That depends on your definition of dynamically. I would like to see it be able
to add/remove hosts without requiring a restart of the service. I currently
use puppet, but it's still just updating files and then you have to restart to
pickup the changes.
Dan
From: ranjib dey [mailto:dey.ran...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 11:42 PM
To: Nagios Users List
Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Dynamically add/remove hosts on Nagios
Have you considered using a configuration management tool like chef or puppet ?
They address the exact usecase
On Feb 10, 2012 7:08 AM, "Felipe Cecagno"
<fceca...@gmail.com<mailto:fceca...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi everybody,
This is the first time I'm posting on this mailing list, so I'm sorry if my
question was already discussed here - I tried to find information about it on
the mailing list and also on Nagios documentation + googling, but couldn't find
it.
Well, I'm setting up Nagios to monitor a group of servers in a cloud
environment. I decided to use passive checks, so I will have one Nagios central
monitor and all servers push statistics to Nagios using NSCA. Everything is OK
so far.
The problem is that I want to add and remove instances dynamically, I don't
want to manually modify hosts.cfg on the central each time I change my
infrastructure. So my idea was that when a new instance gets up, it will send
to Nagios something like (always using NSCA):
"localhost Server UP 0 <new instance IP>"
On Nagios I would create a new service on localhost to handle this passive
check.
I've created a Python script (that uses pynag) to modify the hosts.cfg file in
order to add and remove host definitions. When Nagios receives this passive
check, I would call the script to modify the hosts definition files, and a cron
job would execute every minute to look for modifications on hosts.cfg and make
Nagios reload the definition files.
My doubts are:
- is there a smarter way to do that (dynamically add and remove hosts from
Nagios)?
- since my "Server UP" service uses passive checks only, how do I make Nagios
call my script to modify hosts.cfg every time it receives the passive check?
Any thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated. :)
Thank you in advance,
Best regards,
--
Felipe Cecagno
Mconf Development Team
https://mconf.org<https://mconf.org/>
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