Distributed / Central and hosts in pgsql

[Shawn Holland]

Hey,

I KNOW ITS LONG BUT PLEASE READ IF YOU CAN HELP.

Well my last email I sent I requested info on how to allow nagios to work with 
a list of hosts to be checked in a pgsql database. 

I was advised to use a program to make a config file for them.

I did this. But now while working on my next step of trying to get 30 servers 
in the field, that each have a list of devices to be monitored stored locally 
in their pgsql database.

Am I to understand that from the documentation that you need to have service 
definations for all services on each distributed server. 

ie. If I have a switch that I want to do a ping check on behind one of my 
distributed servers, I'll need to have that service defined on my central 
server?

If this is the case then I don't know how I am going to do this. Because the 
information may change on each distributed server.

Documentation snip
...
The central server must have service definitions for all services that are 
being monitored by all the distributed servers. Nagios will ignore passive 
check results if they do not correspond to a service that has been defined.
...

My setup is:

Central server
30 distributed servers

Each distributed server has 2 interfaces. One to the outside world and one to 
the internal network. The internal network has several devices to be ping 
checked and reported back to the central server.

The information for all devices to be ping checked are stored locally on each 
distributed server in a pgsql database. 

I have a script that will run on each distributed server to generate a config 
file outlining all the services for each devices.

This list may change so this script will rebuild the config file daily and 
restart nagios to ensure accurate information.

How, if at all, can I acomplish the above.

I know its a lot to ask but any help would be apreciated.


-- 
Regards,

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


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