Questions tagged [nagios]
Nagios is a monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
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Nagios - Define as service for all the members of a group *except* some hosts?
We're using nagios to check our ssh server is running. We have the check_ssh group defined for all members of a certain group. We have other services defined for that group as well. Everything is fine....
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The best nagios plugin for SMART? [closed]
I've tried the best plugin for nagios to SMART monitoring. There are some, but only monitoring temperature. But with smartctl we can find more data. Do you have some better plugins with all data from ...
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Nagios - Could not complete SSL handshake
I'm trying to configure Nagios command for checking status of physical memory on a remote Windows host using NRPE plugin. I'm using Nagios v3.0.6 on Ubuntu Server v14.10, and latest stable version of ...
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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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nrpe: Host is not allowed to talk to us
I installed nrpe on new servers. Nagios is already running and checking other server (I haven't installed).
I've got several error lines in my syslog file :
Oct 31 15:17:01 myservername nrpe[41848]: ...
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How can I make Status Information for Nagios services easier to read?
I'm running Nagios in an environment with several servers, each with several services on them. There are a few custom checks, but it's nice to use existing checks if possible. I'm using NRPE plugin ...
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What's the best method to monitor an OpenVPN server?
I have an OpenVPN server machine which resides on an isolated network, a NAT rule in the company's firewall is redirecting all traffic on port 1194 (tcp) from the public IP I chose to the internal ...
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Have Nagios execute a command when it detects a down host
I would like Nagios to execute a Bash command/script when it detects a host down or up. This would allow me to react to down hosts to some degree which would be very interesting.
How would I do this ?...
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Choosing a monitoring system for a dynamically scaling environment: Nagios v. Zabbix [closed]
When operating in the cloud and scaling boxes automatically, there are certain monitoring issues that one experiences. Sometimes we might be monitoring 10 boxes and sometimes 100. The machines will ...
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Nagios simple dashboard [closed]
I am looking for a dead simple dashboard for Nagios so our IT team can view the status of our services.
In an old version of what's up gold, it was a nice dashboard with different rectangular shape ...
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SELinux prevents Nagios plugins from running on RHEL6
After installing Nagios NRPE & Nagios Plugins, I'm getting the following entry in my rsyslog:
May 13 14:01:30 wcmisdlin02 kernel: type=1400 audit(1305309690.482:2334): avc: denied { getattr } ...
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Nagios check with $ in parameter
I need to add Nagios checks for Windows SQL services that have a dollar sign in the name (e.g. MSSQL$TOLLCONNECT) but am so far unable to work out how to pass that name along without it being Nagios ...
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Nagios: Disable notifications from command line on Windows/Linux
Our routine maintenance requires services have to be brought down.
The problem is these services have Nagios checks and we either have to go to the web interface and disable the check or get the ...
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Simple monitoring solution for a single server [closed]
I have a little experience with server monitoring products from my previous job (mainly Nagios), but never had the chance to set up a monitoring scheme from scratch. Every time there was a number 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 (BASH/Perl/...
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Check SSL certificate validity, including CA chain, with Nagios
Nagios can do SSL checking, but it doesn't actually check if the certificate is valid for the connection address you're using (common name match).
On one of our servers, a postfix configuration file ...
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How do I add a host in icinga-web?
how do I add a host in icinga-web? Do I need to modify access.xml and rebuild the cache? Or can I have a configuration similar to icinga/nagios?
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Nagios alert based on scheduled MySQL queries results
I have installed Nagios 4.0 on my Ubuntu 14.0 and i want a plugin to alert me based on daily scheduled MySql queries ..
if the result of ( select count(*) from tableName > 10 ) raise a critical ...
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Overriding Nagios hostgroup service with host service
I currently am experimenting with defining a set of services to all hosts in a hostgroup, this is working fine.
My issue is that I then want to be able to override these service definitions which ...
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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 create ...
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Monitoring various Nagios? Alternative to Coffeesaint [closed]
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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Nagios check_total_procs with Default Values
We are using the Nagios plugin check_total_procs to check the total number of processes on our servers. The default settings for this that are installed are:
command[check_total_procs]=/usr/lib/...
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Ways to monitor SIP termination on an asterisk server
I have a nagios setup which ensures that SIP is responsive on my Asterisk server, that's straight forward.
My question is, what kind of possibilities are there that the Asterisk server can actually ...
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nagios nrpe unable to read output
I'm trying to use check_nrpe to check on a remote server, but it's not working and I can't figure out what am I missing...
# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H XXX -c check_load -a 6,5,4 8,7,6
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NSClient++ returns 'Connection Refused'
I have been unsuccessfully trying to get NSClient to work on my 64 bit Windows 7 machine with Windows Firewall turned off.
I have tried with the service started and also tried running 'NSClient++ /...
