Nagios-users Digest, Vol 18, Issue 48
NTOUGHE GUY-SERGE
ntoughe at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 29 17:48:35 CET 2007
Hi All,
I want to define 3D drawing by defining hostextinfo.cfg and seviceextinfo.cfg
when i launched the checking of nagios *.cfg files :
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
i got this error message:
Error: Could not add duplicate hostextinfo entry for host 'americano'.
Error: Could not allocate memory for hostextinfo list to add extended info for host 'americano'.
Error: Could not register extended host information (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers/hostextinfo.cfg', starting on line 6)
I defined host americano in the differents file it has to be :
host.cfg
hostgroups.cfg
services.cfg
servicegroups.cfg
If you have experienced such a problem, could you please give me a clue for solving this little headache?
Regards.
ntoughe at hotmail.com
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> 1. max_check_attempts not working for me (Jeremy C. Reed)
> 2. Re: NSCA Confusing host check results asservice checks
> (Chris Haulmark)
> 3. SMS gateway (Marcel Hecko)
> 4. Re: SMS gateway (Eric Frazier)
> 5. Re: max_check_attempts not working for me (Marc Powell)
> 6. Re: NSCA Confusing host check resultsasservice checks
> (Marc Powell)
> 7. Re: max_check_attempts not working for me (Jeremy C. Reed)
> 8. Re: max_check_attempts not working for me (Marc Powell)
> 9. what is log format? (Jeremy C. Reed)
> 10. Re: max_check_attempts not working for me (Jeremy C. Reed)
> 11. Re: what is log format? (Jeremy C. Reed)
> 12. Re: what is log format? (Marc Powell)
> 13. Re: SMS gateway (Dennis H?nseler)
> 14. Re: SMS gateway (nagios)
> 15. Dealing with nightly high load (Jasper Filon)
> 16. snmptraphandling.py (Giles Coochey)
> 17. Re: Dealing with nightly high load (Duncan Ferguson)
> 18. Re: snmptraphandling.py (Duncan Ferguson)
> 19. Re: snmptraphandling.py (Giles Coochey)
> 20. Re: SMS gateway (R.Oxley)
> 21. test (Carsten Philipp)
> 22. Re: SMS gateway (Phil Costelloe)
> 23. RES: SMS gateway (Dario B. Bestetti)
> 24. obsessing and event handlers (mark redding)
> 25. Re: Dealing with nightly high load (mark.potter at academy.com)
> 26. Need help using check_by_ssh with check_disk (Sean Bowers)
>
>
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:15:55 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711281438080.16386 at reedmedia.net>
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>
> I have templates that define max_check_attempts as 3 and others as 5 with
> retry_check_interval as 1 (my interval_length is 60).
>
> But I never see any indication that the failures are retried at all before
> I receive a notification.
>
> I get a service notification on the first CRITICAL failure which
> becomes immediately HARD.
>
> I set:
>
> log_service_retries=1
> log_host_retries=1
>
> But I don't get any logging about any retries.
>
> How can I troubleshoot why my max_check_attempts doesn't work?
>
> I want it to not do any notification on first failure. I want it to retry
> the failed service in approximately one minute. And only then notify if it
> fails again.
>
> This is on Nagios 2.8.
>
> Here is the template I am using:
>
> define service{
> name service-template ; The 'name' of this service template, referenced in other service definitions
> 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 (disabling this can lead to major performance problems)
> 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 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts
> retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts
>
> is_volatile 0
> check_period 24x7
> max_check_attempts 3
> normal_check_interval 5
> retry_check_interval 1
> contact_groups noc-admins
> notification_interval 0 ; disable recurring notifications
> notification_period 24x7
> notification_options w,u,c,r
>
> register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE!
> }
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:41:43 -0500
> From: "Chris Haulmark" <chris at sigd.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA Confusing host check results
> asservice checks
> To: "Brian A. Seklecki" <lavalamp at spiritual-machines.org>, "Marc
> Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Brian A. Seklecki
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:45 PM
> > To: Marc Powell
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA Confusing host check results
> asservice
> > checks
> >
> > > Where did you get a send_nsca that expects comma-delimited input?
