Event Handlers

[Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)]

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Yep Nagios is executing your service handler (or at least trying to.)
Try executing your command from an SSH console as the Nagios user.

Andy.


edalB wrote:
> This is what I see in the log file
>
> Jan 19 15:21:18 nagios-0 nagios: SERVICE ALERT:
> imap-1.rba.ispafrica.net;HTTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;Connection refused
> Jan 19 15:21:18 nagios-0 nagios: SERVICE EVENT HANDLER:
> imap-1.rba.ispafrica.net;HTTP;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;restart-httpd
>
> And I do have it enabled in my nagios.cfg config file
>
> Regards
>
> On 1/19/07, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists)
> <andy.shellam-lists at mailnetwork.co.uk> wrote:
>> Are event handlers enabled for this service?
>> Do they show up as executed in the log file when your HTTP service goes
>> down?
>>
>>
>> edalB wrote:
>> > Hi all.
>> >
>> > I have created a event handler as a test to see how it works. The hard
>> > part I have done.
>> >
>> > I created a ssh key on on the nagios server. I tested that I am able
>> > to connect via ssh over to the other server working 100% fine.
>> >
>> > I then next tested my ssh connection using my ssh key to execute the
>> > sudo apache2 restart on the other server all worked 100%.
>> >
>> > So in thury all is working nicely from command line.
>> >
>> > The command line command I am using is.
>> >
>> > /usr/bin/ssh -p 222 -i /home/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa user at server sudo
>> > /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
>> >
>> > So what I did was I then added a extra line in my host
>> >
>> > define service{
>> >        use                             local-service
>> >
>> >        host_name                       imap-1.rba.ispafrica.net
>> >        service_description           HTTP
>> >        event_handler                   restart-httpd
>> >        check_command              check_http
>> >        }
>> >
>> > And the command
>> >
>> >
>> > define command{
>> >         command_name    restart-httpd
>> >         command_line    /usr/bin/ssh -p 222 -i
>> > /home/nagios/.ssh/id_dsa eugene at imap-1.rba.ispafrica.net sudo
>> > /etc/init.d/apache2 res
>> > tart
>> >         }
>> >
>> > So now nagios still does not want to execute my command
>> >
>> > Any advice would be appriciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> >
>> > 
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