[Nagios-devel] Re: NSCA daemon never writes to nagios.cmd or nsca.dump

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[Nagios-devel] Re: NSCA daemon never writes to nagios.cmd or nsca.dump

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Was wondering if anyone had any acknowledgment concerning my problem
with NSCA and if so could you shoot me an email? I'm sweatin' it 'cause
I'm on a deadline and right now I have to report that nagios doesn't
work on a fundamental level in our environment. I was hoping to replace
a HP OpenView installation of about 1500 hosts but if the distributed
nagios setup functionality has such problems, then looks like nagios is
out.

BTW, I cross posted to the devel list because of that "allowed_hosts"
quirkiness...

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Noah

On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:42 PM, Noah Leaman wrote:

> A little more info... I get the same problem even when doing a
> send_nsca on the same host that has the nsca daemon running on it:
>
> (from syslog)
>
> Jan 21 23:21:01 bell nsca[22499]: Handling the connection...
> Jan 21 23:21:02 bell nsca[22499]: End of connection...
> Jan 21 23:22:01 bell nsca[22499]: Handling the connection...
> Jan 21 23:22:01 bell nsca[22499]: End of connection...
>
> ... is this a bug with nsca on OS X 10.3? Any one else running nsca
> 2.4 on 10.3 or seen this problem on any platform? I saw one other
> person post this same issue but there was no response then. I am not
> sure what platform he was on.
>
> My nsca.cfg:
>
> server_port=5667
> allowed_hosts=
> nsca_user=nagios
> nsca_group=nagios
> debug=1
> command_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
> alternate_dump_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
> password=
> aggregate_writes=0
> append_to_file=0
> max_packet_age=30
> decryption_method=1
>
>
> I tried sending using Jason Lancaster's perl version of send_nsca but
> I just get the same thing... nothing ever written out from the nsca
> daemon. Seems the problem is the daemon itself, not the send_nsca. I
> also tried the current CVS
> (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/download/ ... cvs.tar.gz) but same
> thing.
>
> Incidentally, with the CVS snapshot (version 2.5?) I kept getting this
> error in syslog when trying to start nsca:
>
> Jan 21 23:09:47 bell nsca[22258]: Unknown option specified in config
> file '/Users/nagios/nsca/nsca.cfg' - Line 2
>
> Line 2 is my allowed_hosts declaration. I tried both hostnames, and IP
> addresses as the changlog mentioned that it supported hostnames now. I
> had to comment line 2 out and it was able to start the 2.5 version.
>
> --
> Noah
>
>
> On Jan 21, 2004, at 4:07 PM, Noah Leaman wrote:
>
>> I forgot to provide platform/version stats...
>>
>> NSCA 2.4
>> Nagios 1.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.2 (on both central and distributed Nagios
>> servers)
>>
>> If anyone has any indication of where my trouble could be it would be
>> greatly appreciated.
>>
>> --
>> Noah
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2004, at 1:33 AM, Noah Leaman wrote:
>>
>>> Help!
>>>
>>> I cannot get the NSCA daemon to write anything to either the
>>> nagios.cmd or the nsca.dump files.
>>> They are both defined in the nsca.cfg like so:
>>>
>>> command_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd
>>> alternate_dump_file=/Users/nagios/var/rw/nsca.dump
>>>
>>> I turned on debug (debug=1) and all I get in the syslog is this:
>>>
>>> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>>> Jan 21 01:19:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>>> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>>> Jan 21 01:20:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>>> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: Handling the connection...
>>> Jan 21 01:21:00 bell nsca[15791]: End of connection...
>>>
>>> this is for each time the send_nsca is submitted on the remote
>>> (distributed) nagios host. nothing ever gets written to nagios.cmd
>>> and nsca.dump is never even created. The fact that nsca.dump never
>>> gets created seems like a clue of some sort. I do have external
>>> commands enabled and they work in all other respect. the nsca daemon
>>> is running as the user nagios and can write to nagios.cmd and the
>>> directory itt's in.
>>>
>>> Any ideas what could be wrong?
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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