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Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:28 pm
by jcb0165
I am new to Nagios Core. Is there any way to add multiple hosts to Nagios Core version 4 to get me started. Whether it is a macro or a file please let me know
thanks
Jerry
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:36 pm
by hsmith
jcb0165 wrote:I am new to Nagios Core. Is there any way to add multiple hosts to Nagios Core version 4 to get me started. Whether it is a macro or a file please let me know
thanks
Jerry
Hi Jerry,
Currently in core we do not have a tool that is developed by us that fits the description of what you are looking for. Nagios XI includes some auto-discovery and wizard options, but core doesn't come with these. If you need some help getting started with core we can help you out, otherwise any third party options are not supported by us.
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 12:52 pm
by jcb0165
Do you know of the best way to look for a 3rd party tool. Can you lead me a good direction. We have over 200/400 servers that I would like to monitor. Entering them by hand would most likely take to long.
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2015 1:17 pm
by jdalrymple
jcb0165
Bear in mind that when your templates are set up properly the bare minimum to configure a host is as follows
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define host{
host_name somehost
use hosttemplate
address 10.0.0.1
}
Theoretically you could actually do it without address even, but that would make all of your hosts of that same template the same.
Regarding 3rd party tools:
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... DDiscovery
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 4:42 am
by jcb0165
Thanks for everything
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:15 am
by tmcdonald
Since we don't offer support for third-party config management tools, I will be closing this thread now.
Re: Adding Multiple Hosts
Posted: Thu Aug 27, 2015 9:20 am
by hsmith
jcb0165 wrote:Thanks for everything
To follow up, you got me thinking about this and doing some exploration.
I found out that
this works pretty good. It is somewhat similar to the autodiscovery wizard in XI, with less features. My concern is that on a network your size, you're going to end up with a lot of.. stuff. For instance, I ended up finding about 200 hosts on our /23 network. This script gets my seal of approval though.