NSClient : which version run in windows server 2003

[jotando at free.fr]

Hi everyone.

I'm started to use nagios for a month and have to supervise a windows server
2003.
I want to use NSClient agent but I don't know which version it's preferable to
use.

In the same order, do someone know how to configure the SNMP agent and this
server to check traffic informations.

thank's in advance.

Johann Otando

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> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 23:03:35 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "Bob Johnson" <bobjohnson at nexus9000.com>
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] /var/nagios.tmpXXX files never delete (2.0b3)
>
> Has anyone ever seen an issue where the nagios.tmp files never delete and
> quickly accumulate?  In less than 2 days, I filled up the var directory
> with about 50GB of "temporary" files, and I'm curious what may be causing
> this problem.
>
> The current configuration consists of one master and one distributed node
> with relatively close nagios.cfg files.  (The only major differences are
> obsessive compulsive and freshness checks.)  The distributed node is the
> one accumulating all of the nagios.tmp files, and the master node appears
> to be fine.  As probably expected, the distributed node is running all of
> the checks and has about 1600 configured.
>
> What would possibly cause all of these nagios.tmp files to accumulate?  I
> could write a script to delete them all every few hours, but that's
> definitely not a long-term fix as it will not fix the root cause.
>
> Thanks everyone.
>
>
> -Bob
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:36:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: shafi <dshafi at yahoo.com>
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] statusmap problem
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> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] statusmap problem
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> This my dir where i have logos
>
> /usr/local/nagios/share/images/logos
>
> ls -la
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 nagios   apache       2389 Jul 26
> 11:58 redhat.gd2
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 nagios   apache       1321 Jul 26
> 11:58 redhat.gif
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 nagios   apache       1719 Jul 26
> 11:58 redhat.jpg
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 nagios   apache       1319 Jul 26
> 11:58 redhat.png
>
>
> ls -la hostextinfo.cfg
> -rwxrwxrwx    1 nagios   apache        152 Jul 27
> 17:23 hostextinfo.cfg
>
>
> --- Stephen Davies
> <stephen.davies at globaltravelgroup.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ensure the image that you have choosen is stored in
> > the correct folder eg;
> > /usr/sharenagios/images/logos
> >
> > Check the permissions on hostextinfo.cfg and that
> > nagios processes owner has
> > read privileges,
> >
> > and also,
> >
> > check permissions for the image file stored in the
> > logos directory so that
> > the httpd webserver processes owner has read
> > privileges.
> >
> > Have you examined the nagios logfile for errors ?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: shafi [mailto:dshafi at yahoo.com]
> > Sent: 27 July 2005 13:22
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] statusmap problem
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> >  I  had put the line on my cgi.cfg as
> >
> >
> xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> > and my out of hostextinfo file
> > cat etc/hostextinfo.cfg
> >
> >
> >   define hostextinfo{
> >   host_name  linsvr
> >   icon_image redhat.png
> >   icon_image_alt  Redhat Server
> >   statusmap_image  redhat.gd2
> > }
> > but still i am getting the default image only. i had
> > spend  lot of time on this  can anyone help me.
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> Message: 3
> From: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:12:28 +0200
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
>
> Hello,
>
> recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> hackers/patchers going on here
> where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> for production usage yet?
>
> As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> setup,
> that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> release 2.0b3 I am using.
>
> Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> desired?
>
> For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> didn't continue processing
> after it caught a SIGHUP.
> It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> reinitializing,
> but then no more appeared nor happened.
> I then had to send it a SIGTERM to come down, and do a cold start
> again.
>
> Regards
> Ralph
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: Multiple Nagios proccesses running.
> From: Chris Wilson <chris at aidworld.org>
> To: Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se>
> Cc: Nagios Users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Organization: Aidworld Humanitarian ICT Ltd.
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:25:15 +0100
>
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> Hi Andreas,
>
> > To the facts. Nagios is a GNU project. Ethan gets no money for it
> > (although a great deal of appreciation), and he has only so much time. I
> > for one am quite happy that he doesn't bother with old code but instead
> > focuses on making 2.x as good as it can and should be.
>
> Of course I'm not demanding that Ethan should maintain the old 1.x
> branch, but I wish he would allow someone to do so.
>
> > > I will try and find time to maintain it myself if
> > > nobody else wants to, and it doesn't annoy anyone too much (but it would
> > > be a "fork" of Nagios 1.2).
> >
> > Whatever floats your dinghy. Just make sure you get Ethan's permission
> > to use the name Nagios though, or you might end up in a trademark dispute.
>
> Does anyone else think that a "maintained" fork of 1.x is a good idea?
>
> > > It will probably be a few years before I
> > > trust 2.x enought to use it.
> >
> > Your loss. It has a great deal to recommend it.
>
> >From what I've seen on the mailing list, despite the many benefits of
> the new design of 2.x, it's just not stable enough to be used in
> production yet (e.g. huge memory consumption, stopping service checks
> after a while). My guess is that it might take a while before it is.
>
> > It probably won't. Ethan is adamant when it comes to not handing out CVS
> > access, and developing without it is quite fruitless. I've offered to
> > help myself. Considering I've had 20-something patches I don't think
> > it's an issue of code-quality.
>
> Well, at least that saves me from trying fruitlessly, thanks.
>
> > > How do you think I wrote a patch without reading the code?
> >
> > Guess-work? I've seen a fair amount of it from you on other topics.
>
> Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. Please could you give me some examples? I
> would like to do better.
>
> > mutexes are thread constructs. 1.x is a single-thread app.
>
> I said "mutual exclusion" which is a generic term. You mentioned
> mutexes, which aren't :-)
>
> > I'll have to look at that patch. Can you send it again?
