Help with Monitoring Windows Machines

[Izz Abdullah]

Hi Rick,

In your windows.cfg file ensure you have the following:

define hostgroup{
 hostgroup_name   allhosts
 alias            All my Hosts #whatever you want (e.g. allhosts, All my Hosts, Windows Servers)
 members          #put the hostname of the server you are monitoring here
}

I've also found you need to put in the templates.cfg file the following (at least, or maybe most :) )

define host{
 name                  All my Hosts #whatever you want to identify (as above)
 use                   generic-host
 check_period          24x7
 check_interval        5
 retry_interval        1
 max_check_attempts    10
 check_command         check-host-alive
 notification_period   24x7
 notification_interval 30
 notification_options  d,r
 contact_groups        admins
 hostgroups            allhosts
 register              0
}

Most of the templates.cfg portion is particular to my setup, change as necessary.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Izz

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rick_knight at rlknight.com
> Sent: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:12:14 -0700
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Help with Monitoring Windows Machines
> 
> I've installed Nagios and have it working to monitor my linux localhost
> without problems, so I tried to add a Windows server to monitor. I
> followed the instructions in Nagios Documentation, Monitoring Windows
> Machines. After installing and starting NSClient++ on the Windows
> machine and making the changes to /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg I tried verifying the
> configuration with /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg. I get this error...
> 
> Nagios 3.0b3
> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 08-30-2007
> License: GPL
> 
> Reading configuration data...
> 
> Error: Could not find any hostgroup matching 'allhosts' (config file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg', starting on line 25)
> Error: Hostgroup has no members (config file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg', starting on line 47)
> 
> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
> files...
> 
>      Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>      directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a
> previous
>      version of Nagios, you should be aware that some
> variables/definitions
>      may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to
> read
>      the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
>      'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
> 
> I get this on 2 linux PCs configured similarly. I've re-read the
> instructions and I've got everything correct.
> 
> Why am I getting this error?
> 
> Thanks,
> Rick
> 
> 
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