managing a large number of server

[Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac]

Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote:
> Assaf Flatto wrote:
>   
>> Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi list,
>>>
>>> I have the following situation: I'm monitoring a bunch of services on a 
>>> bunch of servers (ok, nothing new so far).
>>> All machines run the same services, but not all services is being 
>>> monitored by now (since they are custom services, i'm still writing 
>>> plugins for all of them). New machines are being added every day, and 
>>> also, i'm writing new plugins to check the services.
>>>
>>> When a new machine is added, is relatively easy: i copy the config file 
>>> from another machine and change the name of the host and other unique 
>>> attributes, but when a new service is added (a.k.a. i have finish 
>>> another plugin), i need to edit all the dozens of config files for each 
>>> server to add this new service.
>>>
>>> There is a smarter way to do this?
>>> Sorry for my poor english. Tks in advance.
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Try using templates and hostgroups 
>> Templates will allow you to use a central base definition to the service 
>> or host .
>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
>>
>> you can assign a service to a hostgroup and thus all host in the group 
>> will have the service checked on them.
>>
>> http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service
>>     
> Tks for showing the way. I'll check it out.
Worked like a charm. It's MUCH EASIER now to manage my hosts. Though i'm 
not a programmer, i do understand the OOP, and this is very much the same =)

Tks again guys.

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