Nagios

Nagios external commands issue – Error: Could not open command file ‘/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd’ for update!

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I  experienced this problem recently with a long standing instance of Nagios which had recently been updated. The is was that Error: Could not open command file ‘/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd’ for update! was displayed when trying to change the properties for a host – such as enabling alerts or acknowledging alerts. The solution was to check and […]

Nagios 3.3.1 upgrade – nice

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Had cause this week to upgrade a veritable old installation of Nagios running as a vm on Ubuntu. I had planned to create a brand new instance but I had some specialised tests that I was going to redo. So instead – after cloning the VM I decided to give the manual upgrade from 3.0.3 to […]

Monitoring your Nagios install

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I have been using a sidebar tool for  monitoring Nagios This one caught my eye Nagstamon is a Nagios status monitor for the desktop. It connects to multiple Nagios, Opsview and Centreon monitoring servers and resides in systray or as a floating statusbar at the desktop showing a brief summary of critical, warning, unknown, unreachable […]

Go on – have something spicy !

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Increasingly monitoring of the internal machines of clients and getting a handle on the day to day operations have become more important. As a longtime user of Spiceworks (the best kept secret for simple discovery and monitoring) I have been looking at the latest raft of changes and introductions that are planned. Specifically the “integration” […]