sorry Michael & Tom, blame that on all my testing getting a bit out of sync. I've updated my <tt>ndomod.cf</tt>g as below, restarted mysql/nagios/ndo, and my problems persist instance_name=default output_type=unixsocket output=/usr/local/nagios/var/ndo.sock tcp_port=5668 use_ssl=0 output_buffer_items=5000 buffer_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/ndomod.tmp file_rotation_interval=14400 file_rotation_timeout=60 reconnect_interval=15 reconnect_warning_interval=15 data_processing_options=-1 config_output_options=2 The mysql port is confirmed as 3306 tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 17380/mysqld unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 79686764 17380/mysqld /tmp/mysql.sock And the table prefixs are (I think correct as nagios_) mysql> show tables; +----------------------------------------+ | Tables_in_nagios +----------------------------------------+ | nagios_acknowledgements | nagios_commands | nagios_commenthistory | nagios_comments ... mysql> show grants for 'ndouser'@'localhost'; +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Grants for ndouser@localhost +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'ndouser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD '4da1ca1e5c4de6f2' | GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `nagios`.* TO 'ndouser'@'localhost' +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) Many thanks for all your help Nigel Leach Grid Engineer | Front Office Risk Systems | BNP Paribas , 5Y021 @ Harewood Avenue ( Internal 711 3634 ! 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Direct Dial +44 (0)207 595 3634 * <a href=mailto:nigel.leach@bnpparibas.com>nigel.leach@bnpparibas.com</a> Group Mail: cmitp.fors@bnpparibas.com | Remedy Requests: CMITP FORS | Pickup 711 0350 <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=34%>Internet michael.friedrich@univie.ac.at 17/02/2010 12:21 <td width=66%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>Nigel LEACH <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td>nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: [Nagios-users] ndomod: Could not open data sink</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>NIgel Leach wrote: > Nothing unfortunately,what ever debug options I set, this file is always empty good. then ndo2db does not fork itsself meaning ndomod cannot connect over the socket. so the current problem is ndomod and/or the socket from which ndo2db should read then. >> and ndomod.cfg? > > here it is, cheers > > instance_name=default > output_type=tcpsocket > output=127.0.0.1 > tcp_port=5668 > use_ssl=0 > output_buffer_items=5000 > buffer_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/ndomod.tmp > file_rotation_interval=14400 > file_rotation_timeout=60 > reconnect_interval=15 > reconnect_warning_interval=15 > data_processing_options=-1 > config_output_options=2 How does that match with this? 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