Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob - Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Problem

The Event Log of the SharePoint Server is reddish due to events occurring every 5 minutes:

Event Log Error:

Log Name:      Application

Source:        Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Foundation

Date:          2/18/2013 7:00:01 PM

Event ID:      6398

Task Category: Timer

Level:         Critical

Keywords:     

Description:

The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob (ID 8ea0b71c-08c4-4644-a0bc-c361c391bc45) threw an exception. More information is included below.

Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

Event Xml:

 

   

    6398

    14

    1

    12

    0

    0x4000000000000000

   

    355489

   

   

    Application

 

 

    Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob

    8ea0b71c-08c4-4644-a0bc-c361c391bc45

    Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

 

ULS Log:

3880        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      nasq  Medium    Entering monitored scope (Timer Job OfficeWebApplicationsCacheCreationJob)  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3881        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  Office Web Apps                 Office Viewing Architecture     cu85  Medium    Cache Creation Job Starting [JobId: 8ea0b71c-08c4-4644-a0bc-c361c391bc45]  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3882        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  Office Web Apps                 Office Viewing Architecture     cu86  Exception  Cache Creation Job encountered an exception [JobId: 8ea0b71c-08c4-4644-a0bc-c361c391bc45] System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.PreinitializeServer(SPRequest request)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.GetSPRequest()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.get_Request()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.get_Usage()     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.WacSharepointCacheOM.EnsureCacheSiteCollection(SPWebApplication webApp, Boolean elevateReturn, String ownerLogin, String ownerName, String ownerEmail)     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.WacSharepointCacheOM.EnsureCacheSiteCollection(SPWebApplication webApp)     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob.Execute(SPJo...  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3883        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04*  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  Office Web Apps                 Office Viewing Architecture     cu86  Exception  ...bState jobState)  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3884        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  Office Web Apps                 Unified Logging Service         c91s  Monitorable  Watson bucket parameters: Office Web Apps, ULSException14, 52a97675 "office web apps", 0e00178d "14.0.6029.0", 1f65804a "microsoft.sharepoint", 0e0017ee "14.0.6126.0", 5021a68d "wed aug 08 02:36:45 2012", 000057b1 "000057b1", 01ab21e4 "01ab21e4", 4a6d3421 "nullreferenceexception", 63753836 "cu86"  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3885        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Timer                           6398  Critical  The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob (ID 8ea0b71c-08c4-4644-a0bc-c361c391bc45) threw an exception. More information is included below.  Object reference not set to an instance of an object.  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3886        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Timer                           72ae  Unexpected  Exception stack trace:    at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.PreinitializeServer(SPRequest request)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.GetSPRequest()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.get_Request()     at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite.get_Usage()     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.WacSharepointCacheOM.EnsureCacheSiteCollection(SPWebApplication webApp, Boolean elevateReturn, String ownerLogin, String ownerName, String ownerEmail)     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.WacSharepointCacheOM.EnsureCacheSiteCollection(SPWebApplication webApp)     at Microsoft.Office.Web.Environment.Sharepoint.CacheCreationJob.Execute(SPJobState jobState)     at Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPTimerJobInvokeInternal.Invoke(SPJobDefinition jd, Guid targetInstanceId, Boolean isTimerSer...  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3887        02/18/2013 19:05:00.04*  OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Timer                           72ae  Unexpected  ...vice, Int32& result)  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3891        02/18/2013 19:05:00.05   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Monitoring                      b4ly  Medium    Leaving Monitored Scope (Timer Job OfficeWebApplicationsCacheCreationJob). Execution Time=14.8229  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

3892        02/18/2013 19:05:00.05   OWSTIMER.EXE (0x0AA0)                     0x2C2C  SharePoint Foundation           Performance                     nask  Monitorable  An SPRequest object was not disposed before the end of this thread.  To avoid wasting system resources, dispose of this object or its parent (such as an SPSite or SPWeb) as soon as you are done using it.  This object will now be disposed.  Allocation Id: {ADFDB253-11D8-4E24-806E-DF9C81239608}  To determine where this object was allocated, set Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPWebService.ContentService.CollectSPRequestAllocationCallStacks = true.  1ad52fe0-5766-4a71-8991-e4aa0cb9b356

The problem is the "Office Web Apps Cache Creation" SP Job tries to run every 5 minutes but fails for some reason. The Cleanup job also fails that is scheduled to run daily.

