Daemon runs, web UI says "Error: Could not read object configuration data!", where to start?

Jim Nachlin jim.nachlin at gawker.com
Tue Dec 20 21:22:31 CET 2011


Replying to myself, the solution was to add "apache" to the "nagios"
group in /etc/group.

Obviously this implies other possible solutions.  The RPM did not do
this, though.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=672074

-Jim

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:32 PM, Jim Nachlin <jim.nachlin at gawker.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a new Nagios 3.2.3 installation from RPM, under RHEL 6.2.  The
> daemon runs fine and alerts and sends email.  The web interface is
> telling me the standard  "Error: Could not read object configuration
> data!".  A check of the config file comes back with a few warnings and
> no errors.  The warnings are all about hosts with no services defined.
>
> Apache/2.2.15, perl 5.10.1, PHP 5.3.3.
>
> The nagios user owns all config files.  I have tried letting apache
> and nagios own what's under /usr/share/nagios/html/ but that did not
> help the issue.
>
> These same config files also work on another Nagios machine I have
> running in the same network.
>
> I don't see any errors in nagios.log, either.
>
> Can anyone suggest where I can start to track down this problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -Jim

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