>
> Sure, it's attached.
>
> > I don't have high hopes though, considering the fact that you proposed
> > using the extremely non-portable setproctitle() to discern the master
> > process from the slaves.
>
> Well, one can always #ifdef such things to platforms where they are
> known to work. I wasn't aware that it wasn't portable, but I must admit
> that I have only programmed C on Windows, Linux and OBSD, and only
> extensively on Linux.
>
> > How exactly do you check that the process listed isn't running? AFAIK
> > there aren't any portable syscalls available for getting the process
> > name from a pid, and the /proc filesystem works differently on different
> > platforms.
>
> kill(pidno, 0).
>
> > man fcntl. If a process is already holding the lock one is trying to
> > acquire it will return -1. It's the right way to do it. Checking the pid
> > and trying to find matching process is the cumbersome, incorrect and
> > non-portable way.
>
> I read the man page. It's all very well in theory, but it's just not
> working on Linux, and I don't know why yet.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Cheers, Chris.
> --
> (aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)
>
> --=-gpABk88JkDMjpZ5LIaRQ
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=nagios-lockfile.patch
> Content-Type: text/x-patch; name=nagios-lockfile.patch; charset=UTF-8
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
> --- nagios-1.2/base/utils.c	2004-01-26 01:17:01.000000000 +0000
> +++ nagios-chris/base/utils.c	2005-07-26 11:12:34.896445862 +0100
> @@ -1819,11 +1819,61 @@
>  		        }
>  	        }
>
> -	/* check for SIGHUP */
> -	if(val==1 && (pid=(pid_t)pidno)==getpid()){
> -		close(lockfile);
> -		return OK;
> +	if (val == 1)
> +	{
> +		// lockfile contains a valid PID
> +		if ((pid=(pid_t)pidno)==getpid())
> +		{
> +			// received SIGHUP?
> +			close(lockfile);
> +			return OK;
>  	        }
> +		else
> +		{
> +			// another process locked the lockfile.
> +			// is it still running?
> +			int exitnow = 1;
> +
> +			val = kill(pidno, 0);
> +			if (val == 0 || errno == EPERM)
> +			{
> +				snprintf(temp_buffer, sizeof(temp_buffer)-1,
> +					"Another Nagios process is running "
> +					"(%s contained pid %d)",
> +					lock_file, pidno);
> +			}
> +			else if (errno == EINVAL)
> +			{
> +				snprintf(temp_buffer, sizeof(temp_buffer)-1,
> +					"Signal 0 is not valid");
> +			}
> +			else if (errno == ESRCH)
> +			{
> +				snprintf(temp_buffer, sizeof(temp_buffer)-1,
> +					"Stale lockfile deleted "
> +					"(%s contained pid %d)",
> +					lock_file, pidno);
> +				exitnow = 0;
> +			}
> +			else
> +			{
> +				snprintf(temp_buffer, sizeof(temp_buffer)-1,
> +					"Unknown error while looking for "
> +					"another Nagios process with pid %d: "
> +					"%s",
> +					pidno, strerror(errno));
> +			}
> +
> +                        write_to_logs_and_console(temp_buffer,
> +				NSLOG_RUNTIME_ERROR,TRUE);
> +
> +			if (exitnow)
> +			{
> +                        	cleanup();
> +				exit(ERROR);
> +			}
> +		}
> +	}
>
>  	/* exit on errors... */
>  	if((pid=fork())<0)
>
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>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] /var/nagios.tmpXXX files never delete (2.0b3)
> From: Chris Wilson <chris at aidworld.org>
> To: Bob Johnson <bobjohnson at nexus9000.com>
> Cc: Nagios Users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Organization: Aidworld Humanitarian ICT Ltd.
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:34:47 +0100
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> > Has anyone ever seen an issue where the nagios.tmp files never delete and
> > quickly accumulate?  In less than 2 days, I filled up the var directory
> > with about 50GB of "temporary" files, and I'm curious what may be causing
> > this problem.
>
> Are you running one of the MSSQL plugins? I think I remember a post a
> few months ago saying that one of those plugins was leaving a lot of
> temporary files around.
>
> You could check the creation date of the files with the "stat" command,
> and correlate it to your nagios.log to see if it was a particular
> service check or notification command that created them, and which one.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
> --
> (aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> From: Chris Wilson <chris at aidworld.org>
> To: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> Cc: Nagios Users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Organization: Aidworld Humanitarian ICT Ltd.
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:42:01 +0100
>
> Hi Ralph,
>
> > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > hackers/patchers going on here
> > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > for production usage yet?
> >
> > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > setup,
> > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> >
> > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > desired?
>
> I would definitely recommend that you try running Nagios 1.x for a bit
> and see if it makes a difference. 2.0b3 is a beta, you know :-) It's
> also a complete rewrite and very new.
>
> If it does make a difference, please report it as a bug in 2.x.
>
> Cheers, Chris.
> --
> (aidworld) chris wilson | chief engineer (chris at aidworld.org)
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 7
> From: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> To: chris at aidworld.org
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:46:03 +0200
>
> Hi Chris,
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Wilson [mailto:chris at aidworld.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:42 AM
> > To: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > Cc: Nagios Users
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> >
> >
> > Hi Ralph,
> >
> > > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > > hackers/patchers going on here
> > > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being
> fit
> > > for production usage yet?
> > >
> > > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > > setup,
> > > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration
> skills,
> > > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on
> the
> > > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> > >
> > > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > > desired?
> >
> > I would definitely recommend that you try running Nagios 1.x
> for a bit
> > and see if it makes a difference. 2.0b3 is a beta, you know :-)
> It's
> > also a complete rewrite and very new.
