Nagios with MySQL support

[Al Smith]

I've tried the online forums over the past weeks, and have had no response.
 
Using Nagios, configured with the xdata option, and a MySQL database appears to work well from the monitoring views, however...
 
No external commands can be used. This means I cannot acknowlege an alarm, schedule downtime, send a passive check or leave a comment - all things that I need to do in order to run the tool as expected.
 
When attempting any of these commands via the web page, I get the response:
Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands, so your command will not be committed!



Read the documentation for information on how to enable external commands...

I've looked through the documentation, but it is not focused on the MySQL implementation. Can anyone lend a had with getting past this configuration issue? Is it possible to use external commands via the web interface? I have set downtime in the database itself, and after the endtime, it is removed from the database table, so all appears to work well from that aspect. 
 
Al
 


		
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