Re: [Nagios-users] ndoutils not sending data to db?

2007-02-06 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 06 Feb 2007, Trask wrote: What is event_broker_options set to in your nagios.cfg file? Uh huh... There was no entry. Adding event_broker_options=-1 in there did the trick. So I just looked in the NDOutils files and all of nagios.org -- there is no mention of this setting. Did

Re: [Nagios-users] Running Nagios 1.x and 2.x on the same server

2007-02-05 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 05 Feb 2007, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: One idea was to have both Nagios 1.x and 2.x running on the same server and have virtual machines set up for both. Aside from compiling and installing the two servers into separate directories, are there any other issues that I should consider

Re: [Nagios-users] Timeout

2007-01-18 Thread Patrick Morris
Check the docs, specifically the sections about service object configuration. You can also get the plugini's available command-line parameters with the -h switch. On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Moayad Mohammad wrote: Dears, When I check on SMTP service using nagios, nagios gave me the following

Re: [Nagios-users] check_oracle

2007-01-16 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, Formoso, Travis wrote: When I try to run check_oracle from the command prompt I get: ./check_oracle --tns 172.20.1.xx Cannot determine ORACLE_HOME for sid 172.20.1.xx Now the 172.20.1.xx has oracle installed and my nagios box does not have oracle of sql on it.

Re: [Nagios-users] way to pass additional info from check to environment?

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote: I have a somewhat unusual situation. I have a lot of unique service checks in my Nagios config (2.6). When a check fails, I need to have it notify contacts, but also run a program. I have done this by creating a command that a contact runs

Re: [Nagios-users] parent/child setup not working

2007-01-05 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 05 Jan 2007, David Miller wrote: Hi; I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Running nagios 2.5 on debian-stable. I have the nagios server in one data center monitoring 30ish servers in another data center. In the hosts.cfg file I have a gateway (firewall) defined: define host

Re: [Nagios-users] Problem with check_pgsql

2007-01-04 Thread Patrick Morris
Hi Kaplan,! On Thu, 04 Jan 2007, Kaplan, Andrew H. wrote: I am encountering and error every time I try to run the check_pgsql plugin. The error is the following: Error while loading shared libraries: libpq.so.5: cannot open shared object file. No such file or directory. What steps do

Re: [Nagios-users] missing nagios.cmd

2006-12-20 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Brian Loe wrote: It seems I should have a /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file - but I don't. Not anywhere on my drive or in the dowloaded tar. It's a pipe that's created when Nagios starts. -

Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Subin Shakya wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? Strictly speaking, you can't. Set up a guest account with full access, do not set up

Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime w/o authentication requirement

2006-12-18 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Marc Powell wrote: I want to configure nagios in such a way that it does not require any kind of authorization/authentication including 'guest'. How can I do that? Strictly speaking, you can't. Sure you can. See the default_user_name and

Re: [Nagios-users] SELinux policies for Nagios on RHEL 4

2006-12-15 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006, Joseph Filla wrote: As I have seen posted before, one has to disable SELinux so the cgi scripts can run. I too encountered the problems and had to disable SELinux. Is there any progress being made to get the cgis to work correctly or to define a policy so SELinux

Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie: I can't register hosts?

2006-12-14 Thread Patrick Morris
You also probably want register 0 in your templates, rather then register 1, unless routers and frontends are the name of actual hosts you intend to check. On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote: The hostname is host_name, not name Andy. nic gna wrote: This is my

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Notifications

2006-12-14 Thread Patrick Morris
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Danilo Perdomo wrote: Hi People, i have a litte problem with the notifications of my Nagios 2.5. For example : # 'check_nt_cpu' command definition define command{ command_namecheck_nt_cpu command_line$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v

Re: [Nagios-users] Service depedency problem

2006-12-13 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, MiikaT wrote: I've configured dependencies.cfg in a way what if my remote router is down, no alerts should be sent for hosts begind that devices. This works fine for host dependency, but fails for service depedency. If the top level router ping get warning or

Re: [Nagios-users] MRTG

2006-12-12 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Antonio Pereira wrote: I'm sure there is a way but just don't know, yet. Is there a way to just the display the graphs that MRTG produces instead of defining a service and check? http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#serviceextinfo See notes_url

Re: [Nagios-users] Using $ARGn$ in notify command

2006-12-04 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006, Tim Daley wrote: I'm attempting to use $ARG1$ in a notify command: Those macros don't apply to notification commands. - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's

Re: [Nagios-users] Testing quality (rtt and packet loss) of Internet connection?

