From quanah at stanford.edu  Thu Jul  1 01:11:44 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:11:44 -0700
Subject: Load-Balance pools and Monitoring
Message-ID: <E869E1EE5575997BA058CAC6@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>

We have a series of systems that are currently load-balanced via software 
mechanisms.  I know that Nagios has the method of lumping all the servers 
into a single "cluster" for checking, but this doesn't exactly suite my 
needs.

Basically, I want to be paged if any server in the pool is down, but I also 
want it clear that

(a) A server being down doesn't degrade the service

and

(b) in the statistics area, it would be wonderful to be able to graph the 
availability of the combined service, rather than the service on a single 
machine

i.e., Graph the "http" service for www1-www9, instead of just the "http" 
service on www1, the "http" service on www2, etc, all individually, which 
really doesn't give me the availability metric I need.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I was pondering creating two definitions -- A "cluster" set of the systems 
for the availability metric, and then the current definitions so that I can 
be alerted if any member of the cluster is degraded.

--Quanah

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From quanah at stanford.edu  Thu Jul  1 01:12:44 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:12:44 -0700
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca>
 <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net>
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--On Monday, June 28, 2004 2:56 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
wrote:

> It looks like check_ping is expecting the 'From 10.36.39.219 icmp_seq=1
> Destination Host Unreachable' message to be sent to STDERR from ping, but
> on my system it goes to STDOUT.
>
> To test, I created a script that outputs to STDERR a ping result, and
> changed check_ping to call my script instead:
>
># !/usr/bin/perl
> select STDERR;
> print "From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable\n";
> print "\n";
> print "--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---\n";
> print "echo 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet
> loss, time 0ms\n";
>
> Calling check_ping, I get:
>
> PING CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
>
> If I changed the script by removing 'select STDERR', I get:
>
> Error: Could not interpret output from ping command

Have you filed a bug in the Nagios bug tracker (although be aware you may 
not hear anything on bugs filed there for many months)?

--Quanah

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From alex at fragit.net  Thu Jul  1 03:55:22 2004
From: alex at fragit.net (Alex Burger)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:55:22 -0400
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca> <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net> <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net>

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> --On Monday, June 28, 2004 2:56 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
> wrote:
> 
>> It looks like check_ping is expecting the 'From 10.36.39.219 icmp_seq=1
>> Destination Host Unreachable' message to be sent to STDERR from ping, but
>> on my system it goes to STDOUT.
>>
>> To test, I created a script that outputs to STDERR a ping result, and
>> changed check_ping to call my script instead:
>>
>> # !/usr/bin/perl
>> select STDERR;
>> print "From 192.168.1.1 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host Unreachable\n";
>> print "\n";
>> print "--- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics ---\n";
>> print "echo 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet
>> loss, time 0ms\n";
>>
>> Calling check_ping, I get:
>>
>> PING CRITICAL - Host Unreachable
>>
>> If I changed the script by removing 'select STDERR', I get:
>>
>> Error: Could not interpret output from ping command
> 
> 
> Have you filed a bug in the Nagios bug tracker (although be aware you 
> may not hear anything on bugs filed there for many months)?

The first thing I did was look for a bug tracker, but I couldn't find 
one.  There are no trackers on the SF page and I see no mention of a bug 
tracking system on the home page.  I found an email from Ethan in the 
dev list (Jan '04) saying to post bugs directly to nagios-devel.  Is 
that still the best way?  I'll post it to the list anyways.

Alex


> 
> --Quanah
> 
> -- 
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> Principal Software Developer
> ITSS/Shared Services
> Stanford University
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From quanah at stanford.edu  Thu Jul  1 04:05:15 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:05:15 -0700
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca>
 <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net>
 <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
 <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net>
Message-ID: <0B3A39383043D655D19B5F8F@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>



--On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 9:55 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
wrote:

>> Have you filed a bug in the Nagios bug tracker (although be aware you
>> may not hear anything on bugs filed there for many months)?
>
> The first thing I did was look for a bug tracker, but I couldn't find
> one.  There are no trackers on the SF page and I see no mention of a bug
> tracking system on the home page.  I found an email from Ethan in the dev
> list (Jan '04) saying to post bugs directly to nagios-devel.  Is that
> still the best way?  I'll post it to the list anyways.

Hm, maybe the bug tracker only exists for the nagios plugins. ;)

--Quanah

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From alex at fragit.net  Thu Jul  1 04:07:00 2004
From: alex at fragit.net (Alex Burger)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:07:00 -0400
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca> <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net> <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu> <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net>
Message-ID: <40E371C4.5010803@fragit.net>

Alex Burger wrote:
> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
> 
>> --On Monday, June 28, 2004 2:56 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like check_ping is expecting the 'From 10.36.39.219 icmp_seq=1
>>> Destination Host Unreachable' message to be sent to STDERR from ping, 
>>> but
>>> on my system it goes to STDOUT.
.
(snip)
.
>>
>>
>> Have you filed a bug in the Nagios bug tracker (although be aware you 
>> may not hear anything on bugs filed there for many months)?
> 
> 
> The first thing I did was look for a bug tracker, but I couldn't find 
> one.  There are no trackers on the SF page and I see no mention of a bug 
> tracking system on the home page.  I found an email from Ethan in the 
> dev list (Jan '04) saying to post bugs directly to nagios-devel.  Is 
> that still the best way?  I'll post it to the list anyways.

I just found that there is a plugins bug tracker, which is where this 
belongs..  I forgot that they were separate projects..

I found an existing bug report with the same problem, so I added my 
findings to it.

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=946857&group_id=29880&atid=397597

Thanks

Alex


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From quanah at stanford.edu  Thu Jul  1 04:12:52 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 19:12:52 -0700
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <40E371C4.5010803@fragit.net>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca>
 <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net>
 <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
 <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net> <40E371C4.5010803@fragit.net>
Message-ID: <5CF4570C58B0E815C94CB507@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>



--On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:07 PM -0400 Alex Burger <alex at fragit.net> 
wrote:

> I just found that there is a plugins bug tracker, which is where this
> belongs..  I forgot that they were separate projects..
>
> I found an existing bug report with the same problem, so I added my
> findings to it.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=946857&group_id
> =29880&atid=397597

Oh yeah, that's the place. ;)

I just found this patch:

<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=912996&group_id=29880&atid=397599>

Does it fix the problem?  It looks like it *should* given the output 
changes it is parsing, which matches the output you sent.

--Quanah

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From alex at fragit.net  Thu Jul  1 04:22:28 2004
From: alex at fragit.net (Alex Burger)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:22:28 -0400
Subject: Host DOWN alerts not passing pluging output
In-Reply-To: <5CF4570C58B0E815C94CB507@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
References: <40E04EB1.1050909@fragit.net> <40E059D4.6030209@elrick.ca> <40E069EC.2040508@fragit.net> <A9A2A94F2303876B7E2F498A@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu> <40E36F0A.6060803@fragit.net> <40E371C4.5010803@fragit.net> <5CF4570C58B0E815C94CB507@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <40E37564.9080205@fragit.net>

Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> --On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:07 PM -0400 Alex Burger 
> <alex at fragit.net> wrote:
> 
>> I just found that there is a plugins bug tracker, which is where this
>> belongs..  I forgot that they were separate projects..
>>
>> I found an existing bug report with the same problem, so I added my
>> findings to it.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=946857&group_id
>> =29880&atid=397597
> 
> 
> Oh yeah, that's the place. ;)
> 
> I just found this patch:
> 
> <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=912996&group_id=29880&atid=397599> 
> 
> 
> Does it fix the problem?  It looks like it *should* given the output 
> changes it is parsing, which matches the output you sent.

It looks like the patch would be needed based on my output, but it 
doesn't look like it's going to help with the STDOUT / ERR issue.

I will have to do some more testing when I get back to work.  My testing 
was was Mandrake 10, but I only have 9.2 and SuSE 9.1 at home...  I 
updated the bug report to say I was using 10.

Alex



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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Thu Jul  1 05:07:29 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:07:29 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Load-Balance pools and Monitoring
In-Reply-To: <E869E1EE5575997BA058CAC6@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
References: <E869E1EE5575997BA058CAC6@cadabra-dsl.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406302202310.12893-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:

> Basically, I want to be paged if any server in the pool is down, but I also
> want it clear that
>
> (a) A server being down doesn't degrade the service
>
> (b) in the statistics area, it would be wonderful to be able to graph the
> availability of the combined service, rather than the service on a single
> machine
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?

For a, configure a custom check_http plugin to return a maximum state of
WARNING.

For b, Your load balancer has a VIP that listens on port 80 right?  You
monitor the VIP with check_http, then look at the graphs for the VIP.

Easy.
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From quanah at stanford.edu  Thu Jul  1 05:36:53 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 20:36:53 -0700
Subject: Load-Balance pools and Monitoring
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--On Wednesday, June 30, 2004 10:07 PM -0500 Demetri Mouratis 
<dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>
>> Basically, I want to be paged if any server in the pool is down, but I
>> also want it clear that
>>
>> (a) A server being down doesn't degrade the service
>>
>> (b) in the statistics area, it would be wonderful to be able to graph the
>> availability of the combined service, rather than the service on a single
>> machine
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> For a, configure a custom check_http plugin to return a maximum state of
> WARNING.
>
> For b, Your load balancer has a VIP that listens on port 80 right?  You
> monitor the VIP with check_http, then look at the graphs for the VIP.

There is no hardware load-balancer involved, but I can monitor 
"www.stanford.edu" as a particular service.  Actually, just monitoring 
"www.stanford.edu" should be sufficient, thanks. :)

--Quanah

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From benny at bennyvision.com  Thu Jul  1 05:33:07 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 22:33:07 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Load-Balance pools and Monitoring
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> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> I was pondering creating two definitions -- A "cluster" set of the systems
> for the availability metric, and then the current definitions so that I
> can
> be alerted if any member of the cluster is degraded.

Sure, I do just this very thing.

I have each individual server configured with the normal host up/down stuff,
and the service it provides to the cluster.  I have the service set to
alert only during "normal human hours," because quite frankly I don't
give a crap if I lose a backend webserver at four in the morning.  Not
worth the loss of sleep.  Another possibility would be to only alert
for a downed backend server once, and no re-notifications.

I also have a virtual server that tests the service on the load-balanced
failover IP.  If that sucker fails, it pages the on-call folks 24x7x365,
and escalates in 15 minutes to make sure people KNOW (some of us, myself
for one, have spotty pager coverage and don't get all of our pages).

Benny


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From slade at cryptoflow.net  Thu Jul  1 08:52:31 2004
From: slade at cryptoflow.net (Slade Edmonds)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 23:52:31 -0700
Subject: AW: tell me how many are you....
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References: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E04586A@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE> <20040629055728.71065.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org> <40E26738.1000503@op5.se>
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Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Neil wrote:
>
>> Thanks guys. I now have a baseline on how to spec our Nagios machine. 
>> I only have one more battle left and that is the management decision 
>> between choosing Servers Alive(M$0ft Window based) and Nagios. They 
>> like the Nagios because it is so flexible and we can write our own 
>> custom checks. I recently wrote a check that will return a value of 
>> CRITICAL(2) to Nagios if there is a deadlock going on in an MSSQL 
>> server.
>
>
> Can you send that to me or publish it to the list? I've been looking 
> to do the same for some time now.
>
>> The only problem they have with Nagios is that it is open source. But 
>> I have given them tons of good information/advantages about 
>> opensource. I hope, within this week, we'll find out who the winner is.
>
>
> I wish you the best of luck.
>
>> Thanks again.
>> Neil
>>
>
Hey I am interested in that check as well!

Slade


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From timo.koskela at datavahti.fi  Thu Jul  1 10:01:49 2004
From: timo.koskela at datavahti.fi (Timo Koskela)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:01:49 +0300
Subject: Problem with trends and notification
Message-ID: <001301c45f41$a9d8fee0$bd0fa8c0@fi.poltto>

I have problems with trends in my distributed Nagios server. There are a couple of servers I want to monitor and take prints with trends because they are down too often. But trends just dont show anything. In trends where you usually see red and green area, are just white line. 
What could be the problem?
And shouldn't it be possible to distributed server also send notifications, not just the central server? All contacts and contacts groups are configured ok. Or is't so, that only the central Nagios server contains the data from trend and notifications, and it isn't even possible to distributed server to send data to central Nagios server via NSCA, and still be able to notificate on it's own??

Here is my nagios.cfg file from the distributed Nagios (ver. 1.2)

I hope someone could help me, please.

##############################################################################

#

# NAGIOS.CFG - Sample Main Config File for Nagios 

#

# Read the documentation for more information on this configuration

# file. I've provided some comments here, but things may not be so

# clear without further explanation.

#

# Last Modified: 07-04-2002

###############################################################################

log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log

cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg

cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg

cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg

resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg

status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log

nagios_user=nagios

nagios_group=nagios

check_external_commands=0

command_check_interval=-1

command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.log

downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.log

lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp

log_rotation_method=d

log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives

use_syslog=1

log_notifications=1

log_service_retries=1

log_host_retries=1

log_event_handlers=1

log_initial_states=0

log_external_commands=1

log_passive_service_checks=1

inter_check_delay_method=s

service_interleave_factor=s

max_concurrent_checks=0

service_reaper_frequency=10

sleep_time=1

service_check_timeout=60

host_check_timeout=30

event_handler_timeout=30

notification_timeout=30

ocsp_timeout=5

perfdata_timeout=5

retain_state_information=1

state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav

retention_update_interval=60

use_retained_program_state=0

interval_length=60

use_agressive_host_checking=0

execute_service_checks=1

accept_passive_service_checks=1

enable_notifications=1

enable_event_handlers=1

process_performance_data=0

obsess_over_services=1

ocsp_command=submit_check_result

check_for_orphaned_services=0

check_service_freshness=1

freshness_check_interval=60

aggregate_status_updates=1

status_update_interval=15

enable_flap_detection=0

low_service_flap_threshold=5.0

high_service_flap_threshold=20.0

low_host_flap_threshold=5.0

high_host_flap_threshold=20.0

date_format=us

illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=

illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>

admin_email=nagios

admin_pager=pagenagios

# EOF (End of file)


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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Thu Jul  1 10:41:41 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 10:41:41 +0200
Subject: front end management tool
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068D9A@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Namin imports your current configuration into the mysql Database, so nothing should be lost.
I tried out NagMin, but I'm not to happy with having WebMin installed on my Nagios Server for security reasons :-)
At the end, I think you're way faster using vi to configure nagios.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Neil
> Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 7:43 PM
> To: verdon at cict.fr
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Re: front end management tool
> 
> Hi Carole, 
> 
> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it 
> take care of my existings configs? 
> 
> YOu know what, I should try it :) 
> 
> carole verdon writes: 
> 
> > I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't 
> > create temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of 
> > mysql database to put them in flat config files so that 
> nagios can read them.
> > 
> > I am satisfied for this product. 
> > 
> > You can find others answers in mailing list or on 
> > http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Carole. 
> > 
> > Neil wrote: 
> > 
> >> Hey guys,
> >> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for 
> >> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. 
> :) I'm used 
> >> to it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your 
> experience 
> >> on which front end web based application you really did 
> like and was 
> >> easy to use. I am looking into something wherein it will 
> be easy for 
> >> us to create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, 
> >> Nagat but if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary 
> config file 
> >> which will be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my 
> >> configs :( Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios 
> >> management tool you are using and that you're very happy about it.
> >> Thanks.
> >> Neil
> >> 
> >> 
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From igor.sergejev at creanord.com  Thu Jul  1 21:23:49 2004
From: igor.sergejev at creanord.com (Igor Sergejeff)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:23:49 -0700
Subject: "Site logon simulator" (Was: Newbie question about Nagios)
References: <001b01c45edf$25d3c510$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv> <40E29E95.7000403@debisschop.net>
Message-ID: <021c01c45fa0$ef971ac0$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv>

Hello,

Thanks for reply. I actually need to log into the website through login
form.
I tried to do this:
./check_http -u=/login/CheckAllLogins.asp -P="company=nnn&username=demo&pass
word=demo" --string="succesful" www.somecompany.com
but it said to me "HTTP WARNING: HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request".
Where I am wrong, or this error related to specific web page ?

I'm not strong in http, but it seems that my login page source look like:

form NAME="loginform" METHOD="POST" ACTION="CheckAllLogins.asp"
onSubmit="ToCheckLogin();">
<input TYPE="hidden" NAME="isie" VALUE>
<input TYPE="hidden" Name="company">
<input TYPE="hidden" Name="userName">
<input TYPE="hidden" Name="password">
</form>

Another login page with automated demo logon looks like:

<form method="_"
action="http://somecompany.com/login/CheckAllLogins.asp?isie=true"
target="_blank">
              <p align="center">
                <input type="hidden" name="company" value="nnn">
                <input type="hidden" name="username" value="demo">
                <input type="hidden" name="password" value="demo">

Any ideas will welcome.
Regards,

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karl DeBisschop" <karl at debisschop.net>
To: "Igor Sergejeff" <igor.sergejev at creanord.com>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 4:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie question about Nagios


> Igor Sergejeff wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm new to Nagios, just installed it with some generic service checks,
and
> > it's working OK. Now I would like to make some more comlplicated check.
The
> > main task is to check on a periodical basis the contents of the some
> > specific web page and if some value there is less or more some baseline,
to
> > send an alert, preferebly SNMP trap. Also it could be good to pass
through
> > login and password through SSL to this web page. I.e.:
> >
> > 1. Login to specific web page through SSL (https)
> > 2. Check for "Value=NNN" string on this page (i.e. in html file)
> > 3. Send an alert if NNN is less (more) than some baseline value
> >
> > Any idea, is it possible to do ?
>
> You can do 1 and 2, for 3 you can see is a string matches but there is
> no concept of more or less.
>
> -- 
> Karl
>



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From Enrique.Melero at reuters.com  Thu Jul  1 11:31:53 2004
From: Enrique.Melero at reuters.com (Enrique.Melero at reuters.com)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:31:53 +0200
Subject: Monitoring Cron jobs
Message-ID: <T6a86ab9bbec407b710954@dtcseuvig4.dtc.lon.ime.reuters.com>


Anyone has a good way to monitor correct running of cron jobs using nagios ?

We currently rely on mail to send stderr of the jobs. It would be a good idea
to attach a service to each of the cron jobs .

This could be done by defining a special shell that runs the jobs and will send
the correct status to a defined service.

My Cron would look like this:

MYSHELL=/usr/local/bin/nagiosawaresh
00 * * * *  check_Client_db_consistency   %DB Consistency Checking%
01* * * *  check_Products_db_consistency   %DB Consistency Checking%
02 * * * * *   my job 1 %Service 1 for which job 1 is important%
* 10 * * * *   my job 2 %Service 1 for which job 2 is important%

The contents inside the percentage marks are passed through stdin to the shell , as per
standard Visie Cron behaviour .

The nagiosawareshell would capture STDERR and return status of the job and
send the correct info the the nagios.cmd pipe .

Is this making sense ? or is there another better way ?

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From gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de  Thu Jul  1 11:42:07 2004
From: gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de (Gebhardt Thomas)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:42:07 +0200
Subject: Can't get process_performance_data working
Message-ID: <200407011142.09191.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>

Hi,

I've a problem getting process_performance_data working. Nagios
seems not to start the host_perfdata_command/service_perfdata_command
script.

I'm using nagios 1.2 from debian (also tried with a self compiled
version with --with-default-perfdata explicitely configured: still
does not work.)

My config:

process_performance_data=1
host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata
service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata
   in nagios.cfg

process_perf_data               1       ; Process performance data
  in the services.cfg template

and 

# 'process-service-perfdata' command definition
define command{
        command_name    process-service-perfdata
        command_line    /bin/touch /tmp/I_WAS_HERE
        }
in misccommand.cfg

Obviuosly I missed something. Any hints?

Thanks, Thomas


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From verdon at cict.fr  Thu Jul  1 11:55:24 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:55:24 +0200
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <20040630174319.30194.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040630050013.73452.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>            <40E2DAB6.1010005@cict.fr> <20040630174319.30194.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <40E3DF8C.4010501@cict.fr>

In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database support.

That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build 
its own files.

Neil wrote:

> Hi Carole,
> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take care 
> of my existings configs?
> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> carole verdon writes:
>
>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't 
>> create temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of 
>> mysql database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can 
>> read them.
>> I am satisfied for this product.
>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on 
>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
>> Carole.
>> Neil wrote:
>>
>>> Hey guys,
>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for 
>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm used 
>>> to it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your 
>>> experience on which front end web based application you really did 
>>> like and was easy to use. I am looking into something wherein it 
>>> will be easy for us to create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I 
>>> tried Nagmin, Nagat but if I remember correctly, it creates a 
>>> temporary config file which will be used for test run. It's nice but 
>>> really messes up my configs :(
>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool you 
>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
>>> Thanks.
>>> Neil
>>>
>>> -------------------------------------------------------
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>>>
>>
>> -- 
>> **********************************
>> VERDON Carole
>> Ing?nieur Syst?me
>> CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
>> 118, route de Narbonne
>> 31062 Toulouse Cedex
>> T?l.: 05.61.36.60.44
>> Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
>> Mail: verdon at cict.fr
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From h.baecker at ecofis.de  Thu Jul  1 12:04:21 2004
From: h.baecker at ecofis.de (h.baecker at ecofis.de)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:04:21 +0200
Subject: Can't get process_performance_data working
In-Reply-To: <200407011142.09191.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>
References: <200407011142.09191.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>
Message-ID: <OF01E4B38A.D43DA571-ONC1256EC4.00371687-C1256EC4.0037549D@ecofis.de>

Hi,

if you have a file in /tmp called I-WAS-HERE it works as designed, but a 
little bit more efficent is perhaps something like this:

define command{
        command_name    process-host-perfdata
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf 
"$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATE$\t$HOSTATTEMPT$\t$STATETYPE$\t$EXECUTIONTIME$\t$PERFDATA$\n" 
>> /tmp/host-perfdata
        }
define command{
        command_name    process-service-perfdata
        command_line    /usr/bin/printf 
"$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t$SERVICEATTEMPT$\t$STATETYPE$\t-E-$EXECUTIONTIME$\t-L-$LATENCY$\t$PERFDATA
$\n" >> /tmp/service-perfdata
        }

I added some -E- and -L- in the printf's to see which is the execution and 
the latency time, do whatever you want to...

regards
Hendrik


Gebhardt Thomas <gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de> 
Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
01.07.2004 11:42

To
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
cc

Subject
[Nagios-users] Can't get process_performance_data working






Hi,

I've a problem getting process_performance_data working. Nagios
seems not to start the host_perfdata_command/service_perfdata_command
script.

I'm using nagios 1.2 from debian (also tried with a self compiled
version with --with-default-perfdata explicitely configured: still
does not work.)

My config:

process_performance_data=1
host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata
service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata
   in nagios.cfg

process_perf_data               1       ; Process performance data
  in the services.cfg template

and 

# 'process-service-perfdata' command definition
define command{
        command_name    process-service-perfdata
        command_line    /bin/touch /tmp/I_WAS_HERE
        }
in misccommand.cfg

Obviuosly I missed something. Any hints?

Thanks, Thomas


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From gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de  Thu Jul  1 12:34:48 2004
From: gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de (Gebhardt Thomas)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:34:48 +0200
Subject: Can't get process_performance_data working
In-Reply-To: <OF01E4B38A.D43DA571-ONC1256EC4.00371687-C1256EC4.0037549D@ihk.de>
References: <OF01E4B38A.D43DA571-ONC1256EC4.00371687-C1256EC4.0037549D@ihk.de>
Message-ID: <200407011234.49689.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>

On Thursday 01 July 2004 12:04, you wrote:

Hi,

thanks for your answer!

> if you have a file in /tmp called I-WAS-HERE it works as designed, but a
> little bit more efficent is perhaps something like this:

well, unfortunately it does not work, this was the reason for my posting.
Of course that  I-WAS-HERE stuff is just a testing script in order to track
down whether or not the process-host-perfdata command is executed.
Actually it is not, and I'm trying to figure out why it does not behave as 
expected.
 
> I added some -E- and -L- in the printf's to see which is the execution and
> the latency time, do whatever you want to...

Well this would be the next step if I could get the process-host-perfdata
command actually started.

Cheers, Thomas


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From ae at op5.se  Thu Jul  1 12:38:41 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 12:38:41 +0200
Subject: Monitoring Cron jobs
In-Reply-To: <T6a86ab9bbec407b710954@dtcseuvig4.dtc.lon.ime.reuters.com>
References: <T6a86ab9bbec407b710954@dtcseuvig4.dtc.lon.ime.reuters.com>
Message-ID: <40E3E9B1.8040902@op5.se>

Enrique.Melero at reuters.com wrote:
> Anyone has a good way to monitor correct running of cron jobs using nagios ?
> 
> We currently rely on mail to send stderr of the jobs. It would be a good idea
> to attach a service to each of the cron jobs .
> 
> This could be done by defining a special shell that runs the jobs and will send
> the correct status to a defined service.
> 
> My Cron would look like this:
> 
> MYSHELL=/usr/local/bin/nagiosawaresh
> 00 * * * *  check_Client_db_consistency   %DB Consistency Checking%
> 01* * * *  check_Products_db_consistency   %DB Consistency Checking%
> 02 * * * * *   my job 1 %Service 1 for which job 1 is important%
> * 10 * * * *   my job 2 %Service 1 for which job 2 is important%
> 
> The contents inside the percentage marks are passed through stdin to the shell , as per
> standard Visie Cron behaviour .
> 
> The nagiosawareshell would capture STDERR and return status of the job and
> send the correct info the the nagios.cmd pipe .
> 
> Is this making sense ? or is there another better way ?
> 

Seems like an awful lot of work to me. Why don't you just let the 
cron-jobs themselves send a passive service check result to the nagios 
pipe, and set the check_freshness options to something appropriate?
That way the jobs themselves have to define whether or not they 
succeeded, which seems like the right way to go. If the job doesn't run 
at all, nagios sends alerts since the service-check goes stale 
(providing nice monitoring of the cron daemon as well).

-- 
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OP5 AB
+46 (0)733 709032
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From Enrique.Melero at reuters.com  Thu Jul  1 13:23:56 2004
From: Enrique.Melero at reuters.com (Enrique.Melero at reuters.com)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 13:23:56 +0200
Subject: Monitoring Cron jobs
Message-ID: <T6a871363a6c407b73df2c@dtcseuvig6.reuters.com>




On 07/01/2004 12:38:41 PM Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > The contents inside the percentage marks are passed through stdin to the
> shell , as per
> > standard Visie Cron behaviour .
> >
> > The nagiosawareshell would capture STDERR and return status of the job and
> > send the correct info the the nagios.cmd pipe .
> >
> > Is this making sense ? or is there another better way ?
> >
>
> Seems like an awful lot of work to me. Why don't you just let the
> cron-jobs themselves send a passive service check result to the nagios
> pipe, and set the check_freshness options to something appropriate?
> That way the jobs themselves have to define whether or not they
> succeeded, which seems like the right way to go. If the job doesn't run
> at all, nagios sends alerts since the service-check goes stale
> (providing nice monitoring of the cron daemon as well).

Thanks for your answer.
 There are several reasons why I dont want to do it that manner:
1 If we ever change the way passive updates are done we would have to change each and any of the jobs.
2 Many of the jobs are like this
echo "update a set b=c where d " | mysql
and I cant figure out how to add there a passive update to notify OK or failure ...
3 I want to be able to group my jobs by service and be able to modify this without having to go
through each and any of the jobs
4 There are dozens of cron jobs and maintained by different people. Having to add monitoring to each
of them is far more effort than providing a generic solution based on standard return status and stderr generated by the jobs

regards
> --
> Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
> OP5 AB
> +46 (0)733 709032
> andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>
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From smalhotra at dataarmor.net  Thu Jul  1 14:45:27 2004
From: smalhotra at dataarmor.net (Sumit Malhotra)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 18:15:27 +0530
Subject: Host Check Scheduling !
Message-ID: <005c01c45f69$4b6324d0$0301a8c0@sumit>

Hi All!

I am using nagios 1.2 with nsca for monitoring hosts on Windows and Unix. Thinks Wok Great !
But as the feature of Passive Host Check is Missing. Many alert ( Against Services) comes up !

As the Firewall doesn't allow anything to reach to host. I devised my own hack to make it work .Here is what I did.

I devised a Shell script who checks for service checks received within last n minutes   and let it run as host check ..
 So if there is no check received  since last n minutes then the alert will be fired .
 It works fine  As i have suppressed the alerts to an extent. 


 The Above " hack" works fine as along as Freshness check of the services of the host ( that has went down) is greater than  the Time  at which next host check is scheduled otherwise the same problem pops up again .
 Is there a way to schedule the host checks separately ?

the configuration and other documentation states scheduling of Service check ... How to manipulate scheduling of host check ???

Thanks in Advance,

Regards,
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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Thu Jul  1 15:06:59 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:06:59 -0400
Subject: posting to the list
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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Thu Jul  1 15:13:35 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 09:13:35 -0400
Subject: Monitoring Cron jobs
In-Reply-To: <T6a871363a6c407b73df2c@dtcseuvig6.reuters.com>
References: <T6a871363a6c407b73df2c@dtcseuvig6.reuters.com>
Message-ID: <1088687615.29281.47.camel@pel>

On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 07:23, Enrique.Melero at reuters.com wrote:
> 
> On 07/01/2004 12:38:41 PM Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> > > The contents inside the percentage marks are passed through stdin to the
> > shell , as per
> > > standard Visie Cron behaviour .
> > >
> > > The nagiosawareshell would capture STDERR and return status of the job and
> > > send the correct info the the nagios.cmd pipe .
> > >
> > > Is this making sense ? or is there another better way ?
> > >
> >
> > Seems like an awful lot of work to me. Why don't you just let the
> > cron-jobs themselves send a passive service check result to the nagios
> > pipe, and set the check_freshness options to something appropriate?
> > That way the jobs themselves have to define whether or not they
> > succeeded, which seems like the right way to go. If the job doesn't run
> > at all, nagios sends alerts since the service-check goes stale
> > (providing nice monitoring of the cron daemon as well).
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
>  There are several reasons why I dont want to do it that manner:
> 1 If we ever change the way passive updates are done we would have to change each and any of the jobs.
> 2 Many of the jobs are like this
> echo "update a set b=c where d " | mysql
> and I cant figure out how to add there a passive update to notify OK or failure ...
> 3 I want to be able to group my jobs by service and be able to modify this without having to go
> through each and any of the jobs
> 4 There are dozens of cron jobs and maintained by different people. Having to add monitoring to each
> of them is far more effort than providing a generic solution based on standard return status and stderr generated by the jobs

All of those are easily solved.  Write a wrapper script for your cron
jobs.  Cron will call the wrapper script with arguments telling it what
really need to be done.  The wrapper script will run the program, and
based on the exit value, send the appropriate passive check status.  If
you ever have to change how the passive updates work, you just modify
the one script and you're done.



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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Thu Jul  1 15:12:37 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:12:37 -0400
Subject: nagios stop script not killing all processes
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9D3@websrv.cbct.com>

 

 Wed, 30 June 2004 16:08 

 

I\'ve been getting the following errors when i try to acknowledge or set
anything through the GUI.

something saying in the terms that i cant write to nagios.cmd or its not
found.

I stop nagios and when i do a grep for nagios i see that there are close
to 200 nagios/ping process still runnin. I have to kill all of them
manually and then restart nagios. Thats when i can finally acknowledge
messages with no problem.

any ideas? 

 

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From dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com  Thu Jul  1 15:55:40 2004
From: dhawal at netmagicsolutions.com (Dhawal Doshy)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 19:25:40 +0530
Subject: nagios stop script not killing all processes
In-Reply-To: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9D3@websrv.cbct.com>
References: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9D3@websrv.cbct.com>
Message-ID: <40E417DC.20005@netmagicsolutions.com>

Version: ??
Platform: ??
In any case try reading 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/commandfile.html

- dhawal

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

> * *
>
> 	
>
> Wed, 30 June 2004 16:08
>
> I\'ve been getting the following errors when i try to acknowledge or 
> set anything through the GUI.
>
> something saying in the terms that i cant write to nagios.cmd or its 
> not found.
>
> I stop nagios and when i do a grep for nagios i see that there are 
> close to 200 nagios/ping process still runnin. I have to kill all of 
> them manually and then restart nagios. Thats when i can finally 
> acknowledge messages with no problem.
>
> any ideas?
>
> * *
>


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From elvis at webspace4you.ch  Thu Jul  1 15:56:51 2004
From: elvis at webspace4you.ch (E.Altherr)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:56:51 +0200
Subject: AW: nagios stop script not killing all processes
Message-ID: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878262@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>

Hi Guillermo
 
You need to chmod to 777 the nagios.cmd file (usually in the
/var/nagios/var/rw or in the path where your nagios is installed), after
restarted
the nagios daemon, then you can send commands (like Service Aknowledges)
via the GUI
 
best regards
 
Elvis
 
Note: you can kill all nagios related processes with the help of
"killall - 9 <processid>" this shoud normally kill the father and all
his child processes
 
 
 
 

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Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 15:13
An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [Nagios-users] nagios stop script not killing all processes



 

Wed, 30 June 2004 16:08 





I\'ve been getting the following errors when i try to acknowledge or set
anything through the GUI.

something saying in the terms that i cant write to nagios.cmd or its not
found.

I stop nagios and when i do a grep for nagios i see that there are close
to 200 nagios/ping process still runnin. I have to kill all of them
manually and then restart nagios. Thats when i can finally acknowledge
messages with no problem.

any ideas? 

 

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From benny at bennyvision.com  Thu Jul  1 16:17:32 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 09:17:32 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: AW: nagios stop script not killing all processes
In-Reply-To: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878262@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch
     >
References: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878262@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>
Message-ID: <3948.134.244.169.17.1088691474.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>


> You need to chmod to 777 the nagios.cmd file (usually in the
> /var/nagios/var/rw or in the path where your nagios is installed), after
> restarted
> the nagios daemon, then you can send commands (like Service Aknowledges)
> via the GUI

As a general rule, chmod'ing ANYTHING 0777 is A Bad Idea(tm).

This might fix the immediate problem, but could very well introduce others.
There are security risks (now, ANYONE with access to the machine can issue
commands to Nagios), stability risks (Whoops, I didn't mean to write to
THAT file!), etc.

nagios.cmd needs to be writable by the nagios daemon and the webserver,
no more, no less.

Benny


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From emmanuel.ricros at philips.com  Thu Jul  1 16:47:57 2004
From: emmanuel.ricros at philips.com (emmanuel.ricros at philips.com)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:47:57 +0200
Subject: Sending notifications to Lotus Sametime
Message-ID: <OFE023896F.3BB61D06-ON65256EC4.004F9F84-65256EC4.0051F8AC@diamond.philips.com>

Hello all,

Is anyone sending notifications to IBM Lotus Sametime Connect ?
How do you do it ?

We have heard of a Perl interface called Sanity, but I cannot find more 
info.

With kind regards,

--
Emmanuel Ricros - Software Configuration Team Leader
Campus Information Systems - Philips France - Le Mans
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From sjg at easynet.fr  Thu Jul  1 17:15:38 2004
From: sjg at easynet.fr (Sebastien J. Gross)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:15:38 +0200
Subject: Pending status problem
Message-ID: <20040701151538.GE16720@easynet.fr>

hi there,

I am using nagios (version 1.1 Last Modified: 06-02-2003) with about
1500 hosts and around 2500 services.

This works quite fine except sometimes some services are flapping from a
known state (such as OK, WARNING, CRITICAL) to a PENDING state (which
means the service hadn't been checked yet). This is a random beaviour.

I noticed this happends when a pluggin ends in timeout. Sometimes ngios
assumes the timeout is a critical states, sometimes nagios switches the
service to a PENDING state.

Does anyone here ever noticed this behaviour? Is there a way to fix it?
Maybe try the CVS version? (I do not do so because this is a production
plateform).

I can provide further information about the plateform if needed.


TIA


-- 
Sebastien J. Gross


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From elvis at webspace4you.ch  Thu Jul  1 17:44:34 2004
From: elvis at webspace4you.ch (E.Altherr)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:44:34 +0200
Subject: AW: AW: nagios stop script not killing all processes
Message-ID: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878265@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>

ok, you win :-)

it's right, that 777 is a security risk (but i tried your solution under RH 9.0 and it doesn't work (on which reasons whatelse) 


best regards

Elvis




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Bensend
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An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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processes



> You need to chmod to 777 the nagios.cmd file (usually in the
> /var/nagios/var/rw or in the path where your nagios is installed), after
> restarted
> the nagios daemon, then you can send commands (like Service Aknowledges)
> via the GUI

As a general rule, chmod'ing ANYTHING 0777 is A Bad Idea(tm).

This might fix the immediate problem, but could very well introduce others.
There are security risks (now, ANYONE with access to the machine can issue
commands to Nagios), stability risks (Whoops, I didn't mean to write to
THAT file!), etc.

nagios.cmd needs to be writable by the nagios daemon and the webserver,
no more, no less.

Benny


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From tguldener at monzoon.net  Thu Jul  1 17:41:49 2004
From: tguldener at monzoon.net (Thomas Guldener)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:41:49 +0200
Subject: nagios stop script not killing all processes
In-Reply-To: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878262@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>
References: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878262@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>
Message-ID: <E1Bg3hF-0004qk-LS@sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net>

If you compile Nagios from source use the option ?with-cmd-user
?with-cmd-group and take the nagios user and the webserver group

 

Thomas

 

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of
E.Altherr
Sent: Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 15:57
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: AW: [Nagios-users] nagios stop script not killing all
processes

 

Hi Guillermo

 

You need to chmod to 777 the nagios.cmd file (usually in the
/var/nagios/var/rw or in the path where your nagios is installed),
after restarted

the nagios daemon, then you can send commands (like Service
Aknowledges) via the GUI

 

best regards

 

Elvis

 

Note: you can kill all nagios related processes with the help of
"killall - 9 <processid>" this shoud normally kill the father and
all his child processes

 

 

 

 

-----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
Von: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Im Auftrag von
Guillermo Padilla
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Juli 2004 15:13
An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Betreff: [Nagios-users] nagios stop script not killing all processes


 

Wed, 30 June 2004 16:08 





I\'ve been getting the following errors when i try to acknowledge or
set anything through the GUI.

something saying in the terms that i cant write to nagios.cmd or its
not found.

I stop nagios and when i do a grep for nagios i see that there are
close to 200 nagios/ping process still runnin. I have to kill all of
them manually and then restart nagios. Thats when i can finally
acknowledge messages with no problem.

any ideas? 

 

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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Thu Jul  1 18:19:37 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <40E3DF8C.4010501@cict.fr> 
References: <20040630050013.73452.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
            <40E2DAB6.1010005@cict.fr>
            <20040630174319.30194.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
            <40E3DF8C.4010501@cict.fr>
Message-ID: <20040701161937.30474.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of Nagios 

carole verdon writes: 

> In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database support. 
> 
> That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build its 
> own files. 
> 
> Neil wrote: 
> 
>> Hi Carole,
>> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take care of 
>> my existings configs?
>> YOu know what, I should try it :)
>> carole verdon writes: 
>> 
>>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't create 
>>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql 
>>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read them.
>>> I am satisfied for this product.
>>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on 
>>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
>>> Carole.
>>> Neil wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> Hey guys,
>>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for 
>>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm used to 
>>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience on 
>>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was easy 
>>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us to 
>>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat but 
>>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which will 
>>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
>>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool you 
>>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>> Neil 
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From benny at bennyvision.com  Thu Jul  1 18:49:51 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:49:51 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: AW: AW: nagios stop script not killing all 
     processes
In-Reply-To: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878265@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch
     >
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> it's right, that 777 is a security risk (but i tried your solution under
> RH 9.0 and it doesn't work (on which reasons whatelse)

What I do on my monitoring servers is create a group called 'nacmd'.  I add
the 'nagios' user (the user Nagios is going to run as) as well as 'www'
(the user Apache runs as).  Then, when I compile Nagios and the plugins,
I specify --with-command-user=nagios and --with-command-grp=nacmd.  This
Just Works(tm), at least for me.  :)  Never tried it under RedHat 9.

Benny


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From anfa at edu.nykoping.se  Thu Jul  1 20:25:42 2004
From: anfa at edu.nykoping.se (Falk)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:25:42 +0200
Subject: All checks turns to pending when restart/reload.
Message-ID: <200407012017265.SM05088@buitaf02>

I installed Nagios 1.2 (the debian nagios-text_1.2-3.3_i386.deb)
It all worked well in 1.2 fedora (nagios-1.2-0.rhfc1.dag) and 1.1 .deb.
It does not read status.sav it seems.

I set:
retain_state_information=1
state_retention_file=/var/log/nagios/status.sav
retention_update_interval=60
use_retained_program_state=1

Any Ideas?

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From krcalhoo at mtu.edu  Thu Jul  1 21:44:20 2004
From: krcalhoo at mtu.edu (kevin)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 15:44:20 -0400
Subject: plugin disappearing
Message-ID: <40E46994.3090601@mtu.edu>

I am having a problem with a plugin in disappearing.  I have set up a 
check dhcp service.  I am using the check_dhcp from 
nagios-plugins-1.4.0alpha1 in the contrib directory.  When I first start 
nagios it will run once and returns DHCP ok: Received 1 DHCPOFFER(s)... 
  However the second time it goes to run the check it returns error code 
127 plugin may be missing.  I have set log_initial_states=0 so it 
shouldn't be remembering anything from a previous state.
	For a test I also copied my dhcp-check service and made a dhcp-check2 
service.  It has the same behavior of running one and disappearing.
	I can run the check_dhcp check from the command line as root and as 
nagios without any problems.  I used visudo so set sudo up.

nagios    ALL = NOPASSWD: 
/dcs/local/nagios/nagiosservices/libexec/check_dhcp

Nagios Config files
   define service{
         use                             generic-service
         hostgroup_name                  dhcp
         service_description             dhcp-check
         contact_groups                  Administrators
         normal_check_interval           10     ; minutes
         check_command 
check-dhcp!141.219.70.126!192.168.0.21!eth0.4093!10
         register                        1
         }

define command{
         command_name    check-dhcp
         command_line    sudo 
/dcs/local/nagios/nagiosservices/libexec/check_dhcp -s $ARG1$ -r $ARG2$ 
-i $ARG3$ -t $ARG4$
         }

File location
# stat /dcs/local/nagios/nagiosservices/libexec/check_dhcp
   File: `/dcs/local/nagios/nagiosservices/libexec/check_dhcp'
   Size: 14145           Blocks: 32         IO Block: 4096   Regular File
Device: 811h/2065d      Inode: 1453063     Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (  500/  nagios)   Gid: (  500/  nagios)
Access: 2004-07-01 15:09:46.000000000 -0400
Modify: 2004-06-16 11:55:49.000000000 -0400
Change: 2004-06-16 13:46:38.000000000 -0400

Any help or more things to check would be appreciated.
Kevin Calhoon





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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Thu Jul  1 21:44:02 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 15:44:02 -0400
Subject: Nagmin configuration question
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9DC@websrv.cbct.com>

I've set Webmin with nagmin but I'm stuck.  I created the db for nagmin
but when I go to the nagmin page on webmin the system databases  column
is blank.  Any ideas?  I've gone to the module config and cant seem to
find anything missing.

 

Thx

-G

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From phessler at triplecanopy.com  Thu Jul  1 22:21:35 2004
From: phessler at triplecanopy.com (Peter Hessler)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 13:21:35 -0700
Subject: Problems with cgi access
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References: <20040628113930.36e109b5@leela.theapt.org>
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Noone has any information/sugguestions about the line below not working? 
Nagios is broken on OpenBSD.

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 11:48:49 -0700
Peter Hessler <phessler at triplecanopy.com> wrote:

:nagios_check_command=/home/nagios/libexec/check_dummy 0

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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Thu Jul  1 22:39:21 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:39:21 -0400
Subject: Flapping / Problems
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F76@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

Is there any way to get all hosts that are flapping (especially those
that entered flapping while in an OK state) to show up under Problems?
In my opinion, Flapping indicates a problem regardless of the
OK/Warning/Critical state. Thanks.

Rob Nelson
Network Engineer
Windchannel Communications
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From james.eastman at fedex.com  Fri Jul  2 00:16:28 2004
From: james.eastman at fedex.com (James Eastman)
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:16:28 -0500
Subject: Nagios / NRPE install on HP-UX 11.o and 11i
Message-ID: <0I0700BF81XCKT@emmsvr02.prod.fedex.com>

All:

 

I hope this message finds you doing well.  I am trying to install the Nagios
NRPE daemon and Nagios plugins on a HP-UX machine and am having no success.
I?ve read the FAQs at nagios.org and it says my ?make? error is probably
caused by not having the glibc installed.  I have installed the glibc and
gmake on my HP-UX box and still I get the make errors.  I have also searched
the mailing list archives and have not found the magical HP-UX install
instructions.  If anyone knows the compile/install magic/magical
documentation place for HP-UX, please point me to that spot so I can get my
read/learn on.  Thanks in advance for your help.  Here?s a listing of my
swlist so you can see the HP-UX packages I have installed on this box:

 

# Swlist

# Initializing...

# Contacting target "nxpsL305"...

#

# Target:  nxpsL305:/

#

 

#

# Bundle(s):

#

 

  A5856A                B.11.00.04     I2O RAID

  B2491BA               B.11.00        MirrorDisk/UX

  B3693AA               C.02.60.000    HP GlancePlus/UX for s800 11.0

  B3701AA               C.02.60.000    HP GlancePlus/UX Pak for s800 11.0

  B3901BA               B.11.01.07     HP C/ANSI C Developer's Bundle for
HP-UX 11.00 (S800)

  B4967AA               C.02.60.000    HP MeasureWare Server Agent for s800
11.0

  B6192AA               B.11.00.10     DCE/9000 Programming & Administration
Tools Media and Manuals

  B6733AA               B.11.00.10     DCE/9000 Kernel Threads Support

  B6848BA               1.4.gm.38.1    Ximian GNOME 1.4 GTK+ Libraries for
HP-UX 11.00 and 11i

  ECSAuxiliary          A.03.10        ECS Auxiliary

  ECSCmgNNMHP11         A.03.10        ECS Config/Mgmt GUI for NNM
(including Japanese support)

  HPUXEng64RT           B.11.00.01     English HP-UX 64-bit Runtime
Environment

  HWE1100               B.11.00.0303.4 Hardware Enablement Patches for HP-UX
11.00, March 2003

  Ignite-UX-11-00       B.4.1.61       HP-UX Installation Utilities for
Installing 11.00 Systems

  J5315AA               B.06.31.00     OV NNM Enterprise

  NNMEngHP11Doc         B.06.31.00     Network Node Manager Online Runtime
Manuals - English version

  NNMEngHP11full        B.06.31.00     Network Node Manager

  NNMEngHP11man         B.06.31.00     Network Node Manager Man Pages

  OnlineDiag            B.11.00.24.11  HPUX 11.0 Support Tools Bundle, Mar
2003

  QPK1100               B.11.00.60.4   Quality Pack for HP-UX 11.00, March
2003

  Sendmail-811          B.11.00.01.001 Sendmail-8.11.1 special release
upgrade

  UXCoreMedia           B.11.00.02     HP-UX Media Kit (Reference Only. See
Description)

  UnlimUserLic          B.11.00.02     HP-UX Unlimited-User License

  XSWGR1100             B.11.00.47.08  General Release Patches, November
1999 (ACE)

#

# Product(s) not contained in a Bundle:

#

 

  gcc                   3.3.2          gcc

  glib                  1.2.10         glib

nxpsL305:root:/nagios-plugins-1.4.0alpha1

#

 

Have a nice day.

 

James Eastman

 


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From Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU  Fri Jul  2 00:24:46 2004
From: Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Stanley Hopcroft)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 08:24:46 +1000
Subject: "Site logon simulator" (Was: Newbie question about Nagios)
In-Reply-To: <E1Bg3lE-0004Wm-QX@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>; from nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net on Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:45:10AM -0700
References: <E1Bg3lE-0004Wm-QX@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <20040702082445.A237@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Thu, Jul 01, 2004 at 08:45:10AM -0700, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:

> From: "Igor Sergejeff" <igor.sergejev at creanord.com>
> Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 12:23:49 -0700
> Subject: [Nagios-users] "Site logon simulator" (Was: Newbie question about Nagios)
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Thanks for reply. I actually need to log into the website through login
> form.

  ...


Yep. 

You need to roll your own plugin to simulate a users 

 . siting each web form in turn

 . filling out the form appropriately

 . seeing the next expected page show up

Tools to do this include :-

 Perl + HTTP::Recorder + WWW::Mechanize (all from CPAN; Perl >= 5.006)

HTTP::Recorder will make a machine redable record of your browser
session with the web server (recording all the stuff you send and what
it gets back) suitable for input to WWW::Mechanize, which will play it
back.

Both these modules are popular, well conceived and actively
developed. You can find a write up of HTTP::Recorder on http://Perl.COM/

A far cruder (more limitations and more work required by you)
approach is Nagios::WebTransact (I use this method and it is effective 
on _common_ forms of this sort).

Other approaches that _may_ work with fill out forms are lynx and
webget. I generally only use these to examine the contents of single
page resulting from a GET request (since lynx can parse the HTML into
text, this is sometimes more useful than check_http).

 
> Any ideas will welcome.

Yours sincerely.

-- 
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Stanley Hopcroft
------------------------------------------------------------------------

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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
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From benny at bennyvision.com  Fri Jul  2 00:48:20 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 17:48:20 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Nagios / NRPE install on HP-UX 11.o and 11i
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> I hope this message finds you doing well.  I am trying to install the
> Nagios
> NRPE daemon and Nagios plugins on a HP-UX machine and am having no
> success.
> I?ve read the FAQs at nagios.org and it says my ?make? error is probably
> caused by not having the glibc installed.  I have installed the glibc and
> gmake on my HP-UX box and still I get the make errors.  I have also
> searched
> the mailing list archives and have not found the magical HP-UX install
> instructions.  If anyone knows the compile/install magic/magical
> documentation place for HP-UX, please point me to that spot so I can get
> my
> read/learn on.  Thanks in advance for your help.  Here?s a listing of my
> swlist so you can see the HP-UX packages I have installed on this box:

Ummm...  I don't see gmake anywhere there.  What does:

which gmake

return?  How about 'which gcc' ?

Benny


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From durist at euler.cr.usgs.gov  Thu Jul  1 00:29:44 2004
From: durist at euler.cr.usgs.gov (Dan Urist)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:29:44 -0600
Subject: smartmontools
In-Reply-To: <20040630200259.40838.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <28A0F72B3EA0BC47A65E8E67CC1912821204EF@srv3057000552.ville.quebec.qc.ca> <20040630200259.40838.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
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On Wednesday 30 June 2004 14:02, Neil wrote:

> This is cool. What if we want to monitor on Solaris?

Here you go-- note that the version of smartmontools I'm running on Solaris 
(v. 5.30) has different args than the linux version that ships with redhat; 
also, does anybody know if smartmontools will work for FCAL disks on the 
v880?

==================
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

my $SMARTCTL = "/usr/local/smartmontools/sbin/smartctl";

open(CFGADM,"/usr/sbin/cfgadm -al|")
  or die "$0: Could not open pipe to cfgadm";

my @disks;
my $disk;
my @baddisks;
while( my $line = <CFGADM> ){
  if( $line =~ /dsk\/(\S+)\s+disk/ ){
    system("$SMARTCTL -Hq silent /dev/rdsk/" . $1 . "s2");
    push(@baddisks, $1) if $?;
  }
}

if( scalar(@baddisks) ){
  print "Bad Disks: ", join(",", at baddisks), "\n";;
  exit 1;
}
==================

Actually, because I'm lazy and want to have a single directory of scripts to 
distribute, I have all my linux-specific scripts named e.g.  "chksmart.linux" 
and the solaris-specific scripts named e.g. "chksmart.solaris", and then I 
have a script called "launch" that is symlinked to "chksmart" (or any other 
scriptname that has an OS-specfic version, but without the extension); launch 
figures out what OS it's running on and calls the appropriate script. Here's 
launch:

==================
#!/bin/sh

case `uname` in
        Linux)
                exec $0.linux $@
                ;;
        SunOS)
                exec $0.solaris $@
                ;;
        *)
                echo "Unknown operating system!"
                exit 1
                ;;
esac
==================

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From phessler at triplecanopy.com  Fri Jul  2 01:32:48 2004
From: phessler at triplecanopy.com (Peter Hessler)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:32:48 -0700
Subject: Problems with cgi access
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	<37574.134.244.172.10.1088450046.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>
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Found it.  Write permissions on /var/log/nagios prevented the status.log
file from being created.  I changed ownership of the directory, and it was
created and all is good.

Thanks for the help.

-- 
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From michael at halligan.org  Fri Jul  2 01:48:35 2004
From: michael at halligan.org (Michael T. Halligan)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:48:35 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Delayed notifications.
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I'm running the 1.2.0 Nagios rpms from DAG for RHEL3 right now.

I'm wondering if there's just some problem with nagios 1.2.0's
notifications?

Notifications have been semi-flaky at best. I had a server go
down yesterday morning at 4am.  Nagios noted this, marked an
alert, but didn't send out a notification until 1PM. Embarrassingly, we
only knew the server was down because an affected user called about it.

I'm finding this really hard to track, because the archived logs don't
seem to have a time stamp.

When I look on the web interface in Notification History for this host,
it only shows notifications at 1Pm.. Clearly Nagios saw the alert but
delayed 10 hours in sending out a notification.


My configuration file for this server is as follows : 

define host {
  host_name                    some.server.name
  parents                      lbprod-gw-b.mypointsbeta.com
  alias                        some
  address                      IP.ADDR
  check_command                check-host-alive
  max_check_attempts           3
  checks_enabled               1
  failure_prediction_enabled   1
  retain_status_information    1
  retain_nonstatus_information 1
  notification_interval 120
}
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
define service {
  host_name             some.server.name
  service_description   Connectivity
  check_command         check_ping
  max_check_attempts    3
  normal_check_interval 2
  retry_check_interval  1
  check_period          24x7
  notification_interval 120
  notification_period   24x7
  notification_options  c,r
  contact_groups        admin
}
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
define service {
  host_name             some.server.name
  service_description   SSH
  check_command         check_ssh
  max_check_attempts    3
  normal_check_interval 2
  retry_check_interval  1
  check_period          24x7
  notification_interval 120
  notification_period   24x7
  notification_options  c,r
  contact_groups        admin
}
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
define service {
  host_name             some.server.name
  service_description   HTTP
  check_command         check_http
  max_check_attempts    3
  normal_check_interval 2
  retry_check_interval  1
  check_period          24x7
  notification_interval 120
  notification_period   24x7
  notification_options  c,r
  contact_groups        admin
}
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
define service {
  host_name             some.server.name
  service_description   https-tcp-443
  check_command         check_tcp!443
  max_check_attempts    3
  normal_check_interval 2
  retry_check_interval  1
  check_period          24x7
  notification_interval 120
  notification_period   24x7
  notification_options  c,r
  contact_groups        admin
}




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From pikelner at rogers.com  Fri Jul  2 06:18:39 2004
From: pikelner at rogers.com (Frank Pikelner)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 00:18:39 -0400
Subject: Modify checkdisk script
Message-ID: <002601c45feb$a7296e00$98aa6418@netcraftinc.int>

Hello,

 

I'm monitoring a Dell server and use check_disk script with an OID that
returns % disk free. I would like to reverse the value to provide % disk
used ( 1 - % disk free), but am not sure how to modify the script. Any help
would be appreciated.

 

Thank you in advance,

 

Frank 

Pikelner at rogers.com 

 

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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Fri Jul  2 08:48:00 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:48:00 -0500
Subject: setting a schedule on check
Message-ID: <20040702064801.93985.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

Hey guys, 

I would like to setup a check that should only be executed between 12:45am 
and 1:00am, daily. How can I do this? 

Thanks. 

Neil


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From Christian.Bock at liz.lsa-net.de  Fri Jul  2 09:16:41 2004
From: Christian.Bock at liz.lsa-net.de (Bock, Christian)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 09:16:41 +0200
Subject: Can't get Nagios up ( again )
Message-ID: <53B7932F94C4DE49B3A9AD98715FCF2C1D4007@lrpc79.liz.lsa-net.de>

Hello,

it seems I am the only one having that problems
since I did not find any previous mail soliving
that problem:

I added mysql-support to nagios. After restart 
of nagios had to check all services again,
which did not surprise me, because no status
data were in the database yet. But after 
restarting it again nagios does not seem to 
read these values and start checking services 
from scratch ( pending ) again. That results 
in a behaviour of delays of more than 2300 
seconds. I never expirienced these high delays
before.
Strange now is that even after redoing the 
installation without mysql the problem persists.
How to start that system with 321 services and 
215 hosts?
At the same time I introduced Nagmin, that's 
the reson for the lots of config files in 
nagios.cfg maybe that can cause the problem?

Thanks a lot fo help :-)

chris

----------------------------------------------------

The results from the -s option is as 

	SERVICE SCHEDULING INFORMATION
        -------------------------------
        Total services:             321
        Total hosts:                215

        Command check interval:     -1 sec
        Check reaper interval:      10 sec

        Inter-check delay method:   SMART
        Average check interval:     299.439 sec
        Inter-check delay:          0.933 sec

        Interleave factor method:   SMART
        Average services per host:  1.493
        Service interleave factor:  2

        Initial service check scheduling info:
        --------------------------------------
        First scheduled check:      1088752094 -> Fri Jul  2 09:08:14
2004
        Last scheduled check:       1088752393 -> Fri Jul  2 09:13:13
2004

        Rough guidelines for max_concurrent_checks value:
        -------------------------------------------------
        Absolute minimum value:     11
        Recommend value:            33


nagios.cfg

log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/Command.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/Contact.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ContactGroup.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ContactTemplate.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/Host.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostDependency.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostEscalation.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostGroup.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostGroupEscalation.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostTemplate.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/Service.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ServiceDependency.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ServiceEscalation.
resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg
status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log
nagios_user=nagios
nagios_group=nagcmd
check_external_commands=1
command_check_interval=-1
command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.log
downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.log
lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock
temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp
log_rotation_method=d
log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives
use_syslog=0
log_notifications=1
log_service_retries=1
log_host_retries=1
log_event_handlers=1
log_initial_states=1
log_external_commands=1
log_passive_service_checks=1
inter_check_delay_method=s
service_interleave_factor=s
max_concurrent_checks=0
service_reaper_frequency=10
sleep_time=1
service_check_timeout=60
host_check_timeout=30
event_handler_timeout=30
notification_timeout=30
ocsp_timeout=5
perfdata_timeout=5
retain_state_information=1
state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav
retention_update_interval=60
use_retained_program_state=1
interval_length=60
use_agressive_host_checking=0
execute_service_checks=1
accept_passive_service_checks=1
enable_notifications=1
enable_event_handlers=1
process_performance_data=1
obsess_over_services=1
check_for_orphaned_services=1
check_service_freshness=1
freshness_check_interval=60
aggregate_status_updates=1
status_update_interval=15
enable_flap_detection=0
low_service_flap_threshold=5.0
high_service_flap_threshold=20.0
low_host_flap_threshold=5.0
high_host_flap_threshold=20.0
date_format=de
illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()=
illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<>
admin_email=Christian.Bock at liz.lsa-net.de
admin_pager=pagenagios
xpdfile_host_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/hostperf.log
xpdfile_host_perfdata_template=$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA$
xpdfile_service_perfdata_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/serviceperf.log
xpdfile_service_perfdata_template=$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$O
UTPUT$\t
$PERFDATA$





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From richard.luys at vanderlet.nl  Fri Jul  2 10:58:27 2004
From: richard.luys at vanderlet.nl (Richard Luys)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 10:58:27 +0200
Subject: Nagios / NRPE install on HP-UX 11.o and 11i
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Message-ID: <opsah5vpksvmvs1m@mail.vanderlet.nl>

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 17:16:28 -0500, James Eastman 
<james.eastman at fedex.com> wrote:

> All:
Hi James,
>
>
>
> I hope this message finds you doing well.  I am trying to install the 
> Nagios
> NRPE daemon and Nagios plugins on a HP-UX machine and am having no 
> success.

If you really want to compile Nagios and the plugins yourself, I cannot 
help you, but wish you all the luck you need (As far as I understood it's 
not an easy task).

Instead of 'reinventing the weel' you may take a look at this site: 
http://www.bennyvision.com/projects/nagios/index.php

It contains complete depots for HP-UX 10.20, 11 and 11i; including some 
plugins. I've installed it and it works fine.

If you're really stuck, I suggest you take a look there.

---
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Unix specialist
Vanderlet B.V.
The Netherlands


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From richard.luys at vanderlet.nl  Fri Jul  2 11:06:03 2004
From: richard.luys at vanderlet.nl (Richard Luys)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:06:03 +0200
Subject: setting a schedule on check
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On Fri, 02 Jul 2004 01:48:00 -0500, Neil 
<neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:

> Hey guys, I would like to setup a check that should only be executed 
> between 12:45am and 1:00am, daily. How can I do this? Thanks. Neil
>
Create an entry in 'timeperiods.cfg' specific for this task. Use the 
'check_period' directive with the name of the defined timeperiod as 
parameter in the host or service check you like to execute in that 
specific timeperiod.

This should work if Nagios is running smoothly without great delays. If 
Nagios is too busy during that timeperiod to run the scheduled checks, 
it's possible that the check is delayed or not run at all...

Other option: Use a cron-job to schedule the check, and let it send it's 
result to Nagios as a passive check. See the Nagios documentation for 
details on Passive Checks.

Hope this answers your question, or at least gives you some hints on how 
to proceed...

---
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Unix Specialist
Vanderlet B.V.
The Netherlands


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From verdon at cict.fr  Fri Jul  2 11:15:50 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:15:50 +0200
Subject: Pb with hostexinfo
Message-ID: <40E527C6.1080109@cict.fr>

Hi,

I use nagios 1.2 and nagmin 2.1.0 to configure hosts and services on 
solaris boxe.

I compiled nagios with mysql database support using the option 
--with-mysql-xdata.

I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an 
image or coordinates, nothing happens.

