Adding Monitored Hosts - jacob-dinapoli/tech-journal GitHub Wiki

Prerequisite

Make sure you can ping the server you wish to add from your Nagios server.
In this example we will be adding a server called "test.nagios" with an IP of 10.0.0.1.

Steps

Change directory /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects, create a new filed called test.nagios.cfg. Add the following into the file:

define host {
host_name              test.nagios
alias                  Test Server
address                10.0.0.1
max_check_attempts     3
check_period           24x7
check_command          check-host-alive
contacts               nagiosadmin
notification_interval  60
notificaion_period     24x7
}

Navigate to /usr/local/nagios/etc and edit the nagios.cfg file. Add cfg_file=/usr/local/nagios/etc/objects/test.nagios.cfg to the end of the file. Restart Nagios service and check your Host dashboard to see the newly configured host.