newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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disrael
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newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

Post by disrael »

Is there a way to disable Nagios XI from trying to communicate w/ newvs1.nagios.com?

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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

Post by mguthrie »

If you disabled the regular system update checks from the admin menu that should prevent the outbound requests.
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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We disabled this option, though our FW team is still seeing requests to newvs1.nagios.com on port 80, once a minute.

Any additional suggestions?

Thanks,

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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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Since it's non-secure HTTP, why not sniff the traffic and see what it is?
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

Post by scottwilkerson »

Do you know what URL it is trying to pull?

Another thing I can think of is that if any users have the default homepage set it will try to pull the feeds from our server. This can be modified globally in Admin-> Manage Components-> Home Page Modification
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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We are not allowed by our corporation to run a packet sniffer.

We changed the user default page, though the firewall team is still seeing Nagios trying to connect to that server every minute 24/7. With that in mind it has to be some automated process as we don't have that many people logging into Nagios. Any other suggestions?

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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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Without knowing where the data start and endpoints are it is very difficult to search things like this out, is it possible for you to use one of your backup XI servers, un-mount it from the network, and then run a sniffer on it? Or, have the firewall team take a look at the other server and see if there is a difference? Then that could help narrow down the possibilities. It almost certainly has to be some sort of live, RSS like feed sent from us to the server.
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

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  Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 018: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 080: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 035: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 088: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 043: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[4556]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/cleaner.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cleaner.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 019: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 074: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 031: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 077: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 044: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 027: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 087: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 052: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 012: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 062: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 021: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:22:01 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 003: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:21:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[2531]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/eventman.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/eventman.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 020: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 075: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 021: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 080: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 047: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 030: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:23:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[3905]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/sysstat.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/sysstat.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 021: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 076: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 022: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 081: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 048: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 031: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:23:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[3906]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/reportengine.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/reportengine.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 022: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 077: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 032: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 078: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 045: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 028: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:23:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[3903]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/eventman.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/eventman.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 016: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 078: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 033: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 086: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 053: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 036: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[4546]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/sysstat.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/sysstat.log 2>&1)
        Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 017: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 079: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 034: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 087: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 054: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:02 usa7061lv981 rootsh[06a0e]: tmproot: 037: #011Msg: Apr 30 09:24:01 usa7061lv981 CROND[4547]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosxi/cron/nom.php > /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/nom.log 2>&1)
I did a tcpdump, this is my first time using this, I have used Wireshark. I did see a lot of nslookups for api.nagios.com and some other sites. Though the nslookups were against our own name server.
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

Post by scottwilkerson »

I don't see anything in here that is calling out to api.nagios.com
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Re: newvs1.nagios.com and Nagios XI

Post by scottwilkerson »

Doron,

Can you go to Admin -> License Information
Copy the key in "Your License Key:" section and PM it to me.

Also, can you run the following as root

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echo "select * from xi_options where name='auto_update_check';"|psql nagiosxi nagiosxi
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