> The
> > > standard send_nsca expects tab-delimited input so this problem
> > doesn't
> > > arise.
> > >
> >
> > Chris Haulmark can provide the ISBN and revision of the book in which
> > the example code was taken.
>
> It is Pro Nagios 2.0 written by James Turnbull.
> ISBN-13 978-1-59059-609-8
> ISBN-10 1-59059-609-9
>
> Page 277 at the bottom shows that if you leave out -d for the send_nsca
> program, it would use tab by default. The script examples show that it
> is
> using -d "," and two examples are shown on page 278.
>
> Chris
>
> >
> > Its his project -- I just get involved for the goofy stuff.
> >
> > ~BAS
> >
> >
> >
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:40:06 +0100 (CET)
> From: "Marcel Hecko" <maco at maco.sk>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <iSeXznEC.1196286006.0182960.maco at blava.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
>
> Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> stick GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> request (both - the text and phone number).
>
> Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> just magic!
>
> Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> What price should I be looking at?
>
> Cheers!
> Marcel
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 18:15:35 -0400
> From: "Eric Frazier" <efrazier at ic-agency.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: "'Marcel Hecko'" <maco at maco.sk>,
> <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <000001c8320c$3500f270$6389b3cf at eric>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Hi,
>
> This looks like a winner. Since it is a command line tool it should be easy
> to get working with Nagios.
>
> http://www.gnokii.org/
>
> Others?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marcel
> Hecko
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:40 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
>
>
> Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just stick
> GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP request
> (both - the text and phone number).
>
> Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> just magic!
>
> Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> What price should I be looking at?
>
> Cheers!
> Marcel
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:54:49 -0600
> From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> To: <Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <A7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA09124720 at misex01.ena.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
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>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jeremy C. Reed
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:16 PM
> > To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> >
> > I have templates that define max_check_attempts as 3 and others as 5
> with
> > retry_check_interval as 1 (my interval_length is 60).
> >
> > But I never see any indication that the failures are retried at all
> before
> > I receive a notification.
> >
> > I get a service notification on the first CRITICAL failure which
> > becomes immediately HARD.
>
>
> > Here is the template I am using:
> >
> > define service{
> > name service-template ; The
> 'name' of this
>
> <chop>
> > is_volatile 0
> > check_period 24x7
> > max_check_attempts 3
> > normal_check_interval 5
> > retry_check_interval 1
>
> Assuming this is the template that you have applied to the service in
> question and you don't override any of the relevant values in your
> service definition, this should do nearly what you want (it'd be about 3
> minutes before notification actually). This is a common configuration
> and I'm not aware of any bugs related to it ever appearing. Are you sure
> nagios was restarted after applying this configuration? That you only
> have one daemon process running? Are you sure that nagios is reading
> this file? Are you sure that this template is applied to your services
> in question? Are you sure that it's a service notification that you're
> receiving and not a host notification?
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:57:56 -0600
> From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA Confusing host check resultsasservice
> checks
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <A7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA09124721 at misex01.ena.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> > bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Chris Haulmark
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:42 PM
> > To: Brian A. Seklecki; Marc Powell
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] NSCA Confusing host check resultsasservice
> > checks
>
>
> > It is Pro Nagios 2.0 written by James Turnbull.
> > ISBN-13 978-1-59059-609-8
> > ISBN-10 1-59059-609-9
> >
> > Page 277 at the bottom shows that if you leave out -d for the
> send_nsca
> > program, it would use tab by default. The script examples show that
> it
> > is
> > using -d "," and two examples are shown on page 278.
