Monitoring question

[Formoso, Travis]

> The event handler _is_ being called ("SERVICE EVENT HANDLER"). If you're
> using the example handler as is, it won't work. I'll bet you a free beer
> that the nagios user does not have permission to restart httpd via the
> init script. In cases such as this I use visudo to grant nagios
> passwordless sudo access to the script and call it from the event
> handler via 'sudo /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart'.

Marc -

I am running the command line as user root (it is a virtual machine). Do I still need to set permission for the nagios user to restart httpd. If so how do I grant nagios user passwordless access? Also if it is being called SERVICE EVENT HANDLER what do I need to change this to and where?




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