Line Limit for a Nagios Configuration

[Brian E. Seppanen]

On Wed, 9 Jun 2004, Brian E. Seppanen wrote:

> Hi Folks:
> 
> Is there some sort of line limit for nagios when it reads in a 
> configuration file.
> 
> The reason I ask is I have to create daily a configuration file that 
> monitors about 3952 hosts, and growing each day.   When I create my 
> configuration I get an error when doing the syntax check.
> 
> Error: Could not add object property in file 
> '/usr/local/nagios/etc/devic.cfg' on line 27670.
> 
> Line 27670 is the last line of my hostgroup defintion.
> 
> the hostgroup definition is
> define hostgroup{
>                 use             mygroup
>                 hostgroup_name  MACS
>                 alias           DEVICES
>                 members         00_00_ca_24_4f_24,00_00_ca_30_24_7c,00_00_ca_30_24_7d,00_00_ca_30_24_b4,00_00_ca_30_24_b5,00_00_ca_30_25_24,00_00_ca_30_25_25,00_00_ca_30_25_28,00_00_ca_30_25_29,00_00_ca_30_25_38,00_00_ca_30_25_39,00_00_ca_30_3a_f1,00_00_ca_30_3a_f5,00_00_ca_30_3a_f9,00_00_ca_30_3a_fd,00_00_ca_30_3b_01,00_00_ca_30_3b_05,00_00_ca_30_3b_09,00_00_ca_30_3b_0d,00_00_ca_30_3b_19,00_00_ca_30_3b_1d,00_00_ca_30_3b_25,00_00_ca_30_3b_29,00_00_ca_30_3b_39,00_00_ca_30_3b_3d,00_00_ca_30_3b_45,00_00_ca_30_3b_49,00_00_ca_30_3b_55,00_00_ca_30_3b_59,00_00_ca_30_3b_65,00_00_ca_30_3b_71,00_00_ca_30_3b_79,00_00_ca_30_3b_81,00_00_ca_30_3b_89,00_00_ca_30_3b_91,00_00_ca_30_3b_95,00_00_ca_30_3b_99,00_00_ca_30_3b_9d,00_00_ca_30_3b_b1,00_00_ca_30_3b_b5,00_00_ca_30_3b_b9,00_00_ca_30_3b_bd,00_00_ca_30_3b_c1,00_00_ca_30_3b_c5,00_00_ca_30_3b_c9,00_00_ca_30_3b_cd,00_00_ca_30_3b_d1,00_00_ca_30_3b_d5,00_00_ca_30_3b_d9,00_00_ca_30_3b_dd,00_00_ca_30_3b_e1,00_00_ca_30_3b_e5,00_00_ca_30_3b_e9,00_00_ca_30_3b_f5,00_00_ca_30_3b_f9
> }
> 
> The members line includes the inforamtion for all 3952 devices, and so is 
> one long line of 3953 ids seperated by a comma.   Where would the 
> limitation be in what I'm doing that doesn't allow it to read the 
> configuration option.
> 
> Thanks for the assistance.
> 
> 

I've tried a loop that would take each 500 devices and seperate them it 
into a new hostgroup.

Here's what I got, 

with 500 devices per hostgroup I got the same error as above Error: Could 
not add object property in file

If I tried seperating 250 devices per hostgroup, I would get a 
segmentation fault when attempting to do a syntax check.

So it appears I've run into a file size limitation in one case, and in 
another case run up against a buffer or line size limitation.   Do I have 
any way around this?    

Anyone else with a large configuration file that they can attest works 
that would at least encourage me that I'm not trying to accomplish the 
impossible, or at least extremely difficult.   Say a config file about 
548K?

Thanks,


Brian Seppanen
seppy at chartermi.net
906-475-0107 ext 1040


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