I think you do have the right idea except I wouldn't define templates for each service, instead only for distinct service types.
Define Hosts Assign Host to Hostgroups Define Services based on Service Templates + tweaks. Assign Services to Hostgroups Assign Services to Servicegroups There may always be specific scenarios where certain services are only for specific hosts. You have to decide whether to define a host group for a single host, I don't. I'm no keen on the web based config interfaces, I was scared off by the problems I read in the forums, and the bugs in the bug trackers. I'm happy carving stuff from ascii. Though, if there was a rock solid offering I might try it. I have written a couple of scripts to help fabricate service dependencies, useful for NRPE and SNMP dependant checks. Also, consider using Bazaar (http://bazaar-vcs.org/) for config file version control. It's a breeze to setup, requires python. After any significant changes I just run `bzr commit -m 'tweaked foo'` and a new revision is created. Matthew Joyce 02 9382 0051 | IT Manager | Children's Cancer Institute Australia for Medical Research > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > Of Steve Huff > Sent: Tuesday, 14 August 2007 5:51 AM > To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Nagios-users] Nagios best practices? > > Hello folks! > > I'd like to roll out Nagios to replace our aging Mon > installation; however, setting up Nagios has been more > difficult than I had expected, which makes me wonder if I'm > going about it the wrong way. > > Can you recommend a Nagios best practices document or howto? > > Essentially, I'd like to do as little per-host configuration > as possible; I'd like to be able to define service templates > for each of the services I'll need to monitor, then arrange > hosts into groups such that all the machines in each group > have a certain service template assigned to them (e.g. all > the web servers get a web_server template, which tells Nagios > to monitor HTTP and HTTPS service; when we bring a new web > server into production, I create a host entry for the new web > server which says that it's part of the web_server group, and > Nagios starts monitoring HTTP and HTTPS service on it). > > I specifically want to avoid the situation where every time > we bring a new machine online, I have to define all the > services on it individually, then go through all the various > host group and service group definitions and add entries to > them one by one. > > Is this a reasonable scheme, or should I be approaching this > problem a different way? > > thanks, > -Steve > > P.S. I have tried a couple of web-based Nagios configurators > (Fruity, NagiosQL); in each case I end up with invalid Nagios > configurations, which again leads me to suspect that I'm > trying to set up Nagios in a configuration for which it was > not designed. > > -- > Steve Huff - Systems Administrator, Harvard-MIT Data Center - > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ----------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. > Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. > Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and > a browser. > Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> > http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
