Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Thompson
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, John Drescher wrote: > Have you ever seen bacula die? I mean in 5 years of using bacula on 35 > to 50 machines I do not recall ever seeing bacula die. Yep; storage daemon (2.4.2) dies on me about once a month. I get a file daemon failure about once a month too, but of course

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread Charlie Reddington
Yep! The client side did. On Mar 27, 2009, at 10:48 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM, John Drescher > wrote: >> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Charlie Reddington >> wrote: >>> We've done the most basic setup here, we use check_procs and look >>> for >>> bacula

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread John Drescher
>>> We've done the most basic setup here, we use check_procs and look for >>> bacula. If the process dies, it'll bitch. This way we usually catch >>> problems before they happen. >>> >> Have you ever seen bacula die? I mean in 5 years of using bacula on 35 >> to 50 machines I do not recall ever see

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:47 AM, John Drescher wrote: > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Charlie Reddington > wrote: >> We've done the most basic setup here, we use check_procs and look for >> bacula. If the process dies, it'll bitch. This way we usually catch >> problems before they happen. >>

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread John Drescher
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Charlie Reddington wrote: > We've done the most basic setup here, we use check_procs and look for > bacula. If the process dies, it'll bitch. This way we usually catch > problems before they happen. > Have you ever seen bacula die? I mean in 5 years of using bacul

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread Charlie Reddington
We've done the most basic setup here, we use check_procs and look for bacula. If the process dies, it'll bitch. This way we usually catch problems before they happen. If bacula is just not happy in general, we'll know by the next morning with a failed / error backup job. Charlie On Mar 26,

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread Marc DeTrano
> Folks, > > Does anyone have any tips for montioring Bacula with Nagios? > > I focus mainly on using "Run After Job"'s to run a script for send_nsca. In my case, the primary concern is that the jobs run, run without errors, and are complete by the time I think they should be (I monitor the

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-27 Thread Masopust, Christian
he path to the darkside." - Unknown Unix Jedi > -Original Message- > From: Mike [mailto:m...@csits.net] > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 12:22 AM > To: bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios > > Folks, >

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin Keane
I found a check_bacula plugin somewhere - I think on nagiosexchange. It looks at the bacula log files for the last day, and issues a warning if any backups have failed. It also reports on the total number of backups. It's far from perfect (the warning state always remains exactly until midnight

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-26 Thread mark . bergman
In the message dated: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:21:53 -, The pithy ruminations from Mike on <[Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios> were: => => => Folks, => => Does anyone have any tips for montioring Bacula with Nagios? Yes. => => Ideally I was th

[Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula with Nagios

2009-03-26 Thread Mike
Folks, Does anyone have any tips for montioring Bacula with Nagios? Ideally I was thinking of connecting to the sockets and doing a hello to make sure it was happy. I haven't been able to find any plugings and tinking with the protocol there seems to be some non printing characters which makes i