>
> Seems like an unusual example to choose considering it's a pretty clear
> conflict with the most common plugin test around (check_ping,
> check_icmp). In any event, tabs are the way to go IMHO.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:59:33 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> To: Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>
> Cc: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711281753520.16386 at reedmedia.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Marc Powell wrote:
>
> > > Here is the template I am using:
> > >
> > > define service{
> > > name service-template ; The
> > 'name' of this
> >
> > <chop>
> > > is_volatile 0
> > > check_period 24x7
> > > max_check_attempts 3
> > > normal_check_interval 5
> > > retry_check_interval 1
> >
> > Assuming this is the template that you have applied to the service in
> > question and you don't override any of the relevant values in your
> > service definition, this should do nearly what you want (it'd be about 3
> > minutes before notification actually). This is a common configuration
> > and I'm not aware of any bugs related to it ever appearing. Are you sure
> > nagios was restarted after applying this configuration? That you only
> > have one daemon process running? Are you sure that nagios is reading
> > this file? Are you sure that this template is applied to your services
> > in question? Are you sure that it's a service notification that you're
> > receiving and not a host notification?
>
> This is the template we have used for a long time (probably with those
> same settings and over a hundred nagios restarts). I also have similar for
> my host template (but it is "max_check_attempts 5").
>
> You mention "3 minutes" above, but I don't see any indication that it is
> checked multiple times before the notification.
>
> What types of logs would I see if it checked but not notifying yet because
> still max_check_attempts-1 to do?
>
> When I watch my logs I only see one indication of the "SERVICE
> ALERT:...CRITICAL;HARD" and then immediately (same second) followed by the
> corresponding "SERVICE NOTIFICATION"s.
> \
> Also when I previously setup debugging for nrpe, I didn't see them checked
> multiple times (every minute) on failures. But I may try that again.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:52:09 -0600
> From: Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <69AC6F93-4D6C-4356-ACD4-D3E2F26101BA at ena.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 5:59 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Marc Powell wrote:
> >
> >>> Here is the template I am using:
> >>>
> >>> define service{
> >>> name service-template ; The
> >> 'name' of this
> >>
> >> <chop>
> >>> is_volatile 0
> >>> check_period 24x7
> >>> max_check_attempts 3
> >>> normal_check_interval 5
> >>> retry_check_interval 1
> >>
> >> Assuming this is the template that you have applied to the service in
> >> question and you don't override any of the relevant values in your
> >> service definition, this should do nearly what you want (it'd be
> >> about 3
> >> minutes before notification actually). This is a common configuration
> >> and I'm not aware of any bugs related to it ever appearing. Are you
> >> sure
> >> nagios was restarted after applying this configuration? That you only
> >> have one daemon process running? Are you sure that nagios is reading
> >> this file? Are you sure that this template is applied to your
> >> services
> >> in question? Are you sure that it's a service notification that
> >> you're
> >> receiving and not a host notification?
> >
> > This is the template we have used for a long time (probably with those
> > same settings and over a hundred nagios restarts). I also have
> > similar for
> > my host template (but it is "max_check_attempts 5").
>
> Does that one work as expected or are they all 'broken'? If they're
> all broken then I'd hazard that something is still amiss with your
> configuration.
>
> > You mention "3 minutes" above, but I don't see any indication that
> > it is
> > checked multiple times before the notification.
>
> yup. 3 check attempts (max_check_attempts) at 1 minute retry interval.
>
> > What types of logs would I see if it checked but not notifying yet
> > because
> > still max_check_attempts-1 to do?
>
> It's displayed in the web interface in the 'Attempts' column or
> Current Attempt if you're looking at a specific service detail. It'll
> be 1/3, 2/3 or 3/3. If you see 1/1 then your template isn't being
> applied as you think it is.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 23:20:19 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] what is log format?
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711282314210.16386 at reedmedia.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> Where is the log format described?
>
> I found http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=66 but it is not
> same as my /var/log/nagios/nagios.log. For example, I don't see any retry
> number.
