Nagios and automatic configuration

[Marc Powell]

On Jan 30, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Jan Marquardt wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> we are considering to use Nagios to monitor our network devices and
> servers. There is one main question left, namely "Is it possible to
> generate the configurations automatically?". This would be essential  
> for
> our system.

If you mean by auto-discovery, nagios has no facility to do that built  
in. There is an addon called nmap2nagios that may help you accomplish  
that. I challenge you, however, to think about why you believe this to  
be a good thing. IMHO, you'll likely be monitoring much more than you  
really care about at a level of detail that may not be sufficient  
sufficient.

If you mean by using a front-end to enter in host and service  
information and that program generates the nagios configuration files,  
yes, there are a few of them available but nothing created by the  
nagios author. Take a look at http://nagiosexchange.org. There's quite  
a bit of variability between them so YMMV. This comes up on the list  
pretty frequently so you should have to search hard to find commentary  
on them.

--
Marc

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