[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Bugs-683235 ] check_snmp doesn't pass -t argument

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Bugs item #683235, was opened at 2003-02-09 03:05
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Category: Argument proccessing
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop)
Summary: check_snmp doesn't pass -t argument

Initial Comment:
The check_snmp plugin doesn't pass the -t 
(timeout) argument to snmpget.


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>Comment By: Stanley Hopcroft (stanleyhopcroft)
Date: 2003-04-30 23:31

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1.2.9-b2 plugins supported the -t option (meaning timeout).

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Comment By: Karl DeBisschop (kdebisschop)
Date: 2003-02-09 12:05

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it's true that there is a timeout option to snmpcmd - but it
doesn't mean the same thing as for the plugins.

But the post is correct that snmtget's notion of timeout
should be waht causes the return, so we can pick up the
error message, rather than just closing the socket.

For now, I am giong to set the number of attempts to socket
timeout - 1, and force the timeout interval to one second
(overriding any local defaults, which has it's own problems)

Can anyone with an older install of ucd-snmp tell me how far
back support fot the -t and -r options is supported?
Opinions on whether I need to add tests in configure.in?

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[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Support Requests-725238 ] invalid drive when using check_nt

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Support Requests item #725238, was opened at 2003-04-22 06:15
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Category: None
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Status: Open
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Shane Reutzel (smreutzel)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: invalid drive when using check_nt

Initial Comment:
I am able to retrieve disk information about the C: drive 
of a remote NT machine using the check_nt script.  But, 
If I try any of the other drives on that machine, I get the 
following error "Free disk space : Invalid drive".  Is there 
something specific that I need to include in the syntax?

Thanks,
Shane

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Comment By: Luke Steele (luke_steele)
Date: 2003-04-29 13:40

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service[server1]
=Disk;0;24x7;3;3;1;admins;120;24x7;1;1;1;;check_nt_disk!c!
90!95!

The 1st parameter is the drive letter, the second the lower 
threshold, the third the higher threshold

Hope this helps

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[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-New Plugins-728927 ] check_http-with-client-certificate and more...

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New Plugins item #728927, was opened at 2003-04-28 13:40
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Category: C plugin
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Fabian Pehla (fpehla)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: check_http-with-client-certificate and more...

Initial Comment:
This plugin is a rewrite of the existing check_http.c
and additionally implements the following features:

* check server certificate against supplied hostname
(Host: header) if any
* check server certificate against local CA
certificates (as browsers do)
* authenticate with client certificate (and optional
passphrase)
* specify HTTP returncodes to return a status of
WARNING or OK instead of CRITICAL (only global for 3xx
or 4xx errors)
* check only against HTTP status line and exit
immediately if not matched

This plugin code can be compiled as a replacement for
the existing check_http.c. 

As discussed with Subhendu Ghosh it is meant to be
integrated with the existing plugin code. In the
meantime feel free to use and test the plugin...

It is mainly tested with Solaris 2.6 and 8 and also
with Red Hat Linux 6.x and 7.x. As I remember I have
not yet compiled the plugin without OpenSSL, so this
may not work.

Feel free to post your feedback to the nagiosplug-devel
list.

Fabian

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hi all

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Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] long names in devices whith check_disk

[Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh@sg...>]

On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Mohamed Badri wrote:

> hello,
> 
> I'm running nagios plugins on HpUx 11.11 but check_disk returns an error 
> when used with devices names greater than something like 20 caracters.
> in this case check returns :
> 
> ====
> Unable to read output:
> /usr/bin/df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> ====
> 
> the problem is with df output command, result is on 3 lines instead of 2
> for exemple :
> 
> ====
> [hpux:/tmp]df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
>                       14945920  2108416 12837504    15%   /datanoheto
> ====
> 
> I make some modification on the code, to make it work on long path names,
> So I just wanted to know if this problem was resolved in a new version or not,
> or if it is a known problem.
> 
> thanx.
> 
> 

This is a known problem - but no solution has been posted for rel 1.3
If you cna post a patch for this - that would help.

check_disk is going through a complete rewrite for v1.4 and will not be 
using the df command.



