Trouble installing WEBMIN

[Slade Edmonds]

Andreas Ericsson wrote:

> Slade Edmonds wrote:
>
>> Rysstad - Tor Arne wrote:
>>
>>> Hei guys!
>>>
>>> I give up... :-)
>>>
>>> I am trying to install Nagios 1.2 and Nagmin 2.2.0 on Redhat 8.0.
>>>
>>> I have edited nagios.cfg and cgi.cfg, and have added some hosts, 
>>> groups etc.
>>> to webmin.
>>> When I try to verify the config, I get the errormessage below.. My
>>> HostGroup.cfg follow under the errormessage..
>>>
>>> Thank you all VERY MUCH for any help/hints that can get me over this 
>>> one..
>>> :-)
>>>
>>> Regards from Oslo, Norway,
>>> Tor Arne
>>>
>>> Errormessage:
>>>
>>> Verify Nagios Configuration
>>> Synchronizing logo directories... Creating dynamic Port Scan 
>>> services...
>>> Creating dynamic SNMP Interface services...
>>> Creating PING services for interfaces...
>>> Creating dynamic Service Group services...
>>> Creating Parent Dependencies...
>>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v -c 
>>> /usr/local/nagmin/nagios/verify.cfg Verification Failed!!
>>> Nagios 1.2
>>> Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
>>> Last Modified: 02-02-2004
>>> License: GPL
>>>
>>> Reading configuration data...
>>>
>>> Error: Could not add object property in file
>>> '/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/HostGroup.cfg' on line 9.
>>>
>>>
>>> ***> The name of the main configuration file looks suspicious...
>>>
>>>     Make sure you are specifying the name of the MAIN configuration 
>>> file on
>>>     the command line and not the name of the host configuration 
>>> file.  The
>>>     main configuration file is typically 
>>> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg'
>>>
>>> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
>>> files...
>>>
>>>     Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>>>     directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a 
>>> previous
>>>     version of Nagios, you should be aware that some 
>>> variables/definitions
>>>     may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to 
>>> read
>>>     the HTML documentation on the main and host config files, as 
>>> well as
>>> the
>>>     'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> HostGroup.cfg:
>>>
>>> ## NagMIN Configuration File 
>>> (/usr/local/nagmin/nagios/HostGroup.cfg) for
>>> HostGroup
>>> ## Generated Wed May 19 21:12:26 2004
>>> define hostgroup {
>>>    hostgroup_name    skarp_servere_win
>>>    alias    skarp_servere_win
>>>    contact_groups    admins
>>>    members    xp1nt03
>>> #   comment    win-serv }
>>>    rtt_day    all
>>>    rtt_week    all
>>>    rtt_month    all
>>>    rtt_year    all
>>>    sla_day    all
>>>    sla_week    all
>>>    sla_month    all
>>>    sla_year    all
>>> }
>>>
>>>  
>>>
>> If line 9 in this snip of your config is the same line 9 as the your 
>> actual config, then it has a problem with # comment win-serv ).  
>> Errors may follow after that too.  I've never seen any hostgroup 
>> config file like that. 
>
>
> Neither have I, but it seems that's some sort of internal format that 
> nagmin saves it in, considering the comments at the top of the file.
>
>> Try something like this:
>>
>> # 'some-hosts' host group definition
>> define hostgroup{
>>        hostgroup_name  some-hosts
>>        alias           Some Hosts Described
>>        contact_groups  admins
>>        members         username
>>        }
>>
> ... except that 'members' ofcourse should be followed by a bunch of 
> host_name's instead.
> Check out the template-based configuration syntax in the documentation 
> att www.nagios.org, fire up your favorite editor and start hacking 
> away at it.

Oops, yes.  Sorry about that.  You will want your hostnames there :)

Slade



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