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Thanks jsmurphy, I eventually narrowed it down to some brackets that were present in windows.cfg where they shouldn't have been. Which leads me on to my next question - How can I escape the brackets in a service I define? So for example: define service{ use generic-service host_name SQL service_desc...

Thanks, good links, just working my way through them now. After adding a few more Windows hosts i can no longer restart the Nagios daemon on my monitoring box, it says I have errors in my config. However, these errors aren't picked up by the pre-flight check, it tells me everything is fine. If I res...

Thanks for the advice, after looking into your suggestions I decided to go with just installing Nsclient on each server. I've also implemented the acknowledgement you suggested which is a really nice feature! So I'm now monitoring a few of my remote machines based in a data centre. So far I've just ...

I think I've finally had a breakthrough with this, it was a problem with Postfix and not with Nagios... Thanks for the help! Something to do with G-mail SMTP and the certificate I was using. Now I've finally got a working system (albeit very basic, I'm only monitoring 1 local windows server) I do ha...

Hi all, I'm new to Nagios so let me tell you what I've done so far - Configured Nagios on Ubuntu as per this guide - http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-ubuntu.html I've installed NSclient++ on a server in my local network I've defined the services to monitor on this server All of the ...