"Nagios deamon is not running"

[m_OO_m]

Hello there,

trying to find a reason for some interface problems, I have imported a new VMWare-Image (1.3 D). As soon as the appliance is up and passwords are set, go to then Config Manager / Tools / Write Config Files and try to restart nagios. And you will see:

Nagios deamon is not running, cannot send restart command

[mguthrie]

We've seen this before, and if I repeat your steps I get the same message. I'm not sure as to the cause of this, but I'm going to post it to the bug tracker.
http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=93

Meanwhile:
You can also restart Nagios from the Admin->XI System Component Status->Monitoring Engine link.