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-sg

Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] config.in question/issue

[Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh@sg...>]

Thanks for pointing it out (very clearly)

The current setup with 'swap -l' must have worked with Irix 5.x :(
Can you post a bug to this effect on SF.

perhaps 'swap -l -n' will do the job.

-sg


On Fri, 25 Apr 2003, Karl W. Burkett wrote:

> Morning,
> 
>   I'm having a problem with Irix that I think stems from the way the
> check_swap section of config.in ( and consequently configure) is setup.
> I should say that version 1.29 of configure (included with beta2) does
> work by correctly avoiding check_swap.
> 
> Now, for a little platform information:
> 
> bash-2.05$ uname -a
> IRIX irix65 6.5 07151439 IP22
> 
> bash-2.05$ which swap
> /etc/swap
> 
> Output from the swap command used in configure:
> bash-2.05$ swap -l
> lswap path         dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap    vswap
> 
>     1 /dev/swap
>                    0,58     0      0   262144   229728   262144        0
> 
> Note that there are some buried tabs as well as a carriage return in the
> above.  See below (vi w/ set list):
> lswap path    ^I   dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap
> vswap$
>     1 /dev/swap$
> ^I^I   0,58     0      0   262144   229728   262144        0$
> 
> Now this clearly does not match any of the swap formats in the pertinent
> section of configure.in yet I do have a swap command that is easy to
> find.
> 
> Now  ideally, this format of the swap command should be added to the
> section and then SWAP_FORMAT can receive the correct value.  I will
> readily admit that I don't have the knowledge or expertise to attempt
> figure out the correct string for this case and hope that some can
> easily put it together.  But, I should also point out that the existence
> of a swap utility of an unknown format should not trigger a compile of
> check_swap.c, so I'm thinking that this section of the code needs to be
> reworked.
> 
> Hope I've been a little help and not a hindrance.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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[Nagiosplug-devel] config.in question/issue

[Karl W. Burkett <burkett@is...>]

Morning,

  I'm having a problem with Irix that I think stems from the way the
check_swap section of config.in ( and consequently configure) is setup.
I should say that version 1.29 of configure (included with beta2) does
work by correctly avoiding check_swap.

Now, for a little platform information:

bash-2.05$ uname -a
IRIX irix65 6.5 07151439 IP22

bash-2.05$ which swap
/etc/swap

Output from the swap command used in configure:
bash-2.05$ swap -l
lswap path         dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap    vswap

    1 /dev/swap
                   0,58     0      0   262144   229728   262144        0

Note that there are some buried tabs as well as a carriage return in the
above.  See below (vi w/ set list):
lswap path    ^I   dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap
vswap$
    1 /dev/swap$
^I^I   0,58     0      0   262144   229728   262144        0$

Now this clearly does not match any of the swap formats in the pertinent
section of configure.in yet I do have a swap command that is easy to
find.

Now  ideally, this format of the swap command should be added to the
section and then SWAP_FORMAT can receive the correct value.  I will
readily admit that I don't have the knowledge or expertise to attempt
figure out the correct string for this case and hope that some can
easily put it together.  But, I should also point out that the existence
of a swap utility of an unknown format should not trigger a compile of
check_swap.c, so I'm thinking that this section of the code needs to be
reworked.

Hope I've been a little help and not a hindrance.

Thanks.




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    Rice University        713.348.6256
    Systems &
      LAN Management
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Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] regarding RRD, MRTG, xpdfile

[BOLLENGIER Eric <ebollengier@si...>]

> > 
> > You can do something like
> > [root@... log]# > srvperf.log

> I don't get it.  what do you mean?  Seems like you are writing to a file? and then closing it?

see your system or shell lesson :) (in c close(open("file", "w")) ;

> 1) mv /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log.roll
> 2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios restart

Try something like :

cp /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log.roll
perl -e "open(FP, '>/opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log') ; close(FP) ;" 

or 
cp /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log.roll
> /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log

And you truncate it without change is descriptor...

> > Hier, i don't agree with you... if you have 2000 services...
> 
> Here are some stats for a 551MHz Intell box:

I agree with you, it works pretty good with the truncate method,
and you leave nagios alone.

