Hello, Has anyone managed a successful installation of Nagios using the RPMForge packages on CentOS 5.5?
It looks like it should have worked, I followed the guides for Fedora and CentOS here (with appropriate path adjustments):
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/quickstart-fedora.html http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Nagios
The SELinux policies look fine (I tend to ignore instructions to permanently disable SELinux, if I'm not using SELinux then there's no reason not to return to Slackware):
# semodule -l | grep nagios nagios 1.1.0 #
The nagios.cfg check gave the all clear:
Reading configuration data... Read main config file okay... Processing object config file '/etc/nagios/objects/commands.cfg'... Processing object config file '/etc/nagios/objects/contacts.cfg'... Processing object config file '/etc/nagios/objects/timeperiods.cfg'... Processing object config file '/etc/nagios/objects/templates.cfg'... Processing object config file '/etc/nagios/objects/localhost.cfg'... Read object config files okay...
Running pre-flight check on configuration data...
Checking services... Checked 8 services. Checking hosts... Checked 1 hosts. Checking host groups... Checked 1 host groups. Checking service groups... Checked 0 service groups. Checking contacts... Checked 1 contacts. Checking contact groups... Checked 1 contact groups. Checking service escalations... Checked 0 service escalations. Checking service dependencies... Checked 0 service dependencies. Checking host escalations... Checked 0 host escalations. Checking host dependencies... Checked 0 host dependencies. Checking commands... Checked 24 commands. Checking time periods... Checked 5 time periods. Checking for circular paths between hosts... Checking for circular host and service dependencies... Checking global event handlers... Checking obsessive compulsive processor commands... Checking misc settings...
Total Warnings: 0 Total Errors: 0
Things look okay - No serious problems were detected during the pre-flight check
My adjustment of other config files is minimal, essentially just setting the email address to deliver notifications to.
Yet every time I try to start the service I get this:
# service nagios start nagios is stopped Configuration validation failed [FAILED]
The error appears to be identical to that reported here:
http://forums.meulie.net/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=6538&start=0
Like the original poster of the thread on that forum, I am able to start it with "nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg" though various web pages continue to report an unspecified configuration error.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Regards, Ben