<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Thanks for the detailed explanation, Jim. <br><br>So far I'm not getting a successful rate on adding my Windows server in Nagios. <br>Followed detailed instructions in Nagios but still getting errors. <br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html</a></span><br><br>Is there an easy way to add the Windows servers in Nagios or other documentation that I can follow? <br>Please kindly advise, need expertise assistance. <br><br>Thank you! <br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size:
12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">From:</span></b> Jim Avery <jim@jimavery.me.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Dei Bertine <deibertine@yahoo.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, April 4, 2009 12:55:56 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios Error: Could not find any host matching/Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts<br></font><br>
> Error: Could not find any host matching 'win4503'<br><br>Nagios has found an object which refers to a host called win4503, but<br>can't find a host definition for it anywhere in your configuration<br>files.<br><br>> Error: Could not expand hostgroups and/or hosts specified in service (config<br>> file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/windows.cfg', starting on line 36)<br><br>This tells you where Nagios found this problem.<br><br>It looks like you have defined a service in your windows.cfg file, but<br>have not created a host definition for host "win4503'. Have a look<br>through the sample configuration files to see what a host definition<br>should look like, or see<br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host">http://nagi
os.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#host</a></span><br><br>An excellent way to get started with Nagios is to read the book<br><span>"Nagios" by Wolfgang
Barth. <a target="_blank" href="http://nostarch.com/nagios_2e.htm">http://nostarch.com/nagios_2e.htm</a></span><br><br>hth,<br><br>Jim<br></div></div></div><br>
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