Host/Service Script Question

[Kevin Keane]

Dei Bertine wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I was wondering if there's a way to incorporate all hosts into one 
> host name instead of creating individual defines?
> I'm trying to add all of our servers into Nagios but there's huge 
> amount of them.
> Need faster way to add all of them into one script.
> Here's what I'm trying to avoid:
> define host{
>         use                             generic-host
>         host_name                sunbl.001.csaa.net
>         alias                          UNIX-SERVER1
>         address                     172.168.1.35
>         }
> define host{
>         use                             generic-host
>         host_name                sunbl.002.csaa.net
>         alias                          UNIX-SERVER2
>         address                     172.168.1.36
>         }
>
> ....and so on to hundreds of define host....
Create a host template to minimize the information you need for each 
host. note: generic-host actually is a template, so this is already 
done. If you have additional configuration settings specific to your 
situation but shared by all your hosts, it may make sense to derive your 
own template from generic-host, and then use that template in each host.
> Here's what I'm trying to "hopefully" accomplish" if possible:
> define host{
>         use                            all-host
>         host_name               allunixhosts
>         alias                          ALL-UNIX
>         address                     ALLIP
>         }
You can't quite do that because there is no way to figure out which IP 
goes with which host name.

But you could write a short bash script that automatically generates all 
the host definitions.

echo "Start of script-generated config file" >my.cfg.
for i in 001 002
do
   echo "define host {" >> my.cfg
   echo " use my-hosttemplate" >>my.cfg
   echo " host_name host_$i" >>my.cfg
   echo " alias host sunbl.$i.csaa.net" >>my.cfg
   echo " address sunbl.$i.csaa.net" >> my.cfg
   echo "}" >>my.cfg
done

> ..done all hosts...
>
> And also have them in one "all host" services.cfg script.
> define service{
>         use                             all-service        
>         host_name                 ALLHOSTSERVICE
>         service_description             SSH
>         check_command                   check_ssh
>         }
You can do that using host groups.

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