Nagios and NConf on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

I pretty much have everything working.. except for ..

when I add

cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/global
cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/Default_collector


nagios borks and won’t startup..

any ideas?

Nevermind.. sorted it.. I had left some of the other directives in that file uncommented…

thanks…

Not sure where I have gone wrong but on the /etc/init.d/nagios3 reload I get a failure

***> One or more problems was encountered while running the pre-flight check…

Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
‘Whats New’ section to find out what has changed.

* errors in config!
[fail]

ANy help would me appriaciated, PS I had to create the global and Default_collector manually

Error accessing or executing Nagios / Icinga binary ‘usr/sbin/nagios3′.
Cannot run the mandatory syntax check.

This error I got at the end, after trying to add a host, hope someone can help me?

Error accessing or executing Nagios / Icinga binary ‘etc/nagios3?.
Cannot run the mandatory syntax check.
I also got this error at the end.. Any suggestions?
Regards

Awesome thanks!!

I have succesfully deploy nconf and nagios3. But nconf still can not automatically extract output to /etc/nagios3. I already give access to user www-data to /etc/nagios3. But nconf still cannot write the output. So i manually extract file NagiosConfig.tgz into dir /etc/nagios3, restarting nagios and all item now appear in map

I got the nagios3 and nconf to work but when i try to do a deploy files dont get deploy automatically, it doesn’t extract the files in import

I tried to manually extract the files but i get this error.
Processing object config file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/checkcommands.cfg’…
Processing object config file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/timeperiods.cfg’…
Processing object config file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/host_templates.cfg’…
Processing object config file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/commands.cfg’…
Warning: Duplicate definition found for command ‘process-host-perfdata’ (config file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/commands.cfg’, starting on line 16)
Error: Could not add object property in file ‘/etc/nagios3/global/commands.cfg’ on line 17.
Error processing object config files!

***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files…

Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
‘Whats New’ section to find out what has changed.

* errors in config!

This was the content of the File “global/commands.cfg”

cat global/commands.cfg
#define command {
# command_name notify-host-by-email
# command_line /usr/bin/printf “%b” “***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\nHost: $HOSTNAME$\nState: $HOSTSTATE$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nInfo: $HOSTOUTPUT$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n” | /bin/mail -s “** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Host Alert: $HOSTNAME$ is $HOSTSTATE$ **” $CONTACTEMAIL$
#}

#define command {
# command_name notify-service-by-email
# command_line /usr/bin/printf “%b” “***** Nagios *****\n\nNotification Type: $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$\n\nService: $SERVICEDESC$\nHost: $HOSTALIAS$\nAddress: $HOSTADDRESS$\nState: $SERVICESTATE$\n\nDate/Time: $LONGDATETIME$\n\nAdditional Info:\n\n$SERVICEOUTPUT$” | /bin/mail -s “** $NOTIFICATIONTYPE$ Service Alert: $HOSTALIAS$/$SERVICEDESC$ is $SERVICESTATE$ **” $CONTACTEMAIL$
#}

define command {
command_name check-host-alive
command_line $USER1$/check_ping -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -w 3000.0,80% -c 5000.0,100% -p 5
}

define command {
command_name process-host-perfdata
command_line /usr/bin/printf “%b” “$LASTHOSTCHECK$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$HOSTSTATE$\t$HOSTATTEMPT$\t$HOSTSTATETYPE$\t$HOSTEXECUTIONTIME$\t$HOSTOUTPUT$\t$HOSTPERFDATA$\n” >> /var/nagios/host-perfdata.out
}

define command {
command_name process-service-perfdata
command_line /usr/bin/printf “%b” “$LASTSERVICECHECK$\t$HOSTNAME$\t$SERVICEDESC$\t$SERVICESTATE$\t$SERVICEATTEMPT$\t$SERVICESTATETYPE$\t$SERVICEEXECUTIONTIME$\t$SERVICELATENCY$\t$SERVICEOUTPUT$\t$SERVICEPERFDATA$\n” >> /var/nagios/service-perfdata.out
}

define command {
command_name service_is_stale
command_line /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/eventhandlers/stale_service.sh
}

Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong.. here ..

When I add any host in Nconf, m not able to view it in Nagios frontend.

Thank you a lot!! It works! ) But i had to correct configs slightly ^)

Disregard the previous comment, I commented out the logfile in nagios.cfg…

Gogo retard move!

Thanks for a nice tutorial, however i believe a few steps are missing..I followed all the steps by nagios didnt started at the end with error

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***> One or more problems was encountered while running the pre-flight check…

Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you are upgrading from a previous
version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
may have been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
‘Whats New’ section to find out what has changed.

errors in config! … failed!
failed!
——————

Then I figured that “generate nagios config” need to run from nconf, which generate a .tgz file in output directory which give a gloabl and default_collector folder when we extract it, and those 2 need to be copied in /etc/nagios3
I did and everything went well…

I thought to mention my experience and my findings..
Thanks for a nice tutorial again, all credit goes to you my friend