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Spent about another four hours today trying to get alternative SQL Server monitoring plugin to work. Seriously, Nagios core is lacking SQL Server connectivity options. This isn't realistic: http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Databases/SQLServer/check_mssql_health/details Because of the imp...

I burned a few hours yesterday trying to install DBD::Sybase on our Fedora Nagios server in order to install the check_mssql_health plugin. Frustratingly, there is little current documentation on that install process. Has anyone on this forum ever gotten that plugin installed and working on a linux ...

I probably should have written a more detailed issue description in my original posting. I'm using this plugin to submit free-text SQL queries against our database to check different dimensions of our web application. It's not so much being used to see how the database itself is functioning. That's ...

I've checked around and I can't figure out how to specify a named instance or even an alternative port number to be used with check_mssql_nt plugin. Here is the usage for the plugin: Usage: check_mssql_nt.exe [/h] /H:hostname [/D:dbname] [/U:username] [/P:password] [/t:timeout] [/CHK_CONNECT] [/CHK_...

I've been trying all combinations, and can't get our timeperiods straight. Even when distilled to the most simplified test scenario, no notifications get sent. Would someone be willing to look at the definitions below and tell me why when I shut off the service (stop Apache), and a 3-rd strike check...

You helped me out immensely. I was completely unaware of the 'verification' command and hadn't been seeing the error messages that specified what part of my config files were botched. Using the verification command helped me pinpoint the problem here. For the benefit of future visitors to this threa...

I'm trying to follow the guide for setting up on-call rotations. It provides great sample timeperiod definitions. In our installation of Nagios Core 3.2.3, whenever I attempt to create a timeperiod definition with 'USE', I get a config file error on the nagios restart. The on-call rotation timeperio...

I think you can edit your commands.cfg file to modify the 'notify-service-by-email' command definition. Here is a good example of how a fellow modified his notify-service-by-email command using the existing macros: http://goo.gl/aao4L You might be able to create a custom variable and reference that ...

Agriffin has some good suggestions. Another thing you could do to reduce the promiscuity of email messages is to set up an escalations email using a third-party provider. This could even be a text message to a cellphone <yourphonenumber>@sprint.net after an hour of a critical error not being resolve...

You're going to need to create a host definition and also a service definition for the monitoring server to recognize that the remote server exists. Once you've done that, if it doesn't work, post the copies of your hosts and service definitions for the remote server.

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