>
> I will do so.
> Don't know why I chose the beta?
> Probably because it was the topmost in the listing.
>
>
> >
> > If it does make a difference, please report it as a bug in 2.x.
>
> I will see...
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:52:09 +0100
> From: Ben Clewett <ben at clewett.org.uk>
> To: Nagios Users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Firefox Plugin for Sound
>
> Dear Group,
>
> I have Firefox on Linux.  When viewing any page which plays a sound, I
> get the message 'You require a plugin' and an option to download.  Which
> reports no appropriate plugins.
>
> Can any kind user suggest how I can get the audio component of Nagios
> working in Firefox on Linux?
>
> (Flash plays sound perfectly on same setup.)
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:25:05 +0100
> From: Mike Meredith <mike.meredith at port.ac.uk>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Organization: University of Portsmouth (ISO)
> Subject: [Nagios-users] nagios.cmd problem ... but not the usual one ?
>
> Hi
>
> I'm getting :-
>
> "Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command."
>
> when trying to schedule some downtime with Nagios 1.2. But before anyone
> says 'check the permissions', this isn't quite the usual problem ... I
> think.
>
> It appears to be browser dependent ...
>
> Mozilla Firefox:	fails (with the error above)
> Internet Exploder:	fail
> Epiphany:		succeeds!
>
> Oddly I can remove scheduled downtime with firefox.
>
> Any solutions come to mind ?
>
> I'm running Nagios on an AIX machine; the Apache instance is running as user
> 'aweb' (which is a member of the 'nagios' group) and Nagios is running as
> user 'nagios'. The permissions look like :-
>
> # ls -al
> total 4.0K
> drwsrwsr-x    2 aweb     nagios        256 2005-05-23 10:46 .
> drwxrwxr-x    4 nagios   nagios       4.0K 2005-07-28 13:17 ..
> prw-rw----    1 aweb     nagios          0 2005-07-28 13:15 nagios.cmd
>
> And the permissions were set to user nagios, group nagios previous ... with
> the same symptoms.
>
> --
> Mike Meredith, Senior Informatics Officer
> University of Portsmouth: Hostmaster, Postmaster and Security
>  Linux user #1615 (http://counter.li.org)
>
>
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>
> Message: 10
> From: Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:54:31 +0200
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Is there a testing or debugging mode for nagios?
>
> Hello,
>
> this morning I received the contempt of my fellow admins because
> nagios swamped their mailboxes
> over night.
> Well, it wasn't of course nagios' fault but mine
> because I defined a template service wherein I referenced a
> conact_groups that comprised all of us.
> When later adding new services I simply forgot to override this
> attribute with a contact group that contained only my mail
> account (until I've come to terms with configuring).
>
> That's why I desperately miss a means to run a nagios daemon that
> isn't scheduling the checks by itself
> but rather by manual invocation.
> I'd also wish to test out alerting and event handling myself by
> raising events (e.g. to see where in the end the notification is
> delivered to).
>
> Does nagios provide special utilities, or switches to support
> (high level) debugging that way?
>
> Regards
>
>
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>
> Message: 11
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:25:26 -0400
> From: "Scott Sugar" <ssugar at proserveit.com>
> To: "Miles Scruggs" <rt at garnetweb.com>,
> 	<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> Im not fully sure how to implement that.  I have only usually worked =
> with a dependency within a single host.... (ie. suppressing =
> notifications for disk space and memory, if the host cannot be pinged... =
> )
> I suggest you just really delve into the section of the manual that =
> talks about service dependencies...
> =20
> I am still going to be implementing a group of dependencies early next =
> week and if i run across anything that i think might help you, ill post =
> it back to the mailing list...
> =20
> sorry,
> scott
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Miles =
> Scruggs
> Sent: Wed 7/27/2005 4:47 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
>
>
>
>
> I want to monitor a host, but have it dependent on a group of hosts  ie
> google.com Microsoft.com etc, and if the host goes down, no =
> notifications
> will be sent out unless at least one of the hosts in that group is up  =
> (ie
> there is connection to the internet for sure)
> > Im not exactly sure what your trying to do....
> >
> > is it that you have a group of hosts and if they all go down then only =
> one
> > should send a notification?
> >
> > or do you have a group of hosts and if one goes down in that group =
> then
> > none of the others should notify?
> >
> > im not sure what your trying to do..
> >
> > the way the manual talks of what a dependant service is and what the
> > service depending on it is a little bit confusing in my mind... I had =
> to
> > play around a bit until i figured it out.... Im going to be setting up =
> a
> > large group of dependencies... probably early next week so I'll have =
> it
> > fresh in my mind then....
> >
> >
> >
> > : RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
> > >
> > > you could create a service dependency... make all the other services
> > > dependent on the ping google.ca service....
> > > look here for more detail
> > > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/dependencies.html
> > > while the documentation is a little sketchy for this stuff... i =
> still
> > > managed to figure it out after a bit...
> > >
> >
> > Looks like host dependencies will work just fine, but what I need is a
> > dependency on a group of hosts.  So if anyone of the hosts in the =
> group is
> > online the dependency is met.  Is this possible?
> >
> > What I'm seeing now is I could define various hosts/service =
> dependencies,
> > but if any one of those hosts/services failed the dependent would =
> fail.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Miles
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:54:34 -0400
> From: "Christopher N. Carroll" <noel at ece.utk.edu>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios / RT Integration
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm looking for information regarding the integration of Nagios and RT.
