check_imap and check_ssh

[JIHUA ZHONG]

Hi All:

I am new to nagios and plugin( all lateste version). but I get them 
installed and configured on  RedHat 7.2. 
I did add the following services in the file: 
"NAGIOS_HOME"/etc/services.cfg (NAGIOS_HOME="usr/local/nagios") 

services: check_ping, check_smtp, check_http, check_ftp, check_pop

and then I did verify the configuration and start up the nagios service.
everything is great.

the problem comes from that: I tried to add other services such as 
check_imap, chech_ssh in the services.cfg.

# imap service on unix5
define service{
#Name of service template to use
 use				generic-service		
 host_name			unix5
 service_description		IMAP
 is_volatile			0
 check_period			24x7
 max_check_attempts		3
 normal_check_interval		3
 retry_check_interval		1
 contact_groups			unix-admins
 notification_interval		120
 notification_period		24x7
 notification_options		w,u,c,r
 check_command			check_imap 
}

# ssh service on unix5
define service{
#Name of service template to use
 use				generic-service		
 host_name			unix5
 service_description		SSH
 is_volatile			0
 check_period			24x7
 max_check_attempts		3
 normal_check_interval		3
 retry_check_interval		1
 contact_groups			unix-admins
 notification_interval		120
 notification_period		24x7
 notification_options		w,u,c,r
 check_command			check_ssh 
}


when I try to verified this, I got following erro message:
# /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v nagios.cfg 
Nagios 1.0b6
Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
Last Modified: 09-15-2002
Reading configuration data...
Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
Checking services...
Error: Service check command 'check_imap' specified in service 'IMAP' for 
host 'law' not defined anywhere!
Error: Service check command 'check_ssh' specified in service 'SSH' for 
host 'law' not defined anywhere!
	Checked 26 services.
......................

However I did check the plugins, it is working at command line such as 

# cd /usr/local/nagios/libexec/
# ./check_imap unix5....
IMAP ok - 0 second response time
#./check_ssh unix5....
SSH ok - protocol version 2.0-2.0.13  - server version


That means plugins for check_IMAP and check_SSH are ok.  
It is kind of strange and why those service are not verified in the 
services.cfg but others(such as check_smtp, check_pop, etc) do. 

anyone has any idea. thanks.

Jihua Zhong
University of PENN, Law School.


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