HOWTO Combine v1 hostextinfo/serviceextinfo into v2 hosts/service files?

[Andreas Ericsson]

Peter Farrell wrote:
> I am migrating two servers in our DMZ from Nagios v1 to Nagios v2.
> 
> As Nagios v2 doesn't use the '*extinfo' config files anymore, where do
> you actually put the
> extinfo? The docs say that it can be combined into the hosts and
> service cfg files, but I was wondering if anyone had an example they
> could post?
> 

The simplest way is to create new entries in nagios.cfg, saying

cfg_file=/usr/local/etc/nagios/hostextinfo.cfg
cfg_file=/usr/local/etc/nagios/serviceextinfo.cfg

and remove them from cgi.cfg. The above advice ofcourse assumes you have 
installed the extinfo files in /usr/local/etc.

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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