How do you configure hosts in a better way?

[karthick87]

I would like to know that which option will be more efficient to configure hosts for nagios monitoring. We have created a seperate configuration files for each hosts with the following configurations as Host-39_78.cfg, Some says using templates will be better, if templates are better can someone share me the similar configuration in template as a sample pls?

############ Host Definition ################

define host{
host_name Host-39_78
alias Host-39_78
address 172.29.39.78
check_command check-host-alive
max_check_attempts 3
notification_interval 120
notification_period 24x7
notification_options d,r
contact_groups smsgrp_important
}

########## Service Definition ##################

define service{
host_name Chn-39_78
service_description PING
is_volatile 0
check_period 24x7
max_check_attempts 3
normal_check_interval 2
retry_check_interval 1
notification_options w,u,c,r
notification_interval 8640
notification_period 24x7
notifications_enabled 0
check_command check_ping!100.0,20%!500.0,60%
}

[inventsekar]

Well, as per my understanding,
- You can create a single config file for each type of nodes you want to monitor (for example - for all Linux hosts, remote-linux-hosts.cfg, for windows - remote-windows-hosts.cfg, etc)
- grouping the hosts and the services together will make it easier to identify what services are monitoring under which hosts...

hope this gave you some ideas... thanks...

[karthick87]

If you dont mind, Could you pls post here a sample configuration pls..

[mguthrie]

The links below cover both template usage and some other common methods that a lot of people use to simplify config management.

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... tance.html

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/ ... ricks.html