Questions tagged [icinga]
Icinga is a fork of the Nagios Project that is also backwards compatible with Nagios.
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check_snmp plugin gets a value but returns UNKNOWN
I've got an SNMPv3 command in Icinga that uses the check_snmp Nagios plugin. The plugin completes the check and gets a response from the server (confirmed by running in verbose mode) but returns ...
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Exclude Service with spaces in name in NRPE arguments
exclude=edgeupdate = working fine
exclude=Sophos Clean Service = not working
what syntax do I have to use here?
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Why CISCO-ERR-DISABLE-MIB trap does not show interface and vlan information in Icinga?
I have a cisco and a monitoring server with icinga (a.k.a. nagios, thruk). I want to receive traps from cisco and show them in icinga. But I am unable to see the interface and vlan for the errdisable ...
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running remote check commands using icinga remote agent
I have icinga v2.11.3-1 installed on 4 servers, one as master and the rest are agent nodes and they are some-what properly configured because they are visible in icingaweb2 under hosts.
what I want ...
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get agent nodes to show on master node in icingaweb2
I installed icinga2 and icingaweb2 on master node
I installed icinga2 on 3 more servers as agent nodes.
I used icinga2 node wizard, configured them as agent and allowed them to connect to master node....
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Remote Icinga instance 'xxx' is not connected to 'zzzz'
I have Icinga2 installed including Director.
I've added a template, service and a Windows, installed an agent on the host but there's something that I must be missing.
I keep getting
"Remote ...
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Exclude partition in Icinga2 check disk [check_disk] not working
I'm trying to exclude a partition from check_disk command in Icinga2 and it's not working as expected.
The problem is due to /snap/core being recognised as a partition like this.
So, I've opened the ...
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Configured repository failed for Icinga2 on Amazon Linux EC2
added the epel release repo and the Icinga2 repo into my instance
based on this guide
while installing Icinga2 with sudo yum install icinga2
i am getting
http://packages.icinga.com/epel/latest/...
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Icinga 1.x alert history shows all items from 1970
Icinga Classic UI 1.13.4 (as offered by Debian 9, replacing Nagios 3 from Debian 8) is exhibiting a strange behaviour when reviewing alert history.
When selecting "View Alert History For This Host" ...
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Icinga2 disk check - suppressing testing for some dirs
Certain app creates a directory that a root cannot access (see Getting info about a weird directory) and Icinga2 instance running on that host creates useless alerts about it:
disk on homehost.dom is ...
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ICINGA monitor the space of a folder
I have a icinga server that monitors two Windows servers through NSClient.
I would like to monitor the space of a folder with this path C:\Windows\System32\winevt\Logs.
Is there any way to monitor ...
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Using Icinga 1 object configuration files with Icinga 2
Icinga 2 introduced a new format for its object configuration files. Where Icinga 1 e.g. expected
define service {
name my_service
# ...
}
Icinga 2 now expects
object Service "my_service" {
# .....
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Can a service-check be limited to hosts with a custom attribute defined?
For those of our hosts, which have a public IP-address, we define a custom attribute in the host-definition: _PADDR:
define host {
...
address 10....
_paddr 53....
}
Can we ...
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Icinga Agent Security
i have tried to search this on internet , but coudn't find a answer.
I have setup Icinga2 on my LAN network, and a remote client on a cloud VPS(using the icinga default distributed monitoring with ...
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Nagios Plugin API: return N results, not just one
I love the nagios plugin API. It is easy and successful.
The exit-status of the check can have these values:
0: ok
1: WARN
2: ERR
3: Unkown
See: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/docs/...
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How to trigger a service-check by a change in a host-status?
We have an array of servers, any of which could go down generating a medium-priority notification:
define host {
host_name foo1
contacts medium-priority
use ...
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Why would I need/want idomod, ido2db, etc.?
I'm reworking an Icinga setup I inherited. One of the things it perpetually complains about is ido2db not running (and idomod unable to connect to it).
