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Special Forums UNIX and Linux Applications Infrastructure Monitoring Using SMF to register & start a (Nagios) service Post 302455397 by lyle on Tuesday 21st of September 2010 01:07:18 PM
Old 09-21-2010
Using SMF to register & start a (Nagios) service

I'm trying to register & start a service using SMF on Solaris 10. It's nsca, part of the Nagios monitoring system. I've got nsca running fine as a detached process, and can manually create passive checks via send_nsca. But when I try to run nsca as a daemon, I need some advice.

The nsca install seemed to create /var/svc/manifest/network/nsca-tcp.xml and that looked ok, so I did a "svccfg import" of that file, and now I get this result:

Code:
#> svcs -l svc:/network/nsca/tcp:default
fmri         svc:/network/nsca/tcp:default
name         nsca
enabled      true
state        online
next_state   none
state_time   September 20, 2010  5:40:07 PM PDT
restarter    svc:/network/inetd:default
contract_id

This looks like I'm close. The service seems enabled. Looks to me like inetd should start up the daemon when a request comes in. But nothing happens when I use send_nsca (no logfile activity, no nsca process). Do I need a script in /lib/svc/method ?

Thanks for any advice....Lyle

Last edited by Scott; 09-21-2010 at 03:14 PM.. Reason: Please use code tags
 

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send_nsca(1)						      General Commands Manual						      send_nsca(1)

NAME
send_nsca - send passive check results to an NSCA daemon SYNOPSIS
send_nsca -H <host_address> [-p port] [-to to_sec] [-d delim] [ -c config_file] DESCRIPTION
send_nsca This utility is used to send passive check results to the NSCA daemon. Host and Service check data that is to be sent to the NSCA daemon is read from standard input. Input should be provided in the following format (tab-delimited unless overriden with -d command line argument, one entry per line): Service Checks <host> <svc_description> <return_code> <plugin_output> Host Checks: <host> <return_code> <plugin_output> OPTIONS
host_address The IP address of the host running the NSCA daemon port The port on which the daemon is running - default is 5667 to_sec Number of seconds before connection attempt times out. (default timeout is 10 seconds) delim Delimiter to use when parsing input (defaults to a tab) config_file Name of config file to use SEE ALSO
nsca(1) FILES
/etc/nsca.cfg nsca server configuration /etc/send_nsca.cfg send_nsca configuration AUTHOR
NSCA was written by Ethan Galstad <nagios@nagios.org>. This manpage was written by sean finney <seanius@debian.org> for Debian (but it may be freely used, modified, and redistributed by others). nsca December 2005 send_nsca(1)
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