[SOLVED] Starting with Nagios, monitorred site down

[Toontje]

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root@eeepc:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ./check_ping -H  www.machielsen.net -w 200,50% -c 500,100%
PING OK - Packet loss = 0%, RTA = 48.79 ms|rta=48.789001ms;200.000000;500.000000;0.000000 pl=0%;50;100;0

[sreinhardt]

hmm, so check_ping seems to work great. So what is different with check-host-alive. Can you post the command definition for check-host-alive from your commands.cfg?

[Toontje]

In commands.cfg

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################################################################################
# HOST CHECK COMMANDS
################################################################################

# On Debian, check-host-alive is being defined from within the
# nagios-plugins-basic package

I do have a check_host command in my plugins directory.

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ton@eeepc:/usr/lib/nagios/plugins$ ./check_host -H www.machielsen.net
OK - www.machielsen.net responds to ICMP. Packet 1, rta 48.110ms|pkt=1;;0;5 rta=48.110;1000.000;1000.000;;

[abrist]

Can we see the definition for:

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check-host-alive

And the definition that:

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check-host

uses if it differs from check-host-alive?

[sreinhardt]

I want to be sure that we are not mixing definitions here.

Plugin: an executable, script or some other item that nagios can directly interact with but is not exclusively a definition within a configuration.
Command: Specifically a defined name for something that nagios can execute, generally stored in commands.cfg in your nagios /etc directory. This is a definition that tells nagios how to interact and where to find a plugin to use.

So you have a check_host plugin that works, but via the debian\ubuntu commands.cfg file it seems that you need to install an additional package to get the base(per our standards) nagios definitions such as check-host-alive. Can you verify that you have installed nagios-plugins-basic?

[Toontje]

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ton@eeepc:~$ dpkg -s nagios-plugins-basic
Package: nagios-plugins-basic
Status: install ok installed
Priority: extra
Section: net
Installed-Size: 1916
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Architecture: i386
Source: nagios-plugins
Version: 1.4.15-5ubuntu3
Replaces: nagios-plugins, nagios-plugins-extra (<= 1.3.1.0), nagios-plugins-standard
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.8), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), procps, iputils-ping, ucf
Suggests: nagios3
Conflicts: nagios-plugins (<= 1.4.2-3), nagios-plugins-extra (<= 1.3.1.0)
Description: Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems
 Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Nagios and Icinga. It
 contains the following plugins:
 .
  check_apt, check_by_ssh, check_clamd, check_cluster,
  check_dhcp, check_disk, check_dummy, check_file_age,
  check_ftp, check_host, check_http, check_icmp,
  check_ide_smart, check_imap, check_ircd, check_jabber,
  check_load, check_log, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf,
  check_nagios, check_nntp, check_nntps, check_nt,
  check_ntp, check_ntp_peer, check_ntp_time, check_nwstat,
  check_overcr,  check_ping, check_pop, check_procs,
  check_real, check_rta_multi, check_sensors, check_simap,
  check_smtp, check_spop, check_ssh, check_ssmtp,
  check_swap, check_tcp, check_time, check_udp,
  check_ups, check_users
 .
 This package provides a basic set of plugins with minimal external
 dependencies.  It is not likely to be useful by itself unless you are
 using a remote "satellite" system (using nagios-nrpe-server, check_by_ssh or
 nsca, for example).
Homepage: http://nagiosplug.sourceforge.net
Original-Maintainer: Debian Nagios Maintainer Group <[email protected]>

Which makes all the sense in the world because, as i mentioned in my original post, only a few sites give me the Network Unreachable error. All sites are on the same hosting platform, so route from the Nagios server to the host, firewall rules on either side of the connection, hosting parameters, etc are all identical.

[abrist]

Nagios will still require that the check-host-alive be defined in a cfg *somewhere*. This is the command definition we want to see.

[Toontje]

Nagios will still require that the check-host-alive be defined in a cfg *somewhere*. This is the command definition we want to see.

Ok, will do. However, why is it that not all websites give me the same error then?
And second, if the command doesn't exist, where does the "Network unreachable" status come from?

[abrist]

I believe the command does exist, I just want to check how it is configured as it could use a more obscure mechanism than standard ICMP.

[Toontje]

I found this in checkcommands.cfg

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define command{
        command_name                    check_host_alive
        command_line                    $USER1$/check_icmp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 1
}