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Hi,

I recently upgraded nagiosfusion to 4.1.8 early but didn't notice the fused server issue until now. Nagiosfusion is not getting any updated data from any of the nagios core servers.

When I open an fused server setting, the test fusion setting can return a green check. But the bar shows problem on that same fused server. When I follow and click that problem fused server, it shows a page without any info. But if I fill out the page with the correct info and save, it complains that the setting already exists. Any idea? Wondering if the new version didn't get the original fused server settings after upgrade. Thanks.

The first thing I'm wondering about is whether it carried your license over. Can you go to Admin -> License Information and show us a screenshot? You can black out the actual license key if you like, but I want to make sure that the License Stats is good.

I thought the license is perpetual as long as I use the existing good version, no? We didn't renew our license. it expired in mid December.

The screen capture for the URL is cut off so make sure it is set like the following
Replace servername with the FQDN.

Then for the CGI Path: set it to the following See if that fixes the issue.

Yes, the URL is in FQDN format. In our case of nagios core installation, we use /nagios/cgi-bin. Otherwise the click of test button wouldn't have returned green check status.

This is the full path when we trigger cgi script.
https://nagios.smf.uc.int/nagios/cgi-bi ... e=overview

This is our license status. I suspect that the upgrade didn't pick up the original full fused server setting, only partly like the names of different data centers. The upgrade was done not last week ( I lied ) but early December before the support license expired, which we had for two years. Otherwise I would have not been able to do the upgrade with expired license.

Login to the Fusion GUI and go to the Admin > System Settings menu.
Change the Log Level to Debug and check the boxes for these 2 options.
Enable writing log data to the specified file
Enable writing debug data to the specified file.

Update the Settings and wait for 10 to 15 minutes for a poll to happen.

Login as root to the Fusion server and go to the following folder. Check the auth_subsys.log, fusion.log and the fusion.debug files for ant authentication errors.

From what I know, the license expiring should not stop the polling of the data from the remote servers.
It will not allow anymore upgrades though.

All logs stopped right after the upgrade. I don't see any debug log there and there is no error message from any of the below logs either. Everything just stopped after the upgrade. apache is running as apache and nagiosfusion is running as nagios. does that matter? I have tried changing apache running as nagios as well as change running apache back to as apache but with nagiosfusion chown to apache user and group. But none of them worked either.

-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 5093631 Dec 8 15:55 dbmaint_subsys.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 3330 Dec 8 15:59 poll_subsys.4.nagiosfusion.log
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 547369 Dec 8 15:59 auth_subsys.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 2788 Dec 8 15:59 poll_subsys.5.nagiosfusion.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 3059 Dec 8 15:59 poll_subsys.2.nagiosfusion.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 4953 Dec 8 15:59 poll_subsys.3.nagiosfusion.log
-rw-r--r--. 1 nagios nagios 4218 Dec 8 15:59 poll_subsys.1.nagiosfusion.log
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 714363 Dec 8 16:00 poll_subsys.log-20191209.gz
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 864681 Dec 8 16:00 log_subsys.log-20191209.gz
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 4717279 Dec 8 16:00 cmd_subsys.log
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 4938443 Dec 8 16:00 sysstat_subsys.log
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 0 Dec 9 03:30 log_subsys.log
-rw-r-----. 1 nagios nagios 0 Dec 9 03:30 poll_subsys.log

root@smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001:/usr/local/nagiosfusion/var/log# ps -ef | grep httpd
root 5265 1 0 16:46 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
apache 5268 5265 3 16:46 ? 00:00:22 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
apache 5269 5265 2 16:46 ? 00:00:19 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND
...........

Go to the Admin > System Status menu and in the Subsystem Status dashlet, look at the Polling Locks: option, if it not zero, click on the Gear and clear the locks.

Because the files have not been updated, I would guess that the crond daemon is not running so the polling jobs are not getting the information and updating the logs.

Login as root and run this to restart crond. Wait for a bit and see if the log files start to update and if the GUI shows a good status.

If not, run the following commands as root and post the output to the ticket.

The polling lock was 0 when I looked.

I also looked at the /var/log/cron, it was running but it had the error since December 8. I restarted the crond as suggested but still doesn't work.

Dec 8 15:59:02 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 CROND[19990]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosfusion/cron/auth
_subsys.php --max-time=60 >>/usr/local/nagiosfusion/var/log/auth_subsys.log 2>&1)
Dec 8 15:59:02 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 CROND[19989]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosfusion/cron/cmd_
subsys.php --max-time=60 >>/usr/local/nagiosfusion/var/log/cmd_subsys.log 2>&1)
Dec 8 15:59:02 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 CROND[19994]: (nagios) CMD (/usr/bin/php -q /usr/local/nagiosfusion/cron/poll
_subsys.php --max-time=60 --master-poll >>/usr/local/nagiosfusion/var/log/poll_subsys.log 2>&1)
Dec 8 16:00:01 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 CROND[20306]: (root) CMD (/scripts/audit_rotate.sh > /dev/null 2>&1)
Dec 8 16:00:01 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 crond[20284]: (nagios) PAM ERROR (Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required)
Dec 8 16:00:01 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 crond[20284]: (nagios) FAILED to authorize user with PAM (Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required)
Dec 8 16:00:01 smf-tools-nagiosfusion-001 crond[20283]: (nagios) PAM ERROR (Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required)
..........

It turns out that the nagiosfusion stopped pulling data from remote nagios servers before the upgrade on December 17. So it is not upgrade related issue. The problem started before the upgrade.

Question: what user does the nagiosfusion cron use to pull data from remote nagios servers? Is it the one we set up in fused server setting? I can get a green check from that test as well as I can use the same login password to log into the remote nagios servers though.

The account that cron uses is the nagios user account.

The PAM error for crond could be caused by a few things.

1. The nagios account / password was expired.
Run this as root to determine if the account is still active. If should output something like this showing the account is active and the password is nor set to expire. If the user account is expired, run this as root to enable it. 2. The /etc/host.allow or the /etc/hosts.deny was changed to not allow nagios to run cron jobs. Check them and adjust them if necessary.