First time install, big fubar mess

[Dan Lang]

Andres L. Figari wrote:
> I would start here:
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg' -
> 
> Line 51 (Could not parse input
> 
> Are you using a sample config with no existent hosts and services?
> 

I started with sample configs, and changed them for my environment. 
Maybe I didn't explain it well enough before, but line 51 of 
'/usr/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg' is the first line of the config that 
is not commented.  For instance line 51 of 
/usr/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg is:

define command{
         command_name    check_tcp
         command_line    $USER1$/check_tcp -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p $ARG1$
         }

and line 50 of /usr/nagios/etc/miscommands.cfg is

define command{
         command_name    notify-by-email
         command_line    /usr/bin/printf "%b" "***** Nagios 
*****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: 
$SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: 
$SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $DATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$OUTPUT$" 
| /bin/mail -s "** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ alert - $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ 
is $SERVICESTATE$ **" $CONTACTEMAIL$
         }

A note that I forgot to mention last time.  I moved my checkcommands.cfg 
to checkcommands.cfg.bak and copied the example config to 
checkcommands.cfg.  running nagios -v gave the same error.

Thanks,

Dan Lang

> Regards,
>  
> Andres L. Figari
> Systems Administrator
> http://www.hostito.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Lang [mailto:dlang at sevenl.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 5:02 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] First time install, big fubar mess
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've installed a standard nagios setup for my employer, monitoring 
> several servers and services.  Initially, nagios seemed to be working, 
> though not exactly as expected, but now I seemed to have fubar'd
> everything.
> 
> I orginally compiled nagios to use mysql and without the --with-cgiurl 
> or --with-htmlurl flags.  I just wanted to get nagios working before 
> playing with web interface.  After getting nagios to work for the most 
> part, I recompiled with the appropriate flags for using the web 
> interface.  However, nagios can't seem to parse any of the config files
> now.
> 
> Running nagios with -v gives the following errors which seem to suggest 
> nagios is croaking on the first line of the config that is not
> commented.
> 
> Nagios 1.1
> Copyright (c) 1999-2003 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
> Last Modified: 06-02-2003
> License: GPL
> 
> Reading configuration data...
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg' -
> 
> Line 51 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg' - 
> Line 50 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg' -
> 
> Line 21 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg' - Line
> 
> 21 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg' - 
> Line 21 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg' - Line 21
> 
> (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/services.cfg' - Line
> 
> 21 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Error in object configuration file '/usr/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg' - 
> Line 21 (Could not parse input)
> 
> Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
> 
> Checking services...
> Error: There are no services defined!
>          Checked 0 services.
> Checking hosts...
> Error: There are no hosts defined!
>          Checked 0 hosts.
> Checking host groups...
> Error: There are no host groups defined!
>          Checked 0 host groups.
> Checking contacts...
> Error: There are no contacts defined!
>          Checked 0 contacts.
> Checking contact groups...
> Error: There are no contact groups defined!
> 
>          Checked 0 contact groups.
> Checking service escalations...
>          Checked 0 service escalations.
> Checking host group escalations...
>          Checked 0 host group escalations.
> Checking service dependencies...
>          Checked 0 service dependencies.
> Checking host escalations...
>          Checked 0 host escalations.
> Checking host dependencies...
>          Checked 0 host dependencies.
> Checking commands...
>          Checked 0 commands.
> Checking time periods...
>          Checked 0 time periods.
> Checking for circular paths between hosts...
> Checking for circular service execution dependencies...
> Checking global event handlers...
> Checking obsessive compulsive service processor command...
> Checking misc settings...
> 
> Total Warnings: 0
> Total Errors:   5
> 
> What would cause such a problem?  I have not seen such an error in the 
> documentation or through my scanning of the list archives.
> 
> Also, while I compiled nagios to use mysql, it doesn't seem to be 
> writing data to the mysql DB.  I have checked the mysql logs, and there 
> are no errors.  In fact, it doesn't look as if nagios is even trying to 
> connect to mysql at this time.  I set the appropriate variables in the 
> resources.cfg. Is there another config file I need to edit that maybe I 
> missed in the documentation?
> 
> Thanks for any help.  Regards
> 
> Dan Lang
> 
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