extended information

[Ron Huff]

Jason Byrns wrote:

> Paul.Fiero at ci.austin.tx.us wrote:
> [snip]
>
> > I am trying to get extended host and service information to display in
> > Nagios.  I am using Nagmin to do my configuration stuff and have 
> only come
> > to realize just now that Nagios doesn't utilize the hostextinfo or
> > serviceextinfo config files.  So I started doing some digging...even
> > experimenting with the cgi.cfg fie and I still can't get those 
> stupid icons
> > to show up.
>
>
> I have also been trying to set up the extended info within Nagios.  I 
> have also been using Nagmin recently.  It does look like the cgi.cfg 
> is where it will have to go, but I haven't made it work yet myself.
>
> I found some evidence in the list archives that you can put a one-line 
> reference to your hostextinfo.cfg file, from within your cgi.cfg file. 
> But I also saw others responding saying that didn't work either. 

I hesitate to respond, being new at the game, but since I can 
successfully use extended host info...
You DO need the 'one liner' in cgi.cfg:
        xedtemplate_config_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextdef.cfg
or, whatever you've called your hostextinfo.cfg file...it works
- Ron Huff/UCD nagios project

> I'm coming to the end of a complete reinstall, which I just haven't 
> had time to do lately.  I have another server, a freshly installed 
> linux (Fedora) and am going back through the steps of setting up 
> Nagios and then Nagmin.  I'll report back if I get any further than 
> before. (Before == Nagios and Nagmin working fine in a basic sense, 
> but some of the features not yet up and running.  Like extended info.  
> Or Nagmin's portal.  ...Or Nagmin's notification aggregator thing.)
>



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