Analyse data from multiple nagios instances

Seun Ojedeji seun.ojedeji at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 12:35:54 CET 2011


Thanks James, that was the problem. But i think i may have had a different
understanding of what check_mk does as after i logged into it, i was
expecting to see the hosts created on my nagios, but its empty! How do i
populate the check_mk?

Cheers!

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:26 PM, James Osbourn <james.osbourn at citrix.com>wrote:

> Have you added your web user to the Nagios group that you created?****
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> James****
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> *From:* Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 08 November 2011 14:39
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> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances*
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> Hello James and all,****
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> I just installed check_mk and everything seem to go well with the
> installation, but when i try to login to the page via http i got the error
> msg bellow:****
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> *Configuration Error*
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> *nagiosadmin* (None)     *15:20*  <http://mathias-kettner.de/>****
> ------------------------------
>
> Your web server cannot create the directory
> /var/lib/check_mk/web/nagiosadmin, or cannot set the group to nagios or
> cannot set the permissions to 0770. Please make sure that:****
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>    - the base directory is writable by the web server.****
>    - Both Nagios and the web server are in the group nagios.****
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> Reason: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/check_mk/web/nagiosadmin'*
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> Any idea of how i can fix this permission problem?****
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> Regards****
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> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:58 AM, James Osbourn <james.osbourn at citrix.com>
> wrote:****
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> I am not doing any analysis; I am just using the monitoring tools.
> Someone else would have to comment on this feature.****
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>  ****
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> James****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 02 November 2011 10:43****
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> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances*
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> Hello James,
>
> Thank you for providing this, i will work on it. Nevertheless, i will also
> appreciate if anyone could suggest what tools i could use to achieve my
> goals...i.e exporting data from nagios and  analysing them on a central
> location to present graphical representation.
>
> Thanks once again James.
>
> Cheers****
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:08 AM, James Osbourn <james.osbourn at citrix.com>
> wrote:****
>
> A brief overview is as follows, you will need to check each parts
> documentation for exact details for your environment.****
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>  ****
>
> Install a server with Nagios, or use one of your existing servers.
> Install Check MK Multisite, there are some good instructions here
> http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite_setup.html****
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>  ****
>
> You then need to install MK Live status on each of your Nagios servers for
> the multisite server to connect to them.  Update your Multisite config to
> know about the different sites and then have a play and see what you get.*
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>  ****
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> James****
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>  ****
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> *From:* Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 02 November 2011 09:20
> *To:* Nagios Users List
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances*
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> Hello James,
>
> Thanks a lot for responding, your solution is a very good place to start;
> though it may not analyze but for knowledge sake could you share the
> proceeds you followed to achieve this?
>
> Regards****
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, James Osbourn <james.osbourn at citrix.com>
> wrote:****
>
> I have setup a Multisite MK server to pool all of my site Nagios servers
> into a single view.  I can see the status of all hosts/services from one
> location and acknowledge and schedule outages etc from this interface.  Any
> graphing can be viewed, although this is a connection to the graph pages on
> the individual site servers.  I am not sure if this will allow for analysis
> of the data as the specific state data is still stored on the site Nagios
> servers.****
>
>  ****
>
> James****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* Seun Ojedeji [mailto:seun.ojedeji at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 02 November 2011 08:53
> *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances****
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>
> Dear all,
>
> I have different nagios setup in multiple locations and they are
> independently working fine. However i need each of these nagios instances
> to send historical data of a particular host to a central server for
> analysis and graphical representations. Does anyone know a plugin or
> software i could use to achieve my goal?
>
> Regards
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*Seun Ojedeji,
University of Nigeria, Nsukka
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