Obsessive Compulsive Problem

Jason Marshall jasonm at kelman.com
Wed Feb 19 01:17:07 CET 2003


> First thing to check...file permissions for the submit_check_result 
> script.  I had a problem with that once.  Make sure that whatever used 
> Nagios runs as can execute that script.  Then double check the command 
> you have defined in your misccommands.cfg file to make sure the syntax 
> is good (suggestion:  email it to the list).  Rememver to put quotes 
> around any $MACRO$ variable that could have spaces in them.
> 
> Let us know if that helps at all.

It's still not running the script.  No errors anywhere that I can see,
either, which is the most annoying part...

> 
> Russell Scibetti
> 
> Jason Marshall wrote:
> 
> >Hi all, I decided to finally set up a distributed Nagios server to monitor
> >our other office and report back, rather than all the checks going over
> >the WAN (which could be down for a moment, as is often the case).
> >
> >Anyway, I can't get the darned thing to sumit check results to the main
> >nagios server in this office.  I used to submit_check_result script from
> >the web page, and it DOES work _for_sure_ when I run it on the
> >command-line.
> >
> >I've determined that it's simply never getting called by nagios itself...
> >
> >I set obsess_over_services=1
> >I set ocsp_command=submit_check_result
> >
> >The commands.cfg file knows about submit_check_result, and if I alter the
> >ocsp_command= line in any way, nagios will no longer start, which would be
> >correct behavior.
> >
> >I use templates for all my service checks, and in the active and passive
> >service templates both, I set obsess_over_service to "1"...
> >
> >What am I missing?  The distributed-server's status.log indicates that it
> >IS doing the checks -- the timestamps are current, and the statuses are
> >all what I'd expect them to be.
> >
> >Should the status.log even have stuff in it in this case?  Not sure...
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any help you can offer!
> >
> >---
> >Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.
> >
> >  From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
> >    "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
> >
> >  "I have great faith in fools: 
> >     Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe
> >
> >
> >
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> -- 
> Russell Scibetti
> Quadrix Solutions, Inc.
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---
Jason Marshall, Unix Geek, Kelman Technologies, Inc., Calgary, AB, Canada.

  From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
    "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."

  "I have great faith in fools: 
     Self confidence my friends call it."  -Edgar Allan Poe




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