>
> Here are some examples from a Nagios 2.8 system:
>
> [1196236855] SERVICE ALERT: foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL
> ;HARD;3;DISK CRITICAL [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
>
> [1196236855] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> jeremy;foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL;notify-by-epager;DISK CRITICAL
> [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
>
> [1196312026] SERVICE ALERT: bar.example.org;bar.cpu;OK;SOFT;2;NOW:
> Mean:0.000000% Variance: 0.000000% CUMULATIVE: Mean:0.000000% Variance:
> 0.000000%
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 10
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:35:47 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] max_check_attempts not working for me
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711290025550.16386 at reedmedia.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Marc Powell wrote:
>
> > It's displayed in the web interface in the 'Attempts' column or
> > Current Attempt if you're looking at a specific service detail. It'll
> > be 1/3, 2/3 or 3/3. If you see 1/1 then your template isn't being
> > applied as you think it is.
>
> Thank you Marc for this and other information. I read the docs over and
> over again, but your explanations made it more clear for me.
>
> I see it was working and now that I knew what to look for even my old
> nagios logs showed it in action. For anyone reading the archive, here is
> an example once I added more logging with:
> log_service_retries=1
>
> [1196288346] SERVICE ALERT:
> foo.example.com;mysql;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20
> seconds.
>
> [1196288406] SERVICE ALERT:
> foo.example.com;mysql;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20
> seconds.
>
> [1196288466] SERVICE ALERT:
> foo.example.com;mysql;CRITICAL;HARD;3;CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 20
> seconds.
>
> [1196288466] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> jeremy;foo.example.com;mysql;CRITICAL;notify-by-epager;CHECK_NRPE: Socket
> timeout after 20 seconds.
>
> It shows three attempts.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:38:09 -0600 (CST)
> From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed at reedmedia.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] what is log format?
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711290036010.16386 at reedmedia.net>
> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > Where is the log format described?
> >
> > I found http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=66 but it is not
> > same as my /var/log/nagios/nagios.log. For example, I don't see any retry
> > number.
>
> I didn't see the retry number because it was in a different place than
> documented in above FAQ. But it is there.
>
> > Here are some examples from a Nagios 2.8 system:
> >
> > [1196236855] SERVICE ALERT: foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL
> > ;HARD;3;DISK CRITICAL [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
>
> So above is 3 (see HARD;3).
>
> > [1196236855] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> > jeremy;foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL;notify-by-epager;DISK CRITICAL
> > [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
> >
> > [1196312026] SERVICE ALERT: bar.example.org;bar.cpu;OK;SOFT;2;NOW:
> > Mean:0.000000% Variance: 0.000000% CUMULATIVE: Mean:0.000000% Variance:
> > 0.000000%
>
> And above is a second retry (see SOFT;2).
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 12
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:40:14 -0600
> From: Marc Powell <marc at ena.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] what is log format?
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <EF3989E4-6D43-49E5-BEE2-238581D102C5 at ena.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
>
> On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:20 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>
> > Where is the log format described?
>
> in base/logging.c or in a fairly recent post by me to this list (in
> the last couple of weeks).
>
> > I found http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=66 but it is not
> > same as my /var/log/nagios/nagios.log. For example, I don't see any
> > retry
> > number.
>
> That's for the status.dat file. As you've seen, it has a slightly
> different format.
>
> > Here are some examples from a Nagios 2.8 system:
> >
> > [1196236855] SERVICE ALERT: foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL
> > ;HARD;3;DISK CRITICAL [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
>
> This service has reached a HARD state on the 3rd non-ok check attempt.
>
> >
> > [1196236855] SERVICE NOTIFICATION:
> > jeremy;foo.example.com;foo.disk1;CRITICAL;notify-by-epager;DISK
> > CRITICAL
> > [469380 kB (5%) free on /dev/sda2]
>
> A notification was sent out upon reaching a HARD state
> (max_check_attempts).
>
> > [1196312026] SERVICE ALERT: bar.example.org;bar.cpu;OK;SOFT;2;NOW:
> > Mean:0.000000% Variance: 0.000000% CUMULATIVE: Mean:0.000000%
> > Variance:
> > 0.000000%
>
> This service is in a SOFT state as it's only on retry 2 of some
> unknown number. (unknown because it's not recorded in the log file at
> this point). It appears this service may be bouncing between states?
