Nagios Support Forum

at first glance, it looks like it doesn't like the following-- Jul 21 12:42:55 raspberrypi nagios[5940]: Error: Invalid max_check_attempts value for host 'linux-host1' a couple things to try- 1) comment that line out and see if it works. without digging into that parameter further, I would guess tha...

On our system on the host, we have a line in the /etc/nrpe.d/base.cfg file as follows- command[check_uptime]=/usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_uptime -c 5 -w 1 Then within the service config, we have it set to run the check as follows- define service{ use local-service host_name testapp service_descri...

So we have the Nagios plugins installed in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins. The script we are running is the same as in many other hosts within our environment. #!/bin/bash # Compare /etc/fstab to mounts command report not in mounts. Ignore proc, rpc_pipefs, swap, and blank lines MISSINGFS=$(comm -23 <(aw...

We have stood up a new RHEL7 server. The config files appear to be set up the same. However, with the check_mount command, it says that nothing is mounted. I did some additional checking and the plugin is running a check of the contents of fstab vesus the output of the mount command. The mount comma...

sorry, forgot to post this sooner. Log rotate was not set up properly. Actually, I think that one of the Nagios log files was put in two places in the config file and that appears to have been what was causing the problem.

We have an instance of Nagios XI running and I have noticed that the log files in nagiosxi/var are growing quite large and do not roll over like I would expect. I have questions: 1) is there somewhere that you set the logging verbosity? 2) is there a way to truncate the log files? 3) is there a plac...

Ok, for all you out there keeping score, I found the answer myself. Under the directory structure as follows etc/objects/command/check there are a set of cfg files that contain the commands. On our system all of them begin with command-check- and have an extension of cfg. I would bet that the only p...

In Nagios Core -> System -> Configuration -> Commands... I see a listing of commands with options/parameters. I cannot find a method to add/change this list. Where does it come from ? How can I go about adding a command? or changing a command?
TIA