Pgsql host list and check_ping

[Shawn Holland]

Janet,

I will be working on it today. When I get it done I will forward it to you.

My question still remains. If the configs are rebuilt does nagios need to be 
restarted?

On Wednesday 26 April 2006 9:37 am, Janet Post wrote:
> Shawn,
>
> I would be very interested in getting a copy of this script when you
> have it written.  Would you be willing to share?
>
> Janet.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net
> [mailto:nagios-users-admin at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Shawn
> Holland
> Sent: April 26, 2006 9:15 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Pgsql host list and check_ping
>
> I will try that. Does Nagios need to be restarted everytime the script
> rebuilds the config? (say if there is a new host added to the DB or one
> changes) to recognize the changes?
>
> On Wednesday 26 April 2006 2:05 am, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Shawn Holland wrote:
> > > I have setup a server running Nagios 2.2 with nagios-plugins-1.4.3.
> > >
> > > My Linux server has a Postgres database that has a table containing
>
> all
>
> > > devices on the network with their IP address and host name.
> > >
> > > I was wondering what a recommended way to allow Nagios to use this
>
> list
>
> > > and do a check_ping to each device and report their status? I know I
> > > could manually set each within a host and multiple services to ping
>
> each
>
> > > one. But I want it to utilize the existing db list as it may change
>
> and I
>
> > > want to cut down on overhead.
> >
> > I suggest you write a small script to generate a nagios config file
>
> for
>
> > these hosts and services and dropt it in a subdirectory of your nagios
> > config directory. Then point nagios to it with the cfg_dir statement.
> >
> > There is no recommended way as there is no way presently to do it. You
> > have to build it yourself.
> >
> > Hugo.

-- 
Regards,

Shawn Holland
Sandara Technologies Ltd.
Ph. 1-902-405-3344
Fx. 1-902-405-3345


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