Centralizing NRPE Configuration

[Cipriani, Robert C]

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".



Robert C. Cipriani
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:hpsekhon at googlemail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:14 AM
To: Cipriani, Robert C
Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Centralizing NRPE Configuration

Cipriani, Robert C wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on a way to centralize NRPE configs? I suppose I can push (rsync, scp, whatever) my nrpe.cfg from the Nagios server if I need to add any commands.  Is there a better way to manage this? I'd like the Nagios server to be a central point of configuration. I am using nrpe's --enable-command-args option and passing parameters via check_nrpe, so once the monitored host has the nrpe.cfg, there wouldn't be much to do there.
>
I use Svn + Bash to rsync/scp configs. This works swimmingly for me, but
then I do love bash and I wrote quite a bit to install nrpe, configure
the environment by checking /etc/services etc and push the config over.
If you are a wizz in Bash then this is excellent. I can redeploy all
configurations to all servers with just one command.

There is also cfengine, but I didn't bother with this. Even if you're
not a Bash wizz, then just a few lines to scp and possibly restart
daemon (although I use xinetd to limit the source of the request to the
nagios server for extra protection so I don't even have to do that).

-h

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