I want to be able to check if my site is up and monitor it by nagios locally.
So I went to this site http://www.linickx.com/nagios which made the following, now while I cant see hosts.cfg so I created it and also services.cfg I had to create as well:
hosts.cfg
# host definition for bonus
define host{
use generic-host ; Name of host template to use
host_name bonus
alias bonus
address 92.12.35.162
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 10
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_options d,u,r}
services config
The following should appended to the end of hosts.cfg (located in /etc/nagios or /usr/local/nagios/etc)
# Service definition for bonus
define service{
use generic-service ; Name of service template to use
host_name bonus
service_description HTTP
is_volatile 0
check_period 24x7
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 3
retry_check_interval 1
contact_groups technical,support
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_options w,u,c,r
check_command check_http
}
How can I get this to work please?
Nagios won't add new configuration files unless either the file or directory is specified in the main nagios.cfg. Also, the new object configurations won't be added until you restart the Nagios process. Can you give some more detail as to how you installed Nagios (source or package) and what linux distro you're on?
Here are some additional resources:
Nagios Core Documentation http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/
Nagios Core Support Forum http://support.nagios.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=7