hosts.cfg error

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Brian W. Wathen wrote:

> Ok, I run the following command:
> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagis.cfgc/nagios
>
> and I get an error message that says the following:
> Error: Could not add object property in file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' on line 41.
>
> line 41 is the contact_groups liine of the following host definition:
> Error: Could not add object property in file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' on line 41.
> # Titan host definition
> define host{
> 	use			generic-host		; Name of host template to use
>
> 	host_name		titan
> 	alias			Titan Server
> 	address			198.178.132.11
> 	check_command		check-host-alive
> 	contact_groups		sysadmins,studadmins
> 	max_check_attempts	20
> 	normal_check_interval	5
> 	notification_interval	60
> 	notification_period	24x7
> 	notification_options	d,u,r
> 	}
>
> What's wrong with the contact_groups? The contact groups are written
> correctly.
>

stud admins are not liked by the sys admins :)

sorry - but contact_groups belong in hostgroup definition in Nagios 1.x 
not host definition.
-- 

-sg


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