Nagios Strategies

[Matthew Joyce]

Hi all,

I've found myself in a quandary and I'm wondering how other Nagios uses
have address similar problems.
We've recently upgraded to 2.6 and I've been tidying up the configs,
sorting out service groups, etc.

I've been adding checks for specific windows services, Exchange, Backup
Exec, various MS SQL databases and that sort of thing.
The more services I add, the more I consider their dependencies on each
other.
SNMP service is now a critical service, as without it I will get a storm
of notification.

I can see that service dependencies would fix this but it does seem
overly complex to have to list each host/service pair in the dependency
definition.

One way I thought might work is to create a servicegroup called
myserversnmp and add the service to the group in the service definition.
Then, in the dependency definition, make that servicegroup dependent on
SNMP Service on the host.

This would mean I end up with a load of servicegroups, but make
configuring easier as I just need to add one line per service and that's
often done with copy/past/tweak.

An alternative might be to regular expressions, but for me this would be
an obfuscation, not really what I'm after.
It would be nice if there was a service dependency directive in the
service definition.

How do others manage dependencies ?



Thanks

Matt
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