Nagios module and not being able to write to nagios.cmd

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I keep getting the following error when I attempt to disable alerts for a particular host. Not sure what the heck is going on!

failed: [127.0.0.1 → nagios.xyz.net] => {“cmdfile”: “/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd”, “failed”: true}
msg: unable to write to nagios command file

Permissions to file (My user is in the “nagios” group):
prwxrwx—. 1 nagios nagios 0 Sep 4 15:47 nagios.cmd

pre_tasks:

  • name: disable nagios alerts for this host webserver service
    nagios: action=disable_alerts host=qcweb001 service=all cmdfile=/var/spool/nagios/cmd/nagios.cmd
    delegate_to: nagios.xyz.net
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In addition can someone clarify something.

Shouldn’t the “cmdfile” file be the .cmd file? I peeked at the Nagios module and there’s a list of files but they all point to the nagios.cfg file.

3

So the user you login to the nagios server needs to be in the nagios
group to write to the file.

4

Thought I included that in my original post but I didn’t. Yes the user I am logging in as is in the “nagios” group.

5

are you sure? try delegating a "shell: id" task