Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin that will test nagios.cfg

From: Arno Lehmann <al(at)its-lehmann.de>
Date: Thu Jun 21 2007 - 16:43:38 EDT

Hi,

chiel schrieb:
> I'm looking for a plugin that will check if the nagios.cfg is ok.
> So besecauly run this command: "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg". Is there a plugin for this?

Wouldn't it be better to check this in the cron job itself? Nagios won't help you much if it crashes because of a broken config.

The cron job could, naturally, report problems as passive results to Nagios...

> I want this because I reload the nagios config every 15 minutes through
> a cronjob. And I want to be notified if there is a error in the config.
> The reason of using a cronjob is that custom programs populate/change my
> .cfg files

Look:
elf:~ # /usr/local/nagios2/bin/nagios -v /etc/passwd >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
254
elf:~ # /usr/local/nagios2/bin/nagios -v /etc/nagios2/nagios.cfg  >/dev/null 2>&1; echo $?
0

So, just do a configuration test, and reload only if the result code is zero, otherwise inform the operator.

Arno

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