<DIV>Hi Guys,</DIV> <DIV> I want to use Nagios as platform to develop customized applications/plugins to develop customized monitoring and scheduling solution for our customer </DIV> <DIV>I am very exited about NXE (Nagios XML Engine), but how good is Nagios as development platform and scheduling platform</DIV> <DIV>Plz share your eperiences</DIV> <DIV>Is there any good Nagios (plugin) developer resources, How-to plz sgare</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance,</DIV> <DIV>gaurav</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Send Nagios-users mailing list submissions to nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to nagios-users-request@lists.sourceforge.net You can reach the person managing the list at nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Nagios-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Using SEC with Nagios for SNMP trap processing (Noah Leaman) 2. Re: New to nagios (Jim Mozley) 3. check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap (Michal.Mazurek@avon.com) 4. Re: Newbie - Windows diskspace (Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCttig?=) 5. Nagios Macros (Marco Ramos) 6. Respond to pages (Car l Schelin) 7. RE: check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap (VanZee, Timothy) 8. RE: check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap (Randal, Phil) 9. RE: NRPE on AIX (d.deboni@edexter.it) 10. RE: check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap (Phil Costelloe) 11. How many passive service check results per second ? (Verstege, Bernhard) 12. Notification Specifics on V1.1 (-) 13. check_apc_ups.pl errors (Jon Lyons) 14. Whoops! (Ramon torres) 15. $ARGx$ (Valiente G. Humberto) 16. Re: Re: parent outages - behaviour for children? (Dan Stromberg) 17. RE: $ARGx$ (Marc Powell) 18. RE: Notification Specifics on V1.1 (Marc Powell) 19. Re: Re: parent outages - behaviour for children? (Matt Pounsett) 20. RE: How many passive service check results per second ? (Marc Powell) 21. Byzantine configs? Or am I doing it wrong? (Jeremy Madea) 22. Re: check_apc_ups.pl errors (Subhendu Ghosh) 23. How can I query nagios? (Massimo Bandinelli) 2 4. RE: How can I query nagios? (David Olbersen) 25. Re: Hosts and Hostgroups (Justin Fitzhugh) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 00:19:00 -0800 From: Noah Leaman <NOAH@MAC.COM> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Using SEC with Nagios for SNMP trap processing I am thrilled with the prospect of using SEC to process SNMP traps, but I am wondering the best way to send the received trap(s) to sec.pl. Should I setup a "traphandle default" in snmptrapd.conf to pipe each trap separately to SEC, or use the traphandle to append to a log file then have that log file read by SEC. If it is the latter, then how or when does SEC get instantiated so it can read the file and how does being able to perform time-based correlation come into play with how the traps are read by SEC? I know I am missing a part of the puzzle here. Otherwise I think I understand how to integrate SEC into Nag ios as far as setting up the passive service and using SEC to write to nagios.cmd. -- Noah --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 10:03:12 +0000 From: Jim Mozley <JIM.MOZLEY@EXPONENTIAL-E.COM> Organization: Exponential-e To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New to nagios Sullivan, Robert (HQP) wrote: > Does anyone have an example of this? is difficult to read ;-) Top posting... > You'll have to specify every host you want to monitor in the hosts file, > but the idea behind templating is that you make one template for each > 'class' of hosts, then write some very small entries of each. So, if you > have some sun servers, you create a template that defines everything about > a generic server. You then write a small awk script to take the list of > hostnames you want to monitor and have it spit out a small host entry that > also invokes the template. I use some perl to query switches and define ports as services, so that as new ports are brought into use they are added to Nagios. I guess one could do something similar for system hosts and the services run on them. If it would help I can send you an example but you would have to wade through perl and modify it to be useful. Jim --__--__-- Message: 3 To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net From: Michal.Mazurek@avon.com Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:39:56 +0100 Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap Hi When I use check_nt to see the memory usage I get the overall value of RAM and swap. This isn't really helpfull because there is no way that the system can use entire swap - especially when there's about 500MB dynamically assigned. Is there a way to configure nagios or the NT 4.0 server to see RAM and swap info separatly? Regards Michal Mazurek --__--__-- Message: 4 From: Michael =?iso-8859-1?q?H=FCttig?