Solution

I tried without luck:

• modifying the Cache DB's settings with Set-SPOfficeWebAppsCache
• moving the Cache Db onto a different Content Database
• removing the Word Viewing Service Application
• stopping Excel Calculation Services, PowerPoint Service, Word Viewing Service
• disabling and re-enabling the Office Web Apps Site Collection Feature

Then, I mounted the Office Web Apps ISO, and started a repair. Rebooted the server and good to go! No more errors.

UPDATE: Don't forget to run the SharePoint 2010 Products Configuration Wizard after the installation if your search doesn't work.

How to Restore SharePoint MySites from Backup

The Story

On Friday I had a very bad surprise. All managers from the company were waked with this emails like:

Subject: The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion

The My Site of X Y is scheduled for deletion in 14 days. As their manager you are now the temporary owner of their site. This temporary ownership gives you access to the site to copy any business-related information you might need. To access the site use this URL: https://mysites.portal.domain.local/personal/xy

Pretty uncomfortable. The day before this I deleted the AD Sync Connection from SharePoint's User Profile Service Application and this caused it. The sync job ran and with no connections SP thought that all the users have been deleted.

Theoretically there should be 14 days until these profiles are deleted but for some reason I can't see past activity for the use users.

Long story short, I need to restore MySites from a backup.


The Process

The restoring process is simpler than thought. Later I found out that I had to restore the User Profile Service Application as well, I will detail that later.

Restoring MySites from Backup

1. Unmount the MySites Content Database 

Unmount the MySites content database by going to Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Content Databases.

Select the MySites Web Application on the right

Check Remove Content Database and click OK

2. Restore the Database in SQL Server Management Studio from backup


3. Add back the content database in Central Administration

Central Administration -> Application Management -> Manage Content Databases.

Select the Mysites Web Application on the right

Click on Add Content Database and fill out the form

I had another issue: The profiles' data was wiped. I am referring to the content seen under the marked tabs:

This data is stored in the User Profile Service Application's databases (Profile Database and/or Social Database, not sure). So these had to be restored as well.

Restoring the User Profile Service Application from Backup

The process is fairly simple as long as you have the SQL backups.


1. Stop the User Profile Service and User Profile Synchronization Service in Central Administration -> Manage Services on Server

2. Restore the Profile DB and Social DB from backup on the SQL Server

3. Start the User Profile Service and User Profile Synchronization Service in Central Admin.

Centreon Not Sending Notification Emails

Problem

After finally installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3, all was up and running, one issue I had left. No email notifications were sent when a host was down although everything seemed to be correctly configured from the GUI (contacts, notification period, etc).

Looking at  /var/log/maillog gave no hints.
But checking /usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log was helpful.

[1361058638] HOST NOTIFICATION: Supervisor;Centreon2;DOWN;host-notify-by-email;CRITICAL - 192.168.189.59: Host unreachable @ 192.168.189.36. rta nan, lost 100%
[1361058638] Warning: Attempting to execute the command "/usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** centreon Notification *****\n\nType:PROBLEM\nHost: Centreon2\nState: DOWN\nAddress: 192.168.189.59\nInfo: CRITICAL - 192.168.189.59: Host unreachable @ 192.168.189.36. rta nan, lost 100%\nDate/Time: 17-02-2013" |  -s "Host DOWN alert for Centreon2!" email@gmail.com" resulted in a return code of 127.  Make sure the script or binary you are trying to execute actually exists...

There is no command before the -s and the pipe. This results in email delivery failure.

Solution

This can be fixed from the GUI.

In Centreon go to Configuration -> Commands, select Notifications from the left.

Two commands need to be edited: host-notify-by-email and service-notify-by-email.

The string /bin/mail has to be inserted after the pipe. Then, export Nagios settings. Of course this fix implies that running /bin/mail from the command line results in successful email delivery.

Configuring SELinux for Centeron 2.4 on CentOS 6.3

• CentOS 6.3 x64
• Centreon 2.4

Problem

During Centreon installation when the tool starts up, the website is blank and nothing's happening.

