Plugins

[slansing]

It depends on the switch or router, we would need more information on this point, and also if they have logging capabilities, I know some users have attached the devices to a logserver and had nagios parse that data remotely grepping for certain strings indicative of changes.

[MPIvan]

I have cisco routers C1941 and i have a lot of them like 500 of them and i like to know when some change the config file to know about that change ...

[slansing]

Nagios does not currently directly monitor config changes on devices such as these, though as I stated above I know I have seen some other users configure logging in a round about manner and then return the data to nagios via passive checks. We do not have documentation on this however.

[MPIvan]

Hi i am asked for to find some kind of health disk monitoring ... for example to check some bad sectors/blocks or something on a hard disk that can alert me if something will going down or the hard disk need a repair or any kind of crashing the hard drive that can alert me ....

[slansing]

Do you know specifically what you would like to monitor in relation to those hard drives? It depends on the drive types.. There may be a plugin that goes into specifics such as this, though this is more in the realm of OS side check such as fscheck.. etc. Are you trying to monitor a raid array? Single IDE/Sata drive? SAS?

[MPIvan]

Tnx @slansing for the reply ... We use Single IDE and Sata drive ... we have more then 3000 PC - Windows PC and in more cases they crash and we have to make clone of that type of disk (we have in a background), so we want to have some kind of indicator before it crash so we can make a clone ( not on the crashed hard, we have images in a background and we make image, a new ones ), and not losing time at the moment the hard is crashed. Some kind of indicator that we have to make a clone because that drive is critical example have too much bad blocks or fscheck is critical ... now i don't know if fscheck have to work in background so he can send me the info about the hard or how ? Or i can get this info some other way ...

[slansing]

Okay sounds good, a search on our Exchange site comes up with a pretty big list, I would go through it to see if there has been a plugin already created for what you are looking to do:

http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... ows%20disk

[MPIvan]

Hi all,

I have some problems finding the right plugin ... still searching im on page 6 now ... but i have question about the MIB's here ... because on some plugins (scripts) i was getting some errors like:

Result: MIB search path: /root/.snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/site:/usr/share/snmp/mibs:/usr/share/mibs/iana:/usr/share/mibs/ietf:/usr/share/mibs/netsnmp
Cannot find module (sysUpTime): At line 0 in (none)
Timeout: No Response from 10.25.1.5

So i was wondering do i have to download some MIB's (Dell because we use Dell PC everywhere) i have the same problem with the Cisco MIB's and i downloaded and put them in usr/share/mibs/netsnmp and now it works ... before i put the MIB's i used the OID number instead and it works, now i just have to put the name ... so is this the same problem as before like with the cisco i have and do i have to downloads some MIB's. And if i have to can some one tell me from where and how to implement on my server/Nagios

[slansing]

MPIvan, can you copy your question and add it to a new thread? This may turn into a thread of it's own. Thanks! Locking the thread.