Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

[Arno Lehmann]

Hi,

chiel schrieb:
> I'm looking for a plugin that will check if the nagios.cfg is ok.
> So besecauly run this command: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v 
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg". Is there a plugin for this?

Wouldn't it be better to check this in the cron job itself? Nagios 
won't help you much if it crashes because of a broken config.

The cron job could, naturally, report problems as passive results to 
Nagios...

> I want this because I reload the nagios config every 15 minutes through 
> a cronjob. And I want to be notified if there is a error in the config.
> The reason of using a cronjob is that custom programs populate/change my 
> .cfg files

Look:
elf:~ # /usr/local/nagios2/bin/nagios -v /etc/passwd >/dev/null 2>&1; 
echo $?
254
elf:~ # /usr/local/nagios2/bin/nagios -v /etc/nagios2/nagios.cfg 
 >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
0

So, just do a configuration test, and reload only if the result code 
is zero, otherwise inform the operator.

Arno

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