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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How to monitor SQL Server backups with Nagios?
How can I set up Nagios to monitor the health of SQL Server (SQL Agent) backups?
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How to monitor Macrium Reflect backups with Nagios?
Has anyone set up monitoring of Macrium Reflect backups using Nagios? If not that specific backup software, any general suggestions for how to set up Nagios to monitor backups?
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Graphing services using pnp4nagios
I've managed to install pnp4nagios 0.6.3 and I'm a bit confused about how pnp4nagios generates graphics.
Almost out of the box, it started graphs for ping and some http servers (not all of them). ...
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nsclient++ map file entries for windows servers
We use nagios to monitor our network. Has anyone found a sample map file containing entries that correspond to the services in nsclient++
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Is there a feature in Nagios that allows Memory between checks?
There are various instances where there are values I want to monitor with Nagios, and I don't care as much about the value itself, but rather how it compares to the previous value.
For instance, I ...
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Configure nagios to alert only when there are no mx servers available
In my company there are two redundant MX servers, I would like to tell nagios to wake me in the night ONLY if both servers are down.
The default behavior is to alert whenever one of the MX servers is ...
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Nagios Statistics for Notifications/Alerts
We have had our Nagios installation up for a year, and we are now required to give some statistics on how much it has worked and what it has done in the environment. As such, I was wondering if anyone ...
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nagios's priority for host vs service the other way around
I'm just curios, let's say i made a definition for a host and i specified it to check/notify at certain time 10-18 yet in service i said 24/7, who's taking priority? would i get alerts 24/7 or would ...
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Is there a Nagios plugin that enables you to specify the referrer URL when checking a URL?
I want to monitor site A that only accepts requests for a certain URL if the requests originate from site B. I know Wget has an option of downloading content protected by referrer like so
wget --...
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Distributed Nagios Installation
I'm looking for a plug-in or product that will act as a remote probe and perform tests then send back the results to the central Nagios server.
Reason for this is that I'd like to monitor internal ...
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How do I rollup a hundred nagios service checks to a single check?
I'm monitoring a service via check_nrpe to hundreds of boxes. Whenever this service goes bad, typically every box goes bad and get flooded with notifications/text msgs.
Any suggestions on how or what ...
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PNP4Nagios, nagiosgraph, separate Cacti, or something else for Nagios trending
I've been using Nagios for a while now and recently started using Cacti after being dissatisfied with the lack of scaling and lack of any GUI in MRTG. I'm interested in adding trending to my Nagios ...
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OpenSource management tool for measuring and reporting on power efficiency of Servers [closed]
I would like to measure the power efficiency of servers (virtualized) using an opensource management tool like Nagios or OpenNMS. Cacti also might be useful for it's historical graphing capabilities, ...
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Nagios3, monitoring CPU usage without SNMP?
Is there currently anyway to monitor CPU usage with Nagios3 that doesn't involve SNMP setup? I want to setup notifications if I'm going above a certain threshold, such as 55% of the CPU time is being ...
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How to allow a user in Nagios to view the status of some servers, but not disable/enable anything?
How to allow a user in Nagios to view the status of some servers, but not disable/enable anything?
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NRPE-like checks from windows-based machines
I am sorry for not being able to come up with a more descriptive question title.
For getting remote metrics I use nrpe on linux-based machines and nsclient++ on windows-based machines.
If I need to ...
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High load on a nagios server -- How many service checks for a nagios server is too many?
I have a nagios server running Ubuntu with a 2.0 GHz Intel Processor, a RAID10 array, and 400 MB of RAM. It monitors a total of 42 services across 8 hosts, most of which are checked using the ...
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Best practices for monitoring a JIRA installation?
One of my clients has a confluence / JIRA system set up. They've been having some issues- outbound email gets wedged, etc. If you support a JIRA install, what do you monitor? Do you use JMX? Direct ...
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Are there any nagios plugins or tools for viewing performance reports in a cool way?
We have Nagios monitoring our web servers, mail servers and network devices, I was wondering if anyone would recommend a good plugin or tool that uses Nagios data to create clear perfomance reports on ...
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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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Juniper router SNMP montioring
I've been asked to write a script that checks the status of all interfaces on a Juniper router using SNMP. I know how to use SNMP walk and have written a test perl script to retrieve the hostname.
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Nagios notifications definitions
I am trying to monitor a web server in such a way that I want to search for a particular string on a page via http. The command is defined in command.cfg as follows
# 'check_http-mysite command ...
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Nagios check for service not if host is up
I'm looking for a little direction on this one. We have 8 mobile servers, and at anytime one can go offline and be moved to a different location. I don't want Nagios to send me an alert if a system ...
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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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Debugging Nagios Configuration
I have this nagios configuration that won't validate.
I'm trying to set up contacts and the various groups of contacts. My Contacts are based off of my generic-manager template:
define contact {
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How to monitor freeradius using EAP-MSCHAP v2 authentication method with Nagios?