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Nagios not following redirect with check_http
Currently for testing I set the service check as follows:
define service{
use generic-service
host_name <host>
service_description HTTP
check_command check_http!-s "blablabla" -f ...
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How to send an "Everything is OK" notification from Nagios?
I need to configure Nagios to send a notification that says everything goes well, if there's no problems.
Does this sort of setting exist or is there a plugin for that?
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Monitor ESXi hosts with Nagios
Does anyone recommend any methods for monitoring ESXi 4.1 hosts with Nagios? I have looked into SNMP but it seems to be in a pretty sorry state. Net-SNMP does not seem to be included and there is a ...
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Any good rsnapshot nagios plugins?
I'm using Nagios to monitor servers, and we use rsnapshot for backups. I'd like a plugin for Nagios that monitors that rsnapshot is being run successfully. I've seen some rsnapshot plugins that will ...
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How to define a host group on Nagios 4
I would like to define a host group on Nagios 4. In recon it should be defined somewhere in /usr/local/nagios/etc. I tried creating a file hostgroups.cfg that with contents:
define hostgroup{
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Notify when some grouped services fail in Nagios [duplicate]
I have three DNS services, each on different hosts configured in Nagios. Each service notifies me whenever it is failing (DNS on host A down).
Is it possible to configure Nagios so that I'm only ...
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Nagios: NRPE: Unable to read output, Can't find the reason, can you?
I have a Nagios server and a monitored server.
On the monitored server:
[root@Monitored ~]# netstat -an |grep :5666
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:5666 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN ...
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Nagios best practices for setting up hosts/services?
I am having a hard time trying to get my head around some of the more basic concepts of Nagios that I thought would be straight forward.
Basically, as well as the standard local infrastructure, I ...
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Nagios failing to expand $CONTACTEMAIL$ macro in notificaion command
I'm having a problem where my nofication command isn't expanding the $CONTACTEMAIL$ macro
(Version 3.2.1 installed on debian squeeze using the debian packages)
me@hostname:/etc/nagiosql# dpkg -l | ...
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Nagios NRPE check_procs reporting incorrect number
I have an etch nagios server (I will call this NagiosServer), successfully monitoring lots of stuff, including another etch server (MonitorEtch). Using check_nrpe and check_procs I'm able to check the ...
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How do I Display Nagios Host Custom Variables or Macros in the Web Interface?
How can I display custom host variables in the Nagios web interface such as _mac_address?
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nagios Missing Dependency: perl(Net::SNMP)
I have an odd problem. I'm trying to install nagios NRPE but it keeps failing with
nagios-plugins-1.4.15-2.el5.rf.i386 from rpmforge has depsolving problems
--> Missing Dependency: perl(Net::...
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How can I monitor VNC via Nagios?
I have a number of remote sites which have VNC running on a few computers for support purposes. They are (obviously) only available on our internal network.
I am using Nagios to keep track of all ...
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In Icinga (Nagios), how do I configure hosts with multiple IPs?
I'm setting up Icinga (Nagios fork) and I have some machines with multiple interfaces. Some services are only listening on one of them and to check them correctly, I like to know if it's possible to ...
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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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Nagios performance graphs
I've written my own perl script to return status from a server of mine. It is running just fine (ie. performance data: val1=1; val2=5; val3=10).
Using templates.dist/default.php this gives me 3 ...
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Is there a Nagios plugin that uses Nmap and does port checking?
I need to monitor open and closed ports on dozens of hosts. I've found a Nagios plugin that does what I need, but I would have to use this script through NRPE.
Some of the hosts are powered by Linux ...
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Nagios: How to aggregate a large amount of notifications into one email notifcation?
I have a Nagios server which monitors many servers.
There's a dashboard which has been coded in-house and it sends monitoring data using passive checks to the Nagios server.
Whenever an issue occurs, ...
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How to allow Active Directory authenticated users use Nagios web interface?
I have put .htaccess files in the Nagios html root and CGI root directories, so in order to get access to the web interface, the users needs a valid Active Directory account.
The problem I have is in ...
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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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Configuring holidays for Nagios
I had nagios configured to know that this was a holiday:
monday -1 may 00:00-24:00 ; Memorial Day (Last Monday in May)
As far as I can tell it didn't work on Monday because I received some ...
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How the heck do you test an HTTPS site for a revoked cert?
I'm currently using nagios to do monitoring, including using the check_http options to check for an SSL cert that expires soon, etc. What I'd like to do is include testing for revoked certs for each ...
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Nagios escalations, prematurely critical escalation after warning
In Nagios 3, I would like a service to be escalated after being critical XX minutes. It works great on services that go from UP to CRITICAL. However, if the service has been warning >XX minutes (say ...
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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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is Sensu a replacement for both CollectD and Nagios?
Trying to get my facts straight here.
Is Sensu (pretty new kid on the block) meant to be a replacement for both the following?:
Nagios (monitoring & alerting)
collectD (feeding info to Nagios ...
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