I went through the whole hassle of installing the system through all these make commands and then making an rpm so i could distribute nagios to about 45 machines, only to find out i need to go through the whole process again if i want the command arguments. Configuration overview, starting and stopping nagios verifying your configuration. On the icinga when i check the current status of the host i do see an option to export to csv in the browser but i wanted to get this data from the command line so i can automate this process for multiple hosts. Thanks to all who have contributed toward this release. How to enable epel repository for rhelcentos 65 and installing nagios3. The only thing changing is the command to be executed to gather data. It is executed as the apache user instead of the nagios user. Jan 23, 2012 this article explains various command line options that are available for the nagios command.
We have a nagios server in the backend and we are using icinga on the frontend to see host status, graphs etc. How to import or export nagios host data from command line. While there are certainly some differences in the functionality, the overall end result is the same. Six nagios command line options explained with examples nagios exchange. Six nagios command line options explained with examples. Id like to document all of the templates in a way that makes it easy to browse the list and see the effective configurations for each template. Hi john, your problem is that youre trying to invoke a service that is not local, thus it shouldn be defined not only in your nagios server configuration files, but also in the g file used when the nrpe daemon starts on the target machine. Id like to document all of the templates in a way that makes it easy to browse the list and see.
All other servicemarks and trademarks are the property of their respective owner. Plugins are compiled executables or scripts perl scripts, shell scripts, python, php, ruby, etc. How can i manually run a nagios check from the command line. Nagiosagent using nrpe plugin with the monitor server. I want to call a command directly from a nagios service file, instead of passing arguments clumsily to g.
Other improvements address the addition of multiple free variables to hosts and services through the. Just create an account and add it to the directory. This maintenance release improves the performance of the nagios data output ndo database by eliminating duplicate hostservice entries. This is a grooving process before it was all manual but slowly we are getting a more automated installation process so hopefully this will keep improving in the future as well and some of the steps might go away. Starting and stopping nagios core nagios core documentation. This script was written for nagios nrpe, and uses wshvbscript. In fact, if i execute the following code from command line in the nagios server it works. How to monitor postgresql using nagios severalnines. It queries windows wmi and makes a software version check with optional validation against minimum version, plus a mismatch allowance. To download the plugin, first change directory to tmp on your nagios box and then run the following curl, cut, tr, wget oneliner from the command line. You can stop the nagios core through the web interface by clicking the process info navigation link and selecting shutdown the nagios process. Users with epn should use the epn versions of the scripts. Nagios exchange the official site for hundreds of communitycontributed nagios plugins, addons, extensions, enhancements, and more. For future reference, submitting an issue on github for things like this are generally quicker to get a resolution.
Yes, copypaste that entire command in the gray box. Nagios core nagiosusers nrpe no output returned from. Every time you modify your configuration files, you should run a sanity check on them. Nagios core uses the results from plugins to determine the current status of hosts and services on your network. To test the load on the server command line try the below command.
You will need to go through a few steps to establish what exactly is being run. Anyone upgrading core must also upgrade ndoutils to 2. Due to these limitation, testing some check commands really need to be done at the command line as the nagios user. When defining and testing new services in nagios i have been restarting nagios, then clicking the service, and rescheduling a check for as soon as possible, then waiting until the check happens. Monitor for expiring ssltls certs with nagios linux.
Maxwarn maximum value before a warning is returned. Perform these steps to monitor windows server with nagios core. Nagios exchange is the central place where youll find all types of nagios projects plugins, addons, documentation, extensions, and more. What i want to achieve is having nagios tell me whether a remote serviceprocess is running or not. You can stop the nagios core process by sending it a sigterm. Writing a plugin is sometimes boring and for 90% the same procedure. Configuring nagios on client for ossim muhammad attique january 4, 2015 network admin, systems admin 8 comments 2,901 views in this tutorial, i am going to install nagios on windows and linux hosts to monitor them with alienvault ossim siem for 24 x 7 availability check. Substitute these epn versions wherever you see the regular script names in the examples. When you want to use this check, it is recommended that you invoke the plugin rather often from nagios e.
