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Marc Powell
marc at ena.com
Thu Jul 5 15:57:39 CEST 2007
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> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:01 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] (no subject)
>
> Hello List
>
> I'm just in the process of doing a new install of Nagios, and I find
> myself thinking that I'm going to end up with a ping_check with a line
> that contains something like 300 comma separated hostnames
>
> Is there a good way to reduce the bloat and improve the manageability
of
> the configuration?
This might help --
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html
>
> What is the recommended path to make sure your nagios config doesn't
> become something that only one person can make changes to, because of
> its complexity?
Use templates as much as possible, create standard checks for different
types of hosts, use a database/front end to store host/service
information that's important to your checks, autogenerate as much of
your configs from the database as possible.
--
Marc
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