This was a learning curve for me but once I got it up and going using Puppet to manage configs enterprise-wide is making things easier:
http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet Not that this will be what you are looking for, but it will manage configs globally and with invidual nodes defined. It uses cfengine as it's backend. Good stuff, but is a bit of learning curve. -Donnell Lewis On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 09:07 -0500, Cipriani, Robert C wrote: > True, the nrpe config will be generic, and will only have to push nrpe.cfg > when I add new commands. I just wanted to know what tools were out there, in > case things get more complicated in the future. I have a monitored box > configured the way I want it, I will probably just tar /usr/local/nagios, > /usr/lib/nrpe, etc. and make a package to install on other servers that > appends a line to /etc/services and copies the nrpe file into /etc/xinetd.d. > > > > Robert C. Cipriani > Senior Network Administrator > Tampa Bay Division IT > Bright House Networks > W: (727) 329-2000 x74264 > M: (727) 365-1231 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hari Sekhon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 8:48 AM > To: Cipriani, Robert C > Cc: '[email protected]' > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Centralizing NRPE Configuration > > Cipriani, Robert C wrote: > > I'll probably need something a bit more sophisticated than a bash script. I > > like the idea of being able to say "add line x to file y if line x doesn't > > yet exist". > > > You can do that in Bash, in fact I do it for deployment to make sure > nrpe is in /etc/services. > > Why not just have one global nrpe config that you have on all hosts though? > > This is way easier to manage and maintain. You just make up different > check command names for very specific things. > This also simplifies things incredibly and means you could never lose > your config, unless all your nrpe holding servers burned down along with > your svn server and all your backups. > > > -h > > -- > Hari Sekhon > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain information that is > privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are > not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender > immediately by return e-mail, purge it and do not disseminate or copy it. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper > from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going > mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. > http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 > _______________________________________________ > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ 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
