On 01/15/2013 10:42 PM, Jon Adcock wrote: > > I noticed that the main.php page update_available blue flag never appears > for me when a new version of Nagios is available. I do have > check_for_updates=1, but I see the following at the top of the Nagios > status.dat file: > info { > created=1358284500 > version=3.4.1 > last_update_check=1340002591 > update_available=1 > last_version=3.3.1 > new_version=3.4.1 > } > > What that tells me is that the Nagios function (that checks to see if > there is an update available) hasn't run since 6/18.2012 6:56:31 GMT > (1340002591). I am seeing similar indications on my other Nagios servers.
Yes. This is my fault. I'm one of the core maintainers, but I also take care of maintaining the nagios package for op5. Pretty much the only thing we change in our version is to disable update checks with a hardcoded return statement in the function that issues the actual check, since our customers get their updates from us in the form of RPM packages. Once upon a time a patch spilled over to the Nagios repository that had that change, so the update check was broken sometime between 3.3.1 and 3.4.4. I believe it's fixed in 3.4.4 though, with kudos to Eric Stanley for fixing the problem. > 1) Is there a way to force Nagios to CHECK NOW? Not that I know of, and it wouldn't work with the hardcoded "avoid update checks at all cost" patch in place anyway. > 2) Does the update_check log it's results somewhere? Only in the status_file. > 3) Do you have any recommendations on how I should approach this problem? > Upgrade to the latest version manually and then the update checks should start working again. I'm really sorry for the inconvenience. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Java SE, Java EE, Eclipse, Spring, Hibernate, JavaScript, jQuery and much more. Keep your Java skills current with LearnJavaNow - 200+ hours of step-by-step video tutorials by Java experts. SALE $49.99 this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnmore_122612 _______________________________________________ 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