configuration directory

[Daniel Wittenberg]

On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:34 PM, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:

> Op dinsdag 3 september 2013 17:22:32 schreef Andreas Ericsson:
>> On 2013-09-02 21:20, AL13N wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> i'm a Mageia distribution packager, and i'm maintaining some event broker
>>> modules.
>>> 
>>> since these are packaged seperately we're trying to get things to work
>>> out-of- the-box for our users, specifically adding event brokers in the
>>> configuration file for nagios.
>>> 
>>> the problem we're facing is that: We don't want a nagios addon package to
>>> rewrite the configuration file itself. however, we would like to add the
>>> event broker (or other settings) and then reload/restart nagios.
>>> 
>>> a beneficial thing would be a configuration directory (much like it exists
>>> with hosts and commands and stuff like that) but for the main nagios
>>> configuration file.
>>> 
>>> and if while we're at it, to have multiple directories, where
>>> /usr/share/nagios/nagios.d/ has the "defaults" which can be overridden in
>>> /etc/nagios.d/ (for instance) (this is a convention that's growing in use)
>>> 
>>> I can try to start making a patch for this, but i'm asking about this
>>> first, in order to find out if it makes a chance of getting accepted.
>> 
>> Not only does it stand a chance of getting accepted; It's on the
>> roadmap. If you start working on it I'll help as much as I can and
>> I'm willing to accept less-than-awesome quality code, although I'll
>> polish such later if it turns out to be an issue.
>> 
>> The only real requirement is that any "main" config file option
>> should be settable from any file in the dropdir.
> 
> 
> the idea i thought might be doable, would be to allow multiple -d options to 
> nagios, and allow those to be a file or a directory.
> 
> this would keep working:
> 
> [  ]# /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
> 
> and allow
> 
> [  ]# /usr/sbin/nagios -d /usr/share/nagios/conf.d/ -d /etc/nagios/conf.d/
> 
> to work too.
> 
> internally, instead of one file, we'll have to have an array of files/dirs, so 
> that reloading nagios would also expand the config files/dirs into files and 
> parse them all in order...
> 
> 

remember too that -d is daemonize mode so probably need another option…

Dan


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