Host not defined

[Breandan Dezendorf]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Nate Hausrath
<hausrath.mailing.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> This should be simple, but for some reason I can't get my nagios config to validate with a new server I want to monitor.  I am monitoring plenty of hosts, but this is the first one I've used the "check_http" command for.  I am following the examples found here:
>
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-publicservices.html
>
> I am using Nagios Core 3.2.0.
>
> The error message during validation is "Error: Host 'HGSec' specified in service 'HTTP' not defined anywhere!"
>
> And here is my simple config.
>
> define host {
>        use                     generic-host
>        host_name               HGSec
>        alias                   HGSec
>        address                 X.X.X.X
>        notification_period             24x7
>        notification_interval           30
>        notification_options            d,r
>        contact_groups                  admins
>        register                        0
> }

You never registered the host.  (register is set to '0')

> define service {
>        use                     generic-service
>        host_name               HGSec
>        service_description     HTTP
>        check_command           check_http
> }


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Breandan Dezendorf
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bwdezend at gmail.com

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