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I have Nagios installed on Ubuntu 10.04 server. I didn't do the installation, the previous administrator set it up.

We have three servers that we want to monitor. We're wanting to monitor a few applications and processes to make sure everything is running the way we need it to run.

I SSHed into the server, but I'm having a bit of trouble locating which file the configurations are on.

I found a file called Nagios.cfg

I tried to open it but I got this error:

$ open nagios.cfg
Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the console


I'm not an Ubuntu expert and I usually GUI interfaces. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

dan

The main configuration file is indeed nagios.cfg, although the entire configuration is likely spread across many files. When you view nagios.cfg you should see references to these other files.

Try using the nano command instead of open.