How to install Nagios on CentOS?

Object configuration files

As mentioned, when the configuration files are split up, Nagios reads the data from these files in order for it to process host and service checks across the network. Before I begin, detailed documentation of all of the options for the template based objects are located at the website. This will help get you started though, so let’s begin with the timeperiods file. Obviously, you can substitute your options if you want different values.