Which cfg files are used ?

[tellyfilms]

I have created a Jump Start installation on an Amazon Elastic Cluster.

There are two lots of cfg files, /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects and /etc/nagios3/objects.

Can someone explain which directory is used as the th second directory above appear to be used by the Nagios Core and the first directory is used by Nagios Administrator.

Any help would be much appreciated.

[tonyyarusso]

a Jump Start installation

Could identify a bit more what this is and where you got it? I take it this is some sort of pre-packaged virtual appliance for EC2? What operating system is this built on? From the looks of it, I'm guessing Debian.

Can someone explain which directory is used

One thing you can do is use grep to find the running nagios process and see which config file it is using, and then read that file to determine which configs are being loaded, like this:

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[root@demo ~]# ps aux | grep nagios.cf | grep -v grep
nagios   24231  0.0  0.2  13436  1636 ?        Ssl  Apr12   0:35 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

[tellyfilms]

Thank you for getting back to me.

The installation is a Jump Box installation on Debian. When I ran the ps command as suggested I got the following.

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root@nagios3:/etc/init.d# ps aux | grep nagios.cf | grep -v grep
nagios   32374  0.0  0.1  11012  1080 ?        Ssl  15:38   0:00 /usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -d /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
nagios   32455  0.0  0.2   4784  1284 ?        SNs  15:39   0:00 /usr/sbin/nagios3 -d /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg

These are phsycally different files, when I change one the admin tool shows a change and it does not show up in the nagios core page.

[tonyyarusso]

Something's wrong with how Nagios is being run then - only one of those two processes should exist. Your best bet would be to contact JumpBox to find out how it is intended to be configured, since this is a custom setup by them. See http://www.jumpbox.com/support.