Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote: > Hi list, > > I have the following situation: I'm monitoring a bunch of services on a > bunch of servers (ok, nothing new so far). > All machines run the same services, but not all services is being > monitored by now (since they are custom services, i'm still writing > plugins for all of them). New machines are being added every day, and > also, i'm writing new plugins to check the services. > > When a new machine is added, is relatively easy: i copy the config file > from another machine and change the name of the host and other unique > attributes, but when a new service is added (a.k.a. i have finish > another plugin), i need to edit all the dozens of config files for each > server to add this new service. > > There is a smarter way to do this? > Sorry for my poor english. Tks in advance. > Try using templates and hostgroups Templates will allow you to use a central base definition to the service or host . http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectinheritance.html
you can assign a service to a hostgroup and thus all host in the group will have the service checked on them. http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service -- Never,Ever Cut A Deal With a Dragon I am doing a Charity Bike ride On the 27 of June for the Capital to Coast Charity. Please help by Donating http://www.justgiving.com/Lovefilm-capital-to-coast ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
