Michael,
Very helpful. The last link gave me something the latch onto. Here is the top of my status.dat file:
info {
created=1317748445
version=3.3.1
last_update_check=1317680163
update_available=0
last_version=3.3.1
new_version=3.3.1
}
So it appears that Nagios is checking just fine. So my problem appears to be the in main.php, which never did display the "update available" banner when I was running version 3.2.3 (and 3.3.1 had been out for a week). Any ideas?
Jon Adcock
Network Systems Administrator
Leon County MIS
301 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Office: (850) 606-5518
adcockj at leoncountyfl.gov
>>> On 10/4/2011 at 11:32 AM, Michael Friedrich <michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at> wrote:
On 02.10.2011 02:14, Jon Adcock wrote:
This feature (check for updates) does not appear to be working for me. When 3.3.1 came out, I waited for a week, and never saw the update available banner displayed on the Nagios main landing page (main.php). I've been playing with the main.php page to get it to display the date/time of the last update check, and it returns blank (no value), so I'm assuming that too mean it's not actually checking.
I am currently running Nagios 3.3.1 on the Novell SLES v10 server (Nagios compiled from source). Can anyone give me some troubleshooting steps to get me started? For example, is there a way to enable logging of the check for updates feature, and is there a way to manually start the update check (the API, not the web page URL link)?
the core is scheduling call home events and saves the version information and various other attributes in both status.dat and retention.dat. the cgis (or the php part of it) parse that information into a readable version onto the web.
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/include/nagios.h?revision=1786&view=markup line 129ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/base/utils.c?revision=1797&view=markup line 3724ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xsddefault.c?revision=1793&view=markup 405ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xrddefault.c?revision=1787&view=markup 317ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/html/includes/utils.inc.php?revision=1242
so i would guess if you don't allow the nagios core to phone home, it won't show an updated version. scheduling cycle is somewhere around 22 hours, changing is only possible if you recompile.
Jon Adcock
Network Systems Administrator
Leon County MIS
301 S. Monroe St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Office: (850) 606-5518
adcockj at leoncountyfl.gov
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