Hello everybody. I am maintaining and redesigning a quite large Nagios installation in a mixed environment. The boxes we are monitoring are firewalls, servers, proxies, loadbalancers, ... a lot of stuff.
As we have different groups of admins which administer different systems we had host groups like for example "Frontent-Proxies", "Application-Firewalls" and so on and the mapping to the responsible users so that a antivirus administrator does not have to see a broken firewall module. The problem is using these groups also for managing the service-to-host mapping in an easy manner. So for example we have 20 firewalls in "Application-Firewalls", they are the same machines, BUT 8 of them must use a different SNMP port or another additional service checks or need different warning/critical thresholds because of higher load. Managing this in a per-host-manner in services config file is hard work. My idea was to make something like "organinizational" and "functional" subgroups of them, so for example: Application-Firewalls | +--Application-Firewalls_special1 | | | +-- host1 | +-- host2 | +-- ... | +--Application-Firewalls_special2 | +-- host3 | +-- host4 The problem is that all users which are able to view all the hosts included in all the subgroups of "Application-Firewalls" see _all_ the subgroups in host overview. Even more difficult is the following szenario: Firewalls (for overview fw-admins) | +--checkpoint1 +--checkpoint2 +--about 20 more machines Firewalls_with_multicast_routing | +--checkpoint1 +--other machines Now the machines appear twice in the host overview. I am sure that administrators of larger installations have already thought about this and maybe you have a few good ideas for me? How do you manage a lot of machines with slightly different checking to group them in the same hostgroups anyways? I hope you understood what i wanted to say ;-) Best regards Christian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ 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
