Questions tagged [icinga]

Icinga is a fork of the Nagios Project that is also backwards compatible with Nagios.

The aim of the Icinga project is to retain all the existing features of Nagios but also build upon Nagios to introduce long awaited new features and patches requested by the Nagios user community.

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icinga2 host state for passive host

I am using icinga2 for monitoring, and I want to include devices like NVR's located at customer sites. These cannot be pinged to check the host state. The Icinga2 agent reports everything I need just fine without needing to forward certain…
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Icinga2 and pnp4nagios

I am trying to install icinga2 and icingaweb with pnp4nagios. As directed in icinga2 document I have added following parameter on npcd.conf : perfdata_spool_dir = /var/spool/icinga2/perfdata I get the following error when accessing…
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Nagios plugin runs manually, returns error when run automatically

To monitor Mailman mailing lists, I've added the check_mailman_qfiles plugin to an Icinga host. With only the hostname as an argument, the plugin works fine when run manually: user@icinga:~$ /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mailman_qfiles…
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Unable to force checks in icinga

On the Icinga instance I look after some of the service checks aren't running on the schedule they should be. Moreover when I try to schedule a manual check I get the error message Logger "4294967296" has not been configured. The log file contains…
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icinga2 mysql connection issue

I followed all the install wizards When setting up icinga2, I have the following error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (13) I tried using the mysql command line utility, and I…
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Nagios python plugin not working properly

I have installed Icinga for monitoring my azure infrastructure. I want to monitor my DB Servers using python script which is here Now it is making connection to DB server but mode options are not working properly. giving error which is below. …
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Icinga 2 vs Nagios 4 vs Shinken 2 : is there Performance Benchmarking comparison available?

I am not able to find out any link that displays the benchmarking report for the cores. We have to monitor 50,000 hosts and 30 services per host per minute host check : icmp per 5 minute service checks : telnet and snmp We have been using Nagios 3…
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Best practice to handle service windows for passive checks in Nagios/Icinga

With active checks, regular service windows can easily be handled using time periods and check intervals. How do you handle this for passive checks?
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How to import or export nagios host Data from command line

This might be a basic question for some of you but being a beginner i wanted to know how to export or import data of the current status(CPU, Memory, Diskspace etc) of the host from command line into a CSV/JSON/XML format. THis is to provide daily…
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Include check_command with nagios/icinga alerts

Is there a way to include the check_command that is being used when being alerted via Nagios or Icinga. Example: define command { command_name check-x-dc6.x-icmp command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H IP -w 100.0,20% -c…
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Howto monitor web server nodes through HA proxy using Icinga/Nagios in CentOS 6

In this guide I'm not focusing at all on setting up HA proxy or why you'd want to do that. If you have it and want to properly monitor it using Icinga, here's an idea of how you could go about this. So here is a potential scenario: 2 data centers A…
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After Foreman install, my Icinga interface is not working

I installed Foreman now my nagios (Icinga actually) is not working. The URL is /icinga/ but it just says: The page you were looking for doesn't exist. You may have mistyped the address or the page may have moved. Icinga is running. Anyone know why…
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Icinga Distributed - Status Map / Reachability Issue

I'm setting up a distributed Icinga setup in the following manner. We have 6 sites so i'm monitoring 3 on each of 2 nodes plus a central server. Sites a,b,c are actively monitored by node 1 Sites d,e,f are actively monitored by node 2 nodes 1 & 2…
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check_http!--ssl actually checks http

When monitoring the SSL service on a host that runs HTTPS but not HTTP, Icinga warns about a 403 Forbidden return code. But that warning is for HTTP, not HTTPS. Manually running the check_http command with either -S or --ssl returns a 200 OK code…
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Orthogonally defining services and contacts for a host/hostgroup?

I'm trying to turn our Icinga spaghetti into something more manageable and less repetitive. So far features like templates, object inheritance, multiple inheritance, hostgroups, servicegroups, etc have been meeting my needs, but I'm stuck on one…
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