I defined in table 'Host Extended Information' of Nagmin, those hosts:

  *Template* *Host Name* *Notes URL* *Icon Image* *Icon Image Alt* *VRML 
Image* *Statusmap Image* *2D Coordinates* *3D Coordinates* *Comment*

aurore.cict.fr
 sun40.gif Sun Server    sun.gd2



telline.cict.fr
 hpux.png HPUX Server    hpux.gif 100,60


vae.cict.fr
 linux40.jpg Linux Server    linux40.png 50,10


I have got serveral problems:

1. The gd2 images don't appear.
If i execute ldd statusmap.cgi, it find the gd library
        libmysqlclient.so.10 =>  
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
        libgd.so.2 =>    /usr/local/lib/libgd.so.2
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
        libz.so =>       /usr/local/lib/libz.so
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libpng.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3
        libjpeg.so.62 =>         /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libcrypt_i.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libXpm.so.4.11 =>        /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
        libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
        libfreetype.so.6 =>      /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
        libpng12.so.0 =>         /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/lib/libc_psr.so.1

I have even made this command: crle -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib, but that 
didn't change nothing

# crle

Configuration file [3]: /var/ld/ld.config
  Default Library Path (ELF):   /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
  Trusted Directories (ELF):    /usr/lib/secure  (system default)

Command line:
  crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos : 
pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field of 
nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into account 
was /opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????

3. If i edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg, i see that 
extended informations of hosts are well created:
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for Host
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtInfo
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    aurore.cict.fr
    icon_image    sun40.gif
    icon_image_alt    Sun Server
    statusmap_image    sun.gd2
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    telline.cict.fr
    icon_image    hpux.png
    icon_image_alt    HPUX Server
    statusmap_image    hpux.gif
    2d_coords    100,60
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    vae.cict.fr
    icon_image    linux40.jpg
    icon_image_alt    Linux Server
    statusmap_image    linux40.png
    2d_coords    50,10
}
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtTemplate
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004

4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify coordinates 
of one host for example, that don't works. When i click on 'save' 
button, nothing changes.

5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host becomes 
red when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes in warning?


I cannot any more what make. Can someone help me, please?

Thanks.

Carole.

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From verdon at cict.fr  Fri Jul  2 14:22:51 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:22:51 +0200
Subject: Socket timeout
Message-ID: <40E5539B.7070206@cict.fr>

Hi,

I receive a lot of notifications of services that indicate a timeout problem:

CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.

So, for certain services, i put the timeout to 20s but that don't change anything. I receive always critical alerte with this message:

CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.

Why do this happen? 

Is it possible that comes from the value of max_concurrent_checks (is set to 0 for the moment)?

Any help would be appreciated.

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From h.baecker at ecofis.de  Fri Jul  2 15:44:26 2004
From: h.baecker at ecofis.de (h.baecker at ecofis.de)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:44:26 +0200
Subject: WG: Nagios schedule question
Message-ID: <OFE6E89850.BF686F9F-ONC1256EC5.004A5802-C1256EC5.004B7AF3@ecofis.de>

Hi,

my last comment about the problem that I thought that Nagios is not able 
to start more than 60 events within one minute was not right.

It seems that our Nagios have problems with starting the count of events 
in a Event Loop that it should start.

I think (please correct me if I am wrong) that Nagios calculates the count 
of events per event loop out of the hole services and the average check 
interval.
The Nagios "scheduler" now have his event list that look semilar like 
this:

13:00:00        -       Start for example 50 Service Checks
13:00:01        -       Reaper + other service checks starts
13:00:02        -       Nagios could not start all the events out of the 
last loop and will do this now, means Nagios has now for example 50 
regular NOW checks + 20 out of the last loop...
 and so on, and so on...

out of this theory the latency for each service check will increase.

If I am right, how can I tune up my Nagios to start the correct number of 
Service Checks / Events for each loop?

Sorry for my bad english, I hope that someone understand me.

Hendrik


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To
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cc

Subject
[Nagios-users] Nagios schedule question







Hi List, 

I have some problems with our Nagios and I think the problems comes from 
the scheduler. But before some Info: 

OS: Suse Linux 
Kernel: 2.4.[unknown] 
CPU:         2x Intel Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.00GHz 
Mem:        2.587.208K 

Nagios Version 1.1 

Hosts:                616 
Services:        2684 

Average Service Check Intervall ~ 350 seconds. 

With the option inter_check_delay_method=s our nagios is not able to check 
all the services within 5 minutes (just 70%) and I can see out of the 
perfdata many latency about 100 up to 350 seconds. 

I tried to inter_check_delay_method=0.01 without any good result but an 
inter_check_delay_method=1.00 slows down nagios with his checks but 
doesn't throw out any latency. 

I think because of the unsigned long int for the time_t I guess that 
Nagios is not able to do more schedule events than 60 in 60 seconds. 

What can be done to screw up my Nagios Performance? Any ideas? 

Regards 
Hendrik 
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From tonij67 at hotmail.com  Fri Jul  2 16:37:33 2004
From: tonij67 at hotmail.com (Tony Tissic)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 09:37:33 -0500
Subject: At my wits end with GD libraries!  It should work!
Message-ID: <BAY19-F14he0W4lTsre000358d7@hotmail.com>


Hi all,

I have Nagios running on a Suse system which appears to have everything I 
need to get the statusmap/trends cgis working, but any option I give 
configure STILL complains with :

*** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********

Here is what I have verified:

JPEG:
jpeg-6b-731
libjpeg-6.2.0-731
(some researched showed that libjpeg is supposed to include the devel. 
libraries for JPEG; is this true?)

PNG:
libpng-1.2.5-182.3
libpng-devel-1.2.5-11tr

GD:
gd-2.0.22-61
php4-gd-4.3.4-26
gdb-6.1-1

Per the instructions I did this:

ldconfig
make clean (more times than I can remember)
configure
configure --with-gd-lib --with-gd-inc
configure
/configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/local/include
/configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include

The only thing I am not real clear on is the location of these mysterious 
libraries; how do I know if its in /usr/local or /usr/lib or 
/some_other_directory?

Any info helpful here,

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From verdon at cict.fr  Fri Jul  2 16:47:32 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:47:32 +0200
Subject: Socket timeout
In-Reply-To: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DC0@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>
References: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DC0@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>
Message-ID: <40E57584.4000403@cict.fr>

There isn't a firewall between the hosts.

This problem arrives only sometimes. For example for one particular host,

***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: RECOVERY

Service: Total Process
Host: gw3-mail.cict.fr
Address: x.x.x.x
State: OK

Date/Time: Thu Jul 1 00:15:52 MEST 2004

Additional Info:

PROCS OK: 118 processes


***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: Total Process
Host: gw3-mail.cict.fr
Address: x.x.x.x
State: CRITICAL

Date/Time: Fri Jul 2 12:30:20 MEST 2004

Additional Info:

CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.


***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: RECOVERY

Service: Total Process
Host: gw3-mail.cict.fr
Address: x.x.x.x
State: OK

Date/Time: Fri Jul 2 12:40:46 MEST 2004

Additional Info:

PROCS OK: 109 processes



Sand Philipp wrote:

>I guess that you have a firewall between the hosts, make sure the Port
>is open for NRPE. 
>
>  
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>>Of carole verdon
>>Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:23 PM
>>To: Nagios Users
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Socket timeout
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I receive a lot of notifications of services that indicate a 
>>timeout problem:
>>
>>CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.
>>
>>So, for certain services, i put the timeout to 20s but that 
>>don't change anything. I receive always critical alerte with 
>>this message:
>>
>>CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.
>>
>>Why do this happen? 
>>
>>Is it possible that comes from the value of 
>>max_concurrent_checks (is set to 0 for the moment)?
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>>Carole.
>>
>>
>>
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From gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de  Fri Jul  2 17:00:25 2004
From: gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de (Gebhardt Thomas)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 17:00:25 +0200
Subject: Can't get process_performance_data working
In-Reply-To: <OF01E4B38A.D43DA571-ONC1256EC4.00371687-C1256EC4.0037549D@ecofis.de>
References: <OF01E4B38A.D43DA571-ONC1256EC4.00371687-C1256EC4.0037549D@ecofis.de>
Message-ID: <200407021700.28163.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>

Hi,

thanks for your help!

I finally found that a debian specific patch brakes
performance data handling. Omitting that patch it
works like designed :-)

I submitted a bug report to the debian bug tracking system
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=257289).

Cheers, Thomas




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From novickj at toysrus.com  Fri Jul  2 17:25:48 2004
From: novickj at toysrus.com (Novick, Jeff)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:25:48 -0400
Subject: At my wits end with GD libraries!  It should w
	ork!
Message-ID: <7CB57EABD6C23342AA8282DA820698990A8FDEFE@msg01psp.tru.com>

Hi, Tony,
	On a SUSE system (or any other RPM distro) RPM will tell you where
your libraries are installed.
>From a command line: rpm -qil <package-name>

The following example is from my RH 6.2 (old, but still running Netsaint)
system.
Your locations will most likely will different:

#rpm -qil libjpeg-devel
Name        : libjpeg-devel                Relocations: (not relocateable)
Version     : 6b                                Vendor: Red Hat, Inc.
Release     : 10                            Build Date: Fri 04 Feb 2000
09:54:42
 PM EST
Install date: Tue 22 Aug 2000 11:45:09 AM EDT      Build Host:
porky.devel.redha
t.com
Group       : Development/Libraries         Source RPM:
libjpeg-6b-10.src.rpm
Size        : 405010                           License: distributable
Packager    : Red Hat, Inc. <http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla>
Summary     : Development tools for programs which will use the libjpeg
library.
Description :
The libjpeg-devel package includes the header files and static libraries
necessary for developing programs which will manipulate JPEG files using
the libjpeg library.

If you are going to develop programs which will manipulate JPEG images,
you should install libjpeg-devel.  You'll also need to have the libjpeg
package installed.
/usr/doc/libjpeg-devel-6b
/usr/doc/libjpeg-devel-6b/coderules.doc
/usr/doc/libjpeg-devel-6b/libjpeg.doc
/usr/include/jconfig.h
/usr/include/jerror.h
/usr/include/jmorecfg.h
/usr/include/jpeglib.h
/usr/lib/libjpeg.a
/usr/lib/libjpeg.la
/usr/lib/libjpeg.so
 
Jeff 

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Tissic [mailto:tonij67 at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 10:38 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] At my wits end with GD libraries! It should work!


Hi all,

I have Nagios running on a Suse system which appears to have everything I 
need to get the statusmap/trends cgis working, but any option I give 
configure STILL complains with :

*** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********

Here is what I have verified:

JPEG:
jpeg-6b-731
libjpeg-6.2.0-731
(some researched showed that libjpeg is supposed to include the devel. 
libraries for JPEG; is this true?)

PNG:
libpng-1.2.5-182.3
libpng-devel-1.2.5-11tr

GD:
gd-2.0.22-61
php4-gd-4.3.4-26
gdb-6.1-1

Per the instructions I did this:

ldconfig
make clean (more times than I can remember)
configure
configure --with-gd-lib --with-gd-inc
configure
/configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/local/include
/configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include

The only thing I am not real clear on is the location of these mysterious 
libraries; how do I know if its in /usr/local or /usr/lib or 
/some_other_directory?

Any info helpful here,

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From christopher at bergeron.com  Fri Jul  2 17:53:34 2004
From: christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher M Bergeron)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:53:34 -0400
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
In-Reply-To: <7CB57EABD6C23342AA8282DA820698990A8FDEFE@msg01psp.tru.com>
References: <7CB57EABD6C23342AA8282DA820698990A8FDEFE@msg01psp.tru.com>
Message-ID: <40E584FE.3070701@bergeron.com>

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to logically group "things" in 
nagios?  We have 2 datacenters with several racks at each data center.  
Each rack has several chassis' that contain about 24 blade-servers each.

Should I group my data based on datacenter (as hostgroups) and within 
those put the racks, and then the blades?  Should I create hostgroups 
based on services (for example, a disk space hostgroup, an apache 
hostgroup, etc)?  Or should I create hostgroups based on customers?

What are you guys doing for large scale network monitoring - and how 
should I arrange my hostgroups so they make the most sense?


Thanks in advance!
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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Fri Jul  2 18:00:51 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:00:51 -0500
Subject: "max_check_attempts" being ignored?
Message-ID: <40E586B3.3070705@microlnk.net>

We've been using Nagios for awhile, but it seems to ignore our 
"max_check_attempts" setting.  Why would it send out warnings after 
every host or service check failure?  Can anyone offer suggestions as to 
how I'd fix this?

We're using Nagios 1.2 on a Fedora Core 1 system.  I have Webmin and 
NagMIN 2.1 to allow web-based administration of Nagios.  I notice that 
the cfg files say Flap Detection is enabled, even though NagMIN is 
supposed to be set to disable this.  Would Flap Detection cause trouble 
with max_check_attempts?  Or what?

Thanks very much for any assitance that can be offered!

Here are the relevant config files...

HostTemplate.cfg
----------------
## NagMIN Configuration File (/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/HostTemplate.cfg) 
for HostTemplate
## Generated Fri Jul  2 10:31:34 2004
define host {
     name    generic-host
     max_check_attempts    8
     notification_interval    0
     notification_options    d,r
     notification_period    24x7
     notifications_enabled    1
     check_command    check-host-alive
     checks_enabled    1
     flap_detection_enabled    1
     process_perf_data    1
     retain_status_information    1
     retain_nonstatus_information    1
     event_handler_enabled    1
     register    0
}


ServiceTemplate.cfg
-------------------
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/ServiceTemplate.cfg) for ServiceTemplate
## Generated Fri Jul  2 10:31:34 2004
define service {
     name    generic-service
     check_command    check-host-alive
     check_period    24x7
     notification_period    24x7
     is_volatile    0
     max_check_attempts    8
     normal_check_interval    2
     retry_check_interval    1
     notification_interval    0
     notification_options    c,r
     active_checks_enabled    1
     passive_checks_enabled    1
     parallelize_check    1
     obsess_over_service    1
     check_freshness    0
     notifications_enabled    1
     event_handler_enabled    1
     flap_detection_enabled    1
     process_perf_data    1
     retain_status_information    1
     retain_nonstatus_information    1
     register    0
}
[SNIP: REMAINDER OF SERVICETEMPLATE.CFG]


Host.cfg
--------
## NagMIN Configuration File (/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/Host.cfg) for Host
## Generated Fri Jul  2 10:31:25 2004
define host {
     use    generic-host
     host_name    NAME-REMOVED
     alias    ALIAS REMOVED
     address    IP ADDRESS REMOVED
     parents    PARENT REMOVED
     check_command    check-host-alive
     max_check_attempts    8
     notification_interval    0
     notification_period    24x7
     notification_options    d,r
#   comment    COMMENT REMOVED
}
[SNIP: REMAINDER OF HOST.CFG]


Service.cfg
-----------
## NagMIN Configuration File (/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/Service.cfg) for 
Service
## Generated Fri Jul  2 10:31:34 2004
[SNIP: DNS SERVICE DEFINITION]
define service {
     use    generic-service
     hostgroup_name 
Customers,Fremont,Lincoln,Mosaic,Omaha,Paypal,Saunders,Tekamah,York
     service_description    PING
     contact_groups    admins
     check_period    24x7
     notification_interval    0
     notification_options    c,r
     notification_period    24x7
     check_command    check-host-alive
     max_check_attempts    8
     normal_check_interval    2
     retry_check_interval    1
}
[SNIP: REMAINDER OF SERVICE.CFG]


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From jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com  Fri Jul  2 18:06:58 2004
From: jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com (jeff vier)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:06:58 -0500
Subject: At my wits end with GD libraries!  It should
	work!
In-Reply-To: <BAY19-F14he0W4lTsre000358d7@hotmail.com>
References: <BAY19-F14he0W4lTsre000358d7@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <1088784418.22373.145.camel@localhost>

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:37 -0500, Tony Tissic wrote:
> *** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********
> Here is what I have verified:
> JPEG:
> jpeg-6b-731
> libjpeg-6.2.0-731
> (some researched showed that libjpeg is supposed to include the devel. 
> libraries for JPEG; is this true?)

absolutely.  You have to have the -devel side of things to compile
against it.

> ldconfig

This doesn't do anything if you aren't changing your ld.so.conf
here's mine:
---
/usr/kerberos/lib
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
/usr/local/lib
/usr/lib
/lib
/usr/local/lib/php/lib
/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
---

> make clean (more times than I can remember)

if you're reconfiguring, do "make distclean" ("make clean" only removes
previously compiled binaries, not config stuff)

> configure
> configure --with-gd-lib --with-gd-inc
> configure
> /configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/local/include
> /configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include

I assume you meant ./configure...

here is my configure statement (nag v2.0, but still similar), if this
helps:
./configure  --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-grp=nagios --
prefix=/usr/local/nagios-2.0 --with-file-perfdata --with-command-
user=apache --with-command-grp=apache --with-lockfile=/usr/local/nagios-
2.0/var/nagios.lock --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d --enable-event-broker --
enable-embedded-perl --with-perlcache

Note:  no explicit library defs.  your ld.so.conf should cover this.

> The only thing I am not real clear on is the location of these mysterious 
> libraries; how do I know if its in /usr/local or /usr/lib or 
> /some_other_directory?

try 'find / -name "libpng.so"' (or whatever)



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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Fri Jul  2 18:13:24 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:13:24 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
In-Reply-To: <40E584FE.3070701@bergeron.com>
References: <40E584FE.3070701@bergeron.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021110350.25484-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

Hi Chris,

I recommend making hostgroups based on services common among all hosts.
For example, all your webservers could be in a www group and then you
could create a www service and tie it to the www hostgroup.

One neat trick that really helped me was to use register 0 in the
hostgroup definition.  That way, I can have hosts in multiple hostgroups
without double-counting.  You could create one-to-one top level groups
based on your datacenter locations.

Hope that helps.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to logically group "things" in
> nagios?  We have 2 datacenters with several racks at each data center.
> Each rack has several chassis' that contain about 24 blade-servers each.
>
> Should I group my data based on datacenter (as hostgroups) and within
> those put the racks, and then the blades?  Should I create hostgroups
> based on services (for example, a disk space hostgroup, an apache
> hostgroup, etc)?  Or should I create hostgroups based on customers?
>
> What are you guys doing for large scale network monitoring - and how
> should I arrange my hostgroups so they make the most sense?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Chris Bergeron
>
>
>
>
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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Fri Jul  2 18:21:00 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:21:00 -0500
Subject: "max_check_attempts" being ignored?
In-Reply-To: <40E586B3.3070705@microlnk.net>
References: <40E586B3.3070705@microlnk.net>
Message-ID: <40E58B6C.1050502@microlnk.net>

> We've been using Nagios for awhile, but it seems to ignore our 
> "max_check_attempts" setting.  Why would it send out warnings after 
> every host or service check failure?  Can anyone offer suggestions as to 
> how I'd fix this?

I also notice mention of possibly related items in the Nagios docs.  It 
seems to say any service check failure will cause an immediate host 
check.  And if the host check also fails, the service is put into 
immediate hard error status regardless of the max_check_attempts setting.

This sounds like it would cause an immediate notification every time. 
Almost all of our monitoring is simple ping tests, so having it ping for 
both service and host seems redundant to me.  Perhaps I should disable 
service checks completely for any host I'm just pinging?  And just rely 
on host checks for those?

Thanks again if anyone can offer input!

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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Fri Jul  2 18:25:50 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 02 Jul 2004 18:25:50 +0200
Subject: Problem with archive
Message-ID: <1088785550.1329.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Everybody!

Some weeks ago we talked about nagios-mm-dd-yyyy-23.log style files. 

I couldn't manage to figure out why nagios creates these files.

I wrote a little shell script for this problem. I use it via root
crontab. I tested it in every scenario which I can imagine and it seemed
to me that it works.

If someone needs this I can send it to her/him.

Does someone a better solution to this problem?

Bye, Tamas!




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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Fri Jul  2 18:28:34 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 02 Jul 2004 18:28:34 +0200
Subject: Sheduled Downtime for hostgroups
Message-ID: <1088785714.1332.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Folks?

As I know I can configure downtime for hosts. I tried to put hostgroup
name to the text box in the web interface but Nagios refused it.

Is it possible somehow to apply a scheduled downtime to an entire
hostgroup?

Thanks in advance, Tamas!



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From jwhittington at tmfloyd.com  Fri Jul  2 18:38:10 2004
From: jwhittington at tmfloyd.com (James Whittington)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 12:38:10 -0400
Subject: Dependancy clarification
Message-ID: <1088786289.2652.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>

I am trying to better understand Host and service dependancies and if I
really need them for the way I'm unsing nagios.

I am checking a 30 - 40 internet facing services out of a backup
internet link we have.  Each website I manage is set as a host, the
website hostgroup uses check_http to check websites.

When there are hickups on the internet link I get 30 or so pages telling
me all the sites are down.

The current route would be:
Nagios - SOHO - Cable modem - Internet - Pix - Websites

I have tried to set up service dependancies where each segment of the
way depends on each other:
Cable Modem depends on SOHO being up
Internet depends on Cable modem being up
Pix depends on Internet access point being up
Websites depend on PIX being up

But I disconnected the cable modem and still got notifications that the
sites were down.  

I saw a post with a similar discussion about parents, and it was said
that when a host can not be reached because another host in front of it
is down, you get a status of unreachable instead of down, so if you
didn't notify on unreachable status you would be okay. 

So what the default behavior of Nagios 1.2 ?
If a host goes down, are it's services down or unreachable?
Whats the status of a host behind a downed host, is it considered
unreachable?

Thanks in advance for any guidance you all may provide. 

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Systems Administrator
TM Floyd & Company 



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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Fri Jul  2 18:49:11 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 02 Jul 2004 18:49:11 +0200
Subject: Running eventhandlers at every checks
Message-ID: <1088786951.1332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Folks!

As I know service and host event handler commands are executed when a
service or host:
1. is in a "soft" error state
2. initially goes into a "hard" error state
3. recovers from a "soft" or "hard" error state

We monitor our customer's resources via a VPN tunnel. When this tunnel
brokes the VPN Concentrator host goes down. In this scenario a local
host event handler executes and tries to set up the tunnel again.
Sometimes this can't be managed.

We need an opportunity that this event hndler command executes regurarly
(when a service check fails and Nagios tries to see whether the
underlying host (VPN Concentrator) is up or down).

Is it possible?

Thanks in advance, Tamas!



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From leejr at soweb.com.br  Fri Jul  2 18:46:11 2004
From: leejr at soweb.com.br (leejr)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:46:11 GMT
Subject: check_by_ssh
Message-ID: <20040702164611.18578.qmail@mail2.bighost.com.br>

Good Afternoon,

I'm trying to use "check_by_ssh" to check the server in passive way. 

Could you send me how is the command line and how is the configuration in
the file "checkcommands.cfg|services.cfg"? 

Thanks a lot for your attention. 

Ira Lee Junior 



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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Fri Jul  2 18:49:41 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 11:49:41 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Sheduled Downtime for hostgroups
In-Reply-To: <1088785714.1332.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088785714.1332.24.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021145320.26263-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

On 2 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:

> Is it possible somehow to apply a scheduled downtime to an entire
> hostgroup?

Yes, go to the main Nagios page and click on the Status Overview bullet
item in the left panel.  Then find the hostgroup you'd like and click on
the hostgroup alias, the text field inside the parens.  From there, you
will be presented with a list of Hostgroup Commands including "Schedule
Downtime for all Hosts in this Hostgroup" and "Schedule Downtime for all
Services in this Hostgroup."

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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Fri Jul  2 19:00:30 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 02 Jul 2004 19:00:30 +0200
Subject: Sheduled Downtime for hostgroups
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021145320.26263-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407021145320.26263-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>
Message-ID: <1088787629.1329.57.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi!

Oooh! I've seen it sometimes ago, but I haven not use it yet.

Sorry for this silly question!

Thanks a lot!!

Bye, Tamas!


2004-07-02, p keltez?ssel Demetri Mouratis ezt ?rta:
> On 2 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible somehow to apply a scheduled downtime to an entire
> > hostgroup?
> 
> Yes, go to the main Nagios page and click on the Status Overview bullet
> item in the left panel.  Then find the hostgroup you'd like and click on
> the hostgroup alias, the text field inside the parens.  From there, you
> will be presented with a list of Hostgroup Commands including "Schedule
> Downtime for all Hosts in this Hostgroup" and "Schedule Downtime for all
> Services in this Hostgroup."
> 
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> dmourati at linfactory.com
> 
> 



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From pla at softflare.com  Fri Jul  2 19:09:32 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:09:32 +0100
Subject: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22max=5Fcheck=5Fattempts=22?= being ignored?
In-Reply-To: <40E58B6C.1050502@microlnk.net>
References: <40E586B3.3070705@microlnk.net>
            <40E58B6C.1050502@microlnk.net>
Message-ID: <20040702170932.18816.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>

Jason Byrns writes: 

> This sounds like it would cause an immediate notification every time. 
> Almost all of our monitoring is simple ping tests, so having it ping for 
> both service and host seems redundant to me.  Perhaps I should disable 
> service checks completely for any host I'm just pinging?  And just rely on 
> host checks for those?

As I recall (I may be wrong, but it's been too long a day for me to go
delving to double-check) host checks are not performed unless a service
check fails.  If there are no service checks then there can be no service
check failures and therefore no host checks are made.  Keep the service
check but change the host check for those hosts to check_dummy. 

OTOH, if the machine is providing services then you really ought to
check them.  And if it's not running services but you need to ensure that
it is working correctly then checking disk space, memory usage, etc. would
be a good idea. 

-- 
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From rms at sibs.pt  Fri Jul  2 19:34:53 2004
From: rms at sibs.pt (Rui Miguel Seabra)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 18:34:53 +0100
Subject: At my wits end with GD libraries!  It should
	work!
In-Reply-To: <1088784418.22373.145.camel@localhost>
References: <BAY19-F14he0W4lTsre000358d7@hotmail.com>
	 <1088784418.22373.145.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <1088789693.2703.224.camel@roque>

On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 11:06 -0500, jeff vier wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:37 -0500, Tony Tissic wrote:
> > *** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********
> > Here is what I have verified:
> > JPEG:
> > jpeg-6b-731
> > libjpeg-6.2.0-731
> > (some researched showed that libjpeg is supposed to include the devel. 
> > libraries for JPEG; is this true?)
> 
> absolutely.  You have to have the -devel side of things to compile
> against it.

solves nothing. the last stable version of map.cgi doesn't link with gd
unless explicitly forced by fiddling with configure...
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From TWEdwards at cimplify.net  Fri Jul  2 20:18:59 2004
From: TWEdwards at cimplify.net (Edwards, Thomas W.)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 13:18:59 -0500
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
Message-ID: <B09D7D6E102FC94EAB4EA40CD4434B0E01C132@uhgmail01.CIMPLIFY.NET>

How do you tie a service to a host group?  Are you implying you make one
service check and apply it to an entire host group instead of
individually?  

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Demetri
Mouratis
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:13 AM
To: Christopher M Bergeron
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Best way to organzie data...

Hi Chris,

I recommend making hostgroups based on services common among all hosts.
For example, all your webservers could be in a www group and then you
could create a www service and tie it to the www hostgroup.

One neat trick that really helped me was to use register 0 in the
hostgroup definition.  That way, I can have hosts in multiple hostgroups
without double-counting.  You could create one-to-one top level groups
based on your datacenter locations.

Hope that helps.

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:

> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to logically group "things" in
> nagios?  We have 2 datacenters with several racks at each data center.
> Each rack has several chassis' that contain about 24 blade-servers
each.
>
> Should I group my data based on datacenter (as hostgroups) and within
> those put the racks, and then the blades?  Should I create hostgroups
> based on services (for example, a disk space hostgroup, an apache
> hostgroup, etc)?  Or should I create hostgroups based on customers?
>
> What are you guys doing for large scale network monitoring - and how
> should I arrange my hostgroups so they make the most sense?
>
>
> Thanks in advance!
> Chris Bergeron
>
>
>
>
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From psimek at jcu.cz  Fri Jul  2 20:29:45 2004
From: psimek at jcu.cz (Petr Simek)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:29:45 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)
Subject: Socket timeout
In-Reply-To: <40E57584.4000403@cict.fr>
References: <40E57584.4000403@cict.fr>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, carole verdon wrote:

> There isn't a firewall between the hosts.
>
> This problem arrives only sometimes. For example for one particular host,

> Additional Info:
>
> CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20 seconds.

Socket timeout denote that packet is lost or dropped by firewall. If there
is no firewall, next possible explanation is unstable or overloaded
network between nagios and checked host where packets are lost sometime.

> VERDON Carole

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From dbadrak at tco.census.gov  Fri Jul  2 20:34:41 2004
From: dbadrak at tco.census.gov (Don Badrak)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:34:41 -0400
Subject: periodic reports as PDF
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0407021432040.477237@brain.tco.census.gov>

All,

Hi.  I'm trying to get the availability reports produced on a monthly
basis for a hostgroup.

What I'd like to do is run a cron job at the beginning of the month, and
get the availability for a host group for the last month.  I've got the
parameters figured out for the CGI, but what is causing me problems is
getting the output format properly.

I can get the HTML.  What I want to do is make that into PDF, and keep the
colors in the chart.

I've tried a couple html2ps, htmldoc, and HTML_ToPDF.  None of them see to
preserve the colors in the availability chart.

Has anyone done this?  Any ideas or suggestions?

Don
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From psimek at jcu.cz  Fri Jul  2 20:50:33 2004
From: psimek at jcu.cz (Petr Simek)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 20:50:33 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)
Subject: Dependancy clarification
In-Reply-To: <1088786289.2652.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088786289.2652.27.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, James Whittington wrote:

> I am checking a 30 - 40 internet facing services out of a backup
> internet link we have.  Each website I manage is set as a host, the
> website hostgroup uses check_http to check websites.
>
> When there are hickups on the internet link I get 30 or so pages telling
> me all the sites are down.
>
> The current route would be:
> Nagios - SOHO - Cable modem - Internet - Pix - Websites
>
> I have tried to set up service dependancies where each segment of the
> way depends on each other:
> Cable Modem depends on SOHO being up
> Internet depends on Cable modem being up
> Pix depends on Internet access point being up
> Websites depend on PIX being up
>
> But I disconnected the cable modem and still got notifications that the
> sites were down.

See if cable modem DOWN state is detected before dependend sites are
detected as DOWN (max_atempts x normal_check_interval). Then You can
define in dependencies that next checks of dependent sites is supressed.

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From jbautista at intercable.net.ve  Fri Jul  2 20:54:21 2004
From: jbautista at intercable.net.ve (Jeyri Bautista)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 14:54:21 -0400
Subject: periodic reports as PDF
References: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0407021432040.477237@brain.tco.census.gov>
Message-ID: <011001c46065$fc8fea70$2605020a@bjeyri>

Hi, I installed the Acrobat Reader Full Version, and when I am in the web
pages of trends for example I select the File menu, Print and select Adobe
PDF.

Jeyri

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Badrak" <dbadrak at tco.census.gov>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:34 PM
Subject: [Nagios-users] periodic reports as PDF


> All,
>
> Hi.  I'm trying to get the availability reports produced on a monthly
> basis for a hostgroup.
>
> What I'd like to do is run a cron job at the beginning of the month, and
> get the availability for a host group for the last month.  I've got the
> parameters figured out for the CGI, but what is causing me problems is
> getting the output format properly.
>
> I can get the HTML.  What I want to do is make that into PDF, and keep the
> colors in the chart.
>
> I've tried a couple html2ps, htmldoc, and HTML_ToPDF.  None of them see to
> preserve the colors in the availability chart.
>
> Has anyone done this?  Any ideas or suggestions?
>
> Don
> -- 
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> U.S. Bureau of the Census
> Suitland MD, USA
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From dbadrak at tco.census.gov  Fri Jul  2 21:04:15 2004
From: dbadrak at tco.census.gov (Don Badrak)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 15:04:15 -0400
Subject: periodic reports as PDF
In-Reply-To: <011001c46065$fc8fea70$2605020a@bjeyri>
References: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0407021432040.477237@brain.tco.census.gov>
 <011001c46065$fc8fea70$2605020a@bjeyri>
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0407021502170.477237@brain.tco.census.gov>

Jeryi,

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Jeyri Bautista wrote:

> Hi, I installed the Acrobat Reader Full Version, and when I am in the web
> pages of trends for example I select the File menu, Print and select Adobe
> PDF.

Yeah, I've done that manually.  I'd like to script the process, so it
happens automatically, and then emails the reports to people.  I can also
print to PS from Mozilla, then convert that with ps2pdf.

Don

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Don Badrak" <dbadrak at tco.census.gov>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 2:34 PM
> Subject: [Nagios-users] periodic reports as PDF
>
>
> > All,
> >
> > Hi.  I'm trying to get the availability reports produced on a monthly
> > basis for a hostgroup.
> >
> > What I'd like to do is run a cron job at the beginning of the month, and
> > get the availability for a host group for the last month.  I've got the
> > parameters figured out for the CGI, but what is causing me problems is
> > getting the output format properly.
> >
> > I can get the HTML.  What I want to do is make that into PDF, and keep the
> > colors in the chart.
> >
> > I've tried a couple html2ps, htmldoc, and HTML_ToPDF.  None of them see to
> > preserve the colors in the availability chart.
> >
> > Has anyone done this?  Any ideas or suggestions?
> >
> > Don
> > --
> > Don Badrak <dbadrak at census.gov>              301.763.5534 work
> > Telecommunications Office                    301.457.4438 fax
> > U.S. Bureau of the Census
> > Suitland MD, USA
> >
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From bruce at elrick.ca  Fri Jul  2 22:53:41 2004
From: bruce at elrick.ca (Bruce Elrick)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:53:41 -0600
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
In-Reply-To: <B09D7D6E102FC94EAB4EA40CD4434B0E01C132@uhgmail01.CIMPLIFY.NET>
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Message-ID: <40E5CB55.2040606@elrick.ca>

Edwards, Thomas W. wrote:

> How do you tie a service to a host group?  Are you implying you make one
> service check and apply it to an entire host group instead of
> individually?  
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Instead of host_name use hostgroup_name in the service definition:
define service {
         use                             24x7-unix-service
         hostgroup_name                  all-unix-servers
         service_description             PING
         check_command                   check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
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From tonij67 at hotmail.com  Fri Jul  2 23:59:02 2004
From: tonij67 at hotmail.com (Tony Tissic)
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 16:59:02 -0500
Subject: At my wits end with GD libraries! It shouldwork!
Message-ID: <BAY19-F14LPEhGD1XyC000392d0@hotmail.com>




>From: jeff vier <jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com>
>To: Tony Tissic <tonij67 at hotmail.com>
>CC: nagios-users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] At my wits end with GD libraries!  It 
>shouldwork!
>Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 11:06:58 -0500
>
>On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 09:37 -0500, Tony Tissic wrote:
> > *** GD, PNG, and/or JPEG libraries could not be located... *********
> > Here is what I have verified:
> > JPEG:
> > jpeg-6b-731
> > libjpeg-6.2.0-731
> > (some researched showed that libjpeg is supposed to include the devel.
> > libraries for JPEG; is this true?)
>
>absolutely.  You have to have the -devel side of things to compile
>against it.
>
> > ldconfig
>
>This doesn't do anything if you aren't changing your ld.so.conf
>here's mine:
>---
>/usr/kerberos/lib
>/usr/X11R6/lib
>/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
>/usr/local/lib
>/usr/lib
>/lib
>/usr/local/lib/php/lib
>/usr/lib/qt-3.1/lib
>---
>
> > make clean (more times than I can remember)
>
>if you're reconfiguring, do "make distclean" ("make clean" only removes
>previously compiled binaries, not config stuff)
>
> > configure
> > configure --with-gd-lib --with-gd-inc
> > configure
> > /configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/local/include
> > /configure --with-gd-lib=/usr/lib --with-gd-inc=/usr/include
>
>I assume you meant ./configure...
>
>here is my configure statement (nag v2.0, but still similar), if this
>helps:
>./configure  --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-grp=nagios --
>prefix=/usr/local/nagios-2.0 --with-file-perfdata --with-command-
>user=apache --with-command-grp=apache --with-lockfile=/usr/local/nagios-
>2.0/var/nagios.lock --with-init-dir=/etc/init.d --enable-event-broker --
>enable-embedded-perl --with-perlcache
>
>Note:  no explicit library defs.  your ld.so.conf should cover this.
>
> > The only thing I am not real clear on is the location of these 
>mysterious
> > libraries; how do I know if its in /usr/local or /usr/lib or
> > /some_other_directory?
>
>try 'find / -name "libpng.so"' (or whatever)
>

I got it! Thanks for all the replies, turns out I didnt really have the gd 
devel. libraries installed! *smacks self*

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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Sat Jul  3 04:01:05 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 21:01:05 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
In-Reply-To: <B09D7D6E102FC94EAB4EA40CD4434B0E01C132@uhgmail01.CIMPLIFY.NET>
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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407022058270.9032-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Edwards, Thomas W. wrote:

> How do you tie a service to a host group?  Are you implying you make one
> service check and apply it to an entire host group instead of
> individually?

That's exactly what I'm saying.  For more information, and to preserve
your sanity, please see:

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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Sat Jul  3 13:07:07 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 07:07:07 -0400
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D24822824C@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

It depends on your organization. We're a wireless ISP, so we group based on POP, based on inter-POP connects, what's a client radio, what's client equipment, and in some cases, multiple clients in the same building. You can add a host to multiple groups, and only set notifications for one of those groups.
 
IMO, it's easier to see all the services hanging from the same host than to see multiple hosts that are really the same host, just different services. In a company where there's a person who deals with *only* web sites and a person who deals with *only* ssh issues, however, I can see where you wouldn't want the Web guy getting a page if SSH on his box went down. But that's not where I work :)
 
Either way, when you go to set downtime on a few hosts, it's a LOT easier to do if all the services are attached to the same host.
 
Rob Nelson
rnelson at windchannel.com

	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Christopher M Bergeron [mailto:christopher at bergeron.com] 
	Sent: Fri 7/2/2004 11:53 AM 
	To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net' 
	Cc: 
	Subject: [Nagios-users] Best way to organzie data...
	
	

	Does anyone have any suggestions on how to logically group "things" in
	nagios?  We have 2 datacenters with several racks at each data center. 
	Each rack has several chassis' that contain about 24 blade-servers each.
	
	Should I group my data based on datacenter (as hostgroups) and within
	those put the racks, and then the blades?  Should I create hostgroups
	based on services (for example, a disk space hostgroup, an apache
	hostgroup, etc)?  Or should I create hostgroups based on customers?
	
	What are you guys doing for large scale network monitoring - and how
	should I arrange my hostgroups so they make the most sense?
	
	
	Thanks in advance!
	Chris Bergeron
	
	
	
	
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From smitchell at slumberland.com  Sat Jul  3 18:37:50 2004
From: smitchell at slumberland.com (Seth Mitchell)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:37:50 -0500
Subject: Delay first notification for selected hosts
Message-ID: <A9A0DF3EE28BC14FBD4BFB8D84CEA69DD3C0F3@email.slumberland.com>


We'd like to setup a selected group of hosts so that they are checked
frequently (every three minutes), but we don't receive the first
notification until two hours have passed.  After that, we'd like our
standard re-notifications every two hours (notification interval).  The
hosts/connections we're checking bounce frequently, and we'd prefer not to
get notified until after they've been down for two hours.  However, it's
often important for us to have complete and accurate downtime data, so
changing the check interval is out.  

Has anyone done this?  Sorry if I missed some applicable posts in the
archives on this - it seems like it should be simple, but I haven't figured
it out yet.

-Seth


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From psimek at jcu.cz  Sat Jul  3 20:23:21 2004
From: psimek at jcu.cz (Petr Simek)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:23:21 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)
Subject: Delay first notification for selected hosts
In-Reply-To: <A9A0DF3EE28BC14FBD4BFB8D84CEA69DD3C0F3@email.slumberland.com>
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Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0407032017380.-4053705-100000@oleum.jcu.cz>

On Sat, 3 Jul 2004, Seth Mitchell wrote:

> We'd like to setup a selected group of hosts so that they are checked
> frequently (every three minutes), but we don't receive the first
> notification until two hours have passed.  After that, we'd like our
> standard re-notifications every two hours (notification interval).  The
> hosts/connections we're checking bounce frequently, and we'd prefer not to
> get notified until after they've been down for two hours.  However, it's
> often important for us to have complete and accurate downtime data, so
> changing the check interval is out.

You can set dummy contact for this hosts where notifications goes
to /dev/null and in escalations specify Your contact and notification
parameters.

> -Seth

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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Sat Jul  3 20:36:01 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 03 Jul 2004 20:36:01 +0200
Subject: Event ID
Message-ID: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Folks!

I would like to add a unique event ID for every notifications. I wrote a
script which combines PID of the a notification process with the actual
time (in timet format).

It works good, but I have one problem: almost every notification goes
out in two froms: e-mail and SMS. I couldn't figure out how can I send
the same ID in the two notification instances (SMS and E-Mail).

Does anybody use a similar solution? As I know Nagios can't provide a
unique ID for its notification? Is it right?

Thanks in advance, Tamas!



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From james.kingston at gmail.com  Sun Jul  4 00:17:34 2004
From: james.kingston at gmail.com (James Kingston)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 15:17:34 -0700
Subject: Event ID
In-Reply-To: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com>

On 03 Jul 2004 20:36:01 +0200, Horvath Tamas <zsitfa at axelero.hu> wrote:
> Hi Folks!
> 
> I would like to add a unique event ID for every notifications. I wrote a
> script which combines PID of the a notification process with the actual
> time (in timet format).
> 

We use hostname-(servicename|hostalert)-timet (although we re-use the
same id until the host/service recovery)


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From adamemery at sbcglobal.net  Sun Jul  4 03:41:36 2004
From: adamemery at sbcglobal.net (Adam Emery)
Date: Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:41:36 -0500
Subject: failover monitoring
Message-ID: <000001c46168$0e6c2d00$0208090a@a1>

Does anybody have an example of the script needed for failover
monitoring.  The docs only say to create a cron job that runs a script
blah, blah, blah. 
 
Set up a cron job on the slave host that periodically (say every minute)
runs a script that checks the staus of the Nagios process on the master
host (using the check_nrpe plugin on the slave host and the
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/addons.html#nrpe> nrpe daemon
and check_nagios plugin on the master host). The script should check the
return code of the check_nrpe plugin . If it returns a non-OK state, the
script should send the appropriate commands to the external
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#command_file>
command file to enable both notifications and active service checks. If
the plugin returns an OK state, the script should send commands to the
external command file to disable both notifications and active checks.
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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Sun Jul  4 14:41:00 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 04 Jul 2004 14:41:00 +0200
Subject: Event ID
In-Reply-To: <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1088944860.1353.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Thanks James!

I thought something like this method, but I send these info in the
notification messages anyway.

And our on-call support person replies the SMS and writes what he does
to solve the actual problem (He couldn't access the web interface of
Nagios from outside my company). We need lot of space from the available
160 to wrote correct answers and this type of ID is too long for us
(We've tested it already.)

Does anybody have a good solutiuon for a numeric ID?

Thank 

2004-07-04, v keltez?ssel James Kingston ezt ?rta:
> On 03 Jul 2004 20:36:01 +0200, Horvath Tamas <zsitfa at axelero.hu> wrote:
> > Hi Folks!
> > 
> > I would like to add a unique event ID for every notifications. I wrote a
> > script which combines PID of the a notification process with the actual
> > time (in timet format).
> > 
> 
> We use hostname-(servicename|hostalert)-timet (although we re-use the
> same id until the host/service recovery)
> 



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From james.kingston at gmail.com  Sun Jul  4 18:27:13 2004
From: james.kingston at gmail.com (James Kingston)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 09:27:13 -0700
Subject: Event ID
In-Reply-To: <1088944860.1353.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com> <1088944860.1353.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <9d27c63204070409277f85fe3e@mail.gmail.com>

Okay... same idea, take 2:

Take the md5sum of the hostname-(servicename|hostalert)-timet string
and return as many characters of it as you can afford given the space
restraints.  Using the last 10 chars from the md5sum would give you a
1 in a trillion chance of your IDs colliding.  We use this idea to
generate email Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers

On 04 Jul 2004 14:41:00 +0200, Horvath Tamas <zsitfa at axelero.hu> wrote:
> Thanks James!
> 
> I thought something like this method, but I send these info in the
> notification messages anyway.
> 
> And our on-call support person replies the SMS and writes what he does
> to solve the actual problem (He couldn't access the web interface of
> Nagios from outside my company). We need lot of space from the available
> 160 to wrote correct answers and this type of ID is too long for us
> (We've tested it already.)
> 
> Does anybody have a good solutiuon for a numeric ID?
> 
> Thank
>


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From sjg at easynet.fr  Mon Jul  5 11:20:50 2004
From: sjg at easynet.fr (Sebastien J. Gross)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 11:20:50 +0200
Subject: failover monitoring
In-Reply-To: <000001c46168$0e6c2d00$0208090a@a1>
References: <000001c46168$0e6c2d00$0208090a@a1>
Message-ID: <20040705092050.GA31609@easynet.fr>

On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 08:41:36PM -0500, adamemery at sbcglobal.net wrote:
> Does anybody have an example of the script needed for failover
> monitoring.  The docs only say to create a cron job that runs a script
> blah, blah, blah. 

I use this one on the slave host:

#!/bin/sh

DELAY=1
HOST=[SET MASTER HOSTNAME HERE]
NRPE=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe
CMD_FILE=/var/log/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
MYSQL_DEFAULTS_FILE=/etc/nagios/nagios.my.cnf
CHECK_STATUS=/var/state/nagios/$HOST.status


if ! test -d $(dirname $CHECK_STATUS); then
  mkdir -p $(dirname $CHECK_STATUS)
fi

while true; do

  $NRPE -H $HOST $* -c check_nagios > /dev/null 2>&1
  n=$?
  mysql --defaults-file=$MYSQL_DEFAULTS_FILE -e "STATUS" -h $HOST >
/dev/null 2>&1
  m=$?
  echo "nagios=$n mysql=$m" >$CHECK_STATUS
  datetime=$(date +%s)
  if test -p $CMD_FILE; then
    if test $n -eq 0 -a $m -eq 0; then 
      echo "Nagios is running" >> $CHECK_STATUS
      echo "[$datetime] DISABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;$datetime" >> $CMD_FILE
      echo "[$datetime] STOP_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS" >> $CMD_FILE
    else
      echo "Nagios is NOT running" >> $CHECK_STATUS
      echo "[$datetime] ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;$datetime" >> $CMD_FILE
      echo "[$datetime] START_EXECUTING_SVC_CHECKS" >> $CMD_FILE
    fi
  fi
  datetime=`date +%s`
  sleep $DELAY
done


It checks both nagios & mysql on the primary server and allows (or
disallows) checks on slave if needed (either if nagios or mysql is down
on slave).

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From ari at ish.com.au  Mon Jul  5 12:03:01 2004
From: ari at ish.com.au (Aristedes Maniatis)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 20:03:01 +1000
Subject: Best way to organzie data...
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Message-ID: <7FBCE239-CE6A-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>

I am sorry if this repeats an earlier part of this thread, but I'm only 
new on this list. We have a related problem. It seems to stem from the 
fact that Nagios ties all services tightly to the concept of a "host", 
but there are a number of services which don't work in this way.

For example, we might have a web site which is load balanced between 
two hosts. I'd like to associate the nagios service with the URL of the 
site, not the IP address of the machine. So a particular machine could 
be offline, but the web site working fine.

Likewise, I've got some services that check for validity of SSL 
certificates. But which host do I attach them to?

Is there a 'proper' way to set this up in Nagios?

Ari Maniatis


On 03/07/2004, at 9:07 PM, Robert Nelson wrote:

> IMO, it's easier to see all the services hanging from the same host 
> than to see multiple hosts that are really the same host, just 
> different services. In a company where there's a person who deals with 
> *only* web sites and a person who deals with *only* ssh issues, 
> however, I can see where you wouldn't want the Web guy getting a page 
> if SSH on his box went down. But that's not where I work :)



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From m.borsani at it.net  Mon Jul  5 17:07:34 2004
From: m.borsani at it.net (Marco Borsani)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 17:07:34 +0200
Subject: notifications not useful
In-Reply-To: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878222@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>
References: <7B121EA44EE8D6438CB3867C51DE79878222@svwin2kadm05.local.eyes4media.ch>
Message-ID: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILEEMCDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>

Hi everybody !

I have following problem with my technicians.

I have many check_tcp on same host. When CRITICAL messages arrive (via
epager or via mail) the technicians can't see which ports have problems
because the only information that they read is:
"Socket timeout after 10 seconds"
We have not the same problem when they receive OK messages because in that
kind of messages NAGIOS write the port number:
"TCP OK - 0.012 second response time on port 8080"

Actually I can't modify "service name" (that could solve this problem
putting the port number inside it!), have you got any idea about this
situation?

Regards

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From ae at op5.se  Mon Jul  5 17:46:48 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 17:46:48 +0200
Subject: notifications not useful
In-Reply-To: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILEEMCDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>
References: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILEEMCDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>
Message-ID: <40E977E8.1010704@op5.se>

Marco Borsani wrote:
> Hi everybody !
> 
> I have following problem with my technicians.
> 
> I have many check_tcp on same host. When CRITICAL messages arrive (via
> epager or via mail) the technicians can't see which ports have problems
> because the only information that they read is:
> "Socket timeout after 10 seconds"
> We have not the same problem when they receive OK messages because in that
> kind of messages NAGIOS write the port number:
> "TCP OK - 0.012 second response time on port 8080"
> 
> Actually I can't modify "service name" (that could solve this problem
> putting the port number inside it!), have you got any idea about this
> situation?
> 

Just out of curiousity, why can't you change the service_description 
variable? It's there for the sole purpose of identifying the service to 
nagios AND the technicians.

> Regards
> 
> Marco

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From pla at softflare.com  Mon Jul  5 19:14:12 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2004 18:14:12 +0100
Subject: Running eventhandlers at every checks
In-Reply-To: <1088786951.1332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088786951.1332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <20040705171412.9266.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>

Horvath Tamas writes:
> We need an opportunity that this event hndler command executes regurarly
> (when a service check fails and Nagios tries to see whether the
> underlying host (VPN Concentrator) is up or down).

Have the event handler echo the state to a file.  Have a cron job check
the contents of the file for a critical state and do whatever is necessary. 

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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Mon Jul  5 21:01:44 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 05 Jul 2004 21:01:44 +0200
Subject: Running eventhandlers at every checks
In-Reply-To: <20040705171412.9266.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
References: <1088786951.1332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <20040705171412.9266.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
Message-ID: <1089054104.1336.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi!

Is this so simple?:) I always forget that I use Linux! It's great!

Thanks in advance. I will try it!!

Bye, Tamas!


2004-07-05, h keltez?ssel Paul L. Allen ezt ?rta:
> Horvath Tamas writes:
> > We need an opportunity that this event hndler command executes regurarly
> > (when a service check fails and Nagios tries to see whether the
> > underlying host (VPN Concentrator) is up or down).
> 
> Have the event handler echo the state to a file.  Have a cron job check
> the contents of the file for a critical state and do whatever is necessary. 



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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Mon Jul  5 21:06:49 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 05 Jul 2004 21:06:49 +0200
Subject: Event ID
In-Reply-To: <9d27c63204070409277f85fe3e@mail.gmail.com>
References: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com>
	 <1088944860.1353.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070409277f85fe3e@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <1089054408.1336.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hi Jason!

Thanks the idea!

One last question: if I run md5sum twice for the same data it will
produce the same output? This is important us to provide the same ID for
same notifications which will be sent by SMS and by e-mail?

I don't know much about MD5 tools, but I will read about it and try to
use!

Thanks again, Tamas!

2004-07-04, v keltez?ssel James Kingston ezt ?rta:
> Okay... same idea, take 2:
> 
> Take the md5sum of the hostname-(servicename|hostalert)-timet string
> and return as many characters of it as you can afford given the space
> restraints.  Using the last 10 chars from the md5sum would give you a
> 1 in a trillion chance of your IDs colliding.  We use this idea to
> generate email Message-ID and In-Reply-To headers
> 
> On 04 Jul 2004 14:41:00 +0200, Horvath Tamas <zsitfa at axelero.hu> wrote:
> > Thanks James!
> > 
> > I thought something like this method, but I send these info in the
> > notification messages anyway.
> > 
> > And our on-call support person replies the SMS and writes what he does
> > to solve the actual problem (He couldn't access the web interface of
> > Nagios from outside my company). We need lot of space from the available
> > 160 to wrote correct answers and this type of ID is too long for us
> > (We've tested it already.)
> > 
> > Does anybody have a good solutiuon for a numeric ID?
> > 
> > Thank
> >
> 



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From nemir at mindless.com  Mon Jul  5 22:01:50 2004
From: nemir at mindless.com (nemir nemiria)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 06:01:50 +1000
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
Message-ID: <20040705200150.D529316402D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>

Hiya.

I am monitoring two separate data centres,  so I set up one nagios server in each to monitor all the local servers and each other.

I figure that gives me pretty good coverage.   I use gnokii to send sms messages, I don't want to get things doubled up so much.   This works pretty great.

I setup nagios under OpenBSD 3.5 in the first data centre without a hitch.  

Now I am setting up a similar setup in the second data centre, but under fedora core 2 this time.  I got pretty much everything workign great,  except that my check_dns and check_ssh services of the remote nagios server are giving me errors.

When I run them from the command line, they return positive responses.

The entries in checkcommands.cfg look like:

# 'check_ssh' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_ssh
        command_line    $USER1$/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
        }
# 'check_dns' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_dns
        command_line    $USER1$/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s $HOSTADDRESS$
        }
responses from command line checks are as follows:

etc]# ../libexec/check_ssh -H 192.168.141.5
SSH OK - OpenSSH_3.8.1 (protocol 1.99)
etc]# ../libexec/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 192.168.141.5
DNS ok - 0 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are 192.168.141.5

(These are the same when I su - nagios)

I am confused as to how a plugin could work from the command line,  but not from the nagios daemon.

Thanks for your attention

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From james.kingston at gmail.com  Mon Jul  5 23:07:01 2004
From: james.kingston at gmail.com (James Kingston)
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2004 14:07:01 -0700
Subject: Event ID
In-Reply-To: <1089054408.1336.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088879760.1331.22.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070315171041c032@mail.gmail.com>
	 <1088944860.1353.6.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <9d27c63204070409277f85fe3e@mail.gmail.com> <1089054408.1336.10.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <9d27c632040705140751ae3696@mail.gmail.com>

> Thanks the idea!
> 
> One last question: if I run md5sum twice for the same data it will
> produce the same output? This is important us to provide the same ID for
> same notifications which will be sent by SMS and by e-mail?
> 
> I don't know much about MD5 tools, but I will read about it and try to
> use!
> 
> Thanks again, Tamas!
> 


Yes... if the data you're providing to the checksum program/library is
identical the checksum will be identical.

if you're using perl for your script:

sub getmsgid ($)
{
   my $string = shift;
   use Digest::MD5;
   my $ctx = Digest::MD5->new;
   $ctx->add($string);
   return substr ($ctx->hexdigest, 22, 10);
}

I think in php there is also a md5sum($string) function


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From pla at softflare.com  Tue Jul  6 03:39:20 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 02:39:20 +0100
Subject: Running eventhandlers at every checks
In-Reply-To: <1089054104.1336.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088786951.1332.45.camel@localhost.localdomain>
            <20040705171412.9266.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
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> Is this so simple?:)

Well, if you want it to be robust you'll have to go a little further... 

What happens if Nagios, for whatever reason (like a plugin timeout) reports
the service as critical when it isn't?  Is the command you run to start
the service capable of correctly coping with the service being already
running? 

You also need to get your logic right so that it does the right thing
if the file is missing (which will be the case when you add a service
definition for a new host). 

But these are mere implementation details and are left as an exercise
for the reader. :)  The point is that you can creatively abuse quite a
lot of Nagios functionality to deal with special cases. 

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From igor.sergejev at creanord.com  Tue Jul  6 19:33:52 2004
From: igor.sergejev at creanord.com (Igor Sergejeff)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:33:52 -0700
Subject: Sending SNMP traps ?
Message-ID: <002d01c4637f$67ae0230$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv>

Hello,

 I would like Nagios to sending SNMP traps to another host. I read the FAQ
about this, saying "If you want to have Nagios send an SNMP trap to a
management host in the event that a particular service has a problem, you
will have to write a service event handler script and add it to the
event_handler option of the service definition. If you have the NET-SNMP
package installed on your host, you could have the script call the snmptrap
command to actually send a trap message, depending on what type of service
event occurred."
Do I need to install NET-SNMP in order to sending traps ? Are there anything
except this to make this working ?

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From nemir at mindless.com  Tue Jul  6 10:04:43 2004
From: nemir at mindless.com (nemir nemiria)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:04:43 +1000
Subject: How can I minimise false alarms?
Message-ID: <20040706080443.6936E101D7@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com>

Do any others get false alarms?  I seem to get one or two a week from the remote site.

Is there any way to minimise them?   Each notification is an sms,  and if a false alarm happens at an awkward hour it could wake me up (or worse! ;-)  At first I thought it was probably caused by some sort of deprioritation of ping traffic,  so I stopped checking ping,  and just check dns and ssh now.  Hasn't seemed to make much difference.

I fear that before I fully roll out my nagios solution,  the number of false alarms will escalate to the point where the monitoring system loses its integrity.

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From nemir at mindless.com  Tue Jul  6 10:17:21 2004
From: nemir at mindless.com (nemir nemiria)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:17:21 +1000
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
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<snipped the previous details>

I neglected to make totally clear the versions of things I was running.

Data centre 1 - OpenBSD 3.5, nagios 1.2, nagios-plugins-1.3.1 and for sms notification gnokii 0.6.3.

Data centre 2 - Fedora Core 2, nagios 1.2, nagios-plugins-1.3.1. gnokii 0.6.3.

check_shs and check_dns seem to be working totally fine out of data centre 1,  but not out of data centre 2.  I have check_ssh working for all the systems in the local network, but not for the one remote host.

Thanks for your attention 

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul  6 11:16:53 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:16:53 +0200
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
In-Reply-To: <20040705200150.D529316402D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>
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nemir nemiria wrote:
> Hiya.
> 
> I am monitoring two separate data centres,  so I set up one nagios server in each to monitor all the local servers and each other.
> 
> I figure that gives me pretty good coverage.   I use gnokii to send sms messages, I don't want to get things doubled up so much.   This works pretty great.
> 
> I setup nagios under OpenBSD 3.5 in the first data centre without a hitch.  
> 
> Now I am setting up a similar setup in the second data centre, but under fedora core 2 this time.  I got pretty much everything workign great,  except that my check_dns and check_ssh services of the remote nagios server are giving me errors.
> 
> When I run them from the command line, they return positive responses.
> 
> The entries in checkcommands.cfg look like:
> 
> # 'check_ssh' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_ssh
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> # 'check_dns' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_dns
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> responses from command line checks are as follows:
> 
> etc]# ../libexec/check_ssh -H 192.168.141.5
> SSH OK - OpenSSH_3.8.1 (protocol 1.99)
> etc]# ../libexec/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 192.168.141.5
> DNS ok - 0 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are 192.168.141.5
> 
> (These are the same when I su - nagios)
> 
> I am confused as to how a plugin could work from the command line,  but not from the nagios daemon.
> 

What's the error message in Nagios? Is it threshold related or not?

> Thanks for your attention
> 
> Nemir

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul  6 11:25:11 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:25:11 +0200
Subject: How can I minimise false alarms?
In-Reply-To: <20040706080443.6936E101D7@ws1-3.us4.outblaze.com>
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nemir nemiria wrote:
> Do any others get false alarms?  I seem to get one or two a week from the
> remote site.
> 
> Is there any way to minimise them?

Yes, you can increas the value for max_check_attempts and/or 
retry_check_interval. That will give a service which fails temporarily a 
bit longer to recuperate and thus suppress the false alarms.

>   Each notification is an sms,  and if a false alarm happens at an awkward
> hour it could wake me up (or worse! ;-)  At first I thought it was probably
> caused by some sort of deprioritation of ping traffic,  so I stopped checking
> ping,  and just check dns and ssh now.  Hasn't seemed to make much difference.
> 

False service (and host) check failures usually occur when the general 
network load is very high, like when backup-jobs are running and the 
switches simply can't cope with the traffic. Try not running any 
unnecessary checks during this period, and you'll most likely see fewer 
false alarms.

> I fear that before I fully roll out my nagios solution,  the number of false
> alarms will escalate to the point where the monitoring system loses its
> integrity.
> 

It's just a matter of configuration.

> Regards,
> 
> Carlos
> 
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul  6 11:30:20 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:30:20 +0200
Subject: Sending SNMP traps ?
In-Reply-To: <002d01c4637f$67ae0230$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv>
References: <002d01c4637f$67ae0230$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv>
Message-ID: <40EA712C.2060603@op5.se>

Igor Sergejeff wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I would like Nagios to sending SNMP traps to another host. I read the FAQ
> about this, saying "If you want to have Nagios send an SNMP trap to a
> management host in the event that a particular service has a problem, you
> will have to write a service event handler script and add it to the
> event_handler option of the service definition. If you have the NET-SNMP
> package installed on your host, you could have the script call the snmptrap
> command to actually send a trap message, depending on what type of service
> event occurred."
> Do I need to install NET-SNMP in order to sending traps ?

Yes, you do. You need the snmptrap program to send traps.

> Are there anything except this to make this working ?
> 

Yes. Simply installing it won't make nagios automagically send traps for 
every problem that may arise. You'll have to do a lot of configuring and 
script-hacking for it to work. Look into event-handlers in the nagios 
documentation.

> Regards, Igor.
> 

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From psimek at jcu.cz  Tue Jul  6 11:59:06 2004
From: psimek at jcu.cz (Petr Simek)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:59:06 +0200 (Central Europe Daylight Time)
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
In-Reply-To: <20040706081721.94D5116402D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>
References: <20040706081721.94D5116402D@ws1-4.us4.outblaze.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.WNT.4.43.0407061155020.-4036537-100000@oleum.jcu.cz>

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, nemir nemiria wrote:

> Data centre 1 - OpenBSD 3.5, nagios 1.2, nagios-plugins-1.3.1 and for
> sms notification gnokii 0.6.3.

> Data centre 2 - Fedora Core 2, nagios 1.2, nagios-plugins-1.3.1. gnokii
> 0.6.3.

> check_shs and check_dns seem to be working totally fine out of data
> centre 1, but not out of data centre 2.  I have check_ssh working for
> all the systems in the local network, but not for the one remote host.

Check if there is not a firewall at datacentre1 that disallow incoming
connections (from datacentre2) on tcp ports that You want to monitor.

It is possible to connect by ssh manually from datacentre2 to datacentre1 ?