= <MICHAEL.HUETTIG@MEDIEN-SYSTEMPARTNER.DE> Organization: Medien Systempartner GmbH To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Newbie - Windows diskspace Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:19:09 +0100 hi, yes, no problem, use nsclient works fine ... Regards Michael Am Donnerstag, 13. November 2003 17:29 schrieb Tom.Corcoran@meridianp2p.com: > Hi All > > Just a quickie, Can Nagios monitor a windows server diskspace by > driveletter and also can the free diskspace be measured against a > threshold? > > > Regards > > Tom Corcoran > IT Dept. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, > 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest > developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, > WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when > ::: reporting any issue. Messages without supporting info will risk being > ::: sent to /dev/null ********************************************************************** Diese E-Mail wurde auf Viren ueberprueft. www.mimesweeper.com ********************************************************************** --__--__-- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:42:42 -0000 From: "Marco Ramos" <MRAMOS@TP.TELEPAC.PT> To: <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Subject: [Nagios-users] Na gios Macros Hi, Is there any macro associated to the logged in user? When some of my = Nagios users acknowlege a messsage, I would like the mail sent by Nagios = to show whose user has done it. Is there any way to do this using = macros? TIA, Marco Ramos --__--__-- Message: 6 From: Carl Schelin <CSCHELIN@HQ.NASA.GOV> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Organization: SAIC Date: 14 Nov 2003 08:21:20 -0500 Subject: [Nagios-users] Respond to pages I did a quick search of the mailing list archives and didn't find anything. Before I start on this, I'd like to see if anyone has done something similar. Currently I have pages going to our admins skytel accounts. I'd like them to reply with an "Ok" or "Thank You" (two default options) which would go to nagios on the server. Then a procmail script (for example) would take those replies and, if an "Ok" page was returned, disable further pages. One additional page would go out to the page group indicating the admin who said "Ok" would handle the incident. Perhaps "Thank You" would page out acknowledgement of the page to the page group members. Anyway, has any work on such a beast been done? Is someone else perhaps working on this idea and I can test? Thanks, Carl --__--__-- Message: 7 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 08:03:38 -0600 From: "VanZee, Timothy" <T-VANZEE@GOVST.EDU> To: <MICHAL.MAZUREK@AVON.COM>, <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> To answer your question: I don't know. However, what I did was to figure out the percent usage that would equal the value I was looking for less the swap space. Here's an example, because that is worded so poorly. I have 1 gig of RAM and a 2 gig swap or pagesys. Total that is 3 gig. Ho wever, I want to know when my RAM reaches 75% utilization. So take the 768 MB, plus your minimum pagesys size (for me 2048 MB) and you get 2816 which is 92%. Maybe I've got some bad logic here, but I'm sure I'll hear about it if I do. Tim Van Zee ITS Network Specialist Governors State University -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Michal.Mazurek@avon.com Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:40 AM To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap Hi When I use check_nt to see the memory usage I get the overall value of RAM and swap. This isn't really helpfull because there is no way that the system can use entire swap - especially when there's about 500MB dynamically assigned. Is there a way to configure nagios or the NT 4.0 server to see RAM and swap info separatly? Regards Michal Mazurek ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue.=20 ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null --__--__-- Message: 8 From: "Randal, Phil" <PRANDAL@HEREFORDSHIRE.GOV.UK> To: "'Michal.Mazurek@avon.com'" <MICHAL.MAZUREK@AVON.COM>, nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2 003 14:34:35 -0000 I use a simple KiXtart script run via nrpe_nt to return that info. Details are here: http://support.tsmgsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=42 Cheers, Phil --------------------------------------------- Phil Randal Network Engineer Herefordshire Council Hereford, UK > -----Original Message----- > From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of > Michal.Mazurek@avon.com > Sent: 14 November 2003 10:40 > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap > > > Hi > > When I use check_nt to see the memory usage I get the overall > value of RAM > and swap. This isn't really helpfull because there is no way that the > system can use entire swap - especially when there's about 500MB > dynamically assigned. Is there a way to configure nagios or the NT 4.0 > server to see RAM and swap info separatly? > > Regards > Michal Mazurek > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, > 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest > developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, > WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ > _______________________________________________ > Nagios-users mailing list > Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users > ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS > when reporting any issue. > ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > --__--__-- Message: 9 From: d.deboni@edexter.it To: Ewan Leith <EJL@MAN.FWLTECH.COM> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NRPE on AIX Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:44:06 +0100 This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 00566F0EC1256DDE_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >>>>checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... yes >>> >>That's your problem, the C compiler is wrong. It shouldn't be a >>cross-compiler Hi, that's true! Now I've downloaded the gcc compiler for AIX from this site (www.bullfreeware.com). But is doesn't work because of this: 0509-036 Cannot load program gcc because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependent module libintl.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. 0509-022 Cannot load module libintl.a(shr.o). 0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist. I have installed another packet (gettext) from this site http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/gettext.html and now I get this other error :( exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program gcc because of the following errors: 0509-150 Dependent module /usr/local/lib/libintl.a(shr.o) could not be loaded. 0509-152 Member shr.o is not found in archive Davide De Boni Email: d.deboni@edexter.it e.Dexter S.P.A. C.so Risorgimento 5 28823 Ghiffa (VB) ITALIA Tel +39.0323.407733 Fax +39.0323.53558 --=_alternative 00566F0EC1256DDE_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" <TT>>>>>checking whether the C compiler (cc ) is a cross-compiler... yes >>> >>That's your problem, the C compiler is wrong. It shouldn't be a >>cross-compiler</TT> <TT>Hi, that's true! </TT> <TT>Now I've downloaded the gcc co mpiler for AIX from this site (www.bullfreeware.com).</TT> <TT>But is doesn't work because of this:</TT> <TT>0509-036 Cannot load program gcc because of the following errors:</TT> <TT> 0509-150 Dependent module libintl.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.</TT> <TT> 0509-022 Cannot load module libintl.a(shr.o).</TT> <TT> 0509-026 System error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.</TT> <TT>I have installed another packet (gettext) from this site</TT> <TT>http://aixpdslib.seas.ucla.edu/packages/gettext.html</TT> <TT>and now I get this other error :(</TT> <TT>exec(): 0509-036 Cannot load program gcc bec ause of the following errors:</TT> <TT> 0509-150 Dependent module /usr/local/lib/libintl.a(shr.o) could not be loaded.</TT> <TT> 0509-152 Member shr.o is not found in archive</TT> Davide De Boni Email: d.deboni@edexter.it e.Dexter S.P.A. C.so Risorgimento 5 28823 Ghiffa (VB) ITALIA Tel +39.0323.407733 Fax +39.0323.53558 --=_alternative 00566F0EC1256DDE_=-- --__--__-- Message: 10 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_nt memuse - can I separate RAM from swap Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:22:10 -0000 From: "Phil Costelloe" <PHILC@FOUNDATION-IT.COM> To: <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> > From: Michal.Mazurek@avon.com [mailto:Michal.Mazurek@avon.com]=20 >=20 > W hen I use check_nt to see the memory usage I get the overall=20 > value of RAM and swap. This isn't really helpfull because=20 > there is no way that the system can use entire swap -=20 > especially when there's about 500MB dynamically assigned. Is=20 > there a way to configure nagios or the NT 4.0 server to see=20 > RAM and swap info separatly? NSClient is dependent on the available Windows performance counters. The normal ones are a rather odd bunch, none of which seem to be able to answer the simple question "how much physical memory is being used?". You can ask "how much physical memory is left?" by using -v COUNTER -l "\\Memory\\Available Mbytes" in your check_nt command. You can also use "Available Bytes" and "Available Kbytes". The explanation of the counter is ... "Available MBytes is the amount of physical memory available to processes running on the computer, in Megabytes (Bytes / 1,048,57 6). It is calculated by summing space on the Zeroed, Free, and Stand by memory lists. Free memory is ready for use; Zeroed memory are pages of memory filled with zeros to prevent later processes from seeing data used by a previous process. Standby memory is memory removed from a process' working set (its physical memory) on route to disk, but is still available to be recalled. This counter displays the last observed value only; it is not an average." Phil --__--__-- Message: 11 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:11:50 +0100 From: "Verstege, Bernhard" <BERNHARD.VERSTEGE@IWR.FZK.DE> To: "NAGIOS" <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Subject: [Nagios-users] How many passive service check results per second ? Hi, we have set up Nagios with ditributed monitoring. The Nagios-Master gets only