Setting up Thruk with Nagios on Centos 7: For some reason, the config file won't update the settings menu when I change it

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I’m setting up Thruk & Nagios monitoring using this tutorial:

My issue is that the whole point of using Thruk is that I can edit Nagios objects without manually modifying the config files and instead using a GUI.

However, this isn’t getting enabled no matter what I do:

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I checked the documentation which stated to add the section listed there into thruk_local.conf. I did so and restarted httpd & nagios services, but it did not enable the menu.

EDIT: I solved the issue immediately after posting this.

I had to add something to my config file that the documentation doesn’t mention. It went from this:

<Component Thruk::Backend>
    <peer>
        name    = host.domain
        type    = livestatus
        <options>
            peer          = localhost:6557
        </options>
    </peer>
</Component>
<Component Thruk::Plugin::ConfigTool>
  show_plugin_syntax_helper = 1
  thruk                     = /etc/thruk/thruk_local.conf
  cgi.cfg                   = /etc/thruk/cgi.cfg
  htpasswd                  = /etc/thruk/htpasswd
  show_summary_prompt       = 1
</Component>

To this:

<Component Thruk::Backend>
    <peer>
        name    = host.domain
        type    = livestatus
        <options>
            peer          = localhost:6557
        </options>
        <configtool>
          core_conf      = /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
          obj_check_cmd  = /sbin/nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
          obj_reload_cmd = /sbin/nagios reload
        </configtool>
    </peer>
</Component>
<Component Thruk::Plugin::ConfigTool>
  show_plugin_syntax_helper = 1
  thruk                     = /etc/thruk/thruk_local.conf
  cgi.cfg                   = /etc/thruk/cgi.cfg
  htpasswd                  = /etc/thruk/htpasswd
  show_summary_prompt       = 1
</Component>

And now the menu works correctly. Weird that they don’t mention that.

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If you arent set on thuk… I have a thread up here somewhere about centreon…

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