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Giles Coochey gcoochey at sapphire.gi
Fri Jul 6 09:55:19 CEST 2007


Thanks Marc,

That was exactly what I was looking for.

Any chance of that being documented or linked to here:

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/xodtemplate.html#service


Best regards
 
Giles Coochey

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Giles Coochey
> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 4:01 AM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] (no subject)
> 
> Hello List
> 
> I'm just in the process of doing a new install of Nagios, and I find
> myself thinking that I'm going to end up with a ping_check with a line
> that contains something like 300 comma separated hostnames
> 
> Is there a good way to reduce the bloat and improve the manageability
of
> the configuration?

This might help --

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/templatetricks.html

> 
> What is the recommended path to make sure your nagios config doesn't
> become something that only one person can make changes to, because of
> its complexity?

Use templates as much as possible, create standard checks for different
types of hosts, use a database/front end to store host/service
information that's important to your checks, autogenerate as much of
your configs from the database as possible.

--
Marc

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