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In services.cfg I have: define service{ hostgroup_name NBF service_description NBF-Memory _SERVICE_ID 1102 check_command check_centreon_memory!dGfGcbDIp23t14!80!90 max_check_attempts 15 check_interval 15 retry_interval 5 check_period 24x7 notification_interval 15 notification_period 24x7 notificatio...

Can you write scripts or programs on the machine to be monitored to give you the values you want to watch? If so, then it should be possible to write an NRPE module or a script callable by check_by_ssh from your nagios machine. Give some thought to what code has to be executed on the target machine ...

Once you've got nagios installed, you have to configure nagios' config files to define the machines you want to test, the tests you want to perform, etc. You can find some intro stuff on monitoring publicly available services at http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/monitoring-publicservices.html. ...

I'm using servicegroups, defined in servicegroups.cfg. What i did was grep all the .cfg files looking for NBF-Memory, and it's only found in services.cfg where it's defined "service_description NBF-Memory". It's not being listed anywhere else, and it would have to be in any file that inher...

No, but I did verify that all of the config files getting included were in the current directory: [root@nagios etc]# grep cfg_file nagios.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostTemplates.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/serviceTemplates.cfg cfg_file=/usr/lo...

I am running Nagios Core 3.2.1, monitoring several dozen machines. When I inherited this machine from my predecessor the config files had a lot of grunge in them - contacts who were no longer with the company, contract groups that were no associated with any services, etc. I spent a fair bit of time...