Invalid hostgroup object directive 'contact_groups'

[Cagen]

What’s my problem here?

@error message

Nagios 2.0b2 starting… (PID=11353)
Error: Invalid hostgroup object directive ‘contact_groups’.
Error: Could not add object property in file ‘/usr/local/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg’ on line 24.
Bailing out due to one or more errors encountered in the configuration files. Run Nagios from the command line with the -v option to verify your config before restarting. (PID=11353)

hostgroups.cfg

@hostgroups.cfg

‘pH Group Servers’ host group definition

define hostgroup {
hostgroup_name phgroup
alias pHGroup Linux Servers
contact_groups contact_phgroup
members phadmin
}

Edited ]

[luca]

same problem here…
seems like nagios2 doesn’t like contact_groups in the hostgroup directive while nagios 1.x used them. Not sure about it (still testing) but i think it’s not a problem because you have contact_groups in every host.

Luca

[Cagen]

Thanks Luca

Finally got Nagios Version 2.0b2 working properly.
Now on to bigger and better things.

I was given this as a project at work. I was getting worried

I decided not to use the minimal.cfg file and stick to the split config setup.

Lots of troubleshooting done and dusted I hope
Edited Tue Feb 22 2005, 05:08PM ]

[jakkedup]

From the doc’s:
"Definition Format:

Note: Directives in red are required, while those in black are optional.

define hostgroup{
hostgroup_name hostgroup_name
alias alias
members members
}
The options noted are all red(required) and there are no black(optional) ones. So yea, another easy fix they could have done, but they didn’t. At least the docs are correct.