Service Definition

[Patrick Morris]

On Thu, 23 Apr 2009, Dei Bertine wrote:

> Hi all,
> Hoping someone can give me guidance on this.
> I'm trying to set-up monitoring on our routers in which I already followed this doc:
> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-routers.html
> I'm doing snmp at this point and trying to define the service to my hosts then I get this error when verifying:
> Error: Service check command 'check_snmp' specified in service 'PING-NET' for host 'cisco-router' not defined anywhere!
> 
> Here's a sample of my cfg:
> define service{
>         use                             local-service           ; Inherit values from a template
>         host_name                       cisco-router             ; The name of the host the service is associated with
>         service_description             PING-NET             ; The service description
>         check_command                   check_snmp!-C public -o sysUpTime.0  ; The command used to monitor the service
>         normal_check_interval           5                       ; Check the service every 5 minutes under normal conditions
>         retry_check_interval            1                       ; Re-check the service every minute until its final/hard state is determined
>         }
> 
> Any ideas?
> Need expert advise please.
> Thank you!

Each check_command you use needs to also be defined in your
configuration somewhere:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#command

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