On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Eric Gerlach <egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca>wrote:
> > Hi, > > I'm working with nagios, and if I'm de-configuring a server manually, I'd > like > to have the monitoring system not complain about it vanishing. > > So, for each host I have: > > @@nagios_host { "$fqdn": > use => "generic-host", > address => $fqdn, > contact_groups => "itstaff", > notify => Service["nagios3"] > } > > and then on the Nagios server I have: > > resources { "nagios_host": > purge => true, > notify => Service["nagios3"] > } > > Nagios_host <<| |>> > > If I don't have a notify on the resources entry, the nagios host entries go > away, but nagios doesn't refresh. If I have it on the resources entry, it > makes the service depend on it, and so won't purge: > > "Service[nagios3] still depends on me -- not purging" > > Is it possible to accomplish what I'm trying to do? If so, how? > > Cheers, > > -- > Eric Gerlach, Network Administrator > Federation of Students > University of Waterloo > p: (519) 888-4567 x36329 > e: egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca > > > > Eric the most straight forward mechanism is to purge all the resources associated with the host that is being decommissioned. There is a script to do this attached to the wiki page for storedconfigs. http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/attachment/wiki/UsingStoredConfiguration/kill_node_in_storedconfigs_db.rb Cheers, Teyo --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---