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tmcdonald wrote:Are you asking a question or just stating that you are going to try some things?

That was shorthand for "thank you all for the valuable hints and I will now now explore the numerous possibilies to make config files shorter". Sorry, was in a bit of a hurry

technick wrote:

stn021 wrote:

abrist wrote:

• Is there a way to duplicate the complete config of a host without having to copy every codeblock (define host{}, define service{}) individually ?

Yes, you can use templates to save yourself A LOT of time. Here is a quick example of ..

Ok, lets See what else is possible...

Custom variable are intended to be passed to plugins/scripts/etc. They are not intended for use as values for config directives and by all accounts, should not work in the method you are attempting. No, they don't, apparently :( Let me rephrase my question. I have several identical hosts with ident...

You can look at /usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache and view your custom variable. Very cool, thank you. That files list every defined object with all its properties. Allows a quick check of config-changes. (Side note: In my installation of nagios-core this file is in a different location /var/cach...

Hi, as described in http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/customobjectvars.html variables can be used in nagios definitions. I tried that and it doesn't seem to work. The defined variable is interpreted as "0". Here is what I did: define service{ _CHECK_INTERVAL 77 } # and: define service...

Hi, thanks for all the replies. Got is working: SSH-login and remote command-execution work On the nagios-host: [root@localhost libexec]# su nagios # run ssh-keygen , to the default file /home/nagios/.ssh/id_rsa # on the NAS: insert contents ot /home/nagios/.ssh/id_rsa into into /root/.ssh/authorize...

What you need to edit are the nagios config files. .. Thank you for the info. No, the configfiles are not 'it' . The existing configurationfiles for the NAS are in //usr/local/nagios/etc/services and /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts There is the reference to the command that is executed on the NAS check...

[/list] The -l flag should do what you are looking for. Note that you will need to enable password-less login with ssh keys and ssh in at least once to accept the remote ssh key as the nagios user on the nagios system. Hi, thank you for the info. I did keep my initial question kind of short :) So he...

Hi, this is about checking a QNAP TS-669 pro, a NAS system with linux-OS with Nagios XI. It would be best IMHO to use ssh to check the NAS. Nagios XI has a config-wizard for this. Unfortunately the NAS will not allow any user other than 'admin' to log in by ssh. And nagios seems to insist on using '...