Breaking up hosts.cfg into manageable files, possible?

[Greg Vickers]

Tomas,

The use of the cfg_dir directive in nagios.cfg is the only way to go; (my 
config under Debian) e.g:

cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/contacts
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/timeperiods
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/hostgroups
cfg_dir=/etc/nagios/objects/hostgroups/firstdept
etc...

This way you can drop files in there with whatever name you like 
(reallybighostconfig.txt) and Nagios will parse those files - so long as 
they contain valid configuration information you are good.

Use of the cfg_dir means that if you are working on something and you just 
want to drop that configuration item out of your config for a second, 
create a subdir (/etc/nagios/objects/contacts/wip) and drop that file in 
there while troubleshooting.

I also do demarcation and granularization (sp?) - I store a general use 
template in ../services and break up all services into 
../services/firstdept, ../services/seconddept etc etc

This makes for a fairly large directory structure, but it makes 
organization of configuration items really easy.

Greg

At 01:54 AM 06/11/2003, MT Morales wrote:

>Is it possible to break up the hosts.cfg (and services.cfg) in to
>small, more manageable files (like for different types of systems)?
>i.e. do the hosts.cfg and service.cfg object files support some sort
>of "include <unix-hosts.cfg>" statement?
>
>sorry if this is too simple a question. I just haven't found anything
>that addresses that option in the docs.
>
>Any pointers on that (or solution approach) will be appreciated
>Tomas
>
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