Hi all,
I have installed and started nagios successfully and also done the right things for the apache web server. But when i try to browse from the web interface by typing in 127.0.0.1/nagios, i get this error,
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’ve compiled the main program and the CGIs to use the same object data storage options (i.e. default text file or template-based file).
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.
This is happening only when i click anything under the Monitoring section. I can browse the Home and Documentation stuff but none of the statusmaps or details.
Please help, i am desperately trying for almost a week now.
Any help will be greately appreciated. I am also attaching a screenshot of the error.
Hi All,
i appreciate your quick response.
I have followed the 3 steps given in the error. But still no luck.
I have used the -v command and my nagios configs did not return an error or warnings. Infact i have tested the ‘ping’ with a test machine and i got alerts from nagios as expected. It seems to work fine.
But for some reason just the maps and graphs show error. Do i need to install any software to display the images properly. I am using Redhat 9.0
I read somewhere about gd library. Can anyone give me more information about it.
Thanks,
Redhat huh? check your selinux settings.
And yes, gd lib is required and you should have seen a warning when you compiled nagios, that you did not have the gd lib or it couldn’t find it.
I get the same error you have, when nagios is not even running.
So check again, and make sure it is up and running. Paste your proof please. Edited Fri May 20 2005, 11:29AM ]
Error: Cannot open main configuration file ‘/usr/local/etc/nagios.cfg’ for readi
ng!
***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files…
Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/etc/nagios.c
fg
That is the wrong path you used.
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.c
fg
is the correct path to the config file.
But anyway, we still have not seen a
ps -ef|grep nagios
output from you, so that we know nagios is in fact running.
I’ve never seen it look like that in ps. [nagios]
Try this please.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios status
Plus, when I start my nagios, it shows the process id #, which yours did not when you ran…
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios start
So I really don’t think it’s running.
Try this please also.
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios stop
/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios status
ps -ef|grep nagios and make sure that there is no nagios returned from ps.
Now start nagios like this.
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Well, that does tell me it’s running. Sorry to have gotten nowhere with you so far.
I’m outa here for today, so in the mean time, double check the documentation, and make sure you followed the steps completely. i.e. Did you authenticate properly, did you add that user to the contactgroups or the cgi.cfg file, things like that.
Sir,
i checked the documentation of nagios and it shows the exact same output of 'service nagios status ’ command that i am getting. I am also able to get alert messages if i restart my server, which is being monitored by nagios. The only problem is the webinterface.