> Nemir

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From karl at debisschop.net  Tue Jul  6 13:01:26 2004
From: karl at debisschop.net (Karl DeBisschop)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 07:01:26 -0400
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
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nemir nemiria wrote:
> Hiya.
> 
> I am monitoring two separate data centres,  so I set up one nagios server in each to monitor all the local servers and each other.
> 
> I figure that gives me pretty good coverage.   I use gnokii to send sms messages, I don't want to get things doubled up so much.   This works pretty great.
> 
> I setup nagios under OpenBSD 3.5 in the first data centre without a hitch.  
> 
> Now I am setting up a similar setup in the second data centre, but under fedora core 2 this time.  I got pretty much everything workign great,  except that my check_dns and check_ssh services of the remote nagios server are giving me errors.
> 
> When I run them from the command line, they return positive responses.
> 
> The entries in checkcommands.cfg look like:
> 
> # 'check_ssh' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_ssh
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> # 'check_dns' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_dns
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s $HOSTADDRESS$
>         }
> responses from command line checks are as follows:
> 
> etc]# ../libexec/check_ssh -H 192.168.141.5
> SSH OK - OpenSSH_3.8.1 (protocol 1.99)
> etc]# ../libexec/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 192.168.141.5
> DNS ok - 0 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are 192.168.141.5
> 
> (These are the same when I su - nagios)
> 
> I am confused as to how a plugin could work from the command line,  but not from the nagios daemon.

If it works from the command line, but not from the daemon, there there 
is most likely something in your command line environment that is not in 
the environment of the daemon. Path might be different, agent PID might 
be missing, ssh_options file that gets read in one case might not in the 
other case, host might not be in known_hosts file...

(Some of these may not be exactly applicable to your case, 'su -' should 
cover some of them - I'm just trying to remeber some of the things that 
have come up as solutions when this question has been asked in the past).

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul  6 13:32:06 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:32:06 +0200
Subject: check_dns, check_ssh seem to time out....
In-Reply-To: <40EA8686.4040209@debisschop.net>
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Karl DeBisschop wrote:
> nemir nemiria wrote:
> 
>> Hiya.
>>
>> I am monitoring two separate data centres,  so I set up one nagios 
>> server in each to monitor all the local servers and each other.
>>
>> I figure that gives me pretty good coverage.   I use gnokii to send 
>> sms messages, I don't want to get things doubled up so much.   This 
>> works pretty great.
>>
>> I setup nagios under OpenBSD 3.5 in the first data centre without a 
>> hitch. 
>> Now I am setting up a similar setup in the second data centre, but 
>> under fedora core 2 this time.  I got pretty much everything workign 
>> great,  except that my check_dns and check_ssh services of the remote 
>> nagios server are giving me errors.
>>
>> When I run them from the command line, they return positive responses.
>>
>> The entries in checkcommands.cfg look like:
>>
>> # 'check_ssh' command definition
>> define command{
>>         command_name    check_ssh
>>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ssh -H $HOSTADDRESS$
>>         }
>> # 'check_dns' command definition
>> define command{
>>         command_name    check_dns
>>         command_line    $USER1$/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 
>> $HOSTADDRESS$
>>         }
>> responses from command line checks are as follows:
>>
>> etc]# ../libexec/check_ssh -H 192.168.141.5
>> SSH OK - OpenSSH_3.8.1 (protocol 1.99)
>> etc]# ../libexec/check_dns -H www.mydomain.com -s 192.168.141.5
>> DNS ok - 0 seconds response time, Address(es) is/are 192.168.141.5
>>
>> (These are the same when I su - nagios)
>>
>> I am confused as to how a plugin could work from the command line,  
>> but not from the nagios daemon.
> 
> 
> If it works from the command line, but not from the daemon, there there 
> is most likely something in your command line environment that is not in 
> the environment of the daemon. Path might be different, agent PID might 
> be missing, ssh_options file that gets read in one case might not in the 
> other case, host might not be in known_hosts file...
> 

The environment is most likely the problem. Since nagios is started by 
root and then drops its own privileges, it keeps all the settings of the 
root-user, but with the privileges of the nagios user. If the checks 
work after 'su - nagios', you can add that very string to your 
init-script (I've rewritten it to include that because of this very 
problem) and have nagios be started by the nagios user.

The command to start nagios should then look something like this;
su - nagios -c "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -c 
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg"

I'll submit a rewritten init-script later today that you can use. Having 
processes drop their own privileges when they never need the elevated 
privs is just plain dumb anyways.

> (Some of these may not be exactly applicable to your case, 'su -' should 
> cover some of them - I'm just trying to remeber some of the things that 
> have come up as solutions when this question has been asked in the past).
> 

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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Tue Jul  6 13:36:16 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 13:36:16 +0200
Subject: Problem with restarting Nagios-CVS
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DD5@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Hello,

I currently got the Nagios 2.0a1 running. I do a lot of configuration this time, so I have to restart a lot. My Problem is, that the restart skript doesn't seem to kill the process properly. So I got a lot nagios daemons around and have to kill them by hand :-/
Anyone else got the same problems?

The Nagios Server currently runs on a Fedora Core 2 System.


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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 15:03:22 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:03:22 +0200
Subject: hostextinfo being ignored
Message-ID: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>

Hi,

I have already sent my problem the last week and nobody answer me.

I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an 
image or coordinates, nothing happens.

And when i choose User-supplied coords in the layout method, it says to 
me that i have not supplied any.

I don't find solutions to solve it.

Do someone have an idea?

Here the post that i have been sent:


I use nagios 1.2 and nagmin 2.1.0 to configure hosts and services on 
solaris boxe.

I compiled nagios with mysql database support using the option 
--with-mysql-xdata.

I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an 
image or coordinates, nothing happens.

I defined in table 'Host Extended Information' of Nagmin, those hosts 
without success:

  *Template* *Host Name* *Notes URL* *Icon Image* *Icon Image Alt* *VRML 
Image* *Statusmap Image* *2D Coordinates* *3D Coordinates* *Comment*

aurore.cict.fr
 sun40.gif Sun Server    sun.gd2



gw1-mail.cict.fr
  Mail Gateway     110,80


lambi.cict.fr
  NIS Server     100.0,50.0


telline.cict.fr
 hpux.png HPUX Server    hpux.gif 100,60


vae.cict.fr
 linux40.jpg Linux Server    linux40.png 50,10



I have got serveral problems:

1. The gd2 images don't appear.
If i execute ldd statusmap.cgi, it find the gd library
        libmysqlclient.so.10 =>  
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
        libgd.so.2 =>    /usr/local/lib/libgd.so.2
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
        libz.so =>       /usr/local/lib/libz.so
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libpng.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3
        libjpeg.so.62 =>         /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libcrypt_i.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libXpm.so.4.11 =>        /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
        libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
        libfreetype.so.6 =>      /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
        libpng12.so.0 =>         /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/lib/libc_psr.so.1

I have even made this command: crle -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib, but that 
didn't change nothing

# crle

Configuration file [3]: /var/ld/ld.config
  Default Library Path (ELF):   /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
  Trusted Directories (ELF):    /usr/lib/secure  (system default)

Command line:
  crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos : 
pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field of 
nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into account 
was /opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????

3. If i edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg, i see that 
extended informations of hosts are well created:
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for Host
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtInfo
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    aurore.cict.fr
    icon_image    sun40.gif
    icon_image_alt    Sun Server
    statusmap_image    sun.gd2
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    telline.cict.fr
    icon_image    hpux.png
    icon_image_alt    HPUX Server
    statusmap_image    hpux.gif
    2d_coords    100,60
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    vae.cict.fr
    icon_image    linux40.jpg
    icon_image_alt    Linux Server
    statusmap_image    linux40.png
    2d_coords    50,10
}
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtTemplate
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004

4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify coordinates 
of one host for example, that don't works. When i click on 'save' 
button, nothing changes.

5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host becomes 
red when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes in warning?


I cannot any more what make. Can someone help me, please?

Thanks.

Carole.

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 15:35:12 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 15:35:12 +0200
Subject: nrpe query
In-Reply-To: <Sea1-F92lxR5pzv14Q800076fff@hotmail.com>
References: <Sea1-F92lxR5pzv14Q800076fff@hotmail.com>
Message-ID: <40EAAA90.4070803@cict.fr>

I suggest you to try this:
ps -ef | grep 'PushGateway$'

The '$' permit to indicate the end of string.

Perhaps that you will have to write a script to execute the good command.

I hope that will help you.

Carole.

Swati Srivastava wrote:

> I've tried the first one that does not give result.
>
> Here's some more samples:
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -aux|grep PushGateway
> root     29139  0.0  0.6 215232 13904 ?      S    Mar24  10:22 java 
> PushGateway1
> root     31179  1.1  2.3 256048 48140 ?      S    12:57   3:20 java 
> PushGateway
> swati    13950  0.0  0.0  3696  544 pts/4    S    15:53   0:00 grep 
> PushGateway
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -aux|grep java
> root     29139  0.0  0.6 215232 13904 ?      S    Mar24  10:22 java 
> PushGateway1
> root     31179  1.1  2.3 256048 48140 ?      S    12:57   3:20 java 
> PushGateway
> root     32454  0.0  0.5 214428 10828 ?      S    13:11   0:00 java 
> runShell
> nav        410  0.1  0.7 215932 14504 ?      S    13:15   0:12 java 
> Server
> swati    13994  0.0  0.0  3696  544 pts/4    S    15:53   0:00 grep java
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C "java PushGateway"
> OK - 0 processes running with command name java PushGateway
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C "java PushGateway1"
> OK - 0 processes running with command name java PushGateway1
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C PushGateway
> OK - 0 processes running with command name PushGateway
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep java PushGateway1
> grep: PushGateway1: No such file or directory
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep java PushGateway
> grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ax|grep java PushGateway
> grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory
>
> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -au|grep java PushGateway
> grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory
>
> What do you suggest?
>
>> From: carole verdon <verdon at cict.fr>
>> Reply-To: verdon at cict.fr
>> To: Swati Srivastava <swati220781 at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe query
>> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 10:55:41 +0200
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C PushGateway or perhaps ./check_procs -w 3 
>> -c 5 -C "java PushGateway"
>>
>> I don't know if that works.
>>
>>
>>
>> Swati Srivastava wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep PushGateway
>>> root     29139     1  0 Mar24 ?        00:10:21 java PushGateway1
>>> root     24907     1  1 Jul01 ?        02:15:50 java PushGateway
>>> swati    24864 22471  0 11:48 pts/4    00:00:00 grep PushGateway
>>>
>>> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C java PushGateway
>>> OK - 3 processes running with command name java
>>>
>>> [swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep java
>>> root     29139     1  0 Mar24 ?        00:10:21 java PushGateway1
>>> root     24907     1  1 Jul01 ?        02:15:50 java PushGateway
>>> root     24752 24608  0 11:46 pts/10   00:00:00 java MTVCdrGenerator
>>> swati    24996 22471  0 11:48 pts/4    00:00:00 grep java
>>>
>>> These are some results which may explain what my query is.
>>> I want to monitor one particular process nameed PushGateway. As you 
>>> can see in the ps output, there are multiple processes running with 
>>> the command name java. If i want to monitor one particular process 
>>> out of that, how do i do that?
>>>
>>> Kindly help.
>>>
>>>> From: carole verdon <verdon at cict.fr>
>>>> Reply-To: verdon at cict.fr
>>>> To: Swati Srivastava <swati220781 at hotmail.com>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe query
>>>> Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2004 14:02:37 +0200
>>>>
>>>> Here some examples of check_procs use:
>>>>
>>>> $ ./check_procs -w 1 -c 5 -C ypserv
>>>> PROCS OK: 1 process with command name 'ypserv'
>>>> $ ps -ef | grep ypserv
>>>>    root   153     1  2   Feb 14 ?       1776:02 
>>>> /usr/lib/netsvc/yp/ypserv -d
>>>>
>>>> $ ./check_procs -w 15 -c 30 -C httpd
>>>> PROCS OK: 11 processes with command name 'httpd'
>>>> $ ps -ef | grep httpd
>>>>  apache 23297 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:14 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 15742 15738  0   Jun 24 ?        0:00 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23242 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:04 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23283 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:12 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 15743 15738  0   Jun 24 ?        0:00 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23289 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:08 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23012 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:14 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23298 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:01 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>    root 15738     1  0   Jun 24 ?        0:00 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23243 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:08 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>  apache 23296 15738  0   Jun 29 ?        0:03 /etc/init.d/httpd -k 
>>>> start
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> $ ./check_procs -w 2 -c 5 -C nagios
>>>> PROCS OK: 1 process with command name 'nagios'
>>>> $ ps -ef | grep nagios
>>>>  nagios 28752     1  0 17:31:52 ?        4:30 
>>>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>>>>
>>>> The option -a is used for commands that needed arguments as for 
>>>> example to run nagios process:
>>>> $ ./check_procs -w 2 -c 5 -a /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>>>> PROCS OK: 1 process with args '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg'
>>>>
>>>> I hope that help you.
>>>>
>>>> Carole.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Swati Srivastava wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> i am trying to check a particular process by trying
>>>>> ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C <process name>, which is not givingme 
>>>>> the correct result.
>>>>> I have the process id and name.
>>>>> Can you explain me what is meant by command argument and how is it 
>>>>> different from process name.
>>>>> What is meant by argument array?
>>>>>
>>>>>> From: carole verdon <verdon at cict.fr>
>>>>>> Reply-To: verdon at cict.fr
>>>>>> To: Swati Srivastava <swati220781 at hotmail.com>
>>>>>> CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe query
>>>>>> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:46:25 +0200
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you post exactly the definition of your check command?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Carole.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Swati Srivastava wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi!!
>>>>>>> I am trying to monitor a particular process on a remote 
>>>>>>> machine.How to monitor a process by its name or process id? The 
>>>>>>> remote machine has RedHat Linux8.
>>>>>>> I tried giving the process name by -C as an argument. That shows 
>>>>>>> 0 processes running while
>>>>>>> ps -aux|grep <process name> shows the process running.
>>>>>>> Kindly help.
>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>> Swati
>>>>>>>
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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Tue Jul  6 16:03:20 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:03:20 -0400
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9EB@websrv.cbct.com>

My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any
ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 16:49:27 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:49:27 +0200
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
In-Reply-To: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9EB@websrv.cbct.com>
References: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9EB@websrv.cbct.com>
Message-ID: <40EABBF7.6010300@cict.fr>

Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

> My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any 
> ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0
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From mshirley at gmail.com  Tue Jul  6 16:38:41 2004
From: mshirley at gmail.com (Mark Shirley)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:38:41 -0400
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <c31ca9c6040706073852b64764@mail.gmail.com>
References: <20040630050013.73452.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
            <40E2DAB6.1010005@cict.fr>
            <20040630174319.30194.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
            <40E3DF8C.4010501@cict.fr> <20040701161937.30474.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org> <c31ca9c6040706073852b64764@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <c31ca9c604070607387a5ae978@mail.gmail.com>

the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios requirement.

nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
always go back to using a simple text configs.

nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation.

in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
most stable for my enviroment.




On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
<neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of Nagios
>
>
>
> carole verdon writes:
>
> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database support.
> >
> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build its
> > own files.
> >
> > Neil wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Carole,
> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take care of
> >> my existings configs?
> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> >> carole verdon writes:
> >>
> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't create
> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql
> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read them.
> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> >>> Carole.
> >>> Neil wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Hey guys,
> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for
> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm used to
> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience on
> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was easy
> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us to
> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat but
> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which will
> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool you
> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
> >>>> Thanks.
> >>>> Neil
> >>>>
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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 16:57:24 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:57:24 +0200
Subject: hostextinfo being ignored
In-Reply-To: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
References: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
Message-ID: <40EABDD4.6040903@cict.fr>

I tried the template method on an old server used to test nagios. So, i 
add in cgi.cfg this line:
xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg

And i realized that works. So, the use of database to store the extended 
information isn't a good thing since it don't work.

Can i compile again nagios excluding --with-mysql-extinfo option without 
lose my data in nagios and nagmin databases?

Carole.

carole verdon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have already sent my problem the last week and nobody answer me.
>
> I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add 
> an image or coordinates, nothing happens.
>
> And when i choose User-supplied coords in the layout method, it says 
> to me that i have not supplied any.
>
> I don't find solutions to solve it.
>
> Do someone have an idea?
>
> Here the post that i have been sent:
>
>
> I use nagios 1.2 and nagmin 2.1.0 to configure hosts and services on 
> solaris boxe.
>
> I compiled nagios with mysql database support using the option 
> --with-mysql-xdata.
>
> I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add 
> an image or coordinates, nothing happens.
>
> I defined in table 'Host Extended Information' of Nagmin, those hosts 
> without success:
>
>   *Template* *Host Name* *Notes URL* *Icon Image* *Icon Image Alt* 
> *VRML Image* *Statusmap Image* *2D Coordinates* *3D Coordinates* 
> *Comment*
>
> aurore.cict.fr
>  sun40.gif Sun Server    sun.gd2
>
>
>
> gw1-mail.cict.fr
>   Mail Gateway     110,80
>
>
> lambi.cict.fr
>   NIS Server     100.0,50.0
>
>
> telline.cict.fr
>  hpux.png HPUX Server    hpux.gif 100,60
>
>
> vae.cict.fr
>  linux40.jpg Linux Server    linux40.png 50,10
>
>
>
> I have got serveral problems:
>
> 1. The gd2 images don't appear.
> If i execute ldd statusmap.cgi, it find the gd library
>         libmysqlclient.so.10 =>  
> /usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
>         libgd.so.2 =>    /usr/local/lib/libgd.so.2
>         libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
>         libz.so =>       /usr/local/lib/libz.so
>         libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
>         libpng.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3
>         libjpeg.so.62 =>         /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
>         libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
>         libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
>         libcrypt_i.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1
>         libgen.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
>         libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
>         libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
>         libXpm.so.4.11 =>        /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
>         libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
>         libfreetype.so.6 =>      /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
>         libpng12.so.0 =>         /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0
>         libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
>         libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
>         libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
>         libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
>         libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
>         libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
>         /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/lib/libc_psr.so.1
>
> I have even made this command: crle -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib, but 
> that didn't change nothing
>
> # crle
>
> Configuration file [3]: /var/ld/ld.config
>   Default Library Path (ELF):   /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
>   Trusted Directories (ELF):    /usr/lib/secure  (system default)
>
> Command line:
>   crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
>
> 2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos : 
> pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
> When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field 
> of nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into 
> account was /opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????
>
> 3. If i edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg, i see that 
> extended informations of hosts are well created:
> ## NagMIN Configuration File 
> (/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for Host
> ## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
> ## NagMIN Configuration File 
> (/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtInfo
> ## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
> define hostextinfo {
>     host_name    aurore.cict.fr
>     icon_image    sun40.gif
>     icon_image_alt    Sun Server
>     statusmap_image    sun.gd2
> }
> define hostextinfo {
>     host_name    telline.cict.fr
>     icon_image    hpux.png
>     icon_image_alt    HPUX Server
>     statusmap_image    hpux.gif
>     2d_coords    100,60
> }
> define hostextinfo {
>     host_name    vae.cict.fr
>     icon_image    linux40.jpg
>     icon_image_alt    Linux Server
>     statusmap_image    linux40.png
>     2d_coords    50,10
> }
> ## NagMIN Configuration File 
> (/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtTemplate
> ## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
>
> 4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify coordinates 
> of one host for example, that don't works. When i click on 'save' 
> button, nothing changes.
>
> 5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host 
> becomes red when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes 
> in warning?
>
>
> I cannot any more what make. Can someone help me, please?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Carole.
>

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 16:59:32 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 16:59:32 +0200
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
In-Reply-To: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F3@websrv.cbct.com>
References: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F3@websrv.cbct.com>
Message-ID: <40EABE54.5080309@cict.fr>

I want to say nagios daemon.

There must be only one nagios daemon running.

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

> When I grep for nagios I do see at least 50+ processes running by nagios.
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:49 AM
> *To:* Guillermo Padilla
> *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...
>
>  
>
> Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?
>
> Carole.
>
> Guillermo Padilla wrote:
>
> My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any 
> ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0
>
>
>
> 
>

-- 
**********************************
VERDON Carole
Ing?nieur Syst?me
CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex
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From matt at bravenet.com  Tue Jul  6 17:13:04 2004
From: matt at bravenet.com (Matthew Kent)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 08:13:04 -0700
Subject: Problem with restarting Nagios-CVS
Message-ID: <0A9D1D7BB96F364D83A342871CF25FF9CDCC40@bdc-pv1.pv.bravenet.com>

Use 'service nagios reload' if you're just adjusting the config files.

- Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sand Philipp
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:36 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Problem with restarting Nagios-CVS

Hello, 
I currently got the Nagios 2.0a1 running. I do a lot of configuration this time, so I have to restart a lot. My Problem is, that the restart skript doesn't seem to kill the process properly. So I got a lot nagios daemons around and have to kill them by hand :-/
Anyone else got the same problems? 
The Nagios Server currently runs on a Fedora Core 2 System. 

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul  6 17:15:15 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:15:15 +0200
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
In-Reply-To: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F7@websrv.cbct.com>
References: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F7@websrv.cbct.com>
Message-ID: <40EAC203.7070007@cict.fr>

I suggest you to kill all then start nagios daemon with this command:
/etc/init.d/nagios start

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

> Yeah it looks like I have more than one nagios daemon running.
>
> [nagios at utilsrv htdocs]# ps -ef |grep nagios
>
> root     16384  9482  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 su nagios
>
> nagios   16385 16384  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 bash
>
> nagios   21693     1  0 10:01 ?        00:00:06 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8821     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8837     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8851     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8871     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8873     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8889     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8897     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8924     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8926     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8932     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8934     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8938     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8942     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8963     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8966     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8988     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    8994     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9031     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9033     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9037     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9043     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9045     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9050     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9052     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9054     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9062     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9064     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9070     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
> nagios    9072     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:00 AM
> *To:* Guillermo Padilla
> *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...
>
>  
>
> I want to say nagios daemon.
>
> There must be only one nagios daemon running.
>
> Carole.
>
> Guillermo Padilla wrote:
>
> When I grep for nagios I do see at least 50+ processes running by nagios.
>
>  
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:49 AM
> *To:* Guillermo Padilla
> *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net 
> <mailto:nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...
>
>  
>
> Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?
>
> Carole.
>
> Guillermo Padilla wrote:
>
> My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any 
> ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0
>
>
>
>
> 
>
>
>
>-- 
>
>**********************************
>
>VERDON Carole
>
>Ing?nieur Syst?me
>
>CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
>
>118, route de Narbonne
>
>31062 Toulouse Cedex
>
>T?l.: 05.61.36.60.44
>
>Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
>
>Mail: verdon at cict.fr <mailto:verdon at cict.fr>
>
>**********************************    
>

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Ing?nieur Syst?me
CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Tue Jul  6 16:57:35 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:57:35 -0400
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F3@websrv.cbct.com>

When I grep for nagios I do see at least 50+ processes running by
nagios.

 

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From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:49 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:



My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any
ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0





 
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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Tue Jul  6 17:27:18 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:27:18 -0400
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9FA@websrv.cbct.com>

That's how I usually start nagios.   Running the /etc/init.d/nagios stop:start command.

 

 

 

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From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:15 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

I suggest you to kill all then start nagios daemon with this command:
/etc/init.d/nagios start

Guillermo Padilla wrote:



Yeah it looks like I have more than one nagios daemon running.

[nagios at utilsrv htdocs]# ps -ef |grep nagios

root     16384  9482  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 su nagios

nagios   16385 16384  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 bash

nagios   21693     1  0 10:01 ?        00:00:06 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8821     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8837     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8851     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8871     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8873     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8889     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8897     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8924     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8926     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8932     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8934     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8938     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8942     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8963     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8966     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8988     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8994     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9031     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9033     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9037     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9043     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9045     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9050     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9052     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9054     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9062     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9064     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9070     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9072     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d

 

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From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:00 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

I want to say nagios daemon. 

There must be only one nagios daemon running.

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

When I grep for nagios I do see at least 50+ processes running by nagios.

 

  _____  

From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:49 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0





 

 

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Ing?nieur Syst?me
CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex
T?l.: 05.61.36.60.44
Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
Mail: verdon at cict.fr
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Ing?nieur Syst?me
CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
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Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
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From rafe.oxley at moving-edge.net  Tue Jul  6 17:22:14 2004
From: rafe.oxley at moving-edge.net (Rafe Oxley)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 16:22:14 +0100
Subject: hostextinfo being ignored
In-Reply-To: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
References: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
Message-ID: <200407061522.i66FMI513400@mail.moving-edge.co.uk>

HI,

 

Using Nagios 1.2 and template based extended information, (not Nagmin
though)

 

>From cgi.cfg (and from the documentation example) - 

 

xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg

xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceextinfo.cfg

 

from my experience in using this method, you can only define one
?xedtemplate_config_file?, so I ADDED the contents of ?servcicextinfo.cfg?
information into ?hostextinfo.cfg? and this seems to work fine.

 

Would appear you can?t ?split your configuration data into multiple files by
adding more than one directive to your CGI configuration files? (from
documentation), just takes the first directive.

 

I was having very similar problems and this resolved them, anyone else come
across this?

 

Hope that helps

 

Rafe

 

 

 

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of carole verdon
Sent: 06 July 2004 14:03
To: Nagios Users
Subject: [Nagios-users] hostextinfo being ignored

 

Hi,

I have already sent my problem the last week and nobody answer me.

I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an
image or coordinates, nothing happens.

And when i choose User-supplied coords in the layout method, it says to me
that i have not supplied any. 

I don't find solutions to solve it.

Do someone have an idea?

Here the post that i have been sent:


I use nagios 1.2 and nagmin 2.1.0 to configure hosts and services on solaris
boxe.

I compiled nagios with mysql database support using the option
--with-mysql-xdata.

I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an
image or coordinates, nothing happens.

I defined in table 'Host Extended Information' of Nagmin, those hosts
without success:


 

Template

Host Name

Notes URL

Icon Image

Icon Image Alt

VRML Image

Statusmap Image

2D Coordinates

3D Coordinates

Comment

 


 

 

aurore.cict.fr

 

 sun40.gif

Sun Server

 

 sun.gd2

 

 

 

 


 

 

gw1-mail.cict.fr

 

 

Mail Gateway

 

 

110,80

 

 

 


 

 

lambi.cict.fr

 

 

NIS Server

 

 

100.0,50.0

 

 

 


 

 

telline.cict.fr

 

 hpux.png

HPUX Server

 

 hpux.gif

100,60

 

 

 


 

 

vae.cict.fr

 

 linux40.jpg

Linux Server

 

 linux40.png

50,10

 

 



I have got serveral problems:

1. The gd2 images don't appear.
If i execute ldd statusmap.cgi, it find the gd library
        libmysqlclient.so.10 =>
/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql/libmysqlclient.so.10
        libgd.so.2 =>    /usr/local/lib/libgd.so.2
        libiconv.so.2 =>         /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.2
        libz.so =>       /usr/local/lib/libz.so
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libpng.so.3 =>   /usr/local/lib/libpng.so.3
        libjpeg.so.62 =>         /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.so.62
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libcrypt_i.so.1 =>       /usr/lib/libcrypt_i.so.1
        libgen.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libgen.so.1
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libXpm.so.4.11 =>        /usr/local/lib/libXpm.so.4.11
        libX11.so.4 =>   /usr/lib/libX11.so.4
        libfreetype.so.6 =>      /usr/local/lib/libfreetype.so.6
        libpng12.so.0 =>         /usr/local/lib/libpng12.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        libgcc_s.so.1 =>         /usr/local/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2
        libXext.so.0 =>  /usr/openwin/lib/libXext.so.0
        libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) =>  (version not found)
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Sun-Blade-100/lib/libc_psr.so.1

I have even made this command: crle -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib, but that
didn't change nothing

# crle

Configuration file [3]: /var/ld/ld.config
  Default Library Path (ELF):   /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib
  Trusted Directories (ELF):    /usr/lib/secure  (system default)

Command line:
  crle -c /var/ld/ld.config -l /usr/lib:/usr/local/lib

2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos :
pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field of
nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into account was
/opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????

3. If i edit the /usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg, i see that extended
informations of hosts are well created:
## NagMIN Configuration File
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for Host
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
## NagMIN Configuration File
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtInfo
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    aurore.cict.fr
    icon_image    sun40.gif
    icon_image_alt    Sun Server
    statusmap_image    sun.gd2
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    telline.cict.fr
    icon_image    hpux.png
    icon_image_alt    HPUX Server
    statusmap_image    hpux.gif
    2d_coords    100,60
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    vae.cict.fr
    icon_image    linux40.jpg
    icon_image_alt    Linux Server
    statusmap_image    linux40.png
    2d_coords    50,10
}
## NagMIN Configuration File
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtTemplate
## Generated Thu Jul  1 17:31:44 2004

4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify coordinates of
one host for example, that don't works. When i click on 'save' button,
nothing changes.

5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host becomes red
when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes in warning?


I cannot any more what make. Can someone help me, please?

Thanks.

Carole.


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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Tue Jul  6 17:09:36 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 11:09:36 -0400
Subject: nagios.cmd file...
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9F7@websrv.cbct.com>

Yeah it looks like I have more than one nagios daemon running.

[nagios at utilsrv htdocs]# ps -ef |grep nagios

root     16384  9482  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 su nagios

nagios   16385 16384  0 Jul02 ttyp2    00:00:00 bash

nagios   21693     1  0 10:01 ?        00:00:06 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8821     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8837     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8851     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8871     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8873     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8889     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8897     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8924     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8926     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8932     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8934     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8938     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8942     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8963     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8966     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8988     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    8994     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9031     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9033     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9037     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9043     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9045     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9050     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9052     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9054     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9062     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9064     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9070     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d 

nagios    9072     1  0 10:52 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d

 

  _____  

From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 11:00 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

I want to say nagios daemon. 

There must be only one nagios daemon running.

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:



When I grep for nagios I do see at least 50+ processes running by nagios.

 

  _____  

From: carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:49 AM
To: Guillermo Padilla
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd file...

 

Have you sure that there aren't several nagios process running?

Carole.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

My nagios.cmd file disappears after a few hours for some reason.  Any ideas?  I'm running linux 8 nagios 1.0






 





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Ing?nieur Syst?me
CICT - Universit? Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex
T?l.: 05.61.36.60.44
Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
Mail: verdon at cict.fr
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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Tue Jul  6 18:28:44 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:28:44 -0500
Subject: hostextinfo being ignored
In-Reply-To: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
References: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr>
Message-ID: <40EAD33C.6080302@microlnk.net>

> I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add an 
> image or coordinates, nothing happens.

You must add a line to your cgi.cfg file, to use extended host 
information.  It looks like this:

xedtemplate_config_file=/etc/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg

The name of my cfg file is capitalized like that, since I also use 
NagMIN to configure Nagios.

> 2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos : 
> pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
> When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field of 
> nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into account 
> was /opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????

Controlled through the NagMIN Module Config, I believe.  (Go to NagMIN 
through Webmin, then click "Module Config" in the upper-left corner.)

> 4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify coordinates 
> of one host for example, that don't works. When i click on 'save' 
> button, nothing changes.

NagMIN changes must be verified and activated each time.  Make changes 
to your database, then click the "Verify" button at the top of the main 
Database menu.  If it verifies without warnings, next click the 
"Activate" button to make your changes live.

> 5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host becomes 
> red when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes in warning?

I thought it already did that.

-- 
Jason Byrns
System Administrator, MicroLnk


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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Tue Jul  6 18:34:13 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 11:34:13 -0500
Subject: "max_check_attempts" being ignored?
In-Reply-To: <20040702170932.18816.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
References: <40E586B3.3070705@microlnk.net>            <40E58B6C.1050502@microlnk.net> <20040702170932.18816.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
Message-ID: <40EAD485.8030708@microlnk.net>

> As I recall (I may be wrong, but it's been too long a day for me to go
> delving to double-check) host checks are not performed unless a service
> check fails.

Yes, I believe that is correct.

> If there are no service checks then there can be no service
> check failures and therefore no host checks are made.  Keep the service
> check but change the host check for those hosts to check_dummy.

That may work, thanks!

The Nagios docs say that a failed service check causes an immediate host 
check.  And that if the host check also fails, the max_check_attempts 
setting is ignored and the device is put immediately into a hard error 
status.

But I WANT it to respect that setting!  Sometimes a device may not 
respond to a ping if it is too busy.  So right now we get lots of 
warnings where the device is available again ONE minute later!  Having 
our monitor cry "WOLF!" so often seriously reduces is usefulness.

> OTOH, if the machine is providing services then you really ought to
> check them.  And if it's not running services but you need to ensure that
> it is working correctly then checking disk space, memory usage, etc. would
> be a good idea.

In this case, we're talking about simple network devices like bridges or 
switches.  There is usually no reason or method for checking CPU, RAM, 
HD, etc.  Ping them to see if they are alive, that is all we want for 
probably 95% of the devices we monitor.

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From christopher at bergeron.com  Tue Jul  6 19:23:17 2004
From: christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher M Bergeron)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 13:23:17 -0400
Subject: Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
In-Reply-To: <002d01c4637f$67ae0230$c864a8c0@creanord2kserv>
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Is it possible to create a hostgroup of hostgroups in nagios?

Thanks!
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From prabinowitz at peel.com  Tue Jul  6 19:53:04 2004
From: prabinowitz at peel.com (Paul Rabinowitz)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:53:04 -0500
Subject: After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7 from 2.4x I get : CRITICAL - Swap
 used: -2147483648% (0 out of 0)
Message-ID: <40EAE700.5050701@peel.com>

After upgrading to kernel 2.6.7 from 2.4x I get :

CRITICAL - Swap used: -2147483648% (0 out of 0)

is there a new nrpe swap module that supports 2.6.x?




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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Tue Jul  6 19:54:50 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:54:50 -0500
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <c31ca9c604070607387a5ae978@mail.gmail.com> 
References: <20040630050013.73452.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
            <40E2DAB6.1010005@cict.fr>
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Hi Mark, 

Another question. I do a lot of customization to checks and vi allows me to 
be very flexible. The limit I have when writing my own custom checks is what 
my brain can imagine. So, can I also be very flexible with Nagmin? 

Thanks. :) 

Neil 


Mark Shirley writes: 

> the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios requirement. 
> 
> nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
> based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
> changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
> effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
> database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
> startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
> does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
> and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
> excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
> always go back to using a simple text configs. 
> 
> nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
> nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
> nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
> mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
> add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
> config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
> EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
> the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
> changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
> overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation. 
> 
> in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
> most stable for my enviroment. 
> 
>  
> 
> 
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
> <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
>> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of Nagios 
>>
>> 
>>
>> carole verdon writes: 
>>
>> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database support.
>> >
>> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build its
>> > own files.
>> >
>> > Neil wrote:
>> >
>> >> Hi Carole,
>> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take care of
>> >> my existings configs?
>> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
>> >> carole verdon writes:
>> >>
>> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't create
>> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql
>> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read them.
>> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
>> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
>> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
>> >>> Carole.
>> >>> Neil wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>>> Hey guys,
>> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for
>> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm used to
>> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience on
>> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was easy
>> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us to
>> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat but
>> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which will
>> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
>> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool you
>> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
>> >>>> Thanks.
>> >>>> Neil
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From drhonk at gmail.com  Tue Jul  6 19:44:08 2004
From: drhonk at gmail.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 10:44:08 -0700
Subject: Nagios doesn't send email
Message-ID: <90bc2a0304070610447890a76f@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

I just installed nagios 1.2 and everything went well until I tested
its notification. Nagios did found certain service to be down but no
email was being sent. When I checked nagios.log I found every
notification to both email and pagers .. have the following error:

resulted in a return code of 126.  Make sure the script or binary you
are trying to execute actually exists...

Can anyone help me with this problem ?

Thank you,

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From gpadilla at cbct.com  Tue Jul  6 20:14:49 2004
From: gpadilla at cbct.com (Guillermo Padilla)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:14:49 -0400
Subject: Nagmin setup help
Message-ID: <E473ABD9A24D1646A39679BDB886C6F945A9FC@websrv.cbct.com>

 Does anyone know of a good link of how to properly install and
configure Nagmin?  I've installed it but I'm unable to view the nagmin
page when I click on it.   

 

Thx

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From dbadrak at tco.census.gov  Tue Jul  6 20:12:01 2004
From: dbadrak at tco.census.gov (Don Badrak)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:12:01 -0400
Subject: periodic reports as PDF
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 <011001c46065$fc8fea70$2605020a@bjeyri> <Pine.SGI.4.58.0407021502170.477237@brain.tco.census.gov>
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All,

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Don Badrak wrote:

> Jeryi,
>
> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Jeyri Bautista wrote:
>
> > Hi, I installed the Acrobat Reader Full Version, and when I am in the web
> > pages of trends for example I select the File menu, Print and select Adobe
> > PDF.
>
> Yeah, I've done that manually.  I'd like to script the process, so it
> happens automatically, and then emails the reports to people.  I can also
> print to PS from Mozilla, then convert that with ps2pdf.

> > > What I'd like to do is run a cron job at the beginning of the month, and
> > > get the availability for a host group for the last month.  I've got the
> > > parameters figured out for the CGI, but what is causing me problems is
> > > getting the output format properly.
> > >
> > > I can get the HTML.  What I want to do is make that into PDF, and keep the
> > > colors in the chart.
> > >
> > > I've tried a couple html2ps, htmldoc, and HTML_ToPDF.  None of them see to
> > > preserve the colors in the availability chart.

Using htmldoc, it's not possible to preserve the colors provided by the
style sheets.  According to the htmldoc site, CSS isn't yet supported,
they're working on it, and they don't have a date.

See http://www.easysw.com/espnews.php?s22+ghtmldoc.general+v27.

Thanks to all for your assistance.

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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Tue Jul  6 21:25:34 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:25:34 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:

> Is it possible to create a hostgroup of hostgroups in nagios?

Unfornately, no, this doesn't work in 1.2.  2.0 perhaps?

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From ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx  Tue Jul  6 23:59:02 2004
From: ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx (ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:59:02 -0600
Subject: Capacity
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HI
I would like to know if nagios has a capacity to check hosts and services .

I mean if it has a maximum number of hosts of services.

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From danslists at conpoint.com  Tue Jul  6 22:59:13 2004
From: danslists at conpoint.com (Dan Spray)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 15:59:13 -0500
Subject: Problems with Packet Loss
Message-ID: <200407061605562.SM01236@DANXP>

Hello,

 

I have been running Nagios 1.1 for some time now.  I am currently monitoring
91 hosts.  The problem that I have is most of the time I get multiple
entries with 20% packet loss.  The problem with this is if I continuously
ping a host even over night I get 0% not even dropping one packet.  Do I
have to many hosts?  Is there some sort of patch I am missing?  Thanks in
advance for any info you can give me.

 

Dan

 

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From drhonk at gmail.com  Tue Jul  6 23:25:58 2004
From: drhonk at gmail.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 14:25:58 -0700
Subject: From email address
Message-ID: <90bc2a03040706142517603e0d@mail.gmail.com>

Is it possible to change the from email address to an address that we
specified ?


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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Wed Jul  7 00:12:27 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:12:27 -0500
Subject: creating availability report
Message-ID: <20040706221227.81087.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

Hi everyone, 

On the nagios interface, we can create an availability report. I would like 
to know if someone has written a script that we can put in a cronjob and 
have the report created for a specific host or hostgroups. Or my second 
option, if you can tell me what file I need to parse, I can write a code. 

Thanks guys. 

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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Wed Jul  7 00:20:52 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:20:52 -0500
Subject: thoughts about event handlers
Message-ID: <20040706222052.81754.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

I read the event handler section in the Nagios documentation. It looks cool. 
Here is what I am thinking on how I want to implement event handlers. Let 
say I want to check http port 80. 

Steps:
1. use check_tcp to check port 80
2. If connection is refused, have the event handler get executed which calls 
check_nrpe to check if httpd is running
3. If httpd is running, it's possible that port 80 was accidentally modified 
in the firewall(of course, very remote) 

What I am saying here is that, with event handlers, we can be very sure that 
a service is really in a RUNNING STATE or in a STOPPED state. 

Am I correct guys? 

Thanks. 

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From tech at gnuconsulting.com  Wed Jul  7 01:57:05 2004
From: tech at gnuconsulting.com (David Bishop)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 17:57:05 -0600
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
Message-ID: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>

I have two nagios servers checking basically the same machines (we don't
need no stinking failover).  However, from one machine (A), I get a lot of
time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp and 
ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line (just 
telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater 
than 10 seconds) but finally connects.  However, connecting to the same 
machine from B, it's instantaneous.  Normally I'd suspect the network 
connection between the two machines (client and A), but a reverse 
connection works very quickly (connecting to A's smtp port), and they 
are both on underutilized 1.5Mb lines.  Ping time between them (either 
way) averages slightly over 100ms. The only real difference that I can
think of between A and B is that A is running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and B is
Debian/Sid.  The clients are all also running Debian (if that matters).

Help, please :-(

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From Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU  Wed Jul  7 02:02:54 2004
From: Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Stanley Hopcroft)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:02:54 +1000
Subject: RFE Can hyperlinks be added to comments (if they can't already).
In-Reply-To: <E1BhqAD-0006Dd-3j@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>; from nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net on Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 06:38:05AM -0700
References: <E1BhqAD-0006Dd-3j@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <20040707100254.A78118@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

Is it possible to add a hyperlink to a comment with Nag 1.x ?

Trying to do so results in the CGI echoing the unrendered HTML eg

Wed Jul 07 09:44:19 EXTERNAL COMMAND: ADD_SVC_COMMENT;asterix;COMS 
ad-hoc check;1;Stanley Hopcroft;foo sez a 
href='http://foo_host/cgi-bin/coms_graph_deltas?INT=-2h'graph/a

and for good reason since the <a>, and </a> tags are stripped.

Presumably this is because the '<' and '>' chars are stripped from user 
input for security reasons.

Having a link in a comment may be useful - particuarly an
acknowledgement - to take the CGI user directly to an associated

. a request/'trouble ticket' (from RT for example)

. a change management page

Is there any sensible and safe way of doing this ?

Removing the '<' and '>' from the list of chars that will stripped from
user input doesn't sound a good idea. The only thing that comes to mind
is a primitive address tag recogniser in the comment handling code.

Yours sincerely.

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From ari at ish.com.au  Wed Jul  7 02:24:26 2004
From: ari at ish.com.au (Aristedes Maniatis)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:24:26 +1000
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
In-Reply-To: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>
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Many SMPT servers do a reverse DNS lookup on the host which is 
connecting in order to apply spam filtering rules, HOST checking, etc. 
Do you have you reverse DNS setup OK?

Ari Maniatis


On 07/07/2004, at 9:57 AM, David Bishop wrote:

> I get a lot of
> time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp 
> and
> ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line 
> (just
> telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater
> than 10 seconds) but finally connects.



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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Wed Jul  7 02:25:32 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:25:32 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
In-Reply-To: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>
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On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, David Bishop wrote:

> I have two nagios servers checking basically the same machines (we don't
> need no stinking failover).  However, from one machine (A), I get a lot of
> time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp and
> ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line (just
> telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater
> than 10 seconds) but finally connects.  However, connecting to the same
> machine from B, it's instantaneous.  Normally I'd suspect the network
> connection between the two machines (client and A), but a reverse
> connection works very quickly (connecting to A's smtp port), and they
> are both on underutilized 1.5Mb lines.  Ping time between them (either
> way) averages slightly over 100ms. The only real difference that I can
> think of between A and B is that A is running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and B is
> Debian/Sid.  The clients are all also running Debian (if that matters).
>
> Help, please :-(
>

Check to see whether machine A is properly configured in reverse DNS.
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From pla at softflare.com  Wed Jul  7 03:16:36 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:16:36 +0100
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
In-Reply-To: <00F6EE1C-CFAC-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
References: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>
            <00F6EE1C-CFAC-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
Message-ID: <20040707011636.16198.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>

OK, this reply is slightly off-topic, but only slightly, because it
addresses how likely it is that SMTP servers will cause problems for
nagios. 

Aristedes Maniatis writes: 

> Many SMPT servers do a reverse DNS lookup on the host which is connecting 
> in order to apply spam filtering rules, HOST checking, etc.

It was sensible of you to tell him to check this, just in case.  However,
most SMTP servers do NOT do a reverse DNS lookup. 

The general concensus is that doing a reverse DNS lookup is a bad idea.
It adds a (potentially slow) DNS lookup for each item of mail.  It blocks
good mail from servers that have no control over their reverse DNS (which
is surprisingly common).  These days spam is increasingly from zombies,
home computers on ADSL that have been infected by viruses, and many of
them have ISPs that DO have reverse DNS for all their users. 

As a spam blocking measure it has little positive effect, which is
outweighed by the negative effects.  AOL's mail servers keep saying that
they about to implement reverse DNS lookups, but they don't.  Microsoft
removed the option to do reverse DNS lookups from Exchange a while ago
because it caused more trouble than it's worth. 

So most SMTP servers don't do reverse DNS lookups.  What would be a better
idea is to add a DNS RRTYPE of MS (mail sender) meaning server X is a valid
mail relay for domain Y.  Then you can say that if you get mail from a
sender which is not a valid MS for the sender you can drop it on the floor
(these days, with forged senders, bouncing just causes more problems).
That would do a LOT of good.  ISPs could say that only their mail servers
are valid senders for their users.  Well, you'd probably want an MSPTR
RRTYPE to, so you could give an IP address and get a list of valid mail
relays.  With both RRTYPES you have things covered with minimal effort
by the likes of AOL (this is in our dialup block, here are our relays)
and companies who provide mail services for people who dial-in through
somebody else.  The transition period would be a bit of a bitch, but I
see between 15,000 and 30,000 spams a day addressed to non-existent users
@softflare.com (if our spam filters didn't catch over 99% of them I'd go
postal) so I think something like that will eventually have to happen. 

Note, what is referred to here is technically not reverse DNS lookup, but
that is the informal terminology used by most people these days (I mention
this only because of Andreas) and I use the term as it is understood by
most people.  In France, dictionaries define how people MUST use words; in
the UK, dictionaries define how people DO use words (which is why "cleave"
is its own antonym).  In technical writing one should be precise, but when
almost everyone misuses "reverse DNS" there's no point fighting it,
especially as the real "reverse DNS" of the RFCs was never widely
implemented. 

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From pla at softflare.com  Wed Jul  7 03:33:49 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 02:33:49 +0100
Subject: thoughts about event handlers
In-Reply-To: <20040706222052.81754.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040706222052.81754.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <20040707013356.22366.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>

Neil writes: 

> Steps:
> 1. use check_tcp to check port 80
> 2. If connection is refused, have the event handler get executed which 
> calls check_nrpe to check if httpd is running

Yes, you could do that if you are creative enough in the way you abuse
nagios. 

> What I am saying here is that, with event handlers, we can be very sure 
> that a service is really in a RUNNING STATE or in a STOPPED state. 

If you want to check if the process is running, use check_by_ssh or
NRPE or NCSA or any of the other alternatives to see if that process
is running.  If you want to check if a machine has a web server that is
accessible to the outside world then use check_http. 

If you want to try to figure out what is wrong, have a HUMAN BEING look
at the results of those two checks when one or both reports a problem.
What you're asking for is how to make nagios alert you in some bizarre
situation when httpd is running but the web server is not accessible from
the outside world.  Although this is unlikely, the things which could
cause the problem are diverse and you need a HUMAN BEING to figure out
what is causing it. 

The problem perceived by end users is that web sites are inaccessible, and
they don't care why, they just want it to be fixed.  Given that you need
a HUMAN BEING to figure out why the web sites are inaccessible even though
httpd is running, you might as well have that HUMAN BEING do a ps ax |
grep http as the first step in figuring out what is going wrong rather
than try to make nagios do something that won't help much anyway. 

What you're asking for is a lot of work to give you something that any
competent admin would do anyway as the very first step (taking seconds) in
a problem-solving exercise that could take many, many hours.  Been there,
done that, bought the T-shirt, had apache spawning children that died
within seconds (by your requirements, nagious would report that the web
sites are down but that httpd is running so there is no problem; the
reality is that things are severely borked). 

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From nagios-users at gurugeek.com  Wed Jul  7 03:50:25 2004
From: nagios-users at gurugeek.com (Jeff Rodriguez)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 18:50:25 -0700
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <40EB56E1.3030606@gurugeek.com>

I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
ground up.

Features I intend to add:

    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
      configuration tools.
    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
      allowing services to report in.
    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
      on multi-processor systems.
    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
      plug in.
    * More well-defined reporting tools.

Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.

What are other's thoughts and suggestions?

Jeff


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From s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz  Wed Jul  7 04:38:55 2004
From: s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz (Steve Shipway)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:38:55 +1200
Subject: Perl module for log parsing
In-Reply-To: <20040706221227.81087.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040706221227.81087.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <009e01c463cb$8c02a130$b004d882@itss.auckland.ac.nz>

Hi --

I've been searching the Net, and found perl modules for parsing the Nagios
configuration files and the status log, but nothing for parsing the activity
log (and multiple archives of it).  Therefore, I've written one...  this
should allow some Perl-based history reporting tools.

What I'm asking is --
1) has someone already done this, and I'm reinventing the wheel
2) anyone want a beta copy of the modules to try out?
3) anyone want to make some suggestions about useful extraction formats?

Already I have
1) Nagios::ActLog object
2) extract list of record hashes by filter (alerts only)
3) extract XML of records by filter (alerts only)
4) (in progress) extract summary of time up/down/scheduled/etc by filter

Thoughts?

Steve

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From ari at ish.com.au  Wed Jul  7 04:55:58 2004
From: ari at ish.com.au (Aristedes Maniatis)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:55:58 +1000
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
In-Reply-To: <40EB56E1.3030606@gurugeek.com>
References: <40EB56E1.3030606@gurugeek.com>
Message-ID: <2C62A73C-CFC1-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>

On 07/07/2004, at 11:50 AM, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:

>    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!

I am unclear how it helps to take a solid working tool written in an 
open language and rewrite it in a language controlled by one company, 
introduce a whole new set of bugs.

Wouldn't you be better directing your energy toward improving the 
existing product?

>    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>      configuration tools.

Please no. XML files are a pain to edit by hand and configuration tools 
are really unnecessary to edit a simple file like nagios.cfg. If you 
mean files like hosts.cfg, then perhaps you should contribute toward 
the work to get those back into an SQL database (as I understand that 
SQL support has been dropped in version 2).

Ari Maniatis


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From Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com  Wed Jul  7 05:07:30 2004
From: Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com (Kerry Milestone)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:07:30 +1200
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <E4E5702F673CFD459ACC81B3A9088C2266EAA6@wnmail1.tnzi.com>

Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?

Just a few thoughts about things.



 
________________________________
 
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Network Engineer.
 
 
 
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
ground up.

Features I intend to add:

    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
      configuration tools.
    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
      allowing services to report in.
    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
      on multi-processor systems.
    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
      plug in.
    * More well-defined reporting tools.

Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.

What are other's thoughts and suggestions?

Jeff


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From Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com  Wed Jul  7 05:23:22 2004
From: Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com (Kerry Milestone)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:23:22 +1200
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <E4E5702F673CFD459ACC81B3A9088C2266C12E@wnmail1.tnzi.com>

Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?

Just a few thoughts about things.



 
________________________________
 
Kerry Milestone,
Network Engineer.
 
 
 
 
________________________________
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-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
ground up.

Features I intend to add:

    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
      configuration tools.
    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
      allowing services to report in.
    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
      on multi-processor systems.
    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
      plug in.
    * More well-defined reporting tools.

Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.

What are other's thoughts and suggestions?

Jeff


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From tech at gnuconsulting.com  Wed Jul  7 05:33:23 2004
From: tech at gnuconsulting.com (David Bishop)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 21:33:23 -0600
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
In-Reply-To: <00F6EE1C-CFAC-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
References: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com> <00F6EE1C-CFAC-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
Message-ID: <20040707033322.GB85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>


Sorry, I should have made it more clear.  I get this hang on all
connections that I make, whether it is smtp or ftp.  Interestingly
enough, I do *not* get the hang when using ssh, http, or domain.  
Could this be some sort of pam thing?  I don't know enough about 
pam to really say. The ftp daemon, exim, and sshd are all started as 
seperate services (not via inetd), so that startup isn't an issue.

I'm going to start looking at pam, see if that leads me anywhere.

*update* Doesn't happen with pop3 or imap, either.  So it's just ftp and
smtp.  

*update to my update*  Now it isn't happening with ftp either, just
smtp.  But reverse dns lookup is turned off, I swear it is...  And it
definetly was happening with ftp before.

- Very Confused

On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 10:24:26AM +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> Many SMPT servers do a reverse DNS lookup on the host which is 
> connecting in order to apply spam filtering rules, HOST checking, etc. 
> Do you have you reverse DNS setup OK?
> 
> Ari Maniatis
> 
> 
> On 07/07/2004, at 9:57 AM, David Bishop wrote:
> 
> >I get a lot of
> >time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp 
> >and
> >ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line 
> >(just
> >telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater
> >than 10 seconds) but finally connects.
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From tradergt at smelser.org  Wed Jul  7 05:35:57 2004
From: tradergt at smelser.org (Jeff Smelser)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:35:57 -0500
Subject: From email address
In-Reply-To: <90bc2a03040706142517603e0d@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 04:25 pm, Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> Is it possible to change the from email address to an address that we
> specified ?

Huh? What are you talking about?

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From tradergt at smelser.org  Wed Jul  7 05:38:58 2004
From: tradergt at smelser.org (Jeff Smelser)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:38:58 -0500
Subject: Perl module for log parsing
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Don't hi jack threads please, it makes it hard to figure out whats going on 
when you reading threaded messages.

Thanks,
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From tradergt at smelser.org  Wed Jul  7 05:34:57 2004
From: tradergt at smelser.org (Jeff Smelser)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:34:57 -0500
Subject: Capacity
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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 04:59 pm, ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx wrote:

> I would like to know if nagios has a capacity to check hosts and services .
>
> I mean if it has a maximum number of hosts of services.

I think its as much as the monitoring server can handle.. I am not positive 
though.

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From tradergt at smelser.org  Wed Jul  7 05:38:09 2004
From: tradergt at smelser.org (Jeff Smelser)
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 22:38:09 -0500
Subject: creating availability report
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On Tuesday 06 July 2004 05:12 pm, Neil wrote:

> On the nagios interface, we can create an availability report. I would like
> to know if someone has written a script that we can put in a cronjob and
> have the report created for a specific host or hostgroups. Or my second
> option, if you can tell me what file I need to parse, I can write a code.

Look in the cgi directory, you can run those via cron. Your just gonna have to 
figure out what to supply it. I think it you run it, it tells you what 
variable you have to set. 

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From Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com  Wed Jul  7 05:45:43 2004
From: Kerry.Milestone at tnzi.com (Kerry Milestone)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:45:43 +1200
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <E4E5702F673CFD459ACC81B3A9088C2266C130@wnmail1.tnzi.com>

Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?

Just a few thoughts about things.



 
________________________________
 
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Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
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Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)

I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
ground up.

Features I intend to add:

    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
      configuration tools.
    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
      allowing services to report in.
    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
      on multi-processor systems.
    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
      plug in.
    * More well-defined reporting tools.

Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.

What are other's thoughts and suggestions?

Jeff


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From jnichols at pbp.net  Wed Jul  7 07:11:30 2004
From: jnichols at pbp.net (Jonathan Nichols)
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:11:30 -0700
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
Message-ID: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>

Greetings all..

	Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, what 
are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and doing 
this:

jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO

jnichols at mailgate hba0 $

That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
(I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)

Has anybody run into this?

Thanks!
-Jonathan

(ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal 
experiences)



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From maca02 at atlas.cz  Wed Jul  7 07:49:52 2004
From: maca02 at atlas.cz (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?=)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 07:49:52 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Problems with history
In-Reply-To: <1088785269.1329.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
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Hi Tamas!
sorry, for the delay of my answer, we had a 2 days free in Czech Republic...

Thank you very much for the script, I will test it as early as possible. Nowaday
s I do not have enaught time to do that, but I will test it surely when I finish current project I'm working on.
You are writing, that you are not a programmer -> you wrote this script, so you
are the programmer! ;-)

I looked into the script and I think you always go through the whole directory, it would be better to do move only one file according to the current date and this script would be run at 00:01 every day. I would like to add this to the script.

Have a nice day

Tom


On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:

> Hi Tom!
>
> I couldn't manage to figure out why nagios creates *-23.log files.
>
> I wrote a little shell script for our problem. I use it via root
> crontab. I tested it in every scenario which I can imagine and it seemed
> to me that it works.
>
> Please note that I am not a programmer so the code may be not as
> compact, fast, etc. as would be.
>
> Two important notes:
> 1. Please replace MAGYAR_DATUM with DATUM. The first one create
> Hungarian date format from the original one.
> 2. Sorry for Hungarian textparts. I've no enough time to translate them
> to English.
>
> Congratulations for your football team. I'm a fun of them and I terrible
> sorry that they aren't in the final!:(
>
> Have a nice weekend, Tamas!
>


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From festivus at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 07:52:16 2004
From: festivus at gmail.com (Andrew Best)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:52:16 +1000
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
In-Reply-To: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
References: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
Message-ID: <e597c01c04070622522030e81d@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 22:11:30 -0700, Jonathan Nichols <jnichols at pbp.net> wrote:
>         Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, what
> are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) -

Im not currently but plan to be at some point in the future. Ive
already done a little research around the traps on this. Found this:

http://linux.dell.com

More specifically I saw this article a while ago:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-sch.pdf

> Has anybody run into this?

Theres info on linux.dell.com about people successfully getting things
going on other distros so maybe start there?

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From Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU  Wed Jul  7 08:10:01 2004
From: Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Stanley Hopcroft)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:10:01 +1000
Subject: thoughts about event handlers
In-Reply-To: <E1Bi4uO-000064-C3@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>; from nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net on Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:13:49PM -0700
References: <E1Bi4uO-000064-C3@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <20040707161000.D78118@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:13:49PM -0700, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 5
> From: "Neil" <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org>
> Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2004 17:20:52 -0500
> Subject: [Nagios-users] thoughts about event handlers
> 
> I read the event handler section in the Nagios documentation. It looks cool. 
> Here is what I am thinking on how I want to implement event handlers. Let 
> say I want to check http port 80. 
>

  .. snip.
 
> Am I correct guys? 
>

Yep.

We double check a providers service (to ensure access to it has not 
failed because of ISP failure) by having a service event handler ssh to 
another host - in a different administrative domain - and repeat the 
check from there.

exit 0
  unless $ARGV[1] eq 'HARD' ;

open(OUT, '>> 
/home/nagios/results_of_traceroute_and_check_qwebprd_on_foo')
  or die "Cannot open 
\"/home/nagios/results_of_traceroute_and_check_qwebprd_on_foo\" in 
append mode: $!" ;

select OUT ;

$| = 1 ;

print scalar localtime, "\n" ;

print qx'ssh stanley at foo.bar "perl/check_qwebprd; echo; 
traceroute -Picmp -q1 qwebprd.questel.fr" 2>&1' 

Event Handlers are very flexible.
 
You probably want to make sure that event handler self destructs if it 
hasn't finished in less than some maximum time interval.

> Thanks. 
> 
> Neil
> 

Yours sincerely.

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continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
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From Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU  Wed Jul  7 08:17:59 2004
From: Stanley.Hopcroft at IPAustralia.Gov.AU (Stanley Hopcroft)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:17:59 +1000
Subject: Perl module for log parsing
In-Reply-To: <E1Bi4uO-000064-C3@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>; from nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net on Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:13:49PM -0700
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Message-ID: <20040707161759.E78118@IPAustralia.Gov.AU>

Dear Sir,

I am writing to thank you for your letter and say,

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 10:13:49PM -0700, nagios-users-request at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
> Message: 13
> From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>
> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:38:55 +1200
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Perl module for log parsing
> 
> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>

   .. Aargh
 
> ------=_NextPart_000_009F_01C46430.21378130
> Content-Type: text/plain;
> 	charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Hi --
> 
> I've been searching the Net, and found perl modules for parsing the =
> Nagios
> configuration files and the status log, but nothing for parsing the =
> activity
> log (and multiple archives of it).  Therefore, I've written one...  this
> should allow some Perl-based history reporting tools.
> 

Fandamnastic.


> What I'm asking is --
> 1) has someone already done this, and I'm reinventing the wheel

I have been looking for one. 

> 2) anyone want a beta copy of the modules to try out?

Yes please; the 5.005_03 version if possible ....

> 3) anyone want to make some suggestions about useful extraction formats?
> 

CSV is pretty good or go the whole hog and use Spreadsheet::WriteExcel 
... 

Distribution options are also worth thinking about: attaching to email 
is helpful (partic CSV).

> Already I have
> 1) Nagios::ActLog object
> 2) extract list of record hashes by filter (alerts only)
> 3) extract XML of records by filter (alerts only)
> 4) (in progress) extract summary of time up/down/scheduled/etc by filter
> 

Thank you very much. This sounds a wonderful Nagios addon.

> 
> Steve
> 
> ---
> Steve Shipway: ITSS, University of Auckland
> Email: s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz  Web: http://www.steveshipway.org/ =20
> ** We can only discover new oceans when we have the **
> ** courage to lose sight of the shore.              **
> 

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Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a
manor of thy friend's or of thine own were. Any man's death diminishes
me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know
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From sontt at fcv.fujitsu.com  Wed Jul  7 08:51:44 2004
From: sontt at fcv.fujitsu.com (Truong Tan Son)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:51:44 +0700
Subject: Nagios unknow all defines on configuration file
Message-ID: <001701c463ee$df0353c0$668610ac@pi21>

Dear Sir,

I renamed all files /usr/local/nagios/etc/<file-name>.cfg-sample  into
/usr/local/nagios/etc/<file-name>.cfg, and run
#/usr/local/nagios/bin.nagios -v  /usr/local/nagios/etc/<any-file-name>.cfg

Nagios unknow all defines on configuration file (keywords, directives, ...).

( My server  is RedHat 7.3,  I configured with default setting without
errors )

Please help me to solve.

Thanks,




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From bdunn at rdac.com.au  Wed Jul  7 09:37:23 2004
From: bdunn at rdac.com.au (Brad Dunn)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:37:23 +0800
Subject: Mail not working
Message-ID: <47287D7F1C9A1C4B99EB7D407FCEE69604C81D@rdaex01.rdac.com.au>

Hello there,

I've got Nagios running on a debian system working ok, however my email
is not working to the notify_by_email.

I was wondering if there was somewhere I could obtain a running command.
Similar to the one I've got listed in misccommands. Attached here

# 'notify-by-email' command definition
define command{
	command_name	notify-by-email
	command_line	/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0
*****\n\notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$"
|  -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
$SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
	}

That utilizes postfix.

