Plugin that will test nagios.cfg
Marc Powell
marc at ena.com
Fri Jun 22 05:40:02 CEST 2007
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Thomas Guyot-Sionnest
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:13 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin that will test nagios.cfg
>
> On 21/06/07 05:20 PM, Patrick Morris wrote:
> > Arno Lehmann schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2007:
> >
> >
> > Nagios will never crash because of a broken config if it's running;
> > it just won't load that config. Checking from a cron job works,
too,
> > but there's no reason Nagios can't also check to see if the on-disk
> > config is valid.
>
> Not true. I noticed more than once that nagios would bail out on
> restarts with broken configs (with versions ranging between 2.0 beta
to
> 2.4) and I just verified with v2.7.
If you can reliably reproduce this with a '/etc/init.d/nagios reload' or
'restart' then you should report it as a bug. Nagios is meant to not
crash or bail a running copy if the new config is bad.
--
Marc
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