Nagios Core Administration Cookbook

Chapter 9. Managing Configuration

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Grouping configuration files in directories
• Keeping configuration under version control
• Configuring host roles using groups
• Building groups using regular expressions
• Using inheritance to simplify configuration
• Defining macros in a resource file
• Dynamically building host definitions

Introduction

A major downside of Nagios Core's configuration being so flexible is that without proper management, a configuration can easily balloon out into hundreds of files with thousands of objects, all having unclear dependencies. This can be frustrating when attempting to make significant changes to a configuration, or even for something as simple as removing a host, sifting through ...