<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Hello All,</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Nagios seems to be sending false alerts about few hosts, (ex: There were no users on one host and still Nagios was reporting a critical alert and says 6 users are logged in. How do I fix this one?</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Also, I have installed nagios and added 12 hosts as a start and monitoring few details on them, how do I send false alerts and check if they are being reported through nagios server?</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">[</span><a href="mailto:root@proof" style="color:rgb(153,0,153);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">root@proof</a><span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"> etc]# uname -a</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Linux proof 2.6.18-274.el5 #1 SMP Fri Jul 22 04:43:29 EDT 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">[</span><a href="mailto:root@proof" style="color:rgb(153,0,153);text-decoration:none;font-weight:bold;background-color:rgb(250,250,250);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px">root@proof</a><span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"> etc]# cat /etc/redhat-release</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">CentOS release 5.7 (Final)</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<br><div>[root@proof objects]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v</div><div><br></div><div>Nagios Core 3.2.3</div><div>Copyright (c) 2009-2010 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors</div><div>Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad</div>
<div>Last Modified: 10-03-2010</div><div>License: GPL</div><div><br></div><div>Website: <a href="http://www.nagios.org">http://www.nagios.org</a></div><div>Usage: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios [options] <main_config_file></div>
<div><br></div><div>Options:</div><div><br></div><div> -v, --verify-config Verify all configuration data</div><div> -s, --test-scheduling Shows projected/recommended check scheduling and other</div><div>
diagnostic info based on the current configuration files.</div><div> -x, --dont-verify-paths Don't check for circular object paths - USE WITH CAUTION!</div><div> -p, --precache-objects Precache object configuration - use with -v or -s options</div>
<div> -u, --use-precached-objects Use precached object config file</div><div> -d, --daemon Starts Nagios in daemon mode, instead of as a foreground process</div><div><br></div><div>Visit the Nagios website at <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">http://www.nagios.org/</a> for bug fixes, new</div>
<div>releases, online documentation, FAQs, information on subscribing to</div><div>the mailing lists, and commercial support options for Nagios.</div><div><br></div><div>[root@proof objects]# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagiostats</div>
<div><br></div><div>Nagios Stats 3.2.3</div><div>Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Ethan Galstad (<a href="http://www.nagios.org">www.nagios.org</a>)</div><div>Last Modified: 10-03-2010</div><div>License: GPL</div><div><br></div><div>
CURRENT STATUS DATA</div><div>------------------------------------------------------</div><div>Status File: /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat</div><div>Status File Age: 0d 0h 0m 7s</div>
<div>Status File Version: 3.2.3</div><div><br></div><div>Program Running Time: 0d 1h 16m 58s</div><div>Nagios PID: 28047</div><div>Used/High/Total Command Buffers: 0 / 0 / 4096</div>
<div><br></div><div>Total Services: 78</div><div>Services Checked: 78</div><div>Services Scheduled: 78</div><div>Services Actively Checked: 78</div>
<div>Services Passively Checked: 0</div><div>Total Service State Change: 0.000 / 12.700 / 1.263 %</div><div>Active Service Latency: 0.015 / 12.142 / 0.551 sec</div><div>Active Service Execution Time: 0.005 / 4.028 / 0.678 sec</div>
<div>Active Service State Change: 0.000 / 12.700 / 1.263 %</div><div>Active Services Last 1/5/15/60 min: 16 / 44 / 78 / 78</div><div>Passive Service Latency: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec</div><div>
Passive Service State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %</div><div>Passive Services Last 1/5/15/60 min: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0</div><div>Services Ok/Warn/Unk/Crit: 65 / 0 / 0 / 13</div><div>Services Flapping: 0</div>
<div>Services In Downtime: 0</div><div><br></div><div>Total Hosts: 13</div><div>Hosts Checked: 13</div><div>Hosts Scheduled: 13</div>
<div>Hosts Actively Checked: 13</div><div>Host Passively Checked: 0</div><div>Total Host State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %</div><div>Active Host Latency: 4.145 / 23.283 / 12.981 sec</div>
<div>Active Host Execution Time: 4.008 / 4.016 / 4.010 sec</div><div>Active Host State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %</div><div>Active Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min: 0 / 13 / 13 / 13</div><div>
Passive Host Latency: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 sec</div><div>Passive Host State Change: 0.000 / 0.000 / 0.000 %</div><div>Passive Hosts Last 1/5/15/60 min: 0 / 0 / 0 / 0</div><div>Hosts Up/Down/Unreach: 13 / 0 / 0</div>
<div>Hosts Flapping: 0</div><div>Hosts In Downtime: 0</div><div><br></div><div>Active Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 3 / 22 / 55</div><div> Scheduled: 0 / 13 / 33</div>
<div> On-demand: 3 / 9 / 22</div><div> Parallel: 0 / 13 / 33</div><div> Serial: 0 / 0 / 0</div><div> Cached: 3 / 9 / 22</div>
<div>Passive Host Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0</div><div>Active Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 16 / 44 / 135</div><div> Scheduled: 16 / 44 / 135</div><div> On-demand: 0 / 0 / 0</div>
<div> Cached: 0 / 0 / 0</div><div>Passive Service Checks Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0</div><div><br></div><div>External Commands Last 1/5/15 min: 0 / 0 / 0</div><div><br></div><br><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Thanks</span><br style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">
<span style="color:rgb(70,70,70);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)">Saikrishna</span>