Thanks James, that was the problem. But i think i may have had a different understanding of what check_mk does as after i logged into it, i was expecting to see the hosts created on my nagios, but its empty! How do i populate the check_mk? Cheers! <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 4:26 PM, James Osbourn <<a href="mailto:james.osbourn@citrix.com">james.osbourn@citrix.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-GB"><div>Have you added your web user to the Nagios group that you created? James <div style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;"><div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;"> From: Seun Ojedeji [mailto:<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 08 November 2011 14:39<div><div></div><div class="h5"> To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances</div></div></div> </div><div><div></div><div class="h5"> Hello James and all,<div> </div><div>I just installed check_mk and everything seem to go well with the installation, but when i try to login to the page via http i got the error msg bellow: </div><div> </div><div><table style="width: 1009.5pt;" width="1346" border="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr style="min-height: 23.25pt;"><td style="padding: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; min-height: 23.25pt;" valign="bottom"> Configuration Error</td><td style="padding: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt; min-height: 23.25pt;" valign="bottom"> nagiosadmin (None) 15:20 <a href="http://mathias-kettner.de/" target="_blank"><img src="" border="0"></a> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><hr style="width: 1024.5pt;" size="1" width="1366" align="center"></div><div style="border: 1.5pt solid rgb(238, 68, 0); padding: 12pt 24pt; margin: 24pt;"> Your web server cannot create the directory <tt>/var/lib/check_mk/web/nagiosadmin</tt>, or cannot set the group to <tt>nagios</tt> or cannot set the permissions to <tt>0770</tt>. Please make sure that: <ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 136, 68);">the base directory is writable by the web server.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% rgb(255, 136, 68);"> Both Nagios and the web server are in the group <tt>nagios</tt>.</li></ul> Reason: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/lib/check_mk/web/nagiosadmin'</div>Any idea of how i can fix this permission problem? </div><div> </div><div>Regards<div>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:58 AM, James Osbourn <<a href="mailto:james.osbourn@citrix.com" target="_blank">james.osbourn@citrix.com</a>> wrote: <div><div>I am not doing any analysis; I am just using the monitoring tools. Someone else would have to comment on this feature. James <div style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt;"> <div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; border-color: rgb(181, 196, 223) -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm;">From: Seun Ojedeji [mailto:<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 02 November 2011 10:43<div><div> To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances </div></div></div></div><div><div> Hello James, Thank you for providing this, i will work on it. Nevertheless, i will also appreciate if anyone could suggest what tools i could use to achieve my goals...i.e exporting data from nagios and analysing them on a central location to present graphical representation. Thanks once again James. Cheers<div>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:08 AM, James Osbourn <<a href="mailto:james.osbourn@citrix.com" target="_blank">james.osbourn@citrix.com</a>> wrote: <div><div>A brief overview is as follows, you will need to check each parts documentation for exact details for your environment. Install a server with Nagios, or use one of your existing servers. Install Check MK Multisite, there are some good instructions here <a href="http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite_setup.html" target="_blank">http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_multisite_setup.html</a> You then need to install MK Live status on each of your Nagios servers for the multisite server to connect to them. Update your Multisite config to know about the different sites and then have a play and see what you get. James <div style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue;"> <div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;">From: Seun Ojedeji [mailto:<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 02 November 2011 09:20 To: Nagios Users List Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances</div></div><div><div> Hello James, Thanks a lot for responding, your solution is a very good place to start; though it may not analyze but for knowledge sake could you share the proceeds you followed to achieve this? Regards<div>On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:00 AM, James Osbourn <<a href="mailto:james.osbourn@citrix.com" target="_blank">james.osbourn@citrix.com</a>> wrote: <div><div>I have setup a Multisite MK server to pool all of my site Nagios servers into a single view. I can see the status of all hosts/services from one location and acknowledge and schedule outages etc from this interface. Any graphing can be viewed, although this is a connection to the graph pages on the individual site servers. I am not sure if this will allow for analysis of the data as the specific state data is still stored on the site Nagios servers. James <div style="border-width: medium medium medium 1.5pt; border-style: none none none solid; padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 4pt; border-color: -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color blue;"> <div><div style="border-width: 1pt medium medium; border-style: solid none none; padding: 3pt 0cm 0cm; border-color: -moz-use-text-color;">From: Seun Ojedeji [mailto:<a href="mailto:seun.ojedeji@gmail.com" target="_blank">seun.ojedeji@gmail.com</a>] Sent: 02 November 2011 08:53 To: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> Subject: [Nagios-users] Analyse data from multiple nagios instances </div></div><div><div> Dear all, I have different nagios setup in multiple locations and they are independently working fine. However i need each of these nagios instances to send historical data of a particular host to a central server for analysis and graphical representations. Does anyone know a plugin or software i could use to achieve my goal? 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