Hi all, Can anyone here tell me where I'm going wrong in my attempts to correctly setup a slave nagios server.
What I have is as follows :- 1 master nagios host (running FreeBSD 6.2). This host executes active checks some of which trigger event handlers (ie. to restart web servers, etc... the usual stuff). 1 slave nagios host (running FreeBSD 5.5). This host rsyncs the nagios configuration files from the master, and performs the check_nagios plugin to determine if the master is running. If it is not, then it takes over active checks. The above has been setup using the documentation accompanying the nagios installation and has v 2.10 installed. Yesterday I tried to get the slave to receive service check results from the master by running the nsca daemon on the slave and adding commands to enable send_nsca on the master to transmit results to the slave. To achieve this I forced the master to obsess over services and this all worked correctly. However, when I checked the system today I have found that although an event handler should have been executed overnight, it did NOT get executed. The only way I've been able to get the master to actually run the event handlers as needed has been to disable obsessing on the master - hence I no longer have the slave passively receiving service check results. I've sort of worked round this by enabling a global event handler on the master which calls the send_nsca command, so at the moment the slave is passively gettings the changes of state to services (but, as the http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/distributed.html page says, "We could use event handlers to report changes in the state of a service, but that just doesn't cut it.") and the master is happily executing event handlers as needed. Anyone else had this problem with event handlers when obsessing is enabled ? And does anyone have this working correctly ? thanks, Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null