>
> Based on these entries, nagios is not alerting on the first non-ok
> check result.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 13
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:58:18 +0100
> From: Dennis H?nseler <dennis at huenseler.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: Marcel Hecko <maco at maco.sk>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <0bd3fc7d48f45593d85909eaf26fabf0 at localhost>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
>
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> the solution i prefer is using a gsm modem like Siemens TC35i and the
> smstools, which are available as Debian Package or as source for example.
> The modem gets connected via serial and is controlled by smstools. Just ask
> google for smstools and tc35i...
>
> Kind regards, Dennis
>
> On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:40:06 +0100 (CET), "Marcel Hecko" <maco at maco.sk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> > stick GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> > Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> > the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> > request (both - the text and phone number).
> >
> > Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> > just magic!
> >
> > Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> > What price should I be looking at?
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Marcel
> >
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>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 14
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:28:55 +0100
> From: nagios <nagios at ggaweb.ch>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <474E7847.3080408 at ggaweb.ch>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> Hi Marcel
> have a lock at
> http://www.kannel.org/
> and
> http://www.kannel.org/download/1.4.1/userguide-1.4.1/userguide.html#AEN4201
> Regards Florian
>
> Marcel Hecko schrieb:
> > Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> > stick GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> > Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> > the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> > request (both - the text and phone number).
> >
> > Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> > just magic!
> >
> > Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> > What price should I be looking at?
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Marcel
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future.
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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: 15
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:30:20 +0100
> From: "Jasper Filon" <J.Filon at office.caiw.nl>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Dealing with nightly high load
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
>
> All,
>
> I'm trying to deal with a bunch of servers that generate some high load
> during the night. That is, between 00:00 and 06:00 a series of job is
> run that will generate load from 10 to 15. Outside this windows, load
> should be no more than 3.
>
> I have read all the documentation, but I cant find a way to implement
> this in Nagios. I have found 2 options:
> - defining 2 services (load_daily and load_nightly) with different
> tresholds. This will make 2 services show up in nagios that are
> essential the same
> - using escalations to supress messages during the night. This will
> however still show errors in the webinterface and spoil you reports with
> fake errors
>
> How can I tell Nagios that during the day the load should be max 3
> (warning) and max 5 (critical) but during the night, it's ok if they are
> 8 (warning) and 10 (critical)? I'm sure other people have ran into this
> same problem and found a solution for it? Please share!
>
> I'm running Nagios 2.10
>
> Thanx for the help.
>
> Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards,
>
> Jasper Filon
>
> CAIWAY Business
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 16
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:53:45 +0100
> From: "Giles Coochey" <gcoochey at sapphire.gi>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] snmptraphandling.py
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: francois at iecholden.com
> Message-ID:
> <9D30659ABCA7FB428CF91E386C3A5744A59FA5 at hermes.sapphire-int.gi>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Is anyone using Francois Meehan's snmptraphandling.py script?
>
> There's a part of the script where it opens the Nagios.cmd file. I'm not
> a python coder, but it appears to me that it writes to the file with 'w'
> which would overwrite any pending commands that Nagios has not yet
> processed:
>
> #print mondata_res
> output = open('/opt/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd', 'w')
> results = "[" + mytime + "] " + "PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;"
> \
> + host + ";" + "TRAP-" + service_suffix + ";" \
> + return_code + ";" + mondata_res + "\n"
> output.write(results)
>
> I'm thinking that this script should be opening the file with the 'a'
> (Append) mode, so that unprocessed commands in nagios.cmd do not get
> overwritten.
>
> I do appear to be missing some traps within Nagios, I can see them as
> far as snmptt, but it seems either sec.pl or snmptraphandling.py somehow
> doesn't process them and the trap doesn't make it as far as Nagios.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 17
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:54:32 +0000
> From: Duncan Ferguson <duncan.ferguson at altinity.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Dealing with nightly high load
> To: Jasper Filon <J.Filon at office.caiw.nl>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <6465B05E-B90E-4BC6-BEC3-E6469F66218C at altinity.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
>
>
> On 29 Nov 2007, at 08:30, Jasper Filon wrote:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I'm trying to deal with a bunch of servers that generate some high
> > load
> > during the night. That is, between 00:00 and 06:00 a series of job is
> > run that will generate load from 10 to 15. Outside this windows, load
> > should be no more than 3.
