front end tools for Nagios

[Cook, Garry]

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From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Jason
Qualkenbush
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 8:14 AM
To: Aaron K. Moore
Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] front end tools for Nagios

Aaron K. Moore wrote:
> Jim Avery wrote:
>  
>> The nuvola theme:
>>
>>    
>
http://www.nagiosexchange.org/Image_Packs.75.0.html?&tx_netnagext_pi1%5B
> p_view%5D=252
>  
>> All of these are to do with visualising the status of hosts and
>> services though, not configuration.  I'm firmly in the "use vi" camp
>> on that one (or use gedit if vi scares you). 
>>    
>
> I have to agree.  The nuvola theme is a nice clean design.
>
> I alternate back and forth between emacs and gedit for editing the
> config files.
>
>  

>I have a fairly simple database I keep the hosts in, and then just run
a
>cron script that pulls the hosts and builds the nagios config files
>based on that.  I still need to hand edit the commands.conf file to add

>checks, but monitoring a new host is as simple as a checkbox as is
>adding additional service checks.  While I don't mind editing the
config
>files, I don't want to be "The Nagios guy" and have all the other
admins
>send me tasks to add/remove hosts and services.  Click, click, click,
>submit.  Done.

Jason, would you be willing to share that script? I'm interested in
building something similar that will query hosts in my NeDi MySQL DB and
build Nagios config files from there. I'd like to avoid reinventing as
much of that wheel as possible.

Thanks,
Garry




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