2006-11-22 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Chris Hardie wrote: In our old system, we monitored the health of our connection to the Internet by checking packet loss and round trip times in ping packets sent to www.google.com and www.yahoo.com. Because either site was liable to have localized, temporary problems,

Re: [Nagios-users] Net-SNMP and SNMP4Nagios

2006-10-25 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Justin Craig wrote: This is getting uglier for me. I just wanted to install SNMP. If all you really want is net-snmp, then download the RPM for it, and try to install it. If it chokes on a dependency, install that, too. Repeat until net-snmp is installed. This is really

Re: [Nagios-users] Testing host notification recipients

2006-10-23 Thread Patrick Morris
I don't recall if you can use the web interface in 1.4 to submit a passive service check, but that works in 2.0 to simulate a failure. On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Steve Shipway wrote: Hi, does anyone know a method (or a utility, etc) with which I can test who will receive notifications of a

Re: [Nagios-users] Schedule Downtime for the entire cluster

2006-10-11 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, G Bit wrote: Hi, Is there a way to schedule downtime for an entire cluster. What do you mean by cluster, exactly? I'f seen you use it in a couple messages now, but I'm not sure what you're asking. A cluster of Nagios servers? A cluster being checked by one of the

Re: [Nagios-users] $USER1$ in notify mail

2006-10-03 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 03 Oct 2006, Sjaak Nabuurs wrote: How do I get this working with php in notify-mail. $name= $_ENV[NAGIOS_CONTACTALIAS]; $email= $_ENV[NAGIOS_CONTACTEMAIL]; $SMS=$_ENV[NAGIOS_CONTACTPAGER]; $datedb= $_ENV[NAGIOS_DATE]; $timedb= $_ENV[NAGIOS_TIME];

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Down Time

2006-09-28 Thread Patrick Morris
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, dhaval thakar wrote: I am using Nagios to monitor critical machines; these machines are down after 5.00 pm, i tried to configure down time for these host; but down time could be set only with dates, i dont want configure down time on the dates, these machines are daily

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.5

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick Morris
Which instructions did you follow? Is the place you installed Nagios in your path? On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Saul Gonzalez wrote: Hello; I am attempting to install Nagios 2.5 on SUSE 10.1 and followed the instructions on the site. Everything seemed fine but when I try to run the following

Re: [Nagios-users] Time of HTTP request

2006-09-27 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006, Luc MAIGNAN wrote: Hi list, I need to have an alert if a HTTP request takes more than a certain time to be executed. Is there a standard plugin which be able to do that ? check_http will do that. Set a timeout on it with the -t parameter.

Re: [Nagios-users] check/notification intervals

2006-09-26 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Terry wrote: I am migrating to 2.5 and am going through my config. Something caught my eye. 1) When would you want normal_check_interval to ever be different than notification_interval? There are plenty of reasons you might want these to be different. You may, for

Re: [Nagios-users] Eventhandlers

2006-09-26 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, Geoffrey Walton wrote: Does anyone know where I can see some more samples of eventhandlers scripts. The documentation points to a non-existant directory on my installation which was compiled from source. Have you looked at the docs on the Nagios website?

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable host checks

2006-09-26 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, G Bit wrote: Hi, I have disabled host checks by not defining the check_command in the host definition. I used to have it, but I removed it. But I still get host DOWN notifications like PING failed. How can I go about debugging this. One of two things is probably

Re: [Nagios-users] Disable host checks

2006-09-26 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, G Bit wrote: My thought was, we would get alerts from the service checks if the host is down, so the ping checks may not be needed. I am new to Nagios. So forgive if my rationale is flawed. If host checks are a major problem for your setup (and it sounds like, if you

