What version of freebsd? and how old is your ports collection? Eric Hill <eric@spins.com> wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Hi All, I'm just getting started with Nagios on FreeBSD, and it's (or I'm) limping out of the gate. I've set up two hosts, one with ping and http and one with just ping. Nagios isn't seeing either of them and I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what is going on. Per the earlier message, /sbin/ping is indeed suid root. I haven't been able to install nagios-plugins from ports because it is broken somehow (both make and gmake break), but I have the basic checks installed in nagios/libexec so I should at least be able to set up basic hosts, right? Unfortunately, I get notifications like "check_ping: %s: Warning threshold must be integer or percentage!" or "CRITICAL - Plugin timed out after 10 seconds" (both for ping). check_http gives "Socket timeout after 10 seconds" though (presumably it's a port 80 check) this is our main corporate webser ver. Could it possibly be because I'm running Apache2 rather than 1.x? FreeBSD vs. Linux? I'm going to have to choose something else if I can't figure this out. My sense is that Nagios shouldn't be this finicky, but for me it is. -eric hosts.cfg --------- # Generic host definition template define host{ ; The name of this host template - referenced in other host definitions, used for template recursion/resolution name generic-host notifications_enabled 1 ; Host notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Host event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL HOST, JUST A TEMPLATE! } # 'nt1' host definition define host{ use generic-host ; Name of host template to use host_name comet alias Corp. File/Print Server address xx.xx.xx.xx check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 10 notification_interval 60 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r } # 'linux1' host definition define host{ use generic-host ; Name of host template to use host_name elguapo alias Linux Server #1 address xx.xx.xx.xx check_command check-host-alive max_check_attempts 10 notification_interval 60 notification_period 24x7 notification_options d,u,r } nagios.cfg ---------- log_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.log cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/checkcommands.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/misccommands.cfg # You can split other types of object definitions across several # config files if you wish (as done here), or keep them all in a # single config f ile. cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg #cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg #cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/escalations.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/services.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg resource_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg status_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.log nagios_user=nagios nagios_group=nagios check_external_commands=1 #command_check_interval=15s command_check_interval=-1 command_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/rw/nagios.cmd comment_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/comment.log downtime_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/downtime.log lock_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.lock temp_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/nagios.tmp # n = None - don't rotate the log # h = Hourly rotation (top of the hour) # d = Daily rotation (midnight every day) # w = Weekly rotation (midnight on Saturday evening) # m = Monthly rotation (midnight last day of month) log_archive_path=/usr/local/nagios/var/archives use_syslog=1 # If you don't want notifications to be logged, set this value to 0. # If notifications should be logged, set the value to 1. log_service_retries=1 log_host_retries=1 log_event_handlers=1 log_passive_service_checks=1 #global_host_event_handler=somecommand #global_service_event_handler=somecommand # n = None - don't use any delay between checks # d = Use a "dumb" delay of 1 second between checks # s = Use "smart" inter-check delay calculation # x.xx = Use an inter-check delay of x.xx seconds inter_check_delay_method=s # s = Use "smart" interleave factor calculation # x = Use an interleave factor of x, where x is a # number greater than or equal to 1. # being executed. sleep_time=1 service_check_timeout=60 host_check_timeout=30 event_handler_timeout=30 notification_timeout=30 ocsp_timeout=5 perfdata_timeout=5 retain_state_information=1 state_retention_file=/usr/local/nagios/var/status.sav retention_update_interval=60 use_retained_program_state=0 interval_length=60 use_agressive_host_checking=0 execute_service_checks=1 accept_passive_service_checks=1 enable_notifications=1 #host_perfdata_command=process-host-perfdata #service_perfdata_command=process-service-perfdata obsess_over_services=0 #ocsp_command=somecommand # If you have problems with service checks never getting # rescheduled, you might want to try enabling this option. # Values: 1 = enable checks, 0 = disable checks check_for_orphaned_services=1 check_service_freshness=1 freshness_check_interval=60 aggregate_status_updates=1 status_update_interval=15 enable_flap_detection=1 low_service_flap_threshold=5.0 high_service_flap_threshold=20.0 low_host_flap_threshold=5.0 high_host_flap_threshold=20.0 # us (MM-DD-YYYY HH:MM:SS) # euro (DD-MM-YYYY HH:MM:SS) # iso8601 (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS) # strict-iso8601 (YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS) date_format=us illegal_object_name_chars=`~!$%^&*|'"<>?,()= illegal_macro_output_chars=`~$&|'"<> admin_email=helpdesk@spins.com admin_pager=pagenagios # EOF (End of file) services.cfg ------------ # Generic service definition template define service{ ; The 'name' of this service template, referenced in other service definitions name generic-service active_checks_enabled 1 ; Active service checks are enabled passive_checks_enabled 1 ; Passive service checks are enabled/accepted parallelize_check 1 ; Active service checks should be parallelized (disabling this can lead to major per formance problems) obses s_over_service 1 ; We should obsess over this service (if necessary) check_freshness 0 ; Default is to NOT check service 'freshness' notifications_enabled 1 ; Service notifications are enabled event_handler_enabled 1 ; Service event handler is enabled flap_detection_enabled 1 ; Flap detection is enabled process_perf_data 1 ; Process performance data retain_status_information 1 ; Retain status information across program restarts retain_nonstatus_information 1 ; Retain non-status information across program restarts register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS DEFINITION - ITS NOT A REAL SERVICE, JUST A TEMPLATE! } # Service definition define service{ use generic-service ; Name of service template to use host_name comet,elguapo service_description PING is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 3 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 contact_groups nt-admins notification_inte rval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options c,r check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60% } # Service definition define service{ use generic-service ; Name of service template to use host_name comet service_description HTTP is_volatile 0 check_period 24x7 max_check_attempts 3 normal_check_interval 5 retry_check_interval 1 contact_groups nt-admins notification_interval 120 notification_period 24x7 notification_options w,u,c,r check_command check_http } (etc...most cfg is stock) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</BLOCKQUOTE> <hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!? <a href="http://rd.yahoo.com/mail/mailsig/*http://mailplus.yahoo.com">Yahoo! 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