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nagios sample object config file for monitoring machines.
First you need to have the
Host definition — > Host group definition [here we add the hosts for this group]–>and then the Service Definition
Example: for Service Definition
# Define a service to check the disk space of the root partition
# on the local machine. Warning [...]

Verify the sample Nagios configuration files.
/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
/usr/local/nagios/bin#
./nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg
Nagios 3.0.6
Copyright (c) 1999-2008 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 12-01-2008
License: GPL
Reading configuration data…
Running pre-flight check on configuration data…
Checking services…
Checked 9 services.
Checking hosts…
Checked 2 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 [...]