Trouble turning off notifications

[cwscribner]

Hi all.

The title pretty much says it all. I tried several times to turn of notifications via the monitoring engine widget but they wouldn't turn off (or they didn't appear turned off by the system indicator or widget). So I proceeded to turn them off in the core config file. Even after doing that and restarting Nagios, notifications still appeared to be turned on. I attempted to stop notifications 3 more times through the widget, restarting the monitoring engine several times through this process, before they finally showed an off indicator. Any ideas on where the hang up might be?

[mguthrie]

It could be a permissions issue with the nagios.cmd pipe. Can you check the permissions on the /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd file? This file should get recreated each time nagios is restarted.

You can also do a running tail on the following file to trace commands being sent through the XI interface.

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tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log

And then try turning off the notifications.

[cwscribner]

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prw-rw---- 1 nagios nagcmd 0 Dec  9 17:15 /usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd

[mguthrie]

Can you try running the following:

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tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log

And then submitting the command from the web interface to enable or disable notifications?

[cwscribner]

Must've been a fluke. I wasn't able to reproduce the same problem. Here's the output:

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tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log
..................................................PROCESSING COMMAND ID 2130...
PROCESS COMMAND: CMD=16, DATA=a:1:{s:3:"cmd";i:12;}
COMMAND DATA: a:1:{s:3:"cmd";i:12;}
CMDARR:
Array
(
    [cmd] => 12
)
CORE CMD: ENABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;0
SUBMITTING A NAGIOSCORE COMMAND...
.........
PROCESSED 1 COMMANDS
tail: /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log: file truncated
...........................................PROCESSING COMMAND ID 2131...
PROCESS COMMAND: CMD=16, DATA=a:1:{s:3:"cmd";i:11;}
COMMAND DATA: a:1:{s:3:"cmd";i:11;}
CMDARR:
Array
(
    [cmd] => 11
)
CORE CMD: DISABLE_NOTIFICATIONS;0
SUBMITTING A NAGIOSCORE COMMAND...
..............tail: /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log: file truncated
.
PROCESSED 1 COMMANDS


[1]+  Stopped                 tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

[mguthrie]

Ok, if the issue reappears keep an eye on that log and see if it produces anything telling.