[Nagios-users] ANNOUNCE: Nagios::WebTransact and Nagios::Config on CPAN!

[Russell Adams]

I figured template based was the way to go, but I was curious because
I'm hacking on CHIRP (a SNMP autoconfiguration perl script for
Cricket) to support some devices, and I was considering modifying the
output to create Nagios configs for the same devices.

I think the hashes that CHIRP keeps are config file specific, so it
may be a moot point.

Along the same lines, aside from nmap2nagios, what do others use to
automatically create/update their configs?

Russell

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 12:39:05PM -0700, John Arley Burns wrote:
> 
> --- Russell Adams <RLAdams at Kelsey-Seybold.com> wrote:
> > Any plans for creating a module to write Nagios configs?
> > 
> > Perhaps dump a hash tree out to config file, optionally with
> > optimizations?
> 
> The system I use here is template-driven.  I have a template for what I
> want a service or hostgroup to look like, with replacement variables in
> the template file.  Then I load the template into perl and do a simple
> search/replace on the template code.
> 
> Template-driven configuration is generally easier than using hash trees
> because there's a lot of stuff I don't care about in the program that's
> easier to edit in a text file.  For instance, I may want to change
> timeout or check command or so forth in the text file and then just
> re-run the config maker program using the template.
> 
> If Nagios ever adopts XML config files, which it should, then XSLT
> provides an existing mechanism to generate config files via templates.


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