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Doc/Sdi/surveillance.xml

@@ -40,6 +40,23 @@
         Definition</link> and <link
         xlink:href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/nagioscore/3/en/objectdefinitions.html#contactgroup">Contact
         Group Definition</link> are your friends!</para>
+
+        <tip>
+          <itemizedlist>
+            <listitem>
+              <para>Before restarting the Nagios daemon you may want to issue
+              a pre-flight check:</para>
+
+              <para><command> nagios3 -v
+              /etc/nagios3/nagios.cfg</command></para>
+            </listitem>
+
+            <listitem>
+              <para>Restarting the daemon is being effected by issuing
+              <command> service nagios3 reload</command>.</para>
+            </listitem>
+          </itemizedlist>
+        </tip>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
@@ -113,8 +130,7 @@
           <option>--authorization</option> option requiring appropriate
           parameters. This is being used in the
           <command>check_https_auth</command> definition being part of
-          <filename>/usr/share/nagios-plugins/templates-basic/http.cfg</filename>.
-          </para>
+          <filename>/usr/share/nagios-plugins/templates-basic/http.cfg</filename>.</para>
         </tip>
       </listitem>