Regards

Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] regarding RRD, MRTG, xpdfile

[Radu Duta <rduta@sy...>]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:23:14AM +0200, BOLLENGIER Eric wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > I wanted to use --with-file-perfdata to log, and have a process load the data from
> > the file every say 10 minutes, and then roll/delete the file.  If the file is never closed
> > than it is impossible to roll the file without restarting nagios.  
> 
> You can do something like
> [root@... log]# > srvperf.log
> 
> or on perl planet
> 
>     open(FP, ">$log") ;
>     close(FP) ;

I don't get it.  what do you mean?  Seems like you are writing to a file? and then closing it?

I was refering to:

nagios.cfg:xpdfile_service_perfdata_file=/opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log 

With this configuration rolling the file /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log implies:

1) mv /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log /opt/nagios/var/hostperf.log.roll
2) /etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios restart

 
> > I don't think it's for performance, especially considering that checks are done by forks and 
> > adding one more 2-3 more function calls should be pretty modest.
> 
> Hier, i don't agree with you... if you have 2000 services...

Here are some stats for a 551MHz Intell box:

#include <stdio.h>
main() {
    FILE    *xpdfile_host_perfdata_fp=NULL;
    char    *xpdfile_host_perfdata_file="out.txt";
    int     i;

    for (i=0; i< 1000000; i++){
      xpdfile_host_perfdata_fp = fopen (xpdfile_host_perfdata_file,"a");
      fputs(".\n", xpdfile_host_perfdata_fp);
      fflush(xpdfile_host_perfdata_fp);
      fclose(xpdfile_host_perfdata_fp);
    }
}

# time ./a.out                                                                                                                          rduta@...:~/projects/misc/C
./a.out  14.59s user 25.63s system 88% cpu 45.257 total

so your 2000 services would be an added 0.1 seconds ( 2000 * (45.3/1000000) ) to the processing time.

> > Is there a better way?  maybe this should be part of the plugin? after all RTT and loss are
> > specific to that one plugin.  Though now that I think about it RTT is really a function of
> > every network plugin, just not may of them take advantage of it.
> 
> I have a perl script which read nagios cfg, get 
> xpdfile_service_perfdata_file and generate rrd command
> (use | var=val and support nsclient check_disk and check_cpu)

how do you roll the xpdfile_service_perfdata_file file?  The file obviously grows, and pretty quickly,
so at some point you have to roll it, or delete it if you have all of it into RRD right?

I guess some people do this once a week/day/month, but then your rrd tables only get updated once
a week/day/month, and you loose the benefit of realtime.


> > anybody working on adding RRD support to nagios?  seems like a pretty useful data to have
> > and keep since it can directly pinpoint networking/systems problems.


the thing to do really is to create a xpdrrd_service_perfdata module that writes straight to the rrdfile
but the problem is that the return values from the plugin are not standardized ie fping returns data
in a different format then ping. (sigh)

-- 
Radu Duta  <rduta@...>

[Nagiosplug-devel] nagios chopping off check command text

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@ka...>]

hi

When I try sending the following error (1) (clipped from the event log), =
it=20
cuts it off, leaving only the this (2) left. The clipped text is also use=
d in=20
the notification.

any chance of getting the full text?

I've tried several times, and it looks like there's a low buffer somehow=20


1
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------
[25-04-2003 14:00:37] EXTERNAL COMMAND:=20
PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;display01;CP_FLYTOGET_LODALEN;1;Not ready ye=
t.=20
But might be. Don't know. Might be ok. Might be broken. Unable to tell. I=
t's=20
just Windows.  Or unix. OS/2? I don't know. Total confusion. As if in a=20
relation to Confuctus. I might be wrong, but is this a nagios error repor=
t?=20
Possibly. But more likely, I'd say it's closer to a rather bored sysadmin=
=20
write a long passive check text to nagios to see if Nagios has stopped=20
chopping them off in mid sentence. Ok. That's all folks.

