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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
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,

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

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.

Can you run this command please:
Does this fix your problem?

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

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?

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:
Should the permissions math the other files in that directory?

Thanks,

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?