It really depends on what you are trying to resolve. I am using eventhandlers with nrpe when a windows' service is down so i can make it starts. That happens -not so often hopefully- with servers that are rebooting due to power failure : the Exchange Information Store service for instance is not always up automatically (strange but still...), so with a windows shell script i managed to get ride of users complains about not being able to get their emails. You can write short scripts in perl, vbscript, shell bash, whatever. You have to know exactly how to react when problems arise and that the tricky part beyond handling Nagios configuration. I am newbie and would appreciate others feedback about how they use eventhandlers, cause that's nagios power to respond to problems...the so called proactive monitoring. <div>2006/3/31, <a href="mailto:tomvo@absi.be">tomvo@absi.be</a> <<a href="mailto:tomvo@absi.be">tomvo@absi.be</a>>: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi James, I just came accross your message on the nagios mailing list, and i have exactly the same request. I didn't see any answers on the list, so I was wondering if you have found a solution ? regards, Tom. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Van Overbeke - ABSI Service Delivery Coordinator email: <a href="mailto:tomvo@absi.be">tomvo@absi.be</a> Tel: +32 2 333 40 00 - Fax: +32 2 332 34 69 website: <a href="http://www.absi.be">http://www.absi.be </a> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dehnert James Sr <<a href="mailto:jdehnert@caymas.com">jdehnert@caymas.com</a>> Sent by: <a href="mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net"> nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net</a> 10/03/2006 23:29 To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> cc: Subject: [Nagios-users] Event Handlers Most of all of the processes and such I monitor are not on the Nagios server. I do want to be able to use event handlers to try and resolve things before I get paged though, so I am wondering if there is a plug-in that can be used through NCSA or NRPE that will allow me to run an event handler script on a remote system. Thanks, Zeke -- mailto:<a href="mailto:jdehnert@caymas.com">jdehnert@caymas.com </a> James "Zeke" Dehnert Phone: 707 283 5042 Fax: 707 283 5001 -= Eschew Obfuscation =- "Life is racing, everything else is just waiting" Arrested Development ==>> <a href="http://www.the-op.com">http://www.the-op.com</a> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! <a href="http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642"> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net"> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div> -- Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée.