Re-send: Notificaitons after the commit

[Wolfe, Robert]

This is funny because I have script called 'sanity_check' that runs Nagios with the -v switch to check my configs :)

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From: C. Bensend [benny at bennyvision.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2010 2:21 PM
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Re-send: Notificaitons after the commit

> Running nagios -v nagios.cfg haves Nagios verify the configuration, this
> is
> best practice because otherwise you risk a typo stopping your monitoring
> for
> the time it takes for you to correct the configuration :-)

...

> Tip: don't use restart when you just want Nagios to load new
> configuration.Your init script should handle reload instead, which will
> send
> a HUP signal to Nagios. This means that Nagios doesn't stop and start back
> up, it only re-reads the configuration files.
>
> So, for your specific problem, I think you'd be fine by simply using this
> instead:
>
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
> /etc/init.d/nagios reload

For exactly this reason, I have had two command aliases for years:

preflight (which does a -v against the configuration file to check the
           sanity of my Nagios configuration)

reload (which sends the Nagios process a SIGHUP)

I *always* do a preflight before the reload, just to be sure my
configuration is sane, no matter how minor a change I made.  It's
a good habit to be in.

Benny


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