Split configfiles: services.cfg

[Andreas Ericsson]

nagios wrote:
> Hi
> 
> We are testing nagios and want to come away from BigBrother. Could these 
> configfiles be splitted up? I meen, about 50 hosts will blow up 
> services.cfg to a large complex file. Especially with several services 
> per host. It would be fine if I could do it like this:
> services-host1.cfg, services-host2.cfg, etc...
> 

Naturally. So long as they're all mentioned in nagios.cfg as cfg_file. 
You can even do something like
cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/hosts
and put all the files you need in there. Add a host object and the hosts 
respective services to the file and you're good to go.

You should also definitely look into attaching services to hostgroups. 
You would usually want a 'windows-servers' group so you can add checks 
for disk usage, memory usage and such on that type of servers, and 
perhaps 'router-devices' for checking the interface table for errors and 
traffic usage. That way you can get away with around 1/30'th of what you 
would otherwise have to type.


> Thanks, Florian
> 
> 
> 
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