Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios - Check for Updates

[Michael Friedrich]

On 02.10.2011 02:14, Jon Adcock wrote: This feature (check for updates) does not appear to be working for me.  When 3.3.1 came out, I waited for a week, and never saw the update available banner displayed on the Nagios main landing page (main.php).  I've been playing with the main.php page to get it to display the date/time of the last update check, and it returns blank (no value), so I'm assuming that too mean it's not actually checking.     I am currently running Nagios 3.3.1 on the Novell SLES v10 server (Nagios compiled from source).  Can anyone give me some troubleshooting steps to get me started?  For example, is there a way to enable logging of the check for updates feature, and is there a way to manually start the update check (the API, not the web page URL link)? the core is scheduling call home events and saves the version information and various other attributes in both status.dat and retention.dat. the cgis (or the php part of it) parse that information into a readable version onto the web. http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/include/nagios.h?revision=1786&view=markup line 129ff http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/base/utils.c?revision=1797&view=markup line 3724ff http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xsddefault.c?revision=1793&view=markup 405ff http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/xdata/xrddefault.c?revision=1787&view=markup 317ff http://nagios.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nagios/nagioscore/trunk/html/includes/utils.inc.php?revision=1242 so i would guess if you don't allow the nagios core to phone home, it won't show an updated version. scheduling cycle is somewhere around 22 hours, changing is only possible if you recompile.     Jon Adcock Network Systems Administrator Leon County MIS 301 S. Monroe St. Tallahassee, FL  32301 Office:  (850) 606-5518 adco...@leoncountyfl.gov   ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-d2dcopy2 _______________________________________________ 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 -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich Vienna University Computer Center Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria email: michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at phone: +43 1 4277 14359 mobile: +43 664 60277 14359 fax: +43 1 4277 14338 web: http://www.univie.ac.at/zid http://www.aco.net Icinga Core & IDOUtils Developer http://www.icinga.org

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