From jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com Fri Nov 1 00:30:18 2002 From: jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com (Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:30:18 -0600 Subject: Checking if a Port is Open Message-ID: <74D428BDBFD5D04CB54E84499ECA29DB2F2416@PKDWB03C.ad.sprint.com> One solution would be to have a host that you have access to which is out there in the 'outside world'. This host would grant you, say, ssh access to it. You could install the check_tcp plugin on that host, and kick it off from Nagios using check_by_ssh. To wit: Nagios --> check_by_ssh --> check_tcp --> port 25 of Nagios host Food for thought. jc > -----Original Message----- > From: Jake Colman [mailto:colman at ppllc.com] > Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:00 PM > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Checking if a Port is Open > > > >>>>> "SK" == Sean Knox writes: > > SK> To check if a port is accessible from the outside > world, just telnet > SK> to the port. (i.e. telnet host 25) > > I run nagios on the same server that is running sendmail. > The port is open > on my internal LAN so nagios will always be successful in > monitoring and > connecting to the sendmail server. My concern is with being > able to monitor > that sendmail can be reached via port 25 (or that any server > can be reached > via any arbitrary port) from the outside world. > > Is there a way to have nagios on my internal somehow run a > check into port 25 > but via the outside world? > > -- > Jake Colman > > Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 > Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 > 902 Plaza Two E-mail: colman at ppllc.com > Jersey City, NJ 07311 www.principiapartners.com > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future > of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community > Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From sean.knox at sbcglobal.net Fri Nov 1 01:27:45 2002 From: sean.knox at sbcglobal.net (Sean Knox) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:27:45 -0800 Subject: Checking if a Port is Open In-Reply-To: <74D428BDBFD5D04CB54E84499ECA29DB2F2416@PKDWB03C.ad.sprint.com> References: <74D428BDBFD5D04CB54E84499ECA29DB2F2416@PKDWB03C.ad.sprint.com> Message-ID: <3DC1CA81.4070800@sbcglobal.net> The ssh is one option, and probably what I recommend. Another is installing NCSA on the remote box and allow passive checks to your Nagios server. Or, you can use snmp traps from the remote host to inform Nagios that port 25 is not accesible. -sk Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote: >One solution would be to have a host that you have access to which is out >there in the 'outside world'. This host would grant you, say, ssh access to >it. You could install the check_tcp plugin on that host, and kick it off >from Nagios using check_by_ssh. To wit: > >Nagios --> check_by_ssh --> check_tcp --> port 25 of Nagios host > >Food for thought. > >jc > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Jake Colman [mailto:colman at ppllc.com] >>Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 5:00 PM >>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Checking if a Port is Open >> >> >> >> >>>>>>>"SK" == Sean Knox writes: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> SK> To check if a port is accessible from the outside >>world, just telnet >> SK> to the port. (i.e. telnet host 25) >> >>I run nagios on the same server that is running sendmail. >>The port is open >>on my internal LAN so nagios will always be successful in >>monitoring and >>connecting to the sendmail server. My concern is with being >>able to monitor >>that sendmail can be reached via port 25 (or that any server >>can be reached >>via any arbitrary port) from the outside world. >> >>Is there a way to have nagios on my internal somehow run a >>check into port 25 >>but via the outside world? >> >>-- >>Jake Colman >> >>Principia Partners LLC Phone: (201) 209-2467 >>Harborside Financial Center Fax: (201) 946-0320 >>902 Plaza Two E-mail: colman at ppllc.com >>Jersey City, NJ 07311 www.principiapartners.com >> >> >>------------------------------------------------------- >>This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future >>of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community >>Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. >>http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en >>_______________________________________________ >>Nagios-users mailing list >>Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >>https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future >of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community >Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. >http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From sghosh at sghosh.org Fri Nov 1 01:43:19 2002 From: sghosh at sghosh.org (Subhendu Ghosh) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 19:43:19 -0500 (EST) Subject: check_dhcp In-Reply-To: <768z0eiazb.