[Nagiosplug-help] HELP please! newbie to nagios

[Andreas Ericsson]

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

You need to read the sections covering the subject line, proper forum 
and just about everything else. Twice, preferrably.

More comments below.

HP Geeza wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> PLEASE can somebody help! - I have just installed nagios (in an atempt 
> to upgrade from netsaint..which at the moment we have running).  However 
> i am facing extreme confusion and difficulties!
> 
> I think i have managed to install everything ok...i can get to the web 
> interface BUT i can't do anything from there because other then the 
> default (first page) when you log into the web interface i can't see 
> anything else.  For example i get the following error when i try to go 
> to one of the pages:
> 
> Internal Server Error
> The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was 
> unable to complete your request.
> Please contact the server administrator, root at localhost and inform them 
> of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that 
> may have caused the error.
> More information about this error may be available in the server error log.
> 
> Obviously this is an internal error but i can't debug the problem! And i 
> am not sure where to begin.
> 

Did you READ the error log that it tells you to do?

> ALSO i have my old netsaint config (.cfg) files which i would like to 
> import into nagios BUT again i am not to sure how to do this!!!! At the 
> moment i am trying to just use the default minimal.cfg and other .cfg 
> files which were created when i installed nagios BUT these dont seem to 
> be working either
> 
> PLEASE help!

Nopes. I can possibly help you help yourself, but I won't fix your 
problems for you.

> Sanj
> 
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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
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