[Nagiosplug-help] check_nagios - plugin and HP-UX 11.11

[Pedro Silva]

I had the same problem!

The nagios_check_command in cgi.cfg has to be set like this:

nagios_check_command=/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios
/var/log/nagios/status.log 5 'nagios'

Pedro

> Hi !
>  
> I'm trying to configure nagios_check_command - parameter in cgi.cfg
> properly
> so that the GUI-Message "Monitoring process may not be running"
> disappears and
> entering service commands becomes possible.
>  
> I'm running Nagios under HP-UX 11.11 (11i v1) on a PARISC-based
> machine.
> I was unable to compile the 1.3.1 - version of the check_nagios -
> plugin. But
> compiling alpha-version 1.4.0 worked fine. So I put the 1.4.0 - binary
> of
> check_nagios into my 1.3.1 - based folder /usr/local/nagios/libexec.
>  
> When doing a "ps -ef | grep nagios" I get 
> 
> nagios 15148     1  0 15:01:21 ?         0:00
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cf
>  
> as result. So I tried the check_nagios - plugin manually this way :
>  
> /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nagios -F
> /usr/local/nagios/var/status.log -e 5 \
> -C '/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cf'
>  
> But I get  "Could not locate a running Nagios process!" as return
> value.
>  
> So the CGI still claims that the "Monitoring process may not be
> running" .
>  
> How can I determine which ps - syntax check_nagios uses to give it the
> correct
> value for compare ?
> 
> Regards,
>     Marcus
>