Nagios - Check for Updates

[Michael Friedrich]

On 02.10.2011 02:14, Jon Adcock wrote:
> This feature (check for updates) does not appear to be working for 
> me.  When 3.3.1 came out, I waited for a week, and never saw the 
> update available banner displayed on the Nagios main landing page 
> (main.php).  I've been playing with the main.php page to get it to 
> display the date/time of the last update check, and it returns blank 
> (no value), so I'm assuming that too mean it's not actually checking.
>   I am currently running Nagios 3.3.1 on the Novell SLES v10 server 
> (Nagios compiled from source).  Can anyone give me some 
> troubleshooting steps to get me started?  For example, is there a way 
> to enable logging of the check for updates feature, and is there a way 
> to manually start the update check (the API, not the web page URL link)?

the core is scheduling call home events and saves the version 
information and various other attributes in both status.dat and 
retention.dat. the cgis (or the php part of it) parse that information 
into a readable version onto the web.

http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/include/nagios.h?revision=1786&view=markup 
line 129ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/base/utils.c?revision=1797&view=markup 
line 3724ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xsddefault.c?revision=1793&view=markup 
405ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xrddefault.c?revision=1787&view=markup 
317ff
http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/html/includes/utils.inc.php?revision=1242

so i would guess if you don't allow the nagios core to phone home, it 
won't show an updated version. scheduling cycle is somewhere around 22 
hours, changing is only possible if you recompile.



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