2
-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------
Not ready yet. But might be. Don't know. Might be ok. Might be broken. Un=
able=20
to tell. It's just Windows. Or unix. OS/2? I don't know. Total confusion.=
 As=20
if in a relation to Confuctus. I might be wrong, but is this a nagios err=
or=20
report? Possibly. But more likely, I'd say it's closer to a rather bored=20
sysadmin write a long passive check text to na=20

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ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/
Tel: +47 9801 3356

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] long names in devices whith check_disk

[Karl DeBisschop <karl@de...>]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 06:11, Mohamed Badri wrote:
> hello,
> 
> I'm running nagios plugins on HpUx 11.11 but check_disk returns an error 
> when used with devices names greater than something like 20 caracters.
> in this case check returns :
> 
> ====
> Unable to read output:
> /usr/bin/df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> ====
> 
> the problem is with df output command, result is on 3 lines instead of 2
> for exemple :
> 
> ====
> [hpux:/tmp]df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
> Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
>                       14945920  2108416 12837504    15%   /datanoheto
> ====
> 
> I make some modification on the code, to make it work on long path names,
> So I just wanted to know if this problem was resolved in a new version or not,
> or if it is a known problem.

Radical fix is in place in CVS. But it will not be backpatched to 1.3.x
as it nearly a complete rewrite.

We currently don't plan to fix this in 1.3.x, unless a small, simple
patch is provided, something suitable for a maintennence release.

--
Karl

[Nagiosplug-devel] long names in devices whith check_disk

[Mohamed Badri <mohamed@ne...>]

hello,

I'm running nagios plugins on HpUx 11.11 but check_disk returns an error 
when used with devices names greater than something like 20 caracters.
in this case check returns :

====
Unable to read output:
/usr/bin/df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
/dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
====

the problem is with df output command, result is on 3 lines instead of 2
for exemple :

====
[hpux:/tmp]df -Pk /dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
Filesystem          1024-blocks  Used  Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvdatanoheto
                      14945920  2108416 12837504    15%   /datanoheto
====

I make some modification on the code, to make it work on long path names,
So I just wanted to know if this problem was resolved in a new version or not,
or if it is a known problem.

thanx.

Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] regarding RRD, MRTG, xpdfile_update_service_performance_data

[BOLLENGIER Eric <ebollengier@si...>]

Hi,

> I wanted to use --with-file-perfdata to log, and have a process load the data from
> the file every say 10 minutes, and then roll/delete the file.  If the file is never closed
> than it is impossible to roll the file without restarting nagios.  

You can do something like
[root@... log]# > srvperf.log

or on perl planet

    open(FP, ">$log") ;
    close(FP) ;

> I don't think it's for performance, especially considering that checks are done by forks and 
> adding one more 2-3 more function calls should be pretty modest.

Hier, i don't agree with you... if you have 2000 services...


> Is there a better way?  maybe this should be part of the plugin? after all RTT and loss are
> specific to that one plugin.  Though now that I think about it RTT is really a function of
> every network plugin, just not may of them take advantage of it.

I have a perl script which read nagios cfg, get 
xpdfile_service_perfdata_file and generate rrd command
(use | var=val and support nsclient check_disk and check_cpu)

> anybody working on adding RRD support to nagios?  seems like a pretty useful data to have
> and keep since it can directly pinpoint networking/systems problems.

Regards

[Nagiosplug-devel] regarding RRD, MRTG, xpdfile_update_service_performance_data

[Radu Duta <rduta@sy...>]

I have a question regarding the operation of xpdfile_update_service_performance_data.
Is there any specific reason that the file is not opened and closed for each write?  

I wanted to use --with-file-perfdata to log, and have a process load the data from
the file every say 10 minutes, and then roll/delete the file.  If the file is never closed
than it is impossible to roll the file without restarting nagios.  

As a matter of principle I prefer not to restart the nagios process just to roll logs.

I don't think it's for performance, especially considering that checks are done by forks and 
adding one more 2-3 more function calls should be pretty modest.

Maybe I'm approaching the problem the wrong way.  I basically want to save the extra PING
data such as latency and packet loss into a RRD database.  I looked at the typical options and
it seemed like --with-file-perfdata was the best;  then I discovered the file is never closed
and all my hopes were dashed for doing anything real-time short of some fancy tail logger.