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> References: <768z0eiazb.fsf@newjersey.ppllc.com> Message-ID: Do you have an entry for the local MAC address (or supporting wildcard) in the dhcp server? Does the dhcp server logs show anything about an aout of scope request? -sg On 31 Oct 2002, Jake Colman wrote: > >>>>> "KK" == Kjetil Kvig writes: > > KK> How do you run a plugin as a different user? It is required to run > KK> the check_dhcp plugin as root, but how do you configure the > KK> service/checkcommand for this? > > Every time I tried check_dhcp it complains: > > DHCP problem: No DHCPOFFERs were received. > > My dhcpd server is on the same machine as nagios. How am I supposed to run > this so it can work? > > Thanks! > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From jcoleman at lrn.com Fri Nov 1 01:53:02 2002 From: jcoleman at lrn.com (Jason Coleman) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 16:53:02 -0800 Subject: Check_ping Message-ID: <8A4F07369400D511B1890060CF204C2A031BEC10@lrnex01.corp.lrn.com> Probably a very simple change, but ... Under Status Information in Service Status details for all hosts I receive this message: check_ping: %s: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage! I am not sure where to make that change. Any ideas. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From frozendelight_0508 at yahoo.es Fri Nov 1 02:17:32 2002 From: frozendelight_0508 at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?bheng=20qute?=) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 01:17:32 +0000 (GMT) Subject: extended info config on nagios 6 Message-ID: <20021101011732.14775.qmail@web40003.mail.yahoo.com> i've installed nagios 1.04 before w/ the commands ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin --with-htmurl=/nagios/ --with-nagios-user-nagios --with-nagios-grp=nagios --with-template-extinfo. and it gives me 15 cfg files. inluding hostextinfo n serviceextinfo. i just wonder... now that i re-installed nagios 1.06 in my other linux box using the same configure commands. hostextinfo and serviceexinfo is missing. i read the documentation and i didnt found any answer on this. thanks for the help. 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URL: From sean.knox at sbcglobal.net Fri Nov 1 02:22:23 2002 From: sean.knox at sbcglobal.net (Sean Knox) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 17:22:23 -0800 Subject: extended info config on nagios 6 In-Reply-To: <20021101011732.14775.qmail@web40003.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20021101011732.14775.qmail@web40003.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <3DC1D74F.9050604@sbcglobal.net> The extended info configs don't come with the sample configs.You need to create them yourself and add the following to your cgi.cfg: xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg Sean bheng qute wrote: > i've installed nagios 1.04 before w/ the commands > > ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-cgiurl=/nagios/cgi-bin > --with-htmurl=/nagios/ --with-nagios-user-nagios > --with-nagios-grp=nagios --with-template-extinfo. and it gives me 15 > cfg files. inluding hostextinfo n serviceextinfo. > > i just wonder... now that i re-installed nagios 1.06 in my other > linux box using the same configure commands. hostextinfo and > serviceexinfo is missing. i read the documentation and i didnt found > any answer on this. > > thanks for the help. > > Bianx > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > *Get a bigger mailbox -- choose a size that fits your needs.* > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From g.vickers at qut.edu.au Fri Nov 1 04:49:51 2002 From: g.vickers at qut.edu.au (Greg Vickers) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:49:51 +1000 Subject: check_nt and NSClient on NT Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20021101132024.02369ea8@imap.qut.edu.au> Hi all, I have a question about check_nt on one of my NT BDC servers. The NSClient installs successfully. The service starts successfully. I can connect and check with check_nt. Then after an indeterminate period of time (it's not regular), the check_nt command returns "No data returned from host!". Then after another indeterminate period of time, the check_nt command starts returning data again! This is for any service that I check on the server. Has anyone else experienced this on an NT server? ================================= Greg Vickers Computer Systems Officer Student Support and Systems, Teaching and Learning Support Systems, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove Campus, Brisbane, Australia CRICOS No 00213J Ph: 07 3864 8276 Fax: 07 3864 5425 Mob: 0416 001 674 SD: x6147 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en From Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se Fri Nov 1 08:19:14 2002 From: Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_W=E4nglund?=) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:19:14 +0100 Subject: APAN Message-ID: <9EA0F1554816EB499A4B1136B80E8DE2780392@storevis.datavis.se> That's not built into Apan. But I don't think it should be hard to move the bandwith-check into Apan and keep the existing RRD's. /FredrikW -----Original Message----- From: Jamie [mailto:jamie at bclnz.net] Sent: Thu 31-Oct-02 21:14 To: Fredrik W?nglund; Nagios Users Cc: Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] APAN Hi, Thanks for the reply. I'm using the NRG front-end by Steve Rader. That works fine, but I've been considering adding to the system so that when average traffic levels (over the week) exceed a certain level, NAGIOS generates a service alert that basically auto-notifies sales people that they should go sell more bandwidth to the customer of the monitored interface. I just thought that seemed to be no advantage in creating another RRD when I've already got several. So basically Nagios would generate an "RRD check", and extract the info from the RRD using (maybe using RRDfetch??), and then compare that to warning and critical thresholds...I'd have hostgroups and notifications (and maybe even escalations) set up appropriately.... ..Somehow I just love the concept of getting Nagios to tell the