Janet, I will be working on it today. When I get it done I will forward it to you.
My question still remains. If the configs are rebuilt does nagios need to be restarted? On Wednesday 26 April 2006 9:37 am, Janet Post wrote: > Shawn, > > I would be very interested in getting a copy of this script when you > have it written. Would you be willing to share? > > Janet. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shawn > Holland > Sent: April 26, 2006 9:15 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Pgsql host list and check_ping > > I will try that. Does Nagios need to be restarted everytime the script > rebuilds the config? (say if there is a new host added to the DB or one > changes) to recognize the changes? > > On Wednesday 26 April 2006 2:05 am, Hugo van der Kooij wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Shawn Holland wrote: > > > I have setup a server running Nagios 2.2 with nagios-plugins-1.4.3. > > > > > > My Linux server has a Postgres database that has a table containing > > all > > > > devices on the network with their IP address and host name. > > > > > > I was wondering what a recommended way to allow Nagios to use this > > list > > > > and do a check_ping to each device and report their status? I know I > > > could manually set each within a host and multiple services to ping > > each > > > > one. But I want it to utilize the existing db list as it may change > > and I > > > > want to cut down on overhead. > > > > I suggest you write a small script to generate a nagios config file > > for > > > these hosts and services and dropt it in a subdirectory of your nagios > > config directory. Then point nagios to it with the cfg_dir statement. > > > > There is no recommended way as there is no way presently to do it. You > > have to build it yourself. > > > > Hugo. -- Regards, Shawn Holland Sandara Technologies Ltd. Ph. 1-902-405-3344 Fx. 1-902-405-3345 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ 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
