How do I shutdown Nagios?

[prostak]

Nagios XI is purchases by our company, however, I wasn't able to create topic under Customer Support > Nagios XI, therefore I am submitting my question here...

We have Nagios XI installed Red Hat 5.7.
I need to shut Nagios down on that server temporally. How do I do it?

I tried:

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[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ ps -efa | grep nagios
nagios    3953     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:20 /usr/local/nagios/bin/npcd -d -f /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/npcd.cfg
nagios    4105     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
YYYY     16887  8219  0 15:50 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nagios
[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ sudo killall nagios
nagios: no process killed

I do have sudo access. Killing didn't do anything. How do I shut Nagios down? thanks!

[Box293]

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service nagios stop

[prostak]

It doesn't work:

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[XXXX@YYYY ~]$ service nagios stop
-bash: service: command not found

[Box293]

How about:

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sudo /sbin/service nagios stop

[prostak]

Sorry for late reply.
I get this:

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[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ sudo /sbin/service nagios stop
Stopping nagios: No lock file found in /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

P.S. Do you know how do I get a permission to post under Customer Support > Nagios XI?

Thanks

[Box293]

So that command is working.

Not sure why you are getting the lock file.

After stopping nagios, are there any other nagios processes running?

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ps -aef | grep nagios.cfg

[prostak]

I get this:

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[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ ps -aef | grep nagios.cfg
YYYY   22295 22258  0 14:13 pts/0    00:00:00 grep nagios.cfg

Is the above good or bad?

What does hitting lock indicate to you?

[Box293]

P.S. Do you know how do I get a permission to post under Customer Support > Nagios XI?

Send an email to [email protected]

I get this:

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[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ ps -aef | grep nagios.cfg
YYYY 22295 22258 0 14:13 pts/0 00:00:00 grep nagios.cfg

Is the above good or bad?

This is good. It shows that nagios is not running.

What does hitting lock indicate to you?

The lock file is a file created when Nagios starts which includes the PID of the nagios process. When Nagios is stopped this file is deleted. You should not normally get the message No lock file found.

When Nagios is running, this will confirm the file exists:

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cat /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock

If this doesn't produce output then something else is wrong.

[lsazzad]

It seems your lock file needs to be unlocked! I was having same problem. If there is already a lock file then please increase your lock files's permission.

chmod 664 nagios.lock
chown root:nagiosops nagios.lock

If its not there please create one & then increase permission:

Location of file:
cd /usr/local/nagios/var
touch nagios.lock
chmod 664 nagios.lock
chown root:nagiosops nagios.lock

I hope it could solve your problem!

[jdalrymple]

I tried:

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[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ ps -efa | grep nagios
nagios    3953     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:20 /usr/local/nagios/bin/npcd -d -f /usr/local/nagios/etc/pnp/npcd.cfg
nagios    4105     1  0 Feb16 ?        00:00:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
YYYY     16887  8219  0 15:50 pts/1    00:00:00 grep nagios
[YYYY@XXXX ~]$ sudo killall nagios
nagios: no process killed

It wasn't running when you started.

If you don't have `/sbin/service` - `/etc/init.d/nagios stop` should work just fine.