Before figuring out, how to configure/fix it, I'...
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Submit check via http proxy or socks proxy from one icinga/nagios instance to another
We're running icinga 1.11.6, and have been receiving updates from many computers in our network via the NSCA protocol.
Due to customer limitations we have to set up a network behind a socks and http ...
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check_snmp_load Return code of 255 is out of bounds
My Icinga 1.14 web interface reports "Return code of 255 is out of bounds" despite the check returning an OK status. (The nrpe binary is not used to execute commands.)
/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/...
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Icinga 1 host status UNREACHABLE but all checks are OK
This is with a distributed Icinga 1 environment.
I have about 100 hosts on an Icinga 1 client/satellite that are stuck with UNREACHABLE status. All four checks for each host are returning OK state ...
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Nagios3 to Icinga migration breaks nrpe checks
I have upgraded a server from Debian 8 to Debian 9. The server was running Nagios 3 to do some checks but that has been discontinued. The natural replacement is Icinga (version 1).
I've installed it ...
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Icinga2: How to do notification in waves?
I am currently setting up my Icinga2 in a new structure and wanted to add a few features. I am done with 90% but I miss exactly one feature: Notify me in a wave.
Let me explain:
Whenever an error ...
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Icinga2 - ExternalCommands filling my DB
Today I noticed all external commands received goes to the IDO, myicinga_externalcommands table on Postgres is over 350Gb (probably around 98% of DB).
As you may have guess, my setup is a bit ...
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Icinga: max_attempts vs max_check_attempts
A service definition in Icinga or Nagios config can have paramaters called max_attempts or max_check_attempts.
The docs describe max_attempts as:
If you've configured the max_attempts option of ...
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Can I disable specific "Host Commands" in Icinga's (1.14) web interface?
I have web users (NOC workers) who are (against our instructions) enabling active checks on my Icinga 1 server. This causes the checked hosts to appear to be down when they are not, etc.
I'd like to ...
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How do I change trap alert from unknown to critical in Icinga 1?
I have a trap being sent by a device showing up as UNKNOWN in Icinga 1.13 because the MIB expects an integer but the trap sends:
Failed to connect to SIP registrar Can not establish connection ...
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Icinga not expanding contactemail variable
I'd like to define a couple contacts that make use of the user variables out of resources.cfg like this:
define contact {
contact_name XXX
use ...
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Host availability report from nagios\icinga log file
Is there a way of analyzing and report-building from icinga\nagios log files?
I tried (avail.cgi) host availability reports but it works so slowly. I should wait 3-5 minutes if I want a week report ...
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NSClient CheckEventLog gives no entries for id
We have a Red Hat server that runs Icinga2 with NSClient++ 0.5.0.62 to monitor some devices and services in our network. Everything works perfectly fine except for one new check I'm trying to use.
I ...
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How do I monitor the NRPE daemon on remote Icinga servers
Our network has one Icinga master and 23 Icinga satellites. NRPE runs on every satellite as well as the master. Is there a Nagios plugin I can run on the master to monitor whether nrpe is running on ...
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Unable to provide check_snmp_int.pl data to Graphite and JasperReports
I am an absolute beginner with Icinga and I have already tried several desperate attempts at finding a solution to it.
After finally bringing check_snmp_int.pl to give me performance data I've tried ...
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Nagios plugin execution fails with Icinga 1.13 on CentOS 7.3.1611
Software Versions:
icinga-1.13.0-0.el7.centos.x86_64
nagios-plugins-all-2.0.3-3.el7.x86_64
CentOS 7.3.1611
[1484095979] error executing command '/check_ping': No such file or directory. Make sure ...
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Problems in RAID not being reported by Nagios/Icinga - using check_raid
I am running the check_raid script on a number of machines and I just noticed today that one of my machines was in a degraded state but I was not being alerted. The script is returning "CRITICAL" but ...
