Nagios and a custom webinject.pl

[Ian Orszaczki]

Hi, we use webinject.pl but have not made any major modifications to it.  If
you are interested in sharing your script I would be happy to test it out in
our setup.

Cheers,
Ian O


On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 1:17 AM, PRP <f.hugh at comcast.net> wrote:

> Well after some work I found a few issues with the webinject.pl  script
> that
> I introduced.  Anyone new to this world like me if you need to run tests as
> the nagios user use "sudo su nagios"  That will give you a shell running
> under the nagios user.  That took me some time to figure that out.
> Unfortunately, that did not solve my problem.  I can run my script under
> the
> nagios user without issue, but if I allow the service to run it in the same
> nature, it fails.  I am perplexed so if anyone has any ideas I would
> greatly
> appreciate it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: f.hugh at comcast.net [mailto:f.hugh at comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 12:04 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios and a custom webinject.pl
>
>    We just deployed a new site that requires client certificates so I found
> a discussion thread on how to make a few changes to the script so that it
> would use the client certificate that I specified.  I left the original
> script intact along with all the nagios configs and named this new script
> webinjectcert.pl.  I wanted 2 separate scripts and configs so that I did
> not
> disrupt what I already had running successfully
>    The new script works perfectly as long as I run it manually as sudo.
> The problem is when I configure it for nagios with the same script, config
> file, and test case, it returns results that claim it could not log onto
> the
> site.  I have enabled debugging in the nagios.cfg, but I just can't see
> what
> the problem is.  I looked at the permissions on the new script and
> certificate to make sure that wasn't it and they look fine.  I am not
> really
> sure how to run it as the nagios user since I can't remember what the
> password is and don't want to make a mess and change it.
>    Any ideas?
>    Paul
>
>
>
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