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by naginewbie
Wed Apr 06, 2016 1:53 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: configuration changes best practice
Replies: 12
Views: 4310

Re: configuration changes best practice

tmcdonald wrote:Are we all good to close this up? You can always open another thread for new issues if needed.
Sure fine with me. 8-)
by naginewbie
Wed Apr 06, 2016 8:32 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: configuration changes best practice
Replies: 12
Views: 4310

Re: configuration changes best practice

Thanks very much! Very helpful. OK so Documenting-- really important of course! I think the idea of one file per host and one file per service in config directories is great. I'm trying to implement and read up on doing that. I had an idea for restarting nagios periodically after reading Eloyd's com...
by naginewbie
Wed Mar 30, 2016 10:09 am
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: configuration changes best practice
Replies: 12
Views: 4310

Re: configuration changes best practice

Aha! Very helpful guys, thanks :). Quick followup question, I know I mentioned this in my original post so sorry if I'm harping. Do people generally restart nagios with every config change (or group of changes)? Or alternate thought, does it ever refresh it's configuration on its own and I've just n...
by naginewbie
Tue Mar 29, 2016 3:58 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: configuration changes best practice
Replies: 12
Views: 4310

Re: configuration changes best practice

Come to the 2016 Nagios World Conference and ask! :-) Actually, people do a lot of things: Subversion, Puppet, Chef, lots of other automated tools. In the end though, you have to manage Nagios Core by tweaking config files. There are some utilities that tweak them for you (pyNag for instance) and y...
by naginewbie
Tue Mar 29, 2016 1:43 pm
Forum: Open Source Nagios Projects
Topic: configuration changes best practice
Replies: 12
Views: 4310

configuration changes best practice

Hi There, I have just installed a Nagios Core server to test out its monitoring capabilities. The install instructions that I found made that pretty easy. Adding a windows host to monitor was quite a bit more difficult for me. I imagine that adding a second host would be a bit easier, now that I've ...