Deborah Martin wrote:
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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my .....nagios/sbin perms are 775 across the board and there is the
same .htaccess file in there as in ...nagios/share
according to the docs that should be enough to work.
also, if I couldn't use the sbin then all the other stuff also wouldn't
work because it all relies on the cgis to show status etc...
-h
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