Nagios is a powerful monitoring system that enables organizations to identify and resolve IT infrastructure problems before they affect critical business processes.
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There is any monitoring hosted solution? [closed]
I know Zabbix and Nagios, but I don't know any company that host those services for others to use.
I would like to find a solution that monitored at least some of my public URLs (if they are ...
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NRPE unable to read output, but why?
I have this problem with NRPE, all the stuff I've found so far on the net seems to point me at things I've already tried.
# /usr/local/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H nrpeclient
gives
NRPE v2.12
as ...
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Monitoring production server
Hey all,
We have 3 dedicated server, splitted in several VPS using openVZ.
We're using munin to monitor the VPS with the production sites, and monit on some one of the VPS to make sure it restarts the ...
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nagios - Web interface: authentication through kerberos OK, what about authorization on cgi.cfg?
I have successfully installed nagios, and it provides authentication through apache2 which contacts a kerberos authentication server to authenticate users.
Now, users are authenticated, but they ...
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Send all outgoing mail to /dev/null
With sendmail, how would you send all outgoing mail to /dev/null or just prevent email from being queued up or sent at all?
On a development nagios box I want prevent sending of mail so that ...
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How do I configure Nagios mobile / SMS alerts?
How do I send alerts from Nagios monitoring tool to mobile?
Any resources or links or tutorials are fine.
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Can ZenOSS integrate Ganglia smoothly?
I like Ganglia for its Gmetric function, and I like its multi-layer capability.
But Ganglia does not have healthiness check, alerting and etc. for the server monitor functionality. So it would be ...
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2answers
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Nagios plugin to take process snapshot when load is high
We have configured nagios with check_load NRPE plugin to monitor server load. It reports when load is high, but does not have option to take a snapshot top processes ( like top commmand) at that time.
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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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How to configure nagios realtime SMS alert
I have configured nagios SMS alert and it takes around one minute to send notification. I want to get SMS notification withing one/two second(s) after system/service failure. I could not find any way ...
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Munin vs Nagios
We're currently using Nagios to monitor about 20 Linux machines (services and functional links). I just find out about Munin and I wonder if this is a Nagios replacement, or it can be used together ...
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Nagios alerts by telephone?
I have a couple of nagios servers that currently alert me via SMS and email, but I'd like to add outgoing calls to that. The ideal solution would have the nagios machines call my cellphone and play an ...
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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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Network port open, but no process attached?
I have a weird situation going on with an open network port. My main question is, why would there not be a program associated with an open TCP port:
netstat -ln --program
Active Internet connections ...
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How to monitor Windows host with Nagios?
How do I use Nagios to monitor Windows clients? Are there any alternative solutions available?
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How do you monitor a monitoring server?
So we run Groundworks (with Nagios) on CentOS to monitor our various servers and processes. I have it setup to automatically send emails and SMS texts when things reach a WARNING or CRITICAL state. ...
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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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2answers
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Does Mac OS X SNMP report cached memory?
We're using a Nagios plugin to check the chassis of hosts over SNMP. I'm trying to set up a mac os x machine, but it's failing. All the rest of our hosts we're checking are Linux. This is the first ...
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More detail EC2 instances monitoring? [closed]
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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Allow host down while under nagios watch
We're using nagios to watch our servers health. Now we have a task to add server which will be up only for certain time. And during that time we have to ensure that all services are up and running. ...
2
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1answer
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Nagios XI Virtual Server on Hyper-V - Networking
I'm trying to get the Nagios XI virtual machine working on Hyper-V (yes, I know it's not a supported config). I'm trying to get it on the network to download some packages so that I can then install ...
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3answers
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Nagios alert by email for WARNING and pager for CRITICAL [duplicate]
I want to set Nagios up to issue warnings (e.g. mildly high load or disk usage) via email, but for critical items to alert by pager.
Right now we notify via email and pager simultaneously for all ...
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1answer
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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 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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Change how Nagios determines if server is offline?
I'm new to nagios and my server is on a network which does not allow the server to be pinged. Is it possible for me to check if the server is up another way? e.g via SSH or HTTP? How would I do this ...
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What Warning and Critical values to use for check_load?
Right now I am using these values:
# y = c * p / 100
# y: nagios value
# c: number of cores
# p: wanted load procent
# 4 cores
# time 5 minutes 10 minutes 15 minutes
# warning: 90% ...
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1answer
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monitoring of the virtual host (apache) bandwidth and visitors via nagios?
I've installed Nagios and Centreon, and I want to monitor the bandwidth and the number of visitors of each VirtualHost in Apache server. I've found check_http but it checks only if the virtualHost is ...
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1answer
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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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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 SMS notififacion with gammu smsd does not work
gammu-smsd configuration:
#vi /etc/gammu-smsdrc
# Configuration file for Gammu SMS Daemon
# Gammu library configuration, see gammurc(5)
[gammu]
# Please configure this!
port = /dev/rfcomm0
...