Semiofficial git import of nagios, to be removed when nagios migrates to git properly. This article explains various command line options that are available for the nagios command. Im currently learning how to make scripts to create create plugins for the nagios framework. I installed nagios nrpe on a remote machine from ubuntu repository sudo aptget install nagios nrpeserver, and plugins with. Sip authentication, sip username, sip password, location code can all be passed. I have done the configuration of each of the files, but does not recognize me nagios. On your nagios server, you need to install the nagios nrpeplugin package. Added userbased dashlet options to dashboard page jo. When the plugin yields a message for a specific queue e. Nagios xi how to test check commands from the commandline. When i run it on command line, i do get the entire free m output.
Some people experience high cpu load when checking the event log this can usually be resolved using the new command line option scanrange setting it to the time region you want to check. When you need to put spaces in a string you need to make sure you escape them properly in the nagios config. You can stop the nagios core process by sending it a sigterm signal like so. The patron pin can be passed by the script but at the moment it is redundant. It is important to do this before you restart nagios, as nagios will shut down if your configuration contains errors. On the command line, i see youre using sudo to run the command. If i replace free with top nagios is able to write to the file. Feb 02, 2011 i have created a g file in the plugins config directory etc nagios pluginsconfig as below and that directory is referenced in my nagios. Below is an overview of how to monitor windows server with nagios core. Added script to reset nagiosadmin password from the command line jo. Monitoring with nagios disk nrpe linux stack overflow. Configuring nagios on client for ossim muhammad attique. Regardless of database technology, it is necessary to have a monitoring setup,both to detect problems and take action, or simply to know the current state of our systems for this purpose there are several tools, paid and free.
May 30, 2017 this release of nagios xi features fixed newline issues with bpi hostservice group syncing, fixed url validation on php 5. The former is a free, open source version, and the latter is a commercial version that offers additional features around graphs and reporting, capacity planning and more. Id like to use the command line to run that particular check and get the output. This site is designed for the nagios community to share its nagios creations. Have a new project for nagios that youd like to share. Ive inherited an older nagios xi installation that the rest of the team is somewhat afraid to touch due to not knowing how all of the inheritance shakes out. The master branch tracks svn trunk, but might lag a few days behind. Typically you would execute service nagios start to start the nagios daemon, which really calls the etcrc.
Instructions for installing the nrpe plugin are part of the nrpe installation instructions are located here. The nagios monitoring tool comes in two primary versions. I havent installed plugins on nrpe server which is using xinetd but instead i have configured and installed plugins on nagios server. I am having a problem with respect to nagios nrpe service is as follows. See the documentation on macros for determining when you can use different macros. Invalid command line arguments were supplied to the plugin or lowlevel failures internal to the plugin such as unable to fork, or open a tcp socket that prevent it from performing the specified operation. Nagios, the nagios logo, and nagios graphics are the servicemarks, trademarks, or registered trademarks owned by nagios enterprises.
Nagios define service for nrpe command in windows environment. This option specifies the location of the lock file that nagios should create when it runs as a daemon when started with the d command line argument. This file contains the process id pid number of the running nagios process. Even though nagios exchange has thousands of available plugins to freely download, sometimes the status needed to be checked is very specific for your scenario. Maxcrit maximum value before a critical is returned. Command line options can be passed and it should adhere to the sip2 specification. Before the command line is executed, all valid macros are replaced with their respective values. I have elasticsearch,cassandra and tomcat plugins and my boss. This directive is used to define what is actually executed by nagios when the command is used for service or host checks, notifications, or event handlers. Based on the condition checked, the plugin can make nagios aware of a malfunctioning service. Stack overflow for teams is a private, secure spot for you and your coworkers to find and share information. I have elasticsearch,cassandra and tomcat plugins and my boss doesnt want anything on ec2. Now let us add some clients to monitor by nagios server add the epel repository to install nagiosplugins and nrpe packages in client systems. For anyone else who runs into this issue, theres another option than changing permissions on ping.
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