Checking configuration with restarting?

[Rob King]

Actually, I think I may have figured it out:

The CGIs, of course, re-read the configuration every time the page is 
loaded. This I knew. However, I thought that they got their status 
information from some sort of internal database maintained by the Nagios 
daemon. However, if they relied on the configuration to determine what 
status to get, they would come up with the weird "no status, no hosts, 
no anything" page if the config were fscked up...

That's probably it. Thanks for all the help. :) So, on a lighter note, 
anyone have any experience with having multiple people administer a 
Nagios setup simulataneously?

Thanks all,
Rob

Shawn Rose wrote:

>Yours restarts when you do that eh?  Mine doesn't.  That is odd.
>
>No idea from me :)
>
>Shawn
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob King [mailto:rob.king at wholefoods.com] 
>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 11:07 AM
>To: Shawn Rose; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Checking configuration with restarting?
>
>Hey everyone,
>    Right, I knew about that. The issue is that when I do that, Nagios 
>still restarts - and if there's an error in the configuration files, the
>
>CGI's all show inaccurate information.
>
>    Is there any way to test the configuration without restarting?
>
>    Thanks,
>    Rob
>
>Shawn Rose wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Go to your bin directory and type 
>>./nagios -v /path/to/nagios.cfg
>>
>>
>>Shawn
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
>>[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Rob King
>>Sent: Monday, November 04, 2002 10:35 AM
>>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>>Subject: [Nagios-users] Checking configuration with restarting?
>>
>>Hey everyone,
>>   I know that you can verify the Nagios configuration files by
>>    
>>
>calling
>  
>
>>Nagios with the "-v" flag. However, if there is an error in the 
>>configuration files, while the config check catches it, Nagios still 
>>restarts!
>>
>>   Well, at least I think it restarts. The "Network Health Bars" all
>>    
>>
>go
>  
>
>>to 0%, and I get "0 Hosts 0 Services", etc, etc.
>>
>>   Is there any way to verify the configuration without restarting?
>>    
>>
>I'd
>  
>
>>like to know because very soon we're going to have multiple people 
>>administering one Nagios setup, and I'd like for them to be forced to 
>>verify their configuration before restarting.
>>
>>   Thanks all!
>>
>>   Rob
>>
>>
>>
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