> I found
> http://lists.bestpractical.com/pipermail/rt-users/2005-June/031775.html
> in my search but I was curious if anyone else was doing something along
> these lines. I'm looking for anything that might help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Noel Carroll
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 13
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:16:18 -0400
> From: "Mascardo, Erwin" <Erwin.Mascardo at intelsat.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net=20
> >[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of=20
> >Miles Scruggs
> >Sent: Wednesday, 27 July, 2005 16:48
> >To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] notification suppression
> >
> >
> >
> >I want to monitor a host, but have it dependent on a group of hosts  ie
> >google.com Microsoft.com etc, and if the host goes down, no=20
> >notifications
> >will be sent out unless at least one of the hosts in that=20
> >group is up  (ie
> >there is connection to the internet for sure)
>
> One way to do this sort of thing is to write a script that checks to see
> if your selected hosts are alive. If just one is up, return 0 and a "the
> Internet is up" message. If they're all unreachable, return 2 and a "the
> Internet is down, time to panic" message. But don't make google.com and
> friends monitored hosts in and of themselves.
>
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> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:53:06 -0400
> From: "Erik  van de Pol" <Erikp at VisibleWorld.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring systems on disconnected networks?
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> Hello,
> =20
> We are looking at nagios for monitoring our various systems. One of our
> complications is that a number of these systems will not be routable
> from time to time (this is because of VPN policy outside of our
> control). During those periods (possibly several hours long), the
> cluster of machines is disconnected from our network and not routable.=20
> =20
> One solution I can think of is to have a simple wire-protocol that
> transfers nagios requests (or ncsa data) not over a network connections,
> but for instance a simple serial interface (the machines that server the
> disconnected networks are in the same room). I could imagine building an
> adaptation of ncsa/send_ncsa or nrpe that does not use network sockets,
> but a different interface (such as serial). The development work is not
> the problem for me, but I would like get some feedback on whether this
> is a feasible or sensible approach..
> =20
> Has such a thing already be attempted? Other solution that people have
> found for similar situations? Any pointers and thoughts are much
> appreciated!
> =20
> Thanks,
> Erik van de Pol
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> <DIV><SPAN class=3D885334514-28072005><FONT face=3DArial=20
> size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=3D885334514-28072005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>We are =
> looking at=20
> nagios for monitoring our various systems. One of our complications is =
> that a=20
> number of these systems will not be routable from time to time (this is =
> because=20
> of VPN policy outside of our control). During those periods (possibly =
> several=20
> hours long), the cluster of machines is disconnected from our network =
> and not=20
> routable. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=3D885334514-28072005><FONT face=3DArial=20
> size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=3D885334514-28072005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>One =
> solution I can=20
> think of is to have a simple wire-protocol that transfers nagios =
> requests (or=20
> ncsa data) not over a network connections, but for instance a simple =
> serial=20
> interface (the machines that server the disconnected networks are in the =
> same=20
> room). I could imagine building an adaptation of ncsa/send_ncsa or nrpe =
> that=20
> does not use network sockets, but a different interface (such as =
> serial). The=20
> development work is not the problem for me, but I would like get some =
> feedback=20
> on whether this is a feasible or sensible approach..</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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> size=3D2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
> <DIV><SPAN class=3D885334514-28072005><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Has =
> such a thing=20
> already be attempted? Other solution that people have found for similar=20
> situations? Any pointers and thoughts are much =
> appreciated!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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> Message: 15
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Is there a testing or debugging mode for nagios?
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:53:33 -0700
> From: "Nathan Oyler" <noyler at khimetrics.com>
> To: <Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de>,
> 	<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> [Nathan Oyler]=20
>
> Hey Ralph,
> =20
> > this morning I received the contempt of my fellow admins because
> > nagios swamped their mailboxes
> > over night.
> > Well, it wasn't of course nagios' fault but mine
> > because I defined a template service wherein I referenced a
> > conact_groups that comprised all of us.
> > When later adding new services I simply forgot to override this
> > attribute with a contact group that contained only my mail
> > account (until I've come to terms with configuring).
> >=20
> [Nathan Oyler]=20
>
> Ahh, I remember doing things similar to that. Good times.
>
> I ended up making a second nagios instance where I test out new ideas
> before I put them into production. It was an exact replica of the
> production system (updated every time I wanted to do something), but
> with my as a contact for everything, so only I'd get hit with my
> mistakes. It seemed pretty silly testing some very simple adds of
> services first, but I never had an issue like that happen again.
>
> I use a tool called Ntray which can be found on nagiosexchange.org which
> shows me a constantly updated little icon of my Nagios instance. That
> way I can watch what is going on before everyone is hit with tons of
> messages. I used to catch my mistakes before anyone noticed, now I catch
> problems before anyone else, and the fast response doesn't hurt either.
>
> Finally, writing tools to add, and remove hosts was just awesome. Now I
> don't miss adding something because I don't have to think about it. I
> didn't know anything about perl, but for parsing Nagios config files,
> it's not bad to learn. I'd suggest it for anyone with a little time on
> their hands.
>
> I haven't had any problems like that in a quite awhile.
>
> It's not High Level debugging utilities, but I thought it might help you
> out. I was frustrated at first, but Nagios makes my job so much easier
> now.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 16
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:00:07 -0500
> From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:12 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> >=20
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > hackers/patchers going on here
> > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > for production usage yet?
>
> It's still beta. Ethan has indicated on numerous occasions that if you
> run 2.0, expect problems. Quoting an e-mail from Ethan on 3/23/2005 --
>
> "First, I would still consider 2.0 as being beta software - that's why=20
> its labeled as such. While no major changes will be made to either=20
> the configuration files or functionality before a "stable" 2.0 is=20
> released, I do expect that a few major nasty bugs will be discovered=20
> within the current code.  If you're running the 2.0 code while its in=20
> beta, consider yourself a test subject.  :-)"
>
> As of that e-mail it was expected that it might be out of beta by the
> end of June. Obviously we're past that but there hasn't been an official
> release yet so we're still in beta mode. Many people have successfully
> been running 2.x in production environments for some time. Others have
> experienced problems. YMMV.
