Nagios-users Digest, Vol 11, Issue 32
Martinez, Eduardo [BSD] - ADM
emartine at bsd.uchicago.edu
Wed Apr 25 19:14:21 CEST 2007
Is there a plug-in available for monitoring network traffic thresholds
from network interfaces?
-Eduardo
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Issues starting nagios... (Hugo van der Kooij)
2. Re: Issues starting nagios... (James Emerson)
3. check+AF8-snmp+AF8-win.pl error
(+ACI-Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)+ACI-)
4. Using nagios for machine-to-machine reporting? (Kelly Jones)
5. Using nagios for reporting on non-machine data such as
employees? (Kelly Jones)
6. Re: Using nagios for reporting on non-machine data such as
employees? (Aaron Devey)
7. Re: Using nagios for machine-to-machine reporting? (moshe sharon)
8. Master and slave servers for Nagios (Wheeler, JF (Jonathan))
9. Re: Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS? (Rapha?l 'SurcouF' Bordet)
10. Monitoring DELL server without openManage (Nicole H?hnel)
11. Re: Monitoring DELL server without openManage (Nicole H?hnel)
12. Re: Monitoring DELL server without openManage
(Michael Schwartzkopff)
13. Re: Monitoring DELL server without openManage (Cyrille Bollu)
14. Re: Monitoring DELL server without openManage (Cyrille Bollu)
15. Appearance of disable icon for passive monitoring
(Bratislav Stojkovic)
16. Re: Master and slave servers for Nagios (Jason Qualkenbush)
17. Re: Monitoring DELL server without openManage (Mark Thompson)
18. Re: Passive host results & soft states? (Mike Hamrick)
19. no output returned from plugin (Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX))
20. Re: no output returned from plugin (Rob Blake)
21. Re: Master and slave servers for Nagios (Wheeler, JF (Jonathan))
22. Re: no output returned from plugin (Marc Powell)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:39:45 +0200 (CEST)
From: Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issues starting nagios...
To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, James Emerson wrote:
> Fixed that issue, thank you so much for your help. Here is the new
issue
> that i am having.
>
> [root at localhost nagios]# nagios -v nagios.cfg
>
> Nagios 2.9
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 04-10-2007
> License: GPL
>
> Reading configuration data...
>
> Error: Cannot open config file '/etc/nagios/dependencies.cfg' for
reading:
> No such file or directory
I think this is the time at which Ethan gets the hardcover manual and
throws it at you.
I suggest you read the manual cover to cover in a fast way at least once
and dig into the issues that are not clear. Then read the nagios config
file and make sure you understand it.
I recommend you set the samples aside and build the config from scratch
so
you know what you did put in there.
Combining the included samples and the knowledge from the manual should
get going in the long run while understanding what you did build.
Getting
quick fixes means you start running back for help at each tiny bump in
the
road.
There is no substitute for experience.
Hugo.
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Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows"
I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?"
(Thanks JFK, for the insight.)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:44:43 -0400
From: "James Emerson" <jamesremerson at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Issues starting nagios...
To: "Nagios Users mailinglist" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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Thanks for all your help. I played around with the config file a little
bit
more and was able to get things to start.
Thank you so much both of you for all your help. I just printed out the
manual and plan on reading it tonight.
Thanks again,
Jim
On 4/24/07, Hugo van der Kooij <hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, James Emerson wrote:
>
> > Fixed that issue, thank you so much for your help. Here is the new
issue
> > that i am having.
> >
> > [root at localhost nagios]# nagios -v nagios.cfg
> >
> > Nagios 2.9
> > Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> > Last Modified: 04-10-2007
> > License: GPL
> >
> > Reading configuration data...
> >
> > Error: Cannot open config file '/etc/nagios/dependencies.cfg' for
> reading:
> > No such file or directory
>
> I think this is the time at which Ethan gets the hardcover manual and
> throws it at you.