I can observe the following error in /var/log/httpd/error_log:

[Sat Feb 16 18:07:58 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  Smarty error: unable to write to $compile_dir '/usr/local/centreon/GPL_LIB/SmartyCache/compile'. Be sure $compile_dir is writable by the web server user. in /usr/local/centreon/GPL_LIB/Smarty/libs/Smarty.class.php on line 1095, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/install/setup.php

Other errors can also be seen in the log but those are irrelevant:

[Sat Feb 16 18:29:29 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=61701&num=1&limit=30&poller=&template=&search=&type=&o=&search_type_service=1&search_type_host=1&search_service=
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  include_once(/etc/centreon/centreon.conf.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 41, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  include_once(): Failed opening '/etc/centreon/centreon.conf.php' for inclusion (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 41, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Notice:  Undefined variable: centreon_path in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Warning:  require_once(www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:29:31 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604
[Sat Feb 16 18:33:46 2013] [error] [client 192.168.189.63] PHP Fatal error:  require_once(): Failed opening required 'www/class/centreonXMLBGRequest.class.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in /usr/local/centreon/www/include/monitoring/status/TopCounter/xml/ndo/statusCounter.php on line 43, referer: http://192.168.189.36/centreon/main.php?p=604

Solution

SELinux blocks httpd to write in any folder other than /var/www/ and some exceptions have to be made.

Configuring SELinux for Centeron 2.4 on CentOS 6.3

yum -y install policycoreutils-python
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/centreon/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/etc/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /etc/centreon
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/var/spool(/.*)?"
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/share(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/nagios
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/php(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/php
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/pear(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/pear
#

You may want to check out my blog post on Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64.

Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step - Part 2

This is the continuation of Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step

Preparing MySQL

## Add innodb_file_per_table=1 under the [mysqld] section in my.cnf
vim /etc/my.cnf

## then
service mysqld start
chkconfig mysqld on
# 

Installing Centreon

#
service httpd start
groupadd centreon
useradd -g centreon centreon
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://download.centreon.com/index.php?id=4264

tar -zxf centreon-2.4.0.tar.gz
cd centreon-2.4.0
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/nagios/bin/"

# create an answer file with the following contents:
vim ./answer
#

And create the answer file with the following content:

## CentWeb: Web front Centreon for Nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_WWW=1
## CentStorage: Log and charts archiving.
PROCESS_CENTSTORAGE=1
## CentCore: Distributed Monitoring engine.
PROCESS_CENTCORE=1
## CentPlugins: Centreon Plugins for nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_PLUGINS=1
## CentTraps: Centreon Snmp traps process for nagios
PROCESS_CENTREON_SNMP_TRAPS=1

#####################################################################
## Begin: Default variables
#####################################################################
## Your default variables
## $BASE_DIR is the centreon source directory
LOG_DIR="$BASE_DIR/log"
LOG_FILE="$LOG_DIR/install_centreon.log"

## Don't change values above unless you perfectly understand
## what you are doing.
## Centreon temporary directory to work
TMP_DIR="/tmp/centreon-setup"
## default snmp config directory
SNMP_ETC="/etc/snmp/"
## a list of pear modules require by Centreon
PEAR_MODULES_LIST="pear.lst"
#####################################################################
## End: Default variables
##################################################################


#####################################################################
## Begin: Centreon preferences
#####################################################################
## Above variables are necessary to run a silent install
## Where you want to install Centreon (Centreon root directory)
INSTALL_DIR_CENTREON="/usr/local/centreon"
## Centreon log files directory
CENTREON_LOG="/usr/local/centreon/log"
## Centreon config files
CENTREON_ETC="/etc/centreon"
## Where is your Centreon binaries directory ?
CENTREON_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## Where is your Centreon data informations directory ?
CENTREON_DATADIR="/usr/local/centreon/data"
## Centreon generation config directory
##  filesGeneration and filesUpload
## Where is your Centreon generation_files directory ?
CENTREON_GENDIR="/usr/local/centreon"
## libraries temporary files directory
## Where is your Centreon variable library directory ?
CENTREON_VARLIB="/var/lib/centreon"
## Where is your CentPlugins Traps binary?
CENTPLUGINSTRAPS_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## Where is the RRD perl module installed [RRDs.pm]
## ATTENTION: ON x64 SYSTEMS THE PATH IS LIB64 INSTEAD OF LIB
##               vv
RRD_PERL="/usr/lib64/perl5"
## What is the Centreon group ?
CENTREON_GROUP="centreon"
## What is the Centreon user ?
CENTREON_USER="centreon"
## What is the Monitoring engine user ?
MONITORINGENGINE_USER="nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine group ?
MONITORINGENGINE_GROUP="nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine log directory ?
MONITORINGENGINE_LOG="/usr/local/nagios/var"
## Where is your monitoring plugins (libexec) directory ?
PLUGIN_DIR="/usr/local/nagios/libexec"
## Path to sudoers file (optional)
## Where is sudo configuration file
SUDO_FILE="/etc/sudoers"
## What is the Monitoring engine init.d script ?
MONITORINGENGINE_INIT_SCRIPT="/etc/init.d/nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine binary ?
MONITORINGENGINE_BINARY="/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios"
## What is the Monitoring engine configuration directory ?
MONITORINGENGINE_ETC="/usr/local/nagios/etc"
## Where is the configuration directory for broker module ?
BROKER_ETC="/usr/local/nagios/etc"
## Where is the init script for broker module daemon ?
BROKER_INIT_SCRIPT="/etc/init.d/ndo2db"
## Do you want me to configure your sudo ? (WARNING)
FORCE_SUDO_CONF=1

