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Hello,

We recently decided to start fresh with our monitoring, going from Nagios 3 to Nagios 4, and using Nginx to serve the site.

Now, everything has been going smooth, except executing external commands. For some reason or another, I'm unable to execute external commands. I can restart / shut down the process, and perform commands relating to the actual Nagios process. However, when I try running e.g a "Reschedule the next check for this host", I get "Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the specified command.".

I was wondering if anyone is able to point me in the right direction.

My cgi.cfg:

physical_html_path=/usr/local/nagios/share
url_html_path=/nagios
use_authentication=1
default_user_name=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
default_statusmap_layout=5
default_statuswrl_layout=4
refresh_rate=90
ping_syntax=/bin/ping -n -U -c 5 $HOSTADDRESS$
main_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

relevant permissions:

root@newnag:/usr/local/nagios/var/rw# ls -l
total 0
prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Dec 7 18:41 nagios.cmd

root@newnag:/usr/local/nagios/sbin# ls -l
total 5096
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagcmd 318712 Dec 2 06:51 archivejson.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagcmd 302368 Dec 2 06:51 avail.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagcmd 295008 Dec 2 06:51 cmd.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagcmd 265688 Dec 2 06:51 config.cgi
-rwxrwxr-x 1 nagios nagcmd 310528 Dec 2 06:51 extinfo.cgi

Thanks in advance!

What method did you use to install Core 4? Where did you get it from?

hsmith wrote:What method did you use to install Core 4? Where did you get it from?

I got the source from nagios.com, and followed the guide @ http://www.tokiwinter.com/installing-na ... 14-04-lts/

What user are you logged in as when you receive that error?

rkennedy wrote:What user are you logged in as when you receive that error?

nagiosadmin

What exact version of Core are you running? Is it 4.0.7 as indicated in the article or did you grab a different/newer version?

tmcdonald wrote:What exact version of Core are you running? Is it 4.0.7 as indicated in the article or did you grab a different/newer version?

Sorry, I forgot to mention that - I got the newest version (4.1.1).

Here's a guide I did a while back:

http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/i ... untu-14-04

I suspect you need to run these commands:

Box293 wrote:Here's a guide I did a while back:

http://sites.box293.com/nagios/guides/i ... untu-14-04

I suspect you need to run these commands:

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a2enmod rewrite
a2enmod cgi
service apache2 restart

As mentioned in my subject field, I'm using Nginx, and not apache

Can you paste your nagios.conf that you configured for nginx?