two problems

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlm17 [mailto:jlm17 at lucent.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2003 10:16 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> 
> I'm have two problems with Nagios (so far).
> 
> First, I can't get external commands to work. I've followed the
step-by-
> step
> instructions for setting up a group, and setting the permissions for
> /usr/local/nagios/var/rw. These instructions did not say what to do
after
> this
> for creating the file nagios.cmd inside the rw directory. I made an
> assumption
> and just created an empty file with open permissions (664) and
ownership
> nagios.nagiocmd. When I go to execute an external command. The web
page
> claims
> that is went through successfully. I look and the command is in the
> nagios.cmd
> file. However, it never gets executed. nagios.cfg shows
> check_external_commands=1 and command_check_interval=-1. What else
must I
> do to
> get external commands to work?

Have you tried restarting nagios since making the config changes as
opposed to a reload? You'll also need to delete the nagios.cmd file you
created by hand before restarting as nagios creates a named pipe with
that name if everything is configured properly. If the answer to that
question is yes, is there anything interesting in nagios.log related to
this?

> 
> Second, one of four servers that are down is sending notification to
me
> once
> every two hours. The other three never send notification, even on a
> reload. The
> host info for each machine is identical (except name of course). How
do I
> make
> sure all hosts that go down send a notification to me?

Assuming as you say that all the host and service definitions are
identical where it matters, you might want to verify that you don't have
multiple copies of nagios running. Stop nagios, ps -ef and see if there
are any. You shouldn't have to and it shouldn't matter in this case, but
while nagios is stopped, you could try deleteing status.sav and restart.

--
Marc


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