Monitoring question

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Formoso, Travis [mailto:Travis.Formoso at blueslate.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 12:22 PM
> To: Marc Powell
> Cc: nagios-users
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Monitoring question
> 
> > > I shut down the httpd - however the service did not restart auto -
> so
> > the handler is not working. Any thing I can try or did wrong?
> > >
> >
> > Have you tried running the "restart-httpd" command as the Nagios
user
> > from the console?
> 
> Always a good suggestion.
> 
> I never was able to run anything as the Nagios user. I tried to su
nagios
> and got: The account is currently not available.
 
Sounds like you need to give nagios a real shell in /etc/passwd.

> I ran ./check-httpd as root and when I typed that in - nothing
happened.

This really speaks of such a basic misunderstanding of how nagios
interacts with plugins that I'd suggest re-reading the documentation,
specifically the object configuration documentation and plugin theory.
Use the sample config files as a reference until you understand how
they're related to what's in the documentation.

Finally, testing nagios functions as the root user will not reliably
provide the same results as when run from nagios.

--
Marc

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