<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2802" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=006105513-26062007>That's what I've done. My understanding in Nagios is that a config file is a config file. I've never tried it, but I believe you could stuff your entire config (hosts, services, checkcommands, notification commands) into a single file. You'd be nuts given how incredibly complex Nagios configs can get, but you could. By the same token, you could break them out into as many individual files as you like as well as long as your nagios.cfg lists all the files it's supposed to read.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=006105513-26062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=006105513-26062007>I did as you indicated -- keep my hosts (windows or otherwise) in my hosts.cfg file. I tend to sort my config files by application rather than OS type so I put the service entries in files/directories with still other names.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=006105513-26062007></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=006105513-26062007>Mark</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR tabIndex=-1> <FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Jerad Riggin [mailto:jriggin@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:53 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Frost, Mark {PBG}<BR><B>Cc:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Nagios-users] Windows monitoring<BR></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV></DIV>Thanks for the info. So for example, it wants me to define new hosts in the windows.cfg. Is there a point to that? Can I just put service definitions in the windows.cfg and utilize the hosts I already have defined in hosts.cfg ?<BR><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 6/26/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Frost, Mark {PBG}</B> <<A href="mailto:mark.frost1@pepsi.com">mark.frost1@pepsi.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN>Jerad,</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN>I took this to mean that it's a sort of generic/example config file. You can always break out your configuration into additional files/directories as makes sense for your installation as long as you add new lines in the nagios.cfg file to tell it to read each new file and/or directory you create.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN>I found that a few things in that 3.0 doc for monitoring with NSClient++ that weren't correct so you will find yourself making some modifications to get things to work if you've completely copied entries from that doc page. </SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN>Mark</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left> <HR> <SPAN class=q><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net" target=_blank>nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net </A>[mailto:<A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net" target=_blank>nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net</A>] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Jerad Riggin <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, June 26, 2007 9:16 AM<BR><B>To:</B> <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net" target=_blank>nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</A> <BR><B>Subject:</B> [Nagios-users] Windows monitoring<BR></FONT><BR></SPAN></DIV><SPAN class=q> <DIV></DIV> <DIV>I'm going through this article: <A onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html" target=_blank>http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-windows.html </A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It is referring to a windows.cfg within nagios.cfg. I don't see any such commented out line in my nagios.cfg, and I can't even find a windows.cfg at all. Is the difference that I am running 2.9 and this is referring to 3.0?</DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>