Nagios Configured by LDAP

[Joerg Linge]

Am Montag, 21. April 2008 00:14 schrieb Allan Clark:
> Hi;
> In my company, we have a complex series of firewalled zones within each
> datacenter.  We also intend to use Nagios from one datacenter to check
> another's external services.  We use LDAP extensively, and deploy everything
> -- including Nagios -- with a redundant.
> 
> I've done some initial work to configure Nagios using LDAP based on
> current-CVS Nagios-3.0.1.
> 
> The only past work towards this that I found was an email from Benoit
> Mortier [1], who I have contacted and he's interested in providing test
> data.  The edits are in base/config.c, base/nagios.c, and
> xdata/xoddefault.c.  I'm writing to:
> 
> 1) advertise the short writeup:
> http://www.nagioscommunity.org/wiki/index.php/LDAP-Configured_Nagios
> 2) poll interest from other users who want to beta-test and argue over
> schema
> 3) verify that I'm not wasting my time.

Why do you want to add the LDAP part to the Nagios core?
I think its better to create the text based Nagios config from you LDAP data by using an external addon.
So you dont have to patch the Nagios core and you can also mixup ldap and text based config.

Just my 2 cent.

Jörg   

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