On Jun 25, 2008, at 12:32 PM, Tony Rice (trice) wrote:
> Perl script looks like this:
>
> open (FILE, ">$cmd_file");
> print "[$epoch_now]
> SCHEDULE_HOST_DOWNTIME;$host;$epoch_start;$epoch_stop;0;0;$duration;
> $use
> rid;$comment\n";
> close (FILE);
>
> Nothing in the log indicating that this
You can't open nagios.cmd in append mode, otherwise it will cause a seek.
You should use the function nagios_cmd declared in Nagios::Cmd:
http://search.cpan.org/src/TOBEYA/Nagios-Cmd-0.05/lib/Nagios/Cmd.pm
It's working fine for me.
--
Mathieu
t
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Problem scheduling downtime externally
>
> Maybe i'm not familiar enough with perl (I'm not, really),
> but it appears to me that you are not writing anything to the
> file since your 'print' statement is missing the file ha
ng that this command is making it anywhere.
> Nothing in the log relevant either.
>
> -Tony
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Aaron M. Segura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:25 AM
> > To: Tony Rice (trice)
> > Cc: na
relevant either.
-Tony
> -Original Message-
> From: Aaron M. Segura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 11:25 AM
> To: Tony Rice (trice)
> Cc: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Problem scheduling downtime externally
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Please be more specific. How, exactly, are you trying to write to the
pipe? Please include some examples.
Do you look in the nagios log after that to see if it picked up any
commands? Are there any relevant log entries that might help?
On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 11:09 -0400, Tony Rice (trice) wrote
I had a similar problem and just switched to using the cmd.cgi to get
it done. Attached is a simple daemon I wrote until I can get around
to writing a proper one. You can take a look at it to get an example
of how to use cmd.cgi. If you decide you want to use the script
itself, you'll need to ma
I'm trying to interface a database of upcoming downtimes to Nagios via
the SCHEDULE_AND_PROPAGATE_TRIGGERED_HOST_DOWNTIME external command.
However, writing to the nagios.cmd file just sits there and never
returns. I'm wondering if it's a problem with the way the named pipe is
setup. My nagios.cm
