Nagios Core Log file

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On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Robert J Molerio <rjm399 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> Hello,
> I was told the NAGIOS CORE  logfile  would log any changes made to host
> command  execution ie:  External commands:who turned off what and  when.
> Upon examination of my logfile it sems that this is not the case.
> The log file indicates only that a particular service was enabled or disable
> but it does not indiacte the user id that performed the change.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction to make this happen?

Users / Authentication are not as such managed by Nagios core.
We use the Nagios cgis running through Apache, so if we want to see
which user issued a command we look in the Apache log files.

HTH
Ritchie,
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>
> Snippet of log file :
>
> [root at its019-lap-v:var]# pwd
> /usr/local/nagios/var
> [root at its019-lap-v:var]# ls -lat
> total 188
> drwxrwxr-x 5 nagios nagios  4096 Aug  8 11:15 .
> -rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 51204 Aug  8 11:15 status.dat
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios  4561 Aug  8 11:09 nagios.log
> -rw------- 1 nagios nagios 50697 Aug  8 11:09 retention.dat
> drwxrwxr-x 2 nagios nagios  4096 Aug  8 00:00 archives
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 41229 Aug  5 15:09 objects.cache
> -rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios     6 Aug  1 13:24 nagios.lock
> drwxrwsr-x 2 nagios nagcmd  4096 Aug  1 13:24 rw
> drwxrwxr-x 9 nagios nagios  4096 Jul  1 15:06 ..
> drwxrwxr-x 3 nagios nagios  4096 Jun 27 15:54 spool
> [root at its019-lap-v:var]# cat nagios.log
> [1312776000] LOG ROTATION: DAILY
> [1312776000] LOG VERSION: 2.0
> [1312776541] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312780141] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312783741] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312787341] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312790941] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312794541] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312798141] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312801741] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312805172] EXTERNAL COMMAND: DEL_ALL_SVC_COMMENTS;TPC Server;root space
> [1312805341] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312808941] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312812541] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
> [1312816017] EXTERNAL COMMAND: ENABLE_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS;Nagios Server;HTTP
> [1312816033] EXTERNAL COMMAND: ENABLE_SVC_NOTIFICATIONS;Nagios Server;SSH
> [1312816141] Auto-save of retention data completed successfully.
>
>
> --
> Thank you,
>
> Bob Molerio
> Systems Administrator
> New York University
> ITS Computer Facilities Services/Infrastructure
> Level C-2
> 75 Third Avenue
> New York NY 10003-5527
> email:robert.molerio at nyu.edu
>
>
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