> =20
> > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > setup,
> > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> >=20
> > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > desired?
>
> That's what _I_ would do but to each his own. Do what you're comfortable
> with. If you're monitoring mission critical applications and you
> absolutely can't deal with bugs in your monitoring software, use 1.x.
> =20
> > For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> > didn't continue processing
> > after it caught a SIGHUP.
> > It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> > reinitializing,
> > but then no more appeared nor happened.
>
> That sounds like it might be a bug. Maybe someone else running 2.x can
> reproduce it?
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:05:16 +0000
> From: Christian Theil Have <christiantheilhave at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Christian Theil Have <christiantheilhave at gmail.com>
> To: "Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de" <Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Is there a testing or debugging mode for nagios?
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>
> Hi
>
> I haven't heard of such tools, but here's a couple of ideas:
>
> You could provoke a state by submitting passive check results instead
> of actively performing checks. Combined with active_checks_enabled =3D
> 0, this would defeat nagios scheduling...
> Take a look at: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/passivechecks.html
>
> You could have something like a top-level service template with
> active_checks_enabled =3D 0 for testing...
>
> Also, you could change the notification command used. Your contacts
> have service_notification_commands and host_notification_commands.
> Just make them point to your test notification-command instead.
>
> Hope this was helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Christian.
>
> On 7/28/05, Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de <Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de> wrote=
> :
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > this morning I received the contempt of my fellow admins because
> > nagios swamped their mailboxes
> > over night.
> > Well, it wasn't of course nagios' fault but mine
> > because I defined a template service wherein I referenced a
> > conact_groups that comprised all of us.
> > When later adding new services I simply forgot to override this
> > attribute with a contact group that contained only my mail
> > account (until I've come to terms with configuring).
> >=20
> > That's why I desperately miss a means to run a nagios daemon that
> > isn't scheduling the checks by itself
> > but rather by manual invocation.
> > I'd also wish to test out alerting and event handling myself by
> > raising events (e.g. to see where in the end the notification is
> > delivered to).
> >=20
> > Does nagios provide special utilities, or switches to support
> > (high level) debugging that way?
> >=20
> > Regards
> >=20
> >=20
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> ing any issue.
> > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
> >
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:31:07 -0300
> From: flima at rio-de-janeiro.oilfield.slb.com (Fernando Gomes Lima)
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Good vendor for Nagios setup?
> To: Daniel Deremiah <daniel.deremiah at shadowware.com>,
>  Nagios Users <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Reply-to: flima at rio-de-janeiro.oilfield.slb.com
>
> Daniel, at Nagios.org you can find some companies that work with it.
>
> While in Angola I implemented a demo project to our customer. I'm not sure
> if the bought the idea once I leave Angola few days later.
>
> cheers,
> Fernando Lima
> Schlumberger
> Security Engineer
> flima at slb.com <mailto:flima at slb.com>
>
> Office: +55 21 3824 6954
> Mobile. : +55 21 9888 9046
> (GMT: -03:00)
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Daniel
> Deremiah
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 4:50 PM
> To: Nagios Users
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Good vendor for Nagios setup?
>
>
> Since Nagios is complicated, but does have a good reputation, I am looking
> for a vendor that will do a demo and then after budget approved
> install/setup.  Does anyone have recommendations?  Or possibly a working
> Nagios setup that I could show off to get manager buy-in?
>
> --
> -dand
>
> Phone: 510-749-2033                AIM : danderemiah
> Pager: dandy-pager at shadowware.com
> -----------------------------------------------------
> There are 10 kinds of people in the world.
> Those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.
>
>
>
>
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>
>
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>
> Message: 19
> To: "Andrew Cruse" <andrew at profitability.net>
> cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring i2o RAID arrays
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:50:27 -0500
> From: rader at ginseng.hep.wisc.edu
>
>
>  > ---- Original Message ----
>  > From: "Andrew Cruse"
>  > Has anyone come up with a good way to monitor the status of an i2o RAID
>  > array? (Adaptec's new(er) RAID controllers) I've found the check_dpti.pl
>  > plugin which works ok, but really only lets you know if the RAID goes
>  > offline.  I'm looking for a way to alert if the RAID goes into degraded
>  > mode in the event of a failed drive, but is still online and functional.
>
> ftp://noc.hep.wisc.edu/pub/src/nagios/
>
> steve
> - - -
>
> cmsdcache01(rader): sudo /usr/dpt/raidutil -L raid
> Address       Type              Manufacturer/Model      Capacity  Status
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> d0b0t0d0      RAID 1 (Mirrored) ADAPTEC  RAID-1         190782MB  Optimal
>  d0b0t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) WDC      WD2000JB-00FUA0190782MB  Optimal
>  d0b1t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) WDC      WD2000JB-00FUA0190782MB  Optimal
>
> cmsdcache01(rader): check_dpt_raid
> OK - d0b0t0d0 optimal
>
> s1n01(rader): sudo /usr/dpt/raidutil -L raid
> Address       Type              Manufacturer/Model      Capacity  Status
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> d0b0t0d0      RAID 5 (Redundant ADAPTEC  RAID-5         210021MB  Degraded
>  d0b0t0d0     Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST173404LW     70007MB   Optimal
>  d0b0t1d0     Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST173404LW     70007MB   Optimal
>  d0b1t2d0     Disk Drive (DASD) SEAGATE  ST173404LW     70007MB   Optimal
>  d0b1t3d0     Disk Drive (DASD) UNKNOWN  --UNKNOWN--    0MB       Missing
>
> s1n01(rader): check_dpt_raid
> CRITICAL - d0b0t0d0 degraded
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 20
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> From: Dave Augustus <davea at support.kcm.org>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:51:36 -0500
>
> This is a test subject just chiming in here that we are using v2.03b3
> and it is working great. We are monitoring about 10 servers/141 services
> using both network connections and nrpe.
