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nagios servicedependency wildcard not expanding
to reach customer-es-prd-dobb1, the packets must traverse a (client based) vpn via the host "cust-client-vpn". The intermediary host has a check named "customer-prod-vpn" which monitors the health of ...
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Nagios 'exclude' directive does not exclude timeframes
I tried to set up my nagios install to check the availability of a SMTP service outside its backup hours. Unfortunately, it seems to be ignoring this configuration:
# a timeperiod to check only ...
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Nagios has stopped sending notifications
Our Nagios server has stopped sending email notifications. If I run the notify-by-host or notify-by-service commands directly, I get email, and everything works as I expect.
When a notification is ...
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Exec when service is ok with monit
I need to run a shell script if a service is ok with monit, to link to my other monitoring system (nagios).
Basically what I need to achieve is to make monit send an alert when a service was ...
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Nagios and Switches NOOB
I need some help, I want to monitor the DGS-1024D which is a business grade d-link switch.
I have no current way of knowing if any of these have IP addresses on the switch or if there is away to ...
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Nagios: Send Escalation Alert if issue is Acknowledged but not Recovered (OK State)
I think I know the answer (not possible) - but want to see if anyone has a clever idea or perhaps I'm just wrong about the issue.
Goal
We want our shift managers to be notified of service outages ...
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Can Nagios be configured to re-send recovery notifications periodically?
I have an environment where I centrally monitor with Nagios a number of customer environments. The idea here is not to fully manage these environments, but rather let the environment be largely ...
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Nagios NRPE: Command 'check_procs' not defined but works when run manually
I know there are a lot of other similar posts, however none of them have fixes for my problem.
I have Nagios Core 3.2.0 running on a 64bit Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS server.
I am trying to check if the ...
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Random server in the nagios service
I have a cluster of N nodes which contains some distributed information. The query i want to monitor with nagios make sense to execute only on one node of the cluster (any). But i don't want to ...
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Beginner trying to install nagios plugin.
I have setup Nagios following the quickstart guide and have managed to get a few servers monitored. good. Now,
Nagios plugins are new to me and as a result I have no idea what I need to do to get ...
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Monitor worker process with nagios
I am working on setting up Nagios monitoring. I was able to setup and monitor the system processes. Now, I am working on setting up monitoring for custom running processes.
We are having python ...
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check_ssh executed from Nagios server returns “Server answer: ”, nothing else
Commmand works on the host I need to monitor (its IP is denoted as $HOSTADDRESS$ here):
[root@host ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ssh localhost
SSH OK - OpenSSH_4.3 (protocol 2.0)
However, on ...
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Nagios and MySQL [closed]
We have a system that contains several machines running circle replication (Cross master). One extra machine is connected to one of them and operating as a slave.
Example
M1 -> M2
M2 -> M3
M3 -> ...
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Best (Free) Tool to monitor autoscaled linux nginx instances from a windows machine [closed]
We have a master instance running Windows Server 2012, we need to monitor multiple Linux servers that can autoscale. What is the best open source / free monitoring tool for this job?
Ideally, the ...
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Check if puppet agent is up to date
I would like to check with my nagios monitoring if every node use current catalog version provided by puppetmaster.
In my situation, there are:
puppetmaster
host1
host2
hostX
I would like to ...
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Where are Nagios Availability-Report files stored?
How to access Nagios Availability-Report files to retrieve "UP Time Percent" and so other information about Hosts and Services?
I know It can be accessed through Nagios CGI but I want to use it on a ...
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Monitoring tool which does not average data over time [closed]
I am looking for a monitoring system like Cacti which doesn't loose data over a time, all the tools I have found use rrd files which averages the data as time goes by.
I would like a to be able to go ...
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nagiosgraph new services not showing
I am using Nagios Core with Nagiosgraph and had only enabled graphing for cpu usage for a while. This worked fine, but now i wanted to add some more services (for example memory usage). The new ...
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Nagios check_bgp_neighbors plugin showing critical status
I am trying to configure nagios check_bgp_neighbors plug-in on Ubuntu and followed README file of check_bgp_neighbors plug-in. I have made following changes:
define command{
command_name ...
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check_mk IPMI PCM sensor reading randomly fails
I use check_mk_agent for monitoring a server with IPMI and the freeipmi-tools installed.
As far as I can see, the monitoring randomly detects no value returned by the IPMI Sensor ...
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Automatically monitor new cloud servers using Open Monitoring Distro (OMD)?
I've been spending some time getting my head around using Nagios, Check_mk and some other very useful tools installed as part of the OMD package.
WATO is especially useful for administrating all of ...
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Check mysql slow queries
Is it possible to monitor mysql like:
if some queries run more then 300 seconds - it will be warning
if some queries run more then 500 seconds - it will be critical
I tried:
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How to calculate CPU % based on raw CPU ticks in SNMP
According to http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/mibs/ucdavis.html#scalar_notcurrent ssCpuUser, ssCpuSystem, ssCpuIdle, etc are deprecated in favor of the raw variants (ssCpuRawUser, etc).
The ...
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Properly escaping check_command in nagios
When I execute
sudo -u nagios /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh.sh hostname "check_haproxy -u \"http://localhost:10000/haproxy?stats\;csv\""
it runs perfectly on the server.
For this, I have ...
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nagios adding extra link to service as meta information user can click
I am using Nagios to monitor some services, and would like to provide an external link on the web interface so that when a service does down, the operator can click on it and be redirected to an other ...
