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matson-itops
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Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

Would like some help investigating this issue.

Running Nagios XI 5.8.6 . but under "system status" i'm showing "monitoring engine" and "performance grapher" down.
Alerts are coming in , so a little confused.

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matson-itops
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

repeated attemps to repair database work, but getting error below

-- The unit session-110.scope has successfully entered the 'dead' state.
Mar 17 13:30:04 orec2upm04.prod.matson.com sudo[9241]: nagios : command not allowed ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/nagios ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/manage_services.s>
Mar 17 13:30:04 orec2upm04.prod.matson.com sudo[9286]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): conversation failed
Mar 17 13:30:04 orec2upm04.prod.matson.com sudo[9286]: pam_unix(sudo:auth): auth could not identify password for [nagios]
Mar 17 13:30:06 orec2upm04.prod.matson.com sudo[9286]: nagios : command not allowed ; TTY=unknown ; PWD=/home/nagios ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/manage_services.s>
Mar 17 13:30:07 orec2upm04.prod.matson.com systemd[1]: session-99.scope: Succeeded.
matson-itops
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

Looks like a mismatch in config file names done by someone else

[nagios services]$ pwd
/usr/local/nagios/etc/services
[nagios services]$ ls -al | grep -i PD05
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nagios nagios 5573 Feb 3 15:43 eqx1vwpd05 - WMS DB.cfg

can someone help me find where in nagios it is looking for databases.cfg like in snapshot?
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kg2857
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by kg2857 »

In the future, the OP may not want to use whitespace in host, service, in fact any names. Bad practice. Anything that may eventually devolve to a filename should not use whitestpace.
I'd ask if there are service groups defined. They are a bit brittle.
matson-itops
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

Have removed the host and config, and redid db fix,
but apply config still fails with error below

"Error: Could not find any host matching 'EQX1VWPD05 - WMS Database Server' (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/services/EQX1VWPD05 - WMS Database Server.cfg', starting on line 127)"

not sure what else to try.
matson-itops
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

Seeing this error also

Configuration not applied. There are changes to the database configuration, apply configuration needed.

does this mean something the in db itself changed somehow? how can I check?
matson-itops
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Re: Monitoring Engine

Post by matson-itops »

Any update? we need to escalate this as our nagios is not stable.
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