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[Quanah Gibson-Mount]

--On Friday, August 27, 2004 8:46 AM +0200 Andreas Ericsson <ae at op5.se> 
wrote:

> Quanah Gibson-Mount wrote:
>>> 6. Have you tried running Nagios as a foreground process while producing
>>> errors like this in the configuration?
>>
>> I'm not quite sure what you mean here.  We always check Nagios through
>> "-v" before we apply our configuration, and our script that applies our
>> configuration won't let you install a bad configuration.  So I'm not
>> sure what "errors likes this in the configuration" you are referring to?
>>
>
> If you start nagios without -d it runs as a foreground process, and
> prints a lot of messages to stdout. You should try running it as such;
> nagios nagios.cfg 2>&1 | tee nagios.output
> (stdout and stderr to stdout and the file named nagios.output).

Ah, okay...  I grok that.

>> Before even implementing Nagios here at Stanford, I read through the
>> configuration files & played with the setup for a few weeks.  Then we
>> implemented it, and pushed it out.  The configuration pieces are rather
>> simple, and the documentation was quite thorough.  I'm not some 2-bit
>> hack who has problems understanding command prompts, etc.
>
> I've noticed. You seem far too intelligent to remain in the questioning
> end on this list for the period of time you currently have been now.
>
> There is however another arrangement that wouldn't cost neither you nor
> stanford anything at all, and could possibly gain some goodwill for the
> school as well;
> There's a program called fping. It was written by someone at stanford,
> and was once, and possibly still is, licensed under the Stanford General
> Public Software License (I might be off on the name, but it was something
> in that direction anyways). This program was hacked to pieces by myself
> to produce a very fast and efficient version of check_ping (it's called
> check_icmp so as to not confuse anyone) that doesn't rely on the output
> of the ping residing on whatever system it may be running on, so we could
> most likely cut the noise a bit in plugin-devel if this got included.
>
> However, the check_icmp plugin can't be included in the standard plugin
> distribution until we've cleared the licensing issues, so if you could
> ask one of the lawyer/licensing folks over at stanford to have a look at
> how fping is currently licensed (it might be in the public domain or
> still under the stanford license. noone knows for sure and the current
> maintainer seems to be off on a very long email-less vacation), I'd be
> more than willing to run your configuration on a variety of test-hosts
> available at our software-lab.

I'll be happy to look into this for you.  I actually know the original 
developer (he's worked in my group between jaunting off to various 
startups. ;) ).  I'll forward this on to one of my co-workers who has 
released a bit of stuff to the public domain, he'll hopefully at least know 
how to get you out of limbo. :)


>> I've been  administering UNIX based systems & applications for over 10
>> years.  I've  yet to see anyone be able to find anything in our
>> configuration that explains Nagios' behavior.  Personally, I think it is
>> a bug in Nagios  running under Solaris, and I've yet to see anything
>> that contradicts  that assumption at all.  We will be moving our Nagios
>> service onto  Debian soon, and I'm most curious to see if the problem
>> disappears at  that time.  If it does, then at least I'll be able to
>> point at the root  cause.
>>
>
> If you send me your configuration, I'd be able to tell you if running
> Solaris or Linux makes a difference (although I must admit I've never run
> into this problem on any of our (Linux-based) installations).

After finding the root cause, I think it would be likely to occur on any 
platform. ;)


>> --Quanah
>>
>
> Oh.. Almost forgot. I don't remember seeing this, but I'm sure you've
> already checked you're running latest stable anyway.

Yeah, running 1.2 stable.

--Quanah


--
Quanah Gibson-Mount
Principal Software Developer
ITSS/Shared Services
Stanford University
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