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look
at your /usr/local/nagios/sbin directory and check a) file permissions are
correct and also whether your .htaccess authrization file is present.
This
error is generally caused by not correctly using .htaccess and also not
configuring apache properly - check your httpd.conf is correctly
configured
Martin J. Green wrote:
I can't get
external commands to work either (appears it can't write to the file for
some reason), but its so low on my list of priorities I haven't gotten to it
yet.
I am having real difficulty
getting external commands to work and don't full understand what's going
wrong, despite having RTFMing several times.
As an example, I log in
to the web interface as nagiosadmin via basic apache auth successfully as
usual. I go to "comments" in the left hand pane and enter one for a host but
when I click submit, I get the error:
"Sorry, but you are not authorized to commit the
specified command.
Read the section of the
documentation that deals with authentication and authorization in the CGIs
for more information.
Return from whence you
came"
As far as I can tell, I have all the perms set right
according to the
docs:
cgi.cfg
use_authentication=1
authorized_for_system_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_configuration_information=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_system_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_services=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_hosts=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_service_commands=nagiosadmin
authorized_for_all_host_commands=nagiosadmin
nagios.cfg
command_file=/var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
check_external_commands=1
#
NOTE: Setting this value to -1 causes Nagios to check the external
#
command file as often as possible.
command_check_interval=-1
ll
/var/nagios/ | grep rw/
drwxrws--- 2 nagios apache 4096 Aug 1
13:28 rw/
ll /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd
prw-rw---- 1 nagios apache
0 Aug 1 13:28 /var/nagios/rw/nagios.cmd|
The apache process is
run by the apache user, a member of the apache group, so has full perms to
the directory and the pipe file nagios.cmd. Nagios is run by nagios who is
also a member of the apache group.
This all looks as it should be
according to the docs as far as I can
see.
What am I
missing?
Hari
I
think quite a lot of people have trouble with this but a lot give up or are
satisfied that the main bit is working and don't bother with
this...
does anybody have this working and if so could you post your
configs so I can see anything you have different to me?
are external
commands generally broken or is there something missing in the docs/our
configs/our brains?
I'm using Version
1.4.1
Hari
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