<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt">Hi all, I'm trying to change the default user name "nagios" and the group "nagios" to user admmon and group admmon. After doing so, restarted apache and nagios - got this error from the admin page: Error: Could not read host and service status information! The most common cause of this error message (especially for new users), is the fact that Nagios is not actually running. If Nagios is indeed not running, this is a normal error message. It simply indicates that the CGIs could not obtain the current status of hosts and services that are being monitored. If you've just installed things, make sure you read the documentation on starting Nagios. Some other things you should check in order to resolve this error include:Check the Nagios log file for messages relating to startup or status data errors. Always verify configuration options using the -v command-line option before starting or restarting Nagios! Make sure you've compiled the main program and the CGIs to use the same status data storage options (i.e. text file or database). If the main program is storing status data in a text file and the CGIs are trying to read status data from a database, you'll have problems.Make sure you read the documentation on installing, configuring and running Nagios thoroughly before continuing. If all else fails, try sending a message to one of the mailing lists. More information can be found at <a href="http://www.nagios.org/">http://www.nagios.org</a>. I made sure I changed all cfg's that read "nagios" as user and "nagios" as group to the new one admmon in all hosts and the nagios cfgs itself. Need expert advise please, I appreciate it! Thanks. DB </div> </body></html>