3 Newbie Nagios questions (undetermined time, Citrix testing, Ora cle testing)

[Bernhard Albler]

McKay-Mills, Simon wrote:
>
> Hi,
> 
> I've set up Nagios to try and improve on my current Mon setup (improved
> reporting etc) and like what I have so far after 1 day. 
> 
> 1. The basic http/ping checks are coming back as OK but allocates all the
> time as undetermined (see below) rather than up. - where am I going wrong?
> 
> Host % Time Up % Time Down % Time Unreachable % Time Undetermined 
> crazyhorse 0.000% (0.000%) 0.000% (0.000%) 0.000% (0.000%) 100.000% 
>
maybe this can help:
http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=136&expand=false&showdesc=true

> 2. I had modified a script under Mon to check for Citrix connectivity by
> telneting to port 1494 and expecting ICA back as a successful connection. -
> How could I do this under Nagios?
> 
you could just use "check_tcp" and connect to port 1494, but there is
a actually quite sophisticated plugin for Metaframe servers called
check_citrix:
get it here
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/contrib/
> 3 Oracle checking - I see the check_oracle utility, and can run it from the
> command line with the --login dbname option and the up/down status comes
> back - how am I supposed to set this up in the host.cfg, hostgroup.cfg set
> of files etc? I tried, but it kept failing the -v option when loading
> Nagios. - any help gratefully received.
> 
> External Commands - how do I run these from the secured website - can't find
> a reference in the docs
> 
> 
> 
regards
Bernhard Albler
> Regards
> 
> SM²
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Simon McKay-Mills
> Percepta Technology Manager
> DDI +44-(0)141-4183648
> Mob +44-(0)797-6593462
> simon.mckay-mills at corp.percepta-crm.com
> 



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