In this chapter, you will learn about other ways in which the Nagios status can be checked as well as how Nagios itself can be managed.
Nagios configuration is stored in a separate directory. Usually it's either in /etc/nagios
or /usr/local/etc/nagios
. If you have followed the steps for manual installation, it will be in the /etc/nagios
directory.
The default installation creates a sample host called localhost and a few services. We will now create additional hosts and services, and create a more robust directory structure to manage all of the objects.
The main Nagios configuration file is called nagios.cfg
, and it's the main file that is loaded during Nagios startup.
Its syntax is simple, a line beginning with #
is a comment, and all lines in the form of <parameter>=<value>
set a value. In some cases, a value might be repeated (such as specifying additional files/directories to read).
The following is a sample of the Nagios main configuration file:
# log file to...