Event Handlers
John Stotler
jstotler at crc.net
Thu Jul 22 17:36:33 CEST 2004
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On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 11:02, Chris Purcell wrote:
> I'm having a problem getting Nagios to execute any event handlers when a
> service or host goes down. As a test, I wrote a Perl script called
> nagios_test.pl that will simply email me a short message each time its
> run. The event handler never runs when the host goes down...
>
> hosts.cfg
>
> define host{
> use generic-host
> host_name fake_server
> alias Fake Non-existent Server
> address 192.0.99.101
> parents cat4506
> }
>
>
> services.cfg
>
> define service{
> use generic-ping
> host_name fake_server
> event_handler event_handler_testing
> }
>
>
> checkcommands.cfg
>
> define command{
> command_name event_handler_testing
> command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/nagios_test.pl
> $SERVICESTATE$ $STATETYPE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$
> }
>
>
> I get a notification from Nagios when the host goes down, but the event
> handler perl script never runs at all. I don't see anything in the logs
> about the event handler trying to execute. The nagios user can run the
> script from the shell. Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
>
>
>
>
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