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check_apt issue with Nagios

Running a base install of Ubuntu 22.04 using Nagios and NRPE to monitor hosts, all running 22.04. My issue is with check_apt returning two different results: $# /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt APT ...
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port 5666: Connection refused. In nagios Core

I have a Nagios core installed and running, and I was trying to setup a Nagios remote host in ubuntu server 22 LTS version. I have done all the for setting up remote host, the same is showing in the ...
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Nagios Core Disabled CFG files

I have multiple host cfg files that we renamed to disabled with the, mv , command. We did this to take them off our dashboard view. When we try to rename them back to regular files, and attempt to ...
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Run nagstamon with legacy TLSv1 ubuntu 22.04 openssl3

I'm trying to connect nagstamon 3.8 to old nagios server 3.2.2. When i trying to connect i get error '[SSL: UNSUPPORTED_PROTOCOL] unsupported protocol (_ssl.c:997)' Two years above i haved the same ...
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I don't receive mail notification using Nagios Core 4

I have a problem with automatically mail notification in Nagios Core 4 installed on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) server... I have tried to send mail with the nagios user and root user ...
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Nagios, webmin and apache2

I'm trying to configure nagios on webmin. I've ran through the tutorial but its still not working by that i mean when i goto web1.example.com/nagios is shows nothing, there doesn't seem to be a link ...
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Nagios check_ncpa.py not working

I have installed Nagios on my Ubuntu server. I am using it for monitoring of Windows hosts. I have installed ncpa client at Windows host and check_ncpa.py plugins at /usr/local/nagios/libexec. But ...
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nagios behind reverse proxy

I installed nagios core in Ubuntu. After that, I setup a reverse proxy in Apache. Now nagios is not working. I could not find what is the issue. I looked on the internet and changed the Apache ...
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What is needed for nagios to send emails?

i have installed nagios4 from ubuntu repository packages in a kvm guest running ubuntu server 20.04. i am able to invoke sendmail manually and can send emails. However nagios isn't sending any ...
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Error near unexpected token `(' but then permission denied

I am trying to run this nagios plugin: sudo /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_generic.pl -n "slab_mem" -e "SLAB=$$(cat /proc/meminfo | egrep "Slab:" | awk '{print $$2;}'); ...
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(No output on stdout) stderr: execvp(/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_ping) in ubuntu

I installed nagios following this tutorial http://sharadchhetri.com/2014/02/08/install-and-configure-nagios-core-4-on-ubuntu-12-04-lts/ On starting nagios and apache2, and browsing to nagios admin ...
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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu server 18.04

I am trying to get Ubuntu 18.04 installed in order to run Nagios on it Problems start with a total lack of knowledge of Ubuntu Server - I have used Ubuntu desktop in the distant past - not that that ...
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How Do I install the Nagios check_snmp Plugin?

I have installed Nagios in my ec2 server. Now I want to install check_snmp plugin. I found that this is not available in : /usr/local/nagios/libexec I tried : sudo apt-get install nagios-plugins-...
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Not receiving mail notification

I recently installed Nagios Core 4.4.3, after a while I wanted to set up mail notification, I installed Postfix (GMAIL SMTP Config) and the config seems to be fine as I tried to send some mails but ...
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nagios on virtualhost cgi problems

I have been moving my nagios on apaches virtualhost and adding the following configuration file <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost ServerName nagios.example.com ...
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How to make my script wait if another instance of APT is running? [closed]

I've encouter some problems with my scripts. So to make it short and clear, I'm in an internship and my boss gave me an assignement to make a Probe for Nagios. The purpose of this Probe is to check ...
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This may be a stupid question but can juju work on a kubernetes cluster that was created and deployed outside of it

I'm asking because I have been trying to get some monitoring and log aggregation to work and when I do the juju side of install to an already existing kubernetes cluster it has a status of waiting and ...
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How I can install RRD module in perl?

I'm very new to Ubuntu. I'm using Nagios Graph plugin. That plugin needs perl RRD module to be installed on my system. How I can install that? Thanks in advance.
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Nagios Core Version 4.0.8 stopped sending automatic email notification after IP change

I have Nagios Core Version 4.0.8 installed on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS. I changed the IP if the server and after that nagios wont send me automatic notifications, I have send email from root and nagios user ...
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How to change the username and password for nagios site access on config files

This explains how to configure username and password during initial configuration: How do I install nagios? How can I change that using config files on server if I've lost the username and password?
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How to Identify existing MTA on my Ubuntu server?

I am a beginner for Ubuntu Server and have very little knowledge about it. We have a running instance of Nagios Core from a production server TEST-1 (Ubuntu 14.04.2). It was set up before i joined ...
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Why does nsca-ng-server require icinga on nagios server?

This is my first question on this forum, so please correct me if necessary. We have a number of monitoring servers running ubuntu 16.04,18.04 and nagios and I want to give nsca-ng a try for passive ...
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Powershell constantly creates folder in /tmp

System: Ubuntu Server 14.04.1 uname -a Linux [...] 4.4.0-116-generic #140~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 16 09:25:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux Involved Software: nagios (core Version 3.5.1)...
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Nagios Installation

What command should I use to search and install nagios plugins when setting up nagios? This is not working wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagiosplug/nagios-plugins-1.4.11.tar.gz ...
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Nagios core installation problem

i tried to configure nagios and every thing went fine and even installed apache2 web server. The final step of installation is generating a web link and access the dashboard using browser. But while ...
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Nagios Core Open Source Monitoring

Where is the HTML file of the "Service Status Details For All Host Groups" page in nagios core on Ubuntu 14.04? If I want to modify the page (e.g: delete the columns), where can I look up the php ...
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Nagios showing "NOT FOUND" error

I have installed nagios package in my Ubuntu system. After opening the configuration page localhost/nagios3 i have succesfully logged in. After that when i select any option from the left side menu it ...
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How can I start a nsca server on Ubuntu 14.04?