Is there a better way?  maybe this should be part of the plugin? after all RTT and loss are
specific to that one plugin.  Though now that I think about it RTT is really a function of
every network plugin, just not may of them take advantage of it.


I settled on having MRTG query nagios/var/status.log since that was by far the easiest to
integrate; but it's not the most elegant of solutions.

any ideas/suggestions?

anybody working on adding RRD support to nagios?  seems like a pretty useful data to have
and keep since it can directly pinpoint networking/systems problems.


-- 
Radu Duta  <rduta@...>

Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins

[Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh@sg...>]

Take a look at tools/setup for initializing a cvs version.

- the INSTALL doc is providing too much and not enough information.

-sg

On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Earl C. Ruby III wrote:

> I checked out the latest nagiosplug source from the SourceForge CVS repository 
> and got this:
> 
> # aclocal -I lib
> # autoconf
> # autoheader
> autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
> # automake
> configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
> configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
> configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
> configure.in:14: required file `./config.guess' not found
> configure.in:14: required file `./config.sub' not found
> lib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found
> 
> Are these files supposed to be created by autoconf/automake or are they 
> supposed to be in the CVS repository? The files "install-sh", 
> "mkinstalldirs", and "missing" are in the old source file 
> nagios-plugins-1.3.0.tar.gz, but they're not in the CVS repository.
> 
> The other three files are nowhere to be found.
> 
> For developers who are compiling the plugins on their own machines from the 
> CVS source tree, how do you do it? What versions of autoconf/automake are you 
> using, and did you have to create other files that aren't in CVS in order to 
> compile the nagiosplug code?
> 
> As you can probably tell, I'm not that familiar with automake. Most of my 
> programming in recent years has been in Perl/Oracle. I'll start digging into 
> the automake docs today, since my employer has the enlightened attitude that 
> we only use Open Source tools, and if I need to contribute time to Open 
> Source projects in order to get my job here done I can do that.
> 
> FWIW, I'm using Linux (SuSE 8.1 Pro distribution) with autoconf 2.53, automake 
> 1.6.3, and gcc 3.2.
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins

[Earl C. Ruby III <earl@sw...>]

I checked out the latest nagiosplug source from the SourceForge CVS repos=
itory=20
and got this:

# aclocal -I lib
# autoconf
# autoheader
autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is created
# automake
configure.in: required file `./install-sh' not found
configure.in: required file `./mkinstalldirs' not found
configure.in: required file `./missing' not found
configure.in:14: required file `./config.guess' not found
configure.in:14: required file `./config.sub' not found
lib/Makefile.am: required file `./depcomp' not found

Are these files supposed to be created by autoconf/automake or are they=20
supposed to be in the CVS repository? The files "install-sh",=20
"mkinstalldirs", and "missing" are in the old source file=20
nagios-plugins-1.3.0.tar.gz, but they're not in the CVS repository.

The other three files are nowhere to be found.

For developers who are compiling the plugins on their own machines from t=
he=20
CVS source tree, how do you do it? What versions of autoconf/automake are=
 you=20
using, and did you have to create other files that aren't in CVS in order=
 to=20
compile the nagiosplug code?

As you can probably tell, I'm not that familiar with automake. Most of my=
=20
programming in recent years has been in Perl/Oracle. I'll start digging i=
nto=20
the automake docs today, since my employer has the enlightened attitude t=
hat=20
we only use Open Source tools, and if I need to contribute time to Open=20
Source projects in order to get my job here done I can do that.

FWIW, I'm using Linux (SuSE 8.1 Pro distribution) with autoconf 2.53, aut=
omake=20
1.6.3, and gcc 3.2.


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[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-New Plugins-727018 ] Newest release of the AIX plugin suite

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New Plugins item #727018, was opened at 2003-04-24 11:12
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Category: Perl plugin
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Lonny  (melaqor)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Newest release of the AIX plugin suite

Initial Comment:
This archive is the latest plugin suite for AIX written
by Lonny Selinger and Chris Rothecker. We've included
methods for checking validation of Kerberos tickets for
both root, and privileged user accounts as well as: a
print queue checker (which attempts to bring downed
queues back up), a paging space reporter, and a failed
root logon attempts plugin.