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Nagios Sending Daily Alert History as Email
I know that we can use nagios plugin notify-by-email to send emails for any kind of critical alerts. Now I want one email to be sent as a report for the critical alerts of last one day daily. Can ...
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Nagios3: Conditional operators for service checks?
I'm trying to setup Nagios to monitor my various machines using hostgroups to define 'machine roles', against which I run services to check the machines by role. However, I'd like to use conditional ...
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1answer
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Configure Nagios To Alert Depending On Host Group That Service Alert Originates From
So my setup:
Services are shared between all hosts (CPU/RAM/Disk/Services).
Hosts are split into two main groups: "Production" and "Development".
We have two contact groups: "Production" and ...
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2answers
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How can Nagios handle non-threshold based plugins?
I am writing a Nagios plugin to monitor trends of a certain storage resource utilization (e.g. gradual increases are fine, but an instantaneous/sudden increase or decrease in resource usage may ...
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How to install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RHEL6?
I want to install Nagios Business Process AddOns on RedHat EL 6.1, but I don't know how, and the doc provided for this purpose is too vague.
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Chef / performance data
I am looking into making performance data like page response time integrated with Chef. Does anyone has a clue what would be the starting point?
I have already deployed Chef, I have enabled ...
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Dependencies issue while installing Graphviz 2.28
I want to install this packages for Nagvis :
graphviz-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-doc-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-gd-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
graphviz-graphs-2.28.0-1.el6.i686.rpm
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I can't log in to Nagios web interface
When i try to login to Nagios in my web browser and after having repeatedly enter my login and password on my Nagios page http://127.0.0.1/nagios/, i get this :
Authorization Required
This ...
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Dependency issue while installing Nagios plugins
I have a dependency problem while installing nagios-plugins :
yum install nagios-plugins-all
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--> Processing Dependency: /usr/bin/sensors for package: nagios-plugins-sensors-1.4.15-7.el6.i686
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Monit versus Nagios
Does nagios offer any additional functionality when compared to monit?
This answer states that monit is a clumsy tool for situational awareness, which is the reason I'm asking the question.
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How can I monitor an EMC VNXe3100 with Nagios?
I've "Googled" a lot and there's some stuff for other products (Clariion & Celerra).
I didn't find any Nagios plugin or script for VNXe.
I got the vnxe_alert.mib but it's really not convenient ...
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Nagios escalation and wildcards
I've problems configuring escalations on nagios. I'm getting a the following error:
Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in host escalation (config file ...
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pnp4nagios is not creating graph for new services / hosts
I have working nagios infrastructure with pnp4nagios. Last days I added new host nosql and alerts of mongodb which is installed there.
Host configuration:
define host{
host_name ...
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default page in pnp4nagios
I am using pnp4nagios along with the nagios.
Everything seems to be integrated properly - I have "extra action" icons close to every host and service which links to pnp4nagios graph.
However, when I ...
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Can I redirect HTTPS alarms to nagios
Our client has numerous servers which configured to send traps to a server where HP Open View is running. From there, after some processing, the alarms are being redirected to NOC (Network Operations ...
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Flexible Notification Configuration in Nagios
I use Nagios XI for monitoring a network of different devices. I need a flexible configuration of relations between hosts and services. For example, there is a DEV1 which I monitor and there is DEV2 ...
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Nagios (Return code of 141 is out of bounds) on random services
We have had Nagios running on one of our servers with out any problems for a while but lately we get (Return code of 141 is out of bounds).
The load on the server raised because we gone online with ...
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How to test that an exported resource in puppet exists after collecting?
I want to create a nagios_hostgroup if some hosts exists. For creating hosts in nagios I am using exported resources which I collect on the monitoring server.
How can I test that a exported ...
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OpenNMS Vs Nagios [closed]
I'm new to Network and Monitoring side and I've to work on either OpenNMS or Nagios.
I want to know what are the main differences of these two Systems apart from being OpenSource and Licensed. Which ...
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Monitoring various Nagios? Alternative to Coffeesaint
In our company, we have one nagios for each of our clients, to offer them a 24x7 monitoring service. Currently, we are using Coffeesaint to have a "central monitoring display" were all alarms about ...
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NSClient++ FAIL on Windows 2008 R2 — PDHCollector.cpp(215) Failed to query performance counters
I am attempting to monitor windows server 2008 r2 x64 Enterprise with Nagios.
When I test/install the nsclientI get the following error:
PDHCollector.cpp(215) Failed to query performance counters: ...
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How to check if a service (that listens on given port) is up & working?
OK, so lets say I have a Nagios setup that monitors different services using the so-called nagios-plugins.
What would be the best practive for my nagios plugin (probably written in python) to ...
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Best Metrics for Monitoring Apache Solr instance
We are running apache solr through sunspot.
What are the best metrics to use to look at the performance of solr in regards to needs to cluster/scale?
I am looking at monitoring these with nagios or ...
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Nagios (or a similar tool) with more variety in alert levels?
I'm looking at monitoring and alerting for some of our business metrics in a web app (pageviews, signups, etc). We already use Nagios and Munin for a wide variety of server monitoring and alerting ...
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nagios nrpe check_procs wrong return value
I have a problem with my nagios monitoring. I'm trying to check a process on a remote host using nrpe.
The host was already been monitored by nagios, so I only needed to add a line to the nrpe.cfg ...
