Thu, 10 Aug 2006

Nagios configuration

To add a host:
    1.  add the new host to hosts.cfg 
    2.  add the new host to a group in hostgroups.cfg
    3.  make sure the host group has a contact group
    4.  make sure contacts are separate from the site
        being checked  
    5.  check contactgroups.cfg
    6.  make selections in services.cfg 
    7.  add the new host to dependencies.cfg if it
        has any dependencies

To check config settings run
    nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

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