passive service check results fron the distributed monitors (about 8000 per hour) and does not run any eventhandler. W e see a lot of failed send-nsca commands on the disributed monitors and the external command file at the master is most of the time nearly 4k big (is this the maximum for a FIFO-stack ?) Setting the command check interval to 2s results in an increasing number of nagios processes, but the external command file becomes only 1.5k big and most send-nsca are successful. What is the maximum number of passive service check results nagios can handle ? It is running on a dual PII 1,26Ghz with 1GB RAM. Thanks Bernhard --__--__-- Message: 12 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 11:51:18 -0800 (PST) From: - <AXIOMGRID@YAHOO.COM> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] Notification Specifics on V1.1 Afternoon, Running Nagios on an OS X.2.8 server. Runs fine, however all the talk about send mail and the alternatives has me curious how Nagios actually forwards notifications. I'm assuming Nagios utilizes the misccommands.cfg but I would like to know if can simply call to any email program for notifications. For example, this install of nagios is deployed in a university enviroment and establishing sendmail or alternative would be completly redundant with the university supporting mail services. Or my inexperience with sendmail has me confused. I can't imagine that I'm the only one with the privilege and perhaps the pitfall of a managed mail service. With that said, I simply want nagios to forward notifications to a unix based email program (mta) which will email the notifications via the university smtp server. I believe i have provided enough information so I look forward to the responses. Regards axiom __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree --__--__-- Message: 13 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 12:14:41 -0800 (PST) From: Jon Lyons <JLYONS30@YAHOO.COM> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Nagios-users] check_apc_ups.pl errors --0-2139179332-1068840881=:79181 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I get this error when attempting to execute check_apc_ups.pl, do I need a perl module or something? Perl doesn't seem to like the "use lib uitls.pm" command.... fwlogs# ./check_apc_ups.pl Bareword "utils" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. Bareword "pm" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 16. use strict; use Getopt::Long; use vars qw($opt_V $opt_h $opt_H $opt_T $opt_t $opt_R $opt_r $opt_L $opt_l $PROGNAME); use lib utils.pm; use utils qw(%ERRORS &print_revision &support &usage); sub print_help (); sub prin t_usage (); sub get_snmp_int_val ($); sub escalate_exitval ($); --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard --0-2139179332-1068840881=:79181 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <DIV>I get this error when attempting to execute check_apc_ups.pl, do I need a perl module or something? Perl doesn't seem to like the "use lib uitls.pm" command....</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>fwlogs# ./check_apc_ups.pl Bareword "utils" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. Bareword "pm" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 16. </DIV> <DIV>use strict; use Getopt::Long; use vars qw($opt_V $opt_h $opt_H $opt_T $opt_t $opt_R $opt_r $opt_L $opt_l $PROGNAME); use lib utils.pm; use utils qw(%ERRORS &print_revision &support &usage);</DIV> <DIV>sub print_help (); sub print_usage (); sub get_snmp_int_val ($); sub escalate_exitval ($); </DIV> <HR SIZE=1> Do you Yahoo!? <A href="http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree">Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard</A> --0-2139179332-1068840881=:79181-- --__--__-- Message: 14 From: Ramon torres <RTORRES@FIE.UCLV.EDU.CU> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Organization: Date: 14 Nov 2003 15:15:46 -0500 Subject: [Nagios-users] Whoops! yo instale nagios y ya esta corriendo, cuando verifico antes de iniciar me dice que no hay problemas ninguno, 0 errores y 0 warnings, cuando lo arranco me dice No lock file found in /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock al parecer arranca sin problemas en la interface web, la parte de la ayuda funciona sin problemas, pero la parte de los cgi, no funciona bien, me sale el cartel que dice Whoops! The most common cause of this error message (especially for new users), is the fact that Nagios is not actually running. If Nagios is indeed not ru nning, this is a normal error message. It simply indicates that the CGIs could not obtain the current status of hosts and services that are being monitored. If you've just installed things, make sure you read the documentation on starting Nagios. Some other things you should check in order to resolve this error include: Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or status data errors. Always verify configuration options using the -v command-line option before starting or restarting Nagios! Make sure you've compiled the main program and the CGIs to use the same status data storage options (i.e. text file or database). If the main program is storing status data in a text file and the CGIs are trying to read status data from a database, you'll have problems. Make sure you read the documentation on installing, configuring and running Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a mes sage to one of the mailing lists. More information can be found at http://www.nagios.org. --__--__-- Message: 15 To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 13:33:57 -0800 From: "Valiente G. Humberto" <HVG05@TERRA.COM> Reply-To: hvg05@terra.com Organization: Correo (http://www.mail.terra.com:80) Subject: [Nagios-users] $ARGx$ I would like to now where are defined the format for the argumentes on every check_command. Where I can find any docummentation on it?? ___________________________________________________ �LOS CHISMES AHORA TE LLEGAN AL INSTANTE! �Nuevo TERRA MESSENGER, Gratis, en Ingl�s, Espa�ol o Portugu�s! http://im.terra.com --__--__-- Message: 16 Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: parent outages - behaviour for children? From: Dan Stromberg <STROMBRG@DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU> To: Tedman Eng <TENG@DATAWAY.COM> Cc: Dan Stromberg <STROMBRG@DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU>, nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Organization: Date: 12 Nov 2003 08:34:22 -0800 --=-9AuZAk0/8XvpaNor8ipt Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 20:27, Tedman Eng wrote: > If there are > 2 parents, both must be down before children are "Unreacchable" status. Hm. Maybe this is why my parents aren't working as I'd hoped. Are you saying that if I have: nagios host -> router1 -> router2 -> router3 -> monitored host ...and router1 is a parent of router2, and router2 is a parent of router3, and router3 is a parent of monitored host, then all four have to be down before nagios will mark monitored host as unreachable? If that's the case, then I'm getting rid of router1 and router2 from my setup. Or do you mean: router1 - \ - monitored host / router2 - ? --=20 D an Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <STROMBRG@DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU> --=-9AuZAk0/8XvpaNor8ipt Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/smEOo0feVm00f/8RAjgYAJ9qfSvmyB7AxrjIOZN+BbWVLFRf8gCfRFFV rYBANmadhwBAXECP+PjvOn8= =C70j -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-9AuZAk0/8XvpaNor8ipt-- --__--__-- Message: 17 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] $ARGx$ Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:58:38 -0600 From: "Marc Powell" <MPOWELL@ENA.COM> To: <HVG05@TERRA.COM>, <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> > -----Original Message----- > From: Valiente G. Humberto [mailto:hvg05@terra.com] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 3:34 PM > To: Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >=20 > I would like to now where are defined the format for the argumentes on > e very check_command. Where I can find any docummentation on it?? >=20 You're asking two different questions. The arguments for each check command are specific to that command. For example, running check_http --help shows all the possible command arguments for check_http which are very different than for check_ntp (check_ntp --help). You may or may not need/want to use $ARGx$ macro substitution for one or more of the command options entirely at your discretion. $ARGx$ macros are not complicated. The only documentation that should be necessary is=20 http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/configmain.html#resource_file and the examples in resource.cfg. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/macros.html shows where you can use each of the pre-defined macros and the user specified $ARGx$ macros (at the bottom). -- Marc=20 --__--__-- Message: 18 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Notification Specifics o n V1.1 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:03:41 -0600 From: "Marc Powell" <MPOWELL@ENA.COM> To: "-" <AXIOMGRID@YAHOO.COM>, <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Nagios doesn't speak SMTP so it needs to pass the email off to some program on your linux box that can do mail delivery. Typically this is /bin/mail which then processes it with whatever SMTP daemon it is configured to use (typically sendmail). You have two primary options: 1) configure sendmail or other MTA on your linux box to smarthost to your managed mail servers or 2) http://www.nagios.org/faqs/viewfaq.php?faq_id=3D150=20 -- Marc > -----Original Message----- > From: - [mailto:axiomgrid@yahoo.com] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 1:51 PM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >=20 > Afternoon, >=20 > Running Nagios on an OS X.2.8 server. Runs fine, > however all the talk about send mail and the > alternatives has me curious how Nagios actually > forwards notifications. I'm assuming Nagios utilizes > the misccommands.cfg but I would like to know if can > simply call to any email program for notifications. >=20 > For example, this install of nagios