change management or source control for Nagios configs?

[Hari Sekhon]

Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> I'm wondering what most people out there use for change management of
> Nagios config files.  I had been using BZR (bazaar-ng) for a while, but
> when I refreshed my servers it was a bit of a pain and haven't put it
> there yet.  I've tried to read about other ways to do this (RCS, SVN,
> etc), but they all seem so strongly oriented towards source-code
> projects that it's kind of confusing to run them with just config files.
>
> Some of these methods are complicated by the fact that they want to make
> their archive directory inside Nagios' directory structure.  This gets
> kind of weird as I use nagios.cfg directives to tell it to recursively
> read directories rather than just specifically named files.  BZR worked
> OK in this regard as it's dir was ".bzr" and was never picked up by
> Nagios.
>
> Ultimately, I'm trying to provide myself with the ability to track
> changes and potentially roll them back.  Is anyone else out there using
> some wonderful solution to this
Subversion.

It's not difficult, you don't have to read all the code concepts like 
branching and merging if you are just interested in simple "check out -> 
change+deploy -> check in" usage.

-h

-- 
Hari Sekhon


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