Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

[Patrick Morris]

Arno Lehmann schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2007:

> Hi,
> 
> chiel schrieb:
> > I'm looking for a plugin that will check if the nagios.cfg is ok.
> > So besecauly run this command: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
> > /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg". Is there a plugin for this?
> 
> Wouldn't it be better to check this in the cron job itself? Nagios 
> won't help you much if it crashes because of a broken config.
> 
> The cron job could, naturally, report problems as passive results to 
> Nagios...

Nagios will never crash because of a broken config if it's running; 
it just won't load that config.  Checking from a cron job works, too,
but there's no reason Nagios can't also check to see if the on-disk
config is valid.

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