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
Hello Mike, have you already downloaded the source (.tar.gz) of Bacula? In it's bacula-2.x.x/examples/nagios you'll find everything you wish :-) christian -- "I sense much NT in you, NT leads to Blue Screen. Blue Screen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the da

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 thinking of connecting to the sockets

Re: [Bacula-users] monitoring bacula daemons

2007-09-17 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hi, 17.09.2007 16:05,, Mike Eggleston wrote:: > On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Mike Eggleston might have said: > >> I'm setting up the monitor 'hobbit' to check that the bacula >> daemons are up and accepting connections. What 'hello' message >> can I use that will not cause an error to be sent from the >>

Re: [Bacula-users] monitoring bacula daemons

2007-09-17 Thread Mike Eggleston
On Mon, 17 Sep 2007, Mike Eggleston might have said: > I'm setting up the monitor 'hobbit' to check that the bacula > daemons are up and accepting connections. What 'hello' message > can I use that will not cause an error to be sent from the > director? I'v used 'Hello hobbit calling' and 'Hello *

Re: [Bacula-users] monitoring bacula daemons

2007-09-17 Thread Masopust, Christian
Hello Mike, you've to send the correct protocol to say "hello" to the bacula-daemons. you could have a look at bacula-2.x.x/examples/nagios/nagios_plugin_check_bacula.tgz this is a plugin for i've written to check state of the daemons (and can be used by all monitoring programs which can start e

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-28 Thread Turbo Fredriksson
Quoting Khalil Foundy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need your advice about the best way of monitoring bacula using a > script. I am interested in monitoring the deamons, to see if they are > running or not. I am also inetersted to know the status of the > director/storage/client and of course running,

RE : Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-26 Thread Khalil Foundy
--- Karl Hungus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > http://www.nagios.org > Thanks Karl! Have you ever tried zabbix ? you should, it's a GPL software ;-) Khalil FOUNDY __ Lèche-vitrine ou lèche-écran ? ma

RE : RE: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-26 Thread Khalil Foundy
Hi Chris, Thanks for the offer. I downloaded your code and started playing with it. I had some problems to generate the Makfile by the main configure script. It complained about the "depend" target in the Makafile.in. So I just compiled it by hand and it works great. Now what are your plans for th

RE : Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-26 Thread Khalil Foundy
Hi Arno, --- Arno Lehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > check_bacula is C code and requires bacula sources to be available > and > configured. I am lloking ito this code right now. > > To check the status of actual Bacula jobs, I used a Run After Job > script > in Bacula which reports job

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-26 Thread Karl Hungus
http://www.nagios.org On Nov 25, 2005, at 11:36 AM, Khalil Foundy wrote: Hi all, I need your advice about the best way of monitoring bacula using a script. I am interested in monitoring the deamons, to see if they are running or not. I am also inetersted to know the status of the director/stora

RE: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-25 Thread Masopust Christian
hello khalil, if needed i could send you my check_bacula (or maybe you'll look at www.nagiosexchange.org in the plugin -> misc - section...) it can check status of any given director. for reporting job-status i wrote a "global-postprocessing" script which sends status message via nsca to nagi

Re: [Bacula-users] Monitoring bacula

2005-11-25 Thread Arno Lehmann
Hello, On 25.11.2005 17:36, Khalil Foundy wrote: Hi all, I need your advice about the best way of monitoring bacula using a script. I'm using Nagios and the check_bacula plugin (see www.nagiosexchange.org IIRC). This checks the status of the daemons. I am interested in monitoring the deam