LDAP Configs..

[Ian Holsman]

so are you thinking about having nagios ditch it's internal
host/service structures and do a LDAP call when it needs to grab info?

The other method is to have a external program create a config file
from the LDAP server, and have the smarts to bounce the nagios server
when it detects a change.

Would you also be planning on dumping out service-status/host-status
info into LDAP as well?
(currently my mysql server is doing ~100 questions/sec .. mainly
inserts into the service status table.. so you might want to be
careful about that.)

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:01:23 -0400 (EDT), Sean O'Malley
<picasso at madflower.com> wrote:
> Has anyone looked at pursuing the use of LDAP for the configuration files?
> Maybe it is just me but when I see the configs. The structure of them
> looks like they would fit nicely in an LDAP scheme. With the master
> configs in one branch, the hosts/group stuff in another branch..
> (I havent quite thought out the best design yet..)
> 
> I think it might make development for the backend GUI's faster. With
> the addition of a "server" directive, it could be used acrossed multiple
> Nagios servers. With LDAP caching mechanism is pretty tuned already so
> you can skip worrying about caching algorithms and use realtime data.
> you could actually also use it for authentication to the site.
> 
> I think it would be helpful for large sites. I am not sure it would be
> easier for smaller sites. But I think the bonus would be in the faster
> development and the existance of tools to manage ldap trees already.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> Sean
> 
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