Sales-People what to do :-) I'd code it myself, but I figure someone else might have already done it (or at least something that could be hacked into shape). -Cheers Jamie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Fredrik W?nglund" To: "Jamie" ; "Nagios Users" Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 8:22 PM Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] APAN Yes thats exactly what Apan is. Apan's main advantage over RRDTool+frontend is that it's integrated in Nagios. Nagios is used to trigger alerts when proplems occur and you have one overall view of your hosts/networks/services-status. Over to your qestion. How do you collect data to your RRD's today? Have those collectors the ability to trigger anything based on the return values? If they have, then you can use passive checks in Nagios to handle the alerts. /FredrikW -----Original Message----- From: Jamie [mailto:jamie at bclnz.net] Sent: Wed 30-Oct-02 23:26 To: Nagios Users Cc: Subject: [Nagios-users] APAN Hi Nagios'ers, I've been watching the APAN related emails fly past, and I've been asking myself - "what is APAN?" - I'll need to explain this to other people succinctly at some stage. This is what I've got so far: "..APAN is an add-on to Nagios that is driven by the Nagios check process. As checks are carried out, the results are logged in an RRD database, which is used to display the historical performance data of the monitored service..." - Is that correct? Question: What If I've got an RRDTool + Front end working perfectly well already?. Can I use APAN (or does something exist) to *extract* from the RRD db and compare against my defined service thresholds?? I hope I'm not too far off with my description above. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Cheers Jamie ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se Fri Nov 1 08:22:42 2002 From: Fredrik.Wanglund at datavis.se (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fredrik_W=E4nglund?=) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:22:42 +0100 Subject: APAN Message-ID: <9EA0F1554816EB499A4B1136B80E8DE2780393@storevis.datavis.se> I think what you need is at tool that can be used to create RRD's and set up Apan. Right? One problem with Apan right now is that there is quite some hand typeing to get it working, but I think thats the case with Nagios too... I am working on an TK-frontend to Nagios and Apans configuration, I will put it on the web as soon as it's usable. /FredrikW -----Original Message----- From: Sean Knox [mailto:sean.knox at sbcglobal.net] Sent: Thu 31-Oct-02 21:30 To: Jamie Cc: Fredrik W?nglund; Nagios Users Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] APAN > > >So basically Nagios would generate an "RRD check", and extract the info from >the RRD using (maybe using RRDfetch??), and then compare that to warning and >critical thresholds...I'd have hostgroups and notifications (and maybe even >escalations) set up appropriately.... > This is definitely what everyone wants. :) I don't believe APAN does this currently- you have to manually set up your rrd's and then apan will input data to those rrds and display the graphs from services you define. I like NRG myself; I think a new tool combining the strengths of NRG and APAN ("nagios integration") would be ideal. -sk ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From gateadm at shepherd-construction.co.uk Fri Nov 1 12:06:54 2002 From: gateadm at shepherd-construction.co.uk (Burton, Steven) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:06:54 -0000 Subject: host_name and host groups Message-ID: Hi, is it possible to use a host group name in the host_name entry in a service definition? If so are there other places where host group names can be used? TIA Steve. Steve Burton ________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan service. For more information on a proactive anti-virus service working around the clock, around the globe, visit http://www.messagelabs.com ________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From dean.bishop at tcdsb.org Fri Nov 1 13:48:58 2002 From: dean.bishop at tcdsb.org (Bishop, Dean) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 07:48:58 -0500 Subject: Check_ping Message-ID: send a snippet of your services.cfg and checkcommands.cfg -----Original Message----- From: Jason Coleman [mailto:jcoleman at lrn.com] Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2002 7:53 PM To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Check_ping Probably a very simple change, but ... Under Status Information in Service Status details for all hosts I receive this message: check_ping: %s: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage! I am not sure where to make that change. Any ideas. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From backhaus at cube.spacenet.de Fri Nov 1 13:52:50 2002 From: backhaus at cube.spacenet.de (Kai Backhaus) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 13:52:50 +0100 Subject: how to view monitored PCs Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.2.20021101134145.0216c1e0@popmail.space.net> Hello everybody, compiling and installing Nagios 1.0b6 was running ok under Debian 3.0 Woody. starting nagios with 'sh /etc/init.d/nagios start' was working fine too. nagios runs as a daemon on my maschine. I set up a test environment at home, i.e. one PC runs as Nagios Monitor the other (Win NT 4.0, SP 6) as monitored machine. As service I configured a simple ping I started up Mozilla with http://localhost/nagios/ => nagios documentation appears. My question: How can I view the monitored PC named nt1 in the nagios config