Is there also a way of running those above lines manually and seeing
where they fail?

- Brad


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From r.nagy at nameshield.net  Wed Jul  7 09:41:29 2004
From: r.nagy at nameshield.net (Richard NAGY)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:41:29 +0200
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
In-Reply-To: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
References: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
Message-ID: <40EBA929.7030107@nameshield.net>

Hello Jonathan,

I'm using DELL machines with RAID. Recently, I was in the same situation 
as you. I was looking on the net for something and I did find some small 
things which get me started. So I have done the job myself except for 
the first script, which I adapted for my personal use with nagios. Well, 
my problems were that I have 4 different DELL machines with four 
different hardware RAID! So, it was a bit longer to handle.
On 4 machines, I solved 3. The last one, I have called DELL. They told 
me that it is not possible for that card on that OS (RedHat 6.2 -- too 
old, so is the card!)

So, here is some things that may help you (for monitoring) :

Dell PowerEdge 2450 with a DELL PERC 3/Si (driver percraid) : OK with afacli
Dell PowerEdge 2650 with a DELL PERC 3/Di (driver aacraid) : OK with afacli
Dell PowerEdge 1750 with a DELL PERC 4/Di (driver megaraid) : OK with proc
Dell PowerEdge 2450 with a DELL PERC 2/DC (driver megaraid) : NOT OK

There is an other solution for monitoring on some cards but I don't have 
the time to test. It is with DOMSA (Dell Open Manage Server 
Administrator with an SNMP agent).

So, I attached my two personal scripts for nagios.

Note :
* with afacli, the whole RAID is checked
* with proc, each disk of the RAID container is checked

comments are welcome!  ;-)
Regards.




Jonathan Nichols wrote :

> Greetings all..
>
>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
> doing this:
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>
> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>
> Has anybody run into this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Jonathan
>
> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal 
> experiences)
>
>
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From duncan.robertson at vsl.com.au  Wed Jul  7 09:46:26 2004
From: duncan.robertson at vsl.com.au (Duncan Robertson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:46:26 +1000
Subject: nagios execution of notify commands, debugging the exact command
 being run
Message-ID: <1089186386.32006.316.camel@scion.vsl.com.au>

Hi,

We are running nagios and it is all working quite well, except some (but
not all) sms notifications are not sent (though the log says they are).
We are using sms_client as the sending mechanism, and it works quite
well run from command line as nagios user. I suspect it is the generated
alert string being fed to it is something it doesn't like for one class
of machines - 

- but is there a way to turn on the logging so I can see the exact
command being executed on notify so I can debug it?

My usual way of solving this (strace) doesnt want to play, for some
reason strace doesnt want to latch onto the nagios process either. This
is on redhat 9, nagios 1.2 (from DAG rpm).





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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Wed Jul  7 09:55:23 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:55:23 +0200
Subject: Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DE9@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Even in 2.0 it's not possible. Would be a nice feature to add i think. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Demetri Mouratis
> Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:26 PM
> To: Christopher M Bergeron
> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
> 
> On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to create a hostgroup of hostgroups in nagios?
> 
> Unfornately, no, this doesn't work in 1.2.  2.0 perhaps?
> 
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From n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es  Wed Jul  7 10:17:11 2004
From: n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?NetVicious?=)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:17:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Mail not working
In-Reply-To: <47287D7F1C9A1C4B99EB7D407FCEE69604C81D@rdaex01.rdac.com.au>
References: <47287D7F1C9A1C4B99EB7D407FCEE69604C81D@rdaex01.rdac.com.au>
Message-ID: <20040707081711.48965.qmail@web53303.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Brad Dunn <bdunn at rdac.com.au> escribi?: > Hello there,

I think you need to add a /usr/bin/mail -s before the |

I'm, using Debian Stable in the nagios box. When I installed nagios I
changed this line with this one.

define command {
    command_name    notify-by-email
    command_line    /bin/echo -e \*\*\*\*\* Nagios
\*\*\*\*\*\\n\\nTipo de Notif
icaci?n: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\\n\\nServicio: $SERVICEDESC$\\nHost:
$HOSTALIAS$\\nI
P: $HOSTADDRESS$\\nEstado: $SERVICESTATE$\\n\\nFecha/Hora:
$DATETIME$\\n\\nInfor
maci?n Adicional:\\n\\n$OUTPUT$ | /usr/bin/mail -s "`echo -e [Nagios]
$NOTIFICAT
IONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ -`"
$CONTACTEMAIL$
}

As you could see the labels are in Spanish, sorry.

> # 'notify-by-email' command definition
> define command{
> 	command_name	notify-by-email
> 	command_line	/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 1.0
> *****\n\notification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService:
> $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState:
> $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional
> Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$"
> |  -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is
> $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
> 	}


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From Ben at clewett.org.uk  Wed Jul  7 10:23:43 2004
From: Ben at clewett.org.uk (Ben Clewett)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:23:43 +0100
Subject: hostgroup.cfg file
In-Reply-To: <4AB63699.6050301@datavis.se>
References: <EEC9F50133B7594FB079ED9C72FBEBFB03F6BD06@USMAIL01> <4AB63699.6050301@datavis.se>
Message-ID: <40EBB30F.8040906@clewett.org.uk>

Dear Nagios,

I had an interesting time installing Nagios 1.2 onto a SUSE 9.1 box 
yesterday.

During the installation, configure could not find the libgd.so files. 
Despite me specifying exactly where they are using the correct configure 
options.

But I ignored this and completed the 'make' with absolutely no error, 
including the parts which use the libgd.

I think there might be an error somewhere in the configure script.

I hope this is of interest to somebody,

Regards, Ben Clewett.




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From rms at sibs.pt  Wed Jul  7 10:41:18 2004
From: rms at sibs.pt (Rui Miguel Seabra)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:41:18 +0100
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
In-Reply-To: <2C62A73C-CFC1-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
References: <40EB56E1.3030606@gurugeek.com>
	 <2C62A73C-CFC1-11D8-ADCF-003065A9024A@ish.com.au>
Message-ID: <1089189678.2747.87.camel@roque>

On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 12:55 +1000, Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> On 07/07/2004, at 11:50 AM, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> >    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
> >      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
> 
> I am unclear how it helps to take a solid working tool written in an 
> open language and rewrite it in a language controlled by one company, 
> introduce a whole new set of bugs.
> 
> Wouldn't you be better directing your energy toward improving the 
> existing product?

Worse! It will require huge amounts of software installed on the server
wich would be otherwise totally uneeded!

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From m.borsani at it.net  Wed Jul  7 10:55:25 2004
From: m.borsani at it.net (Marco Borsani)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:55:25 +0200
Subject: Define our own macros
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Message-ID: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILMENKDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>

Hi list,

I still have the notification problem! I think to solve it define some macro
that can give me the information that I want to notify (example: a TCP
port).

Do you know if is it possbible and how to do?
Right now I don't find any information about it.

Thanks a lot

Marco



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From verdon at cict.fr  Wed Jul  7 11:08:09 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:08:09 +0200
Subject: hostextinfo being ignored
In-Reply-To: <40EAD33C.6080302@microlnk.net>
References: <40EAA31A.5070107@cict.fr> <40EAD33C.6080302@microlnk.net>
Message-ID: <40EBBD79.2020601@cict.fr>

I added in my cgi.cfg this line:
xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg

But nagios don't take into account. I think that it's due to the fact 
that i configured nagios to put extented information in a database.

For the path of logos, i modified it the NagMIN Module Config as you 
tell me. Now, it's ok.

For the changes in 'Host Extended Information' table of Nagmin, even 
after click on 'activate' button, the modifications that i have made 
don't take into account.

For example, i deleted the template that i created in 'Host Extented 
Template' table. Then, i modified the 'Host Extended Information' table 
and click on 'activate' button. If i edit the 
/usr/local/nagios/etc/HostExtInfo.cfg, i see that the template (named 
'linux') is always present:

$ more HostExtInfo.cfg
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for Host
## Generated Wed Jul  7 10:21:19 2004
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtInfo
## Generated Wed Jul  7 10:21:19 2004
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    aurore.cict.fr
    icon_image    sun40.gif
    icon_image_alt    Sun Server
    statusmap_image    sun.gd2
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    gw1-mail.cict.fr
    icon_image_alt    Mail Gateway
    2d_coords    110,80
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    lambi.cict.fr
    icon_image_alt    NIS Server
    2d_coords    100.0,50.0
}
define hostextinfo {
    use    linux
    host_name    ns2.cict.fr
    icon_image    linux40.gif
    icon_image_alt    ns2
    statusmap_image    linux40.png
    2d_coords    10,15
}
define hostextinfo {
    use    linux
    host_name    servmail.univ-tlse2.fr
    2d_coords    40,30
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    telline.cict.fr
    icon_image    hpux.png
    icon_image_alt    HPUX Server
    statusmap_image    hpux.gif
    2d_coords    100,60
}
define hostextinfo {
    host_name    vae.cict.fr
    icon_image    linux40.jpg
    icon_image_alt    Linux Server
    statusmap_image    linux40.png
    2d_coords    50,10
}
## NagMIN Configuration File 
(/usr/local/nagmin-2.1.0/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg) for HostExtTemplate
## Generated Wed Jul  7 10:21:19 2004



Jason Byrns wrote:

>> I see my hosts in statusmap but when i want to use hostextinfo to add 
>> an image or coordinates, nothing happens.
>
>
> You must add a line to your cgi.cfg file, to use extended host 
> information.  It looks like this:
>
> xedtemplate_config_file=/etc/nagios/HostExtInfo.cfg
>
> The name of my cfg file is capitalized like that, since I also use 
> NagMIN to configure Nagios.
>
>> 2. I create a new gd2 image in /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos : 
>> pngtogd2 sun40.png sun.gd2 0 1
>> When i wanted to choose this new image in the 'Statusmap Image' field 
>> of nagmin, i didn't see it. I realized the directory that took into 
>> account was /opt/webmin/nagmin/images/logos. Why??????
>
>
> Controlled through the NagMIN Module Config, I believe.  (Go to NagMIN 
> through Webmin, then click "Module Config" in the upper-left corner.)
>
>> 4. Another problem with nagmin is that if i want to modify 
>> coordinates of one host for example, that don't works. When i click 
>> on 'save' button, nothing changes.
>
>
> NagMIN changes must be verified and activated each time.  Make changes 
> to your database, then click the "Verify" button at the top of the 
> main Database menu.  If it verifies without warnings, next click the 
> "Activate" button to make your changes live.
>
>> 5. I have a question. Is it possible in status map that one host 
>> becomes red when a service becomes critical or yellow when it becomes 
>> in warning?
>
>
> I thought it already did that.
>




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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 11:16:48 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:16:48 +0200
Subject: timeouts from one machine and not another
In-Reply-To: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>
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David Bishop wrote:
> I have two nagios servers checking basically the same machines (we don't
> need no stinking failover).  However, from one machine (A), I get a lot of
> time-out errors on certain machines (it times out when checking smtp and 
> ftp) and on the other, I don't.  If I try it from the command-line (just 
> telnetting to the ports), it hangs for a long time (long being greater 
> than 10 seconds) but finally connects.  However, connecting to the same 
> machine from B, it's instantaneous.  Normally I'd suspect the network 
> connection between the two machines (client and A), but a reverse 
> connection works very quickly (connecting to A's smtp port), and they 
> are both on underutilized 1.5Mb lines.

A client of ours had this problem because of an overloaded router that 
was supposed to send a NEXT_HOP but couldn't always manage the load. 
When the traffic went the other way, the overloaded router was never in 
the picture and connections worked beautifully every time (that had us 
scratching our heads for quite some time).

Another thing that can cause this is NIC-setting autodetection. Some 
not-so-nice switches and OS's try to renegotiate ethernet settings 
(duplex and speed). This normally causes the interface on both switch 
and server to go dormant until the negotiation is complete.

> Ping time between them (either 
> way) averages slightly over 100ms. The only real difference that I can
> think of between A and B is that A is running FreeBSD 5.2.1 and B is
> Debian/Sid.  The clients are all also running Debian (if that matters).
> 

It shouldn't really. FreeBSD has a legacy of perfectly working IP stack, 
so the problem is most likely in the network.

> Help, please :-(
> 

Things to check for;
Are the timeouts happening only during certain hours, and in that case 
when, and what else is happening during those hours (backups, people at 
work, lots of web-/ftp-server hits)?

Things to try;
Switch places and Nagios-configuration on the two machines. If A still 
fumbles you know the problem resides on the server. If B fumbles, it's 
in the network.


> D.A.Bishop
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 11:20:44 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:20:44 +0200
Subject: RFE Can hyperlinks be added to comments (if they
 can't already).
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Stanley Hopcroft wrote:
> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
> 
> Is it possible to add a hyperlink to a comment with Nag 1.x ?
> 
> Trying to do so results in the CGI echoing the unrendered HTML eg
> 
> Wed Jul 07 09:44:19 EXTERNAL COMMAND: ADD_SVC_COMMENT;asterix;COMS 
> ad-hoc check;1;Stanley Hopcroft;foo sez a 
> href='http://foo_host/cgi-bin/coms_graph_deltas?INT=-2h'graph/a
> 
> and for good reason since the <a>, and </a> tags are stripped.
> 
> Presumably this is because the '<' and '>' chars are stripped from user 
> input for security reasons.
> 
> Having a link in a comment may be useful - particuarly an
> acknowledgement - to take the CGI user directly to an associated
> 
> . a request/'trouble ticket' (from RT for example)
> 
> . a change management page
> 
> Is there any sensible and safe way of doing this ?
> 

Yes. Install Mozilla Firefox and download the extension 'plaintext 
hyperlinks'. Then you can enter your links as such 
'http://foo.whatever.com', and Mozilla will recognize it.

> Removing the '<' and '>' from the list of chars that will stripped from
> user input doesn't sound a good idea. The only thing that comes to mind
> is a primitive address tag recogniser in the comment handling code.
> 

Could be a good thing, so long as it's added on the display end of the 
comment-code.

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 12:01:52 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:01:52 +0200
Subject: nagios execution of notify commands, debugging
 the exact command being run
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Duncan Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> We are running nagios and it is all working quite well, except some (but
> not all) sms notifications are not sent (though the log says they are).
> We are using sms_client as the sending mechanism, and it works quite
> well run from command line as nagios user. I suspect it is the generated
> alert string being fed to it is something it doesn't like for one class
> of machines - 
> 
> - but is there a way to turn on the logging so I can see the exact
> command being executed on notify so I can debug it?
> 
> My usual way of solving this (strace) doesnt want to play, for some
> reason strace doesnt want to latch onto the nagios process either. This
> is on redhat 9, nagios 1.2 (from DAG rpm).
> 

For nagios; Run 'strace -f' to have it follow the children spawned by 
fork() instead of exiting with the parent process.
How do you run it with sms_client?


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From pla at softflare.com  Wed Jul  7 13:05:17 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:05:17 +0100
Subject: Perl module for log parsing
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Stanley Hopcroft writes: 

> CSV is pretty good

TSV is better, because there is a MIME type for it.  You may not want
to make the output available via a web browser, but using TSV rather than
CSV means that you could if you wanted. 

Note that neither TSV nor CSV have any standardized way of handling
embedded carriage returns.  In fact, Microsoft Outhouse allows carriage
returns in data fields in its address book and includes those carriage
returns if you export the address book in TSV or CSV format - the only
problem is that Outhouse cannot import [TC]SV files that have embedded
carriage returns.  Did I say Outhouse?  I meant Outlook.  Or maybe I was
right the first time, and it's a crude repository for excrement... 

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From mshirley at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 14:16:12 2004
From: mshirley at gmail.com (Mark Shirley)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:16:12 -0400
Subject: front end management tool
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you can do anything with nagmin as you can with configs in my
experiance.  instead of editing a text file to create a custom check
you create a database field.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:54:50 -0500, Neil
<neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Another question. I do a lot of customization to checks and vi allows me to
> be very flexible. The limit I have when writing my own custom checks is what
> my brain can imagine. So, can I also be very flexible with Nagmin?
> 
> Thanks. :)
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Shirley writes:
> 
> > the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios requirement.
> >
> > nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
> > based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
> > changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
> > effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
> > database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
> > startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
> > does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
> > and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
> > excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
> > always go back to using a simple text configs.
> >
> > nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
> > nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
> > nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
> > mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
> > add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
> > config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
> > EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
> > the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
> > changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
> > overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation.
> >
> > in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
> > most stable for my enviroment.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
> > <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of Nagios
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> carole verdon writes:
> >>
> >> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database support.
> >> >
> >> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build its
> >> > own files.
> >> >
> >> > Neil wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Carole,
> >> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take care of
> >> >> my existings configs?
> >> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> >> >> carole verdon writes:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't create
> >> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql
> >> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read them.
> >> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
> >> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
> >> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> >> >>> Carole.
> >> >>> Neil wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Hey guys,
> >> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for
> >> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm used to
> >> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience on
> >> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was easy
> >> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us to
> >> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat but
> >> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which will
> >> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
> >> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool you
> >> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
> >> >>>> Thanks.
> >> >>>> Neil
> >> >>>>
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From nagios-users at gurugeek.com  Wed Jul  7 14:38:00 2004
From: nagios-users at gurugeek.com (Jeff Rodriguez)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:38:00 -0700
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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Controlled by one company? Perhaps I should point out that C# is an ECMA 
standard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/ C# is as controlled by one 
company as C is.

As far as bugs go, it's harder to accidentally write bugs into your code 
with C# vs C. C# is a much more easily maintained language, tracking 
down bugs when they occur is much easier because of things like 
exceptions instead of good ol' segfaults.

The nagios.cfg as an XML file would be just fine IMHO, there's not that 
much that you configure and you really hardly ever change it. Hosts.cfg 
and services, extinfo, etc should definitely be in a DB, which I've planned.

Jeff

Aristedes Maniatis wrote:

> On 07/07/2004, at 11:50 AM, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
>
>>    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>>      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
>
>
> I am unclear how it helps to take a solid working tool written in an 
> open language and rewrite it in a language controlled by one company, 
> introduce a whole new set of bugs.
>
> Wouldn't you be better directing your energy toward improving the 
> existing product?
>
>>    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>>      configuration tools.
>
>
> Please no. XML files are a pain to edit by hand and configuration 
> tools are really unnecessary to edit a simple file like nagios.cfg. If 
> you mean files like hosts.cfg, then perhaps you should contribute 
> toward the work to get those back into an SQL database (as I 
> understand that SQL support has been dropped in version 2).
>
> Ari Maniatis
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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Wed Jul  7 14:38:36 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:38:36 -0400
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
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What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"

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From nagios-users at gurugeek.com  Wed Jul  7 14:46:50 2004
From: nagios-users at gurugeek.com (Jeff Rodriguez)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 05:46:50 -0700
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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Of course, it would be rather asinine of me to not do so :) I think I'd 
have a little problem getting a patent on a "distributed monitoring 
system" though :)

Our current monitoring box runs tests against 400+ hosts, 2700+ 
services, and runs over 1000 checks/minute. The company I work for is in 
the top 500 fastest growing companies in the world. At our current pace, 
we NEED to be distributed. You don't need a multiproc box to run a 
multithreaded app, it just helps. The threading is mostly for sanity, 
it's much easier to split up code into threads.

It's not a lack of tools to setup the Nagios configuration, the Nagios 
configuration is inherently lacking in that it's not database driven to 
begin with.

Read http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/03/03/mcppp2.html for a 
description of managed code.

GPL? No, I prefer BSD.

Jeff

Kerry Milestone wrote:

>Will you forever mention on your new website with its new trademark that the ideas and inspiration came from Nagios?  Will you follow the usual Microsoft standard and claim a patent for the new technology of remotely polling devices through an integrated distributed monitoring system?  What do you intend the monitoring box to be doing to require extensive multi-processor computing?  Have you come across Nagmin? (its very useful)  What exactly is a managed language?  Will it be GPL?
>
>Just a few thoughts about things.
>
>
>
> 
>________________________________
> 
>Kerry Milestone,
>Network Engineer.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>________________________________
>1 , 0....  my two bits.
> 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeff Rodriguez
>Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 2004 1:50 p.m.
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
>
>I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
>what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
>ground up.
>
>Features I intend to add:
>
>    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
>    * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.
>    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>      configuration tools.
>    * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
>    * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration
>    * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono
>    * Create web services for getting the status of services and
>      allowing services to report in.
>    * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program up
>      on multi-processor systems.
>    * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
>      plug in.
>    * More well-defined reporting tools.
>
>Now I'll end up writing this whether or not people help, and whether or 
>not it gets used because I'm going to use it myself. Obviously I want to 
>get mind share on this project and see what other features people would 
>like to see in this rewrite. I will also be releasing it under a new 
>name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark for.
>
>What are other's thoughts and suggestions?
>
>Jeff
>
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From m.borsani at it.net  Wed Jul  7 15:05:06 2004
From: m.borsani at it.net (Marco Borsani)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:05:06 +0200
Subject: R: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
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Probably that more than one host have same ipaddress....it is no good for
your network!


-----Messaggio originale-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Per conto di Matt
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Oggetto: [Nagios-users] PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!


What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"

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From ric at nkn.net  Wed Jul  7 15:11:49 2004
From: ric at nkn.net (Ric Moseley)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:11:49 -0500
Subject: check_snmp on a cisco
In-Reply-To: <20040706235705.GA85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>
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I have looked around but not really found anything on the forums or mainling
lists.  Does anyone have an example of using check_snmp to get the CPU
readings off of a Cisco device? 

Thanks.

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From Edwin_Zoeller at ama-assn.org  Wed Jul  7 15:19:11 2004
From: Edwin_Zoeller at ama-assn.org (Edwin Zoeller)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 08:19:11 -0500
Subject: Informix
Message-ID: <s0ebb207.019@gwise.ama-assn.org>

Does anyone have a script to monitor Informix databases? Or can shed
some light on how you are doing DB monitoring.

Thanks,

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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Wed Jul  7 15:28:31 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:28:31 -0400
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F88@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

It probably means that your machine received more than one (could be
two, three, or even more) ICMP echo reply packets for each echo request.
Can happen if two machines are configured on the same IP, if you're
pinging a broadcast IP, or if you're using really ancient equipment,
pinging the network IP.

Rob Nelson
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> 
> 
> What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"
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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Wed Jul  7 15:46:48 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:46:48 -0400
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
In-Reply-To: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F88@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>
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Robert Nelson wrote:

>It probably means that your machine received more than one (could be
>two, three, or even more) ICMP echo reply packets for each echo request.
>Can happen if two machines are configured on the same IP, if you're
>pinging a broadcast IP, or if you're using really ancient equipment,
>pinging the network IP.
>  
>
Thats what I thought but it sure doesn't make sense. The hosts that 
triggered this are direct-jet printers, three different kinds with 
static IPs. I've had Nagios running for about a week and this morning 
was the first time I've seen this alert. Happened for about half hour 
and I've not seen the alert since...

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 15:51:35 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:51:35 +0200
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
In-Reply-To: <40EBEECC.3040804@eiisolutions.net>
References: <40EBEECC.3040804@eiisolutions.net>
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Matt Burleigh wrote:
> What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"
> 

Essentially that the ping program receives two or more PONG's for a 
PING. This can happen if any (or in some cases several) of the following 
requirements are met;
There are two nodes with the same IP-address on the network.
The IP stack of the target host is broken.
The IP stack of the pinging host is broken.
The ping program is broken, and fails to add a proper identifier and 
sequence numbers to its packets (this can happen if it uses /dev/random 
as source for its entropy, reads it in non-blocking mode and the system 
is fresh out of chaos).
A switch or router has been set to forward all traffic to the interface 
you've put your nagios-server at, and it's not clever enough (i.e. 
broken) to not re-send traffic that's already destined for that very 
interface or if you have several NIC's on the monitoring server and 
you've separated the IP space logically but not physically (i.e. both 
cards connect to the same switch but on different subnets so the traffic 
bound for one interface reaches both through the packet propagation 
interface on the switch, while ping listens on both for responses).

I'm sure there's something I've forgotten, but AFAIR it was really 
obscure (as opposed to the everyday issues above ;-) ).

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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Wed Jul  7 15:49:32 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:49:32 -0400
Subject: PING RTA?
Message-ID: <40EBFF6C.1060208@eiisolutions.net>

What does the RTA mean? Is this return trip average? And is the 
threshold tuneable somewhere?

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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Wed Jul  7 15:50:04 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:50:04 -0400
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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On Tue, 2004-07-06 at 21:50, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to 
> what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
> ground up.
> 
> Features I intend to add:
> 
>     * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>       language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!

I suppose now is a good time to mention that mono is patent-encumbered. 
MS have given an unwritten promise not to sue.  I wouldn't trust them.

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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Wed Jul  7 15:56:48 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:56:48 -0400
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
In-Reply-To: <20040707134950.GB1261@tufnell.lon1.poggs.net>
References: <40EBEECC.3040804@eiisolutions.net> <20040707134950.GB1261@tufnell.lon1.poggs.net>
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Peter Hicks wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:38:36AM -0400, Matt Burleigh wrote:
>
>  
>
>> What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"
>>   
>
>
> What's this been generated from? fping?  Is it possible another IP 
> address
> is responding...?
>  
>
It was generated from "check_ping". Its almost impossible for the 
another host to have been assigned this IP. Its outside the DHCP range 
on that subnet and the hosts that are being checked are directjet's on 
three different kinds of HP printers (a LJ9000, CLJ5500, and a DJ800). 
I'm really scratching my head on this...

The check_ping command options are "check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%".

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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Wed Jul  7 16:21:59 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:21:59 -0400
Subject: Ang: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
In-Reply-To: <s0ec2106.045@mail.baerum.kommune.no>
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Message-ID: <40EC0707.6050807@eiisolutions.net>

Stefan Hanssen wrote:

>Jeg har for tiden ferie. Er tilbake mandag 2 august.
>  
>
Huh? ;-)

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From krcalhoo at mtu.edu  Wed Jul  7 16:37:21 2004
From: krcalhoo at mtu.edu (kevin)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:37:21 -0400
Subject: check_snmp on a cisco
In-Reply-To: <E1BiCBf-00079k-0i@sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net>
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Ric Moseley wrote:
> I have looked around but not really found anything on the forums or mainling
> lists.  Does anyone have an example of using check_snmp to get the CPU
> readings off of a Cisco device? 

Here is a plugin that I wrote based of Adrian Wieczorek check_traffic 
work.  You might need to remove the rrd lib references if you don't have 
them already installed and don't want it to automatically generate an 
rrd database.  Also, you will want to check the paths in it before 
running it.  Other than that it should be fairly simple to get running.

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From rms at sibs.pt  Wed Jul  7 16:28:16 2004
From: rms at sibs.pt (Rui Miguel Seabra)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 15:28:16 +0100
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 05:38 -0700, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> Controlled by one company? Perhaps I should point out that C# is an ECMA 
> standard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/ C# is as controlled by one 
> company as C is.
> 
> As far as bugs go, it's harder to accidentally write bugs into your code 
> with C# vs C. C# is a much more easily maintained language, tracking 
> down bugs when they occur is much easier because of things like 
> exceptions instead of good ol' segfaults.

Then by all means, if you think so much of it do write a monitoring
clone by yourself. I for one will never touch it. And not exactly
because of all the dubious licensing problems (some parts are ECMA, some
parts are patented, and we've not even started talking about submarine
patents yet... like those that hit GIF, JPEG, etc...)

It's overkill for an application that should be very small and simple.

> The nagios.cfg as an XML file would be just fine IMHO, there's not that 
> much that you configure and you really hardly ever change it. Hosts.cfg 
> and services, extinfo, etc should definitely be in a DB, which I've planned.

It would only increase in size by several orders of magnitude, without
real advantages other than relying on a library to parse.

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 16:47:18 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:47:18 +0200
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> Controlled by one company? Perhaps I should point out that C# is an ECMA 
> standard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/ C# is as controlled by one 
> company as C is.
> 

Yup. Believe the MS website. That's what I would do. The specifications 
documents for C# were written by Microsoft, HP and Intel. Mainly Mother 
Theresa kind of companies so they're probably just out to save the world 
and not a bit interested in making money.

> As far as bugs go, it's harder to accidentally write bugs into your code 
> with C# vs C.

"Nothing is foolproof, because fools are so ingenious."
Bad code is bad code, independant of the programming language. Besides, 
the debugging utils for C# doesn't exactly make me cheer.

> C# is a much more easily maintained language, tracking 
> down bugs when they occur is much easier because of things like 
> exceptions instead of good ol' segfaults.
> 

Actually, the unix sighandling system lets you trap sigsegv (and any 
other signal with exception of SIGKILL, unless the pid is 1) and do 
whatever you like with it, so writing your own exception-handling 
routine won't be a problem at all. The issue with that is that it adds 
mostly unnecessary code that slows execution down and bloats the 
program. Since C is the de facto language of choice for a plethora of 
operating systems, slowdowns in the language itself is simply unacceptable.

> The nagios.cfg as an XML file would be just fine IMHO, there's not that 
> much that you configure and you really hardly ever change it.

But why? If you want people to USE your program you should go with the 
template-based format that exists today, instead of having to design 
tools to convert the files from the existing, familiar format to XML 
(which is terribly cumbersome to edit manually). The config-frontend 
won't be there from the start you know.

> Hosts.cfg 
> and services, extinfo, etc should definitely be in a DB, which I've 
> planned.
> 

It has been thought of, implemented and discarded.

> Jeff
> 

I seriously think you will have minimal to no success with this project 
because of the following reasons in no particular order;

* It requires Unix-users to install Mono.
* MS has had nothing to do with Mono (it was Novell's initiative), so 
they are likely to do with C# what they did to the once source-portable 
C, namely write their own extensions which are highly platform dependant 
and most likely necessary to give the language any real value in an 
attempt to lure opensource-developers to work with MS platforms.
* Mono had its first claimed-to-be stable release one week ago (June 
30th 2004).
* Mono offers little real value to unix-systems (MS-controlled .NET 
framework), so it's not very likely to catch on in a terrible hurry.
* Reinventing the wheel when it's already working is just plain dumb.

> Aristedes Maniatis wrote:
> 
>> On 07/07/2004, at 11:50 AM, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
>>
>>>    * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>>>      language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!
>>
>>
>>
>> I am unclear how it helps to take a solid working tool written in an 
>> open language and rewrite it in a language controlled by one company, 
>> introduce a whole new set of bugs.
>>
>> Wouldn't you be better directing your energy toward improving the 
>> existing product?
>>
>>>    * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>>>      configuration tools.
>>
>>
>>
>> Please no. XML files are a pain to edit by hand and configuration 
>> tools are really unnecessary to edit a simple file like nagios.cfg. If 
>> you mean files like hosts.cfg, then perhaps you should contribute 
>> toward the work to get those back into an SQL database (as I 
>> understand that SQL support has been dropped in version 2).
>>
>> Ari Maniatis
>>
>>

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From ph at whatever.nu  Wed Jul  7 16:58:31 2004
From: ph at whatever.nu (Per-Henrik Persson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:58:31 +0200
Subject: Adding host commands
Message-ID: <20040707145831.GB18940@whatever.nu>

Hi!

I want to add some admin commands to the host commands list (like
reboot server) for certain hosts. Is there an easy way or do I have to
modify the source code? I have searched the list achives without
success.

Thanks in advance,

PH

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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Wed Jul  7 16:56:06 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 10:56:06 -0400
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
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On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 09:56, Matt Burleigh wrote:
> Peter Hicks wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 08:38:36AM -0400, Matt Burleigh wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >> What does this mean? "PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!"
> >>   
> >
> >
> > What's this been generated from? fping?  Is it possible another IP 
> > address
> > is responding...?
> >  
> >
> It was generated from "check_ping". Its almost impossible for the 
> another host to have been assigned this IP. Its outside the DHCP range 
> on that subnet and the hosts that are being checked are directjet's on 
> three different kinds of HP printers (a LJ9000, CLJ5500, and a DJ800). 
> I'm really scratching my head on this...

There are a dozen reasons two hosts could have the same IP, and most of
them don't deal with DHCP.  Someone could have brought up and old host
that used to have the IP, or someone could have been fooling around with
their own IP settings for a minute or two.  The DHCP server could have
goofed.  And even the router (if there is one) between you and the
printers could have goofed.  And someone could have hooked up a personal
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From verdon at cict.fr  Wed Jul  7 16:57:52 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:57:52 +0200
Subject: Nagios unknow all defines on configuration file
In-Reply-To: <001701c463ee$df0353c0$668610ac@pi21>
References: <001701c463ee$df0353c0$668610ac@pi21>
Message-ID: <40EC0F70.1080906@cict.fr>

Is well this command which you executed?

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v  /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg



Truong Tan Son wrote:

>Dear Sir,
>
>I renamed all files /usr/local/nagios/etc/<file-name>.cfg-sample  into
>/usr/local/nagios/etc/<file-name>.cfg, and run
>#/usr/local/nagios/bin.nagios -v  /usr/local/nagios/etc/<any-file-name>.cfg
>
>Nagios unknow all defines on configuration file (keywords, directives, ...).
>
>( My server  is RedHat 7.3,  I configured with default setting without
>errors )
>
>Please help me to solve.
>
>Thanks,
>
>
>
>
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From mgrafing at voyence.com  Wed Jul  7 16:58:08 2004
From: mgrafing at voyence.com (Mark Grafing)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:58:08 -0500
Subject: check_snmp on a cisco
Message-ID: <3AE153EDD5CA7B4CBA26FCDA1CBA64782BAF30@hermes.internal.powerupnetworks.com>

This is for checking CPU usage on a Concentrator 3005 so you may need to
change OID....
For the Service I created this:

define service {
host_name                      VPN_Router
service_description            CPU Utilization
check_command                  check_vpn_cpu!community_string!50!75
max_check_attempts             3
normal_check_interval          5
retry_check_interval           1
check_period                   24x7
notification_interval          15
notification_period            24x7
notification_options           u,c,r
contact_groups                 router-admins
}

For the checkcommand.cfg I created this:

# 'check_vpn_cpu' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check_vpn_cpu
        command_line    $USER1$/check_snmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -C $ARG1$ -o
.1.3.6.1.4.1.3076.2.1.2.25.1.2.0 -w $ARG2$ -c $ARG3$ -l "CPU
Utilization" -u "%" -m :
        }

Hope this helps!
Mark Grafing
RHCE #:809003165808980

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ric
Moseley
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 8:12 AM
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] check_snmp on a cisco


I have looked around but not really found anything on the forums or
mainling lists.  Does anyone have an example of using check_snmp to get
the CPU readings off of a Cisco device? 

Thanks.

Ric.



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From pla at softflare.com  Wed Jul  7 17:02:36 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 16:02:36 +0100
Subject: Ang: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
In-Reply-To: <40EC0707.6050807@eiisolutions.net>
References: <s0ec2106.045@mail.baerum.kommune.no>
            <40EC0707.6050807@eiisolutions.net>
Message-ID: <20040707150236.25942.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>

Matt Burleigh writes: 

> Stefan Hanssen wrote: 
> 
>> Jeg har for tiden ferie. Er tilbake mandag 2 august.
>>   
>> 
> Huh? ;-)

Translation: "I am on holiday and I'm running a really crappy vacation
auto-responder that is so stupid it responds to mailing lists.  Please
forgive me for being such an annoying idiot.  You'll have to put up with
this crap until the 2nd of August unless you killfile me, which is a very
good idea." 

I may have taken one or two liberties with that. :) 

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From greg_fenton at yahoo.com  Wed Jul  7 17:05:51 2004
From: greg_fenton at yahoo.com (Greg Fenton)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:05:51 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
In-Reply-To: <40EB56E1.3030606@gurugeek.com>
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Message-ID: <20040707150551.31039.qmail@web52901.mail.yahoo.com>

--- Jeff Rodriguez <nagios-users at gurugeek.com> wrote:
> I'm working on rewriting Nagios in C# and I'm looking for input as to
> what people would like to see in Nagios if it was rewritten from the 
> ground up.

First, why would you target C# instead of, say, Java?  At least Java
has a current production release on all platforms that Nagios
targets...and on a number of platforms where C# isn't and likely won't
be for quite some time.


> Features I intend to add:
> 
>     * Rewrite in C# for all the reasons one would use a managed
>       language, Linux boxen will use Mono of course!

I don't completely know what "all the reasons" are.  Nagios is a
systems-level application.  Systems code should be written in a
close-to-the-hardware language.  I would not want an OS written in .NET
nor Java (sorry to all the BlueBerry users out there...)

And the fact that it is written in C should only be a concern to you if
you are actually making modifications to the product.  What changes
have you been working on where C has been the "wrong" language to be
using?


>     * Design Nagios to be distributed from the get-go.

I'd need to get a better description as to what you mean by this.


>     * Use XML files for main configuration to ease the creation of
>       configuration tools.

This, to me, is a red-herring.  However, why not simply enhance Nagios
to recognize both the "legacy" and your "new" formats?


>     * Use a SQLite database back end for object configuration
>     * Use a SQLite database for user access configuration

I don't get this.  You mention using C# for "all the reasons ...", but
then you target a particular backend data repository???  Why would you
not make it datastore agnostic?


>     * Portability through C# and our friends at Mono

I'd want to see a fairly lengthy list of the classes you are planning
on using to ensure that they are available to "all" of the .NET
platforms...all 2 of them.


>     * Create web services for getting the status of services and
>       allowing services to report in.

There is nothing stopping this from being done with the current
architecture.  In fact, you could even write this enhancement in
.NET...or use something that wouldn't involve having to install an
entire platform just to support an HTTP/XML request (smells like a Job
For Perl to me!)


>     * Multi-threaded to simplify program code and speed the program
> up
>       on multi-processor systems.

Multi-threaded does ABSOLUTELY NOT simplify anything.  Regardless of
the programming environment.  And multi-threaded does not in and of
itself make a program more suitable/scalable in an SMP enviroment.

>     * Integrate RRDtool for performance reporting without need for a
>       plug in.

I'd want more details on this.

>     * More well-defined reporting tools.

Again, I don't see how this can't be accomplished with the current
architecture.

> I will also be releasing it under a new 
> name which I am working on getting domains and possibly a trademark
> for.

You are already thinking non-Free, so good luck to you.

greg_fenton.

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From james.kingston at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 17:04:38 2004
From: james.kingston at gmail.com (James Kingston)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 08:04:38 -0700
Subject: Define our own macros
In-Reply-To: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILGEOCDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>
References: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILGEOCDIAA.m.borsani@it.net>
Message-ID: <9d27c632040707080471f522e5@mail.gmail.com>

To be honest, I don't see why you can't use servicedesc

For example, you are using check_tcp to check for amanda on port
10080.  You can set your servicedesc as "amanda", "amanda_on_10080",
or "tcp_port_10080"

If you must go to the source:
the service struct is defined in objects.h, IIRC
grab_service_macros() is in utils.c, and it is called immediately
before every service notification.  You can probably fill the
information you would like to add into one of the $USERn$ macros,
which come from the macro_user[] array originally defined in nagios.c

Good luck.



On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:28:09 +0200, Marco Borsani <m.borsani at it.net> wrote:
> 
> I did not miss his solution, as you can read in my first e-mail I already
> know that possibility.
> 
> As I wrote I can't follow that way so I have to find another one.
> 
> I am tring to modify/add some informations given by nagios (macros?),
> looking for source file and .h file...actually I don't find anything yet.
> regards
> 
> Marco
> 
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: James Kingston [mailto:james.kingston at gmail.com]
> Inviato: mercoledi 7 luglio 2004 16.21
> A: Marco Borsani
> Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] Define our own macros
> 
> I think you missed Andreas Ericsson's solution when you last asked
> (pasted below):
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Marco Borsani wrote:
> > Hi everybody !
> >
> > I have following problem with my technicians.
> >
> > I have many check_tcp on same host. When CRITICAL messages arrive (via
> > epager or via mail) the technicians can't see which ports have problems
> > because the only information that they read is:
> > "Socket timeout after 10 seconds"
> > We have not the same problem when they receive OK messages because in that
> > kind of messages NAGIOS write the port number:
> > "TCP OK - 0.012 second response time on port 8080"
> >
> > Actually I can't modify "service name" (that could solve this problem
> > putting the port number inside it!), have you got any idea about this
> > situation?
> >
> 
> Just out of curiousity, why can't you change the service_description
> variable? It's there for the sole purpose of identifying the service to
> nagios AND the technicians.
> 
> > Regards
> >
> > Marco
> 
>


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From tom.welsh at bt.com  Wed Jul  7 17:12:11 2004
From: tom.welsh at bt.com (tom.welsh at bt.com)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:12:11 +0100
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <418B502A3861E242AFDED453F3D5B89CB667C0@i2km99-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net>

Hi All,

I also note that this guy said he would be releasing the NEW Nagios(r) not under the GPL but under a BSD licence because he preferred it!

Are you allowed to do that? Change licensing schemes I mean? I thought only the original author of the original work could change the licence model. But I may be wrong

And you would obviously be changing the name as one of the reasons for Ethan moving from Netsaint to Nagios(r) was that he could trademark the name.

Also on another point. I apologise for the nagios demo being down. I will be paying my hosting company tomorrow ( DOH!!) so hopefully it and the other squareBOX resources should be back up and running over the weekend. Apologies for any probs this may have caused.

Cheers

Tom Welsh




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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Rui Miguel
Seabra
Sent: 07 July 2004 15:28
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)


On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 05:38 -0700, Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> Controlled by one company? Perhaps I should point out that C# is an ECMA 
> standard: http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/ecma/ C# is as controlled by one 
> company as C is.
> 
> As far as bugs go, it's harder to accidentally write bugs into your code 
> with C# vs C. C# is a much more easily maintained language, tracking 
> down bugs when they occur is much easier because of things like 
> exceptions instead of good ol' segfaults.

Then by all means, if you think so much of it do write a monitoring
clone by yourself. I for one will never touch it. And not exactly
because of all the dubious licensing problems (some parts are ECMA, some
parts are patented, and we've not even started talking about submarine
patents yet... like those that hit GIF, JPEG, etc...)

It's overkill for an application that should be very small and simple.

> The nagios.cfg as an XML file would be just fine IMHO, there's not that 
> much that you configure and you really hardly ever change it. Hosts.cfg 
> and services, extinfo, etc should definitely be in a DB, which I've planned.

It would only increase in size by several orders of magnitude, without
real advantages other than relying on a library to parse.

Rui


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From pdonahue at acmicorp.com  Wed Jul  7 17:11:44 2004
From: pdonahue at acmicorp.com (Donahue, Pat)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:11:44 -0400
Subject: Compiling With MySQL Support
Message-ID: <32871003F0BDC84E99E69EB6E9AE3AB410F93B@HQ-MAIL>

Hi,
 
I'm having problems compiling with MySQL support. I've passed the
appropriate flags to the compiler (note that the db was installed as a
binary distribution):
 
./configure --with-mysql-xdata --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib
--with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/mysql/include
 
I was getting this error: ../xdata/xrddb.c:41: mysql/mysql.h: No such
file or directory
 
so I copied the includes into a subdirectory named mysql within
/usr/local/mysql/include. That took care of the missing header files.
The next problem was that gcc couldn't seem to find the appropriate
library files, even though I had specified them on the config command
line. As you can see the library directory is specified with -L and the
library itself is specified with -l. I tried removing these LDFLAGS and
just simply specifying the path to the library.. still no luck. 
 
Here is the current error:
 
# make all
...
gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE
-L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient nagios.c checks.o config.o
commands.o flapping.o logging.o notifications.o sehandlers.o utils.o
sretention.o ../xdata/xrddb.c ../common/comments.c ../xdata/xcddb.c
../common/objects.c ../xdata/xodtemplate.c ../common/statusdata.c
../xdata/xsddb.c perfdata.o ../xdata/xpddefault.c ../common/downtime.c
../xdata/xdddb.c    -lm -o nagios
/tmp/ccokJN8q.o: In function `xrddb_initialize':
/usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:224: undefined reference
to `mysql_init'
/tmp/ccokJN8q.o: In function `xrddb_connect':
/usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:286: undefined reference
to `mysql_real_connect'
/usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:256: undefined reference
to `mysql_close'
...
 
Why can't Nagios find the MySQL library? During config it even claims it
can!
 
# ./configure --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib
--with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/mysql/include --with-mysql-xdata
...
We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xsddb.*) for status data
I/O...
We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xcddb.*) for comment data
I/O...
We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xeddb.*) for extended data
I/O...
We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xrddb.*) for retention data
I/O...
We'll use template-based routines (in xdata/xodtemplate.*) for object
data I/O...
We'll use default routines (in xdata/xpddefault.*) for performance data
I/O...
We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xdddb.*) for scheduled
downtime data I/O...
checking for main in -lmysqlclient... yes
MySQL library was found!

 
Thanks in advance for the help,
Pat


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From tech at gnuconsulting.com  Wed Jul  7 17:14:26 2004
From: tech at gnuconsulting.com (David Bishop)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 09:14:26 -0600
Subject: check_dns on freebsd
Message-ID: <20040707151426.GC85827@server1.gnuconsulting.com>

I just discovered why check_dns was failing for me (this is unrelated to
my other problem).  On FreeBSD, /usr/sbin/nslookup needs a dash in front
of the name of the dns server to use, otherwise it thinks that you are
passing two names to look up  instead of just one.  For instance, by
default check_dns constructs a command-line of /usr/sbin/nslookup
<target_host> <server_to_use>.  It should be /usr/sbin/nslookup
<target_host> -<server_to_use>.  Once I added the dash to the asprintf
line where command_line is constructed, it worked great.  I presume this
needs to be wrapped in some sort of IFDEF FREEBSD, but I left that as an
exercise for the maintainer :-)

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From eduardo.moura at telway.com.br  Wed Jul  7 17:30:12 2004
From: eduardo.moura at telway.com.br (Eduardo Moura)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:30:12 -0300
Subject: RES: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
Message-ID: <4F1A91B978EE87478F2447A768883685F4E6@cbemi-web.cbemi>

People,
 
I could not agree more with the opinion of increase nagios performance of existing Nagios source. Rewrite the whole stuff in a new language it's a waste of time and energy. The tool need some improvements like on-line inclusion of hosts, services, contacts and so on without the need to restart service. The database interface, could be incremented to provide the needed perfomance. Notice that i'm just talking about the product core. If we navigate to interface, a lot of other stuff could be done.
 
My advice. C or C++ is a strong language and with a little effort of Quality Assurance we can evolve nagios a lot more.
 
 
Best Regards
 
 
Eduardo Moura
Telway Tecnologia
 

From verdon at cict.fr  Wed Jul  7 17:32:42 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:32:42 +0200
Subject: Compiling With MySQL Support
In-Reply-To: <32871003F0BDC84E99E69EB6E9AE3AB410F93B@HQ-MAIL>
References: <32871003F0BDC84E99E69EB6E9AE3AB410F93B@HQ-MAIL>
Message-ID: <40EC179A.6060409@cict.fr>

Look at this:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.network.nagios.user/14423


Donahue, Pat wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm having problems compiling with MySQL support. I've passed the 
> appropriate flags to the compiler (note that the db was installed as a 
> binary distribution):
>  
> ./configure --with-mysql-xdata --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib 
> --with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/mysql/include
>  
> I was getting this error: ../xdata/xrddb.c:41: mysql/mysql.h: No such 
> file or directory
>  
> so I copied the includes into a subdirectory named mysql within 
> /usr/local/mysql/include. That took care of the missing header files. 
> The next problem was that gcc couldn't seem to find the appropriate 
> library files, even though I had specified them on the config command 
> line. As you can see the library directory is specified with -L and 
> the library itself is specified with -l. I tried removing these 
> LDFLAGS and just simply specifying the path to the library.. still no 
> luck.
>  
> Here is the current error:
>  
> # make all
> ...
> gcc -g -O2 -I/usr/local/mysql/include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DNSCORE 
> -L/usr/local/mysql/lib -lmysqlclient nagios.c checks.o config.o 
> commands.o flapping.o logging.o notifications.o sehandlers.o utils.o 
> sretention.o ../xdata/xrddb.c ../common/comments.c ../xdata/xcddb.c 
> ../common/objects.c ../xdata/xodtemplate.c ../common/statusdata.c 
> ../xdata/xsddb.c perfdata.o ../xdata/xpddefault.c ../common/downtime.c 
> ../xdata/xdddb.c    -lm -o nagios
> /tmp/ccokJN8q.o: In function `xrddb_initialize':
> /usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:224: undefined 
> reference to `mysql_init'
> /tmp/ccokJN8q.o: In function `xrddb_connect':
> /usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:286: undefined 
> reference to `mysql_real_connect'
> /usr/local/src/nagios-1.2/base/../xdata/xrddb.c:256: undefined 
> reference to `mysql_close'
> ...
>  
> Why can't Nagios find the MySQL library? During config it even claims 
> it can!
>  
> # ./configure --with-mysql-lib=/usr/local/mysql/lib 
> --with-mysql-inc=/usr/local/mysql/include --with-mysql-xdata
> ...
> We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xsddb.*) for status data 
> I/O...
> We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xcddb.*) for comment data 
> I/O...
> We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xeddb.*) for extended data 
> I/O...
> We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xrddb.*) for retention 
> data I/O...
> We'll use template-based routines (in xdata/xodtemplate.*) for object 
> data I/O...
> We'll use default routines (in xdata/xpddefault.*) for performance 
> data I/O...
> We'll use MySQL database routines (in xdata/xdddb.*) for scheduled 
> downtime data I/O...
> checking for main in -lmysqlclient... yes
> MySQL library was found!
>  
> Thanks in advance for the help,
> Pat
>

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From ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx  Wed Jul  7 18:38:47 2004
From: ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx (ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:38:47 -0600
Subject: SNMP
Message-ID: <OF0A0746B0.8A728023-ON06256ECA.005AEDAF-06256ECA.005B716C@jalisco.gob.mx>







Hello everybody
I have read a lot a information about nagios but I haven`t understood how
use the snmp plug .
Can somebody give me a little explaning about it?
I`m not sure how much I can do with this option.

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From benoit at aam-communication.com  Wed Jul  7 17:38:39 2004
From: benoit at aam-communication.com (Benoit MIGUEL)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:38:39 +0200
Subject: Ang: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
References: <s0ec2106.045@mail.baerum.kommune.no>            <40EC0707.6050807@eiisolutions.net> <20040707150236.25942.qmail@minnow.softflare.net>
Message-ID: <085601c46438$8cf30720$02960c0a@ben>

???h?h??
excellent word2word translation :))))

Benoit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul L. Allen" <pla at softflare.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: Ang: [Nagios-users] PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!


> Matt Burleigh writes:
>
> > Stefan Hanssen wrote:
> >
> >> Jeg har for tiden ferie. Er tilbake mandag 2 august.
> >>
> >>
> > Huh? ;-)
>
> Translation: "I am on holiday and I'm running a really crappy vacation
> auto-responder that is so stupid it responds to mailing lists.  Please
> forgive me for being such an annoying idiot.  You'll have to put up with
> this crap until the 2nd of August unless you killfile me, which is a very
> good idea."
>
> I may have taken one or two liberties with that. :)
>
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Wed Jul  7 17:50:01 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:50:01 -0400
Subject: acknowledging errors
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEE0@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

Sometimes, no rhyme nor reason... sometimes though I have no option to
acknowledge a service problem.
 
Anyone else seen this?
 
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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 17:53:33 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:53:33 -0500
Subject: Adding host commands
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6710@mismail2.ena.com>

Per-Henrik Persson <mailto:ph at whatever.nu> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I want to add some admin commands to the host commands list (like
> reboot server) for certain hosts. Is there an easy way or do I have
> to modify the source code? I have searched the list achives without
> success.   

You can either modify the source to include them in the built in list
_or_ you can you the Host/Service extended info feature to create a
notes_url with any additional information and host/service specific
commands you feel are lacking. The latter course of action is probably
easier and more flexible in the long run.

--
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From mshirley at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 17:36:33 2004
From: mshirley at gmail.com (Mark Shirley)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:36:33 -0400
Subject: issues with notifications
In-Reply-To: <13828F680182D511893300508BD6831706E582A9@oscex2.osc.uscg.mil>
References: <13828F680182D511893300508BD6831706E582A9@oscex2.osc.uscg.mil>
Message-ID: <c31ca9c604070708365d53ebe8@mail.gmail.com>

fyi for anyone with the same problem, the suggestion on removing the
\'s before the "'s solved it.  thanks!

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 13:24:47 -0400, Lawrence, Lynne
<llawrence at osc.uscg.mil> wrote:
> It looks like you are having quoting issues.  I use a similar notification
> command, but my quotes are not escaped.  You might want to try removing the
> '\'s preceding each of your double quotes.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Lynne Lawrence
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> > [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Mark
> > Shirley
> > Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 3:06 PM
> > To: pete.dewell at volteurope.com
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] issues with notifications
> >
> >
> > define contact {
> >     use    admins
> >     contact_name    mark
> >     alias    mark
> >     email    myemail at domain
> >     pager    page-me at domain
> >     service_notification_period    24x7
> >     host_notification_period    24x7
> >     service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
> >     host_notification_options    d,u,r
> >     service_notification_commands    notify-by-email,notify-by-epager
> >     host_notification_commands
> > host-notify-by-email,host-notify-by-epager
> > }
> >
> > my contact template is ...
> >
> > define contact {
> >     name    admins
> >     service_notification_period    24x7
> >     host_notification_period    24x7
> >     service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
> >     host_notification_options    d,u,r
> >     service_notification_commands    notify-by-email,notify-by-epager
> >     host_notification_commands
> > host-notify-by-email,host-notify-by-epager
> >     register    0
> > }
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:37:50 +0100, Pete Dewell
> > <pete.dewell at volteurope.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > What's the contact definition for this address ?
> > > It looks like that has been badly defined in the config file.
> > >
> > > Pete Dewell
> > >
> > >
> > > Mark Shirley wrote:
> > >
> > > > host-notify-by-email
> > > > /usr/bin/printf \"%b\" \"***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type:
> > > > $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress:
> > > > $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\" |
> > > > /usr/bin/mail -s \"Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for $HOSTNAME$!\"
> > > > $CONTACTEMAIL$
> > > >
> > > > That is my current host-notify-by-email command.  When a host DOWN
> > > > event occurs it says it sends the notification but I never recieve
> > > > one.  Upon further investigating I notice in my mail
> > queue a returned
> > > > email from my local smtp server stating the following
> > > >
> > > > From MAILER-DAEMON Thu Jun 24 13:32:53 2004
> > > > Return-path: <>
> > > > Envelope-to: nagios at helpdesk
> > > > Received: from mail by helpdesk-linux with local (Exim
> > 3.35 #1 (Debian))
> > > > id 1BdY5l-0002xZ-00
> > > > for <nagios at helpdesk>; Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:32:53 -0400
> > > > From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon at helpdesk>
> > > > To: nagios at helpdesk
> > > > Subject: Mail failure - malformed recipient address
> > > > Message-Id: <E1BdY5l-0002xZ-00 at helpdesk-linux>
> > > > Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:32:53 -0400
> > > >
> > > > A message that you sent contained a recipient address
> > that was incorrectly
> > > > constructed:
> > > >
> > > >   my-host.domain.com!"  unmatched doublequote in local
> > part (expected
> > > > word or "<")
> > > >
> > > > The message has not been delivered to any recipients.
> > > >
> > > > ------ This is a copy of your message, including all the
> > headers. ------
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > To: alert, for, my-host.domain.com!", myemail at domain.com, UP
> > > > Subject: "Host
> > > >
> > > >
> > ""*****""Nagios""*****nnNotification""Type:""RECOVERYnHost:""m
> > y-host.domain.comnState:""UPnAddress:""1.1.1.1nInfo:""$nnDate/
> > Time:""Thu""Jun""24""13:32:53""EDT""2004n""
> > > >
> > > > --------
> > > > Notice the To: line!
> > > >
> > > > It seems as though the line it's sending to `mail` is missing some
> > > > information.  Could it be that "Host $HOSTSTATE$" is not
> > getting send
> > > > to it?  I don't really understand how this could be happening.  Is
> > > > there any other information i can provide to make things easier?
> > > >
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Wed Jul  7 17:56:26 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:56:26 -0400
Subject: NEVERMIND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THING
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEE1@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

I think I got it... I think it's because it wasn't yet in a hard state.
Thanks.
 
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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 18:26:59 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:26:59 -0500
Subject: acknowledging errors
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6714@mismail2.ena.com>

 

________________________________

From: Jack Doyle [mailto:jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 10:50 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] acknowledging errors


Sometimes, no rhyme nor reason... sometimes though I have no option to
acknowledge a service problem.
 
Anyone else seen this?


<marc>

Yes, if the service in question is not in a hard state.

</marc>

P.s. please try to send to the list in plain text. Not only does it make
it easier to reply with proper quoting but more people on the list will
read it.




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From earl at switchmanagement.com  Wed Jul  7 19:23:50 2004
From: earl at switchmanagement.com (Earl C. Ruby III)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:23:50 -0700
Subject: Monitoring any RAID cards
In-Reply-To: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
References: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net>
Message-ID: <200407071023.50789.earl@switchmanagement.com>

I'm monitoring many types of RAID cards: Adaptec, 3ware, Mylex, and softraid. 
Some hosts have multiple RAID cards.

My general approach is to use whatever command line tool you have to monitor 
the RAID card and dump its "known good/working state" output to a file:

my_raid_tool --card 0 --info all > /var/state/diskmon/raid.card0

Then write a script to diff the output of the tool against the file:

my_raid_tool --card 0 --info all | diff -u - /var/state/diskmon/raid.card0

If the diff returns nothing, then everything is OK. If the diff returns 
anything, return a critical error. If you start seeing "known and unimportant 
errors" popping up (e.g. "Verifying disk"), you can run a second test to 
eliminate them:

my_raid_tool --card 0 --info all | diff -u - /var/state/diskmon/raid.card0 | 
grep -v 'unimportant error message 1' | grep -v 'unimportant error message 2'

If the second test returns something, return a critical error. If only the 
first test returns something, return a warning. If neither test returns 
anything, you're OK.

Earl

On Tuesday 06 July 2004 10:11 pm, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Greetings all..
>
> 	Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, what
> are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) -
> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and doing
> this:
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>
> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID
> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific
> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>
> Has anybody run into this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Jonathan
>
> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal
> experiences)
>
>
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From Darren.Kemp at xerox.com  Wed Jul  7 19:34:14 2004
From: Darren.Kemp at xerox.com (Kemp, Darren)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:34:14 -0400
Subject: Multiple root processes question
Message-ID: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF819@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

We have recently updated to NAGIOS 2.0a (yes its alphs so I don't expect
any support).

Anyway, if anyone has run into an issue where multiple NAGIOS processes
are starting I'd love to hear from you.

 

Basically it will start up between 3-6 root processes, and end up
missing random event handlers are what not.

 

 

  nagios 18889     1  0 13:33:23 ?        0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

  nagios 24509     1  0 12:47:32 ?        0:23
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

  nagios 18894     1  0 13:33:23 ?        0:00
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

bash-2.03#

 

I have tried a complete shutdown, removing all the var files (except the
archive), still starts up several

Processes.

 

Thanks to anyone who can provide input

 

-dkk

 

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From ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx  Wed Jul  7 20:36:23 2004
From: ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx (ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:36:23 -0600
Subject: Cisco
In-Reply-To: <E1BiDac-0004ur-TB@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
References: <E1BiDac-0004ur-TB@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <OFC51A5A4E.867992F5-ON06256ECA.0065EF45-06256ECA.00663571@jalisco.gob.mx>







Hi
I saw ?the Kevin Calhoon`s plug about snmp to check cisco devices I would
like to use it .
Could you tell me where I can get information about it to install it and
use it.

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From earl at switchmanagement.com  Wed Jul  7 19:49:22 2004
From: earl at switchmanagement.com (Earl C. Ruby III)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:49:22 -0700
Subject: Using passive-only plug-ins
Message-ID: <200407071049.22932.earl@switchmanagement.com>

How do you set up a passive-only plug-in without having it show up with a big 
red warning flag that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED"? 

According to the docs:

"If you only want passive results to be provided for a specific service (i.e. 
active checks should not be performed), simply set the active_checks_enabled 
member of the service definition to 0. This will prevent Nagios from ever 
actively performing a check of the service. Make sure that the 
passive_checks_enabled member of the service definition is set to 1. If it 
isn't, Nagios won't process passive checks for the service!"

I have active_checks_enabled set to 0 and passive_checks_enabled set to 1. 
This gives me a passive-only check -- no scheduled checks, status only 
changes when an event comes in via nsca.

However, I also get a big red warning that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED" on 
this service check. Anyone using Nagios who sees that will automatically 
think something is wrong and re-enable the check. Since Nagios requires a 
check_command for every service, the "dummy" check I have in place gets 
executed and its status value over-writes the valid status.

If I had a "dummy" check command that wouldn't alter the current status that 
would work, or if there was some way of telling Nagios that "This is a 
passive-only check and you should never ever try to do the active check -- 
don't warn me about it and don't give me the option to turn the active check 
back on" -- that would work too. 

Has anyone done this?

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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 20:10:53 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:10:53 -0500
Subject: Using passive-only plug-ins
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6715@mismail2.ena.com>

Earl C. Ruby III <mailto:earl at switchmanagement.com> wrote:
> How do you set up a passive-only plug-in without having it show up
> with a big red warning flag that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED"? 
> 

These are the key variables --

active_checks_enabled           1       ; Active service checks are
enabled
passive_checks_enabled          1       ; Passive service checks are
enabled/accepted
check_period                    none


And here is the complete service template I use --

define service{
        name                            generic-service
        active_checks_enabled           1       ; Active service checks
are enabled
        passive_checks_enabled          1       ; Passive service checks
are enabled/accepted
        parallelize_check               1       ; Active service checks
should be parallelized
        obsess_over_service             1       ; We should obsess over
this service (if necessary)
        check_freshness                 0       ; Default is to NOT
check service 'freshness'
        notifications_enabled           1       ; Service notifications
are enabled
        event_handler_enabled           1       ; Service event handler
is enabled
        flap_detection_enabled          1       ; Flap detection is
enabled
        process_perf_data               1       ; Process performance
data
        retain_status_information       0       ; Retain status
information across program restarts
        retain_nonstatus_information    1       ; Retain non-status
information across program restarts
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    none
        max_check_attempts              5
        normal_check_interval           5
        retry_check_interval            3
        notification_interval           10080
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            c,r

        register                        0       ; DONT REGISTER THIS
DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
        }
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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Wed Jul  7 20:21:09 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:21:09 -0400
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248228257@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

I've been using Nagios for a while and I know a simple solution to this
question, but I'm interested in a different answer: If you have two main
classifications of monitored devices and you don't want them to be
accessible together, how would you set up one Nagios server to monitor
both sections and present both as different web sites?

