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Kovit

Trainee

Posts: 81

Number of monitoring servers: 2

Nagios Version: 3.2.3

Distributed monitoring: Ja

Redundant monitoring: Ja

Number of hosts: 160

Number of services: 449

OS: Ubuntu 8

Plugin Version: 0.4.15

NDO Version: 2

1

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 8:59am

Give me advice about Nagios

Hi.
I want to implement something. Please give me advice about the better way to do that.
For example i have some host in nagios. If it goes down, i want to check why .
For example i have server outside of my office.
if i see that it goes down.
There can be isp provider problems (i have to check isp provider gateway).
second problem can be our gateway (have to ping our gateway).
third problem can be vpn problems (i have to check vpn server availability,ping).
And for example i want to make a plugin (using python or ...?), which can say, the reason - why my external server is unavailable, it will check all three "potencial" problems and give me a result -> for example VPN server problems.
Is it possible. May be Nagios API or something like that?



P.s. I have wrote some plugins for nagios : for snmp checking and something like that.

tumtliw

Intermediate

Posts: 377

Gender: male

Location: Leer

Occupation: Inschenör

Number of monitoring servers: 2

Hobbies: Amateurfunk

Nagios Version: 3.2.0

Icinga Version: 1.8.4

Distributed monitoring: Nein

Redundant monitoring: Ja

Number of hosts: ~ 350

Number of services: ~ 4500

OS: SLES 11 SP2

Plugin Version: 1.4.15

NagVis Version: 1.7.b2

IDO-Version: 1.8.4

Other Addons: snmptt, NagTrap, PNP4Nagios,check_mk

2

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 10:22am

Hello,

why don't you use Nagios in the right manner.

your have to configure your network with the right parent relations.


Your Server - parent isp gateway
isp gateway -parent your gateway
your gateway - parent vpn gateway
vpn gateway - parent nagios server.

Ich you had problems you get the right answer from nagios. The network outages show you immediatly what happened.

Sorry for my bad english.



Greetings Willi

Kovit

Trainee

Posts: 81

Number of monitoring servers: 2

Nagios Version: 3.2.3

Distributed monitoring: Ja

Redundant monitoring: Ja

Number of hosts: 160

Number of services: 449

OS: Ubuntu 8

Plugin Version: 0.4.15

NDO Version: 2

3

Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 10:33am

Thank you for your advice. Its a good idea.
But i want to extend my plugin. We are registering our incedents, for example, server1 was down for 20 minutes 04.10.2011 11:30 till 11:34 and write reason, why it was in down state.

And idea is, that my plugin register an incident's start time, end time and write the reason. would be great :)


P.S. My english is not good aswell. Aber deutsch sage ich nur mit dem Wörterbuch :)

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