Nagios 2.5

[Andy Shellam]

Hi Kaushal,

As John said, you've got 3 config files which all contain (some of the 
same) commands.  When I started out with Nagios I found it easier to 
start writing your own config files from scratch.

In /etc/nagios, I created another directory called "nagios_cfg."  In 
nagios_cfg, I created files named "services.cfg", "hosts.cfg", 
"commands.cfg", "contacts.cfg", "time.cfg" and defined all my own object 
definitions in the relevant files.

Then, my nagios.cfg file (/etc/nagios/nagios.cfg) simply lists

# OBJECT CONFIGURATION FILES
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/nagios_cfg

with *all* cfg_file directives commented out.

This way you avoid duplicates from the sample configuration data, and 
you know the layouts of the config files.  Plus if you later add a 
configuration file (extension .cfg) in the nagios_cfg directory, you 
don't need to do anything but HUP the Nagios daemon to use it.

You generally need to define:

- hosts (host groups optional but useful)
- services (service groups optional but useful)
- commands
- contacts
- time periods (at minimum create a 24*7 time-period)

It sounds difficult, but it isn't really - just look through the 
documentation at creating different objects, and you're done :)

Andy.
>>
> Hi Andy
>
> Below is the output of command which you asked for
>
> [root at e nagios]# grep cfg_file nagios.cfg
> # different config files by using multiple cfg_file statements here.
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/checkcommands.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/misccommands.cfg
> cfg_file=/etc/nagios/minimal.cfg
>
> Kaushal
>
> !DSPAM:37,44fd6139143294224513357!
>
>


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