How to monitor freeradius using EAP-MSCHAP v2 authentication method with Nagios? Do you know any nagios plugins for such monitoring?
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How to monitor Cisco IPsec VPN with Nagios?
How to monitor Cisco IPsec VPN with Nagios? I want to check if a user can connect to VPN.
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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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Use 3rd party tools with opsview
How can I use 3rd party tools like nagstamon nagios monitoring or the iphone tools with opsview? there is no cgi-bin anymore it seems (you get redirected to status/hostgroup)
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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 RHEL 5.4
I'm moving Nagios 3 over from Ubuntu 8 server to RHEL 5.4. One nice feature Ubuntu had is the ability to tell you where the configuration errors are. For example if I had something incorrect in my ...
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Monitor a HTTPS site requiring login with Nagios
I'm trying to figure out how to get Nagios to monitor a few sites that are using HTTPS and require a username/password to log in - I can't figure out how it should be done so I can set a username and ...
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Nagios with nrpe Service check timed out
Ok, here is the deal, I'm currently using two distributed nagios monitoring servers and over 70 monitored hosts.
Each of the hosts is monitored via nrpe addon, each of the hosts have exact same ...
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Monitoring MySQL SELECT/WRITE/UPDATE/SLOW queries in Nagios
There's ways to get performance graphs with several monitoring software packages out there such as ZenOSS. There's a plugin available that will graph MySQL based SELECT/WRITE/SLOW queries in a nice ...
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Snmp configuration giving me timeout, no response
This is definitely not a firewall issue as no firewalls are in between the src and tgt machines. I'm simply setting up snmp to be queried by a nagios server. My snmpd.conf looks like the following (I'...
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nagios check_http returns 200 on cmdline, 404 in web ui
Not sure what the problem is here, but I'm setting a test for two virtual hosts that are both ran on the same web server. I just want to make sure a GET on / is coming back with an HTTP 200. When I ...
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Monitoring router bandwidth usage via Nagios and SNMP
I'm using GroundWork (a monitoring framework built upon Nagios) to monitor some network devices via SNMP, but I'm stuck on a problem with bandwidth usage.
Most routers, including the Cisco 2800 used ...
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nagios check http with form authentication
Several of the websites that require nagios (or icinga) monitoring have form based authentication. Is there a check_ script available that does form based authentication for nagios (or icinga).
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Nest check_by_ssh in Nagios?
I'm trying to monitor a remote cluster of servers with one server that has a public IP. I'm trying to nest check_by_ssh to check on things like load, etc. But no matter what kind of quoting and ...
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Nagios - getting historical data and automated trending
I am using Nagios for an energy efficiency project and workload balancing is a crucial aspect of the project. I am interested in how I can retrieve historical data from Nagios (e.g. CPU load for the ...
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Nagios monitoring with SMS alerts via Clickatell
I'm trying to configure Nagios 3 to monitor a server via HTTP by searching for a certain string by using the check_http command as follows.
define command {
command_name check_http-mysite
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Space out various service checks for a host with Nagios
Anyone know if there is way to time various service checks per host?
So for example, if I have hostA and 5 different services checks for that host. Each of those checks happens every 5 minutes. Can ...
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Check users currently logged in on a remote system with Nagios
In Nagios there exists a check_users function to check the number of users logged into the local system, but how do I do the same for a remote system? I have failed in trying to find the appropriate ...
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How do I monitor CPU and Memory usage with Nagios?
Is there a plugin that does that? If yes, how do I set it up?
I have Nagios on a single server setup (nagios monitoring the box where it's hosted), so I don't need any fancy way of getting that info ...
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Monitor ssh on non-default port with Nagios
I just deployed Nagios on a Gentoo server and everything is fine except ssh, which it marks as "CRITICAL" because it's refusing connections. But that's because it's running on a port different from ...
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iptables connlimit triggering unexpectedly
I've been using these firewall rules:
-I FORWARD -p tcp --syn -m connlimit --connlimit-above 50 -j REJECT
-I FORWARD -p tcp --syn -m connlimit --connlimit-above 50 -j LOG --log-prefix "CONNLIMIT: " --...
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Defining the email address which Nagios sends emails from
Hi currently Nagios sends notifications from [email protected], How do I go about configuring this?
Thanks
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Monitoring MySQL clusers with Nagios
I'm trying to figure out how to monitor MySQL clusters with Nagios.
I have found the following information at http://blog.unixmaniacs.com/2008/12/mysql-cluster-ndbd-monitoring-with.html, however I ...
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Simple check to see if mysql is up with Nagios
Is there a simple check to see if MySQL is up on a host with Nagios without authenticating and selecting a table?
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An alternative to NSClient++ for windows-based systems monitoring
First of all, I am fully aware of the existence of this question.
With that out of the way, - I am looking for something to monitor windows-based systems for metrics, that are impractical to collect ...
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