New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg

[Eric Chatham]

What files should I have under main/ and what files should be in the directory behind it?  Here is a tree example:

[root@ ~ etc]# tree /opt/nagios/etc/
/opt/nagios/etc/
|-- cgi.cfg
|-- cgi.cfg~
|-- htpasswd.users
|-- main
|   |-- commands.cfg
|   |-- contacts.cfg
|   |-- hostgroups.cfg
|   |-- hosts.cfg
|   |-- services.cfg
|   |-- templates.cfg
|   `-- timeperiods.cfg
|-- nagios.cfg
|-- nagios.cfg~
|-- nagios.tar.gz
|-- resource.cfg
`-- resource.cfg~

1 directory, 15 files
[root@ ~ etc]#

Eric Chatham
Broadvox MIS Department
(216) 373-4683
echatham at broadvox.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Chatham [mailto:echatham at broadvox.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 14:37
To: Marc Powell; Nagios Users
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg

Thank you.  Next time you're in the area...

I still can't find the problem.  I can't find the duplicate command. :/

Eric Chatham
Broadvox MIS Department
(216) 373-4683
echatham at broadvox.net


-----Original Message-----
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc at ena.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 17:04
To: Nagios Users
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] New to Nagios - Need help with nagios.cfg


On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Eric Chatham wrote:

> Is the cfg_dir location recursive?


Ok, I'll look that up for you. You owe me a local beer though.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/configmain.html

Object Configuration Directory

Format:                 cfg_dir=<directory_name>
Example:        cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/commands
                        cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services
                        cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts

This directive is used to specify a directory which contains object
configuration files that Nagios should use for monitoring. All files
in the directory with a .cfg extension are processed as object config
files. Additionally, Nagios will recursively process all config files
in subdirectories of the directory you specify here. You can seperate
your configuration files into different directories and specify
multiple cfg_dir= statements to have all config files in each
directory processed.

--
Marc


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