<!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 6.00.2900.3132" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>This is a brand new setup. I have two remote hosts defined in the hosts.cfg file and in the hostgroups.cfg file. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>When I run ./nagios -v nagios.cfg the messages returned only indicate that there are only the localhost being monitored. </FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ditto with the web screens. Do I need to install nrpe on the remote hosts (clients) before even ping will work?</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Thanks,</FONT></SPAN></DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV> <DIV><SPAN class=684595603-17082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>John</FONT></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>