Unable to open MRTG log file

Andrew Davis nccomp at gmail.com
Tue May 19 17:47:06 CEST 2009


On most systems, mrtg will run as its own user and nagios the same. Make 
sure that the nagios user has permissions to access the mrtg owned files...

  A. Davis
  Email:     nccomp at gmail.com

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Dei Bertine wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I've been getting these messages from my nagios page under mrtg: 
> "check_mrtgtraf: Unable to open MRTG log file" in which Im unable to 
> figure it out why?
>
> here's my config file:
> # Monitor Port 1 Bandwidth Usage
> define service{
>         use                     mrtg-service
>         host_name               ciscoasa-firewall
>         service_description     SDFWPORT1_BAND_USE
>         check_command           
> check_local_mrtgtraf!/var/www/mrtg/192.168.1.253_1.log!AVG!1000000,1000000!5000000,5000000!10
>         }
>
> When I launch the command manually, same error.
>
> Here's my command looks like:
> # 'check_local_mrtgtraf' command definition
> define command{
>         command_name    check_local_mrtgtraf
>         command_line    $USER1$/check_mrtgtraf -F $ARG1$ -a $ARG2$ -w 
> $ARG3$ -c $ARG4$ -e $ARG5$
>         }
>
> Please someone advise.
>
> Thank you!
> DB
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