New Nagios 4 installation will not start up

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

Hi Guys,
for the past 9 years I have tried every single year to get Nagios up and running to no avail. I spend days and days every year trying to get it going before I eventually give up.
there always seems to be some problem with it.

so this is truly the final time I am putting my heart back into it again

I have installed a brand new version of Ubuntu 13.10 server edition.

I have followed this tutorial to the T.....

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-instal ... ander.html

apache is working fine, but when I try to start nagios I get the following error (Attached)

I honestly do not know what to call this problem, as I have trolled the web for an answer

Please help me.!!

[sreinhardt]

Well let's start with the easy ones, where are your nagios binaries (/usr/bin/nagios ?) and where are your nagios configs(/etc/nagios?) What I would like to do is start with a config verification and move on from there.

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

Hi,
The bins are in;
/usr/local/nagios

config's are in;
/usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[slansing]

Lets verify your configuration files what is the output of:

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

cannot open main configuration file......error processing main config file...

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

but when I do a

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

I get
0 Warnings
0 Errors.


Is it my imagination or are all my Nagios directories all over the place like?

[abrist]

Looks like you may have init script issues. Can you try starting nagios manually?

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/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

no errors came back when I done that....but still nothing is coming up in my browser.

[slansing]

Before we go further, I would like to recommend you use our quick install guide, and not a random one off the web, though I am sure it works fine. Since it sounds like for whatever reason you constantly have issues getting Nagios up and running in your environment, it might be a good idea to spool up a new VM or server, and BE SURE to follow the outlines we provide. Do not use anything other than a Fresh, clean, minimal Ubuntu installation "NO GUI, or anything like that."

http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... Source.pdf

[Bigpaddy_Irl]

Hi, I did install a fresh install of 13.10 on a vm just for this type of occasion.
I will follow your guide and let ye know how I get on.

Cheers