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Looking back over the output from the config check, it appears there are 2 hosts now!?

I still only see 1 in the web interface, but maybe things are looking up?

Oops, thought that name was used differently than host_name ... Looking back at the documentation I noticed that name wasn't required but host_name is, so I commented out the name line. Here's my output for the commands that you mentioned (Nagios is using my local account and group instead of nagios...

Thank you slansling, I will look out for group issues and will probably create a dedicated account once I get the basics figured out.

All, Total newbie to Nagios, and thanks to the help of the admins I was able to solve my installation issues and I have a functioning installation! But I am struggling to understand the documentation on how to do anything useful. My biggest current issue is adding hosts. I don't understand why my .c...

Silly me, you can give it a configure flag pre-compile, take a look at the configure script section here: http://people.virginia.edu/~rtg2t/nagios/installing.html Run the Configure Script Run the configure script to initialize variables and create a Makefile as follows...(the last two options: --wi...

Thanks for the advice guys, I'm going to be trying these out today if I get the opportunity. I'll check back in here with the results!

The company uses LDAP authentication so every machine sees a nagios account even though it's not locally on the machine. I have tried logging in using the nagios account with no password but was met with "permission denied". I am able to su to nagios, but /home/nagios is undefined. Frustra...

Hey All, I am attempting to setup Nagios to monitor the network at a remote site, but cannot use the username nagios because it is already being used. The head quarters for the company already has monitoring using nagios, but I do not have access to this account. Is there anyway to make nagios use a...