RE: One(host) to One(contacts) setup

This is exactly what I was looking for.  Many thanks for taking the
time.


Terry Inzauro


On Wed, 2003-01-08 a

t 11:50, Carroll, Jim P [Contractor] wrote:
> 1. Not sure.  I'll defer to others.
> 
> 2. This is exactly what I'm doing.  You may be familiar with the cfg_file
> directive in nagios.cfg.  Depending on what version of Nagios you're using,
> cfg_dir is also supported.  In my case, I'm simply doing:
> 
> cfg_dir=/usr/local/nagios/etc/configs
> 
> So long as the files in that directory end in .cfg, Nagios will read them
> and treat them like other config files.
> 
> I've set up a single config file per host.  For example, abcde.cfg would
> deal with hostname abcde.  It does mean you won't be aggregating
> definitions, but that's not necessarily a bad thing.  You could create a
> file called boilerplate.cfg.example (or something equally meaningful to you)
> and use that as the baseline for new host definitions.
> 
> I remember asking (and Ethan responded in the affirmative) whether directory
> recursion for cfg_dir would be supported.  I don't recall which version
> supports it; it could be that 1.0 already has that.  Based on that, you
> could even go the extra step, creating subdirectories for each hostname, eg,
> /usr/local/nagios/etc/configs/abcde, and simply add separate components
> (host/service definitions) to that directory (all files ending in .cfg, of
> course).
> 
> The only host-related file that I can see you being forced into aggregating
> host information, would be hostgroups.cfg.
> 
> Does this help?
> 
> jc
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Terry Inzauro [mailto:tinzauro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 11:17 AM
> > To: nagios-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Nagios-users] One(host) to One(contacts) setup
> > 
> > 
> > This is a 2 part question.
> > 
> > 1.  Has anyone found an easier way of setting up a one host to one
> > contact enviroment for nagios.  It absolutely suck the way it is right
> > now with the hosts,contact,contactgroup, setup now.  
> > 
> > 2.  Does Nagios support includes in the config files?  I would like to
> > create one config file for each host instead of creating one type of
> > config file for all hosts.  I think this approach would be easier to
> > manage as well as easier to automate for multiple hosts with the same
> > characteristics but different contacts for problems.  The one include
> > file for the individual host would have all the information that would
> > have been in all the *.cfg files.
> > 
> > Please put some thought into this one.  Rewards from the naught blonde
> > female sex gods would be you future:)
> > 
> > 
> > Terry
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > 
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