[Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi All, I currently help maintain and monitor around 50 servers across various parts of the UK using Nagios 2. At the moment, we have a configuration file for each host (%hostname%.cfg) and in that file we specify all the services for the named host. We are trying to reduce the number of configu

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
> -Original Message- > From: nagios-users On Behalf Of Matthew Macdonald-Wallace > Sent: 17 June 2008 13:14 > > I currently help maintain and monitor around 50 servers across various > parts of the UK using Nagios 2. At the moment, we have a configuration > file for each host (%hostname%.

Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring large (ish) numbers of servers with exceptions to the rules...

2008-06-17 Thread Anthony Montibello
Hi, Using REgExp and Object Templats is a key for optimizing maintenance. I read some good details on handling what needs to be configured and what can be inhereted and automatically associated in the current Nagios 3 Documentation. I think much of the framework was in Nagios 2, but the documen