Managing nagios configuration files

[Marc Powell]

----Original Message----
From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of jeff vier
Sent:
Thursday, October 28, 2004 4:01 PM To: Simon Tetelbaum
Cc: nagios-users
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Managing nagios configuration files

> On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:03 -0400, Simon Tetelbaum wrote:
> > Editing some of the cfg files while nagios is running causes the
cgis
> > to act unpredictably. On the system I'm setting up its not unlikely
> > that various admins will be editing files while nagios is running
and
> > forget to restart it with the updated cfgs. I'm thinking of forcing
> > users to edit config files in one directory and push them out to
> > another when they're finished updating. Any other solutions? Thanks
> 
> If you're not using something like cvs, I think you're nuts.
> 
> Notably, with nagios 2.x, it caches settings, so this problem stops
happening
> (thus I assume you're using 1.x).  Still, CVS is a good thing. 
> 

I concur. We keep all of our configurations in CVS and do nightly
checkouts/reloads.

--
Marc


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