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[Enrico Zimol]

Hi at all,
I'm newbie on nagios and I'm writing here to ask you for suggestions
abut how to structure my monitoring situation.
I've to monitor linux servers for about 15/20 customers, from 1 to 5
server for each customer.
We aren't on vpn with customers, so this servers are all behind NAT.
That isn't a problem because we are the administrator of the firewall
(other linux server) so we can manage any kind of DNAT and filter
rule.

I read on official documentation that suggest to use NCSA addon for
distributed monitoring, but we choose to use NRPE addon for different
motivations like:
-customer force us to do that
-the number of monitored servers for each customer will never grow up
-the services to monitor for each server are the same (raid hw/sw,
disk usage etc)
-we need a completly centralized monitoring structure

For last sentence I thought to use the arguments option on NRPE (yes,
I read the SECURITY document).
Besides, to solve the problem of NAT with NRPE I'll do DNAT on
firewall and the port parameter on check_nrpe plugin (is there
problems to do that? I did little tests but I prefear a confirm)


To manage this structure I need to organized a well-formed config file
structure on nagios server.

I thinked to structure it like this

obj--|
	|-->templatelinuxserversgeneral.cfg
	|
	|-->customer_1_directory|->templateserver.cfg
	|			|->server1.cfg
	|			|->server2.cfg
	|			|->servern.cfg
	|
	|-->customer_2_directory|->templateserver.cfg
				|->server1.cfg
				|->servern.cfg


Where:
-templatelinuxserversgeneral.cfg is a very basic template for server
-customer_1_directory in wich there is 1 file for each customer's server
-templateserver.cfg will use templatelinuxserversgeneral and will add
more specific common variabiles for that customer's server like the
public IPAddress that will be the same for each customer's server.
-servern.cfg in wich there will be some very specific server variables
like nrpe port (read up).

What do you think?
How can I organize that service-server combination?


Thank's so much

P.S. sorry for my bad english

-- 
Enrico Zimol

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