Nagios Update Check Is Not Running

[Andreas Ericsson]

On 01/15/2013 10:42 PM, Jon Adcock wrote:
>   
>    I noticed that the main.php page update_available blue flag never appears for me when a new version of Nagios is available.  I do have check_for_updates=1, but I see the following at the top of the Nagios status.dat file:
> info {
>      created=1358284500
>      version=3.4.1
>      last_update_check=1340002591
>      update_available=1
>      last_version=3.3.1
>      new_version=3.4.1
>      }
>   
>    What that tells me is that the Nagios function (that checks to see if there is an update available) hasn't run since 6/18.2012 6:56:31 GMT (1340002591).  I am seeing similar indications on my other Nagios servers.

Yes. This is my fault. I'm one of the core maintainers, but I also take care
of maintaining the nagios package for op5. Pretty much the only thing we
change in our version is to disable update checks with a hardcoded return
statement in the function that issues the actual check, since our customers
get their updates from us in the form of RPM packages. Once upon a time a
patch spilled over to the Nagios repository that had that change, so the
update check was broken sometime between 3.3.1 and 3.4.4.

I believe it's fixed in 3.4.4 though, with kudos to Eric Stanley for fixing
the problem.

> 1)  Is there a way to force Nagios to CHECK NOW?

Not that I know of, and it wouldn't work with the hardcoded "avoid update
checks at all cost" patch in place anyway.

> 2)  Does the update_check log it's results somewhere?

Only in the status_file.

> 3)  Do you have any recommendations on how I should approach this problem?
>   

Upgrade to the latest version manually and then the update checks should
start working again.

I'm really sorry for the inconvenience.

-- 
Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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