Nagios is an open-source IT infrastructure monitoring and alerting tool. For more information, see the Nagios Home Page.
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Can't get send_nsca to work
I followed the tutorial at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/contrib/documentation/misc/NSCA_Setup.pdf.
But I'm using packages from EPEL on CentOS 6.
I have added a template for passive ...
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Starting Linode instances via StackScripts based on Nagios events
I'm developing a web application (django/gunicorn/nginx) that needs to be scaled out according to load. The app will be hosted on Linodes so I intend to use StackScripts (and maybe Puppet) to start ...
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Nagios monitoring for ReadyNAS: snmp data not appearing
I've put in all the Nagios settings to monitor this but my commands are timing out:
./check_snmp -H 10.100.0.20 -o READYNAS-MIB::volumeStatus.1 -C public -P 2c
I noticed that I don't have the MIB ...
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Use Nagios to monitor a log file and send log details
I know Nagios can monitor and alert on the content within a log file, but does anyone know of a plug-in, or other tool, that will monitor a log file for a particular string and then send the entire ...
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Monitoring SNMP w/ Nagios: Works with value not name
I am setting up a test nagios box to learn a bit more about it at the request of my boss.
I installed Nagios 3.3.1 on an Ubuntu server 11.10 running in a VirtualBox. I also have connected to this ...
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How can I configure icinga/nagios to alert via sms?
I know the sms gateway for my cell phone provider so I can just send an email to it.
I am looking for examples of entries in contacts.cfg and commands.cfg that are mobile specific.
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How do you Null an inherited service check in nagios?
We have a nagios setup that uses inheritance to a larger degree than I am used to. I’ve read the documentation at:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
But I still can’t ...
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linux kernel soft lock nagios
I've had this happen a few times in the past few days, anyone have any idea what might be causing this? Looks related to nagios/smp/memory management. Seems to be recurring every 24hrs or so.
This is ...
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Is Nagios “monitoring” over WAN ideal?
Just started at a new company and one my first assignments is to look for alternatives to their inhouse monitoring system.
Their current solution is a .Net application that checks various devices ...
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How can I set up Nagios to Monitor a Canon iR 3035?
I've been googling for how to set up printer monitoring - especially for Canon printers. This is because I have a Canon iR 3035 that I want to monitor for toner problems, paper jams, and paper ...
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Custom checks across servers and custom applications
I'm half expecting the answer to this is Nagios, but I just wanted to check against certain specific requirements we have with our infrastructure and custom applications.
We need to monitor for ...
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How to dedicate hostgroup to user in Nagios core?
I want to create some user accounts, each user has its own hostgroup. When they login to their account, they can only view and manage the hosts in their group. How do I do this? Is there a tool to ...
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Nagios checks for mulitple sendmail instance's mail queues
Is there an available perl script or any script for checking the mail queues of each instance of sendmail?
So that we can use that on nagios nrpe, since the mailq command is only designed for one ...
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Installing nagios plugins
I have worked my way through installing Ubuntu and getting nagios up and running and now monitoring about 60 windows clients with NSCleint. This is working great but now I want to add UPS monitoring ...
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How to get nagios to return free diskspace
I'm having troubles with my nagios getting it to give me feedback about the ammount of free/used diskspace on the clients it's monitoring.
at the moment, it runs the default check_all_disks!20%!10% ...
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Making ssh truly quiet
I'm half way through writing a nagios script and I've hit an annoyance with SSH.
According to the man page:
-q Quiet mode. Causes all warning and diagnostic messages to be
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Freshly Installed Nagios Not Working
I have just freshly installed Nagios on a Fedora 16 box and it doesn't seem to work. I installed nagios and nagios-plugins using yum (after installing Apache, MySQL and PHP) and changed the contact ...
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More detail EC2 instances monitoring?
I am currently using AWS Cloudwatch to monitor basic metrics of my EC2 servers.
But it is lacking of detail monitoring such as partition space used, memory free etc.
Should I install and use Nagios, ...
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Icinga/Nagios to ping different machine on local network
I have 3 machines, all remote IPs and all of them running nsclient++ with remote and local IP addresses:
46.*.*.1/192.168.1.1
46.*.*.2/192.168.1.2
46.*.*.3/192.168.1.3
I want nagios/icinga to ...
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Nagios alerts using twitter (with twurl) not firing
We've been using nagios for some time and have recently decided to change how we receive alerts. To this end, we've installed twurl ( https://github.com/marcel/twurl ) and are using it to send alerts. ...
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Monitor multiple webs within a server in nagios
i would like to monitor/test multiple virtual hosts in an Apache Webserver and besides, i would like that these checks appears as a one service in Nagios -> HTTP. And if one of the web/URL fails, the ...
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pnp4nagios does not generate perfdata
I am running nagios2, pnp4nagios-0.6.16 and php 5.2.4-2ubuntu5.19.
In my setup, pnp4nagios is correctly generating perfdata, which can be seen via the web interface in graphical form for lots of ...
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Checking for read only file systems remotely
I need to remotely periodically check if a Linux file system is mounted read only on lots of servers. The only tools at my disposal in this instance are the usual CLI scripting languages ...
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Suggestions for projects related to network monitoring, documentation, collaboration [closed]
I am looking for any projects integrating functions like monitoring, management and documentation of network/servers/services.
Currently using Orion and Nagios for tasks on monitoring and alerts, ...
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nagios nrpe plugin output not complete
I have written a small script to check the states of PfSense, and using this script to get the output in nagios, through NRPE...
