help with cfg's

[Don {KMTS}.Net Support]

Thank you for all the replies, I have done just that.  Is there a better set
of instructions on how to actually configure Nagios other than the Nagios
site itself, I have gone through their "how to set the cfg's" faq, but I am
still gettin this error:
Error: Could not read host and service status information

Now it seems from the error this is a common problem with new installs...but
I am lost in how to adjust the cfg files etc...
Any help on links or advice is greatly appreciated.
Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Cook, Garry [mailto:GWCOOK at mactec.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 2:23 PM
To: Don {KMTS}.Net Support; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] help with cfg's


nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am new to this mailing group as I have just installed
> Nagios and I am
> having problems (if everything went fine I would be asking for help:).
> What I installed Nagios on was Fedora 1, I compiled the files
> instead of the
> rpm's.  I followed the instructions on the "How-to" page
> explicitly, my
> questions is this:
> Where should the cfg files that it installed as sample files
> be copied to,
> currently they are in my /usr/local/nagios/etc folder.  I
> copied each file
> name that had *.sample on the to just *.cfg and looked at each file
> individually...maybe  am getting ahead of myself here...if
> someone could
> share with me where exactly the files should go, or to simply
> leave them
> where they are.
> Thank you,
> Don

I thought that the sample configs were installed in
/usr/local/nagios/etc/samples by default. At least they were with Nagios
1.2. Either way, the correct location for the cfg files is the path that
you stated above, /usr/local/nagios/etc/, unless you install to a
non-default location. Either way, they should be in
<path_to>/nagios/etc/. Just make sure that you remove the -sample suffix
from the filenames.

Garry W. Cook, CCNA
Network Infrastructure Manager
MACTEC, Inc. - http://www.mactec.com/
303.308.6228 (Office) - 720.220.1862 (Mobile)
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