New Ideas : Open Innovation Network

Acknowledgement of services while acknowledging host down

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:54:56 PDT

it would be nice when entering an acknowledgement for a host that is down if there was a checkbox to cascade the acknowledgement to the services on the host.

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Enable/Disable Sound Alert for a single host.

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:11:59 PST

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Enable/Disable Sound Alert for a single host.

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Object model upgrade for supporting Cloud Computing Model

Sat, 05 Feb 2011 02:31:21 PST

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Nagios Object Model must be review and upgraded in order to fully support the new challenge that Virtualization and Cloud Computing models represent: Hosts and services changing from location, appearing and dissapearing based not in phisical needs but in dynamic, load-driven needs, with multiple parental relations....

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Hysteresis support

Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:31:59 PST

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Support for hysteresis, so that different ok, warning and critical thresholds can be specified for different host/service states.

For example, I would like to specify that a disk goes into the warning state when it reaches 80% used capacity, but does not go back into ok until used capacity decreases below 75%. Another example is with ping, if I set the packet loss warning threshold to 20%, I want Nagios to remain in the warning state until the packet loss decreases below 10%.

This also prevents many cases of flapping. Today, if I set the ping round-trip-time (RTT) to 200 ms, the RTT to a host may go up and down between 199 ms and 201 ms, sending out loads of notifications without any real change in the RTT. If I could specify that to reach the OK state from the Warning state, the RTT must pass below 150 ms, there would be far fewer notifications for small variations in RTT around the threshold value.

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Jitter Using Fping and Jitter Performance Graphing

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:20:06 PDT

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It would be nice to have network monitor using nagios but its limited to delay and packet loss , but need to poing ip and find out the jitter , delay and packet loss using fping and print Perfomance Graphing

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Easier integration with Excel by modifying avail.cgi

Tue, 05 Oct 2010 01:26:10 PDT

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avail.cgi should be able to be fully functional within a URL-length of 255 characters for integration with Excel. Excel supports web datasources with a max URL-length of 255 characters. Optional short-form for query parameters and values should be made. f.ex query parameter "timeperiod" could be "tp" and the value "thismonth" could be "5" (as it is internally in avail.cgi). Also the query parameter "csvoutput" could be "csv", optionally change default output to csv and make a param for creating html as browsers should support longer URLs.

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Port Enumeration

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 08:14:26 PDT

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Enumerating ports on switches is difficult to get right. It seems that the accepted way right now is more of a hack around the system than a smooth addition.

It would be nice if Nagios had a method by which a port could be added to the system as a "child" of a host. Pseudocode might help here :

define host {
use switch-standard
host_name switch.example.com
address 192.168.0.1
hostgroups switch-hosts
}

define host-port {
use switch-port-standard
host_name switch.example.com
alias Port G0/1 - web server
portgroups switch-ports
parents web.example.com
}

So in the above example, switch.example.com is a switch of some sort. The second entry is a port on that switch. Essentially, Nagios would inherit the address from the host, using that as the address for any port checks. By default, I would expect that either there is no "host check" on the port, or that the check would be an SNMP get to determine the ifOperStatus. Services could be tied to the host-port the same way they are to a host and the relevant information would be inherited by the port.

This would make port enumeration MUCH cleaner.

Comments (0) Nagios "Core", port, enumeration, config

Hostsgroups in Servicegroups Availability report

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:48:22 PDT

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I would like to see hostgroups to be added in ServicesGroup. So that when we generate a availability report for a particular service Printer (for example), it will contain the availbility matrix of Hosts groups instead hosts.

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check_nt, escape characters, and quotes - oh my!

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:15:13 PDT

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Add the ability to monitor a service that has both a space AND a $ in the name. It seems that using check_nt to monitor a service like MSSQL$INSTANCE will only work if the command is written as such:
check_command check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l MSSQL"$$"INSTANCE
but what if you have a service name that has a space AND a $ in it?

For services with spaces in the names, the entire service name has to be wrapped in quotes. Nagios doesn't like this if you have to wrap $$ in quotes on top of this. For instance, check_command check_nt!SERVICESTATE!-d SHOWALL -l "SAMPLE MSSQL"$$"INSTANCE" will not work unless I'm missing something?

Comments (2) Plugins, check_nt, escape characters, quotes, $, dollar sign, monitor services

nagios clusters

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 10:12:32 PDT

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It would be nice to have the ability to cluster Nagios instances. Something built around MPI maybe that would allow horizontal scaling without passive checks.

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(SOA) monitoring

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:22:04 PDT

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add WEB SERVICES (SOA) monitoring for wsdls, json, rmi

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Router Alarm Monitoring via Nagios

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 22:04:29 PDT

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Monitoring alarms generated internally in routers via Nagios and display these alarms in the web interface

Comments (1) Plugins, router, alarms

Pop-up calendar to select start and end times for Scheduled Downtime.

