Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

Arno Lehmann al at its-lehmann.de
Fri Jun 22 12:00:51 CEST 2007


Hi,

21.06.2007 23:20,, Patrick Morris wrote::
> Arno Lehmann schrieb am Donnerstag, den 21. Juni 2007:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> chiel schrieb:
>>> I'm looking for a plugin that will check if the nagios.cfg is ok.
>>> So besecauly run this command: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
>>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg". Is there a plugin for this?
>> Wouldn't it be better to check this in the cron job itself? Nagios 
>> won't help you much if it crashes because of a broken config.
>>
>> The cron job could, naturally, report problems as passive results to 
>> Nagios...
> 
> 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.

Well, I've seen Nagios crash on a broken config. Even if this is a bug 
which should (and perhaps is) fixed, I would not rely on that 
behaviour if I can easily avoid that.

Thus my recommendation...

Arno

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