TT macros for Nagios configs

Dave Hodgkinson davehodg at gmail.com
Fri Jul 7 22:49:50 BST 2006


On 7 Jul 2006, at 22:12, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:19:35PM +0100, Dave Hodgkinson wrote:
>> I've spent a large part of today setting up nagios and it occurred to
>> me that
>> it's gagging for TT macros to generate the otherwise verbose configs.
>
> I thought that, having inherited some truly monstrous and gnarly  
> nagions
> installations, but then we hired somebody with a lot of experience  
> with
> nagios and he showed us how much you can shrink them using  
> wildcards and
> hostgroups.  The result is much less verbose and manageable.  We would
> still benefit from templating it but for different reasons.
>

Thanks, what bob said on IRC then :)

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