>
> All on linux.
>
> Also, the NagiosQL is a great app for setting up and configuring. It
> covers most of the functionality and has helped tremendously in
> deploying Nagios.
>
> As a n00b to nagios, I would say we are NOT using the advanced features
> of Service Groups, escalations and such. However, our Windows admins are
> happy to get a glimpse of what Nagios can do. They are sold on it and we
> will deploying a larger Nagios install for monitoring our Windows and
> VmWare servers.
>
> *test subject*
> Dave Augustus
> Kenneth Copeland Ministries
>
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:00 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:12 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > > hackers/patchers going on here
> > > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > > for production usage yet?
> >
> > It's still beta. Ethan has indicated on numerous occasions that if you
> > run 2.0, expect problems. Quoting an e-mail from Ethan on 3/23/2005 --
> >
> > "First, I would still consider 2.0 as being beta software - that's why
> > its labeled as such. While no major changes will be made to either
> > the configuration files or functionality before a "stable" 2.0 is
> > released, I do expect that a few major nasty bugs will be discovered
> > within the current code.  If you're running the 2.0 code while its in
> > beta, consider yourself a test subject.  :-)"
> >
> > As of that e-mail it was expected that it might be out of beta by the
> > end of June. Obviously we're past that but there hasn't been an official
> > release yet so we're still in beta mode. Many people have successfully
> > been running 2.x in production environments for some time. Others have
> > experienced problems. YMMV.
> >
> > > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > > setup,
> > > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> > >
> > > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > > desired?
> >
> > That's what _I_ would do but to each his own. Do what you're comfortable
> > with. If you're monitoring mission critical applications and you
> > absolutely can't deal with bugs in your monitoring software, use 1.x.
> >
> > > For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> > > didn't continue processing
> > > after it caught a SIGHUP.
> > > It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> > > reinitializing,
> > > but then no more appeared nor happened.
> >
> > That sounds like it might be a bug. Maybe someone else running 2.x can
> > reproduce it?
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
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> September
> > 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
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> > _______________________________________________
> > Nagios-users mailing list
> > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
> reporting any issue.
> > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:05:02 -0700
> From: Jim B <elemint at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Jim B <elemint at gmail.com>
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to be sent
>
> ------=_Part_1711_29200661.1122566702075
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> I have looked in the mail ques for postfix and sendmail; I do not exim=20
> installed, although I am not sure which mta nagios is using but I keep=20
> getting old messages (send to me via email). Before the messages go to the=
> =20
> mailques where are they in nagios so I can delete them?
>
> Since the ques are empty but I keep getting old messages it would seem that=
> =20
> nagios has some old alerts that it is sending to my mail ques but I need to=
> =20
> delete them before they get to the que beccuase once they go to the que the=
> y=20
> are sent out via smtp before I can not stop them.
>
>
> Jim
>
> On 7/27/05, Jim B <elemint at gmail.com> wrote:
> >=20
> > How can I determine which mta I am using?
> >=20
> > Jim
> >=20
> > On 7/27/05, Terry L. Inzauro <tinzauro at ha-solutions.net> wrote:
> > >=20
> > > Jim B wrote:
> > > > I want to delete all pending alerts for nagios so that I can have=20
> > > nagios
> > > > only send out future alerts and not old alerts, the system did not=20
> > > have
> > > > a network connection for a bit so it has a lot of alerts it wants to=
> =20
> > > > send out.
> > > >
> > > > What is the best way to do this?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jim
> > >=20
> > > sendmail =3D=3D just delete the contents of the queue directory (like
> > > /var/spool/mqueue or something like that
> > > postfix =3D=3D man postsuper=20
> > > qmail =3D=3D ??
> > >=20
> > >=20
> > > /* Terry Inzauro
> > > * Omaha Office:
> > > * http://storsolgroup.com
> > > * http://ha-solutions.net
> > > */
> > >=20
> >=20
> >
>
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> I have looked in the mail ques for postfix and sendmail; I do not exim
> installed, although I am not sure which mta nagios is using but I keep
> getting old messages (send to me via email). Before the messages go to
> the mailques where are they in nagios so I can delete them?<br>
> <br>
> Since the ques are empty but I keep getting old messages it would seem
> that nagios has some old alerts that it is sending to my mail ques but
> I need to delete them before they get to the que beccuase once they go
> to the que they are sent out via smtp before I can not stop them.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Jim<br><br><div><span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 7/27/05, <b class=3D"gmail_s=
> endername">Jim B</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:elemint at gmail.com">elemint at gmail=
> .com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border=
> -left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-lef=
> t: 1ex;">
> How can I determine which mta I am using?<br><span class=3D"sg">
> <br>
> Jim</span><div><span class=3D"e" id=3D"q_1055a29a88e3b10d_2"><br><br><div><=
> span class=3D"gmail_quote">On 7/27/05, <b class=3D"gmail_sendername">Terry =
> L. Inzauro</b> <<a href=3D"mailto:tinzauro at ha-solutions.net" target=3D"_=
> blank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
> tinzauro at ha-solutions.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class=3D"gmail_q=
> uote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0=
> pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
> Jim B wrote:<br>> I want to delete all pending alerts for nagios so that=
>  I can have nagios<br>> only send out future alerts and not old alerts, =
> the system did not have<br>> a network connection for a bit so it has a =
> lot of alerts it wants to
> <br>> send out.<br>><br>> What is the best way to do this?<br>>=
> <br>><br>> Jim<br><br>sendmail =3D=3D just delete the contents of the=
>  queue directory (like<br>/var/spool/mqueue or something like that<br>postf=
> ix =3D=3D man postsuper
> <br>qmail =3D=3D ??<br><br><br>/*  Terry Inzauro<br>*  =
>  Omaha Office:<br>*   <a href=3D"http://storsolgroup.com" target=
> =3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http:/=
> /storsolgroup.com</a><br>*   <a href=3D"http://ha-solutions.net" =
> target=3D"_blank" onclick=3D"return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
> http://ha-solutions.net</a><br>*/<br></blockquote>
> </div><br>
>
> </span></div></blockquote></div><br>
>
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>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 22
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:27:22 -0400
> From: "Scott Sugar" <ssugar at proserveit.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
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> I have to agree that Nagios 2.0b3 is reasonably stable.
