[Nagiosplug-help] Error in parsing command.cfg

[Subhendu Ghosh]

On 3 Jun 2003, Peter Peltonen wrote:

> 
> Thank you for your reply,
> 
> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 03:01, Subhendu Ghosh wrote:
> > take a look at the format of check_commands.cfg  - if that was in the 
> > template format, then nagios is expecting template format cfgs.
> 
> Yes, it was in different format than the rest of the Nagios files. Why
> was it so? I thought that the template format is the default one now?
> 

Template is the new default for Nagios.  It just that the plugin 
developers have been lazy given that Ethan had written convercfg ;)

cheers
-sg

> 
> > you can use convertcfg to conver the command.cfg from the plugins into the 
> > template format.
> > 
> > convertcfg is a contrib program in the nagios source distribution.  I'm 
> > not sure it is included in your rpm.
> 
> I found it. The command that did the trick was
> 
>   /usr/lib/nagios/convertcfg command.cfg commands >command.cfg
> 
> 
> I encountered another problem with it, though:
> 
> --<snip>--
> Error: Command 'check_ifoperstatus' has already been defined
> 
> Error: Could not register command (config file
> '/etc/nagios/command.cfg', line 352)
> --</snip>--
> 
> There was a duplicate entry for it. I uncommented it away. Same thing
> with snmp_swap and snmp_mem.
> 
> notify-by-email, notify-by-epager, host-notify-by-email and
> host-notify-by-epager were found also from misccommands.cfg from where I
> uncommented them away (the plugins thingie is newer than Nagios 1.0,
> right?).
> 
> After fixing those I got the beast finally running :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 

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