In our case, we have two different internal divisions - we're a wireless
company that does Fixed Wireless Broadband in Raleigh, NC and also hotel
wi-fi installs. The FWB has an order of magnitude more devices, but
there are more hostgroups for hotels. When you use grouplist.cgi, this
makes for a HUGE link list on the left hand pane. I know I could put
this on two servers, but that would take another monitoring server and
require a second host to maintain config files/logins on.

I was wondering if there are any custom fields in Nagios, so that we
could use some sort of "if custom_field=FWB then display" when visiting
nagios.windchannel.com/fwb and "if custom_field=Hotels then display"
when visiting nagios.windchannel.com/hotels, to keep them separate.

Of course, a real tricky question is, is there a way to present each
section as their own web page, AND have an overall summary screen for
the guy who's on-call? :)

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From drhonk at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 20:31:32 2004
From: drhonk at gmail.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 11:31:32 -0700
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
Message-ID: <90bc2a03040707113114132ccf@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:

1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios detected
that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as failed with
error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now showing both host
and imap service as down.
2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.
3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
remained showing as down.

Does anyone ever have this problem ? I'm using nagios 1.2 with plugins 1.3.1

 
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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Wed Jul  7 20:41:32 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:41:32 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Segregation of networks
In-Reply-To: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248228257@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>
References: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248228257@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407071340030.29488-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Nelson wrote:

> I've been using Nagios for a while and I know a simple solution to this
> question, but I'm interested in a different answer: If you have two main
> classifications of monitored devices and you don't want them to be
> accessible together, how would you set up one Nagios server to monitor
> both sections and present both as different web sites?

Create two hostgroups and make a seperate contact for each hostgroup.  Log
in as contact one to see the first group, log in as contact two to see the
second group.  Log in as nagiosadmin and see everything.

Easy.
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From krcalhoo at mtu.edu  Wed Jul  7 20:37:50 2004
From: krcalhoo at mtu.edu (kevin)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:37:50 -0400
Subject: Cisco
In-Reply-To: <OFC51A5A4E.867992F5-ON06256ECA.0065EF45-06256ECA.00663571@jalisco.gob.mx>
References: <OFC51A5A4E.867992F5-ON06256ECA.0065EF45-06256ECA.00663571@jalisco.gob.mx>
Message-ID: <40EC42FE.1050602@mtu.edu>

ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx wrote:
> 
> Hi
> I saw  the Kevin Calhoon`s plug about snmp to check cisco devices I would
> like to use it .
> Could you tell me where I can get information about it to install it and
> use it.

It is a perl program so you don't need to install it.  Just copy it to 
you libexe directory and give it the proper execute permissions. 
However, if you don't have all the library it uses then it will error 
out.  The easiest way to install perl librarys that I have found is 
using cpan.org.  You can install them from the command line by typing
#perl -MCPAN -eshell

Getopt::Long, Net::SNMP are necessary for the plugin to work.  If you 
don't want RRDs just uncomment it, and set my $WITH_RRD = 0;

All the documentation is in the standard plugin format
#./check_cisco_cpu -h
Other notes are made in the comments of the script.

Before I forgot to mention that I wrote it for a Cisco Catalyst 4006.  I 
don't know if it will work on any other devices, but you can always try. 
  All you would need to do is look up the oid on cisco's(or other 
manufacturers) web site, and replace the one used in the script.
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From quanah at stanford.edu  Wed Jul  7 20:52:44 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:52:44 -0700
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
In-Reply-To: <90bc2a03040707113114132ccf@mail.gmail.com>
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--On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:31 AM -0700 Roy Kartadinata 
<drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:
>
> 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios detected
> that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as failed with
> error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now showing both host
> and imap service as down.
> 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.
> 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> remained showing as down.
>
> Does anyone ever have this problem ? I'm using nagios 1.2 with plugins
> 1.3.1

It sounds like your check-host-alive check isn't set up properly.  I 
suggest running it from the command line, and verifying that it works 
correctly.

--Quanah

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From drhonk at gmail.com  Wed Jul  7 21:01:15 2004
From: drhonk at gmail.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:01:15 -0700
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
In-Reply-To: <92B5A7981C810E7DA6A52EC8@cadabra.stanford.edu>
References: <90bc2a03040707113114132ccf@mail.gmail.com> <92B5A7981C810E7DA6A52EC8@cadabra.stanford.edu>
Message-ID: <90bc2a0304070712015dd32142@mail.gmail.com>

It works fine when I tested from command line. Below is the setting
from checkcommands.cfg

# 'check-host-alive' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check-host-alive
        command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w
3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
        }

This is the result when I ran it from command prompt.

PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 83.65 ms


So that works fine.





On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 11:52:44 -0700, Quanah Gibson-Mount
<quanah at stanford.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:31 AM -0700 Roy Kartadinata
> <drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> > pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:
> >
> > 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios detected
> > that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as failed with
> > error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now showing both host
> > and imap service as down.
> > 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.
> > 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> > running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> > remained showing as down.
> >
> > Does anyone ever have this problem ? I'm using nagios 1.2 with plugins
> > 1.3.1
> 
> It sounds like your check-host-alive check isn't set up properly.  I
> suggest running it from the command line, and verifying that it works
> correctly.
> 
> --Quanah
> 
> --
> Quanah Gibson-Mount
> Principal Software Developer
> ITSS/Shared Services
> Stanford University
> GnuPG Public Key: http://www.stanford.edu/~quanah/pgp.html
> 


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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Wed Jul  7 21:01:54 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:01:54 -0400
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F9B@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Demetri Mouratis [mailto:dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 2:42 PM
> To: Robert Nelson
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Segregation of networks
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Nelson wrote:
> 
> > I've been using Nagios for a while and I know a simple solution to 
> > this question, but I'm interested in a different answer: If 
> you have 
> > two main classifications of monitored devices and you don't 
> want them 
> > to be accessible together, how would you set up one Nagios 
> server to 
> > monitor both sections and present both as different web sites?
> 
> Create two hostgroups and make a seperate contact for each 
> hostgroup.  Log in as contact one to see the first group, log 
> in as contact two to see the second group.  Log in as 
> nagiosadmin and see everything.
> 
> Easy.

I have one hostgroup for every hotel, one for every POP in our FWB
market, and a few others of special groupings. What I want is a way to
view just the hotel stuff, just the FWB stuff, or both together.
Grouplist.cgi is great, but if I have 42 hotel groups and 6 POP groups,
it's a bit hard to find the POP groups.

Rob Nelson
Network Engineer
Windchannel Communications
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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Wed Jul  7 21:08:00 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:08:00 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Segregation of networks
In-Reply-To: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F9B@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>
References: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F9B@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407071407150.30672-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Nelson wrote:

> >
> > On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Robert Nelson wrote:
> >
> > > I've been using Nagios for a while and I know a simple solution to
> > > this question, but I'm interested in a different answer: If
> > you have
> > > two main classifications of monitored devices and you don't
> > want them
> > > to be accessible together, how would you set up one Nagios
> > server to
> > > monitor both sections and present both as different web sites?
> >
> > Create two hostgroups and make a seperate contact for each
> > hostgroup.  Log in as contact one to see the first group, log
> > in as contact two to see the second group.  Log in as
> > nagiosadmin and see everything.
> >
> > Easy.
>
> I have one hostgroup for every hotel, one for every POP in our FWB
> market, and a few others of special groupings. What I want is a way to
> view just the hotel stuff, just the FWB stuff, or both together.
> Grouplist.cgi is great, but if I have 42 hotel groups and 6 POP groups,
> it's a bit hard to find the POP groups.

You need a hostgroup for all the hotel hosts and a hostgroup for all the
FWB hosts.
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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 21:17:24 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:17:24 -0500
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B671B@mismail2.ena.com>

Robert Nelson <mailto:rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:

> In our case, we have two different internal divisions - we're a
> wireless company that does Fixed Wireless Broadband in Raleigh, NC
> and also hotel wi-fi installs. The FWB has an order of magnitude more
> devices, but there are more hostgroups for hotels. When you use
> grouplist.cgi, this makes for a HUGE link list on the left hand pane.
> I know I could put this on two servers, but that would take another
> monitoring server and require a second host to maintain config
> files/logins on.    
>
> Of course, a real tricky question is, is there a way to present each
> section as their own web page, AND have an overall summary screen for
> the guy who's on-call? :)  

This is exactly what CGI authentication is for. When enabled, contacts
can only see hosts, hostgroups, and services that they are contacts for.
Create a contactgroup for the FWB people, a contactgroup for the hotel
people and make them contacts for their respective hosts and services.
The on-call guy should be a member of both contactgroups.

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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 21:27:20 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:27:20 -0500
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B671C@mismail2.ena.com>

Roy Kartadinata <mailto:drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd: 
> 
> 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios
> detected that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as
> failed with error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now
> showing both host and imap service as down.   

/bin/ping is most likely not exectutable by the nagios user. Make sure
that it's sticky (chmod 4755 /bin/ping) and owned by root.

> 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.

Correct behavior if nagios thinks the host is down.

> 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> remained showing as down.  

Correct behavior if nagios thinks the host is down. See #1.

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 21:27:19 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:27:19 +0200
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
In-Reply-To: <90bc2a03040707113114132ccf@mail.gmail.com>
References: <90bc2a03040707113114132ccf@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <40EC4E97.6080008@op5.se>

Roy Kartadinata wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I just have nagios installed and configured, so far its been running
> pretty good. Several things that I notice kinda wierd:
> 
> 1. When I turned off imap daemon on one of our server, nagios detected
> that imap is down but it also shows check-host-alive as failed with
> error, /bin/ping -n -U -c 1 x.x.x.x, so nagios now showing both host
> and imap service as down.
> 2. Instead of service notification, I only receive host notification.

You need to set notification_period and notification_options properly in 
the service object definition, as well as service_notification_period 
and service_notification_options in the contact definition. In addition 
to this, you must also be in the contactgroup which receives 
notifications for the service (it's not enough to be a contact for the 
host to receive notifications for its services). If all of that is set 
up properly you should have a look at the service_notification_command 
and the relevant timeperiods.

> 3. I turned imap daemon back on, nagios shows that it is up and
> running .. but no recovery notification like it should and host
> remained showing as down.
> 

'r' is for recovery in notification_options for service objects, as well 
as for service_notification_options for contact objects.

> Does anyone ever have this problem ? I'm using nagios 1.2 with plugins 1.3.1
> 

Not when properly configured, no. Does the imap server normally respond 
to PING? check-host-alive is (by default) just a check_ping with more 
lenient values, you know.

-- 
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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 21:29:11 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 14:29:11 -0500
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B671D@mismail2.ena.com>

Roy Kartadinata <mailto:drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:
> It works fine when I tested from command line. Below is the setting
> from checkcommands.cfg 
> 
> # 'check-host-alive' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check-host-alive
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w
> 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
>         }
> 
> This is the result when I ran it from command prompt.
> 
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 83.65 ms
> 
> 
> So that works fine.

Did you run it as root or the nagios user? There _is_ a difference.

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 21:30:28 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:30:28 +0200
Subject: Multiple root processes question
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Kemp, Darren wrote:
> We have recently updated to NAGIOS 2.0a (yes its alphs so I don't expect
> any support).
> 
> Anyway, if anyone has run into an issue where multiple NAGIOS processes
> are starting I'd love to hear from you.
> 
> Basically it will start up between 3-6 root processes, and end up
> missing random event handlers are what not.
> 
>   nagios 18889     1  0 13:33:23 ?        0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
>   nagios 24509     1  0 12:47:32 ?        0:23
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 
>   nagios 18894     1  0 13:33:23 ?        0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> 

Those three processes are started by the nagios user. Nagios forks once 
for every check, so it's supposed to run several processes.

> bash-2.03#
> 
> I have tried a complete shutdown, removing all the var files (except the
> archive), still starts up several
> 
> Processes.
> 

Good. That means it's working.

>  
> 
> Thanks to anyone who can provide input
> 

You're welcome.

>  
> 
> -dkk
> 

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From quanah at stanford.edu  Wed Jul  7 21:27:51 2004
From: quanah at stanford.edu (Quanah Gibson-Mount)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:27:51 -0700
Subject: Notification and check-host-alive problem
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--On Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:01 PM -0700 Roy Kartadinata 
<drhonk at gmail.com> wrote:

> It works fine when I tested from command line. Below is the setting
> from checkcommands.cfg
>
># 'check-host-alive' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check-host-alive
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w
> 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
>         }
>
> This is the result when I ran it from command prompt.
>
> PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 83.65 ms
>
>
> So that works fine.

Is Ping in the nagios user's path?  Did you su to the nagios user to 
emulate its environment?

Also, is ping executable by the nagios user? Is check_ping?  Is $USER1$ 
defined (I assume so, since your service checks work, if they are using 
$USER1$).

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From earl at switchmanagement.com  Wed Jul  7 21:40:29 2004
From: earl at switchmanagement.com (Earl C. Ruby III)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 12:40:29 -0700
Subject: Using passive-only plug-ins
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Message-ID: <200407071240.29719.earl@switchmanagement.com>

Thanks very much. That worked.

I made one change: I set check_freshness = 1 and freshness_threshold = 3600 
for the service, then made a "dummy" script called check_passive_only that 
always returns a CRITICAL error with the message "No status updates in 
$ARGV[0] seconds". Now if I don't get a passive check of some sort from the 
service at least once every hour, I get an alarm.


On Wednesday 07 July 2004 11:10 am, Marc Powell wrote:
> Earl C. Ruby III <mailto:earl at switchmanagement.com> wrote:
> > How do you set up a passive-only plug-in without having it show up
> > with a big red warning flag that says "SERVICE CHECKS DISABLED"?
>
> These are the key variables --
>
> active_checks_enabled           1       ; Active service checks are
> enabled
> passive_checks_enabled          1       ; Passive service checks are
> enabled/accepted
> check_period                    none
>
>
> And here is the complete service template I use --
>
> define service{
>         name                            generic-service
>         active_checks_enabled           1       ; Active service checks
> are enabled
>         passive_checks_enabled          1       ; Passive service checks
> are enabled/accepted
>         parallelize_check               1       ; Active service checks
> should be parallelized
>         obsess_over_service             1       ; We should obsess over
> this service (if necessary)
>         check_freshness                 0       ; Default is to NOT
> check service 'freshness'
>         notifications_enabled           1       ; Service notifications
> are enabled
>         event_handler_enabled           1       ; Service event handler
> is enabled
>         flap_detection_enabled          1       ; Flap detection is
> enabled
>         process_perf_data               1       ; Process performance
> data
>         retain_status_information       0       ; Retain status
> information across program restarts
>         retain_nonstatus_information    1       ; Retain non-status
> information across program restarts
>         is_volatile                     0
>         check_period                    none
>         max_check_attempts              5
>         normal_check_interval           5
>         retry_check_interval            3
>         notification_interval           10080
>         notification_period             24x7
>         notification_options            c,r
>
>         register                        0       ; DONT REGISTER THIS
> DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
>         }
> --
> Marc
>
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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 21:42:14 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:42:14 +0200
Subject: Adding host commands
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Marc Powell wrote:
> Per-Henrik Persson <mailto:ph at whatever.nu> wrote:
> 
>>Hi!
>>
>>I want to add some admin commands to the host commands list (like
>>reboot server) for certain hosts. Is there an easy way or do I have
>>to modify the source code? I have searched the list achives without
>>success.   
> 
> 
> You can either modify the source to include them in the built in list
> _or_ you can you the Host/Service extended info feature to create a
> notes_url with any additional information and host/service specific
> commands you feel are lacking. The latter course of action is probably
> easier and more flexible in the long run.
> 

Definitely so, since the first really won't work at all without turning 
Nagios into a network management (as opposed to monitoring) system.

The best way to create a management add-on to Nagios would most likely 
be to host it on a separate site and have the other app hold keys and 
whatever commands you need to issue for maintenance. In Nagios, you 
would put something like this in the notes_url field for the 
(host|service)extinfo object;
notes_url https://mgmt.com/mgmt.(cgi|php)?host=$HOSTNAME$
and then have the other script present the list of actions. That way 
you'd have a separate module that seems (on important levels) to 
integrate with nagios.


> --
> Marc
> 

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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Wed Jul  7 21:45:30 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:45:30 -0400
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F9E@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 3:17 PM
> To: Robert Nelson; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Segregation of networks
> 
> 
> Robert Nelson <mailto:rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:
> 
> > In our case, we have two different internal divisions - we're a 
> > wireless company that does Fixed Wireless Broadband in 
> Raleigh, NC and 
> > also hotel wi-fi installs. The FWB has an order of magnitude more 
> > devices, but there are more hostgroups for hotels. When you use 
> > grouplist.cgi, this makes for a HUGE link list on the left 
> hand pane. 
> > I know I could put this on two servers, but that would take another 
> > monitoring server and require a second host to maintain config
> > files/logins on.    
> >
> > Of course, a real tricky question is, is there a way to 
> present each 
> > section as their own web page, AND have an overall summary 
> screen for 
> > the guy who's on-call? :)
> 
> This is exactly what CGI authentication is for. When enabled, 
> contacts can only see hosts, hostgroups, and services that 
> they are contacts for. Create a contactgroup for the FWB 
> people, a contactgroup for the hotel people and make them 
> contacts for their respective hosts and services. The on-call 
> guy should be a member of both contactgroups.

Yes, except most add-ons like grouplist.cgi ignore authentication and
create the same left-hand menu for every user. Now, not only are all the
groups still listed there, but the majority of them appear blank to the
user.

I've got the authentication in place, I've even hacked a few HTML pages
together so that a specific user can only see their authorized hosts,
but I do that by taking away the menu. I'd basically like to make two
versions of the Nagios Web UI but still maintained by one set of config
files on the backend. Does that make any sense?

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 21:57:41 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 21:57:41 +0200
Subject: The Nagios: Reloaded (Rewriting Nagios)
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tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I also note that this guy said he would be releasing the NEW Nagios(r) not
> under the GPL but under a BSD licence because he preferred it!
> 

No, he said he would rewrite it from the ground up in a different 
language, thus creating a competing product which he will hold copyright 
to and therefore can do whatever he wants with.

> Are you allowed to do that? Change licensing schemes I mean? I thought only
> the original author of the original work could change the licence model. But
> I may be wrong
> 

The original author has nothing to do with it. It's the copyright 
holders call to decide what license he wants. In opensource-projects the 
original author is usually the copyright-holder, but not always. In the 
corporate world it's the company you work for that holds copyright to 
the code you write during business hours, unless you're willing to take 
a quite serious paycut or you're the leader of a very large 
opensource-project (like Linus Thorvalds) and can get paid a nice round 
sum for just doing what you've always done with no strings attached.

> 
> Cheers
> 
> Tom Welsh
> 

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From marc at ena.com  Wed Jul  7 22:00:22 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:00:22 -0500
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B671F@mismail2.ena.com>

Robert Nelson <mailto:rnelson at windchannel.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
> > This is exactly what CGI authentication is for. When enabled,
> > contacts can only see hosts, hostgroups, and services that they are
> > contacts for. Create a contactgroup for the FWB people, a
> > contactgroup for the hotel people and make them contacts for their
> > respective hosts and services. The on-call guy should be a member
> > of both contactgroups. 
> 
> Yes, except most add-ons like grouplist.cgi ignore authentication and
> create the same left-hand menu for every user. Now, not only are all
> the groups still listed there, but the majority of them appear blank
> to the user.   

Sounds like bad or incomplete design on the part of whoever wrote
grouplist.cgi ;)

> 
> I've got the authentication in place, I've even hacked a few HTML
> pages together so that a specific user can only see their authorized
> hosts, but I do that by taking away the menu. I'd basically like to
> make two versions of the Nagios Web UI but still maintained by one
> set of config files on the backend. Does that make any sense?    

Yes, it makes sense but you'll probably have better luck fixing
grouplist.cgi to follow the nagios contacts paradigm than munging nagios
to fix a borked addon. It sounds like grouplist.cgi looks at the cfg
files directly so as long as you maintain one set of config files you're
still going to have the problem no matter how many different front ends
you create.

For the record, I've never used grouplist.cgi so I don't know if the
behavior you're seeing is a design decision, a bug or a configuration
issue. I would hope that any addon to nagios would respect the most
basic behaviors of the program.

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From ae at op5.se  Wed Jul  7 22:03:31 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:03:31 +0200
Subject: Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
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Sand Philipp wrote:
> Even in 2.0 it's not possible. Would be a nice feature to add i think. 
> 

There's really no need for that, since the any host can be in any number 
of hostgroups. In Nagios 2.0 you can also specify hostgroups in the host 
object.
In combination with moving the contactgroups variable from the hostgroup 
definition to the host definition, this makes the hostgroups more or 
less redundant.

> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
>>Of Demetri Mouratis
>>Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:26 PM
>>To: Christopher M Bergeron
>>Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
>>
>>On Tue, 6 Jul 2004, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Is it possible to create a hostgroup of hostgroups in nagios?
>>
>>Unfornately, no, this doesn't work in 1.2.  2.0 perhaps?
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>>Demetri Mouratis
>>dmourati at linfactory.com
>>

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From jared at wordzoo.com  Wed Jul  7 22:19:04 2004
From: jared at wordzoo.com (Jared Rhine)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 13:19:04 -0700
Subject: Using passive-only plug-ins
In-Reply-To: <200407071049.22932.earl@switchmanagement.com>
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[Earl == earl at switchmanagement.com on Wed, 7 Jul 2004 10:49:22 -0700]

  Earl> How do you set up a passive-only plug-in without having it
  Earl> show up with a big red warning flag that says "SERVICE CHECKS
  Earl> DISABLED"?

I personally leave active checks enabled, but set the check time to
'none'.  No warning, but no active checks either.

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From rnelson at windchannel.com  Wed Jul  7 22:49:02 2004
From: rnelson at windchannel.com (Robert Nelson)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 16:49:02 -0400
Subject: Segregation of networks
Message-ID: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D24822825A@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com>

> > Yes, except most add-ons like grouplist.cgi ignore 
> authentication and 
> > create the same left-hand menu for every user. Now, not 
> only are all 
> > the groups still listed there, but the majority of them appear blank
> > to the user.   
> 
> Sounds like bad or incomplete design on the part of whoever 
> wrote grouplist.cgi ;)
> 
> > 
> > I've got the authentication in place, I've even hacked a few HTML 
> > pages together so that a specific user can only see their 
> authorized 
> > hosts, but I do that by taking away the menu. I'd basically like to 
> > make two versions of the Nagios Web UI but still maintained by one
> > set of config files on the backend. Does that make any sense?    
> 
> Yes, it makes sense but you'll probably have better luck 
> fixing grouplist.cgi to follow the nagios contacts paradigm 
> than munging nagios to fix a borked addon. It sounds like 
> grouplist.cgi looks at the cfg files directly so as long as 
> you maintain one set of config files you're still going to 
> have the problem no matter how many different front ends you create.
> 
> For the record, I've never used grouplist.cgi so I don't know 
> if the behavior you're seeing is a design decision, a bug or 
> a configuration issue. I would hope that any addon to nagios 
> would respect the most basic behaviors of the program.

If I knew how to hack grouplist.cgi to check what groups the user is
authorized for, I would. As a user, IMO, this is one place where session
info instead of .htaccess would make things a LOT easier. I'm sure that
would make something else plenty more difficult though ;)

Since I'm going to have to hack the HTML anyway, if someone has a
pointer to where I can look to make this work, I'd appreciate it. The
snippet of code that grouplist currently uses to determine the groups is
pretty basic:

==========
#Get files and dirs
CFGFILES=`egrep -e "^cfg_file=" $NAGIOSDIR/etc/nagios.cfg|cut -d "=" -f
2`
CFGDIRS=`egrep -e "^cfg_dir=" $NAGIOSDIR/etc/nagios.cfg|cut -d "=" -f 2`

#add files in cfg_dir's to filelist
for CFGDIR in $CFGDIRS; do
        CFGFILES="$CFGFILES `ls $CFGDIR/*.cfg` "
done

GROUPLIST=""

# Get groupnames from files
for CFGFILE in `echo $CFGFILES`; do
        if [ -f $CFGFILE ]; then
                HOSTGROUPS=`egrep -e "hostgroup_name" $CFGFILE|awk
'{print $2}'|
 tr "," " "`
                GROUPLIST="$GROUPLIST $HOSTGROUPS"
        fi
Done

#Sort and remove duplicated names
GROUPLIST=`echo $GROUPLIST|tr " " "\n"|sort|uniq`
==========

Once it does that, then it builds an appropriate set of links, with the
text for each link being the name of the hostgroup. To my not-very-good
programmer's eye, the code does not appear to have been built to do
anything with htpasswd, since it doesn't do much other than look at the
"hostgroup_name" statements. Am I wrong?


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From gmeisenheimer at itgroundwork.com  Wed Jul  7 23:31:44 2004
From: gmeisenheimer at itgroundwork.com (Glenn A. Meisenheimer)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:31:44 -0700
Subject: Event handler OK from command line, not from nagios
Message-ID: <40EC6BC0.4@itgroundwork.com>

Friends,

My problem is this.  The print spooler on a Win 2k machine keeps hanging up.
Remedial action typically requires a sysadmin to stop and restart the 
print  spooler
on the windows box (There are multiple boxes, btw).

So I generated this .BAT file on the windows host:

ECHO. >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log
ECHO |DATE |find "current" >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log
ECHO |TIME |find "current" >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log
ECHO Resetting the Print Spooler >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log
NET STOP SPOOLER >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log
NET START SPOOLER >> c:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.log

If the logfile rspooler.log already exists this script appends a 
date/time stamp,
echos that it is resetting the spooler, then redirects the output from the
NET STOP and NET START command into that log file as well.

This gives us a record of restarts.

I have installed nrpe-nt on the windows box, configured nrpe.cfg thusly:

command[check_rspooler]=C:\nrpe-nt\rspooler.bat

So if check_nrpe on the Nagios server calls check_rspooler on the win 2k
box, it should run the rspooler.bat script listed above.

On the Nagios server check_nrpe is configured like this:

#
#  NRPE Command
define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 
$HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
        }

And indeed if , from the command line I type:

/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.31 -c check_rspooler

The rspooler.bat file on the win 2k Box does run, and does log the event.

So what I need to do is write an event handler which calls rspooler.bat 
using the check_nrpe
command above.   That event handler is located in 
/usr/local/nagios/eventhandler and is
named reset_spooler_04. It is owned by nagios/nagios. 

The reset_spooler_04 event handler script follows:

                                                     cut here
****************************************************************
#!/bin/bash
#
# Event handler script for executing nrpe recovery scripts on a remote 
machine
#
# Note: This script will only execute a recovery script if the service is
# retried 3 times (in a "soft" state) or if the associated monitor somehow
# manages to fall into a "hard" error state.
#
# What state is the service in?

case "$1" in
OK)
     # The service just came back up, so don't do anything...
     ;;

WARNING)
     # We don't really care about warning states, since the service is 
probably still running...
     ;;
UNKNOWN)
     # We don't know what might be causing an unknown error, so don't do 
anything...
     ;;

CRITICAL)
     # Aha! The service appears to have a problem - perhaps we should 
run the recovery script...

     # Is this a "soft" or a "hard" state?

     case "$2" in

          # We're in a "soft" state, meaning that Nagios is in the 
middle of retrying the
          # check before it turns into a "hard" state and contacts get 
notified...

          SOFT)
 
               # What check attempt are we on? We don't want to restart 
the web server on the first
               # check, because it may just be a fluke!

               case "$3" in

                    # Wait until the check has been tried 4 times before 
running the recovery script.
                    # If the check fails on the 4th time (after 
recovery), the state type will turn to
                    # "hard" and contacts will be notified of the 
problem.  Hopefully this will restart
                    # things successfully, so the 4th check will result 
in a "soft" recovery. If that
                    # happens no one gets notified because we # fixed 
the problem!

               4)

                    echo -n "Restarting print spooler  service (4th soft 
critical state)..."
                    # Call the check_nrpe plugin to execute the recovery 
script.

                    /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.31 
-c check_rspooler

               ;;
               esac

          ;;
    
               # The monitor somehow managed to turn into a hard error 
without getting fixed.
               # It should have been restarted by the code above, but 
for some reason it didn't.
               # Let's give it one last try, shall we?
               # Note: Contacts have already been notified of a problem 
with the service at this
               # point (unless you disabled notifications for this service)

          HARD)

               echo -n "Restarting service..."

               /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H 192.168.1.31 -c 
check_rspooler

          ;;
          esac
;;
esac
exit 0

****************************************************************
                                                     cut here

Now if I cd to /usr/local/nagios/eventhandler and enter this command:

./reset_spooler_04 CRITICAL HARD 4

The rspooler.bat file on the Win 2k box actually runs and logs the reset.

So far so good.  Now I need to set up a service definition for the event 
handler:

#
#  reset_spooler_04 Command
define command{
        command_name    reset_spooler_04
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/eventhandler/reset_spooler_04
        }

And I need to include the event handler in the service definition:

define service{
        host_name            fc-ctx-04
        use                        rs-windows-service
        service_description        printq_service
        max_check_attempts         5
       event_handler        reset_spooler_04
        normal_check_interval      10
        retry_check_interval       1
        check_command            check_nt_perf!"\\Print 
Queue(_Total)\\Jobs"!4!5
        }

So now the big picture.  We have a working monitor on the Nagios server 
which monitors
the number of print jobs in the Win 2k print queue.  We generate an 
alarm when the number
of jobs in the queue exceeds 5.  I can test this by pulling the paper 
tray on the printer and
queueing up print jobs.  The montor works fine..  It goes into alarm 
when the print queue
gets up to 5 jobs. 

But the event handler doesn't work properly.  Here's the log:

[07-02-2004 13:51:41] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;HARD;5;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:51:41] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;HARD;5;6
[07-02-2004 13:50:41] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;4;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:50:41] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;4;6
[07-02-2004 13:49:42] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;3;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:49:42] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;3;6
[07-02-2004 13:48:36] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:48:36] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;7
[07-02-2004 13:47:37] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:47:37] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;7

So, it seems to me that Nagios is calling the event handler, and is 
calling it n a CRITICAL HARD state.  Why, oh why, I
wonder, isn't the rest of the system working?  The above event did NOT 
result in an entry in the rspooler.log on the
Win 2k machine.

As I said earlier, if I call the event handler as user nagios from the 
command line, it does run rspooler and makes the
log entries on the Win 2k machine.

Any help would be appreciated...

Glenn Meisenheimer







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From drhonk at gmail.com  Thu Jul  8 00:06:25 2004
From: drhonk at gmail.com (Roy Kartadinata)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 15:06:25 -0700
Subject: SendEmail
Message-ID: <90bc2a03040707150649af71c7@mail.gmail.com>

Hi guys,

Just curious if anyone here uses sendEmail ? Care to share your
misccommand.cfg  ?


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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Thu Jul  8 00:55:30 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 17:55:30 -0500
Subject: file existence check
Message-ID: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

Hey guys, 

I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our customer 
every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is Upload_Daily_20040707.txt. 
Programatically, I can extract the current date in my nagios system and have 
the date get appended to the syntax. So if file exists after 10pm check, it 
becomes OK. If not, it will remain RED. My concern is that after 12midnight, 
it won't be checked anymore because date will change. But I can create 2 
checks, one for today and the other one for yesterday. 

I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you think 
about my approach. 

Thanks. 

Neil


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From wp.junior at terra.com.br  Thu Jul  8 02:06:00 2004
From: wp.junior at terra.com.br (Wilson Pires Jr)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:06:00 -0300
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <c31ca9c60407070516129616be@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c31ca9c60407070516129616be@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20040708000211.6057E3C02F@paramonga.terra.com.br>

Does nagmin make consistency among the cfg configuration files? I mean, for
example, if I delete a host, are their services deleted automatically?

Regards,

Wilson

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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Shirley
Sent: quarta-feira, 7 de julho de 2004 09:16
To: Neil
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: front end management tool

you can do anything with nagmin as you can with configs in my
experiance.  instead of editing a text file to create a custom check
you create a database field.

On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:54:50 -0500, Neil
<neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Another question. I do a lot of customization to checks and vi allows me
to
> be very flexible. The limit I have when writing my own custom checks is
what
> my brain can imagine. So, can I also be very flexible with Nagmin?
> 
> Thanks. :)
> 
> Neil
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark Shirley writes:
> 
> > the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios
requirement.
> >
> > nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
> > based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
> > changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
> > effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
> > database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
> > startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
> > does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
> > and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
> > excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
> > always go back to using a simple text configs.
> >
> > nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
> > nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
> > nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
> > mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
> > add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
> > config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
> > EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
> > the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
> > changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
> > overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation.
> >
> > in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
> > most stable for my enviroment.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
> > <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> >> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of
Nagios
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> carole verdon writes:
> >>
> >> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database
support.
> >> >
> >> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build
its
> >> > own files.
> >> >
> >> > Neil wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Hi Carole,
> >> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take
care of
> >> >> my existings configs?
> >> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> >> >> carole verdon writes:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't
create
> >> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql
> >> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read
them.
> >> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
> >> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
> >> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> >> >>> Carole.
> >> >>> Neil wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> Hey guys,
> >> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for
> >> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm
used to
> >> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience
on
> >> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was
easy
> >> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us
to
> >> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat
but
> >> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which
will
> >> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
> >> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool
you
> >> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
> >> >>>> Thanks.
> >> >>>> Neil
> >> >>>>
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From ae at op5.se  Thu Jul  8 02:06:49 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:06:49 +0200
Subject: Event handler OK from command line, not from nagios
In-Reply-To: <40EC6BC0.4@itgroundwork.com>
References: <40EC6BC0.4@itgroundwork.com>
Message-ID: <40EC9019.3050100@op5.se>

Glenn A. Meisenheimer wrote:
> Friends,
> 
> My problem is this.  The print spooler on a Win 2k machine keeps hanging 
> up.
> Remedial action typically requires a sysadmin to stop and restart the 
> print  spooler
> 

[....]

> Any help would be appreciated...
> 

Add the following lines close to the top of your eventhandler script;
[ -d /tmp/events ] || mkdir /tmp/events
echo "$@" > /tmp/events/${0##/*}.$$
exec 1>& /tmp/events/${0##/*}.$$
exec 2>& /tmp/events/${0##/*}.$$

Then rip the paper tray and watch the eventhandler execute. 
/tmp/events/* will be logfiles with complete output of every argument 
passed and every action taken (be aware that stderr usually isn't 
buffered, while stdout normally is, so output may come in whacky order 
if things go amiss a whole lot).


> Glenn Meisenheimer
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Thu Jul  8 02:31:16 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:31:16 +0200
Subject: file existence check
In-Reply-To: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <40EC95D4.8000409@op5.se>

Neil wrote:
> Hey guys,
> I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our 
> customer every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is 
> Upload_Daily_20040707.txt. Programatically, I can extract the current 
> date in my nagios system and have the date get appended to the syntax. 
> So if file exists after 10pm check, it becomes OK. If not, it will 
> remain RED. My concern is that after 12midnight, it won't be checked 
> anymore because date will change. But I can create 2 checks, one for 
> today and the other one for yesterday.
> I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you think 
> about my approach.

Do something like this, and pass the exact filename as the first 
argument. It's a quick-hack (written in the mailer window), but it 
should be enough to get you started, and it probably compiles on any 
posix-compliant system. If you want to specify threshold values and such 
you'll have to add it yourself.

--[ cut here ]---
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/stat.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <time.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
	time_t now;
	int fd;
	struct stat fs;
	int status = 0;

	if(argc != 2) {
		printf("usage: %s <filename>\n", argv[0]);
		exit(3);
	}

	now = time(NULL);
	fd = open(argv[0], O_RDONLY);
	if(fd == -1) {
		printf("Unable to open %s for reading.\n", argv[1]);
		exit(1);
	}
	fstat(fd, &fs);
	if(now > fs.st_mtime + (24 * 3600)) status = 1;

	printf("%s was last modified %u seconds ago.\n",
		now - fs.st_mtime);

	return(status);
}

--[ and here ]---

In case anyone's lawyer is wondering, that code up there is in the 
public domain with no restrictions what so ever, so abuse it any way you 
want.

> Thanks.

You're welcome.

> Neil
> 

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From earl at switchmanagement.com  Thu Jul  8 02:42:43 2004
From: earl at switchmanagement.com (Earl C. Ruby III)
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 17:42:43 -0700
Subject: file existence check
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Message-ID: <200407071742.43211.earl@switchmanagement.com>

I would construct your YYYYMMDD timestamp as current time - 21:59:59 hours. 
That way, at 10pm you're checking for today's file, and you keep checking for 
today's file until 9:59:59pm the next day.

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 03:55 pm, Neil wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our
> customer every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is Upload_Daily_20040707.txt.
> Programatically, I can extract the current date in my nagios system and
> have the date get appended to the syntax. So if file exists after 10pm
> check, it becomes OK. If not, it will remain RED. My concern is that after
> 12midnight, it won't be checked anymore because date will change. But I can
> create 2 checks, one for today and the other one for yesterday.
>
> I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you think
> about my approach.


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From pla at softflare.com  Thu Jul  8 02:57:09 2004
From: pla at softflare.com (Paul L. Allen)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:57:09 +0100
Subject: file existence check
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Neil writes: 

> I would like to know guys how you would implement it

I'd check the modification time was not greater than 1 day. 

> and what you think  about my approach. 

Borked.  Hey, it's late here and I've had a lot of wine, so deep thought
is beyond me.  But your explanation of how you were going to do it was
a hell of a lot more complex than checking the mtime of the file.  A bit
of perl that uses -M will fix your problem for you. 

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From smalhotra at dataarmor.net  Thu Jul  8 05:12:00 2004
From: smalhotra at dataarmor.net (Sumit Malhotra)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:42:00 +0530
Subject: PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!
References: <D60FE90F07FE0F428C98FBE25FC7D248223F88@exchsrvr.ad.windchannel.com> <40EBFEC8.1010907@eiisolutions.net>
Message-ID: <005501c46499$57e50fe0$0301a8c0@sumit>

hi ,

 Try  using DHIS Server  This make  sure by the client running on the each
box being monitored is authentic

It works great but only problew is that it works on UDP :-)

Regards,
Sumit
----- Original Message -----
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To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] PING WARNING - DUPLICATES FOUND!


> Robert Nelson wrote:
>
> >It probably means that your machine received more than one (could be
> >two, three, or even more) ICMP echo reply packets for each echo request.
> >Can happen if two machines are configured on the same IP, if you're
> >pinging a broadcast IP, or if you're using really ancient equipment,
> >pinging the network IP.
> >
> >
> Thats what I thought but it sure doesn't make sense. The hosts that
> triggered this are direct-jet printers, three different kinds with
> static IPs. I've had Nagios running for about a week and this morning
> was the first time I've seen this alert. Happened for about half hour
> and I've not seen the alert since...
>
> --
> Matt Burleigh
> Senior Systems Engineer
> Enterprise Integration, Inc.
> eiisolutions.com
> 703.236.0790
>
>
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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Thu Jul  8 07:06:48 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 00:06:48 -0500
Subject: file existence check
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I forgot guys that I should have mentioned NRPE here too. The file that I 
was checking resides on a windows machine. 

I just finished writing a WMI program that checks the uploaded file from the 
vendor. The format of the filename is Daily_Interface_Omni_20040707.txt. I 
then created 2 checks which will check the file with the most current date 
and the other check which will check yesterday's file. This file gets 
uploaded to us at around 8PM PST. I have put it in production and is now 
working. I have to play around with the notification period so that it won't 
send any emails during saturday nights. 

But, all your inputs are also welcome since I will also be creating a check 
for other Unix machines. 


Paul L. Allen writes: 

> Neil writes:  
> 
>> I would like to know guys how you would implement it
> 
> I'd check the modification time was not greater than 1 day.  
> 
>> and what you think  about my approach.
> 
> Borked.  Hey, it's late here and I've had a lot of wine, so deep thought
> is beyond me.  But your explanation of how you were going to do it was
> a hell of a lot more complex than checking the mtime of the file.  A bit
> of perl that uses -M will fix your problem for you.  
> 
> -- 
> Paul Allen
> Softflare Support  
> 
> 
 


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From nagios-users at gurugeek.com  Thu Jul  8 07:19:09 2004
From: nagios-users at gurugeek.com (Jeff Rodriguez)
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 22:19:09 -0700
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
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You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. The server 
runs on windows but will tell you much more about the status of your 
systems than Nagios ever could. I believe it's free too...

Jeff

Jonathan Nichols wrote:

> Greetings all..
>
>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
> doing this:
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>
> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>
> Has anybody run into this?
>
> Thanks!
> -Jonathan
>
> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal 
> experiences)
>
>
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From karl at debisschop.net  Thu Jul  8 07:25:15 2004
From: karl at debisschop.net (Karl DeBisschop)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 01:25:15 -0400
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
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Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> Greetings all..
> 
>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, what 
> are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and doing 
> this:
> 
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
> 
> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
> 
> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
> 
> Has anybody run into this?

I have the adaptec RAID systems (runnign RedHat). I use the afasnmp 
driver from dell which feeds the PERC data into net-snmp. Just use 
check_snmp from there. Solution has worked well for me. You may need to 
unpack the RPM manually for gentoo, and yes source code would be a nice 
thing, but is does work.

I googled a bit and found this for the megaraid cards:

   http://www.ibiblio.org/john/megaraid/

No matter which raid subsytems you have, I suggest looking here if you 
have not already:

   http://linux.dell.com/storage.shtml

All in all, lack of code is a PITA, but if you can get around that the 
SNMP solution works welll for me.

-- 
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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Thu Jul  8 07:27:12 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:27:12 +0200
Subject: Hostgroup of Hostgroups?
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DF6@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

> Sand Philipp wrote:
> > Even in 2.0 it's not possible. Would be a nice feature to 
> add i think. 
> > 
> 
> There's really no need for that, since the any host can be in 
> any number of hostgroups. In Nagios 2.0 you can also specify 
> hostgroups in the host object.
> In combination with moving the contactgroups variable from 
> the hostgroup definition to the host definition, this makes 
> the hostgroups more or less redundant.
Great to hear, missed that one. I'm pretty new to 2.0, haven't seen this
feature, yet.
I think i have to rewrite my cfgs now *g* 


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From maca02 at atlas.cz  Thu Jul  8 07:33:20 2004
From: maca02 at atlas.cz (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?=)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:33:20 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Problems with history
In-Reply-To: <1089228015.1375.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
References: <1088785269.1329.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> 
 <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407070743580.16719@maca.fortech.cz>
 <1089228015.1375.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407080726020.16719@maca.fortech.cz>

Hi,
I asked our administrator about the FAQ 0093 and he told me, that the time synchronization is sheduled on 00:00 in cron, so maybe this could cause the problem. We scheduled the synchronization at the every hour and 50 minutes (1:50, 3:50, ...) and I'm very curious what will happen...

Thank you very much for the tip!

Tom


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:

> Hi Tom!
>
> I've thought it already, but I wanted a working solution as soon as
> possible. If I have enough time I'll be ad this capability to the script
> too.
>
> I found the cause also: see FAQ 0093:
> http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=93
>
> I use ntpdate which was run by root crontab in every 3 hours. Now I run
> it just once a day, when my nagios is not running. It seems that the
> problem gone! (I use it from 3 July, so its not a big time period to be
> anbsolutely secure.)
>
> Have a nice day, Tamas!
>
>
> 2004-07-07, sze keltez?ssel Tom?? Macek ezt ?rta:
>> Hi Tamas!
>> sorry, for the delay of my answer, we had a 2 days free in Czech Republic...
>>
>> Thank you very much for the script, I will test it as early as possible. Nowaday
>> s I do not have enaught time to do that, but I will test it surely when I finish current project I'm working on.
>> You are writing, that you are not a programmer -> you wrote this script, so you
>> are the programmer! ;-)
>>
>> I looked into the script and I think you always go through the whole directory, it would be better to do move only one file according to the current date and this script would be run at 00:01 every day. I would like to add this to the script.
>>
>> Have a nice day
>>
>> Tom
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Tom!
>>>
>>> I couldn't manage to figure out why nagios creates *-23.log files.
>>>
>>> I wrote a little shell script for our problem. I use it via root
>>> crontab. I tested it in every scenario which I can imagine and it seemed
>>> to me that it works.
>>>
>>> Please note that I am not a programmer so the code may be not as
>>> compact, fast, etc. as would be.
>>>
>>> Two important notes:
>>> 1. Please replace MAGYAR_DATUM with DATUM. The first one create
>>> Hungarian date format from the original one.
>>> 2. Sorry for Hungarian textparts. I've no enough time to translate them
>>> to English.
>>>
>>> Congratulations for your football team. I'm a fun of them and I terrible
>>> sorry that they aren't in the final!:(
>>>
>>> Have a nice weekend, Tamas!
>>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>
>

From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Thu Jul  8 07:34:42 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:34:42 +0200
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DF7@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Dell Open Mange is really great. Doesn't work with every Kernel, but ok
*g*
BTW, has anyone kind of integrated Dell Open Mange into Nagios yet?
I think about a plugin, which just checks the DOM if the whole server is
ok (just this one status data, not all)
And if tehre appears any Problem it returns the warning message from DOM
and you can directly connect to DOM via hyperlink to look further.
Same thing I need for Compaq/HP Insight Manager and IBM Director... I
tried the check_insight plugin, but couldn't get it to run :-/ 
Any suggestions?

Philipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Jeff Rodriguez
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:19 AM
> To: jnichols at pbp.net
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Dell stuff?
> 
> You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. 
> The server runs on windows but will tell you much more about 
> the status of your systems than Nagios ever could. I believe 
> it's free too...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> 
> > Greetings all..
> >
> >     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
> > what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're 
> using RAID) - 
> > currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
> > doing this:
> >
> > jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9 Logical drive: 0:, 
> > state: optimal Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row 
> > size:  2 Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache 
> > Policy: Direct IO
> >
> > jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
> >
> > That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The 
> Dell RAID 
> > monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red 
> Hat specific 
> > (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
> >
> > Has anybody run into this?
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Jonathan
> >
> > (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping 
> for personal
> > experiences)
> >
> >
> >
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From bdunn at rdac.com.au  Thu Jul  8 08:35:45 2004
From: bdunn at rdac.com.au (Brad Dunn)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 14:35:45 +0800
Subject: Mail not working
Message-ID: <47287D7F1C9A1C4B99EB7D407FCEE69604C82D@rdaex01.rdac.com.au>

 
In regards to this, I've managed to get emails working but only from the
CLI

If I run this (which is now my new defined command)

/usr/bin/printf "***** Nagios 1.0 *****\nNotification Type:
$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost:
$HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time:
$DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" | /usr/bin/mail -s
"$NOTIFICATIONTYPE$: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$"
alerts at rdac.com.au

>From the command line, I get the following email.


***** Nagios 1.0 *****
Notification Type: $

Service: $
Host: $
Address: $
State: $

Date/Time: $

Additional Info:

$


Now the actual content of the email is ok, I can trouble shoot that as
it is, however Nagios isn't sending notifications on its own. Now I've
defined it as

# ;notify-by-email' command definition
define command{
        command_name    notify-by-email


Here is an example of a service that is always down

# Service definition
define service{
        use                             generic-service         ; Name
of service template to use

        host_name                       megatron
        service_description             pop
        is_volatile                     0
        check_period                    24x7
        max_check_attempts              3
        normal_check_interval           1
        retry_check_interval            1
        contact_groups                  linux-admins
        notification_interval           120
        notification_period             24x7
        notification_options            c,r
        check_command                   check_pop
        }



And here is my alerts


# 'nagios' contact definition
define contact{
        contact_name                    nagios
        alias                           Nagios Admin
        service_notification_period     24x7
        host_notification_period        24x7
        service_notification_options    w,u,c,r
        host_notification_options       d,u,r
        service_notification_commands   notify-by-email
        host_notification_commands      host-notify-by-email
        email                           alerts at rdac.com.au
        }



Any reason why I don't get the alerts from nagios, but I can run the top
command manually and I get a response.

- Brad



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From nicole.haehnel at epost.de  Thu Jul  8 08:38:41 2004
From: nicole.haehnel at epost.de (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nicole_H=E4hnel?=)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 08:38:41 +0200
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
Message-ID: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>

Hi,

I've written my own plugin to get more information from a server.
I use nrpe to check the other servers with my plugin.
The plugin is not only to get "status ok". It gives out more lines,
something like this:

Temperatures OK
CPU Planar	38.0 Celsius
Ambient		26.0 Celsius
BP Bottom Temp	23.0 Celsius

The problem is check_nrpe gets only the first line.
All I see is "Temperatures OK", the other lines are ignored.

Is there any possibility to get more than one line?
Or is the only thing I can do, write all output in one line?


Thanks!

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From n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es  Thu Jul  8 09:21:01 2004
From: n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?NetVicious?=)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:21:01 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: file existence check
In-Reply-To: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <20040708072101.45543.qmail@web53307.mail.yahoo.com>

I have an script that it's executed only at one time. If the script
don't works correctly due to an problem it creates a cron job using
at command for execute him with some parameters in 2 minutes.

You could use the same idea passing as a parameter the date of the
file you wants to check.

--- Neil <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> escribi?: > Hey guys,

> 
> I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our
> customer 
> every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is Upload_Daily_20040707.txt. 
> Programatically, I can extract the current date in my nagios system
> and have 
> the date get appended to the syntax. So if file exists after 10pm
> check, it 
> becomes OK. If not, it will remain RED. My concern is that after
> 12midnight, 
> it won't be checked anymore because date will change. But I can
> create 2 
> checks, one for today and the other one for yesterday. 
> 
> I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you
> think 
> about my approach. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Neil
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From n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es  Thu Jul  8 09:20:40 2004
From: n3tvicious-nagios at yahoo.es (=?iso-8859-1?q?NetVicious?=)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:20:40 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: file existence check
In-Reply-To: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
References: <20040707225531.93002.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>
Message-ID: <20040708072040.52375.qmail@web53309.mail.yahoo.com>

I have an script that it's executed only at one time. If the scripts
dont's works OK due to an problem it creates a cron job using at
command for execute him with some parameters in 2 minutes.

You could use the same idea passing as a parameter the date of the
file you wants to check.

--- Neil <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> escribi?: > Hey guys,

> 
> I would like to monitor if a file gets uploaded successfully by our
> customer 
> every night at 10pm. Filename syntax is Upload_Daily_20040707.txt. 
> Programatically, I can extract the current date in my nagios system
> and have 
> the date get appended to the syntax. So if file exists after 10pm
> check, it 
> becomes OK. If not, it will remain RED. My concern is that after
> 12midnight, 
> it won't be checked anymore because date will change. But I can
> create 2 
> checks, one for today and the other one for yesterday. 
> 
> I would like to know guys how you would implement it and what you
> think 
> about my approach. 
> 
> Thanks. 
> 
> Neil
> 
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From unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk  Thu Jul  8 10:01:18 2004
From: unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk (=?iso-8859-1?q?Tis=20Unix?=)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:01:18 +0100 (BST)
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
Message-ID: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>

 
Hi,
 
First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a few problems but will tackle one at a time.
 
First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -
 
[root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
[root at richemontdev]> ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var

Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should have the following -
 

Directory Structure And File Locations 

Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the following command... 

cd /usr/local/nagios 

You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of what each directory contains is given in the table below. 

Sub-DirectoryContentsbin/Nagios core programetc/Main, resource, object, and CGI configuration files should be put heresbin/CGIsshare/HTML files (for web interface and online documentation)var/Empty directory for the log file


 

Why is this ??

Thanks in advance

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From h.baecker at ecofis.de  Thu Jul  8 10:16:15 2004
From: h.baecker at ecofis.de (h.baecker at ecofis.de)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:16:15 +0200
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
In-Reply-To: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <OF1D0B05D0.3C9051E1-ONC1256ECB.002D50BA-C1256ECB.002D6F41@ecofis.de>

Hi,

did you try to: 

make install-config

?













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Hi,
 
First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a few 
problems but will tackle one at a time.
 
First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it 
tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -
 
[root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
[root at richemontdev]> ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var
Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should 
have the following -
 
Directory Structure And File Locations 
Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the 
following command... 
cd /usr/local/nagios 
You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of what 
each directory contains is given in the table below. 

Sub-Directory
Contents
bin/
Nagios core program
etc/
Main, resource, object, and CGI configuration files should be put here
sbin/
CGIs
share/
HTML files (for web interface and online documentation)
var/
Empty directory for the log file
 
Why is this ??
Thanks in advance
Trev
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From ae at op5.se  Thu Jul  8 10:15:22 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:15:22 +0200
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling
 ....
In-Reply-To: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
References: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <40ED029A.1090709@op5.se>

Tis Unix wrote:
>  
> Hi,
>  
> First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a few
> problems but will tackle one at a time.
>  
> First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it
> tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -
>  
> [root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
> [root at richemontdev]> ls -al
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
> drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
> drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
> drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
> drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
> drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var
> 
> Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should
> have the following -
>  
> 
> Directory Structure And File Locations 
> 
> Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the following
> command... 
> 
> cd /usr/local/nagios 
> 
> You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of what
> each directory contains is given in the table below. 
> 
> Sub-DirectoryContentsbin/Nagios core programetc/Main, resource, object,
> and CGI configuration files should be put heresbin/CGIsshare/HTML files
> (for web interface and online documentation)var/Empty directory for the
> log file
> 
> 
> Why is this ??
> 

You didn't do make install_config (or something) which the makefile 
quite clearly state that you must do after compilation is complete.


> Thanks in advance
> 

You're welcome. Next time, try to be more observant.

> Trev
> 

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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Thu Jul  8 11:22:27 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 05:22:27 -0400
Subject: Changing IP on a host
Message-ID: <40ED1253.7040205@eiisolutions.net>

I corrected the IP of a couple of hosts and now every two hours they're 
still reporting as a problem with the old IP. How do I clear this?


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From swati220781 at hotmail.com  Thu Jul  8 11:54:00 2004
From: swati220781 at hotmail.com (Swati Srivastava)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:24:00 +0530
Subject: check_procs query
Message-ID: <Sea1-F129CAw3HWhw2P0007b6d6@hotmail.com>

Hi!!
I want to monitor one particular process named PushGateway. As you can see 
in the ps output, there are multiple processes running with the command name 
java. If i want to monitor one particular process out of that, how do i do 
that?

Kindly help.
Swati

Here are some of the results i get:

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C java PushGateway
OK - 3 processes running with command name java

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C "java PushGateway"
OK - 0 processes running with command name java PushGateway

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C PushGateway
OK - 0 processes running with command name PushGateway

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ./check_procs ./check_procs -w 3 -c 5 -C 
"PushGateway"
OK - 0 processes running with command name PushGateway

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep PushGateway
root     29139     1  0 Mar24 ?        00:10:21 java PushGateway1
root     24907     1  1 Jul01 ?        02:15:50 java PushGateway
swati    24864 22471  0 11:48 pts/4    00:00:00 grep PushGateway

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep java
root     29139     1  0 Mar24 ?        00:10:21 java PushGateway1
root     24907     1  1 Jul01 ?        02:15:50 java PushGateway
root     24752 24608  0 11:46 pts/10   00:00:00 java MTVCdrGenerator
swati    24996 22471  0 11:48 pts/4    00:00:00 grep java

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -aux|grep PushGateway
root     29139  0.0  0.6 215232 13904 ?      S    Mar24  10:22 java 
PushGateway1
root     31179  1.1  2.3 256048 48140 ?      S    12:57   3:20 java 
PushGateway
swati    13950  0.0  0.0  3696  544 pts/4    S    15:53   0:00 grep 
PushGateway

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ef|grep java PushGateway
grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -ax|grep java PushGateway
grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory

[swati at localhost libexec]$ ps -au|grep java PushGateway
grep: PushGateway: No such file or directory

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From martin.mielke at thales-is.com  Thu Jul  8 13:05:41 2004
From: martin.mielke at thales-is.com (Martin Mielke)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 13:05:41 +0200
Subject: nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers ...
Message-ID: <40ED2A85.7010007@thales-is.com>

Hi all,

I need to monitor a Windoze from Nagios and restart a service when it fails.
I read the NRPE and event_handlers docs 
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/eventhandlers.html looking for a 
solution but couldn't find such a solution... the restart command for 
the Windows service is already coded (just a simple .bat file).

Ideas much appreciated!

Best regards,
Martin



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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Thu Jul  8 13:18:31 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:18:31 -0400
Subject: Changing IP on a host
In-Reply-To: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068E00@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>
References: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068E00@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>
Message-ID: <40ED2D87.2070604@eiisolutions.net>

Sand Philipp wrote:

>Did you reload / restart nagios after applying the changes? 
>  
>
Yes, I've even deleted the status.log and status.sav files but they 
still reappear. I'm not sure where its getting the old IP from...

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From stevelml1 at scee.sony.co.uk  Thu Jul  8 14:01:48 2004
From: stevelml1 at scee.sony.co.uk (Steve Loughran)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:01:48 +0100
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
References: <20040708080118.66463.qmail@web25110.mail.ukl.yahoo.com> <40ED029A.1090709@op5.se>
Message-ID: <027f01c464e3$593a18f0$f5cec22b@niltxp2>

    ./configure
    make all
    make install

I think you missed these:

    make install-config
    make install-init

then go grab the plugins and install them too..

Seve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae at op5.se>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after
compiling ....


> Tis Unix wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a
few
> > problems but will tackle one at a time.
> >
> > First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it
> > tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -
> >
> > [root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
> > [root at richemontdev]> ls -al
> > total 12
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
> > drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
> > drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var
> >
> > Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should
> > have the following -
> >
> >
> > Directory Structure And File Locations
> >
> > Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the
following
> > command...
> >
> > cd /usr/local/nagios
> >
> > You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of
what
> > each directory contains is given in the table below.
> >
> > Sub-DirectoryContentsbin/Nagios core programetc/Main, resource, object,
> > and CGI configuration files should be put heresbin/CGIsshare/HTML files
> > (for web interface and online documentation)var/Empty directory for the
> > log file
> >
> >
> > Why is this ??
> >
>
> You didn't do make install_config (or something) which the makefile
> quite clearly state that you must do after compilation is complete.
>
>
> > Thanks in advance
> >
>
> You're welcome. Next time, try to be more observant.
>
> > Trev
> >
>
> -- 
> Sourcerer / Andreas Ericsson
> OP5 AB
> +46 (0)733 709032
> andreas.ericsson at op5.se
>
>
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Thu Jul  8 14:15:22 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:15:22 -0400
Subject: Question about templates
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEF2@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

If I set an option in a template, and then use that template to create
say, a service, host, or whatever... can I override a setting in the
host.
 
i.e. I have in my template: notification_interval 30 and then I use that
template on a host.  If in that host, I set notification_interval to
20... will the one defined in the actual host take precedence?
 
Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
Systems Operations Specialist 	
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From jens at kruse-kiel.de  Thu Jul  8 14:22:04 2004
From: jens at kruse-kiel.de (Jens Kruse)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:22:04 +0200
Subject: Problems with Availability Report
Message-ID: <40ED3C6C.6020603@kruse-kiel.de>

Hi there,

creating an availability report from Nagios 1.1 we found the following 
point:

Log period: June 1 - 30 (Last Month)
Host state: Current State/Up

Everything looks fine so far, but:

Host Log Entries never shows the full period which was checked!
Depending on host state, assume initial state, assume state retention we 
never get the whole period covered here. Depending on the check switches 
mentioned above, the host log entries just stops, whenever a number of 
Nagios (Re)start occur.

Does anybody know how to avoid this? Is it a known bug which may have 
been fixed with 1.2?

Regards, Jens



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From richard.luys at vanderlet.nl  Thu Jul  8 14:46:02 2004
From: richard.luys at vanderlet.nl (Richard Luys)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 14:46:02 +0200
Subject: Question about templates
In-Reply-To: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEF2@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>
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Message-ID: <opsatke0vbvmvs1m@mail.vanderlet.nl>

Hi Jack,

On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 08:15:22 -0400, Jack Doyle <jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com> 
wrote:

> If I set an option in a template, and then use that template to create
> say, a service, host, or whatever... can I override a setting in the
> host.
>
> i.e. I have in my template: notification_interval 30 and then I use that
> template on a host.  If in that host, I set notification_interval to
> 20... will the one defined in the actual host take precedence?
>
That's how it is supposed to work, yes.

> Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
> Systems Operations Specialist 	
> 540.776.2025 	

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From tom.welsh at bt.com  Thu Jul  8 14:56:16 2004
From: tom.welsh at bt.com (tom.welsh at bt.com)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:56:16 +0100
Subject: Question about templates
Message-ID: <418B502A3861E242AFDED453F3D5B89C025C157D@i2km99-ukbr.domain1.systemhost.net>

yep

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Sent: 08 July 2004 13:15
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Question about templates


If I set an option in a template, and then use that template to create say, a service, host, or whatever... can I override a setting in the host.
 
i.e. I have in my template: notification_interval 30 and then I use that template on a host.  If in that host, I set notification_interval to 20... will the one defined in the actual host take precedence?
 
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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Thu Jul  8 14:51:29 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 07:51:29 -0500
Subject: Nagmin setup help
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Message-ID: <40ED4351.9010108@microlnk.net>

I like NagMIN and use it for my Nagios system.  But that being said, the 
current 2.2 version is not only undocumented but also seems to lack the 
"setup" installer script that 2.1 had.  Which created subdirectories and 
such.

So from what I can tell, you may not even be able to set up NagMIN 
unless you start by installing 2.1 and then upgrade to 2.2.  Even then, 
some of the extras like the RRD graphing are apparently too difficult to 
figure out, for myself and others on the NagMIN email list.

I like the tool, but I think it's too bad the author doesn't at least 
take a little time to make a quick-start guide or something.  And I 
think that means far less people will make use of the author's efforts, 
which is too bad.  (I know he says it's a modified version of the MySQL 
Webmin module, but still...)

I'm not sure if you can find NagMIN 2.1 online, but I still have a copy, 
so let me know if you'd like me to send it to you.

Perhaps us NagMIN users could work together, and create a simple install 
guide?  It seems like it could be pretty damn short...  I, for one, 
would love to know how to get the RRD stuff to work right.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

 >  Does anyone know of a good link of how to properly install and
 > configure Nagmin?  I?ve installed it but I?m unable to view the nagmin
 > page when I click on it.