>
> I suggest you read the manual cover to cover in a fast way at least
once
> and dig into the issues that are not clear. Then read the nagios
config
> file and make sure you understand it.
>
> I recommend you set the samples aside and build the config from
scratch so
> you know what you did put in there.
>
> Combining the included samples and the knowledge from the manual
should
> get going in the long run while understanding what you did build.
Getting
> quick fixes means you start running back for help at each tiny bump in
the
> road.
>
> There is no substitute for experience.
>
> Hugo.
>
> --
> hvdkooij at vanderkooij.org http://hugo.vanderkooij.org/
> This message is using 100% recycled electrons.
>
> Some men see computers as they are and say "Windows"
> I use computers with Linux and say "Why Windows?"
> (Thanks JFK, for the insight.)
>
>
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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:48:45 -0400
From: "+ACI-Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)+ACI-"
<stephen.valdinger at doverchem.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] check+AF8-snmp+AF8-win.pl error
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When I run in terminal I get this error?.
Can?t locate Net?SNMP.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ?etc?perl ?usr?local?
???.yadda yadda yadda
I checked those locations and the Net?SNMP.pm is there. Can I install
another similar package to get this to work properly, because I tried to
copy the scripts from Net::SNMP again, and it still did not work.
Anyone else have similar problems?
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:48:01 -0700
From: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Using nagios for machine-to-machine reporting?
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Nagios does a great job of monitoring/reporting to humans (or
sysadmins, the nearest equivalent <G>), but can it also be used for
machine-to-machine reporting?
Example: machine X at my company wants to start a process that
involves machines Y and Z. However, if either machine is down, X's
proces should die quietly (no point in reporting Y or Z is down, since
a sysadmin has presumably already been notified).
Can machine X contact my nagios server for a machine-readable status
of machines Y and Z?
I realize I could wget/curl/lynx-source the page:
http://nagios.mycompany.com/nagios/cgi-bin/extinfo.cgi?type=1&host=hostn
ame
and parse the output, but that seems ugly. Is there a
"machine-readable" option for the page above that just prints "up",
"down", "unknown", "parent down" or a number or something
easy-to-parse like that?
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 19:59:59 -0700
From: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones at gmail.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Using nagios for reporting on non-machine data
such as employees?
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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We have various systems that keep track of employee data: when an
employee was last paid, hours of sick/vacation leave accrued,
employee's laptop's last IP address (from DHCP server), last time
employee's laptop was backed up (from backup server), whether employee
is on-lave/traveling, whether the employee has been receiving email
(vs employee's mailbox being full, account not setup properly, etc),
etc.
I realized we could use nagios' "passive service checks" to have the
various systems upload employee data to our nagios server, but was
wondering if this was fitting a round peg into a square hole.
Is nagios a good tool for monitoring things that aren't machines? If
not, what would be a good tool?
One concern: nagios tends to treat data as almost "binary"-- either
something is good (green) or bad (red) [yes, yellow + "unknown" also
exist, but it's still almost binary]. In some cases, we're just
looking to create an "employee status report" page that has text data
on the employee (pushed from various servers), without necessarily
categorizing the data as "good" or "bad".
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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 00:47:11 -0600
From: Aaron Devey <adevey at omniture.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios for reporting on non-machine
data such as employees?
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Kelly,
I admire your determination to use nagios in many versatile ways.
Unfortunately, nagios is probably not the best fit in this case. This
is especially true if you really intend to use passive checks instead of
leveraging nagios' powerful scheduling or notification features. Plus,
adding a new employee could be a potential nightmare if many systems are
involved. The effort spent in getting nagios services set up and
reto-fitted the way you need would be much better spent on a more
conventional solution. Your situation is fairly unique, so I am unable
to think of any ready-to-go solutions. In the long run it's probably
easiest to periodically upload all this data to a database and put some
php scripts together so you can view reports on that data over a web
interface.
