Bulk Import - Dynamic Disk

[dbcummings]

We are using the bulk import to deploy monitoring using a CSV. This is being done with the NCPA. We have 1000s of servers. Is there a way to configure the import or template to automatically check all disk discovered by the NCPA rather than setting a specific set via the template? Our servers have different file system configurations

[ssax]

That functionality doesn't currently exist for what you're trying to do.

I would treat the disk checks as an after-import thing and likely create a hostgroup per drive (assigning the service to the hostgroup) and just assign them after-importing after you've imported the system so that they'd automatically inherit the assigned checks from the drive hostgroups.

The only other way would be for you to have all disks in a single check but it's not recommended if they are dynamic since having dynamic amount of metrics causes the RRDs to fail to update (RRDs required the exact number of metrics from creation, manually adding/removing is the only way currently).

Let me know if you have any questions or if I can clarify anything.

[dbcummings]

Can we get an ER for this please?

[ssax]

I talked with the devs on this and they said they are intending to implement multiple hosts per wizard so that it will query the appropriate things for those hosts, they said some of the functionality is scheduled to be in XI 5.7 (no ETA as of yet), see here for more info:

https://www.nagios.com/roadmaps/