How do you test a large configuration?

jeremy at hq.newdream.net jeremy at hq.newdream.net
Sat Jun 28 08:20:15 CEST 2003


Alternatively, you could firewall various services at the machine they're
running on, instead of the nagios server.  Depending on the OS on those
machines, it might make the task a bit easier.

On Fri, 28 Jun 2003, Karl DeBisschop wrote:

> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 16:42, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> >     >> To the greated extent possible, I'd like to avoid discovering
> >     >> mistakes in my configuration when a machine goes down and nobody
> >     >> notices.  Other than (actually, in addition to) tediously desk
> >     >> checking everything, do people have any suggestions for checking
> >     >> large configurations?
> >
> >     Karl> Use iptables on the nagios box to block communication with various
> >     Karl> ports on various servers. Do this in a controlled manner and you
> >     Karl> should be able to test most of your configs.
> >
> > Thanks for the excellent suggestion.  If only I had a Linux box available
> > for testing.  I'm currently running on Mac OS X
>
> OS X being Unix, isn't there an implementaion of netfilters or something
> around. I know the BSD's have an analogous program, I just don't know
> the name offhand.
>
> --
> Kalr
>
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