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Looking for a tool to import hosts in bulk to a .cfg for monitoring. right now for example, we have windows clients we want to monitor but I have to add the hosts manually into a windows.cfg file Ex: define host{ use windows-workstation ; Inherit default values from a template host_name winserver ; ...

thanks for the reply jsmurphy! so you're saying the command_name is just a reference for nagios and the REAL place the command is executed from is command_line? My question is, if command_lname is just a reference, It could have been named anything, as long as it was stated in the define service sec...

I've read the check_openmanage user guide about defining hosts, services, commands, etc. My question is, I haven't figured out to add more commands other than the basic check_openmanage command that reads out memory and drive info shown below: 1/3 OK - System: 'PowerEdge 600SC', SN: 'F5DT721', 512 M...

Figured out the problem with the duplicate command. inside the commands.cfg file there was a line referencing check_openmanage which I had to comment out. Nagios was looking at the check_openmanage command both in the openmanage.cfg file AND in the commands.cfg. They were conflicting because it was ...

does anyone have any experience configuring the check_openmanage plugin ? http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Plugins/Hardware/Server-Hardware/Dell/check_openmanage/details I'm having a little trouble grasping the usage manual on the website. I created a openmanage.cfg which the manual doesn't spec...

Thanks for the reply. I installed nagios via yum so the install was automated for me. The traditional location of the .cfg files are not the same as a make install as I have no services.cfg file. The closest thing that comes to it is the templates.cfg file I am still having trouble understanding all...

I am looking for a way to have emails sent to our different IT personnel based on the alerts. For example, if the disk space on a server gets critical I would like an email to be sent only to our sys admin. Likewise, if our printers run low on toner I want an email sent only to our IT personnel that...