cfg_dir recursive?

[Jo Rhett]

On May 3, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Tom Throckmorton wrote:
> Jo, could you cut and paste your relevant configuration bits for
> enabling the cfg_dir / cfg_file directives?

Sure.   The first part of bone stock:

# You can split other types of object definitions across several
# config files if you wish (as done here), or keep them all in a
# single config file.
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/contactgroups.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/contacts.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/dependencies.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/escalations.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/hostgroups.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/hosts.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/servicegroups.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/service-template.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/services.cfg
cfg_file=/d/nagios/etc/timeperiods.cfg

There there is the custom part.  The first line is commented out  
because it doesn't work.  If I use this and comment out the later  
lines then none of the configuration files in these directories are  
parsed.

# You can also tell Nagios to process all config files (with a .cfg
# extension) in a particular directory by using the cfg_dir
# directive as shown below:
#cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/common
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9617
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9652
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9669
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9677
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9691
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9696
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9698
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9730
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9736
cfg_dir=/d/nagios/etc/customers/9743

If I uncomment the first line and comment out the later lines, I get  
the following:

Performing sanity check of nagios configuration: FAILED

Nagios 2.9
Copyright (c) 1999-2007 Ethan Galstad (http://www.nagios.org)
Last Modified: 04-10-2007
License: GPL

Reading configuration data...

Error: Servicegroup has no members (config file '/d/nagios/etc/ 
servicegroups.cfg', starting on line 6)

This is a hint, because every service defined in these subdirectories  
is a member of that group.  If I manually add a static service to  
that group, the error goes away but none of the hosts or services  
defined in those subdirectories appear in the configuration.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness



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