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How to restrict a hostgroup to a specific user group? (icinga2/icingaweb2)
I want to know how to restrict a hostgroup to a specific group of users in icinga. In case that many organizations use the monitoring system, they can only see what's inside their hostgroup/s
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icinga 1.6.1 passive checks failing after we migrate icinga master/slave server to new ip
Excuse me as i dont have much knowledge on icinga but unfortunately i have been asked to look at some ongoing issue in company on icinga since we moved icinga master and slave servers to new ip.
All ...
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Is it possible for current versions of icinga2 to configure nodes from master?
I've carefully read http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/cli-commands and see command icinga2 repository service which should allow to add or remove services.
But when i ...
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nagios/icinga flapping notifications not sent?
I've seen this on nagios and on my current icinga installation.
I have flap detection turned on. I have my contact definition set to:
service_notification_options w,u,c,r,f
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Dynamically setting check_interval parameter based on Service_State in Icinga2
I have a requirement where check interval is 180 mins while notification interval is 10 mins. Means service owner wants if he miss any alert that usually comes after 180 mins if service is critical ...
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Using the service.check_command variable in Icinga2 action_url query string
I'm trying to make an action_url which will dynamically link from IcingaWeb2 to Grafana graphs. I have it working up to a point, but I'd like to add another variable...the $SERVICECHECKCOMMAND$ ...
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Error in icingaweb2 setup (openSUSE, nginx)
I have been trying to setup icinga2/icingaweb2 in our office following exclusively the official documentation. The base system is openSUSE (Leap 42.1) and the webserver is nginx.
Everything works ...
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icinga NRPE vs. SNMP
Is there a list of the pro/s and con/s of NRPE vs. SNMP when using icinga?
I have no idea what's the best way to handle the returned data of plugins back to my icinga monitoring machine.
Usage of ...
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Icinga monitoring, random "Connection refused by host"
I have a Nagios/icinga monitoring system, which i use to monitor mainly Windows based machines running a version of NSClient++ that i found works without being too annoying (NSCP-0.4.1.105-x64). This ...
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Setting up icinga2 nodes via Ansible: how do I get the ticket from the master?
I'm trying to write an Ansible playbook to set up Icinga2 nodes, but each host needs a unique ticket from the Icinga2 master to authenticate. Right now I'm thinking of ssh'ing out from the node to the ...
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How to raise alert if a tcp port is responding in Icinga2?
I'm new to Icinga2. I have set up a couple of service checks. Now I want to check if a TCP port is responding, and if it does raise a down event. Basically I want to reverse the status, because ...
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icinga2, pnp4nagios error: "RRDs::create ERROR you must define at least one Round Robin Archive"
I can't get pnp4nagios to work with icinga2 on ubuntu 14.04 using the latest commit of the chef-icinga2 cookbook.
I set pnp=true in my wrapper cookbook and the icinga2::server_pnp recipe runs ...
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Icinga 2 sends notifications outside of specified time period
I'm trying to send different notifications in different time periods, basically I want to send all notifications during work hours, but only notifications for hosts marked emergency during off hours.
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How to set icinga2 downtime across midnight
Our backup is running between 22:00 and about 05:00 the next day. I could not figure out how to set this in a scheduled downtime with "apply ScheduledDowntime" in icinga2 (r2.4.1-1 on opensuse 42.1).
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How can I trigger an instant rerun of Check_MK data collection through Icinga?
I am using Check_MK to generate checks to make Icinga (a Nagios fork) monitor a bunch of machines. After starting up Icinga, after some time, Check_MK starts to collect data from the configured ...
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Something for Icinga like sensu-metrics-relay
I used to work with Sensu and I was using a plugin called sensu-metrics-relay so I could easily forward some metrics collected using a jenkins plugin called "Metrics Plugin" to graphite.
Now I am ...
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icinga2: query check results from command line?
is there any native way of actually retrieving the current check results from an Icinga 2 instance? I can't find it documented.
If not, are there accepted, known-good command line frontends to query ...
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