managing a large number of server

[Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac]

Assaf Flatto 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
Tks for showing the way. I'll check it out.

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