managing a large number of server

[Greg Pangrazio]

If you are looking for an "old school" method of doing this, check out sed.

it is a very powerful tool to edit multiple files at once.

Greg Pangrazio
pangrazi at gmail.com





On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Assaf Flatto <nagios at flatto.net> wrote:
> 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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