Check Nagios configuration file errors such as the following:
[Email protected] etc]$/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios-v/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Nagios Core 4.0.6
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last modified:04-29-2014
License:gpl
website:http://www.nagios.org
Reading Configuration data ...
Read main config file okay ...
Error:template ' Timman ' specified in the contact definition could not being not found (config file '/usr/local/nagios/etc/object S/contacts.cfg ', starting on line 65)
Error Processing Object Config files!
> One or more problems is encountered while processing the config files ...
Check your configuration file (s) to ensure that they contain valid
directives and data defintions. If you is upgrading from a previous
Version of Nagios, you should is aware that some variables/definitions
May has been removed or modified in this version. Make sure to read
The HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
' Whats New ' section to the find out who has changed.
2 Viewing the error content
[Email protected] etc]$ more/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
......
Define Contact{
Contact_Name Timman
Use Timman here An error, said invalid.
Alias Tim Man
Service_notification_period 24x7
Host_notification_period 24x7
Service_notification_options W,u,c,r
Host_notification_options D,u,r
Service_notification_commands Notify-host-by-email
Host_notification_commands Notify-host-by-email
email [email protected]
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}
Define Contactgroup{
Contactgroup_name Ops
Alias PL OPS Team
Members Timman,nagiosadmin
}
3 Replace the Timman with Generic-contact
Vi/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/contacts.cfg
Use Timman
Replaced by
Use Generic-contact
4 Another test, check
[Email protected] etc]$/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios-v/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Nagios Core 4.0.6
Copyright (c) 2009-present Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last modified:04-29-2014
License:gpl
website:http://www.nagios.org
Reading Configuration data ...
Read main config file okay ...
Read object config files okay ...
Running pre-flight check on configuration data ...
Checking objects ...
Checked 8 Services.
Checked 1 hosts.
Checked 1 host groups.
Checked 0 service groups.
Checked 2 contacts.
Checked 2 Contact groups.
Checked commands.
Checked 5 time periods.
Checked 0 Host Escalations.
Checked 0 Service Escalations.
Checking for circular paths ...
Checked 1 hosts
Checked 0 Service dependencies
Checked 0 Host Dependencies
Checked 5 Timeperiods
Checking Global Event Handlers ...
Checking Obsessive Compulsive Processor commands ...
Checking Misc Settings ...
Total warnings:0
Total errors:0
Things look okay-no serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
[Email protected] etc]$