Re: [Nagios-users] URL Monitoring

2006-09-18 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Vladimir Smirnov wrote: Hi. I have a list of URLs I need to monitor. How can I easily monitor a big list of URLs in nagios ? I can't find a good solution for this unless I add a host for each domain and then specify the rest of the path in the parameter, but that's too

Re: [Nagios-users] check_disk_smb problems

2006-09-11 Thread Patrick Morris
See the docs here: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/xodtemplate.html#command Specifically, the last sentence of the command definition section. You need to escape the dollar sign with a second one. On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looked that check_disk_smb didn't

Re: [Nagios-users] Upgrade nagios

2006-08-09 Thread Patrick Morris
and possible restore of config files? None of those checks use SNMP... but that's beside the point. You should be able to just upgrade your RPMs and restart. -- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 979-3727

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE

2006-08-09 Thread Patrick Morris
you everything you need to know. -- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 979-3727 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get

Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd write order (cronological?)

2006-08-09 Thread Patrick Morris
before that, will Nagios drop the delayed check result? Thanks for any comments on this matter. Timestamps are important, but the order isn't. -- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 979-3727

Re: [Nagios-users] controlling notifications a bit better

2006-08-09 Thread Patrick Morris
-- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 979-3727 - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre

Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple hostnames in host_name

2006-08-08 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006, Jim Richardson wrote: On that note, is there a way in a service definition to specify a hostgroup, excluding some specific members of that host group? something like define service { hostgroup_name foo!bar } See use_regexp_matching in the docs.

Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE no output returned from plugin

2006-08-04 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006, Tom Trelvik wrote: So I'm having a bit of trouble setting up NRPE for the first time. I'm fairly certain things are working as intended on the remote host because from the Nagios system I can do this: $ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H my.host.name -c

Re: [Nagios-users] NDO Services

2006-08-03 Thread Patrick Morris
On Thu, 03 Aug 2006, Mike Koponick wrote: Hello, I'm looking at implementing syslog via Nagios in a distributed environment. I want to report historical information for network devices that output syslog information. Of course, I will be parsing out syslog information so I don't have a

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios log

2006-08-02 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Ganesh Vembu wrote: Here is my log file with respect to my last post that nagios wont start [1154544633] Nagios 2.5 starting... (PID=21907) [1154544633] LOG VERSION: 2.0 [1154544633] Finished daemonizing... (New PID=21908) [1154544633] Error: Could not create external

Re: [Nagios-users] Have the rw directory

2006-08-02 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 02 Aug 2006, Ganesh Vembu wrote: [1154546923] SERVICE ALERT: localhost;Total Processes;UNKNOWN;SOFT;3;check_procs: Unknown argument - (null) and still its trying to reach the /home/nagios what do i have to configure to get away from that I'd highly recommend you read: a) The

Re: [Nagios-users] external commands schedule downtime.

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: such as schedule downtime for a host or service, or disabling notifications I understand this could be seperate issues, but I have permission for nagiosadmin to be able to issue external commands et al. When I try to schedule downtime, nagios

Re: [Nagios-users] external commands schedule downtime.

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: Interesting, what should it be? This is the default as I have not changed it, and nagios.cmd does exist in usr/local/nagios/var/rw On 7/31/06, Patrick Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: such as schedule

Re: [Nagios-users] external commands schedule downtime.

2006-07-31 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Patrick Morris wrote: Without a slash at the beginning, it's a relative path. It's only going to be right if you're in the home directory. I assume you mean root directory here. Ayup. Sometimes the five remaining

Re: [Nagios-users] It appears as though you do not have permission

2006-07-26 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, Rusch, Daniel wrote: All, Goal: to limit what services and hosts individuals can see to the hosts that they are a contact for. Listing that user as a contact should be working -- what does your cgi.conf look like? The most likely culprit would be the

Re: [Nagios-users] Check_imap/pop with username login

2006-07-19 Thread Patrick Morris
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Re: [Nagios-users] intermittent toolbar results

2006-07-12 Thread Patrick Morris
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: I can try this. Any other ideas - could it be a plugin issue? On 7/12/06, Hugo van der Kooij [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Justin Craig wrote: Question: I've got nagios up and running and have defined hosts, hostgroups,

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios CONFIG ERROR!