is deployed in a > university enviroment and establishing sendmail or > alternative would be completly redundant with the > university supporting mail services. Or my > inexperience with sendmail has me confused. >=20 > I can't imagine that I'm the only one with the > privilege and perhaps the pitfall of a managed mail > service. With that said, I simply want nagios to > forward notifications to a unix based email program > (mta) which will email the notifications via the > university smtp server. >=20 > I believe i have provided enough information so I look > forward to the responses. >=20 > Regards >=20 > axiom --__--__-- Message: 19 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:14:31 -0500 (EST) From: Matt Pounsett <MATT.POUNSETT@CIRA.CA> To: Dan Stromberg <STROMBRG@DCS.NAC.UCI.EDU> cc: Tedman Eng <TENG@DATAWAY.COM>, <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re: parent outages - behaviour for children? On 12 Nov 2003, Dan Stromberg wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 20:27, Tedman Eng wrote: > > If there are > > 2 parents, both must be down before children are "Unreacchable" status. > > Or do you mean: > > router1 - > \ > - monitored host > / > router2 - This. The logic is that if router1 is down, monitored host should still be reachable via router2, and so both routers must be down for Nagios to consider monitored host to be unreachable. -- Matt Pounsett CIRA - Canadian Internet Registration Authority Technical Support Pro grammer 350 Sparks Street, Suite 1110 matt.pounsett@cira.ca Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 613.237.5335 ext. 231 http://www.cira.ca --__--__-- Message: 20 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] How many passive service check results per second ? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:17:24 -0600 From: "Marc Powell" <MPOWELL@ENA.COM> To: "Verstege, Bernhard" <BERNHARD.VERSTEGE@IWR.FZK.DE>, "NAGIOS" <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> > -----Original Message----- > From: Verstege, Bernhard [mailto:Bernhard.Verstege@iwr.fzk.de] > Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 11:12 AM > To: NAGIOS >=20 > Hi, >=20 > we have set up Nagios with ditributed monitoring. > The Nagios-Master gets only passive service check results > fron the distributed monitors (about 8000 per hour) > and does not run any eventhandler. >=20 > We see a lot of failed send-nsca commands on the disributed monitors > and the external command file at the master is most of the time > nearly 4k big (is this the maximum for a FIFO-stack ?) >=20 > Setting the command check interval to 2s results in an increasing > number of nagios processes, but the external command file becomes > only 1.5k big and most send-nsca are successful. >=20 > What is the maximum number of passive service check results nagios > can handle ? It is running on a dual PII 1,26Ghz with 1GB RAM. I believe that someone did some type of calculation for this last year. For what it's worth, I have 2559 services at 5 minute intervals (all passive using 4 data collectors reporting all checks to 2 centralized host for duplication) which equates to about 31,000 per hour and nagios doesn't even break a sweat. It's currently running on a quad P3 500mhz with a gig of ram but nagios rarely uses significant resources on the box and I've had it running on lesser boxen. Passive Checks: Time Frame Checks Completed=20 <=3D 1 minute: 219 (8.6%)=20 <=3D 5 minutes: 2545 (99.5%)=20 <=3D 15 minutes: 2559 (100.0%)=20 <=3D 1 hour: 2559 (100.0%)=20 Since program start: 2559 (100.0%)=20 =20 You don't say how often you are checking your services and that will have a _big_ impact on nagios performance. If I were doing the same checks above at 1 minute intervals I'd probably be killing nagios. Some of my pertinent nagios.cfg settings are below -- service_reaper_frequency=3D5 retention_update_interval=3D5 aggregate_status_updates=3D1 command_check_interval=3D-1 -- Marc --__--__-- Message: 21 From: Jeremy Madea <J.MADEA@MDL.COM> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 15:10:13 -0800 Subject: [Nagios-users] Byzantine configs? Or am I doing it wrong? We have eight backup servers in several different location s. We've got multiple people responsible for their care and feeding. We want to check pings to all of these servers and ssh access to some of them. Some of the servers are more critical than others and -one- guy gets paged if these aren't pingable. So, I add all this to Nagios... * A contact for each back admin including a separate pager contact for the guy who gets pages. * A contact group that includes the backup admins. * A separate contact group that only includes the pager contact. * Host entries for each of the 8 servers. * A hostgroup so that the backup-admins can see their servers grouped nicely together in the web interface. * A ping service containing the hosts that we don't want to send pages for. * A ping service containing the hosts that we do want to send page for. * An ssh service containing the hosts that we need to check ssh on. Am I making it harder than it needs to be? -j -- Jeremy