#####################################################################
## Begin: Apache preferences
#####################################################################
## Apache configuration directory (optional)
#DIR_APACHE="/etc/apache"
## Apache local specific configuration directory (optional)
## Do you want to update Centreon Apache sub configuration file ?
# DIR_APACHE_CONF="/etc/apache/conf.d"
## Apache configuration file. Only file name. (optional)
#APACHE_CONF="apache.conf"
## Apache user (optional)
WEB_USER="apache"
## Apache group (optional)
WEB_GROUP="apache"
## Force apache reload (optional): set APACHE_RELOAD to 1
## Do you want to reload your Apache ?
APACHE_RELOAD=1
#####################################################################
## End: Apache preferences
#####################################################################


## Do you want me to install/upgrade your PEAR modules
PEAR_AUTOINST=1
## Centreon run dir (all .pid, .run, .lock)
## Where is your Centreon Run Dir directory?
CENTREON_RUNDIR="/var/run/centreon"

## path to centstorage binary
## Where is your CentStorage binary directory
CENTSTORAGE_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin"
## CentStorage RRDs directory (where .rrd files go)
## Where is your CentStorage RRD directory
CENTSTORAGE_RRD="/var/lib/centreon"
## Do you want me to install CentStorage init script ?
CENTSTORAGE_INSTALL_INIT=1
## Do you want me to install CentStorage run level ?
CENTSTORAGE_INSTALL_RUNLVL=1


## path to centcore binary
CENTCORE_BINDIR="usr/local/centreon/bin"
## force install init script (install in init.d)
## Set to "1" to enable
## Do you want me to install CentCore init script ?
CENTCORE_INSTALL_INIT=1
## force install run level for init script (add all link on rcX.d)
## Set to "1" to enable
## Do you want me to install CentCore run level
CENTCORE_INSTALL_RUNLVL=1

## Some plugins require temporary datas to process output.
## These temp datas are store in the CENTPLUGINS_TMP path.
## Where is your CentPlugins lib directory
CENTPLUGINS_TMP="/var/lib/centreon/centplugins"

## path for snmptt installation
SNMPTT_BINDIR="/usr/local/centreon/bin/"
## What is the Broker user ? (optional)
BROKER_USER=$MONITORINGENGINE_USER

## Nagios user (optional)
NAGIOS_USER="nagios"
## Nagios group (optional)
NAGIOS_GROUP="nagios"
## Centreon Connector PATH
## Mail (optional)
BIN_MAIL="/bin/mail"
## 

Save the file and you're ready to install.

# install using the answer file
./install.sh -f ./answer

# After installation configure SELinux
yum -y install policycoreutils-python
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/centreon/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/etc/centreon(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /etc/centreon
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_rw_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/var/spool(/.*)?"
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/local/nagios/share(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/local/nagios/
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/php(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/php
semanage fcontext -a -t httpd_sys_content_t "/usr/share/pear(/.*)?"
restorecon -R /usr/share/pear

# Restart some services
service httpd restart
service ndo2db restart
service nagios restart
#

When the installation is finished, open http://server/centreon/ in the browser.

