Cannot add remote-linux server to my setup to be monitored

[Kenneth Holter]

Just a little side note: I don't think you need to maintain the hostgroup<->
host relationship in both the hostgroup and host definitions. Keep the
definition in one of the two to get a cleaner code. Someone please correct
me if I'm wrong. :)

On 12/22/08, Rahul Nabar <rpnabar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just installed Nagios and I can monitor my localhost all right. I
> tried to start with one of my remote compute-nodes but this does not
> seem to work so well.
>
> I see my new group "compute-nodes" on the web interface but it does
> not list the remote machine I tried adding. I'm stumped as to what I
> am doing wrong!
>
> To my "nagios.cfg" I added this line
> :cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
>
> And made a new "/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg" like so:
>
> define hostgroup{
>        hostgroup_name          compute-nodes
>        alias                   compute-nodes
>        members                 star01
>        }
>
> define host{
>        host_name                       star01
>        alias                           star01
>        address                         11.0.0.1
>        hostgroups                      compute-nodes
>        check_command                   check-host-alive
>        max_check_attempts              5
>        check_period                    24x7
>        process_perf_data               0
>        retain_nonstatus_information    0
>        contact_groups                  admins
>        notification_interval           30
>        notification_period             24x7
>        notification_options            d,u,r
>        }
>
>
> Shouldn't this be a basic template to get me started up? What else do
> I need to do? Any debug suggestions? A ping to 11.0.0.1 is successful.
>
> --
> Rahul
>
>
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