Madea --__--__-- Message: 22 Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:24:32 -0500 (EST) From: Subhendu Ghosh <SGHOSH@SGHOSH.ORG> To: Jon Lyons <JLYONS30@YAHOO.COM> cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] check_apc_ups.pl errors utils.pm is normally fixed by the configure/make process. change the "use lib utils.pm;" line to point to the directory containging utils.pm - usually "use lib /usr/local/nagios/libexec;" -sg On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Jon Lyons wrote: > I get this error when attempting to execute check_apc_ups.pl, do I need a perl module or something? Perl doesn't seem to like the "use lib uitls.pm" command.... > > > fwlogs# ./check_apc_ups.pl > Bareword "utils" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. > Bareword "pm" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 15. > BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at ./check_apc_ups.pl line 16. > > use strict; > use Getopt::Long; > use vars qw($opt_V $opt_h $opt_H $opt_T $opt_t $opt_R $opt_r $opt_L $opt_l $PROGNAME); > use lib utils.pm; > use utils qw(%ERRORS &print_revision &support &usage); > sub print_help (); > sub print_usage (); > sub get_snmp_int_val ($); > sub escalate_exitval ($); > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard -- --__--__-- Message: 23 Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 00:37:40 +0100 From: "Massimo Bandinelli" <MASSIMO.BANDINELLI@REGISTER.IT> To: <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Subject: [Nagios-users] How can I query nagios? Hi! I need to query nagios about the status of services, but an host different from the nagios host. Is there a command w ith this function?? Es.: # check_service_status <NAGIOS host><HOST><SERVICE> # check_service_status mynagios.foo.it dns.foo.it DNS STATUS OK (exit 0) Thanks, Massimo. Massimo Bandinelli System Administrator --------------------------------------- Register.it S.p.A. - Gruppo DADA tel +39 199 REGIST (+39 199 734478) fax +39 035 3230312 http://we.register.it mailto:we@register.it =20 =09 --__--__-- Message: 24 Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] How can I query nagios? Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:39:52 -0800 From: "David Olbersen" <DOLBERSEN@STBERNARD.COM> To: "Massimo Bandinelli" <MASSIMO.BANDINELLI@REGISTER.IT>, <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Massimo Bandinelli wrote: > Hi! >=20 > I need to query nagios about the status of services, but an host > different from the nagios host. >=20 > Is there a command with this function?? >=20 > Es.: >=20 > # check_service_status <NAGIOS host><HOST><SERVICE> >=20 > # check_service_status mynagios.foo.it dns.foo.it DNS > STATUS OK (exit 0) Massimo, There's no such thing that I've found. The solution I've taken is having = an event handler create a zero-byte file on the machine that's = concerned. For example: - Monitor machine A's disk space because machine B needs to put stuff = there - Write an event handler so that if A.disk goes critical, write a 0 byte = file on machine B=20 (like /var/tmp/a_disk_full) saying so. When the service goes back to = normal, rm the file. - Update whatever program needs to know, to look for that file. I think it'll work just fine. --=20 David Olbersen iGuard Engineer St. Bernard Software 15015 Avenue of Sciences San Diego, CA 92127 x2152 --__--__-- Message: 25 From: Justin Fitzhugh <JFITZHUG@MACROMEDIA.COM> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Hosts and Hostgroups Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 20:12:17 -0800 To: jeff vier <JEFF.VIER@TRADINGTECHNOLOGIES.COM>, nagios-users <NAGIOS-USERS@LISTS.SOURCEFORGE.NET> Does this mean that in 2.x you will be able to have sub-groups (groups members of other groups)? -Justin On Nov 13, 2003, at 3:32 PM, jeff vier wrote: > Not in 1.x > > On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 16:33, Chuck McIntyre wrote: >> Also, is there any way to make a hostgroup be a member of another >> hostgroup? >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net >> [mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Jack >> Doyle >> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:23 PM >> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> Subject: [Nagios-users] Hosts and Hostgroups >> >> >> Can a single host be a member of more than one hostgroup? >> >> ----- >> John N. Doyle, Systems Operations Specialist >> Lewis-Gale Clinic Information Systems >> >> 540.772.3669 > jdoyle@lewisgaleclinic.com >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, >> 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn firsthand the latest >> developments in Apache, PHP, Perl, XML, Java, MySQL, >> WebDAV, and more! http://www.apachecon.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Nagios-users mailing list >> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users >> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when >> reporting any issue. >&g t; ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, > 16-19 November in Las Vegas. 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