Nagios and a custom webinject.pl

[Parish, Brent]

Hi Paul. 

 

 I really have no idea if this might be the problem, but it is an easy
test to do.

I would suggest trying to run the webinject from the command line like
you have been but add a minus sign in the "su":

e.g. sudo su - nagios

The minus sign will force it to become more like a true login (the way
cron or Nagios would likely run it) and not potentially carry over your
current PATH and other environment variables.

 

-          Brent

 

 

 

 

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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