RE: [Nagios-db-devel] Error loading module

[Ben <be...@si...>]

Sorry to hear you couldn't get the postgres one to work. You wouldn't by 
chance remember the error you were getting?

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Michael Henry wrote:

> 
> I was eventually able to compile a module which loaded into Nagios and
> initialised correctly, but it complained that it wasn't able to clear
> the configuration. Try as I might, I just couldn't get it to work.
> 
> I downloaded and installed MySQL and tried the MySQL NEB module.
> I had to add zlib to the list of libraries during compilation but after
> that it worked with no problems.
> 
> Thanks to Ben and Thibault for your help, and to Matthew Kent for
> writing
> the MySQL module.
> 
> 	Michael
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ben [mailto:be...@si...] 
> > Sent: Saturday, 7 May 2005 1:15 AM
> > To: Michael Henry
> > Cc: nag...@li...
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-db-devel] Error loading module
> > 
> > I do want to make a new release. However, I was hoping I 
> > could get some documentation into it...... unfortunately I've 
> > just been too busy to write it.
> > 
> > On May 5, 2005, at 4:57 PM, Michael Henry wrote:
> > 
> > > I modified the makefile with the correct locations of the postgres 
> > > libraries and Nagios headers for my system:
> > >
> > > all:
> > >         gcc -Wall -g -O2 -o inserter.o inserter.c -shared -I/usr/ 
> > > local/src/nagios-2.0b3/include -I/usr/local/pgsql/include /usr/lib/ 
> > > libpq.a
> > >
> > > and did "make all". In hindsight the pgsql include directory did 
> > > nothing as that directory doesn't exist but the postgres 
> > header is in 
> > > /usr/include (rpm install of postgres) so it all worked out in the 
> > > end. I copied the resulting inserter.o to my nagios installation.
> > >
> > > I am using the tarball from sourceforge; I'm not a 
> > developer and don't 
> > > have CVS set up.
> > >
> > > Is there any chance that you could do a new release? Being able to 
> > > configure the module would be a really nice feature to have...  :)
> > >
> > > Also if you could add a paragraph to README about how to 
> > add the NEB 
> > > module to nagios (ie use a "broker_module" directive in
> > > nagios.cfg) this would be appreciated. As with all things 
> > it's obvious 
> > > in hindsight but I did spend some time yesterday wondering 
> > WTF I was 
> > > supposed to do with inserter.o.
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >     Michael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > From: Ben [mailto:be...@si...]
> > > Sent: Fri 6/05/2005 9:37 AM
> > > To: Michael Henry
> > > Cc: nag...@li...
> > > Subject: Re: [Nagios-db-devel] Error loading module
> > >
> > > How did you compile the module? Somebody else had a similar 
> > issue, but 
> > > they had ommited some libraries.
> > >
> > > If you pull from CVS, you can set the connection params in 
> > your nagios 
> > > config file. If you pull the most recent tarball (0.91 I 
> > believe) then 
> > > you have to modify inserter.c to change your connection settings.
> > >
> > > On Thu, 5 May 2005, Michael Henry wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >     I get the following error in my nagios.log when I configure
> > > Nagios to use the provided postgres module:
> > > >
> > > > [1115279003] Error: Could not load module '/usr/local/nagios/neb/
> > > inserter.o' -> /usr/local/nagios/neb/inserter.o: undefined symbol:  
> > > BIO_new_mem_buf
> > > >
> > > > Also: How do I configure the module to connect to my dat