<DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks Marc, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I actually found that same document during my search and it worked out well. Now </DIV> <DIV>to the root of the reason why I needed to enable external commands. I have a host that was going up and down all throughout the weekend due to power issues. This host is now up </DIV> <DIV>and functioning, yet nagios is still reporting it as being down. I just ran the check again </DIV> <DIV>manually through the web interface, and it's still reporting the host as down. I can ping </DIV> <DIV>the host fine from the box that nagios is running on, all other hosts are showing fine. It's </DIV> <DIV>just this one host. Is there some kind of cache or anything that I might need to clear </DIV> <DIV>in order to correct this issue? Marc Powell <marc@ena.com> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Does the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw directory exist and have permissions such that nagios (and also your web server) can write to it? I do not believe that directory is created by the nagios install as it's just a suggested location so you would need to create it yourself. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/commandfile.html might be useful. -- Marc > -----Original Message----- > From: Sxan [mailto:sxanrr@yahoo.com] > Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 9:41 AM > To: Sxan; Marc Powell; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] check_external_commands option > > > > Update: > > I apologize, but I must have just missed seeing it in the log file. You > are correct about the > error with Nagios and the nagios.cmd file. Here is the error in the log... > > [1121088502] Error: Could not create external command file > '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' as named pipe: (2) -> No suc > h file or directory. If this file already exists and you are sure that > another copy of Nagios is not running, you should del > ete this file. > [1121088502] Bailing out due to errors encountered while trying to open > the external command file for reading... (PID=3627) > > So is this a common error with an easy fix? I'm going to be googling for > the resolution and checking the faq's, but any replies would still be > appreciated. Thanks! > > Sxan <SXANRR@YAHOO.COM>wrote: > > > > Thanks for the reply, as far as what you suggested, I checked the > log and > there are no errors in there that are outside the scope of the > normal notifications > that Nagios gives. Does using the external commands require that it > be configured > in more places than just the nagios.cfg? I'm guessing that maybe I'm > missing > some other variable that the external command checking depends on or > something. > Thanks again for the reply and help. > > Marc Powell <MARC@ENA.COM>wrote: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:nagios-users- > > admin@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Sxan > > Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 9:36 AM > > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > > Subject: [Nagios-users] check_external_commands option > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > I have a question regarding the check_external_commands > option in the > > nagios.cfg > > file. Basically, I tried to schedule some downtime, saw that > I needed > to > > have that > > option enabled, so I went into the nagios.cfg file and > changed the 0 > to a > > 1 for that line > > like it is below: > > > > check_external_commands=1 > > > > I saved the .cfg and now when I try and restart nagios, it > won't > start. I > > just get: > > > > honda:/usr/local/nagios/etc # sh /etc/init.d/nagios restart > > Running configuration check...done > > Stopping network monitor: nagios > > Starting network monitor: nagios > > PID TTY TIME CMD > > honda:/usr/local/nagios/etc # > > > > If I run the following > > ..../nagios/etc/../bin/nagios -v nagios.cfg Everything > checks out ok > with > > just a couple warnings > > that have been there before. Am I missing something else I > should be > > doing? Like perhaps > > specifying somewhere in the configs who has the right to run > external > > commands? Thanks. > > Did you check nagios.log? Chances are that nagios isn't able > to actually > create the command pipe (nagios.cmd) in the path specified by > command_file in nagios.cfg. > > -- > Marc > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' > webinar happening > July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. 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