nsca/services issue

[Mike Carpenter]

I guess I should have said that this isnt a distributed set up.  I am setting up syslog-ng and am just trying to make sure that everything is working...so there are no services installed on the client "mike".  I have checked to make sure that the passive_checks directives are enabled in the nagios.cfg and the Service State page also shows that they are.
   
  Is this not a good way to test prior to turning on syslog-ng?  
   
  

Jedrzej Jajor <jedrzej at man.poznan.pl> wrote:
      Hi,
   
  I assume you have a host 'mike' and a service 'nmbd' defined on it. Check if you have "accept_passive_service_checks=1" in nagios.cfg and "passive_checks_enabled 1" in the service definition. If you open the Service State Information page in the web interface it should also say that passive checks are enabled.
   
  Hope this helps.
   
  Regards,
  Jedrzej

      
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  From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Mike Carpenter
Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 6:20 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [Nagios-users] nsca/services issue


  
  I have a question about nsca and service checks.  I am running nsca 2.6 and Nagios 2.5.  I have just trying to send a simple test service check to Nagios to see if I can get the state to change
and it isn’t working

   
  Here is what I am trying to do

   
  From the remote machine:
  /usr/bin/send_nsca –H ian -d “;” –c /etc/send_nagios.cfg < test
   
  The file test contains:
  mike;nmbd;2;’ok-just one test’
   
  I have configured nsca on the Nagios server and the config file contains:
   
  server_port=5667
  server_address=192.168.1.10
  nsca_user=nagios
  nsca_group=nagios
  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=password
  decryption_method=10
   
  The send_nagios.cfg contains:
  password=password
  encryption_method=10
   
  My service check is:
   
  define service{
          host_name               mike
          service_description     syslog-ng
          active_checks_enabled   0
          passive_checks_enabled  1
          check_freshness         0
          is_volatile             1
          max_check_attempts      1
          normal_check_interval   1
          retry_check_interval    1
          check_period            none
          contact_groups          nagios-admins
          check_command           check_dummy!2!Critical
          notification_options    w,c,u
          notification_period     24x7
          notification_interval   120
          }
   
  The /var/log/messages file shows the following:
   
  Nov 21 00:09:00 ian nsca[12202]: SERVICE CHECK -> Host Name: 'mike', Service Description: 'nmbd', Return Code: '2', Output: ''ok-just one test''
   
  Nov 21 00:09:47 ian nagios: EXTERNAL COMMAND: PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT;mike;nmbd;2;'ok-just one test'
   
  It appears that the external command file is getting the check
but the host page just sits there saying that the host hasn’t been checked.  I have tried several different states and still the same result.  I understand that an active check isnt being performed but I would think that because of the above "PROCESS_SERVICE_CHECK_RESULT" line that the nagios.cmd file got the message and the page should be updated with a critical message.
   
  I read in the docs that the check needs to have the date in front of it 
but when I tried that I couldn’t get nsca to expand the variable
I have checked permissions, etc.
   
  So
where have I messed up?  LOL.
   
  Any help is greatly appreciated.
    
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