Thanks Michael. I realized a week ago that using the examples was going to cause me major organization problems as I have close to 100 devices to monitor, all being defined in the windows.cfg file. I created new .cfg files, one for each system and put them in /usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/. I moved all of the definitions for the servers in each system into the new .cfg file for their system and removed them from the windows.cfg file. I added the appropriate cfg_file entries in the icinga.cfg, and now I have a much more manageable situation as I add more servers and systems.
I can see that this new challenge is also from following the examples. I feel much more comfortable with the system.cfg files now that I learned how they worked and the relationship between them and icinga.cfg. I am now studying the docs on templates to get a grasp on them as well. Thanks, --Hank -----Original Message----- From: Michael Friedrich [mailto:michael.friedr...@univie.ac.at] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:39 AM To: icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [icinga-users] Hiding the Windows-Servers hostgroup On 20.07.2012 14:21, Hank Lambert wrote: > > Thanks Wolfgang. I assumed that the Windows hostgroup was being > populated by the windows.cfg file. However, it seems that it is being > populated by the machines using the windows-server template in each > host definition. Is that correct? > i would highly advise you to NOT use the examples shipped with upstream tarballs, but rather try to understand how templates work, and which relations / dependencies they might add. especially on inherited attributes, as the docs will help you understand as well. given your question, you are using the windows-server template from templates.cfg, having the hostgroups attribute set to "windows-servers". i would opt for removing this attribute, and adding a different template for hostgroup assignment then. > If so, I could create a server template for each system in the > templates.cfg file by copying the windows-server template and renaming > each new template entry from windows-server to anystream-server, > frontporch-server, etc., and then changing the templates of each host > definition in each system cfg file. > icinga.cfg requires you to use cfg_file OR cfg_dir for such things. i would go for the directories. create a templates/ dir, one for hosts, one for groups, one for contacts, etc. include those with cfg_dir=... in icinga.cfg. within templates/ you might then place a new file containing your windows templates, including for example the basic windows-server template, and a nother one, named windows-server-groups where you'll put all generic hostgroups ... including more than one template is possible. kind regards, michael ps: even if i would like to throw away the examples, and replace them with something usefule, people use that in stock production... > --Hank > > *From:*Wolfgang [mailto:w...@gmx.net] > *Sent:* Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:50 PM > *To:* icinga-users@lists.sourceforge.net > *Subject:* Re: [icinga-users] Hiding the Windows-Servers hostgroup > > Am 19.07.2012 17:40, schrieb Hank Lambert: > > Is there a way to hide the Windows-Servers hostgroup from > displaying in the Hostgroup Overview or Summary? I have created > separate .cfg files for each of my systems and have defined each > server within those cfg files; I am not even using the windows.cfg > file for anything except to define the windows-server hostgroup. I > tried commenting out the hostgroup definition in windows.cfg, and > also tried to comment out the > "cfg_file=/usr/local/icinga/etc/objects/windows.cfg" line in the > icinga.cfg file, but both ended up with errors when trying to > restart Icinga. I am using the windows-server template in each > windows server host definition. > > Right now the Hostgroup Overview shows each one of my systems and > then the Windows Servers hostgroup with each server displayed in > that list as well. That is what I want to hide. > > I am running Icinga Classic 1.6.1 on Debian 6.05 with MySQL and > Apache installed from the repository. Thanks for any help you can > provide. > > Thanks, > > Hank Lambert, KB4MTO > > h...@hanklambert.com <mailto:h...@hanklambert.com> > > www.hanklambert.com <http://www.hanklambert.com> > > PGP Key: 0x96D33D71 > > AFAIK there is no way to hide a "real" object which is referenced in > the configuration files. Perhaps you can convert the windows hostgroup > definition to a template as well. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. 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