine Host2 is a development machine, Suse 10.2-64bit with newly installed nagios 3.02 and nagios-plugins-1.4.12. I have all the perl modules necessary (Net

[Nagios-users] analog nagios transmitter

2008-05-28 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Anyone know of a dirt-simple analog device that can take ANY red status's from nagios and transmit the signal to some visible device? Details: We have a medium nagios install on a closed network and wish to have it transmit a "something is wrong" message to some device not on the network. We are

Re: [Nagios-users] Can Nagios implement with Expect to automate tasks when issues arise?

2007-11-14 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Event handlers can take care of any common task but you need to be careful with them. Why is a task required to be done so frequently? Shouldn't we take care of the cause rather than the symptom? Also, scripts that "fix" known problems can be very dangerous if they inadvertantly run at times when

[Nagios-users] nagiosgraph restart, aggregate.cgi

2007-07-26 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I had a linux-based nagios 2.9 install with nagiosgraph 0.8. The server recently shutdown and upon startup, while nagios ran fine and nagiosgraph.log and perdata.log both show the correct type of activity, new graphs simply weren't generated after startup. The classic: "Illegal attempt to update" m

[Nagios-users] wild cards with exceptions?

2007-05-08 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
I'm trying to streamline my nagios config using wildcards. Unfortunately, not all services I wish to define via wildcard follows a clean set of rules. Is it possible to define a service with a host list of something like *,!linux1, !linux2 I suspect the answer is no and what I'd need to do is use

Re: [Nagios-users] Just using SNMP

2007-04-19 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
You can do the NSclient installs remotely by staging it on a common share, have a .cmd file something like this: mkdir c:\nsclient @if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" goto :EXIT copy C:\\temp\nsclient\Win_2k_XP_Bin\* c:\nsclient @if "%ERRORLEVEL%"=="1" echo "error occurred while copying files" c:\nsclient\

[Nagios-users] list remote logged on users

2007-03-01 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Anyone know of a plugin (NRPE, nsclient) that will display back to nagios on linux a list of users logged into win2000 or winXP? I can do this on the window side thru scripting and running from the resource kit psloggedon on each host. My users would find it useful to see which machines are availab

[Nagios-users] two sets of host groups

2007-02-21 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
Is it possible to have hosts in two sets of groups? Currently I've divided hosts by hostgroup names associated with their physical location. But it would be quite useful to have hostgroups based on operating systems. Anyone have a way to accomplish this allow "multiple views"? TIA --

Re: [Nagios-users] plugins with rsh

2007-01-04 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
*Forwarded Conversation* Subject: *plugins with rsh* * From: dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, Jan 3, 2007 at 3:17 PM We have a legacy setup with tru64 hosts that are currently configured f

[Nagios-users] plugins with rsh

2007-01-03 Thread dave stern - e-mail.pluribus.unum
We have a legacy setup with tru64 hosts that are currently configured for rsh, not ssh. I've installed the latest and greatest nagios on a relatively recent fedora host and have used plugins with ssh in the past. The problem is that rsh doesn't return status codes properly. Rather, it returns only