Tracking dynamic parents?

[The Other1]

Thanks for the input Steve.  I was afraid it would come to that.  Oh well.  
Off to write some Perl...

Thanks again!


>From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway at auckland.ac.nz>
>To: "The Other1" 
><theother1 at hotmail.com>,<nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net>
>Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Tracking dynamic parents?
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:55:00 +1200
>
> > I am monitoring several hundred virtual machines and they
> > move from time to time to different VMware host machines.  My
> > question is how can I easily update the parents for these?
>
>We have this situation as well.
>
>The way I get around it is to reconfigure the scripts daily.  I have a
>reconfigurator which regenerates the config files for both MRTG and
>Nagios, probing the SNMP on the VMWare server to identify the various
>locations of the guests.  This is then used to set parent definitions,
>and also make summary graphs for MRTG.
>
>At the same time, it probes for agents, checks for various services, and
>dynamically reconfigures the monitoring for certain things (theres a
>central config file the holds a list of what should be there, in
>addition).
>
>We dont vmotion the guests very often, anyway, and the check_esx2 plugin
>will log current active VMs so it also keeps track of any changes.
>
>Sadly I can't share a copy of the config tool as it is too specific to
>our site.
>
>Steve
>
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