Newbie: I can't register hosts?

[Patrick Morris]

You also probably want "register 0" in your templates, rather then
"register 1", unless "routers" and "frontends" are the name of actual
hosts you intend to check.

On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Andy Shellam (Mailing Lists) wrote:

> The hostname is "host_name", not "name"
> 
> Andy.
> 
> nic gna wrote:
> > This is my host.cfg and I can't register the hosts.
> > I get this error:
> >  
> > Error: Host name, alias, or address is NULL
> > Error: Could not register host (config file '/etc/nagios/hosts.cfg', 
> > starting on line 1)
> > --------
> > define host{
> >         name                    routers
> >         use                     routers
> >         check_command           check-host-alive
> >         max_check_attempts      15
> >         notification_interval   30
> >         notification_period     24x7
> >         contact_groups          admins
> >         notification_options    d,r
> >         register                1
> >         }
> > define host{
> >         name                    frontends
> >         use                     frontends
> >         check_command           check-host-alive
> >         max_check_attempts      15
> >         notification_interval   30
> >         notification_period     24x7
> >         contact_groups          admins
> >         notification_options    d,r
> >         register                1
> >         }
> > define host{
> >         use                     frontends
> >         host_name          luke 
> >         alias                   luke
> >         address                 129.11.4.169
> >         }
> > define host{
> >         use                     computes
> >         host_name             leia
> >         alias                    leia
> >         address                 129.11.4.170
> >         }
> >
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