verify_pnp_config

In case of problems there is a script called verify_pnp_config.pl located on http://verify.pnp4nagios.org. It enables you to check the configuration settings as well as performance data of hosts or services. It can be used prior and during runtime of PNP.

wget http://verify.pnp4nagios.org/verify_pnp_config

The verify script is located on http://verify.pnp4nagios.org an needs three start options

• --mode One of the modes described on modeds
• --config Path nagios.cfg or icinga.cfg
• --pnpcfg Path to PNP´s etc directory

lenny:~# perl verify_pnp_config --mode npcdmod --config=/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg --pnpcfg=/usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc
[INFO]  ========== Starting Environment Checks ============
[INFO]  My version is: verify_pnp_config-0.6.14-R.31
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
[OK  ]  Running product is 'nagios'
[OK  ]  object_cache_file is defined
[OK  ]  object_cache_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache
[OK  ]  resource_file is defined
[OK  ]  resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/process_perfdata.cfg
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/pnp4nagios_release
[OK  ]  Found PNP4Nagios version "0.6.14"
[OK  ]  Effective User is 'nagios'
[OK  ]  User nagios exists with ID '1000'
[OK  ]  Effective group is 'nagios'
[OK  ]  Group nagios exists with ID '1000'
[INFO]  ========== Checking npcdmod Mode Config  ============
[OK  ]  process_performance_data is 1 compared with '/1/'
[OK  ]  event_broker_options is defined
[OK  ]  event_broker_options=-1
[OK  ]  event_broker_option bits 2 and 3 enabled (12)
[OK  ]  broker_module is defined
[OK  ]  broker_module=/usr/local/pnp4nagios/lib/npcdmod.o config_file=/usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg
[OK  ]  npcdmod.o config file is /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg
[OK  ]  /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg used by npcdmod.o is readable
[OK  ]  npcd daemon is running
[OK  ]  /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg is used by npcd and readable
[OK  ]  npcd and npcdmod.o are using the same config file (/usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg)
[INFO]  Nagios config looks good so far
[INFO]  ========== Checking config values ============
[INFO]  Reading /usr/local/pnp4nagios/etc/npcd.cfg
[OK  ]  Script /usr/local/pnp4nagios/libexec/process_perfdata.pl is executable
[INFO]  ========== Starting global checks ============
[OK  ]  status_file is defined
[OK  ]  status_file=/dev/shm/status.dat
[INFO]  Reading /dev/shm/status.dat
[INFO]  ==== Starting rrdtool checks ====
[OK  ]  RRDTOOL is defined
[OK  ]  RRDTOOL=/usr/bin/rrdtool
[OK  ]  /usr/bin/rrdtool is executable
[OK  ]  RRDtool 1.3.1  Copyright 1997-2008 by Tobias Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch>
[OK  ]  USE_RRDs is defined
[OK  ]  USE_RRDs=1
[OK  ]  Perl RRDs modules are loadable
[INFO]  ==== Starting directory checks ====
[OK  ]  RRDPATH is defined
[OK  ]  RRDPATH=/usr/local/pnp4nagios/var/perfdata
[OK  ]  Perfdata directory '/usr/local/pnp4nagios/var/perfdata' exists
[WARN]  62 hosts/services are not providing performance data
[WARN]  'process_perf_data 1' is set for 43 hosts/services which are not providing performance data!
[WARN]  'process_perf_data 0' is set for 27 of your hosts/services
[OK  ]  'process_perf_data 1' is set for 243 of your hosts/services
[INFO]  ==== System sizing ====
[OK  ]  269 hosts/service objects defined
[INFO]  ==== Check statistics ====
[WARN]  Warning: 3, Critical: 0
[WARN]  Checks finished...