Zion Ahead wrote: > I finally got Nagios working and into the web panel. > > Now, how on earth do I ADD new services to monitor??? >
By editing your services.cfg file. You should have done something along the lines of "make install-config" after having installed the nagios core and cgi binaries. If you use a distro that ships nagios pre-packaged you should be able to find your nagios config in /etc/nagios. > The docs are so disgustingly confusing > http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3...cservices.html > <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-publicservices.html> > > Quote: > > > Before you can monitor a service, you first need to define a host > <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host> that > is associated with the service. You can place host definitions in any object > configuration file specified by a cfg_file > <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#cfg_file> directive > or placed in a directory specified by a cfg_dir > <http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html#cfg_dir> directive. > If you have already created a host definition, you can skip this step. > It's actually the services that are associated with hosts, but that's a minor nitpick. Each service in Nagios "belongs" to one or more hosts, in much the same way that only one web-server / connection is actually serving content to a client. Both services and hosts use command objects as definitions on how to run a particular check. Each check is performed by a very small and simple program, commonly known as a plugin. The command objects simply define where to find the plugin and what argument to pass to it. Usually, multiple command objects refer to the same plugin. So.. in order for you to create a service-check, you'll need a command object definition, a host object and a service object. You'll also need at least one timeperiod object (make install-config provides several that will work nicely). Examples of such objects can be found in the documentation, which I notice you've already located. > > > Quote: > > > The host definition can be placed in its own file or added to an already > exiting object configuration file. > > > > > > What? Where does the file go? What name? This is crazy. > "make install-config" or "rpm -ql nagios" should provide some hints. If you've already done the "make install-config" thing, your example config files should be in $prefix/etc, or $sysconfdir if you specified that. > > > Nagios doesn't even have a forum except that lame international one that is > inactive/dead. > True. It has this list (and a few others) instead. Some projects use web-forums, most use mailing lists. Webforums generally require more work to manage, so a properly archived mailing list is what most OSS projects use as it's basically maintenance-free once the list-server is set up. Personally I detest webforums with a passion as I need to actively check it to keep up with what's going on in <insert-project-of-choice>. I can't help but make the observation that you don't seem to like Nagios but still seem quite determined to install it. Usually such emotions and actions only occur when The Suits have shoved some decision down some poor technicians throat against their will. To ease your pain, I suggest you stick to using the latest stable nagios (2.9) or contact a support-company that help you get up and running. It's normally not very expensive and you will be able to show management a quick return of investment. The market-leading Nagios company in the US is IT Groundworks, which you'll find at http://www.groundworkopensource.com/ In Europe it's op5, which you'll find at http://www.op5.com (yes, it's where I work). For Australia, Asia and Africa I have no idea where to turn, but you should be able to find something close to home if you browse through the providers listed at http://www.nagios.org/support/commercial/ -- Andreas Ericsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
