Thanks Wolfgang - I already realised that, but didn't take it to the
logical conclusion. $locate windows.cfg shows me it's in
/usr/share/doc/icinga-common/examples/template-object
Good old Debian File system Hierarchy.
cheers
L.
On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Wolfgang <w...@gmx.net> wrote:
> The documentation is based on an installation from source having
> everything below /usr/local/icinga (default prefix). The packagers have put
> the files in several directories according to the file layout of the
> appropriate distribution.
> *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 29. August 2013 um 03:13 Uhr
> *Von:* "Lachlan Simpson" <lachlan.simp...@flightdata.com.au>
> *An:* icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net
> *Betreff:* [icinga-users] Documentation confusion
> Hola,
>
> I installed Icingia-web via packages ppa for Ubuntu Precise.
>
> I am working through the documentation, but it doesn't match what I'm
> seeing on my server. Any help/explanation would be appreciated.
>
> Two examples:
>
> 1. Because I'm running icinga-web I presume I'm using ido2db. So I read
> this page:
> http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/quickstart-idoutils.html
>
> Which claims that :
>
>
> *What You'll End Up With*
>
> If you follow these instructions, here's what you'll end up with:
>
> -
>
> Icinga and the plugins will be installed underneath /usr/local/icinga
> -
>
> Icinga will be configured to monitor a few aspects of your local
> system (CPU load, disk usage, etc.)
> -
>
> The Icinga classic web interface will be accessible at
> http://localhost/icinga/ or http://yourdomain.com/icinga
> -
>
> A database which is filled by Icinga using IDOUtils
>
>
>
> I have Icinga-web running, but there is no local system monitoring
> happening. I read thoroughly through the page, but I don't see any conf
> that resembles an initial set up that might monitor the localhost.
>
> 2. Thinking that a minor oversight, I move onto monitoring. On this page
> http://docs.icinga.org/latest/en/monitoring-windows.html
>
> I am told to edit
>
> #> vi /usr/local/icinga/etc/icinga.cfg
>
> which on my machine is /etc/icinga/icinga.cfg (because of package install
> rather than self compiled install)
>
> and uncomment
>
>
> #cfg_file=/usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/windows.cfg
>
> Which isn't in the cfg file.
>
> I look, and sure enough, there isn't even a windows.cfg file anyway (so
> uncommenting wouldn't have helped, and nor would adding the line in).
>
> I note that the docs say they are the latest, it looks like sphinx style
> docs, so maybe they are coming from the repo.
>
> So I replace latest with 1.9:
>
> http://docs.icinga.org/1.9/en/monitoring-windows.html
>
> But they say the same thing.
>
> Now I'm just confused.
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
> cheers
> L.
>
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> IT Manager
>
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>
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