> I am currently monitoring 5 different customers sites with a nagios =
> 2.0b3 box at each site and a central nagios 2.0b3 box.  I have over 70 =
> remote hosts being monitored and over 250 services without problem... I =
> am using NRPE_NT on each windows server, which is working great on =
> servers ranging from NT 4 to Server 2003, NSCA to pass back passive =
> checks to the central box, service escalations and dependencies on the =
> central box as well... I know that there are people that are watching =
> alot more than me and are running fine.. while I have experienced some =
> hardships getting everything configured I do not believe that nagios =
> 2.0b3 is a buggy program... at least any more than most programs are...=20
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Dave =
> Augustus
> Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 11:51 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
>
>
>
> This is a test subject just chiming in here that we are using v2.03b3
> and it is working great. We are monitoring about 10 servers/141 services
> using both network connections and nrpe.
>
> All on linux.
>
> Also, the NagiosQL is a great app for setting up and configuring. It
> covers most of the functionality and has helped tremendously in
> deploying Nagios.
>
> As a n00b to nagios, I would say we are NOT using the advanced features
> of Service Groups, escalations and such. However, our Windows admins are
> happy to get a glimpse of what Nagios can do. They are sold on it and we
> will deploying a larger Nagios install for monitoring our Windows and
> VmWare servers.
>
> *test subject*
> Dave Augustus
> Kenneth Copeland Ministries
>
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:00 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of =
> Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:12 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > > hackers/patchers going on here
> > > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > > for production usage yet?
> >
> > It's still beta. Ethan has indicated on numerous occasions that if you
> > run 2.0, expect problems. Quoting an e-mail from Ethan on 3/23/2005 --
> >
> > "First, I would still consider 2.0 as being beta software - that's why
> > its labeled as such. While no major changes will be made to either
> > the configuration files or functionality before a "stable" 2.0 is
> > released, I do expect that a few major nasty bugs will be discovered
> > within the current code.  If you're running the 2.0 code while its in
> > beta, consider yourself a test subject.  :-)"
> >
> > As of that e-mail it was expected that it might be out of beta by the
> > end of June. Obviously we're past that but there hasn't been an =
> official
> > release yet so we're still in beta mode. Many people have successfully
> > been running 2.x in production environments for some time. Others have
> > experienced problems. YMMV.
> >=20
> > > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > > setup,
> > > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> > >
> > > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > > desired?
> >
> > That's what _I_ would do but to each his own. Do what you're =
> comfortable
> > with. If you're monitoring mission critical applications and you
> > absolutely can't deal with bugs in your monitoring software, use 1.x.
> >=20
> > > For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> > > didn't continue processing
> > > after it caught a SIGHUP.
> > > It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> > > reinitializing,
> > > but then no more appeared nor happened.
> >
> > That sounds like it might be a bug. Maybe someone else running 2.x can
> > reproduce it?
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------
> > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO =
> September
> > 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices
> > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing =
> & QA
> > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * =
> http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf
> > _______________________________________________
> > Nagios-users mailing list
> > Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when =
> reporting any issue.
> > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
>
>
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> However, our =0A=
> Windows admins are<BR>happy to get a glimpse of what Nagios can do. They =
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> nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net<BR>> > Subject: [Nagios-users] =
> Nagios =0A=
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> > =0A=
> recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios<BR>> > =
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> going on here<BR>> > where one party raised concerns that release =
> 2.X not =0A=
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> wonder if =0A=
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> Message: 23
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to be sent
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:00:46 -0500
> From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jim B
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:05 AM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to be
> > sent
> >=20
> > I have looked in the mail ques for postfix and sendmail; I do not exim
> > installed, although I am not sure which mta nagios is using but I keep
> > getting old messages (send to me via email). Before the messages go to
> the
> > mailques where are they in nagios so I can delete them?
>
> They aren't held by nagios at all. They're sent to your local MTA in
> real time using your designated host/service notify-by-email command. If
> your mta doesn't respond they're just dropped. The only possible
> exception is if your designated host/service notify-by-email commands
> are still running for those old messages. Use ps to check. This is
> _extremely_ unlikely and they're almost certainly in your MTA's mail
> queue as nagios has built-in timeouts to kill those outstanding
> notification processes (notification_timeout=3D30).
>
> >=20
> > Since the ques are empty but I keep getting old messages it would seem
> > that nagios has some old alerts that it is sending to my mail ques but
> I
> > need to delete them before they get to the que beccuase once they go
> to
> > the que they are sent out via smtp before I can not stop them.