2006-07-12 Thread Patrick Morris
On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: But my Python skills are virtual nill. So I am afraid I can't write the mailman module. God help the python-mailman-quiz-module-users mailing list. - Using Tomcat but need

Re: [Nagios-users] Host Notification Problem

2006-06-28 Thread Patrick Morris
Notification command looks OK. Are there e-mail addresses set up on the host contacts? On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Bill Kintz wrote: # 'netops' contact definition define contact{ contact_namenetops alias netops

Re: [Nagios-users] multiple parents

2006-06-27 Thread Patrick Morris
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006, Elliot Finley wrote: If I have routers in a ring configuration, that means that every router can be reached via either direction on the ring. It also means that every router will have two parents, one in each direction. It also means that routerA can be the parent of

Re: [Nagios-users] CGI and Status Map

2006-06-23 Thread Patrick Morris
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Tom Tran wrote: Hello Arno, Can you give me some more details about gd please? or send me the link for the doc please. http://www.nagios.org/faqs/ Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with

Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Nagios-users Digest, Vol 1, Issue 3224 - Verify and Status ok

2006-06-19 Thread Patrick Morris
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, Eric X. Holzapfel wrote: Hello List - See reponse to topic 3 below I have installed the nagios 2.3 on a red hat fedora system. It was working, and web access, etc. I went on vacation for 2 weeks, and now nagios will not read the config files. Proves once and

Re: [Nagios-users] check_http Error on receive

2006-05-31 Thread Patrick Morris
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Re: [Nagios-users] Host check action alert issue

2006-05-26 Thread Patrick Morris
@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null -- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South

Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Acknowledgement Information

2006-05-25 Thread Patrick Morris
Those macros are only valid for host acknowledgements. For service acknowledgements, use $SERVICEACKAUTHOR$ and $SERVICEACKCOMMENT$. On Thu, 25 May 2006, Eduardo Martinez wrote: In the old version of Nagios I remember receiving Acknowledgement notifications with the author and their

Re: [Nagios-users] One more question...

2006-05-10 Thread Patrick Morris
The problem looks like it's that you're running Sun make with gcc, and that can occasionally cause strangeness with makefiles expecting GNU make. You're getting Sun compiler flags passed to gcc, and it's barfing on them. Using GNU make (which you may already have installed as gmake) may give you

Re: [Nagios-users] external command not working

2006-05-08 Thread Patrick Morris
/nagios.cmd. I created rw dir but how can i get or make nagios.cmd? TIA -- Patrick Morris Snapfish/HP 303 Second Street Suite 500, South Tower San Francisco, CA 94107 (415) 979-3727 --- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web

Re: [Nagios-users] Alias to start a terminal

2006-04-28 Thread Patrick Morris
Use a telnet: URL. On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES wrote: I was wondering if any of you use the alias command in your host configurations to link something like a terminal. I know that you can add something to make a browser come up using something like alias

Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed / Central and hosts in pgsql

2006-04-27 Thread Patrick Morris
and remote hosts. For example, I may have a remote-location-1 service template. On the distributed server, a separate file defines a remote-location-1 server as on with active checks enabled. On the distributed server, though, a remote-location-1 service is defined as passive. -- Patrick Morris

Re: [Nagios-users] Checking time on remote host

2006-04-17 Thread Patrick Morris
How about using NRPE to execute the check_time plugin remotely against a known good time source? On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, James Nachlin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to figure out a way to check that my clocks are realtively in synch, without running an extra service on port 37 on all of my

Re: [Nagios-users] PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!

2006-04-07 Thread Patrick Morris
Actually, judging from the subject of the message (and it's not very clear), it appears the ping check is returning the duplicates found message. Usually, this happens when a network address is pinged, and multiple hosts respond. On Fri, 07 Apr 2006, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: On Fri, 7 Apr

Re: [Nagios-users] Performance data in web interface of Nagios

2006-04-06 Thread Patrick Morris
In this case, that won't help. that just tells Nagios whether or not to process perf data it receives from the plugins. Not all plugins provide performance data, and it sounds like that's the case here. On Thu, 06 Apr 2006, Terry wrote: process_performance_data=1 in nagios.cfg? On 4/6/06,

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