Distributed config admin tool?

[Rob Brown]

Thanks, but most of these answers seem to be based around distributing
the configs. All good answers, but not really what I was looking for.
I am more interested in how to GENerate the configs (ie: adding hosts,
services etc) for a distributed setup, without having to add things
twice (once on master as passive, then again on distributed as active,
yadda yadda)
We currently have an in-house tool that we use to manage the master
config but it was written years ago (back when there were none) and
does not have this capability. Since we are planning to break up our
monolithic Nagios cluster into distributed sites, we wanted to
evaluate any config tools that already have this capability to see if
they are worth using versus spending time retrofitting ours.
So far, it seems OpsView has the features to support this, but
migrating may be a bit of a chore. I will be installing it so I can at
least take a peek under the hood for some ideas.

On 9/3/07, Nate Campi <nate at campin.net> wrote:
> I use cfengine, and have it down to where I can setup a new Nagios
> instance or setup a failed Nagios instance in minutes.
>
> I have a single Nagios filesystem hierarchy that helps ensure that the
> central and distributed services and host definitions are exactly the
> same - using symlinks.
> [snip]
> None of this is original, of course, but along with cfengine it makes it
> a breeze to manage. If people really care, I could put up a better
> description of how I did it.
>
> On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 08:29:18AM +0100, tom.welsh at bt.com wrote:
> > Yes, I'd second cfengine. Though rsync is a simple quick fix
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Bill Omer
> > Sent: Thu 30/08/2007 21:11
> > To: Rob Brown
> > Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Distributed config admin tool?
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8/30/07, Rob Brown <dtownrobbrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Are there any configuration admin tools out there that are multi-site
> > > aware to be able to manage a distributed nagios setup (multiple
> > > sites/servers)?
> > > I am in the planning stages of expanding from a single pair (failover)
> > > to distributed servers and am looking for a tool to help manage the
> > > configs.
> > > How are you admins with distributed sites managing them?
> >
> >
> > You may want to take a look at cfengine.  It's pretty robust, and can
> > support much more than just nagios configs.
> >
> > -Bill
> >

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