Netsaint0.0.7-> Nagios2.0b4 (Contact group changes - The contact_groups directive has been moved from hostgroup definitions to host definitions.)

Declan McKay declan.mckay at eircom.net
Fri Nov 11 17:50:29 CET 2005


Hi Andrea,

Thank you very much for your quick reply. Two Questions:-

1. Which script should I use?

2  Should I use the Netsaint0.0.7 cfg files as my input to the script or should I use the files created by the "Nagios Config file 
Converter"?

Thanks again.

Declan.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andreas Ericsson" <ae at op5.se>
To: "Declan McKay" <declan.mckay at eircom.net>
Cc: <nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Netsaint0.0.7-> Nagios2.0b4 (Contact group changes - The contact_groups directive has been moved from 
hostgroup definitions to host definitions.)


> Declan McKay wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> on converting my Netsaint config files to the Nagios config file
>> format using the Nagios Config File Converter I noticed that the
>> pre-flight check is failing with an error for each Host defined in
>> the hosts file -  "No default contact group defined for host Blah..."
>>
>>
>> The documentation however does mention the following:- Contact group
>> changes - The contact_groups directive has been moved from hostgroup
>> definitions to host definitions. This was done in order to maintain
>> consistency with the way service contacts are specified. Make sure to
>> update your config files!
>>
>> Has anyone wrote a script which will output the changes correctly or
>> one that will read & write the contact_groups from old Netsaint
>> object file to new Nagios object file.
>>
>
> I have. You'll find them at http://oss.op5.se/nagios
> They require the cli version of php to be installed.
>
>> Appreciate if anyone has already wrote a script for such amendments -
>> if they could forward it on.
>>
>> Also -  has anyone an idea as to when Nagios-2 will be available as a
>> "Stable" release?
>>
>
> This has been asked quite a few times. 2.0b4 has been running with great stability on many systems for a long time, so "stable" is 
> just a matter of terminology.
>
> I believe FreeBSD 4.8 has a problem related to nagios forking and calling all sorts of functions in the child. Nagios being 
> threaded, this isn't, strictly speaking, allowed although not expressly disallowed either. It has been discussed at some length on 
> the FreeBSD list via a proxy. Search the archives if you're interested in the standards specification discussion (highly 
> technical). This can (mostly) be mitigated by disabling the embedded perl interpreter.
>
> No problems (that I know of) have been reported for other systems.
>
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