Nagios Startup Errors
Babak Pasdar
bpasdar at IGXGlobal.com
Fri Feb 14 12:54:55 CET 2003
OK Jim,
GREAT NEWS. I recompiled nagios and now everything works ;) Well at least I get no errors when running nagios -v.
Starnge since I am sure I used the same exact configure specs as teh first time.
Thanks for your help Jim.
Babak
Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> I think your config is suffering from recursion.
>
> On the one hand, you've given freelinuxcd.org the name of generic-host, and
> 2 lines later, you're telling Nagios to refer to the generic-host definition
> for the details.
>
> Not related to this issue, your check_command is incorrect. You're
> specifying the command here, when you should be referencing a token in
> checkcommands.cfg.
>
> If I may...? Try this instead:
>
> define host{
> name generic-host
> notifications_enabled 1
> event_handler_enabled 1
> flap_detection_enabled 1
> process_perf_data 1
> retain_status_information 1
> retain_nonstatus_information 1
> register 0
> }
>
> define host{
> use generic-host
> host_name freelinuxcd.org
> alias Free Linux CD Project Server
> address 131.161.247.80
> check_command check-host-alive
> max_check_attempts 10
> notification_interval 120
> notification_period 24x7
> notification_options d,u,r
> }
>
> Some notes:
>
> 1) You've got low_flap_threshold and high_flap_threshold set... I don't
> believe these directives exist in any host/service definition (but I'm sure
> someone will correct me if I'm wrong)... however, there are names similar to
> these in nagios.cfg, which is where they belong.
>
> 2) The address *must* be the IP address, if you're to use it at all.
> Extrapolating from your example, I would guess that you're relying on DNS to
> do the hostname resolution. In that case, remove the 'address' line
> altogether. (It also frees you up in case someone renumbers that hostname.
> But there are other issues to concern yourself with if you go that route...
> for now, just try the above trivial case just to get it working. You can
> fine tune later.)
>
> Anyway, try the above on for size. If it works, great. If you're surprised
> that it works, go back and read over the documentation to find out why.
>
> HTH.
>
> jc
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Babak Pasdar [mailto:bpasdar at IGXGlobal.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:02 PM
> > To: Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: RE: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Errors
> >
> >
> >
> > Jim,
> >
> > Thank you for yor response. All I can say is that I have as
> > simple of a config as one could have. I just implemented teh
> > bare minimum to get Nagios going in each of the appropriate files.
> >
> >
> > This is the entire content of my hosts.cfg
> >
> > define host {
> > host_name freelinuxcd.org
> > alias Free Linux CD Project Server
> > address www.freelinuxcd.org
> > name generic-host
> > register 1
> > use generic-host
> > max_check_attempts 10
> > notification_interval 120
> > notification_period 24x7
> > notification_options d,u,r
> > notifications_enabled 1
> > check_command check_ping!-w 200,20% -c
> > 300,30% -p 5 -t 1000
> > checks_enabled 0
> > event_handler_enabled 1
> > low_flap_threshold 1
> > high_flap_threshold 2
> > flap_detection_enabled 1
> > process_perf_data 1
> > retain_status_information 1
> > retain_nonstatus_information 1
> > }
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Babak
> >
> > Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> > > Looks like you have 'freelinuxcd.org' defined more than once.
> > >
> > > Do a 'grep -c freelinuxcd.org hosts.cfg'. Tell us what the
> > result of that
> > > is. If it's greater than 1, search hosts.cfg for other occurrences.
> > >
> > > If it's *not* in that file, do a 'grep -l freelinuxcd.org *' in your
> > > /usr/local/nagios/etc directory. Make sure you don't have the host
> > > definition more than once in *any* file.
> > >
> > > jc
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Babak Pasdar [mailto:bpasdar at IGXGlobal.com]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 12:13 PM
> > > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios Startup Errors
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > After spending over 8 hours trying find teh source of this
> > > > problem, I am
> > > > giving up and asking?
> > > >
> > > > I keep getting the following error on startup. I have
> > tried manually
> > > > configuring the files as well as using nagat. What am I
> > > > missing? I saw
> > > > in the ail archives somebody else had this exact issue,
> > however there
> > > > was no response. Numerous searches of google for this
> > same issue has
> > > > also been fruitless.
> > > >
> > > > Any help would be tremendously appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Babak
> > > >
> > > > Nagios 1.0
> > > > Copyright (c) 1999-2002 Ethan Galstad (nagios at nagios.org)
> > > > Last Modified: 11-24-2002
> > > > License: GPL
> > > >
> > > > Reading configuration data...
> > > >
> > > > Error: Host 'freelinuxcd.org' has already been defined
> > > >
> > > > Error: Could not register host (config file
> > > > '/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg', line 8)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ***> One or more problems was encountered while
> > processing the config
> > > > files...
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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