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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Hi, I don’t know of any way to get the plugin to see/use
the /etc/my.cnf. You could always just give your nagios mysql user very
limited rights – connection allowed only from your nagios host, status
query rights etc, etc, then use /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg to “hide”
the password in $USER3$ or $USER4$ (or whatever you wanna call it!)….
Ie:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'># resource.cfg <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>$USER4$=somemysqlpassword<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Then you could just use:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>check_mysql –u nagios –p $USER4$ -H mysql.domain.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>in your service checks/commands.cfg, and at least the pass will
not show in nagios web/config view… <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Jamie<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
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nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Goltz,
Jim (NIH/NLM/LHC) [C]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 12, 2008 3:24 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] check_mysql not using ~nagios/.my.cnf on RHEL 4
withNagios 2.10 (Dag repository RPM)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m running Nagios 2.10 quite successfully on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4. However, I can’t seem to get check_mysql to use
the proper configuration files.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>From the command line everything works fine. It reads
the “[client]” section of ~nagios/.my.cnf for the needed password.
However, it doesn’t seem to be using this config file when the
plugin is run from Nagios itself.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I could put the credentials into /etc/my.cnf, but I really
don’t want to make them system-wide if I don’t have to.
What’s the proper way to get the plugins to look in ~nagios/.my.cnf
for MySQL config info?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> Jim Goltz <<a href="mailto:jgoltz@mail.nih.gov">jgoltz@mail.nih.gov</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Contractor, Lockheed Martin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>National Library of Medicine<o:p></o:p></p>
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