Getting Started with Nagios

[Clint Dilks]

Sorry for the noise and thank you for the prompt.  I was silly enough that I
didn't restart the nagios service.


On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 2:52 PM, C. Bensend <benny at bennyvision.com> wrote:

>
> > I then restart the web server, expecting to see a new host inf1
> >
> > But the host count has not increased and I can't see any reference to the
> > host.  I also can not see the new host group I defined.
> >
> > So obviously I am missing something fundamental.
> >
> > Thanks for any incite you care to share :)
>
> "I then restart the web server"...  If you mean that literally, as
> in you restarted Apache, that won't change anything for Nagios.
>
> Apache only provides the web server for the UI, it has nothing to
> do with Nagios.  The Nagios daemon is the one you need to restart
> (or more accurately, you can send it a SIGHUP signal) to pick up
> on your configuration file changes.
>
> Now, if you *did* restart Nagios and your changes aren't appearing
> in the web interface, do the following:
>
> 1) Stop the Nagios daemon
> 2) Now, go stop the *other* Nagios daemon(s)
>
> It is a *very* common problem, especially when people are just
> starting out, to accidentally start more than one Nagios daemon.
> Changes are made, *one* of the Nagios daemons are restarted, while
> the other continues to happily run the old configuration (and
> show up in the web interface).
>
> Benny
>
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