managing a large number of server

[Guy Waugh]

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:14 PM, 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
>

Also, using a web-based configuration tool such as NagiosQL (
http://www.nagiosql.org), in conjunction with things like templates,
hostgroups, servicegroups etc. can make life a whole lot easier. Doubtless
there are other web-based configuration front-ends for Nagios around as
well...



>
> --
> Never,Ever Cut A Deal With a Dragon
>
>
> I am doing a Charity Bike ride On the 27 of June for the
> Capital to Coast Charity. Please help by Donating
> http://www.justgiving.com/Lovefilm-capital-to-coast
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> _______________________________________________
> Nagios-users mailing list
> Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when
> reporting any issue.
> ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://www.monitoring-lists.org/archive/users/attachments/20100504/96128618/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------- next part --------------
_______________________________________________
Nagios-users mailing list
Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users
::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. 
::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null