<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:31 AM, Terry <<a href="mailto:td3201@gmail.com">td3201@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hello, I have a medium-sized installation (>10,000) services) in a manged services/data center environment. I am curious how others in these types of multi-tenant environments organize their configuration files. There are multiple things to consider: - templates - cfg_dirs - grouping I am considering cfg_dirs in this fashion: /etc/nagios/objects/hosts/customer.cfg /etc/nagios/objects/services/customer/host.cfg I am considering templates in this fashion: /etc/nagios/objects/services/templates/sql.cfg (will contain microsoft sql type services) This template will look like this: define service{ use standard-server hostgroup_name sql service_description microsoft sql server service check_command check_nrpe_win_service_mssql } Then I can just add hosts to the sql hostgroup to give them this service. What am I missing? What do others do that might make my life easier? </blockquote><div> Sounds a lot like what I use... I also use host-templates for example: define host{ use solaris,dns,an-other-app address... } the solaris host-template applies standard checks like disk, cpu, SMF. the solaris-10-global template applies checks such as zone-checks the same can be applies to a windows / rhel template our rhel and solaris templates actually "use" basic *nix templates too. this was each hosts config is kept to a minimum. also keeping each host in its own .cfg file helps eg .../customer1/server-name1.cfg then any host specific checks (eg url checks) can be added to that one config file too. Ritchie </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. <a href="http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july" target="_blank">http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july</a> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list <a href="mailto:Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</a> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </blockquote></div>