On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 08:57:08AM -0800, smalderma wrote:
> Greetings All,
>
> I've referenced a few older discussions about nagios hostgroups and the
> nagios_hostgroup resource. I admit I'm somewhat new to this game, so
> please excuse my ignorance on the complexities. I'm looking for a way that
> puppet can use collections / exported resources to create nagios host
> groups. For instance, I'd like a hostgroups for osfamilies, puppet
> environments, domains, and perhaps virtual or hardware platform.
>
> It seems like using @@nagios_hostgroup on the nodes, and collecting the
> resources on the Nagios server is not sufficient, when what I'm looking for
> is one hostgroup named RedHat with members of this osfamily, and another
> hostgroup named Solaris whose members are of the solaris osfamily. I've
> not had much success writing this into puppet, so is this just not
> possible? Would I be better served creating custom resource(s) that simply
> collect lists of node names by the facts I'm interested and then the Nagios
> server uses those collections as data to populate its set of
> nagios_hostgroup resources?
>
> Thanks for your thoughts and wisdom.
I think that the only real way to do this properly is to not realize
nagios resources in the standard way. Check
https://github.com/dalen/puppet-puppetdbquery out and see if you can do
your nagios configuration with it. This is currently on my TODO list as
I am feeling the same pain(currently I am defining those in a big hiera
list...)
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