You've got to tell your service what hosts/hostgroups it has to check.
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service
You can do this by adding one of this to the service you would like to
monitor:
hostgroup_name compute-nodes
host_name star01
Rahul Nabar wrote:
> I just installed Nagios and I can monitor my localhost all right. I
> tried to start with one of my remote compute-nodes but this does not
> seem to work so well.
>
> I see my new group "compute-nodes" on the web interface but it does
> not list the remote machine I tried adding. I'm stumped as to what I
> am doing wrong!
>
> To my "nagios.cfg" I added this line :cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
>
> And made a new "/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg" like so:
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup_name compute-nodes
> alias compute-nodes
> members star01
> }
>
> define host{
> host_name star01
> alias star01
> address 11.0.0.1
> hostgroups compute-nodes
> check_command check-host-alive
> max_check_attempts 5
> check_period 24x7
> process_perf_data 0
> retain_nonstatus_information 0
> contact_groups admins
> notification_interval 30
> notification_period 24x7
> notification_options d,u,r
> }
>
>
> Shouldn't this be a basic template to get me started up? What else do
> I need to do? Any debug suggestions? A ping to 11.0.0.1 is successful.
>
>
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