Centralizing NRPE Configuration

[Donnell Lewis]

This was a learning curve for me but once I got it up and going using
Puppet to manage configs enterprise-wide is making things easier:

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet

Not that this will be what you are looking for, but it will manage
configs globally and with invidual nodes defined.  It uses cfengine as
it's backend. Good stuff, but is a bit of learning curve.

-Donnell Lewis

On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:07 -0500, Cipriani, Robert C wrote:
> True, the nrpe config will be generic, and will only have to push nrpe.cfg when I add new commands. I just wanted to know what tools were out there, in case things get more complicated in the future. I have a monitored box configured the way I want it, I will probably just tar /usr/local/nagios, /usr/lib/nrpe, etc. and make a package to install on other servers that appends a line to /etc/services and copies the nrpe file into /etc/xinetd.d.
> 
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> Robert C. Cipriani
> Senior Network Administrator
> Tampa Bay Division IT
> Bright House Networks
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:48 AM
> To: Cipriani, Robert C
> Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Centralizing NRPE Configuration
> 
> Cipriani, Robert C wrote:
> > I'll probably need something a bit more sophisticated than a bash script. I like the idea of being able to say "add line x to file y if line x doesn't yet exist".
> >
> You can do that in Bash, in fact I do it for deployment to make sure
> nrpe is in /etc/services.
> 
> Why not just have one global nrpe config that you have on all hosts though?
> 
> This is way easier to manage and maintain. You just make up different
> check command names for very specific things.
> This also simplifies things incredibly and means you could never lose
> your config, unless all your nrpe holding servers burned down along with
> your svn server and all your backups.
> 
> 
> -h
> 
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> Hari Sekhon
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