Changing config files while nagios is running causes webinterface to mess up

Tom DE BLENDE (GCC) Tom.DeBlende at dhl.com
Tue Jun 8 16:24:00 CEST 2004


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Raphael Mueller wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> currently, I often change the configuration files of Nagios (Ver. 1.1) 
> because we get a lot of new equipment these days.
> If I change the config files while Nagios is running, the Nagios web 
> page starts to mess up, e.g. several devices disappear.
>
> My question: Am I doing something against the good practices if I edit 
> the config files without stopping the Nagios service first?
>
> I don't understand too much about the architecture of Nagios, but 
> according to chapter "Stopping And Restarting Nagios" of the online 
> documentation
>    http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/1_0/stoprestart.html
> Nagios should only check the config files and (re)read them if I 
> start, restart or reload the service.
> So, maybe, it's just the web interface which gets confused about my 
> config changes?
>
> Of course, I could use a second set of config files to work on. Then, 
> I would write a script which checks the copied set of config files, 
> stops the service, copies them to the directory used by Nagios and 
> start the service again....
>
> Maybe, I'm just thinking to far or there is a know workaround... any 
> help is appreciated.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Raphael
>
>
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