Help with Monitoring Windows Machines

[Rick Knight]

Izz Abdullah wrote:
> Hi Rick,
>
> In your windows.cfg file ensure you have the following:
>
> define hostgroup{
>  hostgroup_name   allhosts
>  alias            All my Hosts #whatever you want (e.g. allhosts, All my Hosts, Windows Servers)
>  members          #put the hostname of the server you are monitoring here
> }
>
> I've also found you need to put in the templates.cfg file the following (at least, or maybe most :) )
>
> define host{
>  name                  All my Hosts #whatever you want to identify (as above)
>  use                   generic-host
>  check_period          24x7
>  check_interval        5
>  retry_interval        1
>  max_check_attempts    10
>  check_command         check-host-alive
>  notification_period   24x7
>  notification_interval 30
>  notification_options  d,r
>  contact_groups        admins
>  hostgroups            allhosts
>  register              0
> }
>
> Most of the templates.cfg portion is particular to my setup, change as necessary.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
> Izz
>
>   
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rick_knight at rlknight.com
>> Sent: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:12:14 -0700
>> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
>> Subject: [Nagios-users] Help with Monitoring Windows Machines
>>
>> I've installed Nagios and have it working to monitor my linux localhost
>> without problems, so I tried to add a Windows server to monitor. I
>> followed the instructions in Nagios Documentation, Monitoring Windows
>> Machines. After installing and starting NSClient++ on the Windows
>> machine and making the changes to /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and
>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg I tried verifying the
>> configuration with /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v
>> /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg. I get this error...
>>
>> Nagios 3.0b3
>> Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
>> Last Modified: 08-30-2007
>> License: GPL
>>
>> Reading configuration data...
>>
>> Error: Could not find any hostgroup matching 'allhosts' (config file
>> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg', starting on line 25)
>> Error: Hostgroup has no members (config file
>> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/windows.cfg', starting on line 47)
>>
>> ***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config
>> files...
>>
>>      Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
>>      directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a
>> previous
>>      version of Nagios, you should be aware that some
>> variables/definitions
>>      may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to
>> read
>>      the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
>>      'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.
>>
>> I get this on 2 linux PCs configured similarly. I've re-read the
>> instructions and I've got everything correct.
>>
>> Why am I getting this error?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
>>
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Thanks Izz & Andreas,

Your suggestions helped me find my problem. The default windows.cfg has 
a hostgroup windows_servers. That group does not have a members option. 
I added members and the member server name to hostgroup windows_servers 
and now things are working. Thanks to both of yoy.

Izz, I'm going to look at your template.cfg to see if there's anything 
that looks like I want.

Thanks again,
Rick

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