How do you test a large configuration?

[jeremy at hq.newdream.net]

Alternatively, you could firewall various services at the machine they're
running on, instead of the nagios server.  Depending on the OS on those
machines, it might make the task a bit easier.

On Fri, 28 Jun 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 16:42, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >     >> To the greated extent possible, I'd like to avoid discovering
> >     >> mistakes in my configuration when a machine goes down and nobody
> >     >> notices.  Other than (actually, in addition to) tediously desk
> >     >> checking everything, do people have any suggestions for checking
> >     >> large configurations?
> >
> >     Karl> Use iptables on the nagios box to block communication with various
> >     Karl> ports on various servers. Do this in a controlled manner and you
> >     Karl> should be able to test most of your configs.
> >
> > Thanks for the excellent suggestion.  If only I had a Linux box available
> > for testing.  I'm currently running on Mac OS X
>
> OS X being Unix, isn't there an implementaion of netfilters or something
> around. I know the BSD's have an analogous program, I just don't know
> the name offhand.
>
> --
> Kalr
>
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