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I went to "Nagios Core Config Manager" and added new service for my remote host then clicked on "Apply Configuration" The Active status is "Yes" and the Sync Status is "synced"for the new service. However, when I click on "Home" tag and then click on...

Question #1 . Can you suggest what specific packages do I need to install on my remote monitoring hosts in order to get CPU (like I/O Wait, Steal, Idle) and Memory Stats (like Used, Free, Cached)? Question #2. If we buy Nagios XI subscription for our company, do we get more available packages for Se...

On my Nagios monitoring local macine (where my hosts are being monitored) clicking on a Home Dashboard gives me a nice Server Statistics Summary as follows: Load 1-min 0.45 5-min 0.27 15-min 0.28 CPU Stats User 12.90% Nice 0.00% System 1.00% I/O Wait 0.10% Steal 0.00% Idle 86.00% Memory Total 3878 M...

scottwilkerson wrote:That is strange that executing it directly on the host gives no output and no errors at all.

Just to verify, the host that is running the command, can reach the dell server right?
eg.

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ping <Dell IP>

returns a result

Correct

scottwilkerson wrote:What are your setting in Admin -> Manage Email Settings?

General Mail Settings
Mail Method:
* Sendmail
SMTP

Send Mail From: localhost@localdomain

Note: The bullet is selected for "Sendmail"

Is it enough to just copy check_dell_openmanage.pl file to /usr/local/nagios/libexec/ onto remote monitoring Linux host or do I need to do more than that? Maybe. I'm not positive if check_dell_openmanage.pl has any dependencies that need to be installed.. For sure once you copy it over you will nee...

When I click on "Send Test Notifications" button it does not send me a test e-mail (I put my work e-mail address to test). I selected "Enable Notifications" & all of the "Notification Types" to receive e-mail. Nagios XI is running snmpd service. What am I missing? I...

scottwilkerson wrote:Could you describe in detail a little more what you would like to accomplish?

Let's say if my disk usage on the remote monitoring server reaches 90%, I want automatic e-mail notification alert to be sent out.

How do I setup e-mail alerts when the treshhold for specific check reaches out to specified max?

Thanks.

Then you can test it from XI with something like ./check_by_ssh -H <HOST_RUNNING_COMMAND> -C '/check_dell_openmanage.pl -H <DELL_IP> -T pe_m600 -C <DELL_SERVER_SNMP_COMMUNITY>' What is <HOST_RUNNING_COMMAND>? Option -H is to specify host by name or IP address. When I run this command from command l...