-Aaron Devey
Kelly Jones wrote:
>We have various systems that keep track of employee data: when an
>employee was last paid, hours of sick/vacation leave accrued,
>employee's laptop's last IP address (from DHCP server), last time
>employee's laptop was backed up (from backup server), whether employee
>is on-lave/traveling, whether the employee has been receiving email
>(vs employee's mailbox being full, account not setup properly, etc),
>etc.
>
>I realized we could use nagios' "passive service checks" to have the
>various systems upload employee data to our nagios server, but was
>wondering if this was fitting a round peg into a square hole.
>
>Is nagios a good tool for monitoring things that aren't machines? If
>not, what would be a good tool?
>
>One concern: nagios tends to treat data as almost "binary"-- either
>something is good (green) or bad (red) [yes, yellow + "unknown" also
>exist, but it's still almost binary]. In some cases, we're just
>looking to create an "employee status report" page that has text data
>on the employee (pushed from various servers), without necessarily
>categorizing the data as "good" or "bad".
>
>
>
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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:22:50 +0200
From: "moshe sharon" <moshesharon at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using nagios for machine-to-machine
reporting?
To: "Nagios Users Mailing List" <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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Hello
It can be done in various ways. but sounds like you need to use event
handlers.
event handlers allows you to run a trigger in case state of host /
service
changed. in your case if service you are monitoring goes critical you
need
to write a script ( you can also trigger nrpe command on another
machine)
that shuts down the other machine service. and of course the sys admin
gets
notified.
--
Moshe Sharon
http://www.centerity.com
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:23:54 +0100
From: "Wheeler, JF \(Jonathan\)" <J.F.Wheeler at rl.ac.uk>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Master and slave servers for Nagios
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As I have reported in the past I have 2 slave servers and a master
server; all checks should be run from the slave servers and passed back
to the master server. I have been recently trying the understand why
the master server still has kernel "Out of memory" problems such that
the kernel starts killing active processes and, in some cases, panics
because there are no more processes to kill (this happens perhaps once
or twice per week usually around 4:50 - 5:10 in the morning). As part
of my investigations I have noticed that for a typical host 40% of tests
are reported from the slave and 60% are run by the master. I can tell
this because 40% of messages for this typical host in /var/log/nagios on
the master server begin "EXTERNAL_COMMAND" and 60% of messages begin
"Warning:". My question is why this should be ? Here is a copy of
nagios.log from the master server for one test of one host for today (so
far):
[1177369200] CURRENT SERVICE STATE: csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;OK;HARD;1;DISK
OK - free space: /tmp 672 MB (70% inode=99%):
[1177369894] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 41 seconds (threshold=1817 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177370925] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 672 MB (70% inode=99%):
[1177373014] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 43 seconds (threshold=2052 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177374874] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 43 seconds (threshold=1816 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177376734] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 41 seconds (threshold=1817 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177377158] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 672 MB (70% inode=99%):
[1177379494] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 33 seconds (threshold=2305 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177381354] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 39 seconds (threshold=1818 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177383214] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 43 seconds (threshold=1816 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177387073] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177389102] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 13 seconds (threshold=5089 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177390507] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177392635] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 11 seconds (threshold=2118 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177394495] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 39 seconds (threshold=1818 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177396362] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 36 seconds (threshold=1823 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177397210] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177399813] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 47 seconds (threshold=2562 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177401674] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 40 seconds (threshold=1818 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177403749] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 28 seconds (threshold=1931 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177404093] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177406037] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 42 seconds (threshold=1902 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177410112] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 184 seconds (threshold=2853 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177410863] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177413485] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 30 seconds (threshold=2579 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177415948] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 40 seconds (threshold=2119 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177417738] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177420390] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 29 seconds (threshold=2631 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177423551] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 14 seconds (threshold=2481 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177424385] EXTERNAL COMMAND:
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;csflnx119;SPACE_TMP;0;DISK OK - free space:
/tmp 660 MB (68% inode=99%):
[1177426431] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 56 seconds (threshold=1990 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
[1177428291] Warning: The results of service 'SPACE_TMP' on host
'csflnx119' are stale by 43 seconds (threshold=1816 seconds). I'm
forcing an immediate check of the service.
