Livestatus on Nagios 5

[optionstechnology]

I am running Nagios 5.3.1 on RHEL 7

Trying to get livestatus installed so I can use Thruk

Has anyone successfully done this? I have tried the last stable 1.2.8 but when I install it scrambles the nagios service

[rkennedy]

We can help with Nagios, but unfortunately livestatus isn't our product so we're limited on the support we can provide. The same thing applies to Thruk.

[SteveBeauchemin]

I use livestatus and NagVis on Nagios XI 5.4. You are compiling livestatus right?
Remember to use the nagios 4 parameter.

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tar -xzvf mk-live*
cd mk-live*
./configure --with-nagios4
make
make install

The livestatus.o file gets sent to /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus...

Steve B

[dwhitfield]

Thanks @SteveBeauchemin!

One thing to note is the version of Core is different between 5.3.1 and 5.4, but we do not test livestatus, so I do not know if this makes a difference.

[optionstechnology]

Thanks for your reply SteveBeauchemin, I've ran though the installer as normal- using version 1.2.8

It compiles fine with the --with-nagios4 option and all seems to be working fine-

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[root@opnag01p tmp]# cd mk-livestatus-1.2.8
[root@opnag01p mk-livestatus-1.2.8]# ./configure --with-nagios4
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for a thread-safe mkdir -p... /bin/mkdir -p
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
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checking for gcc-4.9... no
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checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
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configure: creating ./config.status
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config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing depfiles commands
[root@opnag01p mk-livestatus-1.2.8]# make
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
rm -f plugin.so
g++  -s -fPIC -shared livestatus_so-AndingFilter.o livestatus_so-ClientQueue.o livestatus_so-Column.o livestatus_so-ColumnsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsExplicitColumn.o livestatus_so-ContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomVarsFilter.o livestatus_so-DoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-DoubleColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-DowntimeOrComment.o livestatus_so-DownCommColumn.o livestatus_so-DynamicColumn.o livestatus_so-EmptyColumn.o livestatus_so-NullColumn.o livestatus_so-Filter.o livestatus_so-GlobalCountersColumn.o livestatus_so-HostContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostgroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostlistColumn.o livestatus_so-HostlistColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-HostlistStateColumn.o livestatus_so-MetricsColumn.o livestatus_so-HostSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-ServiceSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-InputBuffer.o livestatus_so-IntColumn.o livestatus_so-IntColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-ListColumn.o livestatus_so-ListColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-OffsetDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetIntColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetTimeperiodColumn.o livestatus_so-OringFilter.o livestatus_so-OutputBuffer.o livestatus_so-OffsetTimeColumn.o livestatus_so-TimePointerColumn.o livestatus_so-TimeColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-PerfdataAggregator.o livestatus_so-Query.o livestatus_so-ServiceContactsColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicegroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicelistColumn.o livestatus_so-ServicelistColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-ServicelistStateColumn.o livestatus_so-store_c.o livestatus_so-Store.o livestatus_so-StringColumn.o livestatus_so-StringColumnFilter.o livestatus_so-strutil.o livestatus_so-Table.o livestatus_so-TableColumns.o livestatus_so-StatusSpecialIntColumn.o livestatus_so-HostSpecialDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-TableCommands.o livestatus_so-TableContacts.o livestatus_so-TableDownComm.o livestatus_so-TableHostgroups.o livestatus_so-ServiceSpecialDoubleColumn.o livestatus_so-TableHosts.o livestatus_so-TableServicegroups.o livestatus_so-TableServices.o livestatus_so-TableStatus.o livestatus_so-LogEntry.o livestatus_so-LogCache.o livestatus_so-Logfile.o livestatus_so-TableStateHistory.o livestatus_so-TableLog.o livestatus_so-TableTimeperiods.o livestatus_so-TableContactgroups.o livestatus_so-ContactgroupsMemberColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringServiceMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-OffsetStringHostMacroColumn.o livestatus_so-StatsColumn.o livestatus_so-IntAggregator.o livestatus_so-CountAggregator.o livestatus_so-DoubleAggregator.o livestatus_so-AttributelistColumn.o livestatus_so-AttributelistFilter.o livestatus_so-BlobColumn.o livestatus_so-HostFileColumn.o livestatus_so-global_counters.o livestatus_so-module.o livestatus_so-logger.o livestatus_so-waittriggers.o livestatus_so-TimeperiodsCache.o livestatus_so-pnp4nagios.o livestatus_so-mk_inventory.o livestatus_so-ContactgroupsColumn.o livestatus_so-CustomTimeperiodColumn.o livestatus_so-HostServiceState.o livestatus_so-opids.o livestatus_so-auth.o -o livestatus.o -lpthread -static-libstdc++
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
[root@opnag01p mk-livestatus-1.2.8]# make install
Making install in src
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/bin'
  /bin/install -c unixcat '/usr/local/bin'
 /bin/mkdir -p '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus'
 /bin/install -c -m 644  livestatus.so '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus'
 ( cd '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus' && ranlib livestatus.so )
/bin/sh /tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/install-sh -d /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus
/bin/install -c livestatus.o /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus
rm -f /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.so
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8/src'
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
make[2]: Entering directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-exec-am'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/mk-livestatus-1.2.8'
[root@opnag01p mk-livestatus-1.2.8]# ./configure --with-nagios4

This is what I add to the nagios.cfg-

broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live

I can see that the livestatus.o exists fine, but I cannot find a 'live' file anywhere....

When I restart Nagios it reports that the monitoring engine is not running and I cannot start it...

