I’ve installed Nagios version 3.0.6 via Yasts, installation is successful but when I tried to browsed to the sub menu under **http://nagios-server/nagios **I keep getting the error below (in red).
Whoops!
Error: Could not read object configuration data!
Here are some things you should check in order to resolve this error:
Verify configuration options using the -v command-line option to check for errors.
Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or status data errors.
Make sure you read the documentation on installing, configuring and running Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a message to one of the mailing lists. More information can be found at nagios.org.
I’ve also verify the configuration using -v command-line option, as shown below no error is found.
sles11sp2:/etc/nagios # nagios -v ./nagios.cfg
Nagios 3.0.6
Copyright © 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (nagios.org)
Last Modified: 12-01-2008
License: GPL
Reading configuration data…
Running pre-flight check on configuration data…
Checking services…
Checked 8 services.
Checking hosts…
Checked 1 hosts.
Checking host groups…
Checked 1 host groups.
Checking service groups…
Checked 0 service groups.
Checking contacts…
Checked 1 contacts.
Checking contact groups…
Checked 1 contact groups.
Checking service escalations…
Checked 0 service escalations.
Checking service dependencies…
Checked 0 service dependencies.
Checking host escalations…
Checked 0 host escalations.
Checking host dependencies…
Checked 0 host dependencies.
Checking commands…
Checked 24 commands.
Checking time periods…
Checked 5 time periods.
Checking for circular paths between hosts…
Checking for circular host and service dependencies…
Checking global event handlers…
Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands…
Checking misc settings…
Total Warnings: 0
Total Errors: 0
Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
The nagios.log file below do show error
sles11sp2:/etc/nagios # tail /var/log/nagios/nagios.log
[1342287481] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287491] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287501] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287511] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287521] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287531] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287541] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287551] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287561] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
[1342287571] Error: Unable to create temp file for writing status data!
I suspect that it is some file permission issue but I’m not sure what went wrong, did a ‘locate nagios’ which shows the location of all nagios files and directories
etc/apache2/conf.d/nagios.conf
/etc/cron.weekly/suse.de-nagios
/etc/init.d/nagios
/etc/nagios
/etc/nagios/cgi.cfg
/etc/nagios/command.cfg
/etc/nagios/htpasswd.users
/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
/etc/nagios/nrpe.cfg
/etc/nagios/nsca.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects
/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/contacts.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/localhost.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/nrpe_check_control.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/printer.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/switch.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/templates.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/timeperiods.cfg
/etc/nagios/objects/windows.cfg
/etc/nagios/resource.cfg
/etc/nagios/send_nsca.cfg
/etc/sysconfig/nagios
/usr/lib/nagios
/usr/lib/nagios/brokers
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/avail.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/cmd.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/config.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/extinfo.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/histogram.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/history.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/notifications.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/outages.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/showlog.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/status.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/statusmap.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/statuswml.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/statuswrl.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/summary.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/tac.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/traceroute.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/cgi/trends.cgi
/usr/lib/nagios/p1.pl
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_apt
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_breeze
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_by_ssh
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_clamd
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_cluster
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dhcp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dig
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk_smb
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dns
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_dummy
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_file_age
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_flexlm
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_fping
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ftp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_game
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_hpjd
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_http
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_icmp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ide_smart
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ifoperstatus
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ifstatus
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_imap
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ircd
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_jabber
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ldap
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ldaps
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_linux_raid.pl
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_load
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_log
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mailq
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mrtg
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mrtgtraf
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_mysql_query
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_netapp.pl
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nntp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nntps
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nt
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp_peer
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ntp_time
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nwstat
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_oracle
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_overcr
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_pgsql
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ping
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_pop
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_procs
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_real
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_rpc
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_sensors
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_simap
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_smtp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_snmp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_spop
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ssh
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ssmtp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_swap
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_tcp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_time
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_udp
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_ups
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_users
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_wave
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_xenvm
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/disable_active_service_checks
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/disable_notifications
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/distributed-monitoring
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/distributed-monitoring/obsessive_svc_handler
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/distributed-monitoring/submit_check_result_via_nsca
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/enable_active_service_checks
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/enable_notifications
/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/redundancy-scenario1