check_imap and check_ssh

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

Have you defined check_imap and check_ssh in checkcommands.cfg?

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: JIHUA ZHONG [mailto:jzhong at gradient.cis.upenn.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:33 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Cc: jzhong at gradient.cis.upenn.edu
> Subject: [Nagios-users] check_imap and check_ssh
> 
> 
> 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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