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Hello, I am currently monitoring about 40 hosts using NsClient. Each host has between 5-8 services running on each of them. I was trying to find a way to get less notifications because I'm currently getting about 200 a week. Is there anyway for if one service goes down on a host to make nagios do a ...

Thanks, I'm using check_esx now, but I've ran into a little problem. I put the following into /usr/local/nagios/objects/esx.cfg and added esx.cfg to the nagios.cfg. define host{ host_name esxi01 check_period 24x7 check_interval 5 retry_interval 1 max_check_attempts 10 notification_period 24x7 notifi...

Hello :) I have been trying to monitor my Windows 2003 server using nagios, I am not having much luck. I tried to use this guide: http://www.telnetport25.com/2012/01/installing-nagios-on-ubuntu-server-11-10-then-monitoring-windows-and-exchange-serverspart-3setting-up-basic-exchange-2010-monitoring/ ...

Hello,
What would be the best way to monitor a vmware server through a Draytek firewall?
I'm quite new to nagios and any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Jethro

It worked! Thank you so much for your help

I don't know what's going wrong exactly. You could just try installing nagios-plugins-standard with apt and copy the check_snmp binary from there. Thanks for the help, I tried this. Once I had installed the nagios-plugins-standard I went to the directory and 40-50ish .cfg files, but no check_snmp :...

Thanks again, libperl-dev installed perfectly. However net-snmp and net-snmp-utils still can't be located. Am I doing something very wrong?

apt-get install libnet-snmp-perl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
libnet-snmp-perl is already the newest version.
libnet-snmp-perl set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.

Thanks for the quick answer but I already have perl and it is the latest version. apt-get net-snmp still comes back with E: Unable to locate package
Do you have any other ideas?

Hey, I was having troubles with the finding the uptime using check_snmp so I checked my plugins to see if it was in there and it wasn't. I therefore tried to install net-snmp and net-snmp-utils to help resolve this issue. I tried apt-get install with both of these but they both came back saying E : ...