Nagios for Dummies

[Fernando Gomes Lima]

Hi all, thanks for all help! I could advance some steps. Here is what's
going on and what I did:

Mine it was
resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg

And that's correct (once I use the same of manual and template). But still
not working, then I take the nagios.cfg-template (created during Nagios
compiling), and I make a copy overwriting the older nagios.cfg file. Then
this problem stopped.

I took both files (old one I had renamed to nagios.cfg.old), and put on
software to compare lines, and this line it was the same!!!!

I do no, why it wasn't working, and probably will never discover!!! ;-), but
I'm glad that right now I'm the newbie Nagios user of community!!!

Once more thanks for all that help me! I'll still working hard to make it a
real good tool to monitoring (on lab first), to share this knowledge with my
friends and co-workers!

Best regards,
Fernando Gomes
SchlumbergerSema
Network & Infrastructure Solutions
Security Engineer
flima at slb.com

Trab: +55 21 3824 6954
Cel. : +55 21 9888 9046
(GMT: -03:00)



-----Original Message-----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Mike
McClure
Sent: quarta-feira, 28 de maio de 2003 11:08
To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios for Dummies


Fernando,

Please post the line from nagios.cfg where "resource.cfg" is specified.
Mine looks
like this:

resource_file=/var/www/nagios/etc/resource.cfg

Does yours look like that?  Is resource.cfg specified anywhere else, like as
a
configuration file?  I think that might be your problem.

- Mike

>
> 	Hi Pascal,
>
> Yes, the libexec directory exists and I set the permissions to 777 (I'm
> really desperate to discover why isn't working), and change the owner from
> root to Nagios.
>
> Is there anything else that I missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Fernando Gomes
> SchlumbergerSema
> Network & Infrastructure Solutions
> Security Engineer
> flima at slb.com
>
> Trab: +55 21 3824 6954
> Cel. : +55 21 9888 9046
> (GMT: -03:00)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Pascal
> Miquet
> Sent: terça-feira, 27 de maio de 2003 17:10
> To: flima at slb.com
> Cc: Nagios users
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Nagios for Dummies
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Mine is the same, and works fine for me.
> Are you sure that the $USER1$ directory exist and has right permissions
> ??
>
> Regards
> Pascal Miquet
>
> Le mar 27/05/2003 à 17:02, Fernando Gomes Lima a écrit :
>>
>>     Hi guys,
>>
>> I still receiving the error messages. Here is the message when i try to
>> start Nagios:
>>
>> Attached I'm sending the resource.cfg file and the output of
>> /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
>>
>> I appreciate to receive some help from you guys that work and has some
>> knowledge of Nagios instead others that use the list to sell services. I
>> work on security environment and always helped others (you can check on
>> phoneboy (list to Firewall-1 users)) in trouble situation.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> - Fernando the dummy without shame to learn and ask ;-)
>>
>>
>> Nagios 1.0
>>
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
>>
>> Last Modified: 11-24-2002
>>
>> License: GPL
>>
>> Reading configuration data...
>>
>> Error: Unexpected token or statement in file
>> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg' on line 24.
>>
>>
>>
>> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
>> files...
>>
>> Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>> directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
> version
>> of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions may have
> been
>> removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read the HTML
>> documentation on the main and host config files, as well as the 'Whats
> New'
>> section to find out what has changed.
>>
>> And on my resource.cfg (that has only one line uncommented (that's on
24th
>> line position)) has the following statement:
>>
>>
>
###########################################################################
>> #
>> # RESOURCE.CFG - Sample Resource File for Nagios 1.0
>> #
>> # You can define $USERx$ macros in this file, which can in turn be used
>> # in command definitions in your host config file(s). $USERx$ macros are
>> # useful for storing sensitive information such as usernames, passwords,
>> # etc. They are also handy for specifying the path to plugins and
>> # event handlers - if you decide to move the plugins or event handlers to
>> # a different directory in the future, you can just update one or two
>> # $USERx$ macros, instead of modifying a lot of command definitions.
>> #
>> # The CGIs will not attempt to read the contents of resource files, so
>> # you can set restrictive permissions (600 or 660) on them.
>> #
>> # Nagios supports up to 32 $USERx$ macros ($USER1$ through $USER32$)
>> #
>> # Resource files may also be used to store configuration directives for
>> # external data sources like MySQL...
>> #
>>
>
###########################################################################
>> # Sets $USER1$ to be the path to the plugins
>> $USER1$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec     <== Line 24!!!
>> # Sets $USER2$ to be the path to event handlers
>> #$USER2$=/usr/local/nagios/libexec/eventhandlers
>> # Store some usernames and passwords (hidden from the CGIs)
>> #$USER3$=someuser
>> #$USER4$=somepassword
>>
>>
>> Fernando Gomes
>> SchlumbergerSema
>> Network & Infrastructure Solutions
>> Security Engineer
>> flima at slb.com
>>
>> Trab: +55 21 3824 6954
>> Cel. : +55 21 9888 9046
>> (GMT: -03:00)
>>
>>
>> ----
>>
>
>>
>> Nagios 1.0
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
>> Last Modified: 11-24-2002
>> License: GPL
>>
>> Reading configuration data...
>>
>> Error: Unexpected token or statement in file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg' on line 24.
>>
>>
>> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
> files...
>>
>>      Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>>      directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a
previous
>>      version of Nagios, you should be aware that some
> variables/definitions
>>      may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to
read
>>      the HTML documentation on the main and host config files, as well as
> the
>>      'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
>>
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore.
> If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a
> relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore.
> Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
reporting
> any issue.
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
>
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore.
> If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a
> relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore.
> Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
reporting any
> issue.
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
>


--
Mike McClure, CCIE # 5125, CISSP # 30232
PNE Services, Inc. -  http://www.pneservices.com
mmcclure [at] pneservices [dot] com
mobile: 913-636-5590



-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore.
If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a
relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore.
Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting
any issue.
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null





-------------------------------------------------------
This SF.net email is sponsored by: ObjectStore.
If flattening out C++ or Java code to make your application fit in a
relational database is painful, don't do it! Check out ObjectStore.
Now part of Progress Software. http://www.objectstore.net/sourceforge
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null