Multiple nagios monitors in one machine

[Louie Cagasan]

Hi Russell,

Thanks for the reply.  Appreciate you reposting that patch of yours so I
can test it here on my system. Thanks a million!

On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 22:35, Russell Scibetti wrote:
> The nagios daemon doesn't have any hardcoded paths (you start it with 1 
> argument, the location of the nagios.cfg file).  However, the CGI's do 
> use a hardcoded path (look in common/locations.h) for where to find the 
> cgi.cfg.
> 
> For multiple instances of CGI's, you can either re-configure and remake 
> every time, or use a patch that I made and sent out to the list 
> previously.  It takes advantage of environment variables you can set in 
> the httpd.conf for each set/location of CGI's.
> 
> If anyone wants, I can go back and repost the email I wrote and the patch.
> 
> -Russell
> 
> Louie Cagasan wrote:
> 
> >Jim,
> >
> >I've checked all the cfg files and there isn't any item pointing to any
> >of the cgi files. So that's out. And like I said, when copying a
> >statusmap.cgi from another instance/folder to the new one and run the
> >new instance, I get the error message where it's pointing to the "other"
> >directory.
> >
> >Incidentally, how do you do a strings command? hehe
> >
> >Louie
> >
> >On Fri, 2002-10-11 at 04:25, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> >
> >>I might be missing something here, but I'm reasonably certain that the
> >>binaries don't have any pathnames to config files hardcoded.  Having said
> >>that, the only reason I can see that this 3rd instance would fail, is that
> >>the config file you're specifying on startup still has the pathname to the
> >>'original' directory.  Try to grep through the config files for this 3rd
> >>instance, for any occurrences of the 'original' directory.
> >>
> >>Failing that, do a 'strings' command on each of the binaries and grep for
> >>the 'original' directory.  I suspect you won't find the pathnames hardcoded.
> >>:)
> >>
> >>As you mention in another e-mail, I'd be surprised if the gd libraries can't
> >>'support' 3 instances of Nagios.
> >>
> >>jc
> >>
> >>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>From: Louie Cagasan [mailto:fireant at zpdee.net]
> >>>Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 8:52 AM
> >>>To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
> >>>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net; freddy_frouin at fluxus.net;
> >>>eljalforja at skycablenet.com; juvs at skycablenet.com;
> >>>agattud at skycablenet.com
> >>>Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Multiple nagios monitors in one machine
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>Hi Jim and Freddy,
> >>>
> >>>I tried doing that by copying the missing cgi files statusmap.cgi,
> >>>trends.cgi and histogram.cgi but when I ran that instance of 
> >>>nagios and
> >>>click on the statusmap, it says it can't find the ORIGINAL directory
> >>>these cgi files were originally compiled for. so it won't work.
> >>>
> >>>As for Freddy's comments, what I did was treat every 
> >>>installation like a
> >>>new installation: deleting the source tree then getting the files from
> >>>the tarball but apparently, it can't locate the gd libraries 
> >>>for these 3
> >>>cgi files from /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib and /usr/include and
> >>>/usr/local/include.  But the thing is: if it can't locate the gd
> >>>library, why was I able to install it in the first place? Go figure...
> >>>
> >>>Would Ethan Galstad have an answer for this you think? Hi Ethan! =)
> >>>
> >>>Thanks,
> >>>
> >>>Louie
> >>>
> >>>On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 23:55, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Louie, I don't know why you don't just manually copy a 
> >>>>
> >>>working tree into the
> >>>
> >>>>3rd target directory, and manually search/replace pathnames 
> >>>>
> >>>in the config
> >>>
> >>>>files.
> >>>>
> >>>>jc
> >>>>
> >>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>From: Freddy Frouin [mailto:freddy.frouin at fluxus.net]
> >>>>>Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 2:17 AM
> >>>>>To: Louie Cagasan
> >>>>>Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> >>>>>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Multiple nagios monitors in 
> >>>>>
> >>>one machine
> >>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>maybe you've done some bad operation by the past in this 
> >>>>>directory... did
> >>>>>you tryed to clean the config.cache file before reconfiguring 
> >>>>>? did you tryed to
> >>>>>delete the source tree and to get it again from the tgz 
> >>>>>archive and to try to
> >>>>>recompile it ? are you using multiple users for each version 
> >>>>>of nagios you plan
> >>>>>to deploy ? if yes, check env var for each users...
> >>>>>
> >>>>>'hope this help,		Freddy.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>On 09 Oct 2002 06:31:28 +0800
> >>>>>Louie Cagasan <fireant at zpdee.net> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>I'm trying to do this on just one machine, e.g.,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>/opt/nagios/network1
> >>>>>>/opt/nagios/network2
> >>>>>>/opt/nagios/network3
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>or
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>/opt/network1/nagios/
> >>>>>>/opt/network2/nagios
> >>>>>>/opt/network3/nagios
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>preferably the first one.  I've successfully installed 
> >>>>>>
> >>>and ran two
> >>>
> >>>>>>monitors, with the first in the directory /opt/nagios 
> >>>>>>
> >>>and another in
> >>>
> >>>>>>/opt/net2/nagios, with the statusmaps and all but I'm just not
> >>>>>>successful with doing a third.  The configure error is 
> >>>>>>
> >>>that it's not
> >>>
> >>>>>>locating those gd,png, and jpg libraries.  Which is 
> >>>>>>
> >>>strange, since
> >>>
> >>>>>>it worked for the first two.  Does anybody know what 
> >>>>>>
> >>>may be wrong?
> >>>
> >>>>>>TIA,
> >>>>>>Louie
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
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