> >
>
> http://altinity.blogs.com/dotorg/2007/04/changing_a_serv.html
>
> It works for us...
>
> Duncs
>
> --
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> Message: 18
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:40:17 +0000
> From: Duncan Ferguson <duncan.ferguson at altinity.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] snmptraphandling.py
> To: "Giles Coochey" <gcoochey at sapphire.gi>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net, francois at iecholden.com
> Message-ID: <DC03AC64-6A6C-4EAF-AAC1-F4C387A5B6A6 at altinity.com>
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>
> On 29 Nov 2007, at 08:53, Giles Coochey wrote:
>
> > Is anyone using Francois Meehan's snmptraphandling.py script?
> >
> > There's a part of the script where it opens the Nagios.cmd file.
> > I'm not
> > a python coder, but it appears to me that it writes to the file
> > with 'w'
> > which would overwrite any pending commands that Nagios has not yet
> > processed:
> >
>
> nagios.cmd is a pipe, not an ordinary file and the contents cannot be
> overwritten as such - whatever gets written into the pipe will be
> read out of the pipe by the controlling binary in the same order.
>
> If you cat the pipe then the contents will be lost to nagios, as when
> items are read from the pipe they are automatically removed from it.
>
> Pipes have the first letter as a 'p' on 'ls -l'.
>
> Duncs
>
> --
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> Message: 19
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:07:43 +0100
> From: "Giles Coochey" <gcoochey at sapphire.gi>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] snmptraphandling.py
> To: "Duncan Ferguson" <duncan.ferguson at altinity.com>
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net, francois at iecholden.com
> Message-ID:
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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> > On 29 Nov 2007, at 08:53, Giles Coochey wrote:
> >
> > > Is anyone using Francois Meehan's snmptraphandling.py script?
> > >
> > > There's a part of the script where it opens the Nagios.cmd file.
> > > I'm not
> > > a python coder, but it appears to me that it writes to the file
> > > with 'w'
> > > which would overwrite any pending commands that Nagios has not yet
> > > processed:
> > >
> >
> > nagios.cmd is a pipe, not an ordinary file and the contents cannot be
> > overwritten as such - whatever gets written into the pipe will be
> > read out of the pipe by the controlling binary in the same order.
> >
> > If you cat the pipe then the contents will be lost to nagios, as when
> > items are read from the pipe they are automatically removed from it.
> >
> > Pipes have the first letter as a 'p' on 'ls -l'.
> >
>
> Thanks Duncan, so it's a FIFO. So now I need to find out why I'm losing
> events along the way :-(
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 20
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:14:26 +0000
> From: "R.Oxley" <rafe.oxley at moving-edge.net>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Message-ID: <474E9102.1010104 at moving-edge.net>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>
> I use a Nokia 6210e with a data cable connected to the serial port,
> running gnokii to handle sending the SMSs.
> Cheap and functional,
> regards
> Rafe
>
>
> Marcel Hecko wrote:
> > Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> > stick GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> > Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> > the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> > request (both - the text and phone number).
> >
> > Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> > just magic!
> >
> > Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> > What price should I be looking at?
> >
> > Cheers!
> > Marcel
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
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> --
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 21
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:19:15 +0100
> From: Carsten Philipp <caphilipp at cbs.mpg.de>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] test
> To: Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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> only a testmail
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> Message: 22
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:38:09 -0000
> From: "Phil Costelloe" <philc at foundation-it.com>
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Message-ID: <B25A11A2459AD84BA9B8A4DA3D815532D00B87 at CADWELL.fit.local>
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> I use Gnokii with a Nokia phone and it works really well but it relies
> on a wired or wireless connection (serial, usb, infrared or Bluetooth
> according to the website) between the server and the phone. I use some
> simple shell scripts to interface between Nagios and Gnokii. It could be
> part of what the OP wants if somebody writes (or has already written) an
> http-to-gnokii gateway, but then that wouldn't really be a hardware
> solution as requested. I've never run across anything that implements
> the sending interface and modem hardware in one product but it may be
> out there.
