<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> still getting things in order, and having a problem with adding my 1st hostgroup. Side note, is there any kind of logging, or debugging to see where a failure occurs? Ex. I add a new config file with the following basic line in the main conf; cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg The file has the following; define hostgroup{ hostgroup_name webservers alias webservers contact_groups sysadmins members cs0 } The alias I just made up, the contact group sysadmin's exists and the member cs0 is one of my webservers. In the actual server.cfg file for that server I have a line; hostgroups webservers I don't know if that needs to be there as I am defining his as a member in the hostgroups.cfg file. Keeping things like this I start nagios and simply get; Starting nagios:CONFIG ERROR! Start aborted. Check your Nagios configuration. (which is why I am looking as the nagios.log says nothing helpful. Now if I comment out the hostgroup line in the main conf, things start, but I would like to use hostgroups for the obvious reasons. I am sure these and the new ones will be pretty basic as the needs are simple, and if I can debug where it stopping would be even easier, but again, this will be a1 or 2 sentence reply I bet! Tnx </body> </html>