Help with Nagios Looking Glass

[Mike Davis]

Thanks Andy, that was it, it's all fixed.  Nice piece of software!



Andy Shellam wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Sorry to hear you're having trouble!
> The error you're getting means that NLG cannot find (or read) all of 
> the files it needs to determine that Nagios is running, and for it to 
> read it's status information from.
>
> The files it looks for are:
>
> - comments.dat
> - downtime.dat (not currently used but it still checks it anyway)
> - objects.cache
> - status.dat
>
> It looks for them by default in /usr/local/nagios/var.
> Someone on the list has noticed before that their "status.dat" file 
> was actually "status.log", in which case symlinking status.dat to 
> status.log did the trick.
>
> Please check these files exist and are readable by your webserver user.
> If you believe they're all intact, please reply back with the following:
>
> - the output of "ls -l /usr/local/nagios/var" (change the path to 
> Nagios' var directory if different)
> - the result of "head /usr/local/nagios/var/status.dat" (run as your 
> webserver user, change the path to Nagios' var directory if different)
> - the value of the ServerNagiosFiles and ServerNagiosFeed settings 
> from your "nlg/server/s3_client.inc.php" config file
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy.
>
>
> Mike Davis wrote:
>>     I think I have followed everything in the documentation, and have 
>> googled for a while before writing to the list.  I'm using Nagios 2.8 
>> and NLG 1.03 on Fedora 6, Apache 2.2.3.
>>
>> I have enabled ?debug=yes and here is the output...
>>
>> Attempting to contact the poller at 
>> http://xxx:xxx@xxxx.com/nagios/server/s3_poller.php?fid=0&gid=0
>>
>> The poller returned a FAILURE code: The polling server feed returned 
>> a 'failure' code; the polling server said: The poller could not read 
>> all of Nagios' status files - Nagios might not be running
>>
>> *** S3 Client -> PingPoller() finished ***
>>
>>
>> Nagios is in fact running and working well.  Any information on how I 
>> can enable more verbose logging to see just where the problem is?  
>> I've been checking permissions all over and everything seems correct.
>>
>> Thanks in advance...
>>
>> Mike
>>
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