On 1/11/06, David Schlecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list > > > > Does notification escalation scale well to large shops? > > From the docs it appears that each host/service pair must > > have its own record in the serviceEscalations.cfg file. I see > > no support for host groups.
How big of a shop are you talking about? 1000 hosts? 10000 hosts? more? > If I have to enter and maintain many hundreds of host/service > > pairs in the config file, I need a raise! > > > > Has anyone with a large shop been successful at this? > > > > According to the docs, HOST escalation definitions have a > > hostgroup_name field which allows multiple host groups, but > > this field is optional and the host_name field is required. > > Is it possible that if hostgroup_name is defined, then the > > host_name field can be skipped? They seem mutually exclusive. > > > > Allowing host groups for services would be real nice, too. > I have a large number of hosts that have common services. A nice thing you can do is just specify the service/escalation once and just have multiple hostnames delimited by comma. I find it nice to have individual files for each host, specifically for their host-specific information, rather than lumping all of that into one host.cfg file, but that's a matter of personal preference. I'm in the middle of a Nagios setup and we will probably have anywhere from 1000-1500 unique hosts, some with many services and others with only ping and/or snmp. I already have around 100 of our servers in there, each of which has around 15 of its own services. I've been looking at Fruity (a web-based configuration tool), but I have been unable to get it to import my current escalations. You may want to use something like this unless you are going to write a script for yourself to speed the host/service/escalation creation process. Fruity may work very well for you since it sounds like you are still preparing to add all your hosts. However, it is not recommended for production use, but that means you should just make regular backups of your config files and be careful about exporting. Hope some of this helps. Regards, Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idv37&alloc_id865&op=click _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null
