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Hi jsmurphy, Thanks for you help i have rethink, and now it is working. This is what i have done it. 1/ I create the user/contact in /etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts_nagios2.cfg define contact{ contact_name fony alias Mister fony service_notification_period 24x7 host_notification_period 24x7 service_not...

Hello, I'm monitoring 4 servers + localhost. I have set hostgroup, i have set contact_groups and contacts. How do i marry all that together ? Meaning; i want to set several user so each user can see only one server or one host_group but not the data collected or the notification about others. Bernard

Well I'm not sure how your Nagios installation is currently set up, but if you just put the command definition in one of your config files it will work. I don't understand what the problem is here or why you're so reluctant to just add it. ... Well ok, i added commands to my /etc/nagios3/commands.c...

Tks i misread.

Arf... Something were wrong in my source.list !! (when things don't want to go smooth...).

Things back to normal. (meaning i'm still looking where are hidden my commands )

Many thanks for the help
Bernard

The file /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nagios is provided by the package nagios-plugins- basic . Try 'apt-get install --reinstall nagios-plugins' instead. (For future reference, you can search for files in packages with 'apt-file search <filename>', regardless of whether or not those files exist on...

Sure. That's my problem. /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg show: # Commands definitions cfg_file=/etc/nagios3/commands.cfg and my /etc/nagios3/commands.cfg is quite empty http://pastebin.com/MdCUbJ0f I tried to open every .cfg file i found related to nagios... nothing more. However http://hostname.com/cgi-bin...

Hello, I goofed... bouhhh. I've made some cleanup to keep only nagios 3.2.1 installed on my server. I have accidentally deleted files in /usr/lib/nagios/plugins/ It show now: /usr/lib/nagios/plugins# ls -l total 24 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 21800 Sep 4 2009 check_nrpe And when i start nagios3 /etc/init...

agriffin wrote:After adding a plugin to your plugins directory, you need to define your commands in your config before you can use them.

Hi agriffin, tks to keep being around.

I just can't find in which file i neeed to define my commands before i can use it with nagios3.2.1

Hello, I tried and followed to many tutorials and advices between Nagios 3.2.1 and Nagios 3.4.1 (not to add shiken :) I want to stick with Nagios 3.2.1 for the moment but i'm totally confused on how plugins and command work now. :? Nagios 3.2.1 LOCALHOST 1/ Plugins should be installed on my nagios m...

Tks agriffin.

I feel a little sorry i can't sort it out with 3.4.1 but hey, 3.2.1 is fine.

Tks all for the feedback
Bernard