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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">I finally got an event setup to fire when a service on a Win2K boxes stops running. However, when the service goes CRITICAL and HARD, the job is not being run. The nagios.log file says it is, but my script is written in Perl with outputs to a logfile that isn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">t getting touched. I can run the script manually just fine.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Nagios.log entry:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226354] SERVICE ALERT: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;SOFT;1; pageserver: Stopped</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226354] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;SOFT;1;restart-service</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226414] SERVICE ALERT: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;SOFT;2; pageserver: Stopped</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226414] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;SOFT;2;restart-service</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226474] SERVICE ALERT: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;HARD;3; pageserver: Stopped</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">[1066226474] SERVICE EVENT HANDLER: kcncap17;Crystal Page Server;CRITICAL;HARD;3;restart-service</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ommand.cfg entry for event:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">define command {</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> command_name restart-service</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New"> command_line /usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers/restart_service $HOSTNAME$ $SERVICEDESC$ $SERVICEST</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">S</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">ATE$ $STATETYPE$</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">}</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">Event Script:</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">/usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Courier New">-rwxr-xr-x 1 nagios nagios 3613 Oct 15 08:29 restart_service</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
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<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Any ideas why this isn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">t actually running the script? Is there another logfile</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">I</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic"> could look at that might tell me something?</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P ALIGN=LEFT><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><A NAME=""><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Century Gothic">Stanley G. Martin</FONT></SPAN></A></P>
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