conditional inclusion of cfg files

[Dale Chatham]

Host/Service groups?

Use cfengine to push the cfg files?

Jonathan Mills wrote:
> Okay, let's say you have lots of distributed pollers, which should  
> only load cfg files for their particular environment (both hosts and  
> services).  However, you'd like to manage the same set of "global" cfg  
> files from the central server, and rsync them all everywhere.  Is  
> there any known way to make a poller just load a subset of cfg files,  
> *without hardcoding it into each poller's nagios.cfg file*?
>
> Sorry if this sounds a little crazy.  I guess what I had envisioned  
> was a way to push out a set of cfg files named by each poller's  
> hostname, with the expectation that a poller could intelligently  
> include only its own cfg file.  Each of those files, in turn, would  
> include a set of cfg_dir definitions to further include the  
> directories needed for the poller to poll its specific environment.
>
> Nagios just appears to be very limited in the ability to declare  
> variables in the configuration files.  Yes, you can set macros, but  
> that doesn't seem to help me with this particular situation.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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