Jabber Custom Notification Script Not Working

[Frederik Vanhee]

Norman Harebottle wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>  
> I am wondering if anyone has had success getting the Jabber 
> Notification script written by David Cox to work.
>  
> I have a user called nagios under which nagios runs and using "su 
> nagios" (on Debian) I can run the script and it notifies just fine. So 
> I am concluding that it is not a security related issue nor a script 
> execution error since it works correctly.  However, when running the 
> Perl script in the Embedded Perl environment, something happens (which 
> is not logged) which causes the script to not execute as desired.
>  
> Can anyone point me in the direction of a logging directive to enable 
> so that I can see any Perl errors that may be generated in the process?
>  
> *Current nagios.cfg logging settings:*
> log_archive_path=/var/log/nagios/archives
> log_event_handlers=1
> log_external_commands=1
> log_file=/var/log/nagios2/nagios.log
> log_host_retries=1
> log_initial_states=0
> log_notifications=1
> log_passive_checks=1
> log_rotation_method=d
> log_service_retries=1
> use_syslog=1
> *Abbbreviated contents of /var/log/nagios2/nagios.log:*
> [1148388211] SERVICE NOTIFICATION: norman;weathervane;Service: Jabber 
> Notification Test;CRITICAL;notify-by-jabber;No process matching ping 
> found : CRITICAL
> I appreciate any insight into this problem would be appreciated.
>  
> Sincerely,
>  
> Norman H. Harebottle III
> Software Engineer
> Vikus Corporation

Hello Norman,

can you send me your Nagios notification command ? I have it working, so 
it should work. I had it working with embedded perl on Nagios 2.0b3 and 
on Nagios 2.0rc2 and without embedded perl on Nagios 2.3.1

Frederik


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