There can always be refinement and suggestions/issues
are welcome. All of the plugins now have version, help
and usage information but if something seems to be
missing (a lot of the times we comment directly in the
code), please let us know.



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[Nagiosplug-devel] RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient

[Dean Bishop <dbishop@eh...>]

 
likewise i believe that nsclient is invaluable but incomplete.  any
assistance i can lend i would be happy to.  do you have a todo list?

dean


-----Original Message-----
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To: rubiyz
Cc: Dean Bishop; nagios-users@...;
nagios-users-admin@...;
nagiosplug-devel@...; rubiyz; Schindewolf, Stefan,
Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Sent: 4/24/2003 11:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient


Dear All, 

Thanks for all your feedback on this issue. 

Yves - I think that NSClient is a great product and is doing maybe 70%
of what we actually need, but it would be great to go the full distance
and get the performance counters working so we can measure paging file
usage etc. Unfortunately I am not much of a UNIX coder, but would love
to try and help in any way possible. 

Matt 
____________________________________________




"rubiyz" <rubiyz@...> 


24/04/2003 06:03 

To
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Infraserv-Hoechst/DE" <Stefan.Schindewolf@...> 

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Hi, 


  


Thanks for the feedback. I'm also fully aware than there are some
painful issues with NSClient. As this tool is still very much used, I'll
try to bring it to a new level of reliability, maybe using another
technology... 


  


If someone can give me some help on the Unix plug in part, we could save
some time in the development ... 


I'll do my best to get it very soon! 


  


Best regards, 


Yves 


  


-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Bishop [mailto:dbishop@...] 
Sent: mercredi, 23. avril 2003 18:31
To: 'Matthew.Quinney@...'; Schindewolf, Stefan,
Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Cc: 'nagios-users@...';
nagios-users-admin@...;
'nagiosplug-devel@...'; rubiyz
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient 


  


I have nsclient installed on about 50 servers.  "reliable" might be a
bit of a strong word.  It is working for the most part but there are
difficulties: 


  


Sometimes a reboot results in nsclient losing use of the port to another
application 


A lot of memory (>4G) can be a problem. 


Some versions (1.7.0 or so) are dirty and leave a ton of messages in the
event log 


... 


  


that being said, aside from SNMP, it is the only way to get the
information and the problems can be avoided/ignored/worked around. 


  


It would be great if someone had the time to clean it up and finish a
great idea. 


  


Just my 2cents (keep the change), 


dean 


  


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew.Quinney@...
[mailto:Matthew.Quinney@...] 
Sent: April 23, 2003 1:28 PM
To: Schindewolf, Stefan, Infraserv-Hoechst/DE
Cc: 'nagios-users@...';
nagios-users-admin@...;
'nagiosplug-devel@...'; 'rubiyz1047@...'
Subject: [Nagios-users] NSClient 


  



Dear All, 

On the subject of Nsclient and monitoring Windows servers I was
wondering if anybody has got Nsclient monitoring Windows 2000 SP3
performance monitors reliably. We are using Nagios V1.0 and Plugins
1.3.0. 

If anybody is then please let me know - then I can assume I am doing
something wrong. 

I accept that you can install other SNMP counters etc, but I am trying
to make network monitoring as easy as possible - with as fewer clients
installed on servers. I have included a sample check command below. 

I'd be greateful of any help !! 

Thanks 

Matthew 





define command{ 
       command_name    check_nt_pagingfile 
       command_line    $USER1$/check_nt -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 1248 -v
COUNTER -l "\\Paging File(_Total)\\% Usage","Paging file usage is %.2f
%%" -w 70 -c 80 
       } 




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[Nagiosplug-devel] RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient

[<Matthew.Quinney@ho...>]

Dear All,

Thanks for all your feedback on this issue.

Yves - I think that NSClient is a great product and is doing maybe 70% of=20
what we actually need, but it would be great to go the full distance and=20
get the performance counters working so we can measure paging file usage=20
etc. Unfortunately I am not much of a UNIX coder, but would love to try=20
and help in any way possible.