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From martin.mielke at thales-is.com  Thu Jul  8 15:38:11 2004
From: martin.mielke at thales-is.com (Martin Mielke)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 15:38:11 +0200
Subject: nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers ...
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Hi Arthur,

could you please explain to the list how to do that? Because this is 
what I'm looking for...  :-)


Martin


Artur Pinheiro wrote:

>I don't know if this is the correct way, but I run a script like that using
>nrpe. 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Martin Mielke
>Sent: quinta-feira, 8 de Julho de 2004 12:06
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: [Nagios-users] nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers ...
>
>Hi all,
>
>I need to monitor a Windoze from Nagios and restart a service when it fails.
>I read the NRPE and event_handlers docs
>http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/eventhandlers.html looking for a
>solution but couldn't find such a solution... the restart command for the
>Windows service is already coded (just a simple .bat file).
>
>Ideas much appreciated!
>
>Best regards,
>Martin
>
>
>
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From Darren.Kemp at xerox.com  Thu Jul  8 15:34:16 2004
From: Darren.Kemp at xerox.com (Kemp, Darren)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:34:16 -0400
Subject: APAN + NRPE?
Message-ID: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF848@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

I'm curious if anyone has experimented with using APAN over NRPE?

 

Basically I want to collect performance data from remote hosts and view
the graphs on a central server.

I have been through the APAN and NRPE documentation and haven't seen
anything like this yet. If anyone is running a similar setup I'd love to
hear from you.

 

Thanks

 

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From Darren.Kemp at xerox.com  Thu Jul  8 15:46:58 2004
From: Darren.Kemp at xerox.com (Kemp, Darren)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:46:58 -0400
Subject: Changing IP on a host
Message-ID: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF84B@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

Check to make sure an old NAGIOS process isn't running. Sometimes it
doesn't shut down right.

-dkk



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Burleigh
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:19 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Changing IP on a host

Sand Philipp wrote:

>Did you reload / restart nagios after applying the changes? 
>  
>
Yes, I've even deleted the status.log and status.sav files but they 
still reappear. I'm not sure where its getting the old IP from...

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From Darren.Kemp at xerox.com  Thu Jul  8 15:40:27 2004
From: Darren.Kemp at xerox.com (Kemp, Darren)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 09:40:27 -0400
Subject: Event handler OK from command line, not from nagios
Message-ID: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF849@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

It looks to me like your command syntax for your eventhandler isn't
passing any arguments to the script.

It should be something like this:


command_line	/usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandler/reset_spooler_04
$SERVICESTATE$ $STATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$


(for 2.0 $STATETYPE is SERVICESTATETYPE)

Hope this helps.

-dkk


============================================
Now if I cd to /usr/local/nagios/eventhandler and enter this command:

./reset_spooler_04 CRITICAL HARD 4

The rspooler.bat file on the Win 2k box actually runs and logs the
reset.

So far so good.  Now I need to set up a service definition for the event

handler:

#
#  reset_spooler_04 Command
define command{
        command_name    reset_spooler_04
        command_line    /usr/local/nagios/eventhandler/reset_spooler_04
        }

And I need to include the event handler in the service definition:

define service{
        host_name            fc-ctx-04
        use                        rs-windows-service
        service_description        printq_service
        max_check_attempts         5
       event_handler        reset_spooler_04
        normal_check_interval      10
        retry_check_interval       1
        check_command            check_nt_perf!"\\Print 
Queue(_Total)\\Jobs"!4!5
        }

So now the big picture.  We have a working monitor on the Nagios server 
which monitors
the number of print jobs in the Win 2k print queue.  We generate an 
alarm when the number
of jobs in the queue exceeds 5.  I can test this by pulling the paper 
tray on the printer and
queueing up print jobs.  The montor works fine..  It goes into alarm 
when the print queue
gets up to 5 jobs. 

But the event handler doesn't work properly.  Here's the log:

[07-02-2004 13:51:41] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;HARD;5;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:51:41] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;HARD;5;6
[07-02-2004 13:50:41] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;4;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:50:41] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;4;6
[07-02-2004 13:49:42] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;3;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:49:42] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;3;6
[07-02-2004 13:48:36] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:48:36] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;7
[07-02-2004 13:47:37] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;reset_spooler_04
[07-02-2004 13:47:37] SERVICE ALERT: 
fc-ctx-04;printq_service;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;7

So, it seems to me that Nagios is calling the event handler, and is 
calling it n a CRITICAL HARD state.  Why, oh why, I
wonder, isn't the rest of the system working?  The above event did NOT 
result in an entry in the rspooler.log on the
Win 2k machine.

As I said earlier, if I call the event handler as user nagios from the 
command line, it does run rspooler and makes the
log entries on the Win 2k machine.

Any help would be appreciated...

Glenn Meisenheimer







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From matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net  Thu Jul  8 15:57:46 2004
From: matt.burleigh at eiisolutions.net (Matt Burleigh)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:57:46 -0400
Subject: Changing IP on a host
In-Reply-To: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF84B@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>
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Kemp, Darren wrote:

>Check to make sure an old NAGIOS process isn't running. Sometimes it
>doesn't shut down right.
>  
>
Thanks, that was it. I was assuming it was shutting down correctly but 
it was not. I'm now recieving recovery alerts.

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From SELundgr at email.uncc.edu  Thu Jul  8 16:22:15 2004
From: SELundgr at email.uncc.edu (Lundgren, Scott)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 10:22:15 -0400
Subject: check_ping segmentation fault at command line
Message-ID: <A01ABA2A211C644596549C5FF91C50E4513674@EXEVS02.its.uncc.edu>

I'm setting up nagios 1.2 and using nagios plugins 1.3.1. In trying to
figure out why nagios shows 1 and only 1 of my hosts status as down
though all the services are up, I'm trying to run the check_ping command
from command line and it is seg faulting. So I have two questions,
configuration info is below: 
 
What adjustments should I be making for the host status to work
properly? 
What causes check_ping from command line as user nagios to segmentation
fault?

danke,
SL

nagios at samplebox $ whoami 
nagios
nagios at samplebox $ pwd
/usr/local/nagios/libexec
nagios at samplebox $ ./check_ping -H wwwX -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p
1
Segmentation Fault

# 'check-host-alive' command definition
define command{
        command_name    check-host-alive
        command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w
3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
        }

# 'wwwX' host definition
define host{
        use                     generic-host       
        host_name               wwwX
        alias                   WWW Server #X
        address                 XXX.XX.XX.XX
        check_command           check-host-alive
        max_check_attempts      10
        notification_interval   120
        notification_period     24x7
        notification_options    d,u,r
        }

# Generic host definition template
define host{
        name                            generic-host  ; The name of this
host template 
        notifications_enabled           1       	; Host
notifications are enabled
        event_handler_enabled           1       	; Host event
handler is enabled
        flap_detection_enabled          1       	; Flap detection
is enabled
        process_perf_data               1       	; Process
performance data
        retain_status_information       1       	; Retain status
information across program restarts
        retain_nonstatus_information    1       	; Retain
non-status information across program restarts
        register                        0       	; DONT REGISTER
THIS DEFINITION 
        }



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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Thu Jul  8 16:26:52 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:26:52 -0400
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
In-Reply-To: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068DF7@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>
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Message-ID: <1089296812.6113.29.camel@pel>

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 01:34, Sand Philipp wrote:
> Dell Open Mange is really great. Doesn't work with every Kernel, but ok
> *g*
> BTW, has anyone kind of integrated Dell Open Mange into Nagios yet?
> I think about a plugin, which just checks the DOM if the whole server is
> ok (just this one status data, not all)
> And if tehre appears any Problem it returns the warning message from DOM
> and you can directly connect to DOM via hyperlink to look further.
> Same thing I need for Compaq/HP Insight Manager and IBM Director... I
> tried the check_insight plugin, but couldn't get it to run :-/ 
> Any suggestions?

Go to http://www.duke.edu/~sean/nagios/ and download my check_om
plugin.  Its written in python and uses snmpget to check OM through
snmp.  If everything's ok, it reports that.  If somehting is not ok,
it'll report the status (Non-critical -> warning ; critical -> critical)
and the component that's having problems.  If you want to know the exact
error, you have to check that yourself.  One known bug is that hardware
log errors show up as an error in an unknown component as I haven't
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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Thu Jul  8 16:33:04 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:33:04 -0400
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
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Message-ID: <1089297184.6113.34.camel@pel>

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 02:38, Nicole H??hnel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've written my own plugin to get more information from a server.
> I use nrpe to check the other servers with my plugin.
> The plugin is not only to get "status ok". It gives out more lines,
> something like this:
> 
> Temperatures OK
> CPU Planar	38.0 Celsius
> Ambient		26.0 Celsius
> BP Bottom Temp	23.0 Celsius
> 
> The problem is check_nrpe gets only the first line.
> All I see is "Temperatures OK", the other lines are ignored.
> 
> Is there any possibility to get more than one line?
> Or is the only thing I can do, write all output in one line?

If you read the nagios plugin guidelines:
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
you'll see that a nagios plugin is only supposed to print one line of
text, and the rest is ignored.  So even if npre passed on more, nagios
itself would ignore everything but the first line.  You really need to
put everything on one line.

When I write a plugin to check multiple things, I have a simple Ok
message if things are good.  If something's wrong, then I'll show the
value that caused the problem.  That way its easier to keep the line
short.





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From alex at fragit.net  Thu Jul  8 17:14:26 2004
From: alex at fragit.net (Alex Burger)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 11:14:26 -0400
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
In-Reply-To: <40ECD94D.4090007@gurugeek.com>
References: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net> <40ECD94D.4090007@gurugeek.com>
Message-ID: <40ED64D2.6070506@fragit.net>


How about configuring your Dell servers to send SNMP traps to your 
management server, which could then feed the traps in to Nagios?

I have not done it with Dell, but on my Compaq serves I configured them 
with the Insight Agents and have them send all alerts to my management 
station running Net-SNMP.  Net-SNMP passes it on to SNMPTT (to translate 
the traps into something readable) which then passes it on to Nagios for 
alerting.

The Compaq agents (Linux, Windows etc) have over 300 different traps 
from network link up/down, hard drive failures, power supply failures 
etc.  Instead of polling for all the services, have the sever tell you 
when something is wrong.  You can do the same with UPSs, SAN devices 
etc.  You would still need Nagios to tell you if the server is up, and 
could also poll to make sure the management agents are running.

The document 'Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf' says there 
are 36 traps in 10982.mib for motherboard alerts, and 80 traps in 
arymgr.mib.  I found the document at:

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf

Check out sections 3 and 7.

An example of an alert I could get from a Compaq server is:

"Compaq Drive Array Spare Drive on controller 3, bus 0, bay 3 status is 
Failed."

Alex


Jeff Rodriguez wrote:

> You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. The server 
> runs on windows but will tell you much more about the status of your 
> systems than Nagios ever could. I believe it's free too...
> 
> Jeff
> 
> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> 
>> Greetings all..
>>
>>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
>> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) - 
>> currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
>> doing this:
>>
>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
>> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
>> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
>> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>>
>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>>
>> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
>> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat specific 
>> (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>>
>> Has anybody run into this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Jonathan
>>
>> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for personal 
>> experiences)



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From chris.stankaitis at datawire.net  Thu Jul  8 17:32:59 2004
From: chris.stankaitis at datawire.net (Chris Stankaitis)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:32:59 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: Migrating old archived Nagios
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407081532420.3955@newmail.datawire.net>

Hey All;

Any issue with taking old Nagios logs and putting them on a new Nagios server 
to save the statistical data?

Basically we gave our Nagios Box a HW Upgrade and I have been asked to move 
over all the old /var/log/nagios/archive/* stuff so that stats and such can be 
checked back over the last couple years.

If there are any pitfalls to look out for I would appreciate the heads up.

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From marc at ena.com  Thu Jul  8 18:18:56 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:18:56 -0500
Subject: Migrating old archived Nagios
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B673B@mismail2.ena.com>

Chris Stankaitis <mailto:chris.stankaitis at datawire.net> wrote:
> Hey All;
> 
> Any issue with taking old Nagios logs and putting them on a new
> Nagios server to save the statistical data? 
> 
> Basically we gave our Nagios Box a HW Upgrade and I have been asked
> to move over all the old /var/log/nagios/archive/* stuff so that
> stats and such can be checked back over the last couple years.  
> 
> If there are any pitfalls to look out for I would appreciate the
> heads up. 

>From my experience the only thing you really need to watch out for is
that your log rotation method is the same on both (i.e. daily, weekly,
etc). This presumes that the host and service names are the same of
course. If you're using the same config files then you're good to go.

--
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From JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu  Thu Jul  8 18:24:22 2004
From: JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu (Thompson, Jimi)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:24:22 -0500
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
Message-ID: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F5240415F82D@exch4.elcsb.net>

If this helps anyone - 

I'm currently in the process of installing Nagios on FreeBSD 4.9 and
I've been seeing something similar.  I know that the tail end of the
Nagios install script said to run make install-init and make
install-config but  I got the following error messages from both.

myhost# make install-init
make: don't know how to make install-init. Stop

myhost# make install-config
make: don't know how to make install-config. Stop

The description for the "nagios" package said that it included the
plug-ins as a dependency but I'm suspicious because I don't see them
anywhere.  I checked the files and the package was downloaded as a
dependency but they don't seem to have actually been installed and I'm
not sure they were built with the right options.  I'm planning on using
database, LDAP, and SNMP support.  I'm going to try running the plug in
package install manually and see if that doesn't give me what I'm
looking for.  I'll post again and let you know how it goes.

Jimi


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Steve
Loughran
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 7:02 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after
compiling ....

    ./configure
    make all
    make install

I think you missed these:

    make install-config
    make install-init

then go grab the plugins and install them too..

Seve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae at op5.se>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 9:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after
compiling ....


> Tis Unix wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having
a
few
> > problems but will tackle one at a time.
> >
> > First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's
what it
> > tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -
> >
> > [root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
> > [root at richemontdev]> ls -al
> > total 12
> > drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
> > drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
> > drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
> > drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var
> >
> > Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I
should
> > have the following -
> >
> >
> > Directory Structure And File Locations
> >
> > Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the
following
> > command...
> >
> > cd /usr/local/nagios
> >
> > You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of
what
> > each directory contains is given in the table below.
> >
> > Sub-DirectoryContentsbin/Nagios core programetc/Main, resource,
object,
> > and CGI configuration files should be put heresbin/CGIsshare/HTML
files
> > (for web interface and online documentation)var/Empty directory for
the
> > log file
> >
> >
> > Why is this ??
> >
>
> You didn't do make install_config (or something) which the makefile
> quite clearly state that you must do after compilation is complete.
>
>
> > Thanks in advance
> >
>
> You're welcome. Next time, try to be more observant.
>
> > Trev
> >
>
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From JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu  Thu Jul  8 18:30:41 2004
From: JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu (Thompson, Jimi)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 11:30:41 -0500
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
Message-ID: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F5240415F83C@exch4.elcsb.net>

<SNIP>

    ./configure
    make all
    make install

I think you missed these:

    make install-config
    make install-init

then go grab the plugins and install them too..

</SNIP>

This is the tail end of the Nagios FreeBSD package script.  The only
problem is that it LOOKS like it works but in fact none of the "extra"
goodies are really there.

Jimi

*** Compile finished ***

If the main program and CGIs compiled without any errors, you
can continue with installing Nagios as follows (type 'make'
without any arguments for a list of all possible options):

  make install
     - This installs the main program, CGIs, and HTML files

  make install-init
     - This installs the init script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d

  make install-commandmode
     - This installs and configures permissions on the
       directory for holding the external command file

  make install-config
     - This installs *SAMPLE* config files in /usr/local/etc/nagios
       You'll have to modify these sample files before you can
       use Nagios.  Read the HTML documentation for more info
       on doing this.  Pay particular attention to the docs on
       object configuration files, as they determine what/how
       things get monitored!


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From nagios-users at gurugeek.com  Thu Jul  8 18:39:57 2004
From: nagios-users at gurugeek.com (Jeff Rodriguez)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 09:39:57 -0700
Subject: Monitoring Dell stuff?
In-Reply-To: <40ED64D2.6070506@fragit.net>
References: <40EB8602.7010808@pbp.net> <40ECD94D.4090007@gurugeek.com> <40ED64D2.6070506@fragit.net>
Message-ID: <40ED78DD.2010809@gurugeek.com>

I personally would not, and the company I work for is not trying to integrate 
OpenManage with Nagios. I think you're better off just having them separate, the 
only thing I might check in nagios is a global system status.

However, if you're interested, Dell has a document about integrating Nagios and 
Dell OpenManage. Note that this has been mentioned on the Nagios propaganda page:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-sch.pdf

Jeff

Alex Burger wrote:
> 
> How about configuring your Dell servers to send SNMP traps to your 
> management server, which could then feed the traps in to Nagios?
> 
> I have not done it with Dell, but on my Compaq serves I configured them 
> with the Insight Agents and have them send all alerts to my management 
> station running Net-SNMP.  Net-SNMP passes it on to SNMPTT (to translate 
> the traps into something readable) which then passes it on to Nagios for 
> alerting.
> 
> The Compaq agents (Linux, Windows etc) have over 300 different traps 
> from network link up/down, hard drive failures, power supply failures 
> etc.  Instead of polling for all the services, have the sever tell you 
> when something is wrong.  You can do the same with UPSs, SAN devices 
> etc.  You would still need Nagios to tell you if the server is up, and 
> could also poll to make sure the management agents are running.
> 
> The document 'Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf' says there 
> are 36 traps in 10982.mib for motherboard alerts, and 80 traps in 
> arymgr.mib.  I found the document at:
> 
> http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/solutions/Integrating_PowerEdge_Servers_into_HPSIM40.pdf 
> 
> 
> Check out sections 3 and 7.
> 
> An example of an alert I could get from a Compaq server is:
> 
> "Compaq Drive Array Spare Drive on controller 3, bus 0, bay 3 status is 
> Failed."
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> Jeff Rodriguez wrote:
> 
>> You should check out Dell OpenManage and Dell IT Assistant. The server 
>> runs on windows but will tell you much more about the status of your 
>> systems than Nagios ever could. I believe it's free too...
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings all..
>>>
>>>     Are any of you using Linux on the Dell PowerEdge boxes? If yes, 
>>> what are you using to monitor the RAID status (if you're using RAID) 
>>> - currently my method consists of checking /proc/megaraid/hba0/ and 
>>> doing this:
>>>
>>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $ sudo cat raiddrives-0-9
>>> Logical drive: 0:, state: optimal
>>> Span depth:  1, RAID level:  1, Stripe size: 64, Row size:  2
>>> Read Policy: Adaptive, Write Policy: Write back, Cache Policy: Direct IO
>>>
>>> jnichols at mailgate hba0 $
>>>
>>> That method sucks. I need to find something better. :) The Dell RAID 
>>> monitoring tools are an absolute joke, and seem to be Red Hat 
>>> specific (I don't use Red Hat..using Gentoo)
>>>
>>> Has anybody run into this?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> -Jonathan
>>>
>>> (ps, yes, I checked Google..didn't find a lot, was hoping for 
>>> personal experiences)
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From mshirley at gmail.com  Thu Jul  8 18:58:48 2004
From: mshirley at gmail.com (Mark Shirley)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 12:58:48 -0400
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <20040708000211.6057E3C02F@paramonga.terra.com.br>
References: <20040708000211.6057E3C02F@paramonga.terra.com.br>
Message-ID: <c31ca9c604070809585270e265@mail.gmail.com>

it can indeed. if you delete a user it will delete the user from the
hostgroup and if you delete a host it will remove that host from the
services etc...  i don't really understand why you would delete a
service if a host was deleted since a service can be used by many
different hosts.


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:06:00 -0300, Wilson Pires Jr
<wp.junior at terra.com.br> wrote:
> Does nagmin make consistency among the cfg configuration files? I mean, for
> example, if I delete a host, are their services deleted automatically?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wilson
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Shirley
> Sent: quarta-feira, 7 de julho de 2004 09:16
> To: Neil
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: front end management tool
> 
> you can do anything with nagmin as you can with configs in my
> experiance.  instead of editing a text file to create a custom check
> you create a database field.
> 
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:54:50 -0500, Neil
> <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Another question. I do a lot of customization to checks and vi allows me
> to
> > be very flexible. The limit I have when writing my own custom checks is
> what
> > my brain can imagine. So, can I also be very flexible with Nagmin?
> >
> > Thanks. :)
> >
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Shirley writes:
> >
> > > the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios
> requirement.
> > >
> > > nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
> > > based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
> > > changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
> > > effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
> > > database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
> > > startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
> > > does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
> > > and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
> > > excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
> > > always go back to using a simple text configs.
> > >
> > > nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
> > > nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
> > > nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
> > > mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
> > > add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
> > > config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
> > > EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
> > > the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
> > > changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
> > > overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation.
> > >
> > > in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
> > > most stable for my enviroment.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
> > > <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of
> Nagios
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> carole verdon writes:
> > >>
> > >> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database
> support.
> > >> >
> > >> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to build
> its
> > >> > own files.
> > >> >
> > >> > Neil wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi Carole,
> > >> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take
> care of
> > >> >> my existings configs?
> > >> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> > >> >> carole verdon writes:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't
> create
> > >> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of mysql
> > >> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read
> them.
> > >> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
> > >> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
> > >> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> > >> >>> Carole.
> > >> >>> Neil wrote:
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>> Hey guys,
> > >> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end for
> > >> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm
> used to
> > >> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your experience
> on
> > >> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and was
> easy
> > >> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for us
> to
> > >> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin, Nagat
> but
> > >> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file which
> will
> > >> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs :(
> > >> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool
> you
> > >> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
> > >> >>>> Thanks.
> > >> >>>> Neil
> > >> >>>>
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From misaochankun at speakeasy.net  Thu Jul  8 20:13:09 2004
From: misaochankun at speakeasy.net (Misao)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 13:13:09 -0500
Subject: Nagmin setup help
In-Reply-To: <40ED4351.9010108@microlnk.net>
References: <40ED4351.9010108@microlnk.net>
Message-ID: <E1BidOZ-0006Ws-EA@sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net>

RRD is my only quest in Nagios right now. I installed Nagmin in hopes of
being able to use RRD, but found it not worth the time to figure it out. Not
to mention, the install didn't seem to even try to make use of my existing
Nagios standard install. It would take quite a while to manually transfer
all my hosts/servers from flat file into the Nagmin/MySQL setup.
For now, I may have to pursue another method to get RRD going.

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason Byrns
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagmin setup help

I like NagMIN and use it for my Nagios system.  But that being said, the 
current 2.2 version is not only undocumented but also seems to lack the 
"setup" installer script that 2.1 had.  Which created subdirectories and 
such.

So from what I can tell, you may not even be able to set up NagMIN 
unless you start by installing 2.1 and then upgrade to 2.2.  Even then, 
some of the extras like the RRD graphing are apparently too difficult to 
figure out, for myself and others on the NagMIN email list.

I like the tool, but I think it's too bad the author doesn't at least 
take a little time to make a quick-start guide or something.  And I 
think that means far less people will make use of the author's efforts, 
which is too bad.  (I know he says it's a modified version of the MySQL 
Webmin module, but still...)

I'm not sure if you can find NagMIN 2.1 online, but I still have a copy, 
so let me know if you'd like me to send it to you.

Perhaps us NagMIN users could work together, and create a simple install 
guide?  It seems like it could be pretty damn short...  I, for one, 
would love to know how to get the RRD stuff to work right.

Guillermo Padilla wrote:

 >  Does anyone know of a good link of how to properly install and
 > configure Nagmin?  I've installed it but I'm unable to view the nagmin
 > page when I click on it.

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From giliardo at ufv.br  Thu Jul  8 21:57:09 2004
From: giliardo at ufv.br (Giliardo Carlos Freitas)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 16:57:09 -0300
Subject: Sound Alert
Message-ID: <20040708195709.25478.qmail@calipso.cpd.ufv.br>

Someone knows how to play a sound alert when a host or service is down? 

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From marc at ena.com  Thu Jul  8 22:37:45 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:37:45 -0500
Subject: Sound Alert
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6759@mismail2.ena.com>

Giliardo Carlos Freitas <mailto:giliardo at ufv.br> wrote:
> Someone knows how to play a sound alert when a host or service is
> down? 


http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html#audio_alerts

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From dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu  Thu Jul  8 22:46:03 2004
From: dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu (Demetri Mouratis)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:46:03 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Cfg_dir Contact Bug?
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407081515330.16984-100000@zaphod.math.uiuc.edu>

Greetings,

I have a Distributed Nagios configuration setup that's causing a mixup in
my notifications.  On each Distributed Nagios, I have some global
configuration then some specific configuration files in a cfg_dir.  On the
Central Nagios, I'm using cfg_dirs to keep per Distributed Nagios
configuration files like such:

cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/dev
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/se

Each cfg_dir contains the following files:

contactgroups.cfg contacts.cfg hostgroups.cfg hosts.cfg services.cfg

This allows me to use rsync to push the config files from Distributed to
Central.  (I do have to make one change to remove the check_command lines
and instead let them inherit the default from the service template).

My problem is that that Central Nagios incorrectly assigns services inside
the dev services file to the se hostgroup, and therefore se contact.  As a
result, the se contact gets notified when a dev service goes down as seen
here (taken from the Notifications output):

Host 			Service 	<snip> 		Contact
sj-devnode2-app01 	PING 		<snip>		se

I am fairly conviced this is a bug in parsing various cfg_dirs because the
GUI provides the correct hostgroups, contactgroups and hosts when I use
the View Config->Hostgroups in the front end:

Group Name	Description	Default Contact Groups	Host Members
dev		dev 		dev-contactgroup 	<snip dev hosts>,
							sj-devnode1-app01,
							<snip dev hosts>
se		se 		se-contactgroup 	<snip se hosts>

However, the View Configs->Service shows the incorrect assignment:

Host 			 Description 	<snip>	Default Contact Groups
sj-devnode2-app01 	 PING 	 	<snip> 	se-contactgroup

Any help or other verification greatly appreciated and please let me know
if any of this is unclear.

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From nemir at mindless.com  Thu Jul  8 22:56:18 2004
From: nemir at mindless.com (nemir nemiria)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 06:56:18 +1000
Subject: Some questions about functionality.  check_by_ssh.
Message-ID: <20040708205619.14AA51F4FA1@ws1-2.us4.outblaze.com>

Hiya.

Fiurst thing I'd like to know is whether it is possible to nest check_by_ssh in another check_by_ssh command to check something on a third box?

I run a database server.  It is important enough to the business that I have created a second machine of identical hardware and software configuration and run rsync through cron to regularly update the data on it as a standby system.  I have set this up in a separate,  dedicated network,  and run my backups from standby server.  All hosts that connect to this network are therefore multihomed.  This backup network is not routed so there is no way any host that isn't on this backup network can communicate with this host.  The nagios server is not in a position to connect to this directly (it has to sit in a less secure DMZ).  To make sure that the backup daemon is running on the box,  I'd like to run check_procs on that host.    From the live server,  I can run the following command:

./check_by_ssh -H 192.168.16.2 -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -c 1:3 -C backup"

and I get the response:

OK - 2 processes running with command name backup

>From the nagios server I try running the command


./check_by_ssh -H 172.16.16.12 -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh -H 192.168.16.2 -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -c 1:3 -C backup""

but I get an error that says 

./check_by_ssh: invalid option -- c



Obviously it isn't passing through the command to the remote server....  I have confirmed that the nagios account on the server has keys set up correctly....   Is this not possible?

Also,   is it possible to set up a notification system where it notifies one person immediately,  and then a second person after 15 minutes or so if there is no acknowledgment and no recovery?

Finally, there is one windows host that requires a reboot once per evening.  This happens at different times each night depending on other circumstances.   Is there a way that I could do something like:

o) Configure a regular downtime period that would immediately be ended once a downtime had been detected?

o) send some sort of signal to the nagios box as part of a reboot script to set up a 10 minute downtime?

o) do something else that guys on this list that are cleverer than I might suggest?



In other news, I have solved many many of my issues by trawling through the archives, re-reading the documentation and diligently checking the FAQs before I ask questions.  I've just written up an "idiot's guide to setting up and configuring check_by_ssh" going into a fair amount of detail.  Is anyone interested in having me posting it or publishing it on a website?    It isn't <i>quite</i> finished,  because I wanted the answer to my first question first,  but it includes deatil on how to set up the ssh keys, and talks about the methods I used to make sure it was going to work.   It is really basic,  cause I can be pretty dumb,  I am thinking a quick summary for guys more advanced might be a good idea too.   I figure this sort of thing is one thing I can contribute,  not being a programmer or anything.

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From giliardo at ufv.br  Thu Jul  8 22:54:44 2004
From: giliardo at ufv.br (Giliardo Carlos Freitas)
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 17:54:44 -0300
Subject: Sound Alert
In-Reply-To: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6759@mismail2.ena.com> 
References: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6759@mismail2.ena.com>
Message-ID: <20040708205444.4061.qmail@calipso.cpd.ufv.br>

The configuration work fine. 

Thank you! 

Giliardo 

Marc Powell writes: 

> Giliardo Carlos Freitas <mailto:giliardo at ufv.br> wrote:
>> Someone knows how to play a sound alert when a host or service is
>> down? 
>  
> 
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html#audio_alerts 
> 
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:58:12 -0400
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Today's Topics:

   1. Re: 512 byte limit on PROCESS STATUS output? (Demetri Mouratis)
   2. re: problems with history (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?=)
   3. Re: Modify Nagios menu on left side (BOLLENGIER Eric)
   4. Re: Modify Nagios menu on left side (Michael Huettig)
   5. re: problems with history (=?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?=)
   6. Re: Question about perfdata (Ben Clewett)
   7. RE: Modify Nagios menu on left side (Sand Philipp)
   8. cpu usage (serwah sabet ghadam)
   9. R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage (Marco Borsani)
  10. Re: cpu usage (Tom DE BLENDE (GCC))
  11. Re: cpu usage (Andreas Ericsson)
  12. Re: cpu usage (Andreas Ericsson)
  13. Re: cpu usage (Tom DE BLENDE (GCC))
  14. R: [Nagios-users] Nagios with MySql (Andreoni Antonella)
  15. Re: Modify Nagios menu on left side (Michael Huettig)
  16. RE: Modify Nagios menu on left side (Elmar van Mourik)
  17. R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage (Marco Borsani)
  18. Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage (Tom DE BLENDE (GCC))
  19. Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage (Andreas Ericsson)
  20. Blank Notifications (Reutzel, Shane)
  21. Nagios as logserver (Wengrzik, Andreas)
  22. Re: Nagios as logserver (Andreas Ericsson)
  23. Modify Nagios menu on left side (Frank Pikelner) (Johnston Michael J
Contr AFRL/DES)
  24. RE: Blank Notifications (tom.welsh at bt.com)
  25. Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage (Michael Huettig)
  26. RE: Blank Notifications (Reutzel, Shane)
  27. Extended Service Information (Jeramy Eling)
  28. EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT = 512 byte limitation
       ? (Christopher M Bergeron)
  29. Notification Timing (Wheeler, MG)
  30. RESOLVED Re: PB with NRPE: No output returned from plugin (carole
verdon)
  31. Re: Notification Timing (Jason Martin)
  32. Extended Service Information (Jeramy Eling)
  33. RE: Using NAGIOS to read data gathered by MRTG? (Cook, Garry)
  34. RE: Notification Timing (Wheeler, MG)
  35. Re: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT
       = 512 byte limitation ? (Marc Powell)
  36. RE: Notification Timing (Jason Martin)

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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:51:16 -0500 (CDT)
From: Demetri Mouratis <dmourati at cm.math.uiuc.edu>
To: Christopher Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] 512 byte limit on PROCESS STATUS output?

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> Is there a configuration option for changing the 512 byte limit that 
> nsca returns to nagios?  I'm not sure if the limitation is on the 
> nsca_send command or the nagios receiver.

The actual limitation is 4k at the named pipe.  This is a hard limit for a
FIFO configured in the Linux kernel.

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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:26:20 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?= <maca02 at atlas.cz>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: zsitfa at axelero.hu
Subject: [Nagios-users] re: problems with history

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Hi, I've got the patch for you.=20
But this patch is "hard", I've commented out the "LOG ROTATION" text and =
hardly defined, that the 't->tm_hour =3D 0' when the log rotation =3D=3D =
DAILY, just see the patched file base/loggin.c.

Without the commenting out the LOG ROTATION text, the patch did not worke= d
for me properly, I was not able to find out why, so this patch is not t= he
best thing to do, but works. I would like to know, where is the proble= m
really, I spent 2 days with it, but did not find the reason. Some idea = was
the computer load, but rotation is pending at 00:00, when the compute= r
load is very low, but together with this I thaught, that nagios has too=
much to work - I have 196 machines, 276 services. I would not be in doub= t,
if the result of nagios check_ping would not be "Host seems to be up" =
(only  sometimes) - why?? Did nagios do the check or not??

Do you have an idea?

Tomas

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Horv=E1th Tam=E1s wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have the same problem than Tom! Does anyone know the solution?
>
> Tom: what kind of patch dou you have? Can cou send it to me?
>
> Thanks, Tamas!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
From: BOLLENGIER Eric <ebollengier at sigma.fr>
To: Frank Pikelner <pikelner at rogers.com>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 08:55:05 +0200


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Hi,

You have to edit side.html. You can also edit index.html to use another
start page (service problem for example)

You can find them on /usr/share/nagios/htdocs (with debian)=20

Regads

Eric

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:07, Frank Pikelner wrote:

> I've noticed from Nagios screen shots on several sites (e.g.
> http://apan.sourceforge.net/)  that users have been able to modify the 
> =
menu
> (on left side) to for example make sub categories below SERVICE 
> DETAILS=
 such
> as unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers, etc. I was wondering 
> how=
 this
> can be done and items placed into these sub categories below SERVICE  
>DETAILS? =20
> Thank you,
>=20
> Frank
> Pikelner at rogers.com
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Hi,<BR>
<BR>
You have to edit side.html. You can also edit index.html to use another<BR>
start page (service problem for example)<BR> <BR> You can find them on
/usr/share/nagios/htdocs (with debian) <BR> <BR> Regads<BR> <BR> Eric<BR>
<BR> On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 04:07, Frank Pikelner wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE
TYPE=CITE> <PRE><FONT COLOR="#7f7f7f"><I>I've noticed from Nagios screen
shots on several sites (e.g.</FONT> <A
HREF="http://apan.sourceforge.net/"><U>http://apan.sourceforge.net/</U></A><
FONT COLOR="#7f7f7f">)  that users have been able to modify the menu (on
left side) to for example make sub categories below SERVICE DETAILS such as
unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers, etc. I was wondering how this
can be done and items placed into these sub categories below SERVICE
DETAILS?

Thank you,

Frank
Pikelner at rogers.com



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Message: 4
From: Michael Huettig <Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de>
Organization: Medien Systempartner GmbH
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:57:03 +0200
Cc: "Frank Pikelner" <pikelner at rogers.com>

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 04:07 schrieb Frank Pikelner:
> I've noticed from Nagios screen shots on several sites (e.g.
> http://apan.sourceforge.net/)  that users have been able to modify the 
> menu (on left side) to for example make sub categories below SERVICE 
> DETAILS such as unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers, etc. I was 
> wondering how this can be done and items placed into these sub 
> categories below SERVICE DETAILS?

Look for grouplist.cgi on apan.sourceforge.net-Download-section
>
> Thank you,
>
> Frank
> Pikelner at rogers.com


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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:09:50 +0200 (CEST)
From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Tom=E1=B9_Macek?= <maca02 at atlas.cz>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] re: problems with history

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Sorry, I did not write, that this patch is for nagios 1.2

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Horv=E1th Tam=E1s wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have the same problem than Tom! Does anyone know the solution?
>
> Tom: what kind of patch dou you have? Can cou send it to me?
>
> Thanks, Tamas!
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:03:09 +0100
From: Ben Clewett <Ben at clewett.org.uk>
To: Pedro Fernandes Macedo <webmaster at margo.bijoux.nom.br>
CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Question about perfdata

Pedro Fernandes Macedo wrote:

> But I'm doing more tests here and it doesnt seem to work anyway... 
> I've=
=20
> made a small plugin that checks if xmms is running and then prints 
>the=20  user that is running it... Here's the output:  
>gargamel:/opt/nagios/var# /opt/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H=20  
>150.164.254.25 -c check_xmms_192.168.1.4  1 usando xmms|user =3D 
>someuser, numero =3D 1 - Usu=E1rio: someuser  gargamel:/opt/nagios/var#
>=20
> This service is configured in nagios , but it never shows up in the=20
> serviceperf.log file... In the interface , it shows up ok...
> Any ideas on what could be wrong?
>=20
> I've put my nagios.cfg below .... Just to be safe , I've enabled=20
> perfdata both in nagios.cfg and in the template definitions for all=20
> services...

First, would you mind if I comment on your performance syntax?  The=20
official syntax is:

'label'=3Dvalue[UOM];[warn];[crit];[min];[max]

Eg:

| metric1=3D1.0sec;2.0;3.0;0;4.0 metric2=3D1.0sec;2.0;3.0;0.0;4.0

Or a simpler version is also used by many plugins:

| metric1=3D1.0 metric2=3D2.0

See:

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html#AEN185

If you use that, parsing programs like PerfParse will be able to=20
intemperate your output successfully.


Second, a check list of possible problems of why Nagios is not giving=20 you
the performance data.

Regards, Ben.



1. You are using the latest Nagios, 1.2.

2. You are using the latest nagios plugins.  Only these produce=20
performance data.  You can check this by running one, like 'check_disk'.=20
  If you have performance data, this should reply:

DISK OK - free space: / 8089 MB (22%); /boot 35 MB (76%) |=20
/=3D8089MB;33312;35163;0;37014 /boot=3D34MB;40;42;0;45

You can see the performance data beyond the '|'.

Download from:

http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/snapshot/nagios-plugins-HEAD-2004060805=
14.tar.gz

3. You have compiled nagios with the option to produce performance data.=20
  Using the '--with-file-perfdata'.  Ie:

./configure --with-file-perfdata

4. Set the permissions on the servicelog file as:
     -rw-rw-r-- nagios nagios
ie:
$ chmod 664 serviceperf.log
$ chown nagios.nagios serviceperf.log

5. Check 'nagios.cfg', ensure you have these lines somewhere:

process_performance_data=3D1
xpdfile_host_perfdata_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/hostperf.log
xpdfile_host_perfdata_template=3D$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA=
$ xpdfile_service_perfdata_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/serviceperf.log
xpdfile_service_perfdata_template=3D$TIMET$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$=
OUTPUT$\t$PERFDATA$

6. In services.cfg, ensure this line is in all services you want to=20
monitor:  (Or the generic parent table.)

process_perf_data 1

7. In Nagios 'Process Info' page. At the bottom of the Process=20
Information box, ensure you have:

"Performance Data Being Processed?    Yes"









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Message: 7
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:29:34 +0200
From: "Sand Philipp" <Philipp.Sand at sycor.de>
To: "Michael Huettig" <Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de>,
	<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Frank Pikelner" <pikelner at rogers.com>

Hi,

Thanks for the grouplist hint. I just wanted to implement this into my
nagios, but it didn't worked quite well :-/ I did everything the way it's
explained in the README, but when i finish, i don't get this treeview on the
left, but only a (in my optinion totaly absurd) Link named "Service Detail
2" ??!! Do I have to edit something else there? Maybe you can mail me your
html files or something?

Thank you,
Philipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Huettig=20  
>[mailto:Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Frank Pikelner
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side =20
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 04:07 schrieb Frank Pikelner:
> > I've noticed from Nagios screen shots on several sites (e.g.
> > http://apan.sourceforge.net/)  that users have been able to=20
> modify the=20
> > menu (on left side) to for example make sub categories=20
> below SERVICE=20
> > DETAILS such as unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers,=20
> etc. I was=20
> > wondering how this can be done and items placed into these sub=20 
> > categories below SERVICE DETAILS?
>=20
> Look for grouplist.cgi on apan.sourceforge.net-Download-section
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Frank
> > Pikelner at rogers.com
>=20
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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:41:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: serwah sabet ghadam <serwah_s_gh at yahoo.com>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: serwah_S_gh at yahoo.com
Subject: [Nagios-users] cpu usage

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Hi guys,
It's my first time to use Nagios,
How can I find cpu usage, memory usage and disk usage 
of a computer in a network???
 
Regards
Sirwah

		
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Message: 9
From: "Marco Borsani" <m.borsani at it.net>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:54:02 +0200

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Hi !

You have to use a client on that computer. NRPE or NSClient.
It is easy to do, give a look to www.nagios.org in the document section.

bye
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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Per conto di serwah sabet
ghadam
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  Oggetto: [Nagios-users] cpu usage


  Hi guys,
  It's my first time to use Nagios,
  How can I find cpu usage, memory usage and disk usage
  of a computer in a network???

  Regards
  Sirwah


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  <DIV>It's my first time to use Nagios,</DIV>
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 11:54:04 +0200
From: "Tom DE BLENDE (GCC)" <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com>
To: serwah sabet ghadam <serwah_s_gh at yahoo.com>
CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage

The real question you should ask is: how can I find information on 
Nagios without having to resort to the mailing list for all my questions...

serwah sabet ghadam wrote:

> Hi guys,
> It's my first time to use Nagios,
> How can I find cpu usage, memory usage and disk usage
> of a computer in a network???
>  
> Regards
> Sirwah
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:11:46 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage

serwah sabet ghadam wrote:
> Hi guys,
> It's my first time to use Nagios,
> How can I find cpu usage, memory usage and disk usage
> of a computer in a network???
>  

For unix-servers, you can use either nrpe, ssh or nsca. Each of them 
have their own pros and cons, so you'll have to choose which one you like.
I favor NRPE, but I'm a bit biased.

For windows-servers, you can use either nrpe_nt or nsclient.

For netware servers, you have to use the mrtgext module.

For VMS systems, there is nrpe_vms (one separate project and one quick 
hack I wrote some while back, which is nrpe protocol 2 compliant).

Ofcourse, if any of the servers support snmp, you cat get a lot of 
information from that.

The plugins you'll be wanting to have a look at are;
check_nrpe
check_nt
check_by_ssh
check_nwstat
check_snmp

A word of caution though;
NSClient and MRTGEXT allows practically anyone to run the commands you 
have configured at the monitored host and receive the information back, 
thus gaining information about it.
NRPE allows practically anyone (with small coding skills) to run the 
commands you have configured, but he/she won't be able to get any data 
back without owning at least one of the routers on the way from your 
monitoring server to the monitored server.
SSH requires passphraseless keys to be present, meaning that if anybody 
unlawfully gains access to your monitoring server, he'll have no trouble 
what so ever gaining access to the servers you monitor.
NSCA uses the best encryption methods, but with weak authentication 
methods, possibly allowing remote and malice users to corrupt the data 
of your monitoring environment. It also requires that you understand how 
passive checks work, and you have to configure the nsca daemon and the 
send_nsca client as well.
SNMP has it's pros, ofcourse, and it's a widespread standard written in 
stone. The check_snmp plugin is however a bit limited, so you might want 
to write your own plugins if you use it. SNMPv3 is the safest option 
available here.

All this is ofcourse just theory. How your network is designed will 
probably determine what's best for you.

> Regards
> Sirwah
> 

-- 
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OP5 AB
+46 (0)733 709032
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:19:47 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage

Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
> The real question you should ask is: how can I find information on 
> Nagios without having to resort to the mailing list for all my
questions...
> 

If you don't want to answer the question, then don't hit the reply button.

What does GCC stand for, btw?

> serwah sabet ghadam wrote:
> 
>> Hi guys,
>> It's my first time to use Nagios,
>> How can I find cpu usage, memory usage and disk usage
>> of a computer in a network???
>>  
>> Regards
>> Sirwah
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>> Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger 
>> <http://messenger.yahoo.com/> 
> 
> 
> 
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 12:31:55 +0200
From: "Tom DE BLENDE (GCC)" <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com>
To: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage



Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
>
>> The real question you should ask is: how can I find information on 
>> Nagios without having to resort to the mailing list for all my 
>> questions...
>
> If you don't want to answer the question, then don't hit the reply 
> button.

If you want to keep answering the same questions over and over again, 
that is your problem. I guess you have a lot of time to spare. I don't. 
I would like to have the noise on this list down so we can actually see 
who has REALLY got a problem.


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Message: 14
Subject: R: [Nagios-users] Nagios with MySql
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 12:41:53 +0200
From: "Andreoni Antonella" <andreoni at ksolutions.it>
To: "Ben Clewett" <Ben at clewett.org.uk>
Cc: "Nagios-Users (E-mail)" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

Hi,

I set up nagios with mysql, now NO problem with CGIs
the DB is up&running
the schema has been made by using the script in the distrib
I compiled and istalled nagios with db support using the following =
configure string:

 ./configure --prefix=3D/usr/local/nagios =
--with-cgiurl=3D/nagios/cgi-bin --with-htmurl=3D/nagios =
--with-nagios-user=3Dnagios --with-nagios-grp=3Dnagios =
--with-msyql-xdata --with-mysql-lib=3D/usr/local/mysql/lib =
--with-mysql-inc=3D/usr/local/mysql/include =
--with-gd-lib=3D/usr/local/lib --with-gd-inc=3D/usr/local/include


I configured cgi.cfg and resource.cfg as suggested in docs

with all parameters such as db name, db user, db port and so on

I have a doubt: what about log file in the configuration files?
I left setting for status.log and so on in nagios.cfg

nagios.cfg:log_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
nagios.cfg:status_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log
nagios.cfg:comment_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.log
nagios.cfg:downtime_file=3D/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.log

I think I had to comment these lines in nagios.cfg....

but if I compile nagios with db support I expected to find those lines =
commented

what do you think about?

thanks

Antonella


> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Ben Clewett [mailto:Ben at clewett.org.uk]
> Inviato: marted=EC 25 maggio 2004 17.31
> A: Andreoni Antonella
> Cc: Nagios-Users (E-mail)
> Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios with MySql
>=20
>=20
> Andreoni Antonella wrote:
> > Hi all
> >=20
> > I've just started Nagios with database support but it doesn't work
> >=20
> > on the web interface I got the following error:
> >=20
> > Whoops!
> > Error: Could not read host and service status information!
> >=20
> > And in the log file nagios.log there is the following error message
> > [1085497246] Error: Could not lock status data tables in=20
> database 'nagios'
>=20
> Just a pre-check: Did you run the provided script to create=20
> the database?
>=20
> Something like:
>=20
> $ cd contrib/database
> $ cat create_myqsl | mysql -u $USER -p$PASS -D $DATABASE -h $HOST
>=20
> Where $USER $PASS $DATABASE and $HOST have been correctly=20
> setup, and are=20
> (probably) the same as those used in nagios.cfg?
>=20
> Ben
>=20


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Message: 15
From: Michael Huettig <Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de>
Organization: Medien Systempartner GmbH
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:08:43 +0200
Cc: "Sand Philipp" <Philipp.Sand at sycor.de>, "Frank Pikelner" 
    <pikelner at rogers.com>

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 10:29 schrieb Sand Philipp:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the grouplist hint. I just wanted to implement this into my
> nagios, but it didn't worked quite well :-/
> I did everything the way it's explained in the README, but when i
> finish, i don't get this treeview on the left, but only a (in my
> optinion totaly absurd) Link named "Service Detail 2" ??!!
> Do I have to edit something else there? Maybe you can mail me your html
> files or something?
>
restart Apache
for further information look to apan-userlist

HTH
Michael

> Thank you,
> Philipp
>


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Message: 16
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 13:29:38 +0200
From: "Elmar van Mourik" <e.vanmourik at zhew.nl>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Sand Philipp" <Philipp.Sand at sycor.de>

Hi Philipp,

I had the same promlem. Check the grouplist.cgi:

line 10/11:
CFGFILES=3D`egrep -e "cfg_file=3D" $NAGIOSDIR/etc/nagios.cfg|cut -d "=3D"=
 -f 2`
CFGDIRS=3D`egrep -e "cfg_dir=3D" $NAGIOSDIR/etc/nagios.cfg|cut -d "=3D" -=
f 2`

and line 23:
                HOSTGROUPS=3D`egrep -e "hostgroup_name" $CFGFILE|awk '{pr=
int $2}'| tr "," " "`

I had to remove the ^ after egrep -e " and everything works fine!


Elmar van Mourik

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Namens Sand Philipp
Verzonden: woensdag 9 juni 2004 10:30
Aan: Michael Huettig; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
CC: Frank Pikelner
Onderwerp: RE: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side


Hi,

Thanks for the grouplist hint. I just wanted to implement this into my
nagios, but it didn't worked quite well :-/
I did everything the way it's explained in the README, but when i
finish, i don't get this treeview on the left, but only a (in my
optinion totaly absurd) Link named "Service Detail 2" ??!!
Do I have to edit something else there? Maybe you can mail me your html
files or something?

Thank you,
Philipp

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Huettig=20
> [mailto:Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de]=20
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:57 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: Frank Pikelner
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side
>=20
> Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 04:07 schrieb Frank Pikelner:
> > I've noticed from Nagios screen shots on several sites (e.g.
> > http://apan.sourceforge.net/)  that users have been able to=20
> modify the=20
> > menu (on left side) to for example make sub categories=20
> below SERVICE=20
> > DETAILS such as unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers,=20
> etc. I was=20
> > wondering how this can be done and items placed into these sub=20
> > categories below SERVICE DETAILS?
>=20
> Look for grouplist.cgi on apan.sourceforge.net-Download-section
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > Frank
> > Pikelner at rogers.com
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Message: 17
From: "Marco Borsani" <m.borsani at it.net>
To: "Tom DE BLENDE \(GCC\)" <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:14:54 +0200

Please, a little bit of fair play!

Everyone may ask everything.
If you are so busy (!), don't read (and don't answer to) all the mails.

Regards
Marco

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]Per conto di Tom DE
BLENDE (GCC)
Inviato: mercoledi 9 giugno 2004 12.32
A: Andreas Ericsson
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Oggetto: Re: [Nagios-users] cpu usage




Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
>
>> The real question you should ask is: how can I find information on
>> Nagios without having to resort to the mailing list for all my
>> questions...
>
> If you don't want to answer the question, then don't hit the reply
> button.

If you want to keep answering the same questions over and over again,
that is your problem. I guess you have a lot of time to spare. I don't.
I would like to have the noise on this list down so we can actually see
who has REALLY got a problem.


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Message: 18
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:22:12 +0200
From: "Tom DE BLENDE (GCC)" <Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com>
To: Marco Borsani <m.borsani at it.net>
CC: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage



Marco Borsani wrote:

>Please, a little bit of fair play!
>
>Everyone may ask everything.
>If you are so busy (!), don't read (and don't answer to) all the mails.
>
Sadly enough, that is exactly what I have been doing the last half year 
or so. As some can confirm, my level of interaction on this mailing list 
was quite a bit higher a while ago. But when so many people keep on 
asking the same questions over and over again, while they are SUPERBLY 
documented by Ethan and co both it the HTML docs and the FAQ's; and when 
apparently people find it normal not to use this documentation, you get 
to a situation that some active members can't see the forest for the 
trees and have to let go.



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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:42:25 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage

Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) wrote:
> 
> 
> Marco Borsani wrote:
> 
>> Please, a little bit of fair play!
>>
>> Everyone may ask everything.
>> If you are so busy (!), don't read (and don't answer to) all the mails.
>>
> Sadly enough, that is exactly what I have been doing the last half year 
> or so. As some can confirm, my level of interaction on this mailing list 
> was quite a bit higher a while ago. But when so many people keep on 
> asking the same questions over and over again, while they are SUPERBLY 
> documented by Ethan and co both it the HTML docs and the FAQ's; and when 
> apparently people find it normal not to use this documentation, you get 
> to a situation that some active members can't see the forest for the 
> trees and have to let go.
> 

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/toc.html

Posting the above link would have sufficed and gotten the message 
through while at the same time being a minimum of helpful.

Some of the users who are new to nagios today will be its major 
contributors tomorrow (figuratively speaking), so a little courtesy 
should be considered prudent.

Btw. You still haven't told me what GCC means in your mail name.

-- 
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Message: 20
From: "Reutzel, Shane" <Shane.Reutzel at MemberWorks.com>
To: "'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'"
	 <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:58:11 -0500 
Subject: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications

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time I received the notifications as normal with all the content, but for
some reason I start receiving notifications with no content or blank.  This
may go on for a day before I start getting normal notifications again.  Does
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as normal with all the content, but for some reason I start receiving =
notifications with no content or blank.&nbsp; This may go on for a day =
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Message: 21
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:12:42 +0200
From: "Wengrzik, Andreas" <Wengrzik at ewr.de>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios as logserver

Hi!

Is there a plug in to run nagios also as an Logserver for *nix systems =
and with a
windows client??


Anyone done something yet??

Thanks a lot!


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Message: 22
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:22:43 +0200
From: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios as logserver

Wengrzik, Andreas wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Is there a plug in to run nagios also as an Logserver for *nix systems and
with a
> windows client??
> 

man syslogd
google for ntsyslog

syslogd does a far better job than nagios would at logging everyday 
stuff. Nagios can be set to log every state-change, but i wouldn't want 
to think about the disk-space required to do so...

> 
> Anyone done something yet??
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> 
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Message: 23
From: Johnston Michael J Contr AFRL/DES <michael.johnston at kirtland.af.mil>
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:36:08 +0100 
Subject: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side (Frank Pikelner)

Frank,

The side menu is just and html document called side.html.  It's located
under /nagios/shared and is as easy to modify as any html document.  Just
open it up in vi and you should see the format and be able to change it as
you wish...

Mike

From: "Frank Pikelner" <pikelner at rogers.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:07:15 -0400
Subject: [Nagios-users] Modify Nagios menu on left side

I've noticed from Nagios screen shots on several sites (e.g.
http://apan.sourceforge.net/)  that users have been able to modify the =
menu
(on left side) to for example make sub categories below SERVICE DETAILS =
such
as unix-boxes, Windows-server, Mail, printers, etc. I was wondering how =
this
can be done and items placed into these sub categories below SERVICE
DETAILS?

Thank you,

Frank
Pikelner at rogers.com



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Message: 24
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:47:25 +0100
From: <tom.welsh at bt.com>
To: <Shane.Reutzel at MemberWorks.com>,
	<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

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Take a look in the faq page on www.nagios.org I'm sure there is a faq =
for this

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net =
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Reutzel, =
Shane
Sent: 09 June 2004 13:58
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications



I am using Nagios 1.0 on RedHat Enterprise 3.0.  I have been monitoring =
for several months now and recently turned on the notifications.  Most =
of the time I received the notifications as normal with all the content, =
but for some reason I start receiving notifications with no content or =
blank.  This may go on for a day before I start getting normal =
notifications again.  Does anybody know the solution to this problem or =
anyway to help troubleshoot this?  Any response will be appreciated.

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Message: 25
From: Michael Huettig <Michael.Huettig at Medien-Systempartner.de>
Organization: Medien Systempartner GmbH
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: R: [Nagios-users] cpu usage
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:49:30 +0200

Am Mittwoch, 9. Juni 2004 14:22 schrieb Tom DE BLENDE (GCC):
> Marco Borsani wrote:
> >Please, a little bit of fair play!
> >
> >Everyone may ask everything.
> >If you are so busy (!), don't read (and don't answer to) all the mails.
>
> Sadly enough, that is exactly what I have been doing the last half year
> or so. As some can confirm, my level of interaction on this mailing list
> was quite a bit higher a while ago. But when so many people keep on
> asking the same questions over and over again, while they are SUPERBLY
> documented by Ethan and co both it the HTML docs and the FAQ's; and when
> apparently people find it normal not to use this documentation, you get
> to a situation that some active members can't see the forest for the
> trees and have to let go.

Tom, you're right!
problem of this userlist is efficiency, if anyone would RTFM a lot of time 
wouldn't be spent on reading silly questions. 

I've posted more times about nagios-notifications with sms, i'm not able to 
find any suggestion to my problems in FAQ and DOC and no one reads my 
posting, so i have to live with the problem. If there is really a 
notification bug, it would be very helpfull for nagios, that someone shares 
my problem. I'm not a programmer, so i don't have a chance to fix it ...

Regards

Michael


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Message: 26
From: "Reutzel, Shane" <Shane.Reutzel at MemberWorks.com>
To: "'tom.welsh at bt.com'" <tom.welsh at bt.com>, 
	nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:01:26 -0500 

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I have already looked through the faq page and the mailing list archives and
I was not able to find anything that would help.

-----Original Message-----
From: tom.welsh at bt.com [mailto:tom.welsh at bt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:47 AM
To: Shane.Reutzel at MemberWorks.com; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications


Take a look in the faq page on www.nagios.org <http://www.nagios.org>  I'm
sure there is a faq for this

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Reutzel, Shane
Sent: 09 June 2004 13:58
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: [Nagios-users] Blank Notifications



I am using Nagios 1.0 on RedHat Enterprise 3.0.  I have been monitoring for
several months now and recently turned on the notifications.  Most of the
time I received the notifications as normal with all the content, but for
some reason I start receiving notifications with no content or blank.  This
may go on for a day before I start getting normal notifications again.  Does
anybody know the solution to this problem or anyway to help troubleshoot
this?  Any response will be appreciated.

-Shane 


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  size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> tom.welsh at bt.com 
  [mailto:tom.welsh at bt.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, June 09, 2004 8:47 
  AM<BR><B>To:</B> Shane.Reutzel at MemberWorks.com; 
  nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: [Nagios-users]
Blank 
  Notifications<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
  <DIV><SPAN class=119014813-09062004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Take 
  a look in the faq page on <A
href="http://www.nagios.org">www.nagios.org</A> 
  I'm sure there is a faq for this</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
  <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
    <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma 
    size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> 
    nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
    [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]<B>On Behalf Of 
    </B>Reutzel, Shane<BR><B>Sent:</B> 09 June 2004 13:58<BR><B>To:</B> 
    'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'<BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users]
Blank 
    Notifications<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
    <P><FONT size=2>I am using Nagios 1.0 on RedHat Enterprise 3.0.&nbsp; I
have 
    been monitoring for several months now and recently turned on the 
    notifications.&nbsp; Most of the time I received the notifications as
normal 
    with all the content, but for some reason I start receiving
notifications 
    with no content or blank.&nbsp; This may go on for a day before I start 
    getting normal notifications again.&nbsp; Does anybody know the solution
to 
    this problem or anyway to help troubleshoot this?&nbsp; Any response
will be 
    appreciated.</FONT></P>
    <P><FONT size=2>-Shane
</FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

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Message: 27
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 15:05:18 +0100
From: "Jeramy Eling" <Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Extended Service Information

Hi All,

I am trying, with very little success to get the extended service =
information to work in Nagios. I have spent the last few days trying to =
add the details to just one service, and no matter what I seem to do I =
just cannot get it to display. I have put my sample file below that I am =
working with:-

define serviceextinfo{
	host_name		adslfirewall
	service_description	PING
	notes_url		http://nagios/test2.html
	icon_image		win40.gif
	icon_image_alt		ADSL PING
	}

Can anyone give me any hints/tips on how I can get this working, I have =
read the documentation over and over and checked out the mailing-list =
but to no avail, I am using Nagios 1.2 on RedHat 9.0.

Thanks in advance

Jez


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Message: 28
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:30:37 -0400
From: Christopher M Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com>
To:  nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT = 512
byte limitation
 ?

I've noticed that there is a limitation of 512 bytes for 
SERVICE_CHECK_RESULTs.  Where can I modify this?  I didn't see any 
configuration entries for it, so I grepped the code for 512 and can't 
seem to find the limitation.

Can anyone clue me in on how I can increase this?  I'm trying to send 
HTML back to nagios from nsca_send, and it quickly saturates the 512 bytes.

Thanks in advance..!
Chris Bergeron




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Message: 29
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:49:08 -0500
From: "Wheeler, MG" <MG at ev3.net>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification Timing

I=20have=20a=20service=20that=20is=20paging=20me=20every=2015=20minutes=20=
(Its=20only=20a=20test=20and=20it=20is=20"Down.")=20=20Here's=20the=20thin=
g=20though,=20the=20service=20itself=20has=20this=20defined:

Nagios.cfg
Status=20Update=20Interval=20=20=20=2015
Retention=20Update=20Interval=2060
Service=20Reaper=20Frequency=20=20=2060
Interval=20Length=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=2060

Services.cfg
Max=20Check=20Attempts=20=20=20=20=202
Normal=20Check=20Interval=20=205
Retry=20Check=20Interval=20=20=201

So=20shouldn't=20I=20get=20paged=20every=202=20minutes=20since=20the=20Max=
=20Checks=20Attempts=20=3D=202?=20=20If=20it=20was=20because=20of=20the=20=
Normal=20Check=20Interval=20being=205=20minutes,=20then=20the=20one=20minu=
te=20retries=20I=20would=20think=20it=20to=20be=206=20minutes.=20Where=20d=
oes=20the=2015=20minutes=20come=20from????


_____________________________________________________________________
This=20message=20has=20been=20checked=20for=20all=20known=20viruses


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Message: 30
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 17:14:08 +0200
From: carole verdon <verdon at cict.fr>
Organization: CICT
To: nagiosplug-help at lists.sourceforge.net,
nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net,
        nagiosplug-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] RESOLVED Re: PB with NRPE: No output returned from
plugin


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Hi all,

I finally find a solution of my problem.

In fact the check_command "check_nrpe_nossl" was defined in Commands=20
table of NagMin to accept arguments:
 $USER1$/check_nrpe_nossl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$ $ARG3$=20
$ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$ $ARG10$ $ARG11$ $ARG12$ $ARG13$

However, my script doesn't call upon the arguments. So I create a new=20
command, that i called "check_nrpe_nossl_noarg", defined as this:
$USER1$/check_nrpe_nossl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$

Now, it works fine.

