GOOD EXPLANATION FROM YR SIDE.
SO IF I WANT TO ADD MORE HOSTS THEN I NEED TO ADD IN ONLY HOSTS.CFG FILE NOT
IN ANY OTHER FILE(LIKE SERVICE/HOSTGROUPS ETC)AS OTHER FILES ARE LOOK HOSTS
DETAILS FROM HOSTGROUP NAME.
RIGHT ?
PL. CONFIRM ..
THANKS FOR YR SUPPORT
THANKS AND REGARDS,
SUHAG DESAI
Quoting Thomas Slutyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 21 Nov, 2006, at 16:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Sorry for wrongly posting youe message to IAN.
>
> No problem. I saw your e-mail the first time, since you CCed it to the
> ML.
>
> > I have tried and gone through the link given by u but i m not
> > successfully done this thing. Let me explain u in details. Suppose i
> > want to monitor SMTP,PING,POP,Harddisk usage,Memory,TELNET,FTP for the
> > host 192.168.10.1,192.168.10.2,192.168.10.3----192.168.10.50.
> >
> > So give me the configuration example for hosts.cfg, hostgroups.cfg,
> > service.cfg and whatever file needed to be configured.
>
> I know what you want and I know what you were originally looking for.
> As I explained yesterday there is no shortcut in defining Nagios hosts.
>
> I will not type up everything (since that wouldn't leave any chance for
> you to learn), but I will show you a few examples that apply to what I
> told Ian yesterday.
>
> In this case, hosts 1 and 2 run SMTP and POP, while 3 runs as an FTP
> server.
>
> define host{
> use host-template
> host_name foobar1
> alias foobar1
> address 192.168.10.1
> hostgroups HG-all,HG-mail
> }
>
> define host{
> use host-template
> host_name foobar2
> alias foobar2
> address 192.168.10.2
> hostgroups HG-all,HG-mail
> }
>
> define host{
> use host-template
> host_name foobar3
> alias foobar3
> address 192.168.10.3
> hostgroups HG-all,HG-ftp
> }
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup_name HG-all
> alias All systems
> }
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup_name HG-mail
> alias All UNIX systems
> }
>
> define hostgroup{
> hostgroup_name HG-ftp
> alias All UNIX systems
> }
>
> define service{
> use service-template
> hostgroup_name HG-mail
> service_description SMTP
> check_command $WHATEVER$
> }
>
> define service{
> use service-template
> hostgroup_name HG-mail
> service_description POP
> check_command $WHATEVER$
> }
>
> define service{
> use service-template
> hostgroup_name HG-ftp
> service_description FTP
> check_command $WHATEVER$
> }
>
> define service{
> use service-template
> hostgroup_name HG-all
> service_description TELNET
> check_command $WHATEVER$
> }
>
> define service{
> use service-template
> hostgroup_name HG-all
> service_description PING
> check_command $WHATEVER$
> }
>
> This way, you are grouping various service checks by linking them to
> groups of hosts.
>
> So, yes. If you add new hosts to your monitoring environment you will
> need to manually add these on an individual basis. But instead of
> manually adding all the required service descriptions as well, you will
> be automatically assigning these to the hosts in question by
> "subscribing" to the relevant host groups.
>
> > I have enable SNMP for SNMP based query on all the machine.
> That's fine. You could use SNMP to monitor your hard disk and memory
> usage in two ways: by reading the SNMP objects for the specific volume,
> or by running check_disk locally by tying it to a custom SNMP object of
> your choosing. You may also run check_disk passively through NSCA or
> actively through NRPE. Make your pick :)
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> Thomas
>
>
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