change management or source control for Nagios configs?

Max perldork at webwizarddesign.com
Fri Apr 11 05:05:33 CEST 2008


Hi,

SVN or CVS work very well for this; I personally use SVN.  Version
control admin directories will not interfere with Nagios parsing
configs from directories as it looks for files that end in .cfg (as
you pointed out in your post).

Terrific way to keep a hot backup of your configs off site and to
allow multiple configuration editors to work on files concurrently;
you could even tie in a nice project management web interface like
Trac for SVN and have a central place for people to easily see what
changed when via the web as well as managing requests for changes to
Nagios (new service / host monitoring requests etc) using the trouble
ticketing features of a system like Trac ... and then their monitoring
requests can be tied back to change sets by using the Milestone
features of Trac.

Lots of nice possibilities, especially for environments with multiple
editors and multiple users who can request service and host monitoring
changes.

- Max

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