Nagios 2.0 (nsca-2.4) upgrade difficulties on Solaris 9

[Colin White]

Hi Folks,

A little progress and a bit more info. Thanks for your suggestions Marc.

I apparently have 2 issues -

[1] It seems that when I run nsca under inetd, I get "1 data packet(s)
sent to host successfully." but nothing gets written to nagios.cmd -
wierd indeed (perms are as my original post). I have also tried to run
nsca from inetd as root but with the same result.  Unfortunately nsca
debug=1 doesn't work when running --inetd. My inetd.conf has an entry
like this -
----
nsca    stream  tcp     nowait  nagios  /usr/local/nagios/bin/nsca -c
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nsca.cfg --inetd
----

When I run nsca as bin/nsca -c etc/nsca --daemon, passive checks DO
get written to nagios.cmd and things turns green :-).

What could be up with my inetd?

[2] As my remote passive client is in a DHCP subnet on the end of a
DSL line, I used the nsca hack that let me specify a network in my
allowed_hosts directive rather than the IP#. It seems this no longer
works. Can anyone verify this for me?  Is there a workaround? My
nsca.conf used to look like this -
---
server_port=5667
server_address=my_host_IP#

allowed_hosts=127.0.0.1,80.64.48.,81,53,22.

# NOTE: This option is ignored if NSCA is running under either inetd or xinetd
nsca_user=nagios
# NOTE: This option is ignored if NSCA is running under either inetd or xinetd
nsca_group=nagioscmd
debug=0
command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
alternate_dump_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
aggregate_writes=0
append_to_file=0
max_packet_age=30
password=mypassword_same_as_nsca_check_on_client
decryption_method=1
---

Many Thanks

Colin



On 4/29/05, Marc Powell <marc at ena.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Wrom: YCGPKYLEJGDGVCJVTLBXFGGMEPYOQKEDOTWFAOBUZXUWLSZLKBRNVWWCUFPEGA
> > admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Colin White
> > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 1:03 PM
> > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios 2.0 (nsca-2.4) upgrade difficulties on
> > Solaris 9
> >
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I've recently upgraded to nagios-2.0b3 (from 1.1 where things were
> > working fine) after a host and ISP change (too many things at once,
> > I'm told..)
> >
> > As expected, things have got a bit lumpy along the way...
> >
> > I'm running on Solaris 9 (Sparc) and still using the
> > nagios-plugins-1.3.1 as 1.4 wouldn't make properly for me.
> >
> > I'm using nsca-2.4 and my remote hosts are submitting their passive
> > checks nicely and I get "1 data packet(s) sent to host successfully".
> > Nsca is running in my inetd.conf as instructed in the INSTALL file
> > (nsca-2.4.tar.gz). Netstat and snooping the iface show passive check
> > connecting to my host as I'd expect on default 5667. The nsca config
> > files (password & port) match at both ends.
> >
> > Nagios is running fine and passed the preflight check (-v). I've read
> > the Manual and FAQ and list archive (GMANE).
> >
> > However, passive checks don't seem to be getting written to my
> > nagios.cmd file and won't show in the service status. I can tail -f
> > this file and see cgi commands being written to it ok, but not passive
> > checks.
> >
> > My file perms look like this -
> >
> > drwxrwsr-x   2 nagios   nagioscmd     512 Apr 29 17:44 .
> > drwxrwxr-x   4 nagios   nagios       512 Apr 29 18:46 ..
> > prw-rw----   1 nagios   nagioscmd       0 Apr 29 17:44 nagios.cmd
> 
> Is NSCA running either as root or nagios or in group nagioscmd? If you
> don't see PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT entries when 'tailing'
> nagios.cmd, chances are high that it's a permissions issue specifically
> related to NSCA. Also verify that your command_file is properly
> specified in nsca.cfg. Running NSCA in debug mode might be informative
> as well.
> 
> --
> Marc
>


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