The nagios.log file on the slave server only contains the "CURRENT
SERVICE STATE:" entries for this server and test combination. Why would
this be ? Is it because the slave server is configured to
"obsess_over_services" ? There are a few entries in the nagios.log file
for this host, but they refer only to Warnings (there were no critical
problems on this host).
I have compared the retention data file entries for this service and
they are not significantly different. I have also run nagios -s
/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg on the master and the slave servers; the output
on both systems says "I have no suggestions - thinks look okay". So has
the list any suggestions ?
Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 10:54:07 +0200
From: Rapha?l 'SurcouF' Bordet <surcouf at debianfr.net>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios, Zabbix, OpenNMS?
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Le lundi 23 avril 2007 ? 11:13 -0400, Bill Jacqmein a ?crit :
> The biggest problem I have with OpenNMS and Zabbix is the reliance on
> SNMP. Most of the checks I do arent SNMP checks. What would be best is
> if the plugins for Nagios could be used on OpenNMS or Zabbix or
> another network monitor.
Hi,
You can use "exec" directive to have Nagios Plugins to be executed by
Net-SNMP and retrieve output and return code by walking extTable[1]
(extOutput and extResult, respectively).
Regards,
[1]: http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html#extTable
--
Rapha?l 'SurcouF' Bordet
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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:18:23 +0200
From: Nicole H?hnel <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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Hi,
is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage installed?
(snmp?)
We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't working with this
version of netware.
Thanks!
Nicole
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:20:32 +0200
From: Nicole H?hnel <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: Nagios Users mailinglist <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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I'd like to check the storage section from a dell server.
Nicole H?hnel schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage installed?
(snmp?)
> We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't working with this
> version of netware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nicole
>
>
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:21:39 +0200
From: Michael Schwartzkopff <misch at multinet.de>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 11:18 schrieb Nicole H?hnel:
> Hi,
>
> is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage installed?
> (snmp?) We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't working
with
> this version of netware.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Nicole
SNMP Agents should be installable in all OS versions. I don't know about
netware, but there should be no problem. Get the Dell MIBs and search
what
you want to check.
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Message: 13
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:33:07 +0200
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu at fedasil.be>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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On Linux it is possible.
We have Dell servers (PE650,PE750,PE850,PE2650,PE2750 & PE2850) running
linux but not openmanage.
We installed the package "percsnmp" which provides /usr/sbin/percmain
and
added the following line to the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file
pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.3582 /usr/sbin/percmain
Hope this helps,
Cyrille
nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net a ?crit sur 25/04/2007
11:21:39
:
> Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 11:18 schrieb Nicole H?hnel:
> > Hi,
> >
> > is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage installed?
> > (snmp?) We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't working
with
> > this version of netware.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Nicole
>
> SNMP Agents should be installable in all OS versions. I don't know
about
> netware, but there should be no problem. Get the Dell MIBs and search
what
> you want to check.
>
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 11:47:09 +0200
From: Cyrille Bollu <Cyrille.Bollu at fedasil.be>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: Nicole H?hnel <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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I guess that nothing except a software from Dell or LSI would do the
trick.
Maybe you will found what you need here
http://support.euro.dell.com/support/downloads/driverslist.aspx?c=uk&cs=
RC1050266&l=en&s=pub
Regards,
Cyrille
Nicole H?hnel <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net> a ?crit sur 25/04/2007 11:41:48 :
> Thanks,
> but I need something for netware, basically to monitor the perc
> controllers and disks.
>
>
> Cyrille Bollu schrieb:
> >
> > On Linux it is possible.
> >
> > We have Dell servers (PE650,PE750,PE850,PE2650,PE2750 & PE2850)
> > running linux but not openmanage.