Matt
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=20
If someone can give me some help on the Unix plug in part, we could save=20
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I?ll do my best to get it very soon!
=20
Best regards,
Yves
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Sent: mercredi, 23. avril 2003 18:31
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Cc: 'nagios-users@...';=20
nagios-users-admin@...;=20
'nagiosplug-devel@...'; rubiyz
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient
=20
I have nsclient installed on about 50 servers.  "reliable" might be a bit=20
of a strong word.  It is working for the most part but there are=20
difficulties:
=20
Sometimes a reboot results in nsclient losing use of the port to another=20
application
A lot of memory (>4G) can be a problem.
Some versions (1.7.0 or so) are dirty and leave a ton of messages in the=20
event log
...
=20
that being said, aside from SNMP, it is the only way to get the=20
information and the problems can be avoided/ignored/worked around.
=20
It would be great if someone had the time to clean it up and finish a=20
great idea.
=20
Just my 2cents (keep the change),
dean
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nagios-users-admin@...;=20
'nagiosplug-devel@...'; 'rubiyz1047@...'
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=20

Dear All,=20

On the subject of Nsclient and monitoring Windows servers I was wondering=20
if anybody has got Nsclient monitoring Windows 2000 SP3 performance=20
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If anybody is then please let me know - then I can assume I am doing=20
something wrong.=20

I accept that you can install other SNMP counters etc, but I am trying to=20
make network monitoring as easy as possible - with as fewer clients=20
installed on servers. I have included a sample check command below.=20

I'd be greateful of any help !!=20

Thanks=20

Matthew=20





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[Nagiosplug-devel] Nagios hanging with 100% cpu load

[Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk <roy@ka...>]

hi

sometimes, hangios stops responding, using 100% cpu. When trying to strac=
e -p=20
<nagios pid>, I get no output. It can keep hanging for hours when this=20
happens. I need to restart it.

I'm running nagios 1.0

is this a known bug?

roy
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ProntoTV AS - http://www.pronto.tv/
Tel: +47 9801 3356

Computers are like air conditioners.
They stop working when you open Windows.

[Nagiosplug-devel] RE: [Nagios-users] NSClient

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[Nagiosplug-devel] [ nagiosplug-Patches-726552 ] Fixed check_disk to AND % and KB values

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Patches item #726552, was opened at 2003-04-23 15:14
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Category: Bugfix
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Earl Ruby (eruby)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Fixed check_disk to AND % and KB values

Initial Comment:
Fixed the parameter parsing to work regardless of the
order of the values -- now either "%,KB" or "KB,%" work
for -w and -c parameters. 

When both % and KB are specified, the results of the
tests are now logically AND-ed together, rather than
OR-ed, so a disk check with -c 5%,1000000 specified
would fail if a disk volume had BOTH less than 5% free
space AND less than 1GB free.


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Re: [Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins

[Subhendu Ghosh <sghosh@sg...>]

You cannot clear up all the warnings if using 2.53.  But you can safely 
ignore those warnings.

You can try the CVS HEAD and the autoconf 2.53


BTW: check_disk - can you post the patch on sourceforge.

-sg

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003, Earl C. Ruby III wrote:

> According to the docs for nagios-plugins-1.3.0: "Currently we are only 
> supporting autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4p5. Support for the latest autoconf 
> and automake are in the works."
> 
> Are there any preliminary configuration files available for this? I'm getting 
> error messages from autoheader and I'd like to clear them up. I'm using 
> autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.3.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> # aclocal -I lib
> # autoconf
> # autoheader
> WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
> WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
> WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.
> 
> WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
> WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
> WARNING: `acconfig.h':
> 
> WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
> WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])
> 
> WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
> WARNING: documentation.
> autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is unchanged
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 

-- 

[Nagiosplug-devel] Compiling plugins

[Earl C. Ruby III <earl@sw...>]

According to the docs for nagios-plugins-1.3.0: "Currently we are only=20
supporting autoconf 2.13 and automake 1.4p5. Support for the latest autoc=
onf=20
and automake are in the works."

