NagMIN NULL Problem - New release Friday

[Fred Reimers]

All,

I've located the problem with NULL.  The problem was two-fold, first, NagMIN tries to use command line MySQL if the DBI isn't installed.  This returns a NULL string instead of a NULL character.  There's also a problem with the perl eval command working differently on FreeBSD so it used command line even if DBI was installed.

The bottom line is that I've fixed it and the next release should be out by Friday.  I'm working on the setup script for new installations (particularly FreeBSD since I'm moving off of RedHat).  On FreeBSD you should be able to pkg_add -r nagios and then install NagMIN.  NagMIN will give you the option to load in the sample database and create the configuration files for you so that you don't have to manually edit the samples.

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Fred Reimers (CCIE #1469, CCSA)
Senior Network Consultant
Info Systems, Inc.
freimers at infosysinc.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Llewellyn [mailto:travisll at comfedcu.org]
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2003 4:53 PM
To: Fred Reimers
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NagMIN Update Information - Releases - Beta
- French


Fred,

I thought I would give you an update.
No matter what I do I still get this. The commands and contacts are
actually there they just do not show up in the Nagmin Webmin interface.
I can see them if I edit the command or contact but they will not
display any other way.

Just fyi.

If you need anything please let me know.

Travis

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Reimers [mailto:FReimers at infosysinc.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 1:11 PM
To: Travis Llewellyn
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net

Travis,

I haven't seen any problems with contacts or commands.  Does this happen
when you run setup and what version were you loading?

The command name and contact group names shouldn't and really can't be
blank as they're required index fields for the database.  

This may be something I haven't seen before that's different with your
configuration files. 
 
I'll test it out for you and fix whatever might be the problem if you
send me a sanitized version of your configs.

Also, make sure that you've tried it with version 1.3.2.  There were
problems loading service information (not command) in the previous
version.

BTW

Version 1.4.0 will be out in a couple of days.  This adds support for
delineating Nagios directories for platform independence and fixes a bug
with uploading icon files.  


Fred



-----Original Message-----
From: Travis Llewellyn [mailto:travisll at comfedcu.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 01, 2003 12:33 PM
To: Fred Reimers
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] NagMIN Update Information - Releases - Beta
- French


Fred,
I have one question about nagmin, Whenever I go to look at the table for
the commands, all the command names are blank same for the contact
groups, the contact group name is blank on them all.

Is there any reason why.

BTW I have done a complete blank reinstall of Nagios and Nagmin just to
see if I missed something.

Travis Llewellyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Reimers [mailto:FReimers at infosysinc.com] 
Posted At: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 3:34 PM
Posted To: Nagios Lists
Conversation: NagMIN Update Information - Releases - Beta - French
Subject: [Nagios-users] NagMIN Update Information - Releases - Beta -
French

All,

I noticed that a lot of people downloaded NagMIN version 1.3.1.  There
are problems with the setup utility not creating service entries.
You'll need to install 1.3.2 to correct the problem.

I want to thank all of you who have provided feedback and asked for
support.  It's helping make NagMIN a better application, but it's not
been as stable as I thought it would be due to the new features I've
added that I hadn't planned.  The major feature being centralized
management.  As a result, there isn't any detailed documentation, and I
haven't had time to fully tested every release that I've put out there.
There have also been some major bugs for which I apologize.  The biggest
I've had is correctly setting and using NULL values in the db schemas.
I should have read more about MySQL before starting.  The current
version should have that under control.

The only major bug in the current release, that might not be corrected,
is a problem adding time periods.  I haven't had any problems with this
but I will investigate it.  There are a couple of other minor things
that will be corrected.

The major feature request I've received is to parameterize all of the
Nagios directories for installations where nagios has been placed in
some ../bin directory, cgis somewhere else, etc..  This will require a
major change to the setup utility and also to the webmin module.  Since
NagMIN can centrally manage multiple servers, the directories might be
in a different place on each server.  These parameters will be
configured on a per database(system) basis in the new System table. It's
going to take a week or so before the next release will show up and
integration with MRTG (which I need) will take a little bit longer.

NagMIN will also support French in the next release due to the efforts
of Pierre-Antoine Angelini, which I appreciate greatly.

I'm going to change the status of the project back to beta as I don't
want to misrepresent the current quality of the software.  I see that a
lot of people are downloading it and I want you to be able to use it
successfully.  It will probably take another month or two for it to
mature a bit more.

Make sure that you read the release notes for any new releases.

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Fred Reimers (CCIE #1469, CCSA)
Senior Network Consultant
Info Systems, Inc.
freimers at infosysinc.com


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