MK LiveStatus install question

[Daniel Ceola]

Thanks for the responses!

I believe I currently have the path set properly and functioning.  At this point, I'm just trying to figure out how to see any of my Nagios hosts/services/etc within the NagVis web UI.  I'm still reading through the documentation on the config now; hopefully I'll figure it out soon.



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-----Original Message-----
From: Help [mailto:help-bounces+daniel.ceola=occfiber.com at nagios-plugins.org] On Behalf Of Andreas Ericsson
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 5:29 AM
To: Nagios Plugins Users
Subject: Re: MK LiveStatus install question

On 2013-11-04 17:19, Daniel Ceola wrote:
> Good morning all.
>
> I'm attempting to configure MK LiveStatus so that I can install NagVis on my Nagios Core installation.
>
> I'm following through the MK LiveStatus setup instructions located http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html.  I am attempting to do the manual installation of livestatus without the rest of the check_mk stuff.
>
> I've downloaded the source file (http://mathias-kettner.de/download/mk-livestatus-1.2.2p2.tar.gz), unpacked it, ran ./configure followed by make install; then added the suggested lines ("broker_module=/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o /var/lib/nagios/rw/live" and "event_broker_options=-1") to my nagios.cfg file, and restarted Nagios.  When I look at the nagios.log file, I see the following messages:
>
>
> [1383580496] livestatus: Livestatus 1.2.2p2 by Mathias Kettner. Socket: '/var/lib/nagios/rw/live'
> [1383580496] livestatus: Please visit us at http://mathias-kettner.de/ 
> [1383580496] livestatus: Hint: please try out OMD - the Open 
> Monitoring Distribution [1383580496] livestatus: Please visit OMD at 
> http://omdistro.org [1383580496] livestatus: Unable to bind adress 
> /var/lib/nagios/rw/live to UNIX socket: No such file or directory [1383580496] Error: Function nebmodule_init() in module '/usr/local/lib/mk-livestatus/livestatus.o' returned an error.  Module will be unloaded.
>
>
> So it seems that the directory that the software is trying to use for the Unix socket doesn't exist (confirmed this when attempting to browse to that directory).   The installation instructions mention changing that file path (/var/lib/nagios/rw/live) to the directory that Nagios Pipe resides in - but doesn't specify the correct method for changing this file path, and I am also not familiar with what this file path is on Nagios Core 3.5installed on Ubuntu 12.04.
>
> Do I just need to manualy create the directory /var/lib/nagios/rw/live possibly?
>

Either that or set the path to the socket as an argument to the module in nagios.cfg, like so:

broker_module=</path/to/livestatus.o> </desired/path/to/socket>

For example, in my config I have the following, all on one line:

broker_module=/opt/monitor/op5/livestatus/livestatus.o
/opt/monitor/var/rw/live log_file=/dev/null


which puts the livestatus socket in /opt/monitor/var/rw.

HTH.

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