Nagios - Check for Updates

Michael Friedrich michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
Tue Oct 4 19:47:48 CEST 2011
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On 04.10.2011 19:33, Jon Adcock wrote:
> 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?

that'll be a bug report for nagios developers then. the only support 
from my side on that functionality - you can have a patchset which 
completely removes the home calling functionality from both, core and 
gui and re-adds the default look on the tac.cgi - but i don't think that 
you want that ;-))


>
> /**/
> /*Florida's Capital County*/
> /*Jon Adcock*/
> Network Systems Administrator
> Leon County MIS
> 301 S. Monroe St.
> Tallahassee, FL  32301
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> adcockj at leoncountyfl.gov <mailto: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.
>
>
>
>> /**/
>> /*Florida's Capital County*/
>> /*Jon Adcock*/
>> Network Systems Administrator
>> Leon County MIS
>> 301 S. Monroe St.
>> Tallahassee, FL  32301
>> Office:  (850) 606-5518
>> adcockj at leoncountyfl.gov <mailto:adcockj at leoncountyfl.gov>
>>
>>
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>
>
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> definitive record of customers, application performance, security
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-- 
DI (FH) Michael Friedrich

Vienna University Computer Center
Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria

email:     michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at
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