Next, Next

At the third page:

• Nagios directory: /usr/local/nagios/
• Nagiostats binary: /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagiostats
• Nagios image directory: /usr/local/nagios/share/images

At the forth page:

• Broker Module: ndoutils
• Ndomod binary (ndomod.o): /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o

At the fifth page enter the details of the admin user.

At the 6th page you have to specify the db details. By default the mysql root password is blank.

After finishing the setup there'll be something wrong with the db so you'll have to go back to the shell to grant permissions for the centreon db user.

#
mysql -e "grant all on centreon.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword';"
mysql -e "grant all on centreon_storage.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword'"
mysql -e "grant all on centreon_status.* to 'centreon'@localhost identified by 'CentreonDBPassword';"
#

Perl module Test-Simple-0.70 fails to build while compiling Nagios Plugins 1.4.16

• CentOS 6.3 x64
• Nagios-Plugins-1.4.16

Problem

While compiling nagios-plugins-1.4.16:

cd /usr/local/src
tar -xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make
make install

The following error shows up at the end of make install:

make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70'
make[3]: *** No rule to make target `install'.  Stop.
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70'
Can't run make install at ../tools/build_perl_modules line 85.
make[2]: *** [install-exec-local] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods'
make[1]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods'
make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1

Solution

Build the Test-Simple-0.70 package manually then make install the nagios-plugins again:

#inside the extracted nagios-plugins that is being built
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

# go back to nagios-plugins to make install
cd ../..
make install

You may want to check out my blog post on Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64.

make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'. Stop.

Problem

While compiling ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64 on CentOS 6.3: x64

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
perl Makefile.PL
make

I get the following error:

make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.  Stop.

Solution

The package perl-devel needs to be installed then make again:

yum -y install perl-devel

cd /usr/local/src
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
make
make install

Error compiling Nagios-Plugins-1.4.16 on CentOS 6.3

System

• Centos 6.3
• Nagios-Plugins-1.4.16

Problem

After running the follwing commands to compile nagions-plugins

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/nagiosplug/1.4.16/nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz/download
tar -xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make

Make crashes at the end with the following error:

Can't locate ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/local/lib64/perl5 /usr/local/share/perl5 /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib64/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 .) at Makefile.PL line 11.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 11.
Can't run perl Makefile.PL at ../tools/build_perl_modules line 68.
make[2]: *** [all-local] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16/perlmods'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/src/nagios-plugins-1.4.16'
make: *** [all] Error 2

Solution

The package ExtUtils-MakeMaker has to be installed first. Additionally, perl-devel is also needed to compile it. Then, reconfigure nagios-plugins.

# install perl-devel
yum -y install perl-devel

# install ExtUtils-MakeMaker
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

# now reconfigure nagios-plugins
cd /usr/local/src
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make
make install

You may want to check out my blog post on Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64.

Installing Centreon 2.4 on CentOS 6.3 x64 - Step by Step

Scope

In this no-brainer guide I am going to detail how to install Centreon on a brand new CentOS 6.3 x64 machine.

Components:

• CentOS 6.3 x64 (this)
• Nagios Core 3.4.4 (this)
• Nagios Plugins 1.4.16 (this)
• Centreon 2.4 (this)

Prerequisites

• CentOS is installed in text-mode using the CentOS-6.3-x86_64-LiveCD.iso image on a VirtualBox VM in my case

• Firewall ports 22 and 80 have been opened by the configuration tool

• Default services have been installed + sshd
• I consciously don't start the with yum update/upgrade so the expected result should be as much the same as possible

# install RPMForge
# for details visit this website: http://wiki.centos.org/AdditionalResources/Repositories/RPMForge
rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

uname -i
# for me 'x86_64' is the result so I'll choose the x86_64 version
wget -N http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.*.rpm


# Installing Apache2 + PHP
yum -y install httpd php php-mysql php-gd
usermod -U apache
chkconfig httpd on
# Set your timezone in php.ini to get rid of an ugly warinng in the future.
# find date.timezone at the [date] section, uncomment and set it. for me it's Europe/Bucharest
# date.timezone = Europe/Bucharest
# find yours here: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vc-sdk/visdk400pubs/ReferenceGuide/timezone.html
vim /etc/php.ini
#