>
> --
> Phil Costelloe
> Foundation IT, Hermitage, Berkshire RG18 9SE
> (apologies for the top post, we were already on that path)
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> -----Original Message-----
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> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Eric
> Frazier
> Sent: 28 November 2007 22:16
> To: 'Marcel Hecko'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
>
> Hi,
>
> This looks like a winner. Since it is a command line tool it should be
> easy
> to get working with Nagios.
>
> http://www.gnokii.org/
>
> Others?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Marcel
> Hecko
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:40 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
>
>
> Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> stick
> GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI
> and
> the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> request
> (both - the text and phone number).
>
> Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> just magic!
>
> Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> What price should I be looking at?
>
> Cheers!
> Marcel
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 23
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 10:11:10 -0200
> From: "Dario B. Bestetti" <dario.bestetti at opservices.com.br>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] RES: SMS gateway
> To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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>
> We use Smstools (http://smstools.meinemullemaus.de/) which works very smoothly, but hardware is always a problems because of cable
> and cel devices compatibility. Lately we?ve found a little device from Huawei, the E220 model which connects trhough USB and works
> fine. I think the best hw solution would be the Falcon modems, but unfortunately they are hard and expensive to find here. Check
> with the guys from Netways (www.netways.de), I believe they have a "ready" package using Falcon as SMS gateway fully integrated with
> Nagios.
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> > -----Mensagem original-----
> > De: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] Em
> > nome de R.Oxley
> > Enviada em: quinta-feira, 29 de novembro de 2007 08:14
> > Para: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Assunto: Re: [Nagios-users] SMS gateway
> >
> >
> >
> > I use a Nokia 6210e with a data cable connected to the serial port,
> > running gnokii to handle sending the SMSs.
> > Cheap and functional,
> > regards
> > Rafe
> >
> >
> > Marcel Hecko wrote:
> > > Hi, does anybody know of any HARDWARE solution into which I would just
> > > stick GSM SIM card and send SMS messages from Nagios?
> > > Something with ethernet interface - like - I would just call HTTP URI and
> > > the device will send the SMS text to the number encoded in the HTTP
> > > request (both - the text and phone number).
> > >
> > > Basically - very basic SMS gateway. With pre-paid sim card that would be
> > > just magic!
> > >
> > > Does something like that exist? Possibly with two-way communitaction?
> > > What price should I be looking at?
> > >
> > > Cheers!
> > > Marcel
> > >
> > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > > ::: 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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> Message: 24
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:25:59 +0000
> From: "mark redding" <mwjredding at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] obsessing and event handlers
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone here tell me where I'm going wrong in my attempts to
> correctly setup a slave nagios server.
>
> What I have is as follows :-
>
> 1 master nagios host (running FreeBSD 6.2). This host executes active
> checks some of which trigger event handlers (ie. to restart web
> servers, etc... the usual stuff).
> 1 slave nagios host (running FreeBSD 5.5). This host rsyncs the nagios
> configuration files from the master, and performs the check_nagios
> plugin to determine if the master is running. If it is not, then it
> takes over active checks.
>
> The above has been setup using the documentation accompanying the
> nagios installation and has v 2.10 installed.
>
> Yesterday I tried to get the slave to receive service check results
> from the master by running the nsca daemon on the slave and adding
> commands to enable send_nsca on the master to transmit results to the
> slave. To achieve this I forced the master to obsess over services and
> this all worked correctly.
>
> However, when I checked the system today I have found that although an
> event handler should have been executed overnight, it did NOT get
> executed.
> The only way I've been able to get the master to actually run the
> event handlers as needed has been to disable obsessing on the master -
> hence I no longer have the slave passively receiving service check
> results.
