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Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2016 10:30 pm**

Hello
I have a nagios instance that seems to be misconfigured. Here's the message I get:

kyelw@nagios1 ~ $ sudo /usr/sbin/nagios3 -v /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg                                                       

Nagios Core 3.5.1
Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Nagios Core Development Team and Community Contributors
Copyright (c) 1999-2009 Ethan Galstad
Last Modified: 08-30-2013
License: GPL

Website: http://www.nagios.org
Reading configuration data...
   Read main config file okay...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/commands.cfg'...
Processing object config directory '/etc/nagios-plugins/config'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/disk.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/mysql.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ldap.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/apt.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/flexlm.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/telnet.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/rpc-nfs.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ifstatus.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/nt.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/dhcp.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/load.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/mrtg.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/dummy.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/procs.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ping.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/hppjd.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/snmp.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/mailq.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/disk-smb.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ntp.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/mail.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ftp.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/games.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/users.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/tcp_udp.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/real.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/dns.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/ssh.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/pgsql.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/http.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/news.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/netware.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/check_nrpe.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/fping.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/radius.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios-plugins/config/breeze.cfg'...
Processing object config directory '/etc/nagios3/conf.d'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/contactgroups.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/hostgroups.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/commands.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/hosts.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/services.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/templates.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods.cfg'...
   Error processing object config files!


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

     Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
     directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a previous
     version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
     may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to read
     the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
     'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.

What's weird to me is: I'm used to seeing nagios say "error on line: 265" or whatever. But this time, it's not giving me a location where the error is occurring. All it really says is "Error processing object config files!" I've checked, and all the files are owned by the nagios user, and group.

Any other help or suggestions as to where look would be appreciated!

Thanks

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2016 10:54 am**

Can you post the contents of this file for us to take a look at?

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/etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods.cfg

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2016 1:24 pm**

Sure, but I think that's a red-herring.

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 $ cat /etc/nagios3/conf.d/timeperiods.cfg
define timeperiod {
  timeperiod_name 24x7
  alias           24 Hours A Day, 7 Days A Week
  sunday          00:00-24:00
  monday          00:00-24:00
  tuesday         00:00-24:00
  wednesday       00:00-24:00
  thursday        00:00-24:00
  friday          00:00-24:00
  saturday        00:00-24:00
}

The reason I think it's not the issue is that if I remove it, I get the same error, just sooner:

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....
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/services.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/contacts.cfg'...
Processing object config file '/etc/nagios3/conf.d/templates.cfg'...
   Error processing object config files!


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

     Check your configuration file(s) to ensure that they contain valid
     directives and data defintions.  If you are upgrading from a previous
     version of Nagios, you should be aware that some variables/definitions
     may have been removed or modified in this version.  Make sure to read
     the HTML documentation regarding the config files, as well as the
     'Whats New' section to find out what has changed.

Also, that is the last file in the config directory, so it wouldn't be a file after it:

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$ ls /etc/nagios3/conf.d/
commands.cfg  contactgroups.cfg  contacts.cfg  hostgroups.cfg  hosts.cfg  services.cfg  templates.cfg

Posted: **Tue Jan 12, 2016 2:21 pm**

Can you zip up the entire "/etc/nagios3/" directory and PM it to me? Thanks!

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 2016 10:56 am**

I sent you a PM.

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:21 pm**

For those playing along at home, it ended up being 2 things:

1) empty hostgroups in hosts.cfg

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define host {
use server
address 192.168.1.1
host_name servername
hostgroups <blank>
}

and hostgroups defined in services.cfg, but not in hostgroups.cfg:

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define hostgroup{
        hostgroup_name       hostgroup1
        members                  servername
  }
/code]

Still no idea why it wasn't showing a line-number for the error |:(

Many thanks to lmiltchev !

Posted: **Wed Jan 13, 2016 12:23 pm**

Glad to hear he got it working for you. I'll close this one up.

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