Here is the script
used=`pfctl -s state | wc -l | bc | cut -c1-5 | ...
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looking for NRPE services code
i am looking for the NRPE services code that allow to connect to the remote host to check :-
http service connect on port 80 or custom port
ssh service on port 22 or custom port
since the check disk ...
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Unable to reinstall Nagios
I installed nagios messed up the configuration and uninstalled it. Now I am trying to reinstall but I get errors and cant install.
jason@jason-VirtualBox:/etc$ sudo apt-get install nagios3
Reading ...
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NRPE Home Directory
I'm using NRPE and I a rather annoying problem. I need a couple temporary files written to the home directory of the user NRPE is running under (nagios).
I checked that the /etc/passwd entry for ...
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Checking Nagios Configuration Files for Errors
One of my servers runs Nagios (open-source) that was installed by someone else in the past and worked just fine, until I changed the windows.cfg file and now when I try to start the daemon, it says ...
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Nagios not accepting regex in command
I have this command defined:
define command{
command_name check_http_sane
command_line $USER1$/check_http -H $HOSTNAME$ -r "HTTP/1.1 (200|301|302|303|304|307|401|418|426)"
}
When I run it manually ...
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“Unable to open MRTG log file” error with nagios and mrtg
We have a strange issue with our setup of icinga / nagios and mrtg.
Icinga is working great and has no problem, it can monitor basically everything without issues.
We setup mrtg to gather bandwith ...
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Monitor Number of VMs on each Eucalyptus Node
I have setup a small Eucalyptus based cloud for my company. I would like to use Nagios to track the load on the Node Controller systems to keep track of how many VMs are deployed on each controller. ...
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nagios.cfg file documentation required options?
I am reading the nagios.cfg file documentation and cannot see where it says what options are required and what options are optional. Are all of these optional? If not where can I find which are ...
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How can I manually run a nagios check from the command line?
When defining and testing new services in nagios I have been restarting nagios, then clicking the service, and rescheduling a check for as soon as possible, then waiting until the check happens.
Is ...
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How can I change the path I access Nagios with in my browser?
I normally access nagios at mysite.com/nagios3/ but how do I change that?
In the /etc/nagios3/apache2.conf file there are these (and other) variables:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/nagios3 ...
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check_postgres_checkpoint plugin error
I am using the check_postgres.pl plugin for Nagios. I am trying to monitor how long since the last checkpoint has been run using the check_postgres_checkpoint option. When I run the command from CLI ...
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Does Nagios offer a “event logging” dashboard, if not, what should I use to monitor events?
I am using Nagios to monitor that a certain number of servers and processes stay online. This works well and I'm happy with it.
However, I would like a consolidated "event log" across the servers ...
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How do i add a service to nagios?
I asked this question and i'd like to add the service to nagios. nagios is being very strange. I edited /etc/nagios3/conf.d/localhost_nagios2.cfg and changed the text "Current Users" to "Current ...
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Can i get nagios to check the health of my website?
I notice that one of my sites wasnt working properly and was giving me 500 errors. Nagios didn't catch it because the HTTP server was still working.
Is there a way i can tell nagios to check the ...
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Nagios log check plugin that doesn't use diff
we are using check_log from the nagios-plugins to monitor logs, but the problem is that with big logfiles, even if we rotate logs hourly, the plugin causes significant spikes in memory and cpu usage.
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Can I set up a different method of authentication on Nagios?
Nagios is a wonderful too for monitoring servers. Their web interface is not bad, either. However I am not crazy about using the HTTP Authentication that comes standard.
Is there a way to use another ...
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How to monitor switch in Nagios3?
I need to monitor the traffic rate in my LAN. I have installed nagios core 3.2 and I can monitor services like CPU load, disk usage, http server, etc. but now, How to monitor traffic?
I am using ...
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NAGIOS notification command for service/contactgroup
We have 3 templates for services, low-priority, high-priorty and medium-priorty. Low priority services are attached to the contactgroup low, medium priorty services are attached to the contact group ...
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how to access virtual machine behind NAT from public network
I have a 1&1 hosting dedicated server (linux centos 5.x with plesk) (IP 74.208.98.x) and configured a nagiosxi virtual machine to run in NAT mode under VMware player 4.0. because i unable to use ...
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Nagios plugins/commands output to syslog
Do you know if is there any easy way to send output of every check run by nagios to syslog?
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NRPE and the $USER1$ variable
I have NRPE daemons running on all of my remote Linux boxes. I have a couple configurations in place and I'm trying to standardize the paths in my nrpe.cfg. The changes are deployed via Puppet.
I ...
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How can I set up Nagios to monitor a webpage?
How can I set up Nagios 3 to monitor a webpage? I would like to make sure it stays online. Also, if possible, I would like to have it check the page for a string to make sure the page is valid.
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Tool to organize and arrange various monitoring pages?
we recently added a MacPro with eight (yes 8) monitors on it. We have various tools for monitoring our website (Chartbeat, Nagios, internal statistics, Jenkins, Smartfox, etc.) and they are currently ...
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Nagios and other network monitoring software [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
What tool do you use to monitor your servers?
I used the Nagios as a network monitoring software to check server's services status about 4-5 years ago. Now i need to ...
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How does Nagios keep sending alerts in low RAM situations?
Let's say I'm trying to monitor a box with Nagios, but there's a runaway process that's stealing nearly 100% of the computer's CPU and RAM. How does Nagios continue to alert me about the status of the ...
