<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><html>On 3 Apr 2008, at 09:28, Gavin Williams wrote:</html><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="Section1"><br><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I’m having some issues with Nagios External commands.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">Basically, they’re not working.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><br>I’ve compiled Nagios with cmdgroup=nagcmd, added Nagios and apache users to the nagcmd group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">I can see the commands being written to Nagios.cmd in /opt/nagio/var/rw/ however they don’t go anywhere from there…<o:p></o:p></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-left: 0cm; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; "><font size="2" face="Arial"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; "><o:p> </o:p></span></font></div></div></div></span></blockquote><br></div><div>Commands can be ignored due to an invalid format. The format is</div><div>===</div><div>[epoch time] command;arg1;arg2;arg3</div><div>===</div><div>[1207211861] ENABLE_HOST_NOTIFICATIONS;hostname</div>===<div><br></div><div>Commands can also be ignored if the args don't match what nagios knows about, i.e. invalid/non-existant hostname in this case</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/extcommands.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/extcommands.html</a> and <a href="http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php">http://www.nagios.org/developerinfo/externalcommands/commandlist.php</a> have more info (if you haven't seen them already).</div><div><div><br></div><div> Duncs</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; 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