Monitor a service running on a port other than 80 in Nagios

[ayogi]

How do we monitor a remote service running on a machine using Nagios.
I have created a cfg file as follows:

define command {
command_name check_http
command_line /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 8082
}

Now when I reload the configuration file, it throws following error:

Warning: Duplicate definition found for command 'check_http' (config file '/etc/nagios/servers/cfbase-prod.cfg', starting on line 19)
Error: Could not add object property in file '/etc/nagios/servers/cfbase-prod.cfg' on line 20.
Error processing object config files!

I am not able to figure out what is the problem.
Please help!

[rkennedy]

You'll want to change that command to check_http_8082 and then assign the command check_http_8082 to the service rather than check_http. For example -

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define command {
command_name check_http_8082
command_line /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/check_http -H $HOSTADDRESS$ -p 8082
}