Windows monitoring

Jerad Riggin jriggin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 16:12:19 CEST 2007


Sounds good...  What is the default command definition for check_nt?

On 6/26/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com> wrote:
>
>  That's what I've done.  My understanding in Nagios is that a config file
> is a config file.  I've never tried it, but I believe you could stuff your
> entire config (hosts, services, checkcommands, notification commands) into a
> single file.  You'd be nuts given how incredibly complex Nagios configs can
> get, but you could.  By the same token, you could break them out into as
> many individual files as you like as well as long as your nagios.cfg lists
> all the files it's supposed to read.
>
> I did as you indicated -- keep my hosts (windows or otherwise) in my
> hosts.cfg file.  I tend to sort my config files by application rather than
> OS type so I put the service entries in files/directories with still other
> names.
>
> Mark
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* Jerad Riggin [mailto:jriggin at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:53 AM
> *To:* Frost, Mark {PBG}
> *Cc:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> *Subject:* Re: [Nagios-users] Windows monitoring
>
>
>  Thanks for the info.  So for example, it wants me to define new hosts in
> the windows.cfg.  Is there a point to that?  Can I just put service
> definitions in the windows.cfg and utilize the hosts I already have
> defined in hosts.cfg ?
>
> On 6/26/07, Frost, Mark {PBG} <mark.frost1 at pepsi.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Jerad,
> >
> > I took this to mean that it's a sort of generic/example config file.
> > You can always break out your configuration into additional
> > files/directories as makes sense for your installation as long as you add
> > new lines in the nagios.cfg file to tell it to read each new file and/or
> > directory you create.
> >
> > I found that a few things in that 3.0 doc for monitoring with NSClient++
> > that weren't correct so you will find yourself making some modifications to
> > get things to work if you've completely copied entries from that doc page.
> >
> > Mark
> >
> >  ------------------------------
> > *From:* nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:
> > nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] *On Behalf Of *Jerad Riggin
> > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:16 AM
> > *To:* nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > *Subject:* [Nagios-users] Windows monitoring
> >
> >  I'm going through this article: http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html
> >
> >
> > It is referring to a windows.cfg within nagios.cfg.  I don't see any
> > such commented out line in my nagios.cfg, and I can't even find a
> > windows.cfg at all.  Is the difference that I am running 2.9 and this is
> > referring to 3.0?
> >
> >
>
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