Large Numbers of Hosts (Re: Apan Configurations)

[Rob King]

Hey everyone,
    I've seen several mentions of large numbers of hosts and services 
like this. At my organization, we're monitoring around 500. However, 
I've noticed some issues:

    - The statusmap screen is completely unusable - there are so many 
hosts, they overlap almost completely, and are practically invisible. 
Should I just give up on the statusmap, or is there a solution?

    - The template configuration files are difficult to use (at least 
for me! :) over a certain number of hosts, due to the limitations of the 
config parser - every entry has to be one logical line. We have so many 
different host groups (we're pretty large, and have lots of devolved 
administration) that the "logical line" takes up probably four physical 
lines. Anyone have any strategies for overcoming this?

       That's about it really. Oh, and I'd like to thank everyone for 
making/working with/supporting Nagios - we're in the process of 
migrating away from a home-grown Big Brother-based solution, and the 
difference is amazing. Thanks for all the help in advance.

       Rob

Bishop, Dean wrote:

>This seems like a good path.
>
>Anyone have a way to suck in hosts/services from existing files?
>
>i have 1400+ hosts and almost 1600 services.
>
>If i read the docs correctly, i would have to create entries for each of the
>services and/or hosts.
>
>kinda daunting...but then came Perl.  anyone up to the task?
>
>later,
>dean
>
>  
>




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