Am I missing some docs?

[doug.moore at ibill.com]

The pdf file is around 199 pages, printed it all out. But it doesn't  have a
section on "Here is how you add a device, do 1, 2, 3."

oh, it has lots of "pretty network diagrams", tons on  Authentication and
Authorz, freshness checks etc.

Just a simple scenario of how to add a snmp device would be nice. 

The damn thing keeps bitching about not having any members in "hostgroups".
I have "nagios" defined as  group member.

I am trying to start out with only 1 device, and can't even get nagios get
past the hostgroups errors for the past 3 hours.

thanks!



-----Original Message-----
From: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] [mailto:jcarro10 at sprintspectrum.com]
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 12:10 PM
To: 'doug.moore at ibill.com'; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Am I missing some docs?


Are you sure you've read ALL the docs?  There's quite a lot to read.

I realize it's a bit of a Catch-22, but if you have Apache set up properly,
you should be able to read the online docs that came with Nagios.  Failing
that, change to the /usr/local/nagios/share/docs directory (assuming you
installed Nagios under /usr/local) and type "lynx index.html" (or "links
index.html" if that's your cuppa).  Not as pretty as a GUI, but it's all
there.

When I add a new device, I end up editing quite a few files.  It goes
something like:

- hosts.cfg
- hostextinfo.cfg
- hostgroups.cfg
- services.cfg

This would be a typical add/change/delete.  If I were to add another person
to be notified, that's something else altogether.

Sure, perhaps editing more than one file is more tedious than editing one
monolithic file, but the definitions get to be a lot more streamlined.
Compare this to taking a new database and normalizing it.  You don't end up
with one huge table.  :^)

I remember the first time I tried to fire up Nagios with the default config
and the pre-flight check failed.  "Argh," I thought.  Yeah, learning to
config Nagios wasn't as simple as learning how to cat a file, but at some
point I got to 'critical mass' and had that 'Aha!' moment.  I'm sure you
will, too.  Just be patient.  :)

Food for thought.

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: doug.moore at ibill.com [mailto:doug.moore at ibill.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 10:11 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] Am I missing some docs?
> 
> 
> I have downloaded nagios and its plugin's.  Printed out the 
> manual, read it,
> got nagios installed. Now the fun part, various parts of my 
> install are
> failing the "pre-flight". I can get my "nagios" webpage to appear.
> 
> I don't know the dependecies between the services, hosts, 
> groups and other
> config files.  I don't see anywhere this is outlined. Is this 
> "relationship"
> of edit config X, then add to config Y defined somewhere? 
> 
> What order is the adding of devices done?
> 
> 1.hosts
> 2. services
> 3. dependencies
> 4. etc
> 
> yes, I have read the docs, and the faq, and did a search 
> using google for
> some insight... nothing so far has made the light bulb go "off" yet. 
> 
> 
> thanks
> 
> 
> 
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