On Ubuntu 14.04 after installing nsca package, I cannot start the service because of this error (retrieved from syslog): nagios nsca[621]: Cannot write to pidfile '/var/run/nsca.pid' - check your ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 VM kernel panics once every ~5-9 days on Hyper-V

I have an x64 Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS virtual machine running the hardware monitoring and status software Nagios. The VM seems to be kernel panicking once every 5-9 days. I am unable to pin down the cause. ...
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How can I make Nagios sends its Notifications and alerts to Known emails like gmail, hotmail etc

I started recently learning about Nagios Server version 4.2.3, i installed it on a VMware and configured it to monitor a host and ssh service on that host, the host also on a VMware. The question is, ...
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Monitoring of Windows RDP farm with nagios

I'd like to have a somewhat specific custom check to monitor Windows remote desktop server farms with nagios (nagios3 on ubuntu 16.04) Specifically, I'd like to have a WARNING state if any of the ...
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configure: error: unrecognized option: -–with-mail=/usr/bin/sendmail while installing nagios 3.5.0

Following this installation guide when reach to the step: ./configure --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd -–with-mail=/usr/bin/sendmail I got the following error: configure: ...
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Nagstamon doesn't show in Ubuntu 12.04?

I'm trying to do the nagstamon work on Ubuntu 12.04, but after setting my credentials only, the other setting I kept default, it doesn't show anywhere. I'm sure it's running 'cause of ps aux | grep ...
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How to warn using nagios if privvmpages value exceeds threshold for an application

It would be a great help If someone could help me to achieve this. I've rented a VPS with 20GM RAM, but privvmpages maximum limit is 5GB. I have nexus, hudson, puppet, glassfish cluster with one ...
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Installing WMIC on Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS

Has anyone had any luck installing wmic (wmi client) under Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS? I tried following the document http://techedemic.com/2012/11/05/installing-wmic-in-ubuntu-12-04-lts-64-bit-desktop/ ...
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Want to start few services automatically during system boot

I am using latest ubuntu version: Ubuntu 15.04 (GNU/Linux 3.16.0-36-generic x86_64) When i reboot my whole system, i need to restart telnet, nagios services manually. Would you please let me know ...
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Change notification email subject - Nagios

Anyone can give an idea about, how can I change my Nagios email alert subject? I have google for sometime and every result says to change the command(notify-host-by-email) definition in commands.cfg ...
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nagios logs were not getting updated

when ever i am trying to restart my nagios and postfix aswell in ubuntu,the var/log/mail.log file was not getting updated with current proceedings.Please help me to solve this issue.
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When I am trying to restart mt postfix and nagios the following messaged is displayed in the mail.log file

When i am trying to restart my postfix and nagios for sending a mail automatically about the status the foollowing message appears. Status:Deffered.Connections will not be accepted from x.x.x.x ...
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xampp server not responding correctly

I had installed the nagios core in UBUNTU os and xamp,nscpp in the windows machine.I tried to monitor the status of the services and all working fine except the services like apache,mysql from xampp ...
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Nagios or Ubuntu Landscape free/personal for two personal servers in different houses

I have two Ubuntu (Xubuntu) 14.04 LTS servers. One at my parents' house and one at mine. Ideally I want two things: being able to see system information like CPU usage, memory usage and disk usage (...
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nagios NRPE CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds

Getting following error on nagios server root@VMb:/usr/local/nagios/libexec# ./check_nrpe -H 54.255.1.99 -n CHECK_NRPE: Socket timeout after 10 seconds.
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ssh is taking too much time to connect/not connecting

When I am trying to login to a nagios server it is giving trouble to all the users at a time to connect. Either taking too much time to connect or not at all connecting. This is what is happening ...
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Nagios is sending mails manually but alerts are not coming

Alert mailing is configured from a gmail id to avoid spam catchup. Nagios alert mailing is working fine while trying manually using 'mail' command. Which clearly means, nagios is capable of sending ...
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running /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt as nagios user does not return the correct result

I have two servers, both running 12.04 server, and nagios-nrpe-server. On both, I have configured the command check_apt, which runs /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt. On both, nagios-nrpe-server is ...
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Nagios3 crashes with SIGSEGV

I installed nagios3 on ubuntu server 10.04.1. It was working fine. Today, I found it stopped and when I tried to start it using sudo /etc/init.d/nagios3 start, it did not start. I found this in the ...
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adding plugin check_hping to nagios

I need to checking IP:PORT by ping, so I find out check_hping plugin to nagios. I'm trying to add it to the nagios core 4. http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Network-Protocols/ICMP/...
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Installing nagios 4.0.8 on ubuntu 14.04

I am trying to install and setup Nagios 4.0.8 on my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS server. What is the ideal way to do this ? The official Ubuntu documentation regarding nagios installation is related to nagios ...
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How to add DNS server in icinga/nagios server on ubuntu?

I already install and configure icinga on ubuntu.All host configure IP in manually.Now I want to add DNS in my icinga server. Actually, I want to add that keep to dynamic IP address in host. Now all ...
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Can't enter password in nagios3 installation wizard

I am trying to install nagios 3 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 using How do I install nagios? I have entered sudo apt-get install -y nagios3 followed by my password. I then get the dialog in the link below: The ...