>
> Just to clarify, when you say they are old, are you indicating that the
> timestamp in the body of the e-mail is from some time in the past or
> you're getting alerts for services that were down but have now recovered
> and the timestamp is recent.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 24
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to be sent
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:14:30 -0500
> From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marc Powell
> > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 12:01 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to be
> > sent
> >=20
> >=20
> >=20
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jim B
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 11:05 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] cleaning out nagios pending messages to
> be
> > > sent
> > >
> > > I have looked in the mail ques for postfix and sendmail; I do not
> exim
> > > installed, although I am not sure which mta nagios is using but I
> keep
> > > getting old messages (send to me via email). Before the messages go
> to
> > the
> > > mailques where are they in nagios so I can delete them?
> >=20
> > They aren't held by nagios at all. They're sent to your local MTA in
> > real time using your designated host/service notify-by-email command.
> If
> > your mta doesn't respond they're just dropped. The only possible
> > exception is if your designated host/service notify-by-email commands
> > are still running for those old messages. Use ps to check. This is
> > _extremely_ unlikely and they're almost certainly in your MTA's mail
> > queue as nagios has built-in timeouts to kill those outstanding
> > notification processes (notification_timeout=3D30).
>
> Ack, I forgot to say that you should look at the headers for the
> messages you are getting, specifically the Received: lines and their
> timestamps. That'll tell you where they've been held at each step and
> for how long.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 25
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:29:19 -0700
> From: "EXT-Fuentes, James P" <James.P.Fuentes at boeing.com>
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> Same here - no real problems that I can report.
> =20
> When I first began working with Nagios, I contacted a former colleague =
> for some tips on getting started. He raised eyebrows over the fact that =
> I was using beta code.
> =20
> Granted, I'm running a relatively small operation w/ 480 services for =
> 144 hosts, nothing real tricky, just standard plugins and a few home =
> grown plugins.
> =20
> I've worked with a few "official releases" from commercial vendors that =
> were absolutely horrendous.
> =20
> -Jim
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Scott Sugar [mailto:ssugar at proserveit.com]
> Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 9:27 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
>
>
> I have to agree that Nagios 2.0b3 is reasonably stable.
> I am currently monitoring 5 different customers sites with a nagios =
> 2.0b3 box at each site and a central nagios 2.0b3 box.  I have over 70 =
> remote hosts being monitored and over 250 services without problem... I =
> am using NRPE_NT on each windows server, which is working great on =
> servers ranging from NT 4 to Server 2003, NSCA to pass back passive =
> checks to the central box, service escalations and dependencies on the =
> central box as well... I know that there are people that are watching =
> alot more than me and are running fine.. while I have experienced some =
> hardships getting everything configured I do not believe that nagios =
> 2.0b3 is a buggy program... at least any more than most programs are...=20
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Dave =
> Augustus
> Sent: Thu 7/28/2005 11:51 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
>
>
>
> This is a test subject just chiming in here that we are using v2.03b3
> and it is working great. We are monitoring about 10 servers/141 services
> using both network connections and nrpe.
>
> All on linux.
>
> Also, the NagiosQL is a great app for setting up and configuring. It
> covers most of the functionality and has helped tremendously in
> deploying Nagios.
>
> As a n00b to nagios, I would say we are NOT using the advanced features
> of Service Groups, escalations and such. However, our Windows admins are
> happy to get a glimpse of what Nagios can do. They are sold on it and we
> will deploying a larger Nagios install for monitoring our Windows and
> VmWare servers.
>
> *test subject*
> Dave Augustus
> Kenneth Copeland Ministries
>
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 10:00 -0500, Marc Powell wrote:
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of =
> Ralph.Grothe at itdz-berlin.de
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 4:12 AM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0b3 still buggy?
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > recently I noticed a minor "flame" between Nagios
> > > hackers/patchers going on here
> > > where one party raised concerns that release 2.X not being fit
> > > for production usage yet?
> >
> > It's still beta. Ethan has indicated on numerous occasions that if you
> > run 2.0, expect problems. Quoting an e-mail from Ethan on 3/23/2005 --
> >
> > "First, I would still consider 2.0 as being beta software - that's why
> > its labeled as such. While no major changes will be made to either
> > the configuration files or functionality before a "stable" 2.0 is
> > released, I do expect that a few major nasty bugs will be discovered
> > within the current code.  If you're running the 2.0 code while its in
> > beta, consider yourself a test subject.  :-)"
> >
> > As of that e-mail it was expected that it might be out of beta by the
> > end of June. Obviously we're past that but there hasn't been an =
> official
> > release yet so we're still in beta mode. Many people have successfully
> > been running 2.x in production environments for some time. Others have
> > experienced problems. YMMV.
> >=20
> > > As I'm experiencing quite some bizarre behaviour of my Nagios
> > > setup,
> > > that I rather blamed on my lack of Nagios configuration skills,
> > > I now wonder if it couldn't also be at least partly based on the
> > > release 2.0b3 I am using.
> > >
> > > Could it be this one is still a bit "immature" or buggy, and
> > > would it be advisable to downgrade to a
> > > "stable" release until I've got my basic stuff working as
> > > desired?
> >
> > That's what _I_ would do but to each his own. Do what you're =
> comfortable
> > with. If you're monitoring mission critical applications and you
> > absolutely can't deal with bugs in your monitoring software, use 1.x.
> >=20
> > > For instance, did I alway wonder why my running nagios daemon
> > > didn't continue processing
> > > after it caught a SIGHUP.
> > > It reported to nagios.log that it caught the signal and was
> > > reinitializing,
> > > but then no more appeared nor happened.
> >
> > That sounds like it might be a bug. Maybe someone else running 2.x can
> > reproduce it?
> >
> > --
> > Marc
> >
> >
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