Web interface errors

[Deborah Martin]

Check that /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd is owned / exectuable by the nagios user.  



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From: mail at catsnest.co.uk [mailto:mail at catsnest.co.uk] 
Sent: 14 September 2011 11:42
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Web interface errors

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:27 PM, Jim Nachlin <jim.nachlin at gawker.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm receiving the most common, dreaded "Error: Could not read object 
> configuration data!" message on all of my cgi-generated web interface 
> pages.
>
> My configuration files have no warnings in them.
>
> /var/log/nagios/nagios.log does not give me any hints.  There are no 
> errors in the Apache logs.
>
> Checks are actually working - so the non-web part of Nagios is OK.
>
> I am running the RPM version on RHEL6: nagios-3.2.3-8.el6.x86_64 and 
> nagios-common-3.2.3-8.el6.x86_64, plus a number of plugins, also from 
> RPM.
>
> SELinux is set to "permissive".
>
> I am about at my wit's end.  Since there are no errors in any log 
> file, I don't know what to try next.  Is there some file ownership or 
> permissions settings I could change?  Most of what's under /etc/nagios 
> is owned by nagios:nagios, with the exception of the passwd file, 
> group apache.  The nagios process itself is also owned by nagios user.
>  /usr/share/nagios/ is chowned -R nagios.
>
> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
>

Try adding apache to the nagios group...
As Apache needs to be able to read the object file thats where the cgis get there data from.

Ritchie,
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> -Jim
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