files??? That means how can I view the results of the nagios monitoring machine pinging nt1?? Thx for any help Kai ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From dean.bishop at tcdsb.org Fri Nov 1 14:29:31 2002 From: dean.bishop at tcdsb.org (Bishop, Dean) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 08:29:31 -0500 Subject: Services labelled Critical when hosts are Unreachable. Message-ID: Good morning, i currently have a host that is "UNREACHABLE" but it's service is being tagged "CRITICAL". Shouldn't the service be labelled something like "UNREACHABLE" as well? i was going to as "Are the services on the UNREACHABLE host being checked?" but i just checked and they are. Shouldn't the service checks for UNREACHABLE hosts be suppressed? thanks, dean The top host is DOWN, the bottom host is UNREACHABLE. # 'Msgr-Fraser-Hazelton-0536-Switch-HS7' host definition define host{ use generic-host ; Name of host template to use host_name Msgr-Fraser-Hazelton-0536-Switch-HS7 alias Msgr Fraser Hazelton 0536 Switch-HS7 address 10.71.64.1 parents CAT2924 } # 'Msgr-Fraser-Hazelton-0536SW33-HS7' host definition define host{ use generic-host ; Name of host template to use host_name Msgr-Fraser-Hazelton-0536SW33-HS7 alias Msgr Fraser Hazelton 0536SW33-HS7 address 10.71.64.33 parents Msgr-Fraser-Hazelton-0536-Switch-HS7 } ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From karl at debisschop.net Fri Nov 1 14:48:11 2002 From: karl at debisschop.net (Karl DeBisschop) Date: 01 Nov 2002 08:48:11 -0500 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks In-Reply-To: <3DC1AA03.70207@sbcglobal.net> References: <9EA0F1554816EB499A4B1136B80E8DE2780390@storevis.datavis.se> <000801c2811a$262d7000$b58031ca@bcl977307> <3DC192E6.3030702@sbcglobal.net> <3DC1AA03.70207@sbcglobal.net> Message-ID: <1036158492.10343.146.camel@miles.debisschop.net> On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:09, Sean Knox wrote: > Currently we use check_by_ssh to check private resources (disk, uptime, > etc) on a small group of machines, as opposed to using nrpe. As ssh uses > a good deal more resources than nrpe, at what point would unreasonable > to use ssh to check machines? For the sake of conversation, say the > Nagios monitor is is a PIII 1gig with 256 megs of ram. I seems like it's not often brought up, but when I wanted a lighter alternative, I switched to check_snmp, since each nagios server I use only operates within a fairly well firewalled environment. I switched after about 100 services (10 each on 10 hosts). Not so much because of the load per say, but when ssh fails, it does so much less cleanly than snmp, in my experience. Another reason is when a server is really hammered, say by a DOS attack, ssh may fail, while snmp still works. I've had this happen, where it took 15 minutes or more to get a session on ssh, but we were still able to minitor the box. When we finally got in, we shut the port down (typing blind because of the DOS) and everything cleared. But snmp/netsaint never failed, and gave us the info we needed to quickly do what was needed with ssh. One other thing to keep in mind is that you can run multiple checks on one check_by_ssh invocation. That could keep ssh viable longer. -- Karl ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From jsm at inpro.net Fri Nov 1 17:09:06 2002 From: jsm at inpro.net (Jeff McKeon) Date: 01 Nov 2002 11:09:06 -0500 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks In-Reply-To: <1036158492.10343.146.camel@miles.debisschop.net> References: <9EA0F1554816EB499A4B1136B80E8DE2780390@storevis.datavis.se> <000801c2811a$262d7000$b58031ca@bcl977307> <3DC192E6.3030702@sbcglobal.net> <3DC1AA03.70207@sbcglobal.net> <1036158492.10343.146.camel@miles.debisschop.net> Message-ID: <1036166947.27454.23.camel@rh80-jsm.telaurus.net> Just lurking in the posts... Is there more in depth documentation anywhere for how/why to use check_by_ssh? On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:48, Karl DeBisschop wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:09, Sean Knox wrote: > > Currently we use check_by_ssh to check private resources (disk, uptime, > > etc) on a small group of machines, as opposed to using nrpe. As ssh uses > > a good deal more resources than nrpe, at what point would unreasonable > > to use ssh to check machines? For the sake of conversation, say the > > Nagios monitor is is a PIII 1gig with 256 megs of ram. > > I seems like it's not often brought up, but when I wanted a lighter > alternative, I switched to check_snmp, since each nagios server I use > only operates within a fairly well firewalled environment. > > I switched after about 100 services (10 each on 10 hosts). Not so much > because of the load per say, but when ssh fails, it does so much less > cleanly than snmp, in my experience. > > Another reason is when a server is really hammered, say by a DOS attack, > ssh may fail, while snmp still works. I've had this happen, where it > took 15 minutes or more to get a session on ssh, but we were still able > to minitor the box. When we finally got in, we shut the port down > (typing blind because of the DOS) and everything cleared. But > snmp/netsaint never failed, and gave us the info we needed to quickly do > what was needed with ssh. > > One other thing to keep in mind is that you can run multiple checks on > one check_by_ssh invocation. That could keep ssh viable longer. > > -- > Karl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From bill at eng.wayne.edu Fri Nov 1 17:17:53 2002 From: bill at eng.wayne.edu (Bill Johnson) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:17:53 -0500 Subject: SuSE ping/check_ping Message-ID: Hello all. I am pretty new to the Nagios/SuSE world, but have Nagios up and going and all is working fine except for a problem with check_ping. I have been reading the group discussions on SuSE 8.0 having ping problems and that replacing the binary fixes the problem. I am currently running 7.3 and have failed in locating a replacement binary for ping. The error is one I am sure all of you have read about by now... "You've got a big problem buddy! You need more args!!!" Any suggestions would be helpful. Thank you, Bill ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From russell at quadrix.com Fri Nov 1 17:16:11 2002 From: russell at quadrix.com (Russell Scibetti) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:16:11 -0500 Subject: host_name and host groups References: Message-ID: <3DC2A8CB.5030603@quadrix.com> Yes. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/templatetricks.html -Russell Burton, Steven wrote: >Hi, > >is it possible to use a host group name in the host_name entry in a service >definition? > >If so are there other places where host group names can be used? > >TIA > >Steve. > >Steve Burton > > >________________________________________________________________________ >This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs SkyScan >service. 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Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From jsm at inpro.net Fri Nov 1 17:25:56 2002 From: jsm at inpro.net (Jeff McKeon) Date: 01 Nov 2002 11:25:56 -0500 Subject: Network Health Message-ID: <1036167956.27452.28.camel@rh80-jsm.telaurus.net> I've got Nagios running on a linux box. I also have an internal website for the company running on another web server that is the default home page for all employees. It has local weather and contact lists, company news, etc... I would like to put the "Network Health" box that appears on the right side of the Tactical Overview page on this site's home page. The internal site is running on another server all together. Is there someway this can be done? Thanks, Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From jmarquart at planalytics.com Fri Nov 1 17:49:43 2002 From: jmarquart at planalytics.com (jmarquart at planalytics.com) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:49:43 -0500 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks Message-ID: <85256C64.005C71B9.00@mailhost.planalytics.com> Karl, Could you give an example on how to do multiple ssh checks in a single invocation? I have seen mention of this, but never an example of how to perform this multi-check. I am also very interested in the check_by_ssh plugin - since I perform 99% checks using it. I perfer it to some of the other options because I KNOW ssh will be on all platforms (even NT - gives us easy way to do some NT monitoring w/out SNMP) and it is secure. I had written a passive check submission system for Netsaint which would dynamically get its list of services for a particular host and then perform scheduled passive check submissions. This gave me the multi-check ability w/ lower ssh overhead, but I never rewrote it for Nagios template style configs. thanks, -john Jeff McKeon on 11/01/2002 11:09:06 AM To: Karl DeBisschop cc: Sean Knox , Nagios Users (bcc: John J. der Schalla Marquart/Planalytics) Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_by_ssh benchmarks Just lurking in the posts... Is there more in depth documentation anywhere for how/why to use check_by_ssh? On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 08:48, Karl DeBisschop wrote: > On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:09, Sean Knox wrote: > > Currently we use check_by_ssh to check private resources (disk, uptime, > > etc) on a small group of machines, as opposed to using nrpe. As ssh uses > > a good deal more resources than nrpe, at what point would unreasonable > > to use ssh to check machines? For the sake of conversation, say the > > Nagios monitor is is a PIII 1gig with 256 megs of ram. > > I seems like it's not often brought up, but when I wanted a lighter > alternative, I switched to check_snmp, since each nagios server I use > only operates within a fairly well firewalled environment. > > I switched after about 100 services (10 each on 10 hosts). Not so much > because of the load per say, but when ssh fails, it does so much less > cleanly than snmp, in my experience. > > Another reason is when a server is really hammered, say by a DOS attack, > ssh may fail, while snmp still works. I've had this happen, where it > took 15 minutes or more to get a session on ssh, but we were still able > to minitor the box. When we finally got in, we shut the port down > (typing blind because of the DOS) and everything cleared. But > snmp/netsaint never failed, and gave us the info we needed to quickly do > what was needed with ssh. > > One other thing to keep in mind is that you can run multiple checks on > one check_by_ssh invocation. That could keep ssh viable longer. > > -- > Karl > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm > Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com Fri Nov 1 18:07:17 2002 From: Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com (Richard Wu) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 09:07:17 -0800 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks Message-ID: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E70C3010@s102b.rhcci.net> Karl: The SNMP need much less CPU power than check_by_ssh, but how do you get the proper agent across the unix platform? check_by_ssh can utilize the exsiting nagios