Apache 403 Warning Error Reported in Nagios on a New Installation or Upgrade to OES 11 SP2

Environment

Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 (OES 11) Linux Support Pack 2

You might see an Apache 403 Forbidden Warning error reported in Nagios after a new installation or

upgrade to OES 11 SP2.

To resolve the issue, you can try the following:

1 Log in to the server as the root user, open a terminal console, then navigate to the

/etc/nagios/objects directory.

2 In the localhost.cfg file, modify the check_command parameters in the section,

“# Define a service to check HTTP on the local machine”:

At the command prompt, enter

define service {

use local-service ; Name of service template to use

host_name localhost

service_description HTTP

check_command check_http! -e 'HTTP/1.0 200','HTTP/1.1 200','HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden'

notifications_enabled 0

}