Best Practices for Automated host creation

[powellbc]

I am new to Nagios XI and the biggest paint point is creating hosts for monitoring. I am planning on taking advantage of the .cfg method and reconfigure_nagios.sh script to ease this. Are there any best practices or pointers that might be useful? I am planning on a set of base cfg files which we will duplicate and edit the host names as needed.

Any pointers would be appreciated!

[tacolover101]

are you using xi or core?

i found this pdf document randomly a long time ago that helped me understand how to use xi's API to manage things on a large scale.

[powellbc]

We are using XI.

I had run across a different PDF that got me started (Automated Host Management In Nagios XI). Thanks for sharing this one as well!

[dwhitfield]

The two documents aside, I would suggest using the API. The documentation for that is built in to the help menu in XI. Please let us know if you run into any issues.

[rony albert]

The two documents aside, I would suggest using the API. The documentation for that is built in to the help menu in XI. Please let us know if you run into any issues.

Is that API is open source or has some-kind of restrictions?
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[dwhitfield]

@rony albert , the API is part of XI. If you want to discuss automation in Core, you should open a thread in the Core forums. Alternatively, I can just move your post to those forums.