Nagios Support Forum

I have run the following command, the shell file has permissions and got executed,
su nagios -c '/opt/SomClient/bin/somClient.sh

Nagios monitor the server machine and updates the "Service Status" but the Event Handler is not executing somClient.sh file.

On the previous screen you had a different file path.

Change to

Yes i have change the file from '/root/SomClient/bin/somClient.sh' to '/opt/SomClient/bin/somClient.sh'

At this point it really depends on what is in the shell script. does it use environment variables?

Can you place something like the following as the first item of the script to verify it is opening then after a state change you can test to see if the file /tmp/it_works exists...

I have tried the touch command (touch /opt/test.txt) inside my shell script (/opt/SomClient/bin/somClient.sh), the command was got executed and the file got created but at the same time the "java command" which is inside that same shell file was not executed
Example:
"java -cp ${SOM_HOME}/lib/somClient.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/jbossall-client.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/ojdbc14.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/log4j.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/mailapi.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/activation.jar::${SOM_HOME}/lib/bsh.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/jbossall-client.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/smtp.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/snmp.jar:${SOM_HOME}/lib/mail.jar: -Dsom.home=${SOM_HOME} com.firstis.telaweb.somClient.SomClientAdapter -d selvi -m TestMessage"

Is there any way to execute the java command inside the nagios ?

you might need to enter the full path to java.

Also, when nagios executes the event handler it does not load the profile so if ${SOM_HOME} is an environment variable it will not have access to it unless you place it in /home/nagios/.bashrc

Hi scottwilkerson

Thanks for support. we have tried by updating environment variable in .bashrc file, but it had no effect in the Nagios Event Handler. We had given the path in the shell file(somClient.sh) directly and it worked.

Thanks for the feedback! We really appreciate it!