windows-server template

[tsmullins]

Hello all,

Nagios is still new to me. We are using Nagios 3.4.1 to monitor Linux boxes just fine. Really need to monitor some Windows boxes as well. A template, I thought, had been defined in /objects/templates.cfg called windows server:

# Windows host definition template - This is NOT a real host, just a template!

define host{
name windows-server ; The name of this host template
use generic-host ; Inherit default values from the generic-host template
check_period 24x7 ; By default, Windows servers are monitored round the clock
check_interval 5 ; Actively check the server every 5 minutes
retry_interval 1 ; Schedule host check retries at 1 minute intervals
max_check_attempts 10 ; Check each server 10 times (max)
check_command check-host-alive ; Default command to check if servers are "alive"
notification_period 24x7 ; Send notification out at any time - day or night
notification_interval 30 ; Resend notifications every 30 minutes
notification_options d,r ; Only send notifications for specific host states
contact_groups admins ; Notifications get sent to the admins by default
hostgroups windows-servers ; Host groups that Windows servers should be a member of
register 0 ; DONT REGISTER THIS - ITS JUST A TEMPLATE
}

However when Nagios is restarted, we rcv this error message:

Error: Template 'windows-server' specified in host definition could not be not found (config file '/etc/nagios3/objects/windows.cfg', starting on line 25)
Error processing object config files!


***> One or more problems was encountered while processing the config files...

Can someone please tell me what we are doing wrong?

Thanks
Shane

[agriffin]

Have you added templates.cfg to your main nagios.cfg?