<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Actually I thought of further things I'd make such a cron job do (this could easily be a simple bash or perl script)...<div><br></div><div>- if the files have changed, check their times against the time nagios last restarted and warn if they are newer (as the changes aren't being picked up by the running nagios)</div><div>and</div><div>- run a config check and warn if restarting would fail due to errors.</div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Rick Carter wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We keep those files under RCS revision control and make people check them out and in to add new information. If we wanted to, I'd probably write an rcsdiff to see if anything's checked out that's not been checked back in.<div><br></div><div>Otherwise, two ideas come to mind: </div><div>- Create a daily cron job to check those files for a date newer than (last-checked-time) and email if they exist</div><div>*or*</div><div>- Create a daily cron job to diff those files against a save version of the files and email any diffs it finds, and when done, copy the current files to the saved versions again.</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Dec 3, 2010, at 9:28 AM, trm asn wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">I am looking for a plugin which will check the hosts.cfg, contacts.cfg, command.cfg and if found any new entry has been added into those files , then will be notified to the specific email id .<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 4:23 PM, trm asn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trm.nagios@gmail.com">trm.nagios@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Dear List,<br><br>Is there any plug-in available for nagios to check the newly added Host/Services/Contacts and notify by email.<br><br><br><br>/\<br>dE <br>
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