need expert advice/suggestions
Taylor Dondich
tdondich at lilacnetworks.com
Mon Dec 7 23:02:53 CET 2009
Yes, I I consider that a workaround, as many people have hostgroups just
for this purpose, where I see hostgroups as more of a grouping of
devices for visibility sake.
So both are solutions, but I think assigning services (checks) directly
to a host template is a stronger solution, as it may not clutter up your
management UI with potentially strange hostgroup names.
Taylor
patrick.morris at hp.com wrote:
> Hi Taylor!
>
> On Mon, 07 Dec 2009, Taylor Dondich wrote:
>
>
>> I hate to toot our own horn here in the Nagios Users mailing list (not
>> the reason why I joined it). However, our configuration tool really
>> does support what you are trying to do. Lilac Configurator has support
>> for templates, but we take it one step further. Unlike Nagios, we
>> support attaching services to host templates. So when you create a new
>> host and have it inherit from a template, it brings in all services
>> attached to that template. We do the same for escalations and
>> depedencies. Something we feel Nagios should have, but doesn't. So our
>> tool supports it then exports it to a configuration format that Nagios
>> understands. Give it a whirl, I think it may help out your
>> configuration in the way you desire.
>>
>
> For what it's worth, Nagios *does* support this. We routinely use
> templates which assign a hostgroup to a host, and that hostgroup will
> have a set of standard check for that type of host assigned to it. When
> a new host gets added, all it takes is a "use some_host_template" and
> all the standard services we run on that type of host just show up.
>
--
Taylor Dondich (tdondich at lilacnetworks.com)
CEO at Lilac Networks (http://www.lilacnetworks.com)
Provider of quality support for open source monitoring solutions
View our open source Nagios Configuration Tool at http://www.lilacplatform.com
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