Services not being associated with hosts

[Ryan Bowlby]

>
>From: Bruce Thayre <bruce at mipscomputation.com>
>To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:41:24 PM
>Subject: [Nagios-users] Services not being associated with hosts
>
>>Hello, 
>I've been trying to debug this issue for some time but i'm stuck and have not found a solution.  Nagios -v nagios.cfg has no complaints, just warns me that services are not associated with hosts:
>
>>Nagios 3.0.6
>Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
>Last Modified: 12-01-2008
>License: GPL
>
>Reading configuration data...
>
>Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
>
>Checking services...
>        Checked 8 services.
>Checking hosts...
>Warning: Host 'ipdream' has no services associated with it!
>Warning: Host 'rails_playground' has no services associated with it!
>>        Checked 3 hosts.
>Checking host groups...
>        Checked 1 host groups.
>Checking service groups...
>        Checked 0 service groups.
>Checking contacts...
>        Checked 1 contacts.
>Checking contact groups...
>>        Checked 1 contact groups.
>Checking service escalations...
>        Checked 0 service escalations.
>Checking service dependencies...
>        Checked 0 service dependencies.
>Checking host escalations...
>>        Checked 0 host escalations.
>Checking host dependencies...
>        Checked 0 host dependencies.
>Checking commands...
>        Checked 25 commands.
>Checking time periods...
>        Checked 5 time periods.
>>Checking for circular paths between hosts...
>Checking for circular host and service dependencies...
>Checking global event handlers...
>Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands...
>Checking misc settings...
>
>Total Warnings: 2
>Total Errors:   0
>
>Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
>
>
>My hosts.cfg, services.cfg, and commands.cfg have been stripped down so nothing else would cause these issues and look like:
>
>#### RELEVANT PARTS OF COMMANDS.CFG ###
>
>define command{
>        command_name    check-site
>    command_line    $USER1$/check_ping -H $ARG1 -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
>    }
>
>##### HOSTS.CFG######
>
>define host{
>        use                                        generic-host
>        host_name                             rails_playground
>        alias                                      rails
>        address                                 <ip_addr_of_host>
>>        contacts                                nagiosadmin
>        contact_groups                      admins
>}
>
>define host{
>        use                                       generic-host
>        host_name                             ipdream
>>        alias                                      rails
>        address                                 <ip_addr_of_host>
>    contacts                                    nagiosadmin
>        contact_groups                      admins
>>}
>
>
>#### SERVICES.CFG #####
>
>
>define service{
>        use                                             generic-service
>        display_name                    ipdream
>        host_name                               ipdream
>>        check_command                   check-host-alive
>        contacts                                nagiosadmins
>}
>
>define service{
>        use                                             generic-service 
>>        display_name                    rails_playground
>        host_name                               rails_playground
>        check_command                   check-host-alive
>        contacts                                nagiosadmins
>>}
> 
>## ALL REMAINING SERVICES LOOK LIKE FOLLOWING ENTRY WITH DIFFERENT URLS ####
>define service{
>        use                                             generic-service
>        display_name                    check_helpdesk
>>        host_name                               rails_playground
>        check_command                   check-site!helpdesk_URL
>        contacts                                nagiosadmins
>}
>
>I don't see how there are zero services attached to my host, the services are registered properly, just never associated with hosts.  Any help would be greatly appreciated
>
>thanks
>
>
>

It's been a long time since I manually created entries but if I remember correctly service_description is a required field. Try adding one to one of the service blocks and nagios -v again.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service


      

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