3 Issues

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Some additional info would be useful (logs, error, platform, version) 
We are not all psychics on the list.

On 24 Oct 2002, James Clark wrote:

> Nagios,
> I am having three issues. First let me try to best clearly ask these in
> hopes of a clear response.
> 
> 1. My notifications are not being sent out. I have forced a hosts
> service down for example http and I do not receive any alerts via email.
> I believe my contact file is correctly setup and defined.In
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg I have enable_notifications=1. What is
> the problem and why am I not being sent alerts for down services?

Is you mail server setup correctly on the host?
Does the notify-by-email command work correctly on your system on the 
command line?

> 
> 2. In /usr/local/nagios/etc/cgi.cfg I have set use_authentication=1 but
> when I login as a user I can not view the pages due to a permission
> error. This is not an apache issue but rather an issue to access the cgi
> files with my username. I have the .htaccess file in my share and sbin
> folder so I am not sure what the problem is. Also when I login and
> provide my username and password the "Logged in as ?" is displayed in
> nagios. 
> 

You should read over the docs again. Only need one htaccess file AND it 
needs to be readable by the apache user.



> 3. When I enable default_user_name=guest in cgi.cfg I am not able to add
> a comment due to the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cwd file being set
> and reset to unwriteable permissions. When I chmod the file to 0777 it
> allows me to post a comment as guest or my user but then nagios changes
> the permissions back on this file. What should this be set to? 
> 

nagios.cmd will have 0660 perms by default.  Therefore you need to make 
sure that the nagios user and the apache user are in a common group if 
they are not the same user.


> If anyone can help that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your
> time.
> 
> 

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