> I've sort of worked round this by enabling a global event handler on
> the master which calls the send_nsca command, so at the moment the
> slave is passively gettings the changes of state to services (but, as
> the http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/distributed.html page says,
> "We could use event handlers to report changes in the state of a
> service, but that just doesn't cut it.") and the master is happily
> executing event handlers as needed.
>
> Anyone else had this problem with event handlers when obsessing is
> enabled ? And does anyone have this working correctly ?
>
> thanks,
> Mark
>
>
>
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> Message: 25
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:21:47 -0600
> From: mark.potter at academy.com
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Dealing with nightly high load
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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> Cell: 281-734-6965
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> nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 11/29/2007 02:30:20
> AM:
>
> > All,
> >
> > I'm trying to deal with a bunch of servers that generate some high load
> > during the night. That is, between 00:00 and 06:00 a series of job is
> > run that will generate load from 10 to 15. Outside this windows, load
> > should be no more than 3.
> >
> > I have read all the documentation, but I cant find a way to implement
> > this in Nagios. I have found 2 options:
> > - defining 2 services (load_daily and load_nightly) with different
> > tresholds. This will make 2 services show up in nagios that are
> > essential the same
> > - using escalations to supress messages during the night. This will
> > however still show errors in the webinterface and spoil you reports with
> > fake errors
> >
> > How can I tell Nagios that during the day the load should be max 3
> > (warning) and max 5 (critical) but during the night, it's ok if they are
> > 8 (warning) and 10 (critical)? I'm sure other people have ran into this
> > same problem and found a solution for it? Please share!
> >
> > I'm running Nagios 2.10
> >
> > Thanx for the help.
> >
> > Met vriendelijke groet/With kind regards,
> >
> > Jasper Filon
> >
> > CAIWAY Business
> >
> <SNIP>
>
> Jasper,
>
> I have sort of the same issue and you have already stated the most
> expedient, and indeed only, solution that I found. Two services with
> different time periods for checking. It's doesn't look as pretty in the
> web interface but it works like a charm. The other method would be to
> write a wrapper that performs the check and alerts on the value you set
> based on time. This wouldn't be hard to do to be honest but it seems like
> re-inventing the wheel to some degree. The other question I have is if the
> servers are capable of withstanding a load that high why not just have
> your high threshold set the same all time? My situation isn't load based
> but with the standard Nagios plugin you can alert on any of the three
> points that uptime returns (here I make the assumption you are monitoring
> *nix boxen). If the situation calls for being able to be alerted to spikes
> during normal operating hours then you will either need two checks and
> time period for each or a wrapper that checks the time and returns an
> alert based on the time and load.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Mark L. Potter
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> Message: 26
> Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:09:43 -0500
> From: "Sean Bowers" <unix678 at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Need help using check_by_ssh with check_disk
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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> I'm running Nagios 2.10 with plugins 1.4.10 running on:
> Linux nagioshost 2.6.9-34.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 24 16:56:28 EST 2006
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> System information on the two remote hosts is:
>
> Linux remotehost1 2.6.9-11.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri May 20 18:26:27 EDT 2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> Linux remotehost2 2.6.9-5.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 19:30:39 EST 2005
> i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
>
> My check (in commands.cfg as check_disk_by_ssh) is:
>
> $USER1$/libexec/check_by_ssh -E -i identify.txt -l nagios -H
> $HOSTADDRESS$ -C "/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w $ARG1$ -c
> $ARG2$"
>
> The services.cmd has:
>
> check_disk_by_ssh!10%!5%
>
> This test runs fine on remotehost1, but on remotehost2 it returns back
> "UNKNOWN - check_by_ssh: Remote command
> '/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk -w 10% -c 5%' returned status
> 255". At first, I thought this could be a 32 vs. 64-bit issue, but
> the Nagios host is 64-bit while both remotes are 32.
>
> >From the command line, both hosts work fine and 'echo $?' shows 0 for
> both. Logging into the remote boxes and running check_disk manually
> is fine as well. Using -v doesn't help since it doesn't show tracing
> information.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this? Are there any other
> tricks I can try for debugging this? Any help would be appreciated
> immensely.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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