Thanks for the input Steve. I was afraid it would come to that. Oh well. Off to write some Perl...
Thanks again! >From: "Steve Shipway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "The Other1" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,<nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Tracking dynamic parents? >Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:55:00 +1200 > > > I am monitoring several hundred virtual machines and they > > move from time to time to different VMware host machines. My > > question is how can I easily update the parents for these? > >We have this situation as well. > >The way I get around it is to reconfigure the scripts daily. I have a >reconfigurator which regenerates the config files for both MRTG and >Nagios, probing the SNMP on the VMWare server to identify the various >locations of the guests. This is then used to set parent definitions, >and also make summary graphs for MRTG. > >At the same time, it probes for agents, checks for various services, and >dynamically reconfigures the monitoring for certain things (theres a >central config file the holds a list of what should be there, in >addition). > >We dont vmotion the guests very often, anyway, and the check_esx2 plugin >will log current active VMs so it also keeps track of any changes. > >Sadly I can't share a copy of the config tool as it is too specific to >our site. > >Steve > >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share >your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Nagios-users mailing list >Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net >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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net 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
