Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

[Hari Sekhon]

did you see my last email regarding this and reload vs restart?

also, something I forgot to add, here is a very basic shell test that I 
run through cron to check nagios is up and email me if not:


$PLUGIN_DIR/check_nagios -F $NAGIOS_STATUS_LOG -e 5 -C $NAGIOS_BINARY > $LOG

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
        /bin/mail -s "Nagios may not be running!" $RECIPIENT < $LOG > 
/dev/null
fi


obviously you need to set the $VARIABLES to the paths of your nagios 
binary, log file, plugin directory where the check_nagios plugin is located.

Hope that helps.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Arno Lehmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 21.06.2007 23:20,, Patrick Morris wrote::
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Well, I've seen Nagios crash on a broken config. Even if this is a bug 
> which should (and perhaps is) fixed, I would not rely on that 
> behaviour if I can easily avoid that.
>
> Thus my recommendation...
>
> Arno
>
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