Error: Cannot open config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg'

[Subhendu Ghosh]

Filenames do not matter.

What you are missing is a host declaration with "R1N1V2"

-sg

On Mon, 16 May 2005 Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM wrote:

>
> I tried a test, but still no luck.
>
> I have this in nagios.cfg: (I added a cfg_file directive for host R1N1V2)
>
>   # grep ^cfg_ nagios.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostextinfo.cfg
>
>   cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/R1N1V2.cfg
>
>   cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts
>   cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services
>
>
> Pre-flight:
>
>   # ./nagios -v ../etc/nagios.cfg
>
>   Nagios 2.0b3
>   Copyright (c) 1999-2005 Ethan Galstad (www.nagios.org)
>   Last Modified: 04-03-2005
>   License: GPL
>
>   Reading configuration data...
>
>   Error: Could not find any host matching 'R1N1V2'
>   Error: Could not expand member hosts specified in hostgroup (config file
>   '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg', starting on line 50)
>
>
> I'm running on HP-UX 11.11, I'll try the same test on Solaris 8 & report
> results.
>
> Stephen S.
>
>

>                      James P"                 To:       <Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM>
>                      <James.P.Fuentes at b       cc:       <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>                      oeing.com>               Subject:  RE: [Nagios-users] Error: Cannot open config file
>                                                 '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg'
>                      05/16/2005 02:35
>                      PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
> My bad. I should have looked into that a little further. What if you put a
> "cfg_file" directive pointing to a hostname.cfg in the "cfg_dir" just to
> test that Nagios even knows where to go? I dunno, just thinking out loud
> with my keyboard...
> -Jim
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM [mailto:Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM]
> Sent: Mon 5/16/2005 11:23 AM
> To: EXT-Fuentes, James P
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Error: Cannot open config file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg'
>
>
>
>
> Jim,
>
> I would like a hostname.cfg file for each host that I am monitoring.
>
> My understanding is that I should be able to put hostname.cfg files into a
> directory that I've identified with the cfg_dir directive
> "cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts".
>
> Here is the example in nagios.cfg:
>
>   # You can also tell Nagios to process all config files (with a .cfg
>   # extension) in a particular directory by using the cfg_dir
>   # directive as shown below:
>
>   #cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/servers
>   #cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/printers
>   #cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/switches
>   #cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/routers
>
> For some reason the cfg_dir directive is not working.  The pre-flight
> doesn't pick up any hosts in the "/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts" directory.
>
> Stephen S.
>
>
>
>
>                      "EXT-Fuentes,
>
>                      James P"                 To:
> <Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM>, <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>                      <James.P.Fuentes at b       cc:
>
>                      oeing.com>               Subject:  RE: [Nagios-users]
> Error: Cannot open config file
>
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg'
>
>                      05/16/2005 01:51
>
>                      PM
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Do you have "cfg_file" directives for each hostname.file in your
> nagios.cfg? Also, I'm a little confused on why you'd point to
> "cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts". That should read
> cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg but it sounds like you don't want
> that in favor of several other hostname.cfgs:
>
> cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/host1.cfg
> cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/host2.cfg
>
> -Jim
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM [mailto:Steve_Schryburt at Mitel.COM]
> Sent: Mon 5/16/2005 10:12 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Error: Cannot open config file
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg'
>
>
>
> I'm trying to use several host definition files, one for each monitored
> system.  I'm not using hosts.cfg.
>
> When I try staring the nagios deamon I get an error that it can't find
> hosts.cfg:
>
> Nagios 2.0b3 starting... (PID=425)
> Error: Cannot open config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' for
> reading: No such file or directory
>
>
> Location of of host definition files (1 per host):
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts/<hostname>.cfg
>
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg:
> cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts
>
>
> I compiled with these options:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/nagios \
> --exec-prefix=/usr/local/nagios \
> --bindir=/bin \
> --sbindir=/sbin \
> --libexecdir=/libexec \
> --datadir=/share \
> --sysconfdir=/etc \
> --localstatedir=/var
>
>
> Thanks.
> Stephen S.
>
>
>
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