Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac wrote: > Assaf Flatto wrote: > >> 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 >> > Tks for showing the way. I'll check it out. Worked like a charm. It's MUCH EASIER now to manage my hosts. Though i'm not a programmer, i do understand the OOP, and this is very much the same =)
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