Nagios-OS?

Pradeep Pokharkar pradeeppokharkar at yahoo.com
Mon May 19 12:44:38 CEST 2008


Hi,
Can anybody tell me which opertaing system should I go for Nagios, Redhat Enterprise Linux5 server or workstation?

Regards,
Pradeep

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Today's Topics:

  1. Could not open command file
      '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' (Daniel Bareiro)
  2. Last check displayed (Daniel Bareiro)
  3. Re: Could not open command    file
      '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' (Morris, Patrick)
  4. Re: Last check displayed (Morris, Patrick)
  5. problemas with check_icmp (Rodrigo Pacheco)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 10:56:29 -0300
From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas at gmx.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Could not open command file
    '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Hi!

I've update the Nagios version from 3.0b5 to 3.0.1 stable. But
re-scheduling a new check for a service I get:

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Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
for update!

The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.

An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
processing.
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sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# ll
total 0
prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 2008-05-18 10:38 nagios.cmd
sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id nagios
uid=1001(nagios) gid=1001(nagios) groups=1001(nagios),1002(nagcmd)
sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id www-data
uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),1002(nagcmd)

The permissions are according to Ubuntu Quickstart. Changing the group
of nagios.cmd to nagcmd I get rid of the problem. But restarting Nagios,
the nagios.cmd permissions are reset to nagios:nagios. What can be the
problem?

Tnaks in advance.

Regards,
Daniel
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 12:33:44 -0300
From: Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas at gmx.net>
Subject: [Nagios-users] Last check displayed
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Hi!

I've noticed a sensible difference in the hosts displayed in the service
detail' Nagios interface for last check. In some host the hour is
consistent with the actual one, but in others I observe a differences of
one or more hours.

This can be due to some Nagios cache?

Thanks in advance

Regards,
Daniel
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:34:31 +0000
From: "Morris, Patrick" <patrick.morris at hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Could not open command    file
    '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
To: "dbareiro at gmx.net" <dbareiro at gmx.net>,
    "nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net"
    <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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> I've update the Nagios version from 3.0b5 to 3.0.1 stable. But
> re-scheduling a new check for a service I get:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
> Error: Could not open command file
> '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd'
> for update!
>
> The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be
> incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permissions.
>
> An error occurred while attempting to commit your command for
> processing.
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> --
>
> sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# ll
> total 0
> prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagios 0 2008-05-18 10:38 nagios.cmd
> sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id nagios
> uid=1001(nagios) gid=1001(nagios) groups=1001(nagios),1002(nagcmd)
> sparky:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# id www-data
> uid=33(www-data) gid=33(www-data) groups=33(www-data),1002(nagcmd)
>
> The permissions are according to Ubuntu Quickstart. Changing the group
> of nagios.cmd to nagcmd I get rid of the problem. But restarting
> Nagios,
> the nagios.cmd permissions are reset to nagios:nagios. What can be the
> problem?

Sounds like when you updated you compiled with a different user and/or group than your older version.

There are at least a couple ways to fix this. One would be to recompile Nagios to use a group your webserver is a member of.  Another would be to set the "rw" directory setgid www-data so new files created there have that as their group. For that to work, the nagios user would also need to be a member of www-data.



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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:37:51 +0000
From: "Morris, Patrick" <patrick.morris at hp.com>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Last check displayed
To: "dbareiro at gmx.net" <dbareiro at gmx.net>,
    "nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net"
    <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
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    <93C487A372B3774CAEAA15D524CCF3D122883BBC2B at G1W0485.americas.hpqcorp.net>
    
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> I've noticed a sensible difference in the hosts displayed in the
> service detail' Nagios interface for last check. In some host the hour
> is consistent with the actual one, but in others I observe a
> differences of one or more hours.
>
> This can be due to some Nagios cache?

No, it's not due to cache. You probably just have services scheduled in a way that some don't run as often as others.

Without more information, it's impossible to say why you're seeing what you're seeing.



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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 16:15:09 -0300
From: "Rodrigo Pacheco" <fagundes.pacheco at gmail.com>
Subject: [Nagios-users] problemas with check_icmp
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
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Dear,

I'm having some problems with my Nagios 3.0 they are:


the plugin check_icmp to use the console in hand does not return the same
value when it is executed by Nagios (I am using the same syntax and host).
How could solve this?

Monitoring the local network realized that the values informed by the front
end of Nagios is a big difference. When I check_ping tests with the same
values are returned by both.

cheers,

Rodrigo
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