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 10:02:50 PDT

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Add a pop-up calendar to the Start Time and End Time fields on the schedule downtime screen. It would make it easier to pick a date/time for the downtime to start and end.

Comments (0) UI / Interface / Visualizations, downtime, schedule, ui, calendar

option for sound notification of service check only in HARD state

Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:21:43 PDT

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Greetings!
I am very glad that you exist and actively develop Nagios.
I work in the big company (more than 10 000 employees) and I use nagios for monitoring of critical objects.
I wish to offer function which is easily programmed and also very useful. At night my Operators on duty is often dissatisfied false positives with service check with SOFT state. It sometimes happens for various reasons (the big load of CPU, delays in a network, etc.). Function as in Nagvis when the sound notification works only in a condition of check state HARD is very necessary.
It will be better that you realise it in the nagios CGIs.
Very much I hope that you will listen to this council as it is really convenient.
Thanks you for your work.

Comments (0) UI / Interface / Visualizations, notifications

Easy Graphic configuration tool

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:13:53 PDT

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I been using Lilac http://www.lilacplatform.com/ for easer configuration, can make your deploys easer .... ¿Have another one?

Comments (0) UI / Interface / Visualizations, lilac configuration tool graphic

Enable and disable notifications to contacts.

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:52:27 PDT

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Add a web interface method to disable and enable notifications to contacts. Possibly even like system downtime. For example if someone is going to be on leave for a week, then turn off notifications for that week.

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Staff CAD engineer

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:11:55 PDT

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Include statistic data also. Or say to combine Cacti to Nagios, it is not necessary to
maintain two monitoring systems in a network

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Service State auto-escalation/graduation

Sun, 09 May 2010 11:28:04 PDT

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I'd like to see graduated service checks which are dependent upon number of checks or amount of time performed on a service; i.e. if a service stays in WARNING state for longer than X times or T minutes (continuously) , it will automagically escalate to CRITICAL state; similarly, once a state goes OK, allow it to remain in WARNING state for X times or T minutes (continuously) kind of as a "Hey, keep an eye on this" kind of thing.

Comments (1) Nagios "Core", service automatic escalation

Decouple notification attributes from host and service objects

Wed, 05 May 2010 13:56:21 PDT

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Decouple notification attributes from hosts and services and either just use the escalation type to describe notification policies or rename it to be a notification type.

The problem with the notification attributes being meshed into hosts and services comes when host -> hostgroup -> service mappings are used with multiple different configuration editors working on a Nagios configuration; since only *one* policy can exist for a host or service, with the group mappings escalations then have to be used.

If those started as a separate type it would be SO MUCH easier to grow a Nagios configuration easily - escalations have *the perfect* syntax for a notification object as host, hostgrup, service, etc is all contained within the escalation object.

a host or service should not know nor care about notification policies.

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servicedependency with service groups

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:13:01 PDT

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Add define servicedependency with dependent_servicegroup_name option - it would be fast way to define service dependencies without entering each name.

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binaries to install

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:26:44 PDT

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I am able to do build installs of Nagios. I am mostly using Mac OS X and use MacPorts to get nagios. But there are machines I cannot put development tools on. And if I want to use some other architecture for running nagios, I have to have two of that platform? One to build and use to use?

It would be nice if there were pre-built binaries for different platforms.

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NEW IDEA TO - update documentation for the "upgrade" part

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:54:48 PDT

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I upgraded from 3.0.6 ( NO php) to nagios 3.2.1 (php now included)
on "Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2" hardy

All seemed correct except after following procedure, instead of getting my Web interface with nagios, all lovely intact and all in order i got a prompt to download a file!! "application/x-httpd-php" file to be downloaded...

But i followed the updated procedure to the letter!! Typical documenation
flaws, sigh, again..

Anyway i found the solution,
follow the updated documentation to the letter...
then install these 2 packages

sudo apt-get install php5
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5
you might need to kick nagios apache services as well..
I hope this serves others well, hoping to upgrade.
The reason for the upgrade to hopefully resolve scheduling problems
where if ntp drops the system time back one second or so nagios goes a
little wobbily with scheduling described here :
http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=nagios-devel&a=2008-09&t=8455575

Regards..

I have not posted this anywhere else on the net...

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Easy Editing and Deletion

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:38:07 PST

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I wish it were easy to edit and delete hosts and services in Nagios. All I wanted to do was rename some of the hosts and now because I did, they are unable to be synced. Even if I delete them fully in configuration to start over, they persist. This is a major bug and is totally unacceptable. Even small time freeware monitors can do this correctly with ease.

Comments (1) General, edit, delete

send alerts of Oracle database performance

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:07:07 PST

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send alerts of Oracle database performance

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Monitoring flash media live encoder / flash live stream at all

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:06:55 PST

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Monitoring flash media live encoder / flash live stream at all

Comments (1) Plugins, flash media live encoder stream