Unable to Upload a MIB

[Moneer81]

Hello,

I am trying to upload a MIB file from the Nagios XI interface.

I am following the instructions in a Nagios document. The instructions ask me to go to Admin -> Manage MIBs and browse then upload my MIB. When I do that, I get the following error:
"MIB could not be installed - directory permissions may be incorrect."

I researched this issue and I saw another thread where the issue was the permissions. I checked the permissions on my server and here is what I have for the /usr/share/snmp/mibs directory:

drwxrwsr-x 2 root nagios 4096

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I tried to modify the permissions and file ownership per this thread but to no avail:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... =16&t=5786

Lastly, this is a trial environment. I am running Nagios XI 5 on a Windows box using VMWare Player. For a list of reasons, adding the MIB manually to that directory is a little difficult, since there is no easy way to copy the file from the Windows host to the VM.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

[tgriep]

Can you run the following as root on the Nagios server and post the output here?

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ls -l /usr/share/snmp/
ls -l /usr/share/snmp/mibs

[Moneer81]

Thanks for offering to help!

Sure. I am not sure how much of the output you want to see. I am assuming you are most interested in the MIBs direcotry permissions. Here are the two screenshots from the two commands you asked me to run.

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[Box293]

Can you run this command please:

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chmod -R g+w /usr/share/snmp/mibs

Does this fix your problem?

[Moneer81]

That was the first thing I tried before posting, but I will give it another try

[Moneer81]

That did not seem to help. It is so strange. It doesn't even try to upload the mib. I just get the error message instantly. I am wondering if that is a limitation of the virtual image?

[Moneer81]

Okay so I found a workaround. I was able to upload the mib file via SCP and drop it into the mib directory. For anyone who might find this useful one day, here is what I did from a client ubuntu machine:
-downloaded the mib to the desktop
-ran this command: scp "/home/moneer/Desktop/PowerNet-MIB.mib" [email protected]:"/usr/share/snmp/mibs"
(172.30.104.201 is the virtual machine's IP address that is currently running as my Nagios XI server)
Now if I browse to my MIBs directory, it is in there.

My final question is: do I need to tweak the permissions on this newly added MIB? Currently, it has the following permissions:

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Should the permissions math the other files in that directory?

Thanks,

[rkennedy]

Thanks for letting us know!

Yes, they should match to ensure r privileges all around.

Can you post the output of ls -l /usr/share/snmp/ too?