<div>You do not HAVE to reconfigure all your sevices,</div>
<div>But it may be easier to maintain of you examine your config</div>
<div>and redo it to something that fits your projected growth.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>It may not be worth the time reorganizing the config files, </div>
<div>if none of your coworkers are willing to maintain the new structure</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I personally like using</div>
<div>A) service check templates to configure the base check times and standards</div>
<div>B) Have some services templates assigned to standard hostgroups</div>
<div>C) Have nested config directories managing different clients </div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>A single unique check does not need a hostgroup. </div>
<div>but a service templet for that host makes it just a few lines to add the new check.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>While a common check like a port check of FTP or 8080 would be better as a Hostgroup</div>
<div> </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Good luck,</div>
<div>Tony (Author of NC_NEt)<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Gabriel - IP Guys <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Gabriel@impactteachers.com">Gabriel@impactteachers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; PADDING-LEFT: 1ex" class="gmail_quote">Just to clarify, and I thank you and all who replied for taking the<br>time.<br><br>It's easier to create hostgroups, and assign checks to the host groups,<br>
then assign the hosts to those same hostgroups, in order to make sure<br>for example, all linux based servers have their uptime, swap space, SSH,<br>and free disk space all checked? If my understanding is correct, a host<br>
can belong to many hostgroups? In which case, a host that is running a<br>webserver, mysql server, and FTP service, will be checked for those<br>services not by its host definition, but by its host group definition?<br><br>
I half hope that I'm not right, because it means I have to reconfigure<br>all my host defs!<br>---<br>Kind Regards,<br>Mr Gabriel<br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Andy Shellam [mailto:<a href="mailto:andy-lists@networkmail.eu">andy-lists@networkmail.eu</a>]<br>> Sent: 10 May 2009 14:24<br>> To: Gabriel - IP Guys<br>
> Cc: <a href="mailto:nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net">nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net</a><br>> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Create a template host. Howto?<br>><br>> Gabriel,<br>><br>> From experience, you're better off using host groups. For example<br>
all<br>> your hosts will have certain checks (ping, disk space etc) so I have a<br>> group "all hosts" which all hosts are added to.<br>><br>> We also have hosts that perform their own functions - e.g. database<br>
> servers, DNS servers, web servers, which all have relevant checks of<br>> their own. So we have other host groups called, for example, "DNS<br>> servers", "web servers" etc which each host is added to the group<br>
> depending on the function it performs. All service checks are then<br>> added to the host groups, instead of individual hosts.<br>><br>> Then if we come up with a new service check, it gets added to the host<br>
> group it needs to be in, and is automatically added to all hosts in<br>> that<br>> group. Similarly if we add a new server, it gets added to the host<br>> groups it needs to be in, and inherits all the service checks of that<br>
> group without any additional configuration.<br>><br>> See this page for the above (and plenty other) time-saving tricks:<br>> <a href="http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html" target="_blank">http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objecttricks.html</a><br>
><br>> HTH,<br>><br>> Andy<br>><br>> Gabriel - IP Guys wrote:<br>> > Dear All,<br>> ><br>> > I've completed my nagios installation, thanks to a bit of lurking on<br>> > this list, and now I have an issue of my own.<br>
> ><br>> > I've finished configuring a host with all the checks and warnings<br>> that<br>> > I need, and now I want to use all the same checks on my other hosts.<br>> I<br>> > don't want to have to keep changing every host once when i install<br>
> and<br>> > configure new plugins. How can create a template so that all host<br>are<br>> > 'updated' with new checks when i update just the template?<br>> ><br>> > Thanks for any advice in advance.<br>
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