Keeping the Nagios Configuration Sane

[Niall O Broin]

On 10 Mar 2010, at 18:58, David Wallis wrote:

> I manage the Nagios installation for 3 different domains at work, each 
> domain with several hundred servers and clients. I quickly reached the 
> "There's got to be a better way!" point when trying to maintain 
> configuration files that were getting pretty big. I was using all the 
> tricks listed in the Nagios docs, but it was still pretty crazy.
> 
> The approach I took was to write a configuration generator program that 
> uses a meta-config file to generate the hosts.cfg, hostgroups.cfg and 
> services.cfg config files. The meta-config file allows one to set up 
> cascading configuration variables, and then has one line per monitored 
> host, that includes things like host groups, parents, etc, and then a 
> list of services to monitor.
> 
> I also created the idea of "meta-services" that allow the program to 
> generate configuration data for any number of related services with a 
> single service name in the meta-config file. For instance, including the 
> service "weball" will cause the configuration generator to create 
> service entries for every plumbed interface on the web server, checks 
> for every virtual server (http and https), and checks for every SSL cert 
> that it finds. In one domain, a 400 line meta-config file generates a 
> 20,000 line services.cfg file.
> 
> Rather than updating individual config files, I just update the 
> meta-config file and then regenerate all of the *.cfg files. I've been 
> using this for several years with very good results.

That sounds very interesting David. Is it something you can share with the community?




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Kindest regards,


Niall  O Broin

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