managing a large number of server

[Assaf Flatto]

Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have the following situation: I'm monitoring a bunch of services on a 
> bunch of servers (ok, nothing new so far).
> All machines run the same services, but not all services is being 
> monitored by now (since they are custom services, i'm still writing 
> plugins for all of them). New machines are being added every day, and 
> also, i'm writing new plugins to check the services.
>
> When a new machine is added, is relatively easy: i copy the config file 
> from another machine and change the name of the host and other unique 
> attributes, but when a new service is added (a.k.a. i have finish 
> another plugin), i need to edit all the dozens of config files for each 
> server to add this new service.
>
> There is a smarter way to do this?
> Sorry for my poor english. Tks in advance.
>   
Try using templates and hostgroups 
Templates will allow you to use a central base definition to the service 
or host .
http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html

you can assign a service to a hostgroup and thus all host in the group 
will have the service checked on them.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

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