Adding new service to 400+ hosts

[BanditBBS]

Okay, I could be brain dead right now, I just don't know, it has been a long, long week...make that month.

Here is my issue:
My Setup:
I have 400+ Windows servers in my XI. When I add them, I use the bulk host cloning tool and copy the 6 main service checks I am doing. Most of those service checks are blank and inherit everything from a template. This gives me the ability to modify on a per server basis, if needed.

My Issue:
There is a new service I want to add to the basic list of services for all(almost all) servers. How can I make a copy of that for all 400+ servers? I temp did it by just adding a service that uses the proper template and assigns it to the hostgroup all_windows. this is causing some warning and crit issues as this can't go on all windows, just 99.9% of them. If there was some way to exclude the inheritance, that would work, but to my knowledge, I cant. So, how can I easily copy this service for 400+ hosts?

[slansing]

Hmm.. could you duplicate that hostgroup, then exclude those hosts from the new group, then assign the service to it? I realize this is a bit goofy for just one service, but perhaps in the future you will add new services that require the same exclusions? Unfortunately there is still not a good solution to exclusions in the CCM..

[BanditBBS]

What about the other part of my question, creating 400 copies of the service, 1 for each host, that way i can modify on a host by host basis if needed.

There's an idea for a tool - Bulk Service Cloning - Select a service and then the hosts to clone that service too Go write that for me now, will ya? In the meantime, I'll mail merge again, grrrr

EDIT: OMG - will you please sort the backend api. You know how hard it is to find a name in that list, geez!

[abrist]

That is a good idea. Have you had a tracker.nagios.com feature request session today?

EDIT: OMG - will you please sort the backend api. You know how hard it is to find a name in that list, geez!

ctrl-f? But seriously, sorted xml should be expected. Should it be sorted by name, id, other?

[BanditBBS]

That is a good idea. Have you had a tracker.nagios.com feature request session today?

EDIT: OMG - will you please sort the backend api. You know how hard it is to find a name in that list, geez!

ctrl-f? But seriously, sorted xml should be expected. Should it be sorted by name, id, other?

1.) LOL'd at the tracker comment I'll go put in the request for the bulk service creation tool

2.) I'm talking about the drop down box that lists all my users. I can start typing, but god would I just like it in a sorted list! either name or Id would work for me.

[BanditBBS]

http://tracker.nagios.com/view.php?id=468

close her up!

[sreinhardt]

Before I lock it up, did you get the services created? I doubt your going to like it, but my personal route for this one might be creating an the configs via scripting and replacing hostname\other important details with a for loop, them using the import tool. I also spent about 2 minutes thinking about this out loud so there certainly could be an easier way.

[BanditBBS]

Yeah, I got them created. Until you create an easy way for us customers to do something so simple(lol) I just use mail merge in word to basically do what you said. Too lazy to script it as it honestly takes a few seconds then all I have to do is cfgprep the file and import the 531 files! Boy did that seem to take a while...but its all good!

[WillemDH]

I'm using the bulk host cloning wizard to configure a new service for all my hosts.. Just select one service from the source host and clone to all existing host? Did this multiple times and seems to work fine. (got a big Excel with all Windows servers and ip with the comma's for easy copy paste)

[BanditBBS]

I'm using the bulk host cloning wizard to configure a new service for all my hosts.. Just select one service from the source host and clone to all existing host? Did this multiple times and seems to work fine. (got a big Excel with all Windows servers and ip with the comma's for easy copy paste)

Ok, so that works? I hadn't gotten around to testing that.