On 16.03.2012 15:50, Isaac Witmer wrote: > The current setup is two Icinga servers, one in a local network, and > one outside in cyberspace. > There are several servers in the local network that are checked by the > local instance of Icinga, but the notifications and external servers > are (for the most part) handled by the external instance. > > This causes some issues for keeping configurations in sync. If a new > computer is added to the local network, a new configuration has to be > added to the local Icinga, and then another almost identical > configuration (except marked as passive: > http://docs.icinga.org/1.0.1/en/passivechecks.html) on the external > host. > It's not quite as simple as simply copying the configurations between > incinga servers, though, because one server can check the hosts and > the other can't (firewall restrictions prevent the external server > from accessing internal hosts). > > I've thought a bit about modifying the templates so that I can make > the configurations in the template, but that doesn't quite work > either. The issue being that host configurations are preferred to > template configurations (understandably), meaning that I can't copy > host configurations from the local instance to the external instance > and expect the external instance to use a different (simply return > critical when it doesn't get any alerts) check command. > > Am I making any sense? Are there any ideas/documentation that would > make this easier? > > One idea that might help would be to attempt to script some things to > output the configuration files that I need... Are there tools out > there that do that already?
look for puppet or chef. -- DI (FH) Michael Friedrich Vienna University Computer Center Universitaetsstrasse 7 A-1010 Vienna, Austria email: michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at phone: +43 1 4277 14359 mobile: +43 664 60277 14359 fax: +43 1 4277 14338 web: http://www.univie.ac.at/zid http://www.aco.net Lead Icinga Core Developer http://www.icinga.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ icinga-users mailing list icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/icinga-users
