I think I found the issue, it looks like the templates.cfg.gz didn't unzip and put out all the default templates. After extracting it and slicing it up into the standard .cfg files, I'm able to add hosts now, will try switches next.
Thank you, Joel -----Original Message----- From: Andreas Ericsson [mailto:a...@op5.se] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 1:11 PM To: Nagios Users List Cc: Joel Roberts Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] FW: Nagios3 switch.cfg On 05/16/2013 04:30 PM, Joel Roberts wrote: > Attached is the .cfg file. The "Define" was done by the email client, > as you can see in the .cfg file, define host is entered correctly, as > is host-name. > > The Nagios installation is on Debian Linux 6.0.7 "Squeeze." It was > installed from the packages included with the distro. The version of > Nagios is 3.2.1 > Well, that particular config file should work just fine. Try upgrading from sources and see if that works better. It passes with Nagios 4 at least. -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.erics...@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ AlienVault Unified Security Management (USM) platform delivers complete security visibility with the essential security capabilities. Easily and efficiently configure, manage, and operate all of your security controls from a single console and one unified framework. Download a free trial. http://p.sf.net/sfu/alienvault_d2d _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null