# Add port 80 to Firewall
sudo iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT 
sudo service iptables save


# Installing GD modules
yum -y install gd fontconfig-devel libjpeg-devel libpng-devel gd-devel perl-GD

# Installing MySQL
yum -y install openssl-devel perl-DBD-MySQL mysql-server mysql-devel

# Installing PHP Dependencies
yum -y install php-ldap php-xml php-mbstring

# Installing DBI modules
yum -y install perl-DBI perl-DBD-MySQL

# Installing PERL modules
yum -y install perl-Config-IniFiles

# Installing RRDTools
yum -y install rrdtool perl-rrdtool

# Installing SNMP
yum -y install perl-Crypt-DES perl-Digest-SHA1 perl-Digest-HMAC net-snmp-utils
yum -y install perl-Socket6 perl-IO-Socket-INET6 net-snmp net-snmp-libs php-snmp dmidecode lm_sensors perl-Net-SNMP net-snmp-perl

# Misc
yum -y install fping cpp gcc gcc-c++ libstdc++ glib2-devel
# Make is not included on cent-os by default
yum -y install make

# PEAR
yum -y install php-pear
pear channel-update pear.php.net 
# for those who have a web proxy
# pear config-set http_proxy http://my_proxy.com:port 
pear upgrade-all


# add the line rocommunity public 127.0.0.1/32 to snmpd.conf
sed -i '$ a\rocommunity public 127.0.0.1/32' /etc/snmp/snmpd.conf
service snmpd start
chkconfig snmpd on
# enabling NTP couldn't hurt
chkconfig ntpd on 
ntpdate pool.ntp.org 
service ntpd start
# 

Installing Nagios

# Creating the nagios user
/usr/sbin/useradd -m nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -L nagios

# Creating a group to be able to use external commands
/usr/sbin/groupadd nagcmd
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd nagios
/usr/sbin/usermod -G nagios,nagcmd apache

# Download & Compile
cd /usr/local/src/
wget -N http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nagios/nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf nagios-3.4.4.tar.gz
cd nagios

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios --with-command-group=nagcmd --enable-nanosleep --enable-event-broker
make all
make install
make install-init
make install-commandmode
make install-config
chkconfig nagios on
service nagios start
#

Compiling Nagios Plugins

#
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagiosplug/files/nagiosplug/1.4.16/nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz/download

yum -y install fping openssl-devel openldap-devel postgresql-devel radiusclient-ng-devel samba-client libsmbclient

yum -y install perl-devel
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSCHWERN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
tar -xzf ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64.tar.gz
cd ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.64
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

cd /usr/local/src
tar -xzf nagios-plugins-1.4.16.tar.gz
cd nagios-plugins-1.4.16
./configure --with-nagios-user=nagios --with-nagios-group=nagios --with-openssl=/usr/bin/openssl --enable-perl-modules
make

# Test-Simple-0.70 fails to compile otherwise so have to do it manually first
cd ./perlmods/Test-Simple-0.70
perl Makefile.PL
make
make install

# go back to nagios-plugins to make install
cd ../..
make install
# 

Installing NDOutils

#
cd /usr/local/src
wget -N http://sourceforge.net/projects/nagios/files/ndoutils-1.x/ndoutils-1.5.2/ndoutils-1.5.2.tar.gz/download
tar -zxvf ndoutils-1.5.2.tar.gz
cd ndoutils-1.5.2

# get the patch and apply it; wget to same folder as ndoutils
wget -N http://svn.centreon.com/trunk/ndoutils-patch/ndoutils1.5.2_light.patch
yum -y install patch
patch -p1 -N < ndoutils1.5.2_light.patch

# continue installation
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios/ --enable-mysql --with-ndo2db-user=nagios --with-ndo2db-group=nagios
make


# After creating the binaries and libraries they have to be copied
cp -f ./src/ndomod-3x.o /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndomod.o
cp -f ./src/ndo2db-3x /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo2db
cp -f ./config/ndo2db.cfg-sample /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndo2db.cfg
cp -f ./config/ndomod.cfg-sample /usr/local/nagios/etc/ndomod.cfg
sudo chmod 774 /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo*
sudo chown nagios:nagios /usr/local/nagios/bin/ndo*

# make ndo2db daemon autorun
cp -f ./daemon-init /etc/init.d/ndo2db
chmod +x /etc/init.d/ndo2db
chkconfig ndo2db on
#

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