Verify and Reload Nagios Configuration

Nagios has two essential commands to check and verify the configuration files of your Nagios monitoring software. Here it is:

To verify Nagios configuration, type the command in shell:

/usr/local/nagios/bin/nagios -v /usr/local/nagios/etc/nagios.cfg

To reload Nagios:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/nagios reload