workstations

[Carroll, Jim P [Contractor]]

I did a major push of new service definitions to 50+ hosts last night.
We're now monitoring 127 hosts, 1777 services.  And a *lot* of
servicedependencies.

For starters, I'm using the cfg_dir directive in nagios.cfg.  Then for each
host out there, I have a file (eg, host fizzgig would have the filename
fizzgig.cfg).  Within that file exists the host definition and all the
service definitions.

I created a template file containing the services I wanted to add to all
these hosts, but with "XXXXXXXX" instead of any particular hostname.  Then
with a bit of some shell scripting, using a 'for' loop and 'sed', I was able
to massage then append to all the files I was interested in.

This definitely cut down on the keystrokes and the 'oops' factor.

Not sure if this was what you were asking....

jc

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom DE BLENDE [mailto:tdeblend at gcc.dhl.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 9:05 AM
> To: Potter G M (Greg)
> Cc: Don Schultz; nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] workstations
> 
> 
> I imagine you don't have a large environment then? And if you do
> (let's say 500+ users), how do you add all this data into Nagios?
> 
> An interesting thread.
> 
> "Potter, G M (Greg)" wrote:
> > 
> > We watch our workstations.  It is helpful to know if your users
> > are having a problem before you get the call.  Often I can be in the
> > office of a client with a down workstation and fix the 
> problem before
> > they know they have one.  That improves PR and customer 
> satisfaction.
> > 
> > Greg
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Don Schultz [mailto:don_schultz at panvera.com]
> > > Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 5:39 PM
> > > To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > Subject: [Nagios-users] workstations
> > >
> > >
> > > Are any of you checking workstations? Just asking for fun 
> to see if
> > > anyone is.
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > --
> > > Don Schultz          | Panvera Corporation
> > > Unix Administrator   |  501 Charmany Drive
> > > ph: 608.204.5060     |   Madison, WI 53719
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