> >
> > We installed the package "percsnmp" which provides
/usr/sbin/percmain
> > and added the following line to the /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf file
> >
> > pass .1.3.6.1.4.1.3582 /usr/sbin/percmain
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> >
> > Cyrille
> >
> > nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net a ?crit sur 25/04/2007
> > 11:21:39 :
> >
> > > Am Mittwoch, 25. April 2007 11:18 schrieb Nicole H?hnel:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage
installed?
> > > > (snmp?) We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't
> > working with
> > > > this version of netware.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks!
> > > >
> > > > Nicole
> > >
> > > SNMP Agents should be installable in all OS versions. I don't know
> > about
> > > netware, but there should be no problem. Get the Dell MIBs and
> > search what
> > > you want to check.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Dr. Michael Schwartzkopff
> > > MultiNET Services GmbH
> > > Addresse: Bretonischer Ring 7; 85630 Grasbrunn; Germany
> > > Tel: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 0
> > > Fax: +49 - 89 - 45 69 11 21
> > > mob: +49 - 174 - 343 28 75
> > >
> > > mail: misch at multinet.de
> > > web: www.multinet.de
> > >
> > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: 85630 Grasbrunn
> > > Registergericht: Amtsgericht M?nchen HRB 114375
> > > Gesch?ftsf?hrer: G?nter Jurgeneit, Hubert Martens
> > >
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bratislav Stojkovic <miskobs at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Appearance of disable icon for passive
monitoring
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How can I avoid appearance of disable active checks icon for host
overview, when I want to use passive monitoring for that host.
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Message: 16
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:54:43 -0400
From: Jason Qualkenbush <jqualkenbush at iso-ne.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Master and slave servers for Nagios
To: "Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)" <J.F.Wheeler at rl.ac.uk>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:
> As I have reported in the past I have 2 slave servers and a master
> server; all checks should be run from the slave servers and passed
back
> to the master server. I have been recently trying the understand why
> the master server still has kernel "Out of memory" problems such that
> the kernel starts killing active processes and, in some cases, panics
> because there are no more processes to kill (this happens perhaps once
> or twice per week usually around 4:50 - 5:10 in the morning). As part
> of my investigations I have noticed that for a typical host 40% of
tests
> are reported from the slave and 60% are run by the master. I can tell
> this because 40% of messages for this typical host in /var/log/nagios
on
> the master server begin "EXTERNAL_COMMAND" and 60% of messages begin
> "Warning:". My question is why this should be ? Here is a copy of
> nagios.log from the master server for one test of one host for today
(so
> far):
>
Sounds like this has to do more with the freshness of the passive
check. If the master server thinks the check isn't fresh, it will then
run an active check to see for itself. I'd tune in the freshness, and
keep in mind the scheduling of the checks. If you configure your
freshness to expire at five minutes, and the slave server schedules that
check for once every six minutes, you are going to get behavior like you
mentioned.
-Jason
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Message: 17
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:42:39 -0500
From: "Mark Thompson" <MLT at pshtc.ks.gov>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring DELL server without openManage
To: " Nicole H?hnel " <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net>,
<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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Nicole,
I use a command called nwstat that will give you info from novell.
SNMP is enabled in netware.
mark
>>> Nicole H?hnel <nicole.haehnel at gmx.net> 4/25/2007 4:18 AM >>>
Hi,
is it possible to monitor dell servers without openmanage installed?
(snmp?)
We have netware servers running and openmanage isn't working with this
version of netware.
Thanks!
Nicole
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Message: 18
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:09:56 -0700
From: Mike Hamrick <mikeh at muppetlabs.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Passive host results & soft states?
To: Marco at praxell.com
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Message-ID: <200704251309.l3PD9uKD031967 at muppetlabs.com>
Marco wrote:
> What I did is to send the passive host check through NSCA only if its
> in hard state, soft states are ignored, what script do you use to call
> send_nsca ?