Carole.

carole verdon wrote:

>Hi,
>
>In web interface of nagios (v 1.2), i obtain a status UNKNOWN with this =
message: (No output returned from plugin)
>
>If i execute the check_nrpe (v 2.0) in line command on server nagios, it=
 works well:
>$ ./check_nrpe_nossl -H telline.cict.fr -c check_oracle
>all databases OK
>
>check_oracle is defined in nrpe.cfg as:
>command[check_oracle]=3D/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle_databases=
.sh
>
>the check_oracle_databases.sh is a script i wrote to take dynamically in=
to account the file /etc/oratab to verify all databases=20
>that it contains. It calls the check_oracle scripts of core distribution=
 of nagios-plugins-1.4.0alpha1 that i modified a little.
>
>I use NagMin 2.1.0 to configure nagios. So i define a service called "Or=
acle" with the check command : check_nrpe_nossl!check_oracle <http://leri=
ns.cict.fr:10000/nagmin/command.cgi/nagios/Service/check_nrpe_nossl>=20
>
>In service.cfg:
>define service {
>    use    generic-service
>    host_name    telline.cict.fr
>    service_description    Oracle
>    contact_groups    nagios-admins
>    check_period    24x7
>    notification_interval    2880
>    notification_options    w,u,c,r
>    notification_period    24x7
>    check_command    check_nrpe_nossl!check_oracle
>    max_check_attempts    3
>    normal_check_interval    10
>    retry_check_interval    1
>}
>
>
>I don't understand why it works in line commands on nagios server and th=
at it don't work if i define this service in nagios.=20
>
>Can you tell me where is the error? What am i doing?=20
>
>Please, help me....
>
>Thanks.
>
>Carole.
>
> =20
>

--=20
**********************************
VERDON Carole
Ing=E9nieur Syst=E8me
CICT - Universit=E9 Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex
T=E9l.: 05.61.36.60.44
Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
Mail: verdon at cict.fr
**********************************=09


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<html>
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</head>
<body>
Hi all,<br>
<br>
I finally find a solution of my problem.<br>
<br>
In fact the check_command "check_nrpe_nossl" was defined in Commands
table of NagMin to accept arguments:<br>
&nbsp;$USER1$/check_nrpe_nossl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$ $ARG3$
$ARG4$ $ARG5$ $ARG6$ $ARG7$ $ARG8$ $ARG9$ $ARG10$ $ARG11$ $ARG12$
$ARG13$<br>
<br>
However, my script doesn't call upon the arguments. So I create a new
command, that i called "check_nrpe_nossl_noarg", defined as this: <br>
$USER1$/check_nrpe_nossl -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$ <br>
<br>
Now, it works fine.<br>
<br>
Carole.<br>
<br>
carole verdon wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite" cite="mid40C58DD7.3080407 at cict.fr">
  <title></title>
  <pre wrap="">Hi,

In web interface of nagios (v 1.2), i obtain a status UNKNOWN with this
message: (No output returned from plugin)

If i execute the check_nrpe (v 2.0) in line command on server nagios, it
works well:
$ ./check_nrpe_nossl -H telline.cict.fr -c check_oracle
all databases OK

check_oracle is defined in nrpe.cfg as:
command[check_oracle]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_oracle_databases.sh

the check_oracle_databases.sh is a script i wrote to take dynamically into
account the file /etc/oratab to verify all databases 
that it contains. It calls the check_oracle scripts of core distribution of
nagios-plugins-1.4.0alpha1 that i modified a little.

I use NagMin 2.1.0 to configure nagios. So i define a service called
"Oracle" with the check command : <a
 onclick="window.open(" command.cgi/nagios/service/check_nrpe_nossl=""
 ,="" help=""
 
toolbar="no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,width=500,height=225,resizable=yes&quo
t;);"
 return="" false=""
 
href="http://lerins.cict.fr:10000/nagmin/command.cgi/nagios/Service/check_nr
pe_nossl">check_nrpe_nossl!check_oracle</a> 

In service.cfg:
define service {
    use    generic-service
    host_name    telline.cict.fr
    service_description    Oracle
    contact_groups    nagios-admins
    check_period    24x7
    notification_interval    2880
    notification_options    w,u,c,r
    notification_period    24x7
    check_command    check_nrpe_nossl!check_oracle
    max_check_attempts    3
    normal_check_interval    10
    retry_check_interval    1
}


I don't understand why it works in line commands on nagios server and that
it don't work if i define this service in nagios. 

Can you tell me where is the error? What am i doing? 

Please, help me....

Thanks.

Carole.

  </pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
**********************************
VERDON Carole
Ing&eacute;nieur Syst&egrave;me
CICT - Universit&eacute; Paul Sabatier
118, route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse Cedex
T&eacute;l.: 05.61.36.60.44
Fax: 05.61.52.14.58
Mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:verdon at cict.fr">verdon at cict.fr</a>
**********************************	
</pre>
</body>
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Message: 31
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:15:29 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Wheeler, MG" <MG at ev3.net>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Timing
From: Jason Martin <jhmartin at toger.us>

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You didn't include the notification interval. A service will only 
re-notify every notification_interval.

- -Jason Martin

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, 
Wheeler, MG wrote:

> I have a service that is paging me every 15 minutes (Its only a test and
it is "Down.")  Here's the thing though, the service itself has this
defined:
> 
> Nagios.cfg
> Status Update Interval    15
> Retention Update Interval 60
> Service Reaper Frequency   60
> Interval Length           60
> 
> Services.cfg
> Max Check Attempts     2
> Normal Check Interval  5
> Retry Check Interval   1
> 
> So shouldn't I get paged every 2 minutes since the Max Checks Attempts =
2?  If it was because of the Normal Check Interval being 5 minutes, then the
one minute retries I would think it to be 6 minutes. Where does the 15
minutes come from????
> 
> 
> _____________________________________________________________________
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> 
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Message: 32
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 16:18:56 +0100
From: "Jeramy Eling" <Jeramy.Eling at britax-pmg.com>
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Extended Service Information

Hi All,

I am trying, with very little success to get the extended service =
information to work in Nagios. I have spent the last few days trying to =
add the details to just one service, and no matter what I seem to do I =
just cannot get it to display. I have put my sample file below that I am =
working with:-

define serviceextinfo{
	host_name		adslfirewall
	service_description	PING
	notes_url		http://nagios/test2.html
	icon_image		win40.gif
	icon_image_alt		ADSL PING
	}

Can anyone give me any hints/tips on how I can get this working, I have =
read the documentation over and over and checked out the mailing-list =
but to no avail, I am using Nagios 1.2 on RedHat 9.0.

Thanks in advance

Jez



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Message: 33
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Using NAGIOS to read data gathered by MRTG?
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:37:08 -0600
From: "Cook, Garry" <GWCOOK at mactec.com>
To: <DGibbs at Skychannel.com.au>,
	<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
>>> I have a router which is monitored by MRTG to gather traffic stats -
>>> useage/load/data volume, and I want to have Nagios sent an
>>> alert email if
>>> the utilisation percentage on a given data link exceeds a threshold
>>>=20
>>> Will one of the standard plugins do this? If so, which one,
>>> and how do I make this work?
>>=20
>> It depends... Are you using MRTG with log files or an .rrd backend?
>> There are plugins available to check both. Look in the plugin source
>> contrib directory, if you don't find them in nagios/libexec.
>=20
> It's just running log files.
>=20
> There are a couple of mrtg pluging in nagios/libexec, but I
> can't figure
> out how to use them, and the docs aren't very helpful.
>=20
> DaZZa
>=20

I would suggest upgrading MRTG to use rrd files instead of the logs. I
can't offer much assistance in the way of Nagios checking MRTG log
files, but for MRTG .rrd checking you should be able to use the
contributed plugins. I've also written my own check_rrdbw plugin that
will do something similar to what you are looking for. I'm sure that the
contributed ones work well, but they just didn't work the way I wanted
them to.

Upgrading MRTG to use RRDTool is not very hard at all. In a nutshell,
install RRDTool, and then add 'LogFormat: rrdtool' to your MRTG config
files. Your existing log files will be created as rrds automagically the
next time you start MRTG, so you shouldn't lose any historical data. I
believe that log files will be replaced by rrds in MRTG v3.0 anyway, so
you may want to look into them now. They also offer a lot more features
than log files.
If you should decide to go this route, I would suggest posting further
questions to the MRTG mailing list if necessary, then come back to
Nagios-Users if you still need help checking rrds once you've got
RRDTool up and running.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)


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Message: 34
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notification Timing
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 10:39:48 -0500
From: "Wheeler, MG" <MG at ev3.net>
To: "Jason Martin" <jhmartin at toger.us>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>

Notification_Interval=20=20=20=3D=2012

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Sent:=20Wednesday,=20June=2009,=202004=2010:15=20AM
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Wheeler,=20MG=20wrote:

>=20I=20have=20a=20service=20that=20is=20paging=20me=20every=2015=20minute=
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>=20
>=20Nagios.cfg
>=20Status=20Update=20Interval=20=20=20=2015
>=20Retention=20Update=20Interval=2060
>=20Service=20Reaper=20Frequency=20=20=2060
>=20Interval=20Length=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=20=2060
>=20
>=20Services.cfg
>=20Max=20Check=20Attempts=20=20=20=20=202
>=20Normal=20Check=20Interval=20=205
>=20Retry=20Check=20Interval=20=20=201
>=20
>=20So=20shouldn't=20I=20get=20paged=20every=202=20minutes=20since=20the=20=
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=
does=20the=2015=20minutes=20come=20from????
>=20
>=20
>=20_____________________________________________________________________
>=20This=20message=20has=20been=20checked=20for=20all=20known=20viruses
>=20
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>=20http://2004/guadec.org
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>=20Nagios-users=20mailing=20list
>=20Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>=20https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
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Message: 35
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT
	= 512 byte limitation ?
From: Marc Powell <mpowell at ena.com>
To: Christopher M Bergeron <christopher at bergeron.com>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Organization: ENA Systems Engineering
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:45:02 -0500

On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 09:30, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> I've noticed that there is a limitation of 512 bytes for 
> SERVICE_CHECK_RESULTs.  Where can I modify this?  I didn't see any 
> configuration entries for it, so I grepped the code for 512 and can't 
> seem to find the limitation.
> 
> Can anyone clue me in on how I can increase this?  I'm trying to send 
> HTML back to nagios from nsca_send, and it quickly saturates the 512
> bytes.

The external command file is implemented as a named PIPE. The amount of
data that this pipe can hold at any given time is defined by the kernel
of whatever OS you are running. Most flavors of linux implement a 512
byte pipe size I believe. If you want to adjust that you would need to
recompile your kernel after locating and changing that value. Be aware
that the change is global and would affect any program that uses a named
pipe so Your Mileage May Definitely Vary and the change may cause
unforeseen consequences. I believe there is further discussion of this
issue in the mailing list archives if you're interested (and it's always
a good idea to search there before posting).

--
Marc


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Message: 36
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 08:42:41 -0700 (PDT)
To: "Wheeler, MG" <MG at ev3.net>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notification Timing
From: Jason Martin <jhmartin at toger.us>

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> Notification_Interval   = 12

There you go then; you'll get paged every 12 minutes while the service 
stays in a non-OK status.

- -Jason Martin

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Wheeler, MG wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Martin [mailto:jhmartin at toger.us]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:15 AM
> To: Wheeler, MG
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Notification Timing
> 
> 
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> You didn't include the notification interval. A service will only 
> re-notify every notification_interval.
> 
> - -Jason Martin
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, 
> Wheeler, MG wrote:
> 
> > I have a service that is paging me every 15 minutes (Its only a test and
it is "Down.")  Here's the thing though, the service itself has this
defined:
> > 
> > Nagios.cfg
> > Status Update Interval    15
> > Retention Update Interval 60
> > Service Reaper Frequency   60
> > Interval Length           60
> > 
> > Services.cfg
> > Max Check Attempts     2
> > Normal Check Interval  5
> > Retry Check Interval   1
> > 
> > So shouldn't I get paged every 2 minutes since the Max Checks Attempts =
2?  If it was because of the Normal Check Interval being 5 minutes, then the
one minute retries I would think it to be 6 minutes. Where does the 15
minutes come from????
> > 
> > 
> > _____________________________________________________________________
> > This message has been checked for all known viruses
> > 
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From TWEdwards at cimplify.net  Thu Jul  8 23:00:58 2004
From: TWEdwards at cimplify.net (Edwards, Thomas W.)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:00:58 -0500
Subject: verifying incoming ncsa info
Message-ID: <B09D7D6E102FC94EAB4EA40CD4434B0E01C139@uhgmail01.CIMPLIFY.NET>

Is there a place to see incoming messages via ncsa?  If it is even
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From glaw at storbase.com  Thu Jul  8 23:10:07 2004
From: glaw at storbase.com (Gabriel Law)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:10:07 -0400
Subject: docs for plug ins
Message-ID: <2337482E01EF0245A81E9F2EEA1E9A00049C8B@mail.storbase.com>

 
 
This is probably a stupid question but... where are the docs for the
nagios plugins? I can't seem to find them...
 
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From JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu  Fri Jul  9 00:16:00 2004
From: JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu (Thompson, Jimi)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:16:00 -0500
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
Message-ID: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F5240415FCAE@exch4.elcsb.net>

 

Well, 

 

After considerable experimentation and attempting to install the
plug-ins manually, it seems that the plug ins require a newer version of
Perl than the system installs by default.  FreeBSD installs 5.005 and it
wants 5.6.X or better.  This seems be causing the plug-in install to
fail silently when attempting to it as a Nagios dependency.  I'm in the
process of upgrading the system Perl now and will let post again with
any thing else interesting that I uncover.

 

HTH 

 

Jimi

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Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:16 AM
To: unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net;
nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after
compiling ....

 


Hi, 

did you try to: 

make install-config 

?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Tis Unix <unixdocs72 at yahoo.co.uk> 
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Subject

[Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....

 

 

 




  
Hi, 
  
First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a
few problems but will tackle one at a time. 
  
First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it
tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios - 
  
[root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
[root at richemontdev]> ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var 
Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should
have the following - 
  

Directory Structure And File Locations 

Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the
following command... 

cd /usr/local/nagios 

You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of
what each directory contains is given in the table below. 

Sub-Directory 

Contents 

bin/ 

Nagios core program 

etc/ 

Main <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html> , resource
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#resource_file> ,
object <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configobject.html> , and
CGI <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html>
configuration files should be put here 

sbin/ 

CGIs <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/cgis.html>  

share/ 

HTML files (for web interface and online documentation) 

var/ 

Empty directory for the log file
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#log_file> 

  

Why is this ?? 

Thanks in advance 

Trev 

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From nagios at gmail.com  Fri Jul  9 00:28:33 2004
From: nagios at gmail.com (Tomas Morales)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 16:28:33 -0600
Subject: Unexpected check_period behavior
Message-ID: <9ec4112a04070815281912ff2@mail.gmail.com>

I have a very unexpected behavior for the check_period (or perhaps I'm
misinterpreting it) option on a service check. We have a need for NOT
showing red alerts on the nagios screen nor sending notifications off
for this service(Ping) outside the timeperiod defined and used.

My time period is defined to be between 1am to 12 noon:

define timeperiod{
    timeperiod_name  bl-100-2100-daily
   alias                     daily onlycheck 1am-12noon
   sunday                 01:00-12:00
   monday                01:00-12:00
   tuesday                01:00-12:00
   wednesday           01:00-12:00
   thursday               01:00-12:00
   friday                    01:00-12:00
   saturday               01:00-12:00
}

the service is defined as:

define service{
   host_name             host75
   name                     Ping
   service_description Ping
   use                        generic-unix-ping
   check_command    check_ping!500.0,50%|1000.0,80%
   check_period          bl-100-2100-daily
}

generic-unix-ping template has 24x7 timeperiod set for check_period,
but it's supposed to be overriden by defining check_period in the
service definition itself as shown above.

I have verified that checks still get performed and yet the "service
state information" says that the next check will be at 1:00am
tomorrow(July 9), AND that the last check was done OUTSIDE the
timeperiod defined (i.e. Last Check Time: 07-08-2004 15:46:08 )

Here is the entire service state information showing for the service:

Service State Information
Current Status:   OK     
Status Information: PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 0.22 ms 
Current Attempt: 1/3 
State Type: HARD 
Last Check Type: ACTIVE 
Last Check Time: 07-08-2004 15:46:08 
Status Data Age: 0d 0h 4m 11s 
Next Scheduled Active Check:   07-09-2004 01:00:00 
Latency: < 1 second 
Check Duration: 4 seconds 
Last State Change: 07-08-2004 09:28:59 
Current State Duration: 0d 6h 21m 20s 
Last Service Notification: N/A 
Current Notification Number: 0 
Is This Service Flapping? N/A 
Percent State Change: N/A 
In Scheduled Downtime?   NO   
Last Update: 07-08-2004 15:50:17 
 
 
Did I miss anything or misinterpreted the documentation about how
check_period works? or is this a bug? did I make a mistake on my
configs?

Any explanations/help/insigths/enlightening/etc will be appreciated.

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From JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu  Fri Jul  9 00:48:30 2004
From: JimiT at mail.cox.smu.edu (Thompson, Jimi)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 17:48:30 -0500
Subject: /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after compiling ....
Message-ID: <4B3F673172B98D449EBCC3BE8316F5240415FCB8@exch4.elcsb.net>

After much hair pulling, we have a winner!  Upgrading perl and
recompiling the plug-ins worked.  

 

Here's what to do  - 

 

Go to /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8 

Make && make test && make install

 

Type in "use.perl port" to upgrade the system perl

 

Type in "find /usr/local/lib/perl5/{site_perl/5.005,5.00503} -type f
-print0 | \ xargs -0 -n 1 pkg_which | sort -u > /tmp/perl-ports" 

 

This will create a list of any previously installed Perl modules

 

Go look in the file and remove anything that looks odd - ?'s and such

 

Then type this in "portupgrade -f `cat /tmp/perl-ports`"
 
Assuming you have portupgrade installed, this will also upgrade all your
other perl modules.
 
Now go to /usr/ports/nagois-plugins and install that.
 
This SHOULD solve your problem.  You should be able to run the install-
commands now.
 
HTH,
 
Jimi  

 

 

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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tis Unix
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:01 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] /usr/local/nagios/etc not present after
compiling ....

 

 

Hi,

 

First post to this list after just compiling nagios ... I am having a
few problems but will tackle one at a time.

 

First thing ... After compiling Nagios successfully (well that's what it
tells me), this is what I get in /usr/local/nagios -

 

[root at richemontdev]> cd /usr/local/nagios/
[root at richemontdev]> ls -al
total 12
drwxr-xr-x   6 root     other        512 Jul  7 12:30 .
drwxr-xr-x  30 root     other       1024 Jul  7 09:43 ..
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 bin
drwxrwxr-x   2 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 sbin
drwxrwxr-x   8 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:29 share
drwxrwxr-x   3 nagios   nagios       512 Jul  7 12:30 var

Why is there no etc directory ?? In the documentation, it said I should
have the following -

 

Directory Structure And File Locations 

Change to the root of your Nagios installation directory with the
following command... 

cd /usr/local/nagios 

You should see five different subdirectories. A brief description of
what each directory contains is given in the table below. 

Sub-Directory

Contents

bin/

Nagios core program

etc/

Main <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html> , resource
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#resource_file> ,
object <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configobject.html> , and
CGI <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configcgi.html>
configuration files should be put here

sbin/

CGIs <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/cgis.html> 

share/

HTML files (for web interface and online documentation)

var/

Empty directory for the log file
<http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#log_file> 

 

Why is this ??

Thanks in advance

Trev

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From benny at bennyvision.com  Fri Jul  9 01:54:33 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 18:54:33 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: docs for plug ins
In-Reply-To: <2337482E01EF0245A81E9F2EEA1E9A00049C8B@mail.storbase.com>
References: <2337482E01EF0245A81E9F2EEA1E9A00049C8B@mail.storbase.com>
Message-ID: <59235.63.227.74.41.1089330895.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>


> This is probably a stupid question but... where are the docs for the
> nagios plugins? I can't seem to find them...

Typically:

./check_whatever --help

Benny


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From al_smyth at yahoo.com  Fri Jul  9 05:22:47 2004
From: al_smyth at yahoo.com (Al Smith)
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 20:22:47 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Nagios Truncated return string
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Using Nagios 1.2 with MySQL for data storage. I've written my own check_snmp to get a value from a power strip that returns Amps * 10, so a 0.8 amp reading is sent back by snmpget as 8. In order to watch the actual amps, and history, I set Value = Value / 10, and return the string

OK: 0.8

The problem is with the value stored in the MySQL database, and displayed on the web page, is 0. So, when amp usage on the unit is low, I get an alarm telling me it is zero!

Has anyone else seen the trucated value like this? 




		
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From martin.mielke at thales-is.com  Fri Jul  9 09:21:56 2004
From: martin.mielke at thales-is.com (Martin Mielke)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:21:56 +0200
Subject: nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers ...
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Message-ID: <40EE4794.1060901@thales-is.com>

Hi Ludo,

I'll post to the list, so everybody can get your answer as well...


Ludo Bosmans wrote:

>Martin,
>
>Sorry to answer not via the Nagios-users list. Currently i'm unable to reply with my registered e-mail address. So my message will be refused.
>  
>

OK. Thanks for the reply.

>Use the check_nt plugin to see if a service is running or stopped.
>( this requires nsclient service running on the windows server )
>
>  
>

Well, the service is just an ASP server. To check for its availability
we use check_http with the -e switch...

>Create an eventhandler that restart the specific service on the windows. 
>You need nrpe_nt on the windows server. 
>  
>

Yep, that was already know. My problem is that I don't know how to
combine the event_handlers to launch a .bat file through the nrpe_nt to
restart the service on the Windoze side...

>So the idea is to check regulary if a certain service is up or down, with lets say max 3 retries. In case the service is down, you start an event-handler that request via check_nrpr to execute a command on the windows. This could be a .bat file with f.e. net start SPOOLER
>  
>

Yes, that's my initial thought...

Thanks in advance!


Best regards,
Martin




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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Fri Jul  9 10:29:31 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:29:31 +0200
Subject: APAN + NRPE?
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068E0A@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Should be possible I think. Problem with APAN is, that it's a hole lot
of administrative work, so I quit using it.
Maybe you should take a look at perfparse. It's pretty simple in
configuring and creates graphs out of performance data, whic nagios is
processing. So you have very little administrative overhead.


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	Subject: [Nagios-users] APAN + NRPE?
	
	

	I'm curious if anyone has experimented with using APAN over
NRPE?

	 

	Basically I want to collect performance data from remote hosts
and view the graphs on a central server.

	I have been through the APAN and NRPE documentation and haven't
seen anything like this yet. If anyone is running a similar setup I'd
love to hear from you.

	 

	Thanks

	 

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From Ben at clewett.org.uk  Fri Jul  9 10:54:36 2004
From: Ben at clewett.org.uk (Ben Clewett)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:54:36 +0100
Subject: APAN + NRPE?
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If you are interested in PerfParse, it can be found here:

http://perfparse.sourceforge.net/

We are in need of developers to process the performance data to their 
own specific needs.  If you know some CGI, a little C and some SQL, and 
have a need for a specific analysis tool, please drop me a line :)

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Sand Philipp wrote:

> Should be possible I think. Problem with APAN is, that it's a hole lot 
> of administrative work, so I quit using it.
> Maybe you should take a look at perfparse. It's pretty simple in 
> configuring and creates graphs out of performance data, whic nagios is 
> processing. So you have very little administrative overhead.
> 
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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>     *Sent:* Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:34 PM
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> 
>     I?m curious if anyone has experimented with using APAN over NRPE?
> 
>      
> 
>     Basically I want to collect performance data from remote hosts and
>     view the graphs on a central server.
> 
>     I have been through the APAN and NRPE documentation and haven?t seen
>     anything like this yet. If anyone is running a similar setup I?d
>     love to hear from you.
> 
>      
> 
>     Thanks
> 
>      
> 
>     -dkk
> 
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> 
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> 
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I have a set of servers that are rebooted every night they are in a
hostgroup of their own, at the moment everyday I schedule downtime for
that group of servers and was wondering if there was a way to make it a
recurring event ? - has anyone else experienced this and come up with a
solution at all ? In the FAQ it says to create a cron job that writes
the appropriate downtime commands to the external command file but my
knowledge of linux is pretty basic can maybe someone can point me in the
right direction.
 
Cheers
 
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From verdon at cict.fr  Fri Jul  9 11:25:59 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:25:59 +0200
Subject: SendEmail
In-Reply-To: <90bc2a03040707150649af71c7@mail.gmail.com>
References: <90bc2a03040707150649af71c7@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <40EE64A7.6050908@cict.fr>

Yes, i use it.

My definiton of 'host-notify-by-email' and 'notify-by-email' commands  
look at this:

define command {
    command_name    host-notify-by-email
    command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: 
$HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $OUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: 
$DATETIME$\n" | /usr/bin/mailx -s "Host $HOSTSTATE$ alert for 
$HOSTNAME$!" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

define command {
    command_name    notify-by-email
    command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: 
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" 
| /usr/bin/mailx -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - 
$HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
}

I hope that help you.

Carole.

Roy Kartadinata wrote:

>Hi guys,
>
>Just curious if anyone here uses sendEmail ? Care to share your
>misccommand.cfg  ?
>
>
>  
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From gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de  Fri Jul  9 11:39:17 2004
From: gebhardt at hrz.uni-marburg.de (Gebhardt Thomas)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:39:17 +0200
Subject: performance data too long -> truncated
Message-ID: <200407091139.19464.gebhardt@hrz.uni-marburg.de>

Hi,

I'm trying to collect a bunch of performance data on a remote
host, sending it to the nagios server by nsca. I noticed that
the data get's truncated when the message exceeds a certain
length (about 256 bytes?). Don't know whether this is done
by nsca or by the nagios server (it is not easy to sniff on the
wire since nsca encrypts the data.) Before spending too much
time on that, I'd like to figure out if this is a known issue
with a documented workaround. Any hint?

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From martin.mielke at thales-is.com  Fri Jul  9 12:03:00 2004
From: martin.mielke at thales-is.com (Martin Mielke)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:03:00 +0200
Subject: nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers ...
Message-ID: <40EE6D54.6060601@thales-is.com>

Hi list,

here's another email from Ludo, who's having problems to post but still 
being so nice to reply.
I have to read it through again but I just post it for you to have it 
and, maybe, think about it...

Regards,
Martin


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	RE: [Nagios-users] nrpe to a Windows box through 
event_handlers ...
Date: 	Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:25:51 +0200
From: 	Ludo Bosmans <Ludo.Bosmans at ictbutler.be>
To: 	Martin Mielke <martin.mielke at thales-is.com>



Martin,

I'm still unable to reply with my normal e-mail address, so i thank you to forward this to the mailinglist.
Some additional info:


--------------------
# services.cfg
--------------------
# Service definition                                                            
define service{                                                                 
        use                             generic-service         ; Name of service template to use                                                               
        use                             generic-windows-services                
                                                                                
        host_name                       rataplan                                
        service_description             Windows Services                        
        is_volatile                     0                                       
        check_period                    24x7                                    
        max_check_attempts              3                                       
        normal_check_interval           5                                       
        retry_check_interval            1                                       
        contact_groups                  nt-admins                               
        notification_interval           0                                       
        notification_period             24x7                                    
        notification_options            w,u,c,r                                 
        check_command                   check_nt_services_parse                 
        event_handler                   event_nrpe_nt_parse                     
        }                                                                       

---------------------
#checkcommands.cfg
---------------------
# 'check_nt_services_parse' command definition                                  
define command{                                                                 
        command_name    check_nt_services_parse                                 
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nt_services_parse.sh $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTADDRESS$ "$SERVICEDESC$" $USER1$                                                     
        }                                                                       


# 'event_nrpe_nt_parse' command definition                                      
define command{                                                                 
        command_name    event_nrpe_nt_parse                                     
        command_line    $USER1$/event_nrpe_nt_parse.sh $HOSTNAME$ $HOSTADDRESS$ "$SERVICEDESC$" "$OUTPUT$" "$SERVICESTATE$"                                     
        }                                                                       

In my case, i check several "windows services" in one sequence on host rataplan. This check is is based on check_nt. I pass some arguments from the nagios environment to a shell script "check_nt_services_parse.sh" that finally is using check_nt to get info and status of the "windows" service.
In fact it doen't matter how you obtain status info, it could also something else.

In case a certain "window service" is stopped, the check returns "CRITICAL" ($SERVICESTATE$ ). So following the specs the eventhandler is executed.  
Again this is a shell script that obtain the necessary variables from the nagios environment and finally execute check_nrpe_nt with a request to execute a command on host rataplan. f.e. to try to restart SPOOLER or something else.
So the max_check_attempts is put to 3, and retry_check_interval to 1 ( min ). This means the eventhandler is runned only when there is a state change ( ok to bad, warning to critical or critical to warning, on recovery ). That's why i pass the $SERVICESTATE$ and check inside the event_nrpe_nt_parse.sh script to see if i need to try to restart ( CRITICAL ) or not ( OK or RECOVERY ).
Finally if after a restart attempt the servicestate is still critical ( in my case i have only ok or critical ), the evethandler is not executed anymore and the service status becomes a hard critical state.
Again i mentioned that the eventhandler is not executed anymore on the next regulary check in case next check return the same bad state.

I hope this info will give you a better view how i have handled this.

kind regards,

ludo


-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Martin
Mielke
Sent: vrijdag 9 juli 2004 09:22
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nrpe to a Windows box through event_handlers
...


Hi Ludo,

I'll post to the list, so everybody can get your answer as well...


Ludo Bosmans wrote:

>Martin,
>
>Sorry to answer not via the Nagios-users list. Currently i'm unable to reply with my registered e-mail address. So my message will be refused.
>  
>

OK. Thanks for the reply.

>Use the check_nt plugin to see if a service is running or stopped.
>( this requires nsclient service running on the windows server )
>
>  
>

Well, the service is just an ASP server. To check for its availability
we use check_http with the -e switch...

>Create an eventhandler that restart the specific service on the windows. 
>You need nrpe_nt on the windows server. 
>  
>

Yep, that was already know. My problem is that I don't know how to
combine the event_handlers to launch a .bat file through the nrpe_nt to
restart the service on the Windoze side...

>So the idea is to check regulary if a certain service is up or down, with lets say max 3 retries. In case the service is down, you start an event-handler that request via check_nrpr to execute a command on the windows. This could be a .bat file with f.e. net start SPOOLER
>  
>

Yes, that's my initial thought...

Thanks in advance!


Best regards,
Martin




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From Roberto.Balestra at getronics.com  Fri Jul  9 12:40:41 2004
From: Roberto.Balestra at getronics.com (Balestra, Roberto)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:40:41 +0200
Subject: verifying incoming ncsa info
Message-ID: <BCF6A0BD505CC448BAAD830E4B245D3F3721E0@excitmi101.europe.unity>

Yes. In my RH7.3 I see incoming connection for nsca in /var/log/secure.
Bye
	Roberto
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From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Edwards, Thomas W.
Sent: gioved? 8 luglio 2004 23.01
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] verifying incoming ncsa info


Is there a place to see incoming messages via ncsa?  If it is even reaching the central server?


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From RKlisowski at era.pl  Fri Jul  9 13:47:47 2004
From: RKlisowski at era.pl (=?iso-8859-2?Q?Klisowski_Rafa=B3?=)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:47:47 +0200
Subject: Check_ntp arguments
Message-ID: <F702B422FFDA6D438C0F9C67DED2663D01004C8F@Apofi.corponet.era.pl>

Hi!

Check_ntp sends warnings like this:
NTP WARNING: Jitter error and jitter 0.136 msec > +/- 0 msec  

In services arguments are set on:
check_ntp!0.9!1.5

How should I set arguments for check_ntp?


Rafal

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From mailli1 at online-skating.de  Fri Jul  9 14:37:19 2004
From: mailli1 at online-skating.de (Alexander Puff)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:37:19 +0200
Subject: NRPE-Checks on some commands result in CRC32-Errors
Message-ID: <20040709123420.14AA5CBAB0@argon.online-skating.de>

Hello,

I have got a problem with a Nagios 1.2 installation - I check different
remote
hosts via nrpe. All works fine with check_load, check_disk, check_swap. 
But if I try check_mailq, I get CRC32 errors from check_nrpe.

check_nrpe definition:
  define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
        }

service definition on monitoring host:
  define service{
       use                             tpl_service_local-linux-server

       host_name                       xyz
       service_description             MAILQ
       contact_groups                  admins
       check_command                   check_nrpe!check_mailq
       }

nrpe configuration on remote host:
  command[check_mailq]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 10 -c 20 -M
exim

On the monitoring host, both nagios and commandline result in crc32 error. A
local
commandline execution of check_mailq on the remote host works fine 8(

Anybody an idea, how to debug those crc32 errors ?

Thanx in advance,
Alex.



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From xavier at rootshell.be  Fri Jul  9 14:54:34 2004
From: xavier at rootshell.be (Xavier)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 14:54:34 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Host Ext information
Message-ID: <Pine.BSO.4.60.0407091449030.11042@boogey.rootshell.be>

Hi *,

Simple question: instead of an url (http://, file://), is it possible
to specify a fixed information or a text file in HostExtInfo?

I would like to send the info attached to a notification.
Ex: a phone number or an email address.

Tx,
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From verdon at cict.fr  Fri Jul  9 15:05:09 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 15:05:09 +0200
Subject: Recurring Downtime
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Message-ID: <40EE9805.2010505@cict.fr>

You can create a time period in timeperiod.cfg file which excluded the 
period during which the servers are rebooted. Then you set the 
check_period value for each definition of service of those servers to 
this time period.

Carole.

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> hostgroup of their own, at the moment everyday I schedule downtime for 
> that group of servers and was wondering if there was a way to make it 
> a recurring event ? - has anyone else experienced this and come up 
> with a solution at all ? In the FAQ it says to create a cron job that 
> writes the appropriate downtime commands to the external command file 
> but my knowledge of linux is pretty basic can maybe someone can point 
> me in the right direction.
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From Darren.Kemp at xerox.com  Fri Jul  9 16:01:03 2004
From: Darren.Kemp at xerox.com (Kemp, Darren)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 10:01:03 -0400
Subject: NRPE-Checks on some commands result in CRC32-Errors
Message-ID: <330CE9F92C02064B86090D40B479712F1CF881@usa0300ms04.na.xerox.net>

I'd start by turning on debug in nrpe.cfg and seeing what kind of
messages it dumps.

-dkk


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[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Alexander
Puff
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:37 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE-Checks on some commands result in
CRC32-Errors

Hello,

I have got a problem with a Nagios 1.2 installation - I check different
remote
hosts via nrpe. All works fine with check_load, check_disk, check_swap. 
But if I try check_mailq, I get CRC32 errors from check_nrpe.

check_nrpe definition:
  define command{
        command_name    check_nrpe
        command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
        }

service definition on monitoring host:
  define service{
       use                             tpl_service_local-linux-server

       host_name                       xyz
       service_description             MAILQ
       contact_groups                  admins
       check_command                   check_nrpe!check_mailq
       }

nrpe configuration on remote host:
  command[check_mailq]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 10 -c 20
-M
exim

On the monitoring host, both nagios and commandline result in crc32
error. A
local
commandline execution of check_mailq on the remote host works fine 8(

Anybody an idea, how to debug those crc32 errors ?

Thanx in advance,
Alex.



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From jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com  Fri Jul  9 16:29:49 2004
From: jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com (jeff vier)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:29:49 -0500
Subject: Nagios Truncated return string
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Message-ID: <1089383389.9557.13.camel@localhost>

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 20:22 -0700, Al Smith wrote:
>         Using Nagios 1.2 with MySQL for data storage. I've written my
>         own check_snmp to get a value from a power strip that returns
>         Amps * 10, so a 0.8 amp reading is sent back by snmpget as 8.
>         In order to watch the actual amps, and history, I set Value =
>         Value / 10, and return the string
>         
>         OK: 0.8
>         
>         The problem is with the value stored in the MySQL database,
>         and displayed on the web page, is 0. So, when amp usage on the
>         unit is low, I get an alarm telling me it is zero!
>         
>         Has anyone else seen the trucated value like this? 

Sounds like you've set your column to INT (or SMALLINT, BIGINT, etc).

read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Numeric_types.html carefully.



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From j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl  Fri Jul  9 16:29:02 2004
From: j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl (Joost van Baal)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:29:02 +0200
Subject: quick and dirty hack to get nrpe to compile on Tru64 / Dec OSF1
Message-ID: <20040709142902.GV6426@banach.uvt.nl>

Hi,

I've successfully compiled and ran nrpe 1.9 on a OSF1 V4.0 878 alpha machine.
However, I've had to do some evil tricks: since OSF1 seems to lack snprintf
in it's stdio.h, I've changed these to sprintf calls:


460c460
< 				snprintf(connecting_host,sizeof(connecting_host),"%s",inet_ntoa(nptr->sin_addr));
---
> 				sprintf(connecting_host,"%s",inet_ntoa(nptr->sin_addr));
568c568
< 		snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer),"NRPE v%s",PROGRAM_VERSION);
---
> 		sprintf(buffer,"NRPE v%s",PROGRAM_VERSION);
583c583
< 			snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer),"NRPE: Command '%s' not defined",receive_packet.buffer);
---
> 			sprintf(buffer,"NRPE: Command '%s' not defined",receive_packet.buffer);
605c605
< 				snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer)-1,"NRPE: Command timed out after %d seconds\n",command_timeout);
---
> 				sprintf(buffer,"NRPE: Command timed out after %d seconds\n",command_timeout);
607c607
< 				snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer)-1,"NRPE: Unable to read output\n");
---
> 				sprintf(buffer,"NRPE: Unable to read output\n");
739c739
< 		snprintf(buffer,sizeof(buffer)-1,"NRPE: Call to fork() failed\n");
---
> 		sprintf(buffer,"NRPE: Call to fork() failed\n");



Of course, this makes one much more vulnerable to buffer overflows: only
run such a binary in a trusted network.

Very likely this hack could be done in a more portable way; I didn't
have the time for this.  Still this might be helpful to other OSF
admins.

Bye,

Joost

-- 
Joost van Baal                            http://abramowitz.uvt.nl/
                                                 Tilburg University
j.e.vanbaal at uvt.nl                                  The Netherlands
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From nagios-user at sandiego420.com  Fri Jul  9 16:38:39 2004
From: nagios-user at sandiego420.com (Rhugga)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 07:38:39 -0700
Subject: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
Message-ID: <40EEADEF.6060200@sandiego420.com>


I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
(or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...

Thx,
CC




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From jjnp4m102 at sneakemail.com  Fri Jul  9 16:50:20 2004
From: jjnp4m102 at sneakemail.com (Matt Millard)
Date: 9 Jul 2004 14:50:20 -0000
Subject: Memory leak?
Message-ID: <26134-79301@sneakemail.com>

I've got a new Nagios setup that's been acting up on me now that I've got most of my hosts being monitored.  I have 170 hosts, and about 700 services being monitored.  We are currently monitoring ping, sshd, ntpd and ftpd on all servers.  We also have a few dns, httpd, paging space(using check_by_ssh) monitors in place.  



Basically what I'm seeing is that when I start up Nagios it utilizes about 4MB of memory.  If I don't restart the process for 24-48 hours then it will utilize all 1.25GB of memory on our system.  I've tried turning off a couple of the service checks, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.  Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?  Any more information needed?



Here are the versions we're running:

RHEL 3.0

nagios-1.2-0.rhel3.dag

nagios-plugins-1.3.1-11



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From ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx  Fri Jul  9 17:45:26 2004
From: ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx (ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:45:26 -0600
Subject: SNMP
In-Reply-To: <E1Biv5k-0007Ou-K9@sc8-sf-list2.sourceforge.net>
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Hi
I`ve read all information about snmp but I haven`t understood ,I saw that I
need an extra software like netsnmp but I don`t understand how nagios uses
it or when I`m going to use it .

Netsnmp is already installed but I don`t Know what else I have to do.

Thanks
I hope someone can helps me.



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From mailli1 at online-skating.de  Fri Jul  9 17:01:45 2004
From: mailli1 at online-skating.de (Alexander Puff)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:01:45 +0200
Subject: AW: NRPE-Checks on some commands result in CRC32-Errors
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Message-ID: <20040709150418.283F9CBAB6@argon.online-skating.de>

I tried this already:

nrpe[10197]: Handling the connection...
nrpe[10197]: Host is asking for command 'check_mailq' to be run...
nrpe[10197]: Running command: /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq -w 10 -c
20 -M exim
nrpe[10197]: Command completed with return code 0 and output: MAILQ OK -
mailq 0 is below threshold |unsent=0;10;20;0
nrpe[10197]: Return Code: 0, Output: MAILQ OK - mailq 0 is below threshold
|unsent=0;10;20;0

There are no error reports in the logs...

Alex.

> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] Im Auftrag 
> von Kemp, Darren
> Gesendet: Freitag, 9. Juli 2004 16:01
> An: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: RE: [Nagios-users] NRPE-Checks on some commands 
> result in CRC32-Errors
> 
> I'd start by turning on debug in nrpe.cfg and seeing what kind of
> messages it dumps.
> 
> -dkk
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf 
> Of Alexander
> Puff
> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 8:37 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] NRPE-Checks on some commands result in
> CRC32-Errors
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have got a problem with a Nagios 1.2 installation - I check 
> different
> remote
> hosts via nrpe. All works fine with check_load, check_disk, 
> check_swap. 
> But if I try check_mailq, I get CRC32 errors from check_nrpe.
> 
> check_nrpe definition:
>   define command{
>         command_name    check_nrpe
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -c $ARG1$
>         }
> 
> service definition on monitoring host:
>   define service{
>        use                             tpl_service_local-linux-server
> 
>        host_name                       xyz
>        service_description             MAILQ
>        contact_groups                  admins
>        check_command                   check_nrpe!check_mailq
>        }
> 
> nrpe configuration on remote host:
>   command[check_mailq]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_mailq 
> -w 10 -c 20
> -M
> exim
> 
> On the monitoring host, both nagios and commandline result in crc32
> error. A
> local
> commandline execution of check_mailq on the remote host works fine 8(
> 
> Anybody an idea, how to debug those crc32 errors ?
> 
> Thanx in advance,
> Alex.
> 
> 
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Fri Jul  9 17:51:49 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 11:51:49 -0400
Subject: Posting to mssql
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEF9@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

I'm going to use a host/service event handler to post data to Microsoft
SQL 2000 Server database.
 
I've created a web page that reads the contents of a form posted to it
and puts that data into the SQL database.  Then my eventhandler uses
wget with the --post-data= option to post the data from the nagios
macros to that web page.  I'm new, sue me.
 
Anways, I need my macros to be url-encoded.  Anyone know of a simple
linux command, etc, that can url-encode this data?
 
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From marcioqueiroz at vicom.com.br  Fri Jul  9 18:05:33 2004
From: marcioqueiroz at vicom.com.br (Marcio Queiroz)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:05:33 -0300
Subject: RES: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
Message-ID: <DA0EC1B24AC9144AB473DD1604661FF0089B4396@spovdms001.globocabo.com.br>

I have been running nagios on a FC1 and so i had no problems (250 hosts and
800 services + mrtg to all hosts). I haven?t tried FC 2 but i wiil on the
next week. I will let you know.



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> ----- Mensagem original -----
> De:		Rhugga [SMTP:nagios-user at sandiego420.com]
> Enviada em:		sexta-feira, 9 de julho de 2004 11:39
> Para:		Nagios-Users List
> Assunto:		[Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios
> on?
> 
> 
> I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
> clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
> nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
> (or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
> workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
> systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...
> 
> Thx,
> CC
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net  Fri Jul  9 18:05:27 2004
From: jason-sourceforge at microlnk.net (Jason Byrns)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 11:05:27 -0500
Subject: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
In-Reply-To: <40EEADEF.6060200@sandiego420.com>
References: <40EEADEF.6060200@sandiego420.com>
Message-ID: <40EEC247.8030909@microlnk.net>

If you are worried about really serious stability, Core 1 is probably a 
safer bet than Core 2.  Once you remove all unnecessary daemons from a 
Core 1 system, it can be *very* stable.  (In my experience.)

In fact, I've had a Nagios monitor checking several hundred 
services/hosts, every minute, for 4-5 months now.  On Fedora Core 1. 
Never had even a minor problem.

I've heard it said before that Fedora Core 1 could be considered as 
Redhat 9.1.  Since they switched to kernel 2.6, and Xorg, and whatever 
else, with Core 2, that's more like a new Redhat 10.0.  And, you know, 
avoid .0 releases at first.

That being said, since Core 2 was released, there have been a number of 
updates to the kernel and other packages, and it seems much more stable 
now than originally.  (Like, hey, the menubar up2date feature WORKS 
again in Core 2!  Heheh.)

Rhugga wrote:
> 
> I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
> clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
> nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
> (or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
> workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
> systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...

-- 
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From christopher at bergeron.com  Fri Jul  9 18:09:06 2004
From: christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher M Bergeron)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:09:06 -0400
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
In-Reply-To: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>
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Message-ID: <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>

Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
line to break.  Like this:
Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius

nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
<br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Chris Bergeron



Nicole H?hnel wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've written my own plugin to get more information from a server.
> I use nrpe to check the other servers with my plugin.
> The plugin is not only to get "status ok". It gives out more lines,
> something like this:
>
> Temperatures OK
> CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius
> Ambient        26.0 Celsius
> BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
>
> The problem is check_nrpe gets only the first line.
> All I see is "Temperatures OK", the other lines are ignored.
>
> Is there any possibility to get more than one line?
> Or is the only thing I can do, write all output in one line?
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nicole
>
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From adrian.moir at e-s.co.uk  Fri Jul  9 18:32:17 2004
From: adrian.moir at e-s.co.uk (Adrian Moir)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:32:17 +0100
Subject: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
Message-ID: <OF180A0C54.C5CE201E-ON80256ECC.005ABE52-80256ECC.005A05E8@minervahouseinternal>

Rhugga,
        I have just installed Nagios & Nagmin on FC2 all seems to be 
working so far.

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Rhugga <nagios-user at sandiego420.com>
Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
09/07/2004 15:38

 
        To:     Nagios-Users List <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
        cc: 
        Subject:        [Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?



I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
(or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...

Thx,
CC




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From christopher at bergeron.com  Fri Jul  9 18:33:48 2004
From: christopher at bergeron.com (Christopher M Bergeron)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:33:48 -0400
Subject: How to debug nrpe host not allowed to connect ... ?
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Can anyone shed any light on this for me?

My /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg file has the following line in it:
allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1, 139.131.204.56

I've restarted nrpe (I'm running it from the command line, "nrpe -c 
/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d" and I have it in debug mode.  There is only one 
instance of it running and I've restarted it.

However, I'm getting this in my logs:
Jul  9 12:20:17 lb2 nrpe[15753]: Host 139.131.204.56 is not allowed to 
talk to us!

I only have port 5666 open on that machine and all other traffic is 
getting dropped.  I can telnet to port 5666, and when I do it just 
closes the connection immediately:
Trying 66.179.22.207...
Connected to lb2.b.
Escape character is '^]'.
Connection closed by foreign host.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Much thanks in advance!
Chris B




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From CHRJ002 at motorola.com  Fri Jul  9 18:53:31 2004
From: CHRJ002 at motorola.com (Chris Jackson-CHRJ002)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:53:31 +0100
Subject: check_disk exclusions
Message-ID: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B15856D@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>

Hi all,
 
I'm having trouble configuring the check_disk tool on nagios 1.2.
 
The systems being monitored all have the same automounts for our network storage device, however this has a tendency to fill up above the warning levels.  It then bombards me with mails from all the clients with that mount with disk warnings.
 
I don't want to change the warning threshold and have searched the archives to try and find a way of excluding the mounts, I have tried the following:
 
- ./check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -x /mount_folder
- ./check_disk -w 20 -c 10 -x lofs -x nfs (found in the archives!)
 
I also tried it the other way round including the paths to the local disks, however due to differing machine types the /dev paths are different and I don't want to have to write a command for each kind of system.
 
Can anyone shed some light on how to exclude nfs mounts from the check_disk plugin please, I would be eternally grateful!!
 
Thanks in advance
 
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From nagios-user at sandiego420.com  Fri Jul  9 18:56:16 2004
From: nagios-user at sandiego420.com (Rhugga)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 09:56:16 -0700
Subject: RES: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
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Marcio Queiroz wrote:

>I have been running nagios on a FC1 and so i had no problems (250 hosts and
>800 services + mrtg to all hosts). I haven?t tried FC 2 but i wiil on the
>next week. I will let you know.
>
>
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>>----- Mensagem original -----
>>De:		Rhugga [SMTP:nagios-user at sandiego420.com]
>>Enviada em:		sexta-feira, 9 de julho de 2004 11:39
>>Para:		Nagios-Users List
>>Assunto:		[Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios
>>on?
>>
>>
>>I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
>>clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
>>nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
>>(or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
>>workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
>>systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...
>>
>>Thx,
>>CC
>>
>>
>>
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>  
>
Yea, that was what I was looking for. Anyone that had used it on 
systerms with true enterprise loads. That is where Linux issues tend to 
surface.... I use it to manage two 250-node linux clusters and all our 
Sun/Cisco/Extreme gear.

Thx,
CC


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From throck at duke.edu  Fri Jul  9 19:02:18 2004
From: throck at duke.edu (Tom Throckmorton)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:02:18 -0400
Subject: Memory leak?
In-Reply-To: <26134-79301@sneakemail.com>
References: <26134-79301@sneakemail.com>
Message-ID: <40EECF9A.6000704@duke.edu>

On 07/09/2004 10:50 AM, Matt Millard wrote:

>Basically what I'm seeing is that when I start up Nagios it utilizes about 4MB of memory.  If I don't restart the process for 24-48 hours then it will utilize all 1.25GB of memory on our system.  I've tried turning off a couple of the service checks, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.  Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?  Any more information needed?
>...
>nagios-1.2-0.rhel3.dag
>  
>
Matt,

Dag seems to be building all his packages with  --enable-embedded-perl 
(see 
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/nagios/_buildlogs/nagios-1.2-0.rhel3.dag.i386.log.bz2, 
e.g.)
which causes the nagios process to be larger, and may in fact have a 
leak (though i've not verified this).  Your best bet is to rebuild 
without this option enabled, unless of course you need it ;-)

I found that rebuilding without the embedded-perl option resulted in 
nagios processess about 1.5MB in size, w/out any memory consumption 
problems.

Hope this helps,

-tt

-- 
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Systems and Core Services
Duke University - OIT



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From ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com  Fri Jul  9 19:22:48 2004
From: ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com (Wood, Thomas H. (UNIX))
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:22:48 -0400
Subject: Setting status of returned plugin output
Message-ID: <583E01FC7F0C994EAA2CC39253B4CDF0022C714A@atlexc01.zcs.corp>

I've been looking through the nagios and nagios plugin doc trying to
determine how to configure nagios such that output returned by a plugin
is good.  Here's the rub:

I'm trying to determine whether a process on a remote Solaris box is
running.  I haven't messed around with nrpe on that system yet and have
access already in place via key exchange.  So I use check_by_ssh to
connect and run bssp -a | grep bprd (it's a netbackup thing).  If I get
back something like "root 2676 1 0 Jul 07 ? 0:03
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprd" then I know the process is running and my
backups won't fail.  Right now Nagios flags that as unknown status and
clutters up my pristine tactical view with a flag.  So how do I get
Nagios to recognize this an OK state?

Thanks

Thomas Wood
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Fri Jul  9 19:24:04 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:24:04 -0400
Subject: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEFB@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

I'm running on FC2.  Seems fine.
 
 
Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
Systems Operations Specialist 	
540.776.2025 	
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

	-----Original Message-----
	From: Adrian Moir [mailto:adrian.moir at e-s.co.uk] 
	Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:32 PM
	To: Rhugga
	Cc: Nagios-Users List
	Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios
on?
	
	

	Rhugga, 
	        I have just installed Nagios & Nagmin on FC2 all seems
to be working so far. 
	
	Adrian Moir
	IT Project Analyst
	
	Electronic Solutions
	Minerva House
	1-4 North Crescent
	Chenies Street
	London WC1E 7ER
	Tel: +44 (0)207 631 2882
	E-mail: adrian.moir at e-s.co.uk
	www.e-s.co.uk 
	
	
	
	Rhugga <nagios-user at sandiego420.com> 
Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 

09/07/2004 15:38 


        
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        Subject:        [Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run
nagios on?



	
	I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2
Linux 
	clusters, but I want to build a new network management system
using 
	nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red
Hat 9? 
	(or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
	workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our
high-load 
	systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...
	
	Thx,
	CC
	
	
	
	
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From agrajag at dragaera.net  Fri Jul  9 19:52:38 2004
From: agrajag at dragaera.net (Sean Dilda)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:52:38 -0400
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
In-Reply-To: <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>
References: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>  <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>
Message-ID: <1089395558.4359.61.camel@pel>

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:09, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
> line to break.  Like this:
> Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
> Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
> 
> nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
> <br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).

If you're doing this, you'll want to make pass all your notifications
through a filter to clean that up.  Otherwise you'll get ugly
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From marc at ena.com  Fri Jul  9 20:04:03 2004
From: marc at ena.com (Marc Powell)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 13:04:03 -0500
Subject: Setting status of returned plugin output
Message-ID: <370ACCFA5BB3B346A31222E5559BF91F1B6785@mismail2.ena.com>

You'll need to create a wrapper for bssp.
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
 
--
Marc

________________________________

From: Wood, Thomas H. (UNIX) [mailto:ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:23 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Setting status of returned plugin output



I've been looking through the nagios and nagios plugin doc trying to
determine how to configure nagios such that output returned by a plugin
is good.  Here's the rub:

I'm trying to determine whether a process on a remote Solaris box is
running.  I haven't messed around with nrpe on that system yet and have
access already in place via key exchange.  So I use check_by_ssh to
connect and run bssp -a | grep bprd (it's a netbackup thing).  If I get
back something like "root 2676 1 0 Jul 07 ? 0:03
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprd" then I know the process is running and my
backups won't fail.  Right now Nagios flags that as unknown status and
clutters up my pristine tactical view with a flag.  So how do I get
Nagios to recognize this an OK state?

Thanks 

Thomas Wood 




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From jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com  Fri Jul  9 20:36:33 2004
From: jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com (jeff vier)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 13:36:33 -0500
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
In-Reply-To: <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>
References: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>  <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>
Message-ID: <1089398193.9557.29.camel@localhost>

If you don't accept HTML code in your email, or you're sending to a
pager, this won't work right.

Use '\n' (newline character).

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:09 -0400, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
> line to break.  Like this:
> Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
> Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
> 
> nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
> <br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).
> 
> Hope this helps!
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris Bergeron
> 
> 
> 
> Nicole H?hnel wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've written my own plugin to get more information from a server.
> > I use nrpe to check the other servers with my plugin.
> > The plugin is not only to get "status ok". It gives out more lines,
> > something like this:
> >
> > Temperatures OK
> > CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius
> > Ambient        26.0 Celsius
> > BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
> >
> > The problem is check_nrpe gets only the first line.
> > All I see is "Temperatures OK", the other lines are ignored.
> >
> > Is there any possibility to get more than one line?
> > Or is the only thing I can do, write all output in one line?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Nicole
> >
> >
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From jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com  Fri Jul  9 21:06:37 2004
From: jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com (jeff vier)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:06:37 -0500
Subject: How to debug nrpe host not allowed to connect
	... ?
In-Reply-To: <40EEC8EC.5070301@bergeron.com>
References: <OFCD84063C.01526308-ON06256ECC.0056427E-06256ECC.00568ED7@jalisco.gob.mx>
	 <40EEC8EC.5070301@bergeron.com>
Message-ID: <1089399997.9557.31.camel@localhost>

Have you tried it without a space after the , ?

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:33 -0400, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> Can anyone shed any light on this for me?
> 
> My /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg file has the following line in it:
> allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1, 139.131.204.56
> 
> I've restarted nrpe (I'm running it from the command line, "nrpe -c 
> /etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg -d" and I have it in debug mode.  There is only one 
> instance of it running and I've restarted it.
> 
> However, I'm getting this in my logs:
> Jul  9 12:20:17 lb2 nrpe[15753]: Host 139.131.204.56 is not allowed to 
> talk to us!
> 
> I only have port 5666 open on that machine and all other traffic is 
> getting dropped.  I can telnet to port 5666, and when I do it just 
> closes the connection immediately:
> Trying 66.179.22.207...
> Connected to lb2.b.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Much thanks in advance!
> Chris B
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Fri Jul  9 21:29:01 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:29:01 -0400
Subject: Logs in MS SQL
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFEFC@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

Has anyone successfully gotten their Nagios implementation to log to MS
SQL?
 
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From mberkeland at edgewaternetworks.com  Fri Jul  9 21:27:42 2004
From: mberkeland at edgewaternetworks.com (Mark Berkeland)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 12:27:42 -0700
Subject: Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
In-Reply-To: <OF180A0C54.C5CE201E-ON80256ECC.005ABE52-80256ECC.005A05E8@minervahouseinternal>
References: <OF180A0C54.C5CE201E-ON80256ECC.005ABE52-80256ECC.005A05E8@minervahouseinternal>
Message-ID: <006201c465ea$d11edd30$6502a8c0@MarkBerkeland>

I installed Nagios 1.2 on FC2, about 2 weeks ago.  I am monitoring about
2 dozen devices, no problems so far!
 
-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Adrian
Moir
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 9:32 AM
To: Rhugga
Cc: Nagios-Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run nagios on?
 

Rhugga, 
        I have just installed Nagios & Nagmin on FC2 all seems to be
working so far. 

Adrian Moir
IT Project Analyst

Electronic Solutions
Minerva House
1-4 North Crescent
Chenies Street
London WC1E 7ER
Tel: +44 (0)207 631 2882
E-mail: adrian.moir at e-s.co.uk
www.e-s.co.uk 



 
Rhugga <nagios-user at sandiego420.com> 
Sent by: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net 
09/07/2004 15:38 
        
        To:        Nagios-Users List
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net> 
        cc:         
        Subject:        [Nagios-users] Fedore Core 2? Stable to run
nagios on?




I have been testing FC2 in our data center, mainly on our 2 Linux 
clusters, but I want to build a new network management system using 
nagios. Is nagios pretty stable on FC2 or should I stay with Red Hat 9? 
(or Solaris 9) I ask because FC2 seemed stable at first, from a 
workstation perspective, but once we moved it to some of our high-load 
systems we stated seeing various oddities and etc...

Thx,
CC




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From zsitfa at axelero.hu  Fri Jul  9 21:35:55 2004
From: zsitfa at axelero.hu (Horvath Tamas)
Date: 09 Jul 2004 21:35:55 +0200
Subject: Problems with history
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407080726020.16719@maca.fortech.cz>
References: <1088785269.1329.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407070743580.16719@maca.fortech.cz>
	 <1089228015.1375.5.camel@localhost.localdomain>
	 <Pine.LNX.4.60.0407080726020.16719@maca.fortech.cz>
Message-ID: <1089401755.1340.4.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Hello!

I think this won't help you. As I mentioned I ran ntpdate 01:00, 04:00,
... 22:00. About every two or three days the "-23.log" files appear.

I saw Nagios info about time change. Did you see this too? The FAQ says
that too many time change confuses Nagios.

If I'm wrong please write it to me.

Bye, Tamas!


2004-07-08, cs keltez?ssel Tom?? Macek ezt ?rta:
> Hi,
> I asked our administrator about the FAQ 0093 and he told me, that the time synchronization is sheduled on 00:00 in cron, so maybe this could cause the problem. We scheduled the synchronization at the every hour and 50 minutes (1:50, 3:50, ...) and I'm very curious what will happen...
> 
> Thank you very much for the tip!
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:
> 
> > Hi Tom!
> >
> > I've thought it already, but I wanted a working solution as soon as
> > possible. If I have enough time I'll be ad this capability to the script
> > too.
> >
> > I found the cause also: see FAQ 0093:
> > http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=93
> >
> > I use ntpdate which was run by root crontab in every 3 hours. Now I run
> > it just once a day, when my nagios is not running. It seems that the
> > problem gone! (I use it from 3 July, so its not a big time period to be
> > anbsolutely secure.)
> >
> > Have a nice day, Tamas!
> >
> >
> > 2004-07-07, sze keltez?ssel Tom?? Macek ezt ?rta:
> >> Hi Tamas!
> >> sorry, for the delay of my answer, we had a 2 days free in Czech Republic...
> >>
> >> Thank you very much for the script, I will test it as early as possible. Nowaday
> >> s I do not have enaught time to do that, but I will test it surely when I finish current project I'm working on.
> >> You are writing, that you are not a programmer -> you wrote this script, so you
> >> are the programmer! ;-)
> >>
> >> I looked into the script and I think you always go through the whole directory, it would be better to do move only one file according to the current date and this script would be run at 00:01 every day. I would like to add this to the script.
> >>
> >> Have a nice day
> >>
> >> Tom
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 2 Jul 2004, Horvath Tamas wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Tom!
> >>>
> >>> I couldn't manage to figure out why nagios creates *-23.log files.
> >>>
> >>> I wrote a little shell script for our problem. I use it via root
> >>> crontab. I tested it in every scenario which I can imagine and it seemed
> >>> to me that it works.
> >>>
> >>> Please note that I am not a programmer so the code may be not as
> >>> compact, fast, etc. as would be.
> >>>
> >>> Two important notes:
> >>> 1. Please replace MAGYAR_DATUM with DATUM. The first one create
> >>> Hungarian date format from the original one.
> >>> 2. Sorry for Hungarian textparts. I've no enough time to translate them
> >>> to English.
> >>>
> >>> Congratulations for your football team. I'm a fun of them and I terrible
> >>> sorry that they aren't in the final!:(
> >>>
> >>> Have a nice weekend, Tamas!
> >>>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >



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From neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org  Fri Jul  9 21:50:46 2004
From: neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org (Neil)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 14:50:46 -0500
Subject: categorizing objects
Message-ID: <20040709195046.16917.qmail@restricted.dyndns.org>

Hey guys, 

Here is what I want to do: 

We have 3 categories(PRODUCTION, DEVELOPMENT and TEST)
We have different application servers for PRODUCTION
We have different application servers for DEV
We have different application servers for TEST 

I want to see a more cleaner view of the nagios website when looking at 
them. Like for example, in the STATUS OVERVIEW, we all see the hostgroups we 
have created. Mine shows assorted PROD, DEV and TEST servers on different 
tables. 

Is there a way so that all different hostgroups for production is under 
header, then when we scroll, we will see another header for DEVELOPMENT and 
it will contain all the hostgroups for DEVELOPMENT and so for TEST. 

Thanks. 

Neil


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From Millard.Matt at principal.com  Fri Jul  9 22:35:58 2004
From: Millard.Matt at principal.com (Millard, Matt)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 15:35:58 -0500
Subject: Memory leak?
Message-ID: <6201DF063335254BA0D6AA7053D101170A629CF8@pfgdsmmbx006.principalusa.corp.principal.com>

Recompiled and working fine now.

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Tom
Throckmorton
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:02 PM
To: Matt Millard
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Memory leak?


On 07/09/2004 10:50 AM, Matt Millard wrote:

>Basically what I'm seeing is that when I start up Nagios it utilizes about 4MB of memory.  If I don't restart the process for 24-48 hours then it will utilize all 1.25GB of memory on our system.  I've tried turning off a couple of the service checks, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.  Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?  Any more information needed?
>...
>nagios-1.2-0.rhel3.dag
>  
>
Matt,

Dag seems to be building all his packages with  --enable-embedded-perl 
(see 
http://dag.wieers.com/packages/nagios/_buildlogs/nagios-1.2-0.rhel3.dag.i386.log.bz2, 
e.g.)
which causes the nagios process to be larger, and may in fact have a 
leak (though i've not verified this).  Your best bet is to rebuild 
without this option enabled, unless of course you need it ;-)

I found that rebuilding without the embedded-perl option resulted in 
nagios processess about 1.5MB in size, w/out any memory consumption 
problems.

