Nagios CONFIG ERROR!

[Jim Perrin]

> > /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

He's running the rpm installed version of nagios, so his paths are
different. There's nothing in /usr/local for him.

> is it #nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg,
> the above command says
>
> [root at bdcworld nagios]# nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

>
> Error: Command 'check-host-alive' has already been defined
> Error: Could not register command (config file
> '/etc/nagios/minimal.cfg', starting on line 76)

The default configs are samples. It doesn't work or monitor anything
out of the box. Your minimal.cfg and bigger.cfg are most likely
conflicting with each other.

Couple things you can do here.
Step 1. Read the documentation. Seriously. We see this question on the
list at least twice a week. Nagios requires a slightly anal method of
thinking. EVERY little thing matters in the communication from nagios
machine to the watched system.
Step 2. Read the appropriate distro related documentation. For rpms
coming from rpmforge and dag, there are a couple decent documents to
turn to.

http://www.cognitive-dissonance.org/wiki/Configuring+Nagios
http://wiki.centos.org/Nagios_on_CentOS_4.x

Those should walk you through pretty much whatever you need to know to
get it working.

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