I have NRPE daemon process running under xinetd on amazon ec2 instance and nagios server on my local machine. The check_nrpe -H [amazon public IP] gives this error: CHECK_NRPE: Error - Could not ...

I have made ganglia setup using rpm files, OS: centOS 6.3 Server; httpd gmond and gmetad are running, when i load it in browser am getting "Forbidden error" Forbidden You don't have permission...

We have 10 or so web servers that share a few MySQL servers. Due to some networking problems, there were too many connection errors and one of the webservers was blocked. I resolved this by flushin...

I've been running nagios for about two years, but recently this problem started appearing with one of my services. I'm getting CRITICAL - Socket timeout after 10 seconds for a check_http -H my...

In my nrpe_local.cfg added following command: command[check_mycommand]=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_command 30 35 and then restarted nrpe daemon. When I execute this command using nrpe I'm get...

I am trying to install nrpe plugin on ubuntu 12.04, however I am facing issue with ssl libraries. I tried installing "libcurl3-openssl-dev" package, however when I try to compile nrpe plugin after ...

I would like to monitor elasticsearch using nagios. Basiclly, I want to know if elasticsearch is up. I think I can use the elasticsearch Cluster Health API (see here) and use the 'status' that I ...

I'm using Groundwork / Nagios, and I'm trying to set up check_by_ssh. Right now, the command is: $USER1$/check_by_ssh -i ~nagios/.ssh/id_dsa -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -t 60 -l "$USER24$" -C "/tmp/test"...

Im working on opensuse Leap 42.1. I have installed NRPE on the remote host. I following precisely the installation guide. However, the deaemon runs: netstat -at | egrep "nrpe|5666" tcp 0 0 *:nrpe ...

My normal method of testing the notification and escalation chain is to simulate a failure by causing one, for example blocking a port. But this is thoroughly unsatisfying. I don't want down time ...

I am getting the error (Return code of 255 is out of bounds) on the http://localhost/nagios But when I run the command from the shell, it runs fine

I have installed Nagios (Nagios® Core™ Version 4.2.2) in Linux Server. I have been using JSON Query Generator to generate an Availablity report in JSON format. It will provide an API. I have create...

I am looking for a spec or an example of how to format the Nagios performance data. This documentation does not provide any good examples I am looking for an explanation on how to create a table ...

How do I set an individual timeout setting per service check. All timeouts default to 60 seconds as per the main configuration but I require that one particular check have a longer timeout due to t...

My situation: I'm working on a web monitoring dashboard that assembles informations from different applications and sources and generate graphs, info graphics and reports. The applications I'm try...

I'd like to parse status.dat file for nagios3 and output as xml with a python script. The xml part is the easy one but how do I go about parsing the file? Use multi line regex? It's possible the f...

I'm trying to monitor actual URLs, and not only hosts, with Nagios, as I operate a shared server with several websites, and I don't think its enough just to monitor the basic HTTP service (I'm incl...

I'm sending a config file for thousands of nodes, because of some customisation there's maybe 5 or 6 paths to that file (There's only one file for host but the path can vary) and there isn't a easy...

I was looking into a nagios plugin and I found this code: killall -0 $1 I tried this and it returned 0 for a running process, but it did not kill the process. Please explain the meaning of this...

I need to set a schedule downtime for specific nagios host from the commandline by curl..how do I do that? here is something I am already using for service/host notification enable/disable from co...

We are using Nagios to monitor our network with great success. However, we have a syslog for critical application errors and while I set up check_log, it doesn't seem to work as well as monitering ...

In the Docker best practices guide it states: You are strongly encouraged to use VOLUME for any mutable and/or user-serviceable parts of your image. And by looking at the source code for e.g. ...

I'm working on a monitoring system called "Nagios" which monitors services for UNIX and WINDOWS servers. Problem is WINDOWS services that are launched by batch files are named in task manager as "c...

I just upgrade my Nagios server to the latest version (4.0.1) on my Debian 7 system. When i start the daemon, i have the following error: # /etc/init.d/nagios start /etc/init.d/nagios: 20: .: Can'...

I'm having troubles getting Nagios to honor a notification_period setting for a predefined timeperiod. My timeperiod definition is called 'sleep' as in, do not notify me between midnight and 7am. ...