Nagios Strategies

[Hari Sekhon]

I'm also interested in this but haven't thought about how to actually go 
about doing something like this. I have looked at the service 
dependencies but the docs don't mention what you suggest so I would 
expect that it doesn't work like this... yet.

unless anybody else has some more wisdom?

-h

Hari Sekhon



Matthew Joyce wrote:
>
> 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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