I use cfengine for this very purpose. Just drop a new plugin into a directory and it's automatically sync'd out to all the monitored servers.
Although I have to admit it would be *nice* for nrpe to do it's own pulls. Would have saved me some cfengine headaches a while back :) On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 11:36 -0500, Kevin Scott Sumner wrote: > Once you get into using cron for pulls and scripts to automate > configuration, it's probably time you start thinking about cfengine or > something like it. I hate to sound like a broken record, but cfengine et > al have already built the wheel you're trying to reinvent with > cron/scripts. > > Also, I think you can make machines do updates from one central source if > you setup the correct daemons, along with having them start regular runs > from cron. With this setup, you get the benefit of routine pulls along > with initiated pulls (essentially a push) whenever you need it. Check on > cfexecd, if your interested. > > Cheers, > Kevin > ----- > Kevin Sumner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > (919) 962-6494 > Assistant Systems Administrator > Physics and Astronomy Networking Infrastructure and Computing > University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Hari Sekhon wrote: > > > Dario B. Bestetti wrote: > >>> I can see what you are saying, but do you have any *nix servers running > >>> nrpe that do not have ssh and rsync? > >>> > >>> I certainly don't. It's pretty much standard on every linux system for > >>> example, even the tight and minimalist gentoo... > >>> > >>> -h > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Hari Sekhon > >>> > >> > >> Yes, not us, but our customers and we want to be less "invasive" as > >> possible... > >> > >> []s > >> Dario > > > > What about a cronned pull from a central location then? This is the > > "pull" rather than the "push" but it's less instant. > > > > I think by the time you start doing that though, perhaps cfengine might > > be better, I've heard good things about it, just not got round to using > > it yet. > > > > -h > > > > -- > > Hari Sekhon > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
