Template Based Configuration Issues

[Adams, Russell L.]

I'm glad to see that Nagios 2 covers everything. I'll consider it,
thanks!

Russell

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 04:29:01PM +0100, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Adams, Russell L. wrote:
> >I'm migrating from a Netsaint 0.0.7 installation to Nagios 1.2, and
> >was frustrated by portions of the template based configuration. I
> >thought I'd check here for advice.
> >
> 
> Nagios 2 is out.
> 
> >I love the new inheritance features using templates and being able to
> >apply services across hostgroups. In Netsaint I was using some
> >elaborate custom perl scripting to accomplish similar tasks and was
> >hoping to avoid similar scripts for Nagios by utilizing the templates.
> >
> >One problem I'm having is that wildcards cannot contain glob patterns
> >(ie: members server* ). I did a quick test to see if it worked,
> >which failed for me. Is this correct that a wildcard can mean all
> >hosts, and only all hosts?
> >
> 
> Sort of. Nagios 2 has regex support for referencing though.
> 
> >Secondly, it appears that the template definitions cannot be squeezed
> >into one line, for example:
> >
> >define host{ host_name host ; alias hostalias ; use Template };
> >
> >Is there a format for this I missed in the documentation, or must each
> >template based record truly be newline separated?
> >
> 
> Each template based record must truly be newline separated. ; marks rest 
> of the line as a comment, so that's a no go for variable separation.
> 
> >Third, I'm frustrated by the fact that I have to list every member
> >host in the hostgroup definition. For automation purposes I was hoping
> >to be able to define which hostgroup to join in the host definition,
> >reducing the hostgroup definition to specifying the contact group for
> >the hostgroup. Are there any workarounds for this?
> >
> 
> Nagios 2 supports this.
> 
> >I'm trying to automate our Nagios configuration to a degree to keep up
> >with our constantly changing network without constant manual
> >intervention. 
> >
> >I'm doing a domain transfer and matching hostnames in order to create
> >host records for Nagios, which is why having to collect all of the
> >hosts for a hostgroup definition is so problematic. However, defining
> >services by the hostgroup and using host templates works wonderfully!
> >
> >Any suggestions are appreciated.
> >
> 
> Upgrade to nagios 2 while you're at it. Seems it would solve at least 
> some of your problems.
> 
> -- 
> Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
> OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
> Lead Developer
> 
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