Event Handlers are not runing or logging.

[Joe Rhett]

And most important, Bruce, grep your nagios log for the execution of the
event handler.  If it isn't in there, it's a configuration problem.  Once
you see it trying to execute, then you need to debug the script itself.

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 08:18:39AM -0600, Cook, Garry wrote:
> nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone had any thoughts on what the cause on this problem (below)
> > maybe? Do I need to provide more information or is everyone stumped?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> 
> Someone else already replied asking if the event handler is actually
> defined in any of your service definitions. This is important, when a
> service fails it needs to know to run the event handler. Also, if this
> is defined and working properly, the problem could be in your script(s),
> it looks as though you have two separate scripts to perform this restart
> operation. Can you post those as well? And have you verified that they
> work properly when run from the command line? If not, do this first.
> 
> Garry W. Cook, CCNA
> Network Infrastructure Manager
> MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
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> > 
> > Bruce wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Ive been searching through the archives at sourceforge and cannot
> >> seem to find what my problem here maybe (I searched for event, event
> >> handler, handler and scroll through 10 pages about nothing even
> >> related, I could have missed it though..) there was one that was
> >> close but was for hosts... so ill post my one and see if anyone can
> >> spot whats wrong. 
> >> 
> >> We have been using Nagios for around 12 months now, and its exelent
> >> except for it keeps reporting that FreshClam or ClamD are not
> >> running on a server, which is alright we login and restart it
> >> manually. But to save time I thought I might set up an event handler
> >> to call our existing root access module for the servers to do it.
> >> Im trying to get it ruining from the host that monitors and not the
> >> reporting host to avoid bandwidth usage, but even though it is
> >> defined and everything looks right it will NOT run. and the logs say
> >> nothing. 
> >> 
> >> Here is my dumbing down of the configs to see if it was something
> >> else (which is wasnt):   (Yes, its running nagios 1.1)
> >> 
> >> -- nagios.cfg event stuff --
> >> [root etc]# grep event nagios.cfg
> >> log_event_handlers=1
> >> #global_host_event_handler=somecommand
> >> #global_service_event_handler=somecommand
> >> event_handler_timeout=30
> >> enable_event_handlers=1
> >> --
> >> 
> >> -- checkcommands.cfg --
> >> define command {
> >> command_name                    allserver_freshclam_fix
> >> command_line                    $USER1$/fix-w-allserver.sh
> >> $HOSTADDRESS$ restartFreshClam.sh $SERVICESTATE$ $SERVICEATTEMPT$ }
> >> --
> >> 
> >> -- hosts.cfg --
> >> # Nagios hosts config
> >> # Autogenerated file, do not modify
> >> # Modify main etc hosts.cfg file
> >> #
> >> # Generated: 13-Aug-2004 06 pm
> >> 
> >> define host {
> >>        use                            basic
> >>        host_name                      creeper
> >>        alias                          creeper
> >>        address                        192.168.56.32
> >> }
> 
> 
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Joe Rhett
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