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â nagios.service - LSB: Starts and stops the Nagios monitoring server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Tue 2017-01-17 17:29:53 GMT; 16h ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 14995 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 15016 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15048;pid=15048
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15051;pid=15051
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15062;pid=15062
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15052;pid=15052
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15065;pid=15065
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15054;pid=15054
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15055;pid=15055
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15044]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 15056;pid=15056
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[15016]: Starting nagios: done.
Jan 17 17:29:53 opnag01p.options-it.com systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts and stops the Nagios monitoring server.

[SteveBeauchemin]

For what its worth - I have a large installation and had to increase some livestatus defaults.

In nagios.cfg I have

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broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live pnp_path=/usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata num_client_threads=30 thread_stack_size=262144

If you read the livestatus web site they do say something about default settings too small, and Nagios failing to run. It is obscure, but stated there somewhere.

Steve B

[lmiltchev]

Can you run the following commands and show the output in code wraps?

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systemctl stop nagios.service
systemctl stop ndo2db.service
systemctl start ndo2db.service
systemctl start nagios.service
systemctl status nagios.service
systemctl status ndo2db.service
grep live /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log
grep broker /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
ll /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus
ll /usr/local/nagios/var/rw

[optionstechnology]

systemctl status nagios.service

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â nagios.service - LSB: Starts and stops the Nagios monitoring server
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2017-01-19 09:11:03 GMT; 7s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 12516 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 12697 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)

Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...40
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...41
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...52
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...43
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...44
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...53
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...47
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12725]: wproc: Registry request: name=Core Worker 127...36
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com nagios[12697]: Starting nagios: done.
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com systemd[1]: Started LSB: Starts and stops the Nagios monito...er.
Hint: Some lines were ellipsized, use -l to show in full.

systemctl status ndo2db.service

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â ndo2db.service - LSB: Nagios NDO2DB Initscript
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/ndo2db; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Thu 2017-01-19 09:10:55 GMT; 19s ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 12536 ExecStop=/etc/rc.d/init.d/ndo2db stop (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 12555 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/ndo2db start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
   CGroup: /system.slice/ndo2db.service
           ââ12563 /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db -c /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg

Jan 19 09:10:55 opnag01p.options-it.com systemd[1]: Starting LSB: Nagios NDO2DB Initscript...
Jan 19 09:10:55 opnag01p.options-it.com ndo2db[12555]: Starting ndo2db: done.
Jan 19 09:10:55 opnag01p.options-it.com systemd[1]: Started LSB: Nagios NDO2DB Initscript.
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com ndo2db[12756]: Successfully connected to MySQL database
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com ndo2db[12755]: Successfully connected to MySQL database
Jan 19 09:11:03 opnag01p.options-it.com ndo2db[12755]: Successfully disconnected from MySQL database

grep live /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log

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[1484674193] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' -> /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o: undefined symbol: external_command_buffer_slots
[1484674193] Error: Failed to load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'.
[1484814577] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' -> /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o: undefined symbol: external_command_buffer_slots
[1484814577] Error: Failed to load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'.
[1484814662] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' -> /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o: undefined symbol: external_command_buffer_slots
[1484814662] Error: Failed to load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'.
[1484817063] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' -> /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o: undefined symbol: external_command_buffer_slots
[1484817063] Error: Failed to load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'.
[root@opnag01p ~]# 

grep broker /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

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broker_module=/usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/ndomod.cfg
#broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live
#event_broker_options=-1
broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live pnp_path=/usr/local/nagios/share/perfdata num_client_threads=30 thread_stack_size=262144
event_broker_options=-1

ll /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus

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total 720
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 733224 Jan 18 09:55 livestatus.o

ll /usr/local/nagios/var/rw

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total 0
srw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Jan 19 09:11 nagios.qh

[rkennedy]

I'm not familiar with livestatus, but am only seeing one error stick out -

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[1484817063] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' -> /usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o: undefined symbol: external_command_buffer_slots
[1484817063] Error: Failed to load module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o'.

Take a look at this thread to see if it helps for compiling - https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... 48#p206095

[SteveBeauchemin]

I just installed Nagios 5.4.0 on Red Hat 7. I use NagVis and livestatus. I just installed the latest livestatus.

These are my notes...

How to run livestatus on Nagios 5.4.0

Always I get the latest 'Stable' version number from here. I look for the check_mk raw edition version number. It is the same as the livestatus version number.
https://mathias-kettner.de/check_mk_dow ... p?HTML=yes
Then I download that specific stable version of livestatus.

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wget http://www.mathias-kettner.de/download/mk-livestatus-1.2.8p15.tar.gz

Also acquire the Nagios Core 4.2.4 tar file to use in compiling livestatus. Extract it to make the libraries available.

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wget https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagioscore/releases/nagios-4.2.4.tar.gz
tar -xzvf nagios-4.2.4.tar.gz

Then do the livestatus install using the full path to the Nagios Core include files.

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tar -xzvf mk-livestatus-1.2.8p15.tar.gz
cd mk-livestatus-1.2.8p15/
./configure CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/src/Downloads/nagios-4.2.4/include/ --with-nagios4
make
make install

Start or restart Nagios XI and from a separate screen watch the Nagios Log file during the restart while using grep for livestatus

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tail -f /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log | grep livestatus

[1484848205] livestatus: Setting number of client threads to 30
[1484848205] livestatus: Setting size of thread stacks to 524288
[1484848205] livestatus: Livestatus 1.2.8p15 by Mathias Kettner. Socket: '/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/live'
[1484848205] livestatus: Please visit us at http://mathias-kettner.de/
[1484848205] livestatus: Hint: please try out OMD - the Open Monitoring Distribution
[1484848205] livestatus: Please visit OMD at http://omdistro.org
[1484848206] livestatus: Finished initialization. Further log messages go to /usr/local/nagios/var/livestatus.log
[1484848206] Event broker module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' initialized successfully.

And like magic it works.
Steve B