[Nagios-users] Re: NSCA daemon never writes to nagios.cmd or nsca.dump

[Noah Leaman]

A little more info... I get the same problem even when doing a 
send_nsca on the same host that has the nsca daemon running on it:

(from syslog)

Jan 21 23:21:01 bell nsca[22499]: Handling the connection...
Jan 21 23:21:02 bell nsca[22499]: End of connection...
Jan 21 23:22:01 bell nsca[22499]: Handling the connection...
Jan 21 23:22:01 bell nsca[22499]: End of connection...

... is this a bug with nsca on OS X 10.3? Any one else running nsca 2.4 
on 10.3 or seen this problem on any platform? I saw one other person 
post this same issue but there was no response then. I am not sure what 
platform he was on.

My nsca.cfg:

server_port=5667
allowed_hosts=<my_ip_address_list_here>
nsca_user=nagios
nsca_group=nagios
debug=1
command_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
alternate_dump_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
password=<my_password_here>
aggregate_writes=0
append_to_file=0
max_packet_age=30
decryption_method=1


I tried sending using Jason Lancaster's perl version of send_nsca but I 
just get the same thing... nothing ever written out from the nsca 
daemon. Seems the problem is the daemon itself, not the send_nsca. I 
also tried the current CVS 
(http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/cvs/nsca-cvs.tar.gz) but same 
thing.

Incidentally, with the CVS snapshot (version 2.5?) I kept getting this 
error in syslog when trying to start nsca:

Jan 21 23:09:47 bell nsca[22258]: Unknown option specified in config 
file '/Users/nagios/nsca/nsca.cfg' - Line 2

Line 2 is my allowed_hosts declaration. I tried both hostnames, and IP 
addresses as the changlog mentioned that it supported hostnames now. I 
had to comment line 2 out and it was able to start the 2.5 version.

-- 
Noah


On Jan 21, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Noah Leaman wrote:

> I forgot to provide platform/version stats...
>
> NSCA 2.4
> Nagios 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 (on both central and distributed Nagios 
> servers)
>
> If anyone has any indication of where my trouble could be it would be 
> greatly appreciated.
>
> -- 
> Noah
>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Noah Leaman wrote:
>
>> Help!
>>
>> I cannot get the NSCA daemon to write anything to either the 
>> nagios.cmd or the nsca.dump files.
>> They are both defined in the nsca.cfg like so:
>>
>> command_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>> alternate_dump_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
>>
>> I turned on debug (debug=1) and all I get in the syslog is this:
>>
>> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>>
>> this is for each time the send_nsca is submitted on the remote 
>> (distributed) nagios host. nothing ever gets written to nagios.cmd 
>> and nsca.dump is never even created. The fact that nsca.dump never 
>> gets created seems like a clue of some sort. I do have external 
>> commands enabled and they work in all other respect. the nsca daemon 
>> is running as the user nagios and can write to nagios.cmd and the 
>> directory itt's in.
>>
>> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>>
>
>
>
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