question about new subroutine like config structure

[Atul Gosain]

Hey dont put ur hard work into converting netsaint conf into nagios conf
manually. There is allready a script in contrib directory of nagios
distribution which does that for u in elegant manner.

Enjoy

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> Hello folks,
>
> We have been using netsaint for quite a while and have lots of host and
> services defined in the old structure, basically in one line
> format.
>
> I just installed "nagios" in one of our test machines to test
> out before upgrading our main monitoring server running RH 7.1 and
> Netsaint 0.0.6 to RH 7.3 and nagios (latest version).
>
> I have seen that nagios has a major config change over netsaint where
> now the host/service and the rest is defined in a subroutine (chunk)
> like format.
>
> define host {
>                 something
>                 something
>                 ....
>             }
>
> I was trying to find a way to read the data from netsaint-0.0.6 config
> files (in one line format) to nagios in the subroutine like format. I
> looked at the nagios FAQ but failed to find a less painful way then hand
> copy each definition from netsaint by hand. Has anyone devised a way to
> do this, however as I am writing this email, I think that
> "auto-converting" to nagios format might not be efficient way to go,
> specially in terms of the new "templates" format.
>
> If anyone of the old nagios guys can provide some guidance it would be
> great. On my own I will be thinking of different ways to easily and
> efficiently do this change. If I hit upon something worth while I will
> report back.
>
> BTW, kudos to the programmer of the "template" system config, If I am
> not wrong it should be "Ethan". I started reading the docs and more I
> read it the more it makes perfect sense on why this should be the way
> nagios or any other tool should be configured.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> - --
> Amar S. Bhatti
> GM Powertrain
> General Motors Corporation
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