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Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2015 6:55 pm
by jkinning
I have 200 remote Offices each having a different email address. Is there a way to construct a file to import all these different contacts which each have a different email address and assign to the appropriate hosts and service check for notifications? Or will I have to manually enter each contact and assign it to the appropriate hosts and service checks?
Re: Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:52 am
by lmiltchev
The easiest way to do this would be via the Bulk Modifications Tool, with which you can add contacts/contactgroups in bulk to hosts/services. The tool is a part of Nagios XI Enterprise Edition.
https://www.nagios.com/products/nagiosx ... comparison
Re: Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:08 am
by jkinning
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I am looking for a way to take a list of users with email address and import them into Nagios XI as contacts. Once I get them imported I could use that tool to assign them to the hosts but it would probably be easier to do it onesy twosy since each hosts would be assigned a different contact. Which is why I was trying to take my list of contact names and email address and import them in as contacts and assign them to a particular host all in one swoop. Considering I have 200 of these to do.
Re: Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 11:21 am
by tmcdonald
In terms of the contact import, take that list and use it to generate a bunch of valid contact definitions in a .cfg file, and put that file under .../nagios/etc/import, then apply config and they will be pulled in to the CCM.
As far as assigning them to hosts, that would take some direct DB modification. How complicated of a setup are you thinking? Just "Contact A goes to Host A" etc?
Re: Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:11 pm
by jkinning
So I created the 200 cfg files and they look like this
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define contact {
contact_name Office1
alias Office1
host_notification_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
service_notification_period xi_timeperiod_24x7
host_notification_options d,r,
service_notification_options c,r,
host_notification_commands xi_host_notification_handler
service_notification_commands xi_service_notification_handler
email office1@@domain.com
}
Can I merge all these together into one file with all 200 entries or is it better to leave them all separate? Place them in the /usr/local/nagios/etc/import and then apply configuration. Then I'll just need to use the Bulk Modification to add the contact to the host and services?
This sounds easy enough if I am thinking this out right.
Re: Import contact users to 200 individual hosts
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:15 pm
by tmcdonald
That's how I would have done it, just make sure you don't actually have "@@" for the email addresses. Some sed magic should be able to remove that. As for keeping them separate or all in one, I don't think it matters. Maybe keeping them separate is easier for maintenance before the import?
Oh, and take a full XI backup before you do this, and make certain that the configs are proper. There isn't a lot of sanity checking when imported this way.