<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 21:55, Kevin Keane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:subscription@kkeane.com">subscription@kkeane.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Config file maintenance can be improved to some extent with careful design of the config files, as well as tools. It is an issue that I am running into with a relatively small installation with 80+ hosts and 400+ services. My installation is highly heterogeneous and very dynamic, which makes config file maintenance a nightmare. Having to restart Nagios after a configuration change doesn’t help either. On the other hand, a network with 2000 identical machines is probably going to be much easier to manage than my type of network.</span></p>
</div></div></blockquote><div>Nitpicking or helpful tip, you decide: Nagios reloads config changes on SIGHUP, you don't have to do a restart. A full restart can take a while on a sufficiently sized installation so having to do one for every change would indeed be a PITA, but I've never seen a reload take more than a few seconds.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>Martin</div></div>