Are there any preliminary configuration files available for this? I'm get=
ting=20
error messages from autoheader and I'd like to clear them up. I'm using=20
autoconf 2.53 and automake 1.6.3.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------

# aclocal -I lib
# autoconf
# autoheader
WARNING: Using auxiliary files such as `acconfig.h', `config.h.bot'
WARNING: and `config.h.top', to define templates for `config.h.in'
WARNING: is deprecated and discouraged.

WARNING: Using the third argument of `AC_DEFINE' and
WARNING: `AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED' allows to define a template without
WARNING: `acconfig.h':

WARNING:   AC_DEFINE([NEED_MAIN], 1,
WARNING:             [Define if a function `main' is needed.])

WARNING: More sophisticated templates can also be produced, see the
WARNING: documentation.
autoheader: `plugins/config.h.in' is unchanged

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
---------------

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Earl C. Ruby III <earl@...>
Senior System Engineer / Developer
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[Nagiosplug-devel] check_disk inconsistency

[Earl C. Ruby III <earl@sw...>]

I am trying to use check disk to send me a critical warning when I have b=
oth=20
less than 5% free space AND less than 1GB free on a volume. If I use the=20
command:

check_disk -w 10%,1500000 -c 5%,1000000

This works on small partitions that have more than 5% free space AND less=
 than=20
1GB free. In these cases the volume is shown as OK:

# ./check_disk -w 10%,1500000 -c 5%,1000000 -p /dev/sda1
DISK OK [92204 kB (91%) free on /dev/sda1]

If I reverse the order of the % and KB:

# ./check_disk -w 1500000,10% -c 1000000,5% -p /dev/sda1
DISK CRITICAL [92204 kB (91%) free on /dev/sda1]

Looking at the source code I see that the parameter parsing only works if=
 you=20
pass KB,% -- it only grabs the percentage if you pass %,KB.

Also looking at the source code I see:

int
check_disk (usp, free_disk)
{
        int result =3D STATE_UNKNOWN;
        /* check the percent used space against thresholds */
        if (usp >=3D 0 && usp >=3D (100.0 - c_dfp))
                result =3D STATE_CRITICAL;
        else if (c_df >=3D 0 && free_disk <=3D c_df)
                result =3D STATE_CRITICAL;
        else if (usp >=3D 0 && usp >=3D (100.0 - w_dfp))
                result =3D STATE_WARNING;
        else if (w_df >=3D 0 && free_disk <=3D w_df)
                result =3D STATE_WARNING;
        else if (usp >=3D 0.0)
                result =3D STATE_OK;
        return result;
}

This results in an OR condition being applied to % free and KB free, whic=
h is=20
not what you want for checking disks. For checking disks you want an AND=20
condition, like so:

int
check_disk (usp, free_disk)
{
        int result =3D STATE_UNKNOWN;
        /* check the percent used space against thresholds */
        if (usp >=3D 0 && c_dfp >=3D 0 && c_df < 0 && usp >=3D (100.0 - c=
_dfp))
                result =3D STATE_CRITICAL;
        else if (c_df >=3D 0 && c_dfp < 0 && free_disk <=3D c_df)
                result =3D STATE_CRITICAL;
        else if (usp >=3D 0 && c_dfp >=3D 0 && usp >=3D (100.0 - c_dfp) &=
& c_df >=3D 0=20
&& free_disk <=3D c_df)
                result =3D STATE_CRITICAL;
        else if (usp >=3D 0 && w_dfp >=3D 0 && w_df < 0 && usp >=3D (100.=
0 - w_dfp))
                result =3D STATE_WARNING;
        else if (w_df >=3D 0 && w_dfp < 0 && free_disk <=3D w_df)
                result =3D STATE_WARNING;
        else if (usp >=3D 0 && w_dfp >=3D 0 && usp >=3D (100.0 - w_dfp) &=
& w_df >=3D 0=20
&& free_disk <=3D w_df)
                result =3D STATE_WARNING;
        else if (usp >=3D 0.0)
                result =3D STATE_OK;
        return result;
}


Then it would correctly apply AND conditions and give you applicable resu=
lts=20
for both very small and very large disk volumes.

Unfortunately I'm having problems compiling the source for the plugins "a=
s is"=20
without any modifications. :-(

--=20
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Senior System Engineer / Developer
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