Hi,
I have a growing pain with Nagios that I thought I might share with you.
I have a lot (!) of servers, and while some of them are generic and thus
grouped, I also have a lot of servers to which I need set up custom
monitoring per host.
This means, correct me if I am wrong, I need to go to each service I want
to apply to a host, and enter it into the "host_name" variable.
The problem is that the variable becomes so huge, that it becomes
impossible to maintain effectively.
Therefore, I suggest the opposite. Add a variable to each host (and host
group), called "services"/"service_group", where you enter a list of
services you want for that host. This means it becomes extremely easy to
setup custom monitoring on a per-host basis.
I migrated from a monitoring system that did this, and I miss it terribly.
Thoughts?
// Tom Sommer
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