Adding Multiple Hosts

[jcb0165]

I am new to Nagios Core. Is there any way to add multiple hosts to Nagios Core version 4 to get me started. Whether it is a macro or a file please let me know

thanks
Jerry

[hsmith]

I am new to Nagios Core. Is there any way to add multiple hosts to Nagios Core version 4 to get me started. Whether it is a macro or a file please let me know

thanks
Jerry

Hi Jerry,

Currently in core we do not have a tool that is developed by us that fits the description of what you are looking for. Nagios XI includes some auto-discovery and wizard options, but core doesn't come with these. If you need some help getting started with core we can help you out, otherwise any third party options are not supported by us.

[jcb0165]

Do you know of the best way to look for a 3rd party tool. Can you lead me a good direction. We have over 200/400 servers that I would like to monitor. Entering them by hand would most likely take to long.

[jdalrymple]

jcb0165

Bear in mind that when your templates are set up properly the bare minimum to configure a host is as follows

Code: Select all

define host{
     host_name     somehost
     use           hosttemplate
     address       10.0.0.1
}

Theoretically you could actually do it without address even, but that would make all of your hosts of that same template the same.

Regarding 3rd party tools:

https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... DDiscovery

[jcb0165]

Thanks for everything

[tmcdonald]

Since we don't offer support for third-party config management tools, I will be closing this thread now.

[hsmith]

Thanks for everything

To follow up, you got me thinking about this and doing some exploration.

I found out that this works pretty good. It is somewhat similar to the autodiscovery wizard in XI, with less features. My concern is that on a network your size, you're going to end up with a lot of.. stuff. For instance, I ended up finding about 200 hosts on our /23 network. This script gets my seal of approval though.