Nagios Online Configurator FAQ

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What is "Nagios Online Configurator"? This site is semestral work from Network Administration cla sses. The main idea was simplify creating of configuration files of Nagios monitoring tool. Despite having simple format the configuration files have many configurable values and it is not easy to remember all of them - especially for beginer. How does it work? It's pretty simple. Select in main menu definition you want to add to your configuration file and configurator will automaticaly generate fields you should not miss to set up. Other values - if possible - you can add by select box below the inputs. Once you edit any field and leave it, configurator will generate you Nagios definition code in right text area. Why should I use this configurator? In short: it is easy, fast and safe to use. Easy because of help rovided if you move your mouse over the name of value. Fast because you do not have to install or setup anything on your computer and definition code is generated during your filling of values. And safe, because all configurator is writen only using HTML and JavaScript (jQuery), so the code is viewable to anybody. And anybody can look at the code if it doesn't do anything unacceptable.

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Where can I get some information about Nagios, examples and examination of configuration files? Try Nagios official documentation at Nagios docs or great information source is for example Apple's Nagios help I have the definitons generated , what to do now? You must put generated definitions into the to Nagios configuration files. You have two possibilities. You can do single file for every host. This file can contain all definition for specific host - recommended for big number of host with specific services because its lucidity. Or you can put timeperiods to timeperiods file, hosts to hosts files etc. It's up to you. I inserted definitions into the definition files, what to do now? It's highly recommended to check if the configurations files are correct by
sudo nagios -v /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
command (path may be different on your system). If everything is fine (configuration has no errors), restart Nagios using
/etc/init.d/nagios start
command (may be different system by system)