Hope this helps,

-tt

-- 
Tom Throckmorton
Systems and Core Services
Duke University - OIT



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From wp.junior at terra.com.br  Sat Jul 10 00:10:00 2004
From: wp.junior at terra.com.br (Wilson Pires Jr)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 19:10:00 -0300
Subject: front end management tool
In-Reply-To: <c31ca9c604070809585270e265@mail.gmail.com>
References: <c31ca9c604070809585270e265@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20040709220625.D7FC237019A@potosi.terra.com.br>

sorry, i meant delete the host from services :)

-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark Shirley
Sent: quinta-feira, 8 de julho de 2004 13:59
To: Wilson Pires Jr
Cc: Neil; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: front end management tool

it can indeed. if you delete a user it will delete the user from the
hostgroup and if you delete a host it will remove that host from the
services etc...  i don't really understand why you would delete a
service if a host was deleted since a service can be used by many
different hosts.


On Wed, 7 Jul 2004 21:06:00 -0300, Wilson Pires Jr
<wp.junior at terra.com.br> wrote:
> Does nagmin make consistency among the cfg configuration files? I mean,
for
> example, if I delete a host, are their services deleted automatically?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Wilson
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mark
Shirley
> Sent: quarta-feira, 7 de julho de 2004 09:16
> To: Neil
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: front end management tool
> 
> you can do anything with nagmin as you can with configs in my
> experiance.  instead of editing a text file to create a custom check
> you create a database field.
> 
> On Tue, 06 Jul 2004 12:54:50 -0500, Neil
> <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > Another question. I do a lot of customization to checks and vi allows me
> to
> > be very flexible. The limit I have when writing my own custom checks is
> what
> > my brain can imagine. So, can I also be very flexible with Nagmin?
> >
> > Thanks. :)
> >
> > Neil
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Mark Shirley writes:
> >
> > > the use of the mysql database is a nagmin requirement not a nagios
> requirement.
> > >
> > > nagmin takes an existing set of config files and creates a database
> > > based on that.  at that point you use the gui interface to make
> > > changes to the mysql database.  when you want the changes to take
> > > effect you run a "verification" where it dumps the data from the
> > > database into temporary config files and then tells nagios to do a -v
> > > startup.  if that is sucsessful you then "activate" it where by it
> > > does the same thing of dumping the mysql database into config files
> > > and then it starts nagios normally.  this particular setup is
> > > excellent if for some reason you try it and don't like it you can
> > > always go back to using a simple text configs.
> > >
> > > nagmin does NOT require your nagios to be built with mysql since
> > > nagmin deals directly with nagios's config files.  i currently use
> > > nagmin because of the pure number of hosts and services.  not to
> > > mention the other people that i interact with must be able to
> > > add/remove/change host and service records without having to edit
> > > config files manually.  the major downside to nagmin is that you can't
> > > EASILY go back and forth from nagmin to console config.  it's one or
> > > the other because if you make a change to the temp config files the
> > > changes will not be inserted into the mysql database and will be
> > > overwritten the next time you do an verification or activation.
> > >
> > > in comparison to the other options i found nagmin to be the best and
> > > most stable for my enviroment.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 11:19:37 -0500, Neil
> > > <neil-on-nagios at restricted.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > >> Ok, IIRC, support to database is going to be dropped in version 2 of
> Nagios
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> carole verdon writes:
> > >>
> > >> > In first, to use Nagmin, Nagios must built with mysql database
> support.
> > >> >
> > >> > That it was my case. Then, Nagmin use existings config files to
build
> its
> > >> > own files.
> > >> >
> > >> > Neil wrote:
> > >> >
> > >> >> Hi Carole,
> > >> >> What if I already have existing running nagios, how does it take
> care of
> > >> >> my existings configs?
> > >> >> YOu know what, I should try it :)
> > >> >> carole verdon writes:
> > >> >>
> > >> >>> I use Nagmin to manage the configuration of nagios. Nagmin don't
> create
> > >> >>> temporary config files. It extract informations of tables of
mysql
> > >> >>> database to put them in flat config files so that nagios can read
> them.
> > >> >>> I am satisfied for this product.
> > >> >>> You can find others answers in mailing list or on
> > >> >>> http://nagmin.sourceforge.net/
> > >> >>> Carole.
> > >> >>> Neil wrote:
> > >> >>>
> > >> >>>> Hey guys,
> > >> >>>> I know in nagios website, extras, there are links to front end
for
> > >> >>>> managing nagios. Currently, I am a unix console fanatic. :) I'm
> used to
> > >> >>>> it and it's no problem to me. I would like to seek your
experience
> on
> > >> >>>> which front end web based application you really did like and
was
> easy
> > >> >>>> to use. I am looking into something wherein it will be easy for
us
> to
> > >> >>>> create hosts, services, contacts and so on. I tried Nagmin,
Nagat
> but
> > >> >>>> if I remember correctly, it creates a temporary config file
which
> will
> > >> >>>> be used for test run. It's nice but really messes up my configs
:(
> > >> >>>> Anyways, please reply as to what webbased nagios management tool
> you
> > >> >>>> are using and that you're very happy about it.
> > >> >>>> Thanks.
> > >> >>>> Neil
> > >> >>>>
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From tech at gnuconsulting.com  Sat Jul 10 00:16:08 2004
From: tech at gnuconsulting.com (David Bishop)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:16:08 -0600
Subject: check_nagios on FreeBSD
Message-ID: <20040709221608.GA42520@server1.gnuconsulting.com>

check_nagios fails to work on FreeBSD bacause PS_RAW_COMMAND is defined
as "/bin/ps -weo 'stat user ppid args'", which will *not* show all
process ids on the machine (only the processes owned by the webserver).
To make it work properly, I needed to add 'ax' in front of 'o' and
recompile.  I realize that config.h is a generated file, and will be
overwritten next time I run ./configure, but I don't know enough about
auto* to figure out how to fix the test.

To summarize, the correct definition of PS_RAW_COMMAND on FreeBSD is:
"/bin/ps -weaxo 'stat user ppid args'"

Thanks, and have a great day.

D.A.Bishop


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From jeremy at hq.newdream.net  Sat Jul 10 01:13:23 2004
From: jeremy at hq.newdream.net (Jeremy Hanmer)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:13:23 -0700
Subject: strange behaviour
Message-ID: <937C6990-D1FD-11D8-8454-000A95BA1D3C@hq.newdream.net>

Over the last couple of days, I've noticed that active/passive service 
checks and notifications will be turned off mysteriously on all of our 
Nagios boxes.  External command logging is turned on, but the logs 
don't have any commands logged except for the one that I submit to 
re-enable whatever was shut off.  nagios.cfg has the correct default 
values as well, and the uptime is always greater than the time since I 
last verified that the status was correct, so it isn't happening during 
a restart.

Has anybody else seen this or have any suggestions?



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From al_smyth at yahoo.com  Sat Jul 10 02:18:57 2004
From: al_smyth at yahoo.com (Al Smith)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 17:18:57 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Nagios Truncated return string
In-Reply-To: <1089383389.9557.13.camel@localhost>
References: <1089383389.9557.13.camel@localhost>
Message-ID: <20040710001857.37327.qmail@web53508.mail.yahoo.com>

Except... this is the nagios database, not my own database, and the column for return strings is of type BLOB, and all the other return strings are saved fully... BTW - the string saved inclludes the 'OK: ' as well as the '0'
 
-Al

jeff vier <jeff.vier at tradingtechnologies.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 20:22 -0700, Al Smith wrote:
> return the string
> 
> OK: 0.8
> 
> The problem is with the value stored in the MySQL database,
> and displayed on the web page, is 0. So, when amp usage on the
> unit is low, I get an alarm telling me it is zero!
> 
> Has anyone else seen the trucated value like this? 

Sounds like you've set your column to INT (or SMALLINT, BIGINT, etc).

read http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Numeric_types.html carefully.


 

		
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From: rmiller at duskglow.com (Russell Miller)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 20:53:53 -0500
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From wp.junior at terra.com.br  Sat Jul 10 16:03:38 2004
From: wp.junior at terra.com.br (Wilson Pires Jr)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 11:03:38 -0300
Subject: weird value in availability report
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hi all.

i use redhat 7.2, nagios 1.2, plugins 1.4a

my monthly availability reports always show strange values as "Time". look
at this:

(single host availability report using):
Report period: last month
Assume Initial States: yes
Assume State Retention: yes
First Assumed State: Host Up
Backtracked Archives: 4

DOWN Unscheduled 49707d 13h 48m 45s 1.316% 1.317%

the last line:

All Total 30d 0h 0m 0s 100.000% 100.000%

from where does nagios bring the '49707d 13h 48m 45s' since the period has
only 30 days?

another aspect i cannot understand is the following:

Down  Unscheduled 49707d 13h 48m 45s   1.316%   1.317% 
      Scheduled   3d 2h 7m 58s        10.296%  10.304% 
      Total       0d 9h 28m 27s        1.316%   1.317%

unscheduled downtime has the weird value and even the scheduled downtime is
greater than the total !!!???

could anybody solve my doubts?

best regards,

wilson





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From nagios-user at sandiego420.com  Sat Jul 10 16:12:01 2004
From: nagios-user at sandiego420.com (Rhugga)
Date: 10 Jul 2004 07:12:01 -0700
Subject: Dev List Still Used?
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Is the nagios-dev list still used? I subscribed a few days ago and have
not received any postings. I was interested in cnotributing to the
project...

Thx,
CC



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From ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx  Sat Jul 10 20:46:39 2004
From: ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx (ilopez at jalisco.gob.mx)
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 12:46:39 -0600
Subject: Cisco Catalyst 2950
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I want to check my Cisco Catalyst 2950 my snmp plug but I haven`t been able
to do it.

Has somebody done it?
Thanks



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From ae at op5.se  Sun Jul 11 02:00:07 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:00:07 +0200
Subject: Some questions about functionality.  check_by_ssh.
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nemir nemiria wrote:
> Hiya.
> 
> Fiurst thing I'd like to know is whether it is possible to nest check_by_ssh in
> another check_by_ssh command to check something on a third box?

Yes.

>>From the nagios server I try running the command
> 
> ./check_by_ssh -H 172.16.16.12 -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_by_ssh
> -H 192.168.16.2 -C "/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -c 1:3 -C backup""
> 
> but I get an error that says 
> 
> ./check_by_ssh: invalid option -- c
> 

You aren't escaping the quotes. This is basic command line knowledge. 
Try replaceing the outer quotation marks with single quotes, and if that 
doesn't work, try "man sh" on the Nagios server...

> 
> Also, is it possible to set up a notification system where it notifies one
> person immediately,  and then a second person after 15 minutes or so if there
> is no acknowledgment and no recovery?
> 

Yes. Read up on escalations in the nagios documentation.

> Finally, there is one windows host that requires a reboot once per evening.
> This happens at different times each night depending on other circumstances.
>   Is there a way that I could do something like:
> 
> o) Configure a regular downtime period that would immediately be ended once a
> downtime had been detected?
> 
> o) send some sort of signal to the nagios box as part of a reboot script to
> set up a 10 minute downtime?

Yes. Read up on passing commands to nagios through "the command pipe". 
It's all very well documented.
> 
> o) do something else that guys on this list that are cleverer than I might
> suggest?
> 

Yes. Since it's obviously not important when this host goes down during 
the night, so long as it is up again in the morning, you can simply turn 
of checks (by creating a special timeperiod) for the host and everything 
on it from the time where downtime may first start to whenever you need 
it to be up again in the morning.

> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nemir
> 
> 
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Sun Jul 11 02:20:39 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:20:39 +0200
Subject: Posting to mssql
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Jack Doyle wrote:
> I'm going to use a host/service event handler to post data to Microsoft
> SQL 2000 Server database.
>  
> I've created a web page that reads the contents of a form posted to it
> and puts that data into the SQL database.  Then my eventhandler uses
> wget with the --post-data= option to post the data from the nagios
> macros to that web page.  I'm new, sue me.
>  

There's also sqsh, freely available from www.sqsh.org.

> Anways, I need my macros to be url-encoded.  Anyone know of a simple
> linux command, etc, that can url-encode this data?
>  

Isn't wget capable of doing that for you? If not, use perl. It's the 
kind of quick'n dirty hack it was designed for, after all.

> Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
> Systems Operations Specialist 	
> 540.776.2025 	
>  

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From ae at op5.se  Sun Jul 11 02:28:13 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:28:13 +0200
Subject: Logs in MS SQL
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Jack Doyle wrote:
> Has anyone successfully gotten their Nagios implementation to log to MS
> SQL?
>  

Considering that Nagios only runs on Posix-compliant operating systems, 
and MS SQL only runs on MS OS'es (which is about as far from 
posix-compliant as you can get), I very much doubt so. A simpler 
solution would be to make it log to a local MySQL database and have logs 
transferred every hour or so.

If you're really desperate for the functionality, I suggest you look 
into the freetds code and read up on the Tabular Data Stream (or 
something) protocol, and write an eventbroker for Nagios.

> Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
> Systems Operations Specialist 	
> 540.776.2025 	
>  

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From ae at op5.se  Sun Jul 11 02:31:48 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:31:48 +0200
Subject: monitoring process times
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Russell Miller wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
> 
> I want to monitor the time that a certain process has existed, and if it's 
> above a certain amount of time send a warning.  Is there any way to do this 
> with the stock release, or do I need to hack check_procs?
> 

You need to hack check_procs.

> Thanks.
> 
> - --Russell
> - -- 
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Sun Jul 11 02:38:15 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 02:38:15 +0200
Subject: Dev List Still Used?
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Rhugga wrote:
> Is the nagios-dev list still used?

Yes.

> I subscribed a few days ago and have not received any postings.

It's a very low-traffic list, used mainly for spreading and discussing 
patches and very core-specific things. GUI-, plugin- and 
configuration-issues pretty much all go to nagios-users.


> I was interested in cnotributing to the project...
> 

Please do. Send patches to nagios-devel, and if they're good they wind 
up in the next release. Ethan is the supreme ruler of the Nagios core 
though, so he'll review it before it's included.

> Thx,
> CC


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From pmetzger at bellsouth.net  Sun Jul 11 10:17:52 2004
From: pmetzger at bellsouth.net (Paul Metzger)
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:17:52 -0500
Subject: Memory leak?
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> I've got a new Nagios setup that's been acting up on me now that I've
got
> most of my hosts being monitored.  I have 170 hosts, and about 700
> services being monitored.  We are currently monitoring ping, sshd,
ntpd
> and ftpd on all servers.  We also have a few dns, httpd, paging
> space(using check_by_ssh) monitors in place.

Did you have any trouble with the paths for the check commands? When I
set up ours, it would not goto where the plugins were, which according
to the docs it should have knows, as they were it said they should be.
Went into the config and gave it a specific path and all was well with
the world. I'm just curious if that is a bug or if I'm the only
person(which due to what my google searching told me I am) that has had
that issue. 

> 
> Basically what I'm seeing is that when I start up Nagios it utilizes
about
> 4MB of memory.  If I don't restart the process for 24-48 hours then it
> will utilize all 1.25GB of memory on our system.  I've tried turning
off a
> couple of the service checks, but it doesn't seem to make any
difference.
> Anyone have any suggestions or similar experiences?  Any more
information
> needed?

I'm not sure on this, but I have a suggestion or two. And a question or
two to boot. The thing that sticks out in my mind first is the check
timing. I recall seeing something buried in the documentation about it
chewing memory if you have it checking too much stuff too fast. I forget
right off hand which file you set that in, but you might try slowing
down the frequency of the checks. On to the question, did you compile it
or did you find a package for it. I found a mandrake package for it, but
after installing it, it just didn't work. If you did compile which make
options did you use? I know there are several depending on what you are
trying to do. I am by no means an expert on it, but I'll try to help you
all I can with my limited knowledge on it.

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From CHRJ002 at motorola.com  Mon Jul 12 18:27:20 2004
From: CHRJ002 at motorola.com (Chris Jackson-CHRJ002)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:27:20 +0100
Subject: NRPE Problems
Message-ID: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B15857A@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>

Hi, 
 
I'm having some difficulty setting up nrpe on my network.
 
I have downloaded and compiled the client on the remote host in question with ./configure --enable-ssl
 
I have followed all the instructions to make the nrpe daemon run with xinetd and netstat -pta shows nrpe listening.  I set nagios host to use check_nrpe to execute some plugins I copied to the remote box but I'm getting the error Could not complete SSL handshake.  I'm sure its something to do with me missing out some SSL configuration somewhere but I can't see where I've gone wrong.
 
I'm not really clued up on SSL and found the instructions for installing with SSL support a bit confusing.  Can anyone help me troubleshoot and work out why the handshake keeps failing?
 
Thanks in advance,
 
Chris
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Mon Jul 12 18:49:35 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:49:35 -0400
Subject: Logs in MS SQL
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFF16@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

Happy to explain...
 
What I mean is I would like to have log information stored in a MS SQL
2000 server.  I've tried eventhandlers, but the script I wrote for some
reason will not run wget.  Here's why I'm running wget...
 
Since I didn't know a better way to get data from Nagios to MS SQL, I
created a web page on my SQL server.  It's just like a form processing
page on a website, except there's no form.  The data submitted to that
page goes into a database that I created to keep nagios info.
 
My event handler, sql_AddRecord, gets the Nagios Macros passed to it.
I'm using it as a global event handler for services and hosts.  It looks
like this:
 
-----
#!/bin/sh

#

# Write Record to SQL server.

#

recordtype=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$1")
timet=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$2")
hostname=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$3")
hostalias=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$4")
hostaddress=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$5")
hoststate=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$6")
statetype=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$7")
attempt=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$8")
plugout=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "$9")
executiontime=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "${10}")
latency=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "${11}")
lastcheck=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "${12}")
laststatechange=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl
"${13}")

# Remove file created last time

rm -rfv /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/addrecord.asp

# What type of record are we creating?

case "$1" in

HOST)

#echo timet $timet hostname $hostname hostalias $hostalias hostaddress
$hostaddress hoststate $hoststate statetype $statetype attempt $attempt
plugout $plugout executiontime $executiontime latency $latency lastcheck
$lastcheck laststatechange $laststatechange | mail
jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com

wget --background --no-clobber --append-output=/tmp/wget.log
--post-data="timet=$timet&recordtype=$recordtype&hostname=$hostname&host
alias=$hostalias&hostaddress=$hostaddress&hoststate=$hoststate&statetype
=$statetype&attempt=$attempt&plugout=$plugout&executiontime=$executionti
me&latency=$latency&lastcheck=$lastcheck&laststatechange=$laststatechang
e" http://sql/nagios/addrecord.asp <http://sql/nagios/addrecord.asp> 

;;

SERVICE)

servicedesc=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "${14}")
servicestate=$(/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/encode.pl "${15}")

#echo timet $timet hostname $hostname hostalias $hostalias hostaddress
$hostaddress hoststate $hoststate statetype $statetype attempt $attempt
plugout $plugout executiontime $executiontime latency $latency lastcheck
$lastcheck laststatechange $laststatechange servicedesc $servicedesc
servicestate $servicestate | mail jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com

wget --background --no-clobber --append-output=/tmp/wget.log
--post-data="timet=$timet&recordtype=$recordtype&hostname=$hostname&host
alias=$hostalias&hostaddress=$hostaddress&hoststate=$hoststate&statetype
=$statetype&attempt=$attempt&plugout=$plugout&executiontime=$executionti
me&latency=$latency&lastcheck=$lastcheck&laststatechange=$laststatechang
e&servicedesc=$servicedesc&servicestate=$servicestate"
http://sql/nagios/addrecord.asp <http://sql/nagios/addrecord.asp> 

;;

esac

exit 0

-----
 
 
encode.pl is a file that will take the string and return a url-encoded
version of the string.  That way it will post properly to my page.
 
Here are my command definitions for my global event handlers:
 
-----
 
define command{
        command_name    log_host_change
        command_line
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/sql_AddRecord "HOST" "$TIMET$"
"$HOSTNAME$" "$HOSTALIAS$" "$HOSTADDRESS$" "$HOSTSTATE$" "$STATETYPE$"
"$HOSTATTEMPT$" "$OUTPUT$" "$EXECUTIONTIME$" "$LATENCY$" "$LASTCHECK$"
"$LASTSTATECHANGE$"
        }
 
define command{
        command_name    log_service_change
        command_line
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/sql_AddRecord "SERVICE" "$TIMET$"
"$HOSTNAME$" "$HOSTALIAS$" "$HOSTADDRESS$" "$HOSTSTATE$" "$STATETYPE$"
"$SERVICEATTEMPT$" "$OUTPUT$" "$EXECUTIONTIME$" "$LATENCY$"
"$LASTCHECK$" "$LASTSTATECHANGE$" "$SERVICEDESC$" "$SERVICESTATE$"

-----
 
In the main script, you can see where I have commented a line that I
used for testing.  It tested fine, it echoed all of the url-encoded
macros and piped them to my email.
 
If, after the wget line, I add "| mail jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com" I get
a blank email when the event handler runs.  wget just doesn't seem to
work.
 
If I run the main script from the command line with some made up data to
fill the variables, it works fine, and adds the data to the sql server.
 
I'm so close, but can't figure out why wget does nothing when run from
the eventhandler.
 
Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
Systems Operations Specialist 	
540.776.2025 	
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Mon Jul 12 20:21:02 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 14:21:02 -0400
Subject: Logs in MS SQL
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFF1E@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

Wish that would work for me... Unfortunately, I'm not that great of a
programmer. :)

Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
Systems Operations Specialist 	
540.776.2025 	
 ----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:ae at op5.se] 
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 8:28 PM
To: Nagios-Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Logs in MS SQL


Jack Doyle wrote:
> Has anyone successfully gotten their Nagios implementation to log to 
> MS SQL?
>  

Considering that Nagios only runs on Posix-compliant operating systems, 
and MS SQL only runs on MS OS'es (which is about as far from 
posix-compliant as you can get), I very much doubt so. A simpler 
solution would be to make it log to a local MySQL database and have logs

transferred every hour or so.

If you're really desperate for the functionality, I suggest you look 
into the freetds code and read up on the Tabular Data Stream (or 
something) protocol, and write an eventbroker for Nagios.

> Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
> Systems Operations Specialist 	
> 540.776.2025 	
>  

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From lzhang at lbl.gov  Mon Jul 12 21:21:33 2004
From: lzhang at lbl.gov (Ling Zhang)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 12:21:33 -0700
Subject: why the Ping service is still being checked?
Message-ID: <000401c46845$716568c0$b5030380@gigattcp>

Hi, there,

I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a check-dummy
command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However, although
never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down, even
the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".

Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
server:

################ host definition######################

define host {
        use             some-host-tmpl
        host_name       server.abcd.com
        alias           server.abcd.com
        address         1.2.3.4
        check_command   check-dummy 			;always return
"up"
        parents         parent.abcd.com     
}

################ service Definition ##################

define service { 
        use                             default-service 
        host_name                       server.abcd.com
        service_description             HTTP
        check_command                   check_HTTP
}

So, any idea why is that?

Thanks.

Ling




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From ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com  Mon Jul 12 22:11:54 2004
From: ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com (Wood, Thomas H. (UNIX))
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:11:54 -0400
Subject: Setting status of returned plugin output
Message-ID: <583E01FC7F0C994EAA2CC39253B4CDF0022F7AC8@atlexc01.zcs.corp>

Ok, so I wrote myself a little wrapper for the process I was trying to
check just to see how it would work.  I've been calling this via
check_by_ssh and it works about half the time.  The rest of the time
Nagios reads it as unknown (even though it's returning exit 0) and trips
status unknown.

Here's the code.  Please no flaming; this isn't production quality.  The
only difference I've seen between when Nagios reads the status code and
doesn't is that it picks up the status ok first time.  Whenever it
reports status unknown the service reports 3/3 tries.  Also, I've been
watching the actual process all day in another window.  It really is
running :)

Any comments or thoughts on this interesting problem would be
appreciated.

Thomas Wood

process_to_check="/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprd"


output=`/usr/bin/ps -ef | /usr/bin/grep $process_to_check |
/usr/bin/grep -v grep | /usr/bin/cut -f28 -d ' '`

if [ $output == $process_to_check ]; then
        echo "Ok: BPRD found."
        exit 0;

else
        echo "BPRD NOT FOUND!"
        exit 3;
fi 

-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 2:04 PM
To: Wood, Thomas H. (UNIX); nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Setting status of returned plugin output

You'll need to create a wrapper for bssp.
http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net/developer-guidelines.html
 
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________________________________

From: Wood, Thomas H. (UNIX) [mailto:ThomasH.Wood at zcsterling.com]
Sent: Friday, July 09, 2004 12:23 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Setting status of returned plugin output



I've been looking through the nagios and nagios plugin doc trying to
determine how to configure nagios such that output returned by a plugin
is good.  Here's the rub:

I'm trying to determine whether a process on a remote Solaris box is
running.  I haven't messed around with nrpe on that system yet and have
access already in place via key exchange.  So I use check_by_ssh to
connect and run bssp -a | grep bprd (it's a netbackup thing).  If I get
back something like "root 2676 1 0 Jul 07 ? 0:03
/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bprd" then I know the process is running and my
backups won't fail.  Right now Nagios flags that as unknown status and
clutters up my pristine tactical view with a flag.  So how do I get
Nagios to recognize this an OK state?

Thanks 

Thomas Wood 






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From Rob.Gallegly at usfsi.com  Mon Jul 12 23:51:05 2004
From: Rob.Gallegly at usfsi.com (Gallegly, Rob)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:51:05 -0400
Subject: ./configure step in Nagios setup
Message-ID: <B4EC5186AF50D511ADC100B0D0F00D4E0400B1AF@USFSHQMAIL01>

I am having some difficulty setting up Nagios in Fedora.  

When I try to run the configure script using the directories suggested in
the install instructions, I am receiving two warnings and one error.

The warnings I receive are for the prefix and the cgi-bin paths I set (which
are the exact one suggested in the Nagios documentation, not "prefix" and
the sort).  I receive the error "Invalid Host Type".  I have confirmed that
both directories exist (along with the group and user, etc).

Then, I receive an error saying that I can only configure for one host and
one target at a time.

I am not sure why this is happening, but if anyone can provide any
suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks in advance.

Rob Gallegly
Hotel Technology Group
U.S. Franchise Systems
888-215-9044
hotel.support at usfsi.com
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From jhmartin at toger.us  Tue Jul 13 00:04:43 2004
From: jhmartin at toger.us (Jason Martin)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:04:43 -0700
Subject: ./configure step in Nagios setup
In-Reply-To: <B4EC5186AF50D511ADC100B0D0F00D4E0400B1AF@USFSHQMAIL01>
References: <B4EC5186AF50D511ADC100B0D0F00D4E0400B1AF@USFSHQMAIL01>
Message-ID: <20040712220443.GI4331@zippy.members.linode.com>

Those errors sound unrelated to the prefix and cgi-bin paths options of configure; can you
please send the full configure line you are using and the exact text of the output?

Thanks,
-Jason Martin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:51:05PM -0400, Gallegly, Rob wrote:
> I am having some difficulty setting up Nagios in Fedora.  
> 
> When I try to run the configure script using the directories suggested in
> the install instructions, I am receiving two warnings and one error.
> 
> The warnings I receive are for the prefix and the cgi-bin paths I set (which
> are the exact one suggested in the Nagios documentation, not "prefix" and
> the sort).  I receive the error "Invalid Host Type".  I have confirmed that
> both directories exist (along with the group and user, etc).
> 
> Then, I receive an error saying that I can only configure for one host and
> one target at a time.
> 
> I am not sure why this is happening, but if anyone can provide any
> suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rob Gallegly
> Hotel Technology Group
> U.S. Franchise Systems
> 888-215-9044
> hotel.support at usfsi.com
> rob.gallegly at usfsi.com
> 
> 
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From JStork at providencehealth.bc.ca  Tue Jul 13 00:29:29 2004
From: JStork at providencehealth.bc.ca (Stork, Johnny [PH])
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:29:29 -0700
Subject: Problem with the check_nagios_db.pl plugin
Message-ID: <9BA1D6F859B535448073EF58517BC97C09A42758@phcexch.phc.bc.ca>

Recently the check_nagios_db.pl command seems to have stopped working and I
have only made minor changes to the cgi.cfg (added new users to
authentication).

When I try to run the command from the shell I get the following output

# perl /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios_db.pl
' (2) at /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios_db.pl line 54

Any suggestions?


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From lzhang at lbl.gov  Tue Jul 13 00:50:02 2004
From: lzhang at lbl.gov (Ling Zhang)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 15:50:02 -0700
Subject: why the Ping service is still being checked?
In-Reply-To: <40F305EA.3000707@gurugeek.com>
References: <40F305EA.3000707@gurugeek.com>
Message-ID: <02ab01c46862$92696180$b5030380@gigattcp>

No "ping" service was defined for that server. I am very sure about
that. It almost looks like the Ping service is checked by default,
unless I turned it off some where. 

Ling


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:43 PM
To: Ling Zhang
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?

You've probably created a "ping" service. Search your services.cfg for a
service 
named "ping"

Jeff

Ling Zhang wrote:
> Hi, there,
> 
> I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
> does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
> host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a
check-dummy
> command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However,
although
> never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
> the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down,
even
> the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".
> 
> Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
> server:
> 
> ################ host definition######################
> 
> define host {
>         use             some-host-tmpl
>         host_name       server.abcd.com
>         alias           server.abcd.com
>         address         1.2.3.4
>         check_command   check-dummy 			;always return
> "up"
>         parents         parent.abcd.com     
> }
> 
> ################ service Definition ##################
> 
> define service { 
>         use                             default-service 
>         host_name                       server.abcd.com
>         service_description             HTTP
>         check_command                   check_HTTP
> }
> 
> So, any idea why is that?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Ling
> 
> 
> 
> 
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From lzhang at lbl.gov  Tue Jul 13 01:13:01 2004
From: lzhang at lbl.gov (Ling Zhang)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:13:01 -0700
Subject: why the Ping service is still being checked?
In-Reply-To: <40F316F3.9070009@gurugeek.com>
References: <40F316F3.9070009@gurugeek.com>
Message-ID: <02ac01c46865$c74c79c0$b5030380@gigattcp>

Nope. I did not define a universal ping service and the grep didn't
return with any surprises. 

Ling


-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:56 PM
To: Ling Zhang
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?

A ping /service/ does not exist by default. I'm guessing you created one

with a host_name of * which will ping everything.

grep -i ping services.cfg

Any output?

Jeff

Ling Zhang wrote:

>No "ping" service was defined for that server. I am very sure about
>that. It almost looks like the Ping service is checked by default,
>unless I turned it off some where. 
>
>Ling
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
>Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:43 PM
>To: Ling Zhang
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being
checked?
>
>You've probably created a "ping" service. Search your services.cfg for
a
>service 
>named "ping"
>
>Jeff
>
>Ling Zhang wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi, there,
>>
>>I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
>>does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
>>host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a
>>    
>>
>check-dummy
>  
>
>>command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However,
>>    
>>
>although
>  
>
>>never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
>>the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down,
>>    
>>
>even
>  
>
>>the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".
>>
>>Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
>>server:
>>
>>################ host definition######################
>>
>>define host {
>>        use             some-host-tmpl
>>        host_name       server.abcd.com
>>        alias           server.abcd.com
>>        address         1.2.3.4
>>        check_command   check-dummy 			;always return
>>"up"
>>        parents         parent.abcd.com     
>>}
>>
>>################ service Definition ##################
>>
>>define service { 
>>        use                             default-service 
>>        host_name                       server.abcd.com
>>        service_description             HTTP
>>        check_command                   check_HTTP
>>}
>>
>>So, any idea why is that?
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Ling
>>
>>
>>
>>
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From bench at silentmedia.com  Tue Jul 13 01:21:14 2004
From: bench at silentmedia.com (Ben)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:21:14 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Database stores and distributed monitoring
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407121613430.6002-100000@localhost.localdomain>

I'm fairly new to Nagios, but I installed it for my home network a week or
two ago and I liked it a lot. So much so that I jumped at the chance to
use it for monitoring 2500 of my servers at work. Needless to say, I
quickly found out that monitoring 2500 servers is a little more demanding
of resources than monitoring 6. :)

So, to try to keep the CGI performance from sucking so badly, I thought
moving the data store into postgres and out of flat files would help. And
it did, but not enough. So now, even though I'm using a quad xeon with 4GB
of ram for the nagios machine (the database lives elsewhere), now I'm
thinking that maybe I should set up a distributed monitoring scheme too.

But I'm a bit confused. If the distributed monitoring software can write 
data into a database, and the CGIs read data out of the database.... do I 
need to use the nsca tool to do passive service checks?



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From listbox at azsupersport.com  Tue Jul 13 01:28:06 2004
From: listbox at azsupersport.com (Mike B)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 16:28:06 -0700
Subject: Notification after host down 10 minutes once only
Message-ID: <3E234F6CB3F7450BB6B7A49D5111CD.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>

I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for 10
minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes back
up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
happen. 

Anybody know of the way to set this up?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul 13 01:58:12 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 01:58:12 +0200
Subject: Notification after host down 10 minutes once only
In-Reply-To: <3E234F6CB3F7450BB6B7A49D5111CD.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>
References: <3E234F6CB3F7450BB6B7A49D5111CD.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>
Message-ID: <40F32594.7060201@op5.se>

Mike B wrote:
> I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for 10
> minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes back
> up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
> happen. 
> 
> Anybody know of the way to set this up?
> 

Work some magic with escalations. It's a bit of a hack, but will do what 
you want. Read about it in the documentation.

>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul 13 02:10:40 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 02:10:40 +0200
Subject: Database stores and distributed monitoring
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407121613430.6002-100000@localhost.localdomain>
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0407121613430.6002-100000@localhost.localdomain>
Message-ID: <40F32880.5060502@op5.se>

Ben wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Nagios, but I installed it for my home network a week or
> two ago and I liked it a lot. So much so that I jumped at the chance to
> use it for monitoring 2500 of my servers at work. Needless to say, I
> quickly found out that monitoring 2500 servers is a little more demanding
> of resources than monitoring 6. :)
> 
> So, to try to keep the CGI performance from sucking so badly, I thought
> moving the data store into postgres and out of flat files would help.

You could try applying the chained hash patch. It makes a great speedup. 
It's in by default in 2.0, which is stable enough for us to run in 
production.

> And
> it did, but not enough. So now, even though I'm using a quad xeon with 4GB
> of ram for the nagios machine (the database lives elsewhere), now I'm
> thinking that maybe I should set up a distributed monitoring scheme too.
> 

Move the database to reside on the same server as Nagios runs on. Unless 
you're using embedded perl (which is really buggy) it shouldn't be a 
problem at all.

> But I'm a bit confused. If the distributed monitoring software can write 
> data into a database, and the CGIs read data out of the database.... do I 
> need to use the nsca tool to do passive service checks?
> 

Not necessarily, but it's the only way to make configuration sit on only 
one host. That won't do any good with regards to the CGI's though, since 
it still has to parse the same amount of information.

On the other hand; I can't imagine any one person being responsible for 
all those 2500 servers, so it might be prudent to have several separate 
installations of Nagios. Large networks will always be a bit sluggish to 
display in the webinterface because of the sheer amount of data it needs 
to read every time. The price large companies pay for success, I guess.

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From benny at bennyvision.com  Tue Jul 13 02:46:15 2004
From: benny at bennyvision.com (C. Bensend)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 19:46:15 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Notification after host down 10 minutes once 
     only
In-Reply-To: <40F32594.7060201@op5.se>
References: <3E234F6CB3F7450BB6B7A49D5111CD.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>
    <40F32594.7060201@op5.se>
Message-ID: <57657.63.227.74.41.1089679597.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>


>> I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for
>> 10
>> minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes
>> back
>> up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
>> happen.
>>
>> Anybody know of the way to set this up?
>>
>
> Work some magic with escalations. It's a bit of a hack, but will do what
> you want. Read about it in the documentation.

Ummmmmm...  Am I missing something?  In the host definition:

max_check_attempts 60
notification_interval 0

The max_check_attempts should be about 10 minutes, and a
notification_interval of 0 will make it alert once only.  Isn't
that's what's desired?  If so, why mess with escalations (honest
question)?

Benny


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From Philipp.Sand at sycor.de  Tue Jul 13 07:21:06 2004
From: Philipp.Sand at sycor.de (Sand Philipp)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 07:21:06 +0200
Subject: Checking MSSQL Server via ODBC Connection
Message-ID: <6943DE9E9934CD42BBE4A20E0E28E10E068E2C@SYGOMAIL.GOE.AD.SYCOR.DE>

Hello list, 

I got some ODBC Clients for Linux, and want to do some checks on an MSSQL Server via these ODBC Connections. These checks are basically some selects on the databse to look for deadlocks etc... I want to run those checks from the Nagios Server, so I don't have to install a client or so on the MSSQL Server.

Has anyone done this before, or does anyone have a plugin or a solution already prepared? 

Thanks in advance, 
Philipp 


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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul 13 09:41:56 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:41:56 +0200
Subject: NRPE Problems
In-Reply-To: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B15857A@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>
References: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B15857A@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>
Message-ID: <40F39244.50701@cict.fr>

It seems to me that your nrpe on nagios server is compiled with ssl. Is 
right?

If it's the case, you can use, i believe, the '-n' option of check_nrpe 
to disable ssl. Otherwise, you must compile again nrpe on nagios server 
with '--enable-ssl' option. Then, you can call the new check_nrpe as 
check_nrpe_nossl to not confuse with the check_nrpe compiling with ssl 
support.


I see also that you copied some plugins on remote host. Is it the same 
version of OS? Normally, you must compile plugins directly on remote 
host. Perhaps, the error comes from there.

I hope that help you.

Carole.

Chris Jackson-CHRJ002 wrote:

> Hi,
>  
> I'm having some difficulty setting up nrpe on my network.
>  
> I have downloaded and compiled the client on the remote host in 
> question with ./configure --enable-ssl
>  
> I have followed all the instructions to make the nrpe daemon run with 
> xinetd and netstat -pta shows nrpe listening.  I set nagios host to 
> use check_nrpe to execute some plugins I copied to the remote box but 
> I'm getting the error Could not complete SSL handshake.  I'm sure its 
> something to do with me missing out some SSL configuration somewhere 
> but I can't see where I've gone wrong.
>  
> I'm not really clued up on SSL and found the instructions for 
> installing with SSL support a bit confusing.  Can anyone help me 
> troubleshoot and work out why the handshake keeps failing?
>  
> Thanks in advance,
>  
> Chris

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From fabio at link.it  Tue Jul 13 09:48:44 2004
From: fabio at link.it (Fabio Lo Votrico)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 09:48:44 +0200
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
In-Reply-To: <1089395558.4359.61.camel@pel>
References: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>  <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>
	 <1089395558.4359.61.camel@pel>
Message-ID: <1089704924.7858.1.camel@fire.sede-pisa.link.it>

On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:52, Sean Dilda wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:09, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
> > Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
> > line to break.  Like this:
> > Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
> > Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
> > 
> > nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
> > <br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).
> 
> If you're doing this, you'll want to make pass all your notifications
> through a filter to clean that up.  Otherwise you'll get ugly
> emails/pages.

I'm doing exactly what Christopher is suggesting, but I don't know
_where_ to filter the output and translate <br> in \n
Nagios is stripping "<" and ">" out of it and I'd like to maintain this
behaviour in general.
So I need to translate before Nagios do its filtering.
Is there any way to do this?

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul 13 10:28:56 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:28:56 +0200
Subject: why the Ping service is still being checked?
In-Reply-To: <02ac01c46865$c74c79c0$b5030380@gigattcp>
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Is the definition of template 'some-host-tmpl' not contain a check_command like check_host_alive?

If it's the case, you can look your command.cfg file and verify if a command using ping isn't definied.



Ling Zhang wrote:

>Nope. I did not define a universal ping service and the grep didn't
>return with any surprises. 
>
>Ling
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
>Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 3:56 PM
>To: Ling Zhang
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being checked?
>
>A ping /service/ does not exist by default. I'm guessing you created one
>
>with a host_name of * which will ping everything.
>
>grep -i ping services.cfg
>
>Any output?
>
>Jeff
>
>Ling Zhang wrote:
>
>  
>
>>No "ping" service was defined for that server. I am very sure about
>>that. It almost looks like the Ping service is checked by default,
>>unless I turned it off some where. 
>>
>>Ling
>>
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Jeff Rodriguez [mailto:nagios-users at gurugeek.com] 
>>Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 2:43 PM
>>To: Ling Zhang
>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] why the Ping service is still being
>>    
>>
>checked?
>  
>
>>You've probably created a "ping" service. Search your services.cfg for
>>    
>>
>a
>  
>
>>service 
>>named "ping"
>>
>>Jeff
>>
>>Ling Zhang wrote:
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi, there,
>>>
>>>I have configured Nagios to monitor the HTTP service on a server that
>>>does not respond to Pings. To avoid letting nagios assuming the server
>>>host is down, I specified nagios to check host status with a
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>check-dummy
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>command, which will always return with an "UP" status. However,
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>although
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>never defined anywhere in my configuration files, nagios kept checking
>>>the "PING" service on that server and reported "ping service" down,
>>>   
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>even
>> 
>>
>>    
>>
>>>the host status is "UP" and the HTTP service on that server is "OK".
>>>
>>>Here is the host definition and service definition of that specific
>>>server:
>>>
>>>################ host definition######################
>>>
>>>define host {
>>>       use             some-host-tmpl
>>>       host_name       server.abcd.com
>>>       alias           server.abcd.com
>>>       address         1.2.3.4
>>>       check_command   check-dummy 			;always return
>>>"up"
>>>       parents         parent.abcd.com     
>>>}
>>>
>>>################ service Definition ##################
>>>
>>>define service { 
>>>       use                             default-service 
>>>       host_name                       server.abcd.com
>>>       service_description             HTTP
>>>       check_command                   check_HTTP
>>>}
>>>
>>>So, any idea why is that?
>>>
>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>Ling
>>>
>>>
>>>
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From m.borsani at it.net  Tue Jul 13 11:13:55 2004
From: m.borsani at it.net (Marco Borsani)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:13:55 +0200
Subject: chech_http on a no-standard port
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Message-ID: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILKEBODJAA.m.borsani@it.net>

MessageHi guys!

Do you know if is it possible to write in the "Status information" (present
in the Service State Information) the port number where I am performing the
check?

I have the problem only when the "Current Status" is NOT OK, because the
message I read is: "Socket timeout after 10 seconds".

If it is necessary, I will modify the source files .... but I don't know
which ones !

Regards

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul 13 11:54:37 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:54:37 +0200
Subject: Multiple output lines in plugins?
In-Reply-To: <1089704924.7858.1.camel@fire.sede-pisa.link.it>
References: <40ECEBF1.70404@epost.de>  <40EEC322.6050308@bergeron.com>	 <1089395558.4359.61.camel@pel> <1089704924.7858.1.camel@fire.sede-pisa.link.it>
Message-ID: <40F3B15D.1050807@op5.se>

Fabio Lo Votrico wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 19:52, Sean Dilda wrote:
> 
>>On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 12:09, Christopher M Bergeron wrote:
>>
>>>Nicole, you can "trick" nagios by putting in "<br>" where you want each 
>>>line to break.  Like this:
>>>Temperatures OK<br>CPU Planar    38.0 Celsius<br>Ambient        26.0 
>>>Celsius<br>BP Bottom Temp    23.0 Celsius
>>>
>>>nsca will see it as one line, and when it renders it in the browser, the 
>>><br> will be a new line.  (<br> is html markup for a line break).
>>
>>If you're doing this, you'll want to make pass all your notifications
>>through a filter to clean that up.  Otherwise you'll get ugly
>>emails/pages.
> 
> 
> I'm doing exactly what Christopher is suggesting, but I don't know
> _where_ to filter the output and translate <br> in \n
> Nagios is stripping "<" and ">" out of it and I'd like to maintain this
> behaviour in general.
> So I need to translate before Nagios do its filtering.
> Is there any way to do this?
> 

No, but it should be trivial to make Nagios replace <br> with '\n' 
before stripping the illegal_macro_output_chars.

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul 13 11:56:19 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:56:19 +0200
Subject: chech_http on a no-standard port
In-Reply-To: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILKEBODJAA.m.borsani@it.net>
References: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILKEBODJAA.m.borsani@it.net>
Message-ID: <40F3B1C3.4090607@cict.fr>

To simply things, you can define a service_name like "HTTP port 2080" and so when you receive a notification you known what port it is.

It's what i do. Here an example of notification which i received the last month:

***** Nagios *****

Notification Type: PROBLEM

Service: HTTP port 2080
Host: vae
Address: X.X.X.X
State: CRITICAL

Date/Time: Wed Jun 30 15:11:55 MEST 2004

Additional Info:

CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds


Carole.



Marco Borsani wrote:

> Hi guys!
>  
> Do you know if is it possible to write in the "Status information" 
> (present in the Service State Information) the port number where I am 
> performing the check?
>  
> I have the problem only when the "Current Status" is NOT OK, because 
> the message I read is: "Socket timeout after 10 seconds".
>  
> If it is necessary, I will modify the source files .... but I don't 
> know which ones !
>  
> Regards
>  
> Marco

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul 13 11:57:20 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:57:20 +0200
Subject: chech_http on a no-standard port
In-Reply-To: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILKEBODJAA.m.borsani@it.net>
References: <JCENIGJIKPEDHLONLOILKEBODJAA.m.borsani@it.net>
Message-ID: <40F3B200.1080302@op5.se>

Marco Borsani wrote:
> MessageHi guys!
> 
> Do you know if is it possible to write in the "Status information" (present
> in the Service State Information) the port number where I am performing the
> check?
> 

Write it in the service-description. That's the usual way to go.

> I have the problem only when the "Current Status" is NOT OK, because the
> message I read is: "Socket timeout after 10 seconds".
> 
> If it is necessary, I will modify the source files .... but I don't know
> which ones !
> 

That would be check_http.c or utils.c in the plugin-package.

> Regards
> 
> Marco
> 

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From ae at op5.se  Tue Jul 13 12:01:44 2004
From: ae at op5.se (Andreas Ericsson)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 12:01:44 +0200
Subject: Notification after host down 10 minutes once 
     only
In-Reply-To: <57657.63.227.74.41.1089679597.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>
References: <3E234F6CB3F7450BB6B7A49D5111CD.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>    <40F32594.7060201@op5.se> <57657.63.227.74.41.1089679597.squirrel@webmail.stinkweasel.net>
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C. Bensend wrote:
>>>I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for
>>>10
>>>minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes
>>>back
>>>up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
>>>happen.
>>>
>>>Anybody know of the way to set this up?
>>>
>>
>>Work some magic with escalations. It's a bit of a hack, but will do what
>>you want. Read about it in the documentation.
> 
> 
> Ummmmmm...  Am I missing something?  In the host definition:
> 
> max_check_attempts 60
> notification_interval 0
> 
> The max_check_attempts should be about 10 minutes, and a
> notification_interval of 0 will make it alert once only.  Isn't
> that's what's desired?  If so, why mess with escalations (honest
> question)?
> 

Because host checks are fired in a serialized manner without delay and 
while holding service checks back. Making one host check take 10 minutes 
would cause a serious interruption in normal monitoring logic.
max_check_attempts also isn't a very good way of keeping time, since the 
plugin can fail at an earlier stage depending on how its done and how 
the network looks.

> Benny
> 
> 

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From verdon at cict.fr  Tue Jul 13 15:15:18 2004
From: verdon at cict.fr (carole verdon)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:15:18 +0200
Subject: NRPE Problems
In-Reply-To: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B158587@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>
References: <21A8A2085689D8118A63000E7F206F7B158587@049701-RACdd7a01d940.baseng.comm.mot.com>
Message-ID: <40F3E066.8050407@cict.fr>

Have you try to execute this from command line of nagios server :

./check_nrpe -H hostaddress -n -c check_load


I note that it misses a space after the '-c' option in : 
command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -n -c$ARG1$

Perhaps that l error comes from there.

Chris Jackson-CHRJ002 wrote:

> Hi Carole,
>  
> Here is the information you requested,
>  
> From services.cfg
>  
> define service{
>         use                             linux-servers
>         host_name                       "server-name"  (sorry, company 
> policy!!!)      
>         contact_groups                  ecrl-admin
>         notification_options            c,u,r
>         service_description             LOAD_NRPE
>         check_command                   check_nrpe_nossl!check_load
> }
> define service{
>         use                             linux-servers
>         host_name                       "server-name"
>         contact_groups                  ecrl-admin
>         notification_options            c,u,r
>         service_description             DISK_NRPE
>         check_command                   check_nrpe_nossl!check_disk
> }
> define service{
>         use                             linux-servers
>         host_name                       "server-name"        
>         contact_groups                  ecrl-admin
>         notification_options            c,u,r
>         service_description             ZOMBIE_PROCS_NRPE
>         check_command                   
> check_nrpe_nossl!check_zombie_procs
> }
> define service{
>         use                             linux-servers
>         host_name                       "server-name"
>         contact_groups                  ecrl-admin
>         notification_options            c,u,r
>         service_description             TOTAL_PROCS_NRPE
>         check_command                   check_nrpe_nossl!check_total_procs
> }
>  
> From checkcommands.cfg
>  
> define command{
>         command_name check_nrpe_nossl
>         command_line $USER1$/check_nrpe -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -n -c$ARG1$
> }
>  
> I included the nossl version which is working more than the one trying 
> to use SSL.  The commands called relate to the commands in the 
> nrpe.cfg file, these are included below: 
>  
> # The following examples use hardcoded command arguments...
>  
> command[check_users]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_users -w 5 -c 10
> command[check_load]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_load -w 15,10,5 -c 
> 30,25,20
> command[check_disk]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_disk -w 10 -c 5 -X 
> nfs
> command[check_zombie_procs]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w 5 
> -c 10 -s Z
> command[check_total_procs]=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_procs -w 
> 150 -c 200
>  
> As I said before, the commands above when run from the command line of 
> the remote host work perfectly.  If you need any more information 
> please let me know,
>  
> Many thanks for your help,
>  
> Chris
>  
>
>     -----Original Message-----
>     *From:* carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr]
>     *Sent:* 13 July 2004 13:21
>     *To:* Chris Jackson-CHRJ002
>     *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Problems
>
>     Can you post your command definition of check_nrpe in command.cfg
>     and the services definition which using check_nrpe in service.cfg,
>     please?
>
>     It's perhaps a history of arguments.
>
>     Chris Jackson-CHRJ002 wrote:
>
>>     Hi Carole,
>>      
>>     Once again you come to my rescue!!
>>      
>>     I did what you said and added a -n switch to the command, this
>>     fixed the Handshake problems but now I just get an UNKNOWN Error
>>     receiving data from Daemon.
>>      
>>     Both host and remote host are running Mandrake Linux however one
>>     is v10 and one is v9.2, but when I execute the plugin locally on
>>     the remote host it works perfectly.  I can only assume that
>>     either the command is not being processed by the nrpe daemon
>>     correctly or that data is not being succesfully returned.  I
>>     looked in syslog but can't find any clues.
>>      
>>     A netstat -pta returns nrpe listening on port 5666 as expected.
>>      
>>     If you could help me with this problem I would be most grateful!
>>      
>>     Chris
>>
>>         -----Original Message-----
>>         *From:* carole verdon [mailto:verdon at cict.fr]
>>         *Sent:* 13 July 2004 08:42
>>         *To:* Chris Jackson-CHRJ002
>>         *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>         *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] NRPE Problems
>>
>>         It seems to me that your nrpe on nagios server is compiled
>>         with ssl. Is right?
>>
>>         If it's the case, you can use, i believe, the '-n' option of
>>         check_nrpe to disable ssl. Otherwise, you must compile again
>>         nrpe on nagios server with '--enable-ssl' option. Then, you
>>         can call the new check_nrpe as check_nrpe_nossl to not
>>         confuse with the check_nrpe compiling with ssl support.
>>
>>
>>         I see also that you copied some plugins on remote host. Is it
>>         the same version of OS? Normally, you must compile plugins
>>         directly on remote host. Perhaps, the error comes from there.
>>
>>         I hope that help you.
>>
>>         Carole.
>>
>>         Chris Jackson-CHRJ002 wrote:
>>
>>>         Hi,
>>>          
>>>         I'm having some difficulty setting up nrpe on my network.
>>>          
>>>         I have downloaded and compiled the client on the remote host
>>>         in question with ./configure --enable-ssl
>>>          
>>>         I have followed all the instructions to make the nrpe daemon
>>>         run with xinetd and netstat -pta shows nrpe listening.  I
>>>         set nagios host to use check_nrpe to execute some plugins I
>>>         copied to the remote box but I'm getting the error Could not
>>>         complete SSL handshake.  I'm sure its something to do with
>>>         me missing out some SSL configuration somewhere but I can't
>>>         see where I've gone wrong.
>>>          
>>>         I'm not really clued up on SSL and found the instructions
>>>         for installing with SSL support a bit confusing.  Can anyone
>>>         help me troubleshoot and work out why the handshake keeps
>>>         failing?
>>>          
>>>         Thanks in advance,
>>>          
>>>         Chris
>>
>
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From jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com  Tue Jul 13 16:43:22 2004
From: jdoyle at lewisgaleclinic.com (Jack Doyle)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:43:22 -0400
Subject: Strange ping issue
Message-ID: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFF2B@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>

Using the latest stable plugins... I didn't get this before I upgraded
to 1.2, but I am getting int sometimes now.
 
When a host is down and the ping service checks it, sometimes it will
come back unknown and sometimes critical.  It used to say Criticial all
the time.
 
Here is an example log entry of each:
 
[07-13-2004 03:17:43] SERVICE ALERT: abc;Ping;CRITICAL;HARD;1;PING
CRITICAL - Packet loss = 100%
[07-13-2004 03:20:05] SERVICE ALERT: abc;Ping;UNKNOWN;HARD;1;/bin/ping
-n -U -c 5 10.1.10.15

Doesn't make sense to me.  Same server, same issue, three minutes later.
This happens a lot now.
 
Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems 	
Systems Operations Specialist 	
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From CQuillen at txfb-ins.com  Tue Jul 13 17:04:24 2004
From: CQuillen at txfb-ins.com (Quillen, Channon)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:04:24 -0500
Subject: Checking MSSQL Server via ODBC Connection
Message-ID: <F8D98AA74B5C8A4DA9E09AE6483832D00A543632@TXS13418.txfb-ins.com>

I use unixODBC and sqsh (http://www.sqsh.org/) to run select statements against a MS SQL database.  I wrote a custom script with these apps to run in Nagios.
-Channon 
________________________________________
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sand Philipp
Sent: Tuesday, July 13, 2004 12:21 AM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking MSSQL Server via ODBC Connection

Hello list, 
I got some ODBC Clients for Linux, and want to do some checks on an MSSQL Server via these ODBC Connections. These checks are basically some selects on the databse to look for deadlocks etc... I want to run those checks from the Nagios Server, so I don't have to install a client or so on the MSSQL Server.
Has anyone done this before, or does anyone have a plugin or a solution already prepared? 
Thanks in advance, 
Philipp 

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From alex at fragit.net  Tue Jul 13 17:07:49 2004
From: alex at fragit.net (Alex Burger)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:07:49 -0400
Subject: Strange ping issue
In-Reply-To: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFF2B@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>
References: <F315C7F46CAD1E48B1EDED524C03BDC3014BFF2B@exchange.lewisgaleclinic.com>
Message-ID: <40F3FAC5.6020302@fragit.net>

Jack Doyle wrote:

> Using the latest stable plugins... I didn't get this before I upgraded 
> to 1.2, but I am getting int sometimes now.
>  
> When a host is down and the ping service checks it, sometimes it will 
> come back unknown and sometimes critical.  It used to say Criticial all 
> the time.
>  
> Here is an example log entry of each:
>  
> [07-13-2004 03:17:43] SERVICE ALERT: abc;Ping;CRITICAL;HARD;1;PING 
> CRITICAL - Packet loss = 100%
> [07-13-2004 03:20:05] SERVICE ALERT: abc;Ping;UNKNOWN;HARD;1;/bin/ping 
> -n -U -c 5 10.1.10.15
> 
> Doesn't make sense to me.  Same server, same issue, three minutes 
> later.  This happens a lot now.

Looks like this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=946857&group_id=29880&atid=397597

Alex


> *Jack Doyle, LGC Information Systems*
> Systems Operations Specialist
> 540.776.2025
> 
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
>  
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From listbox at azsupersport.com  Tue Jul 13 17:24:38 2004
From: listbox at azsupersport.com (Mike B)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:24:38 -0700
Subject: Notification after host down 10 minutes once only
Message-ID: <82166937658A4B0BBA4277628B15D.MAI@CCU-MWV.com>

I want to only send an email notification once a host has been down for 10
minutes and then to only send one email for that host unless it comes back
up again. In reading the documentation I can't see a way to make this
happen. 

Anybody know of the way to set this up?

 

Thanks,

Mike

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From bench at silentmedia.com  Tue Jul 13 17:35:36 2004
From: bench at silentmedia.com (Ben)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 08:35:36 -0700
Subject: Database stores and distributed monitoring
In-Reply-To: <40F32880.5060502@op5.se>
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On Jul 12, 2004, at 5:10 PM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
>
> You could try applying the chained hash patch. It makes a great 
> speedup. It's in by default in 2.0, which is stable enough for us to 
> run in production.

Can I get just this patch and apply it to the stable 1.2 code base, or 
should I just run 2.0? I'd prefer the former, but I don't know where to 
get the patch?

>> And
>> it did, but not enough. So now, even though I'm using a quad xeon 
>> with 4GB
>> of ram for the nagios machine (the database lives elsewhere), now I'm
>> thinking that maybe I should set up a distributed monitoring scheme 
>> too.
>
> Move the database to reside on the same server as Nagios runs on. 
> Unless you're using embedded perl (which is really buggy) it shouldn't 
> be a problem at all.

Well, that server also does MRTG monitoring, so every 5 minutes it gets 
pretty slammed.

>> But I'm a bit confused. If the distributed monitoring software can 
>> write data into a database, and the CGIs read data out of the 
>> database.... do I need to use the nsca tool to do passive service 
>> checks?
>
> Not necessarily, but it's the only way to make configuration sit on 
> only one host. That won't do any good with regards to the CGI's 
> though, since it still has to parse the same amount of information.

Yeah, my hope was that most of the time the CGIs were spending was with 
file IO, and that putting that data in a database would open up room 
for Mo' Bettah(tm)(r)(c)($) queries that would reduce the time spent 
data groveling. But I guess this isn't as much the case as I had hoped.

> On the other hand; I can't imagine any one person being responsible 
> for all those 2500 servers, so it might be prudent to have several 
> separate installations of Nagios. Large networks will always be a bit 
> sluggish to display in the webinterface because of the sheer amount of 
> data it needs to read every time. The price large companies pay for 
> success, I guess.

We're not personally responsible for rebooting them all, but we are the 
one team responsible for making sure they're still working, and telling 
our outsourced server monkeys to go reboot them if they have issues.

I'll try the patch and see how it goes, but it seems to me, knowing 
squat about the internals of the CGIs :) that things should still be 
pretty snappy with this many hosts, at least until you start to load a 
page containing all the hosts. What are the known resource-intensive 
times, and if I want to start dinking around with code and/or database 
optimizations, should I work from the 1.2 or the 2.0 branch? How stable 
is the head branch, anyway?



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From Rob.Gallegly at usfsi.com  Tue Jul 13 17:29:00 2004
From: Rob.Gallegly at usfsi.com (Gallegly, Rob)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 11:29:00 -0400
Subject: ./configure step in Nagios setup
Message-ID: <B4EC5186AF50D511ADC100B0D0F00D4E0400B1B4@USFSHQMAIL01>

Here is the latest configure line I used.  I am still getting the error, but
I can confirm that all of the paths/user/group options exist.

./configure --prefix= /usr/local/nagios --with-cgiurl=
/usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/nagios --with-htmurl= /nagios --with-nagios-usr=
nagios --with-nagios-grp= nagios

I get these two warnings and this error:

configure: warning: usr/loal/nagios: invalid host type
configure: warning: /usr/local/apache2/cgi-bin/nagios: invalid host type
configure: error: can only configure for one host and one target at a time

I appreciate any advise you can give.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Martin [mailto:jhmartin at toger.us]
Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 5:05 PM
To: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] ./configure step in Nagios setup


Those errors sound unrelated to the prefix and cgi-bin paths options of
configure; can you
please send the full configure line you are using and the exact text of the
output?

Thanks,
-Jason Martin
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 05:51:05PM -0400, Gallegly, Rob wrote:
> I am having some difficulty setting up Nagios in Fedora.  
> 
> When I try to run the configure script using the directories suggested in
> the install instructions, I am receiving two warnings and one error.
> 
> The warnings I receive are for the prefix and the cgi-bin paths I set
(which
> are the exact one suggested in the Nagios documentation, not "prefix" and
> the sort).  I receive the error "Invalid Host Type".  I have confirmed
that
> both directories exist (along with the group and user, etc).
> 
> Then, I receive an error saying that I can only configure for one host and
> one target at a time.
> 
> I am not sure why this is happening, but if anyone can provide any
> suggestions, I would greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rob Gallegly
> Hotel Technology Group
> U.S. Franchise Systems
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> rob.gallegly at usfsi.com
> 
> 
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From psma at mpsnet.net.mx  Tue Jul 13 17:59:53 2004
From: psma at mpsnet.net.mx (Manuel Alejandro =?iso-8859-1?q?Pe=F1a_S=E0nchez?=)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 10:59:53 -0500
Subject: Problem Starting Nagios
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Message-ID: <200407131059.53615.psma@mpsnet.net.mx>

hi all:

I recently installed nagios with a deb package:

nagios-mysql                      1.2-3.3
nagios-plugins                    1.3.1.0-7
nagios-statd-server            3.09-3

I started to add some hosts hostsgroups and all that stuff that come on the 
nagios.cfg then on a bash shell i checked my configuration file with nagios 
-vc and this error came:

--------------------------------------------------------------

padrino:/etc/nagios# nagios -cv /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg 

Nagios 1.2
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
Last Modified: 02-02-2004
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Running pre-flight check on configuration data...

Checking services...
Error: There are no services defined!
        Checked 0 services.
Checking hosts...
Error: There are no hosts defined!
        Checked 0 hosts.
Checking