How to automate the Nagios registration with multi-tenancy?

[patrick.cheung]

Hello all,

We are considering to use Nagios XI for monitoring the VM instances in our private IaaS environment. As the IaaS environment is tenant based, we would like to know how we can automate the workflow including the host and user registration in Nagios XI.

The expected workflow can be described as below:
-cloud admin creates a customer (most likely a business unit) account in our cloud portal
-it will trigger a list of account creation and initialization
-For Nagios XI, it may include host group, user group, and a few user accounts like project admins and project users
-the customer uses the cloud portal provision new instances
-it will trigger Nagios to add the new servers to the proper host group
-ON Nagios XI server, project admin/operators can monitor its own servers and do the customization

Any hints how this works on Nagios XI? Thanks very much!

-Patrick

[abrist]

There are a few different ways to add checks dynamically to XI:
1) Create the configs with automated scripts to write out the configs to the static directory (most common way)
2) Write sql code to insert the new checks in the db (not for the faint of heart due to the highly relational nature of the db)
3) Submit passive checks, and then configure their objects from unconfigured objects (not fully automate-able)

Adding XI users is not current automate-able, although contacts are with the same methods above.

[patrick.cheung]

There are a few different ways to add checks dynamically to XI:
1) Create the configs with automated scripts to write out the configs to the static directory (most common way)
2) Write sql code to insert the new checks in the db (not for the faint of heart due to the highly relational nature of the db)
3) Submit passive checks, and then configure their objects from unconfigured objects (not fully automate-able)

Adding XI users is not current automate-able, although contacts are with the same methods above.

Thanks abrist. Looks very helpful tho I am still headache how to streamline or automate it

[abrist]

Thanks abrist. Looks very helpful tho I am still headache how to streamline or automate it

I would look at option "1" first, as long as you don't need to manage the configs from the CCM.