Just a simple script that pipes "$HOST\t$RESULT\t$OUTPUT\n" into
send_nsca. I'll need to also pass in $HOSTSTATETYPE$ and exit
if I don't see a HARD state.
Thanks for the advice, this is a lot nicer way of dealing with
this problem.
Mike
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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:20:56 -0400
From: "Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)"
<stephen.valdinger at doverchem.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] no output returned from plugin
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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Any ideas as to what could be causing this???
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:26:47 +0100
From: "Rob Blake" <rob.blake at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] no output returned from plugin
To: "Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)" <stephen.valdinger at doverchem.com>
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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On 4/25/07, Valdinger, Stephen (DOV, MSX)
<stephen.valdinger at doverchem.com>
wrote:
>
> Any ideas as to what could be causing this???
>
Plugin is not in the location you have told Nagios it is, Nagios user
does
not have permissions to execute the plugin.
Just a few to get you started.
Rob
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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 14:34:12 +0100
From: "Wheeler, JF \(Jonathan\)" <J.F.Wheeler at rl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Master and slave servers for Nagios
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Qualkenbush [mailto:jqualkenbush at iso-ne.com]
> Sent: 25 April 2007 11:55
>
> Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote:
> > As I have reported in the past I have 2 slave servers and a master
> > server; all checks should be run from the slave servers and passed
back
> > to the master server. I have been recently trying the understand
why
> > the master server still has kernel "Out of memory" problems such
that
> > the kernel starts killing active processes and, in some cases,
panics
> > because there are no more processes to kill (this happens perhaps
once
> > or twice per week usually around 4:50 - 5:10 in the morning). As
part
> > of my investigations I have noticed that for a typical host 40% of
tests
> > are reported from the slave and 60% are run by the master. I can
tell
> > this because 40% of messages for this typical host in
/var/log/nagios on
> > the master server begin "EXTERNAL_COMMAND" and 60% of messages begin
> > "Warning:". My question is why this should be ? Here is a copy of
> > nagios.log from the master server for one test of one host for today
(so
> > far):
>
> Sounds like this has to do more with the freshness of the passive
> check. If the master server thinks the check isn't fresh, it will
then
> run an active check to see for itself. I'd tune in the freshness, and
> keep in mind the scheduling of the checks. If you configure your
> freshness to expire at five minutes, and the slave server schedules
that
> check for once every six minutes, you are going to get behaviour like
you
> mentioned.
Thanks for your reply. However the tests are scheduled to run every 30
minutes on both master and slave servers (confirmed by checking in
retention.dat file). If you look in the original message you will see
that the master server is correctly running the command by freshness
checking ("Warning" messages) every 30 minutes, but the slave results
are at longer intervals ("EXTERNAL" messages) though roughly at some
number of 30 minute intervals.
What are the possibilities for results from command issued by the slave
getting lost ? Why are OK results not recorded in the slave server logs
?
Jonathan Wheeler
e-Science Centre
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory
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Message: 22
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:37:17 -0500
From: "Marc Powell" <marc at ena.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] no output returned from plugin
To: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Message-ID: <A7B0A9F02975A74A845FE85D0B95B8FA075627A7 at misex01.ena.com>
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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 Valdinger, Stephen (DOV,
MSX)
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 8:21 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] no output returned from plugin
>
> Any ideas as to what could be causing this???
Whatever plugin it is didn't print any output the way that you're
calling it. Either that or it's a magnetic anomaly caused by the
rotation of the cesium atoms in the plugin output ;).
Seriously, try running the plugin from the command line as the nagios
user exactly as you have it defined in your configuration. Purely
guessing, it's probably sending output to STDERR.
In the future, please provide more specific information about your
configuration, the plugin in question and how you're using it. The more
helpful you are in providing information about your problem, the more
helpful we can be in providing a useful answer.
--
Marc
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