Thanks for your input Joerg. I figured out that I forgot to restart Nagios after making the various configurations - my bad! <div class="gmail_quote">On 24 August 2010 12:01, Joerg Linge <<a href="mailto:pitchfork@ederdrom.de">pitchfork@ederdrom.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Am 24.08.10 09:32, schrieb Julius Kidubuka: > Hi list, Hi Julius, there are other support channels available for pnp4nagios then the nagios-users list. <a href="http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/about#support" target="_blank">http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/about#support</a> <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > I'm trying to setup and configure pnp4nagios [v0.6.6] on a currently working > Nagios Core [v3.2.0] system running on openSUSE 11.1 > > I installed pnp4nagios from source and also installed rrdtool using an rpm. > All was going well until I tried to verify the pnp configuration. Below are > the > specific errors; > > > *the-host:/usr/local/pnp4nagios/libexec # ./<a href="http://verify_pnp_config.pl" target="_blank">verify_pnp_config.pl</a> -m sync > > Check Nagios/Icinga/PNP integration, v0.1.21 > > [I] OS: Welcome to openSUSE 11.1 - Kernel (). > [I] Perl: 5.010000 > [I] Package Manager: /bin/rpm > [I] Package: "php5-5.2.6-49.11" > [I] Package: "dejavu-2.26-1.41" > [I] install_opts: -o nagios -g nagios > [I] PNP-version: 0.6.6 > [I] using Nagios basedir "/usr/local/nagios" > [I] using Nagios config "/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg" > [I] using Nagios binary "/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios" > [I] PNP mode: "sync" > [I] Nagios info: Nagios Core 3.2.0 > [A] verifying Nagios config > [A] processing "/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg" > [I] nagios_user=nagios > [I] nagios_group=nagios > [A] checking RRDtool (/usr/bin/rrdtool) > [I] RRDtool: RRDtool 1.2.26 > [I] RRDs perl module not installed > [A] processing "/usr/local/nagios/etc/resource.cfg" > [I] using "/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache" entries > [E] value "/usr/bin/printf "%b" > "$LASTSERVICECHECK$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t$SERVICEATTEMPT$\t$SERVICESTATETYPE$\t$SERVICEEXECUTIONTIME$\t$SERVICELATENCY$\t$SERVICEOUTPUT$\t$SERVICEPERFDATA$\n" >>> /usr/local/nagios/var/service-perfdata.out" for > "service_perfdata_command" is invalid > [H] <a href="http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/config#sync_mode" target="_blank">http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/config#sync_mode</a> > [E] value "/usr/bin/printf "%b" > "$LASTHOSTCHECK$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATE$\t$HOSTATTEMPT$\t$HOSTSTATETYPE$\t$HOSTEXECUTIONTIME$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTPERFDATA$\n" >>> /usr/local/nagios/var/host-perfdata.out" for "host_perfdata_command" is > invalid </div></div>This config is wrong while using synchronous mode. <div class="im"> <a href="http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/config" target="_blank">http://docs.pnp4nagios.org/pnp-0.6/config</a> </div>Please check nagios.cfg for service_perfdata_command and host_perfdata_command Joerg </blockquote></div>