plugins, is there a way for snmp agent to use those plugins? Richard Wu -----Original Message----- From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:48 AM To: Sean Knox Cc: Nagios Users Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_by_ssh benchmarks On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:09, Sean Knox wrote: > Currently we use check_by_ssh to check private resources (disk, uptime, > etc) on a small group of machines, as opposed to using nrpe. As ssh uses > a good deal more resources than nrpe, at what point would unreasonable > to use ssh to check machines? For the sake of conversation, say the > Nagios monitor is is a PIII 1gig with 256 megs of ram. I seems like it's not often brought up, but when I wanted a lighter alternative, I switched to check_snmp, since each nagios server I use only operates within a fairly well firewalled environment. I switched after about 100 services (10 each on 10 hosts). Not so much because of the load per say, but when ssh fails, it does so much less cleanly than snmp, in my experience. Another reason is when a server is really hammered, say by a DOS attack, ssh may fail, while snmp still works. I've had this happen, where it took 15 minutes or more to get a session on ssh, but we were still able to minitor the box. When we finally got in, we shut the port down (typing blind because of the DOS) and everything cleared. But snmp/netsaint never failed, and gave us the info we needed to quickly do what was needed with ssh. One other thing to keep in mind is that you can run multiple checks on one check_by_ssh invocation. That could keep ssh viable longer. -- Karl ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From andrewm659 at hotmail.com Fri Nov 1 19:16:09 2002 From: andrewm659 at hotmail.com (Andrew Meyer) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 18:16:09 +0000 Subject: windows host checking Message-ID: I'm having a problem with the checkcommands.cfg when i try to do windows host checking. Any help would be appreciated. define command{ command_name check_nt_disk command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v USEDDISKSPACE -l $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ } command[check_nt_cpuload]=$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ define command{ command_name check_nt_cpuload command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ } _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.? Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From dlevine at seasontickets.com Fri Nov 1 20:22:02 2002 From: dlevine at seasontickets.com (David Levine) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:22:02 -0600 Subject: windows host checking Message-ID: What is the specific problem? Do the commands complete successfully if you run them from the command prompt? You are specifying a port in the command definition - is that correct? -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Meyer To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net Sent: 11/1/2002 12:16 PM Subject: [Nagios-users] windows host checking I'm having a problem with the checkcommands.cfg when i try to do windows host checking. Any help would be appreciated. define command{ command_name check_nt_disk command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v USEDDISKSPACE -l $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ } command[check_nt_cpuload]=$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ define command{ command_name check_nt_cpuload command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ } _________________________________________________________________ Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.? Join now! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From sean.mcavoy at megawheels.com Fri Nov 1 20:25:52 2002 From: sean.mcavoy at megawheels.com (Sean McAvoy) Date: 01 Nov 2002 14:25:52 -0500 Subject: Central server does not update status Message-ID: <1036178753.28803.202.camel@tech03> Hello Ok, I've been battling with Nagios to get the distributed monitoring working. I've got the remote servers reporting correctly, no problem. But the central server doesn't seem to update the status of the service when it receives the data. A service will have a status of OK, but the status information shows it to be CRITICAL. I've copy and pasted a line from the Service Detail page: Client NTP Service OK 11-01-2002 14:05:48 1d 23h 8m 18s 1/3 CRITICAL: Server Error and time difference -2222.803660 seconds greater than +/- 120 sec Where should I be looking to get the central server to recognize that the status is CRITICAL? ANY help would be great. Thank you -- Sean McAvoy Network Analyst Megawheels Technologies Inc. Phone: 416.360.8211 Fax: 416.360.1403 Cell: 416.616.6599 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From sean.knox at sbcglobal.net Fri Nov 1 20:59:36 2002 From: sean.knox at sbcglobal.net (Sean Knox) Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2002 11:59:36 -0800 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks In-Reply-To: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E70C3010@s102b.rhcci.net> References: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E70C3010@s102b.rhcci.net> Message-ID: <3DC2DD28.10803@sbcglobal.net> On UNIX platforms, you can use the net-snmp implementation (formally ucd-snmp). Windows 2000 has decent SNMP support built in, which you can extend (see http://snmpboy.msft.net/). One caveat with net-snmp, however, is it is a royal pain to add MIBS- you have to recompile the agent and tools with support for your MIB. (if there is an easier way, someone PLEASE