Performance data & other issues
Jason Lancaster
jason at teklabs.net
Sun Sep 7 06:00:11 CEST 2003
2. If you installed the init scripts, you can use the init script with
the 'reload' switch. On most systems this would be
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios reload. I believe all the init script does is a
HUP signal, so in theory you could just do a killall -HUP nagios (or
similar).
4. You could write your own. That's what I did! :)
Jason
Steve Dickey wrote:
> All:
>
> I am new to the list and hoping to get some help with a new installation.
> I have just setup and configured nagios and have a couple dozen hosts that
> have been monitored for about 48 hours. I have a couple of issues that I am
> hoping someone can help me with:
>
> 1. None of the hosts show any uptime when I go to look at the availability
> and trend reports. All time is shown as Indeterminate??? What am I missing
> here?
>
> 2. I have been unable to find the check process command that will allow for
> the nagios interface to correcly check the active process and also to
> restart it from the interface. I have been doing a "service nagios restart"
> after I make changes.
>
> 3. This is a Nagat question: I keep getting a Hostgroup of "Array" when I
> try to edit any of the hosts. This appears to be a bug but it seems that it
> would be prevalent in LOTS of installations and fixed so I am convinced I
> have done something wrong but can not figure it out. Anyone have any ideas
> about this?
>
> 4. Any suggestions for way to manage hosts & services other than Nagat?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> scd
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cal Evans" <cal at calevans.com>
> To: <skip at pobox.com>
> Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
> Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2003 6:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_mailq changes for exim?
>
>
>
>>Skip Montanaro wrote:
>>
>>
>>> >> Before I exercise my feeble Perl skills, does anyone have mods
>
> for
>
>>> >> the check_mailq plugin which will check exim's mail queue?
>>>
>>> Cal> I actually wrote one, in bash, got completely finished with it
>
> and
>
>>> Cal> began testing before I remembered that you have to be an root
>
> to
>
>>> Cal> execute exim -bp? I'm not really keen on making nagios an admin
>
> for
>
>>> Cal> my mail server so I'm currently in 'thinking' mode on this one.
>>>
>>> Cal> I'm open to suggestions though.
>>>
>>>I did a little reading of the exim spec.txt file today and saw that
>
> there's
>
>>>an option (queue_list_requires_admin) which, when set false, allows mere
>>>mortals to list the mail queue. I'm not an exim user, just trying to
>>>monitor a system that runs it, so take this suggestion with a grain of
>>>salt. I doubt there'd be a huge security hole opened up as a result,
>
> but
>
>>>the restriction is probably there for a reason.
>>>
>>>Skip
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>Yes, this did the trick. Now my check_exim_queue.sh works like a charm.
>> I'm still a little wary of the security ramifications of this but for
>>now it seems to be ok.
>>
>>Thanks for the heads up.
>>
>>=C=
>>
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