nagios.cmd over nfs
kyle.odonnell at gmail.com
kyle.odonnell at gmail.com
Tue Jan 22 21:38:01 CET 2008
... not so much
It solves the web page spinning, but since nagios never picks up the
data nothing happens.
Back to the drawing board.
On 1/22/08, kyle.odonnell at gmail.com <kyle.odonnell at gmail.com> wrote:
> I found a neat but ugly work-around. After doing some reading, it
> appears as though the fifo/pipe needs to be opened for reading and
> writing at the same time.
>
> If I leave 'tail -f nagios.cmd' running on the remote site nfs
> mounting the pipe, data is processed!
>
>
> On 1/22/08, Sean McAvoy <smcavoy at ca.afilias.info> wrote:
> > AFAIK,
> > You cannot use a FIFO (pipe) over NFS. The pipe refers to not a file
> > but a kernel IPC method. So a FIFO created on the NFS server is known
> > to the nfs server and not the client system.
> >
> >
> > On 22-Jan-08, at 1:11 PM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 13:09 -0500, Kyle O'Donnell wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I've migrated the nagios web interface onto a different physical
> > >> server, nfs mounting the nagios directory from the actual nagios
> > >> server.
> > >>
> > >> Only snag I'm running into right now is trying to access the
> > >> nagios.cmd pipe over nfs. When trying to schedule downtime, disable
> > >> notifications etc... the web interface just spins. I see cmd.cgi is
> > >> being executed, but nothing happens.
> > >
> > > Is NFS rpc.lockd running? Try mount_nfs(8) with '-L'
> > >
> > > -L Do not forward fcntl(2) locks over the wire. All
> > > locks will be
> > > local and not seen by the server and likewise not seen
> > > by other
> > > NFS clients. This removes the need to run the rpcbind
> > > (8) service
> > > and the rpc.statd(8) and rpc.lockd(8) servers on the
> > > client.
> > > Note that this option will only be honored when
> > > performing the
> > > initial mount, it will be silently ignored if used
> > > while updating
> > > the mount options.
> > >
> > > ~BAS
> > >
> > >> Both servers have the same uid/gids for nagios, webserver is even
> > >> running as nagios user.
> > >>
> > >> I know a 'work-around' is to ssh+keys>nagios.cmd pipe, but this
> > >> isn't an option.
> > >>
> > >> Any ideas?
> > >>
> > >> Kyle
> > >>
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> >
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