fill me in :) Sean Richard Wu wrote: >Karl: > >The SNMP need much less CPU power than check_by_ssh, but how do you get the proper agent across the unix platform? check_by_ssh can utilize the exsiting nagios plugins, is there a way for snmp agent to use those plugins? > >Richard Wu > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Karl DeBisschop [mailto:karl at debisschop.net] >Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:48 AM >To: Sean Knox >Cc: Nagios Users >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_by_ssh benchmarks > > >On Thu, 2002-10-31 at 17:09, Sean Knox wrote: > > >>Currently we use check_by_ssh to check private resources (disk, uptime, >>etc) on a small group of machines, as opposed to using nrpe. As ssh uses >>a good deal more resources than nrpe, at what point would unreasonable >>to use ssh to check machines? For the sake of conversation, say the >>Nagios monitor is is a PIII 1gig with 256 megs of ram. >> >> > >I seems like it's not often brought up, but when I wanted a lighter >alternative, I switched to check_snmp, since each nagios server I use >only operates within a fairly well firewalled environment. > >I switched after about 100 services (10 each on 10 hosts). Not so much >because of the load per say, but when ssh fails, it does so much less >cleanly than snmp, in my experience. > >Another reason is when a server is really hammered, say by a DOS attack, >ssh may fail, while snmp still works. I've had this happen, where it >took 15 minutes or more to get a session on ssh, but we were still able >to minitor the box. When we finally got in, we shut the port down >(typing blind because of the DOS) and everything cleared. But >snmp/netsaint never failed, and gave us the info we needed to quickly do >what was needed with ssh. > >One other thing to keep in mind is that you can run multiple checks on >one check_by_ssh invocation. That could keep ssh viable longer. > >-- >Karl > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm >Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! >http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm >Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! >http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From Gopinath_Pulyankote at affymetrix.com Fri Nov 1 20:29:23 2002 From: Gopinath_Pulyankote at affymetrix.com (Pulyankote, Gopinath) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:29:23 -0800 Subject: Found the fix for check_fping. Message-ID: <48F1F432BF75D6118FAC0002B325BE3636E81C@ntex04.affymetrix.com> I finally found the fix for check_fping that will return the correct state (Critical instead of Warning) when the host is not reachable. Here is the link: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=556081 After making the changes in check_fping.c and recompiling, I have working perfectly. -Gopinath ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From dlevine at seasontickets.com Fri Nov 1 20:52:22 2002 From: dlevine at seasontickets.com (David Levine) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 13:52:22 -0600 Subject: windows host checking In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <01EF22D8DE375E44AAAFBE35A3B46F140783@nts5com01.phreaknet.com> Can you perform a simple query like : ./check_nt -H -p 1248 -v UPTIME Or ./check_nt -H -p 1248 -v CLIENTVERSION If they both fail, what is the error message? -D -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Meyer [mailto:andrewm659 at hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 1:26 PM To: dlevine at seasontickets.com Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] windows host checking its more like nagios doesn't like the commands, it complains whendver i run it with the -c or even -v command. not sure > >What is the specific problem? >Do the commands complete successfully if you run them from the command >prompt? You are specifying a port in the command definition - is that >correct? nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>-----Original Message----- >From: Andrew Meyer >To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >Sent: 11/1/2002 12:16 PM >Subject: [Nagios-users] windows host checking > >I'm having a problem with the checkcommands.cfg when i try to do >windows > >host checking. Any help would be appreciated. > >define command{ > command_name check_nt_disk > command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v >USEDDISKSPACE -l $ARG1$ -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ > } > >command[check_nt_cpuload]=$USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v >CPULOAD -l $ARG1$ define command{ > command_name check_nt_cpuload > command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v >CPULOAD >-l $ARG1$ > } > > >_________________________________________________________________ >Get a speedy connection with MSN Broadband.? Join now! >http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/freeactivation.asp > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm >Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! >http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users _________________________________________________________________ Get faster connections?