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nagios-config-build

nagios-config-build is a group of shell scripts that generate Nagios configuration files from a list of hostnames. It automatically resolves IP addresses from DNS, and provides a quick way to manage a large number of hosts without having to set up a complicated system.

Download nagios-config-build.tgz
1. wget http://www.systemnotes.org/download/shell/nagios-config-build.tgz
Untar
1. tar -zxvf nagios-config-build.tgz
Edit .dat files (hostgroup comes from file name)
1. cd nagios-config-build
2. vi abc.dat (to create abc hostgroup)
Run nagios-config-build
1. ./nagios-config-build.tgz
Copy output files to nagios directory

Current Version

nagios-config-build.tgz (16.88 KiB) 2009-12-11 release 0.0.1-1

See the Freshmeat project page.

Install and Use Notes

Tested with Nagios v2 and v3

How to generate nagios config files from a list of hostnames. This is useful to get a simple configuration working on any number of hosts (tested up to 1000), when they all have similar attributes. To get different options for contacts, services, etc., the scripts can be copied and run in a different directory.

Input: *.dat files Output: output/hosts.cfg, and output/hostgroups.cfg

1) Place files containing hostnames, one per line with a .dat extension, in the current directory.

2) Run ./nagios-config-build.sh

3) Copy files from output directory to the proper location on the nagios server.

/usr/local/nagios/etc or /usr/local/nagios/etc/hosts or /usr/local/nagios/etc/objects

To Do

Improve documentation.
Speed up processing with a simple optimization.
Some items are hard-coded.

Comments / Questions

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Initial Release

nagios-config-build-0.0.1-1.tgz (15.16 KiB) 2009-12-11 release 0.0.1-1

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