newbie question

Lee Azzarello lee at dropio.com
Thu Feb 26 21:45:51 CET 2009


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 3:08 PM, White, Richard L <rlwhite at illinois.edu> wrote:
> List,
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>
> I just finished installing Nagios 2.10 on my RedHat Linux system.

Old version. Consider upgrading to version 3.

>
> I’m new at web stuff but after some digging was able to log into the
> application.
>
>
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> I have not changed any of the default cfg files except for the contacts one
> listed in the quickstart directions and pointing the authentication to the
> correct password file.
>
> It looks like I should be monitoring my localhost, but I do not see hosts or
> services displayed in the viewer.
>
> Do they only show up when they are bad?
>
>
>
> On most screens I get the message similar to this one:
>
>
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> “It appears as though you do not have permissions to view information for
> any of the hosts you requested…
>
> If you believe this is an error, check the HTTP server authentication
> requirements for access this CGI and check the authorization options in your
> CGI configuration file”
>
>
>
> Is this because the files it is looking for do not exist yet?
>
> Do I have a permissions problem?

Yes, that is most likely.

Start here:
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/config.html

Documentation in this arena for your current version is not very
explicit. Consider upgrading.

-lee

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