Executing custom/misc commands problem

[Jamin]

The execution of the nagios user is allowed and the nfs file is exported.

... testing ...


Ah ha!  I think I narrowed the problem down to the parsing of commands
with arguments in nagios. The problem is, the C program I pass off the
arguments to parses on semicolons for the different fields.  (Yeah, I
know.  Its bad, but I didn't write the dang thing.)

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This is the problem here.  Example line I want executed::

/nfs/user/j/jragle/bin/testit.pl HostDown "severity:1;title:alert - Host 
$HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$;description:Host $HOSTALIAS$ is $HOSTSTATE$ at 
$SHORTDATETIME$;"

AND Nagios thinks it is this:: (via view config)

nfs/user/j/jragle/bin/testit.pl HostDown "severity:1
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I tried to 'escape' the semicolon with '\;', but that resulted as the same 
as above, but with a '\' character tacked on the end of the nagios line.

Anyone have any idea how to get the nagios parsing to include the 
semicolons??

Thanks for the input all!
-Jamin

On 13 Jan 2003, Pascal Miquet wrote:

> I would suggest to check if the execution of the nagios user is allowed.
> Also take a look if the nfs file is exported ?
> 
> Regards
> P.Miquet
> 
> Le sam 11/01/2003 à 19:48, Jamin a écrit :
> > Hello fellow nagios users, 
> > 	I'm trying to integrate nagios into our paging and problem 
> > management software right now but am having problems getting nagios to 
> > execute the perl script that initiates the pages and tickets.
> > 
> > In the etc/misccommands.cfg file I am trying to do something similar to 
> > the notify-by-epager command but instead of using printf and mail, I am 
> > trying to execute the command which contacts the problem management 
> > software.
> > 
> > Here is a simplified command where the 'hello' part is actually the second 
> > argument which describes the problem.
> > 
> > # Test 'host-notify-by-CIRTpager' command definition
> > define command{
> >         command_name    host-notify-by-CIRTpager
> >         command_line    /nfs/e1/oper/PAGER/scauto/linuxevprob.pl HostDown hello
> >         }
> > 
> > I added some lines in the perl file which appends the 2nd argument to a
> > file in /tmp, just so I know if the file is being executed, but
> > apparently, it is never executed by nagios because the file is empty.
> > 
> > The permissions on the file are good, and it executes normally when done 
> > by hand.  It just seems to not work in nagios.  I checked the notification 
> > history, and nagios seems to think it was executed, but there is never 
> > anything in the /tmp file when nagios tries to run the command.
> > 
> > Anyone have any suggestions?  I would appreciate any help.
> > Thanks,
> > -Jamin Ragle
> > SA for CIRT
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