-- switch to?MSN Internet Access! http://resourcecenter.msn.com/access/plans/default.asp ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From karl at debisschop.net Fri Nov 1 21:38:51 2002 From: karl at debisschop.net (Karl DeBisschop) Date: 01 Nov 2002 15:38:51 -0500 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks In-Reply-To: <85256C64.005C71B9.00@mailhost.planalytics.com> References: <85256C64.005C71B9.00@mailhost.planalytics.com> Message-ID: <1036183133.10343.198.camel@miles.debisschop.net> On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:49, jmarquart at planalytics.com wrote: > > > Karl, > Could you give an example on how to do multiple ssh checks in a single > invocation? > I have seen mention of this, but never an example of how to perform this > multi-check. IIRC, this should work. ./plugins/check_by_ssh -l kdebisschop -i /home/kdebisschop/.ssh/checkbyssh \ -H localhost -s uptime:users -C uptime -C users Problem is it doesn't. That's what happens when the author stops using a plugin -- bitrot sets in within days. I need to make other changes for the 1.3.0 release anyway, I will try very hard to have a fix and examples before Monday. -- Karl ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From jmarquart at planalytics.com Fri Nov 1 21:47:13 2002 From: jmarquart at planalytics.com (jmarquart at planalytics.com) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:47:13 -0500 Subject: Check_by_ssh benchmarks Message-ID: <85256C64.00722FEB.00@mailhost.planalytics.com> Cool - You kick ass. My perpetual appreciation. I have continued to use the netsaint plugins version of check_by_ssh currently due to anguish over the Nagios ones. I look forward to your changes and example. -john Karl DeBisschop on 11/01/2002 03:38:51 PM To: John J. der Schalla Marquart/Planalytics at SWS cc: Nagios Users Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Check_by_ssh benchmarks On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 11:49, jmarquart at planalytics.com wrote: > > > Karl, > Could you give an example on how to do multiple ssh checks in a single > invocation? > I have seen mention of this, but never an example of how to perform this > multi-check. IIRC, this should work. ./plugins/check_by_ssh -l kdebisschop -i /home/kdebisschop/.ssh/checkbyssh \ -H localhost -s uptime:users -C uptime -C users Problem is it doesn't. That's what happens when the author stops using a plugin -- bitrot sets in within days. I need to make other changes for the 1.3.0 release anyway, I will try very hard to have a fix and examples before Monday. -- Karl ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com Sat Nov 2 00:47:14 2002 From: Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com (Richard Wu) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 15:47:14 -0800 Subject: instance for w2k performance counter Message-ID: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E707FC45@s102b.rhcci.net> Hi, Does anyone have an idea on how nsclient process the instance for w2k performance counter ? From the help , I can not tell how to address this. Thanks, Richard Wu Email:richard.wu at fusepoint.com Web : www.fusepoint.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en From dlevine at seasontickets.com Sat Nov 2 01:35:46 2002 From: dlevine at seasontickets.com (David Levine) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 18:35:46 -0600 Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] instance for w2k performance counter In-Reply-To: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E707FC45@s102b.rhcci.net> References: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E707FC45@s102b.rhcci.net> Message-ID: <01EF22D8DE375E44AAAFBE35A3B46F140789@nts5com01.phreaknet.com> Richard - Which Win2k performance counter in particular are you interested in? Here is an example from my checkcommands.cfg file that makes use of a Windows 2000 performance counter. Notice the syntax after the "-l". The W2k performance counter is defined in the first argument, and a comment follows it. You can find these counter names by looking in the W2k perfomance monitor. Hope this helps... -David >From checkcommands.cfg ######################################################################## ############ # 'check_nt' command definition - *** CUSTOM COUNTER - PhysicalDisk %Disk Time *** # This will return the amount of time (in %) that the specified hard drives are busy # servicing either a read or write request. # define command{ command_name check_nt_cc_disktime command_line $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -v COUNTER -l "\\PhysicalDisk(_Total)\\%Disk Time", "busy pfmg read-write requests %.2f %%" -w 50 -c 80 } ######################################################################## ############ -----Original Message----- From: nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagiosplug-help-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Richard Wu Sent: Friday, November 01, 2002 5:47 PM To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] instance for w2k performance counter Hi, Does anyone have an idea on how nsclient process the instance for w2k performance counter ? From the help , I can not tell how to address this. Thanks, Richard Wu Email:richard.wu at fusepoint.com Web : www.fusepoint.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: See the NEW Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?palm0001en _______________________________________________ Nagiosplug-help mailing list Nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagiosplug-help -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com Sat Nov 2 01:46:19 2002 From: Richard.Wu at fusepoint.com (Richard Wu) Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:46:19 -0800 Subject: [Nagiosplug-help] instance for w2k performance counter Message-ID: <77F055FA968580429F4546414D8C10E70C3016@s102b.rhcci.net> David: It is just a general question. Since in the NT performance monitor there is an instance name, I am wondering how nagios address this... By the way, is it required for the