Nagios Support Forum

anyone out there using the nagios to monitor modbus. i'm aware the the available plugins, but am interested to know if they're actually in use.
tnx
ams

problem solved.
i was erroneously using the same filename for both the socket which livestatus uses, and the pipe, used for external commands.
the socket is nagios.qh. the pipe is nagios.cmd by default.

tnx,
ams

hi r.k., tnx 4 u'r rapid response. yes, i noticed that p (socket/pipe) instead of s (SUID isn't it? not sticky, which would be indicated by t?) anyway, it's a socket, not a reg file: /usr/local/nagios/var/rw# file nagios.cmd nagios.cmd: socket attempting to obliterate the s bit is ineffective: /usr/...

when clicking process info->restart the nagios process->commit i get the following error : Error: Could not open command file '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd' for update! The permissions on the external command file and/or directory may be incorrect. Read the FAQs on how to setup proper permiss...

problem solved.
fixed some ownerships and permissions.
this is what i originally suspected.
just took some time to pinpoint it.
tnx
ams

interesting that no nagios.lock exists even though nagios is running as per the 'ps' output earlier in the thread. grep nagios.lock nagios.cfg lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock ls -ld ../var drwxrwsr-x 5 nagios nagios 4096 Jan 23 14:27 ../var ls ../var archives nagios.log objects.cache ret...

no gui.
tnx
ams

duhhh-
of course i tried restarting nagios (and apache2) , and tried a dozen other things before posting this.
i restarted apache because the 2nd problem seems more apache related.

installed w/ instructions from:
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Source.pdf

-ams

i just installed nagios 4.1.1 on debian 8 (jessie). the nagios homepage (http://localhost/nagios) reports 'not running' (w/ red 'x') immediately under the 'nagios core' title. however, 'ps' shows 8 nagios procs running (below). in addition, any item i select from the menu on the left (hosts, service...