New to nagios

[Jason Martin]

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You'll have to specify every host you want to monitor in the hosts file, 
but the idea behind templating is that you make one template for each 
'class' of hosts, then write some very small entries of each. So, if you 
have some sun servers, you create a template that defines everything about 
a generic server. You then write a small awk script to take the list of 
hostnames you want to monitor and have it spit out a small host entry that 
also invokes the template. 

- -Jason Martin


On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Sullivan, Robert (HQP) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to nagios but have a question on the hosts.cfg file and the
> template. So my question is do I need to define each host in this file or
> can I user the template e.g. sun-servers to get all of the host names and IP
> addresses. If the first is the case even with the template then how is it
> really useful it would seem I still need to enter the information into the
> hosts.cfg file and when you are dealing with 200+ servers it gets fairly
> big.
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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