Getting hostextinfo to work

[Eric B. Lubow]

Hello all,

   I am trying to get the extended information parts of nagios to work.
However, I have run into a brick wall.  I am running nagios on EnGarde 1.2
and everything works except the beautification stuff.  Therefore I can
live if it doesn't work, but it would be nice to have.
   I attempted to add a hostextinfo definition to the [custom]
hostextinfo.cfg configuration file (which is defined in nagios.cfg).
Since this doesn't work for me, (and I am not sure why it doesn't since it
is in the documentation) I scrapped this idea and went with the template
style.
   However, I still get the unknown icon when it displays the statusmap.
I did the build with the '--with-template-extinfo' option to configure.  I
have all the necessary libraries installed (png, jpeg, etc).  The image
file is the correct place.  Nagios doesn't complain about the definitions
in cgi.cfg.  I even tried enabling xedtemplate_config_file (which I know
is only for database enabled nagios).  I am using the text based
configuartion of nagios.  I don't understand why it isn't working.
   Please let me know if you need more information to help me solve this
problem.  Thanks.

-- <cgi.cfg>
hostextinfo[mastermind]=;engarde.gif;;mastermind;;;;
hostextinfo[outpost]=;engarde.gif;engarde.gif;;outpost;100,50;3.5,2.0,5.5
<snip>
xedtemplate_config_file=/etc/nagios/hostextinfo.cfg

-- <engarde.gif>
[root at mastermind logos]# ls -l
-rw-r--r--   1 root     webd         1373 Dec 13 19:29 engarde.gif

-- <nagios config check error>
Error: Invalid object definition type 'hostextinfo' in file
'/etc/nagios/hostextinfo.cfg' on line 20.

***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
files...

-- <hostextinfo statement>
define hostextinfo{
       host_name       mastermind
       notes_url       mastermind.html
       icon_image      engarde.gif
       icon_image_alt  EnGarde 1.2
       2d_coords       100,250
       }


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Eric Lubow
Guardian Digital Inc.
http://www.guardiandigital.com/



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