New User to nagios, probably a simple question

[Jonathan Jesse]

Thanks for the brief word of help, I know have nagios running and have
attached the errors I am getting. 
I setup my httpd.conf file according to the docs:


ScriptsAlias /nagios/cgi-bin/ /usr/local/nagios/sbin/ <Directory
"/usr/local/nagios/sbin/">
	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	Options ExecCGI
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>

and then later in the config file:

Alias /nagios/ /usr/local/nagios/share/
<Directory "/usr/local/nagios/share">
	Options None
	AllowOverride AuthConfig
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>

Any help?


Jonathan Jesse
Network Specialist
Founders Trust Bank
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Skip Montanaro [mailto:skip at pobox.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:13 AM
To: Jonathan Jesse
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] New User to nagios, probably a simple
question


    Jonathan> I have read manual and can't figure out what I am doing.
I
    Jonathan> start nagios with the command /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios
-v
    Jonathan> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios.cfg .  Where do I go about
    Jonathan> configuring this?  Did I miss something in the manual?

You edit the various .cfg files which will probably be in either
/usr/local/nagios/etc or in the same directory as your nagios.cfg file.
Choosing the first error mentioned in your post:

    Jonathan> Error: Dependent service specified in service dependency
for service
    Jonathan> 'Website #2' on host 'nt1' is not defined anywhere!

Note that "Website #2" is mentioned in dependencies.cfg-sample and "nt1"
is
mentioned in dependencies.cfg-sample, hostgroups.cfg-sample,
hosts.cfg-sample and services.cfg-sample.  Did you perhaps simply copy
the
.cfg-sample files to their .cfg counterparts?  The .cfg-sample files are
just that: samples.  They demonstrate the syntax of the command language
and
show how the different files related to one another, but they almost
certainly don't refer to actual hosts or services on your network.

I suggest you start simple.  copy hosts.cfg-sample to hosts.cfg and wipe
out
all the concrete host definitions (those without a "register 0" line)
except
the one for "nt1", then modify that one to match a machine actually on
your
network.  Zero out dependencies.cfg.  Modify hostgroups.cfg to have a
single
hostgroup which mentions the machine you defined in hosts.cfg.  Then
zero
out services.cfg and add a single ping service for the machine mentioned
in
hosts.cfg.

See if you can get that to work.  To start with, ignore warnings and
resolve
errors one-by-one.  (Once you get no errors it stops reporting warnings
on
the console, but they still show up in the log file.)  Once you've got
an
error-free -v run, start Nagios and build from there, one service or one
host at a time.  After each little change, try another -v run to see if
you've introduced new errors.  I run Nagios manually using the provided
daemon-init script and simply recall and execute

  sudo -u nagios ~nagios/bin/daemon-init reload

when I want to check changes to my .cfg files.

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