External Commands not working

[Jason King]

You have to make sure "check_external_commands" option in the nagios.cfg 
file is set to 1. Otherwise nagios never checks to see if an external 
command has been issued.

Jason

Justin Craig wrote:
> My external commands are not working.  Can someone provide assistance?
>  
> Below is some of my cgi.cfg info:
>  
> cgi.cfg
> nagios_check_command=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios 
> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat 5 '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios'
> use_authentication=1
> authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
>  
> And my nagios.cfg is set to check for external commands.
>  
> Also, I have in my httpd.conf file:
>  
>
> ScriptAlias /nagios/cgi-bin "/usr/local/nagios/sbin"
>
> <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/sbin">
> #  SSLRequireSSL
>    Options ExecCGI
>    AllowOverride AuthConfig
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> #  Order deny,allow
> #  Deny from all
> #  Allow from 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
>    AuthName "Nagios Access"
>    AuthType Basic
>    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
>    Require valid-user
> </Directory>
>
> Alias /nagios "/usr/local/nagios/share"
>
> <Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
> #  SSLRequireSSL
>    Options None
>    AllowOverride AuthConfig
>    Order allow,deny
>    Allow from all
> #  Order deny,allow
> #  Deny from all
> #  Allow from 127.0.0.1 <http://127.0.0.1>
>    AuthName "Nagios Access"
>    AuthType Basic
>    AuthUserFile /usr/local/nagios/etc/htpasswd.users
>    Require valid-user
> </Directory>
> #
>
>  
>
> Let me know your thoughts and any commands to run that would help 
> troubleshoot this?
>
>
>
> -- 
> - Justin
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