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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Ok we now seem to have it a little further. At your request by adding a dummy host seems to have sorted the issue.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Any thoughts as to why this may be?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Running pre-flight check on configuration data...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking services...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 1339 services.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking hosts...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Warning: Host 'test-host' has no services associated with it!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Error: Contact group 'nobody' specified in host 'test-host' is not defined anywhere!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 230 hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking host groups...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 31 host groups.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking service groups...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 2 service groups.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking contacts...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 6 contacts.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt">Checking contact groups...<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt"> Checked 1 contact groups.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Conor<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US">-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc@ena.com] <br>
Sent: 23 July 2009 17:33<br>
To: Nagios Users Mail-list<br>
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] nagios host limits</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">On Jul 23, 2009, at 11:04 AM, Conor Shovlin wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Hi,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> I installed a ubuntu server and installed nagios to test our
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> configuration on a new version of linux other than Fedora<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> We have the same problem in that we cannot add more than 226 hosts <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> and we get the below error<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Processing object config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> xxxx.cfg'...<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Error: Template 'linux-server' specified in host definition could
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> not be not found (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> xxxxhosts.cfg', starting on line 78)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Error processing object config files!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> We are running a single monitoring server. Does this mean we are
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> going to have to look at our overall architecture and look at
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> distributed monitoring or similar?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">No, you don't need to. A single install of nagios can monitor
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">thousands of hosts and services (providing the hardware resources are
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">there).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">> Does anyone have any experience of this type of issue?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">You've either encountered a never-before-seen bug or you have a
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">genuine error in your configuration files. Please post the template
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">definition and a host definition that references it. Please post an
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">'ls -l' of the config files and the results of 'egrep "^cfg_" /usr/
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg'.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Also try adding a dummy host in the same file that you have the
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">template defined --<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">define host{<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> use linux-server ; Name of host
<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">template to use<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> host_name test-host<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> alias test-host<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> address 1.1.1.1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> contact_groups nobody<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"> }<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">--<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Marc<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
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