Eric Gerlach wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:09:22PM -0700, Teyo Tyree wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Eric Gerlach
>> <egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm working with nagios, and if I'm de-configuring a server manually, I'd
>>> like
>>> to have the monitoring system not complain about it vanishing.
>>>
>>> So, for each host I have:
>>>
>>> @@nagios_host { "$fqdn":
>>> use => "generic-host",
>>> address => $fqdn,
>>> contact_groups => "itstaff",
>>> notify => Service["nagios3"]
>>> }
>>>
>>> and then on the Nagios server I have:
>>>
>>> resources { "nagios_host":
>>> purge => true,
>>> notify => Service["nagios3"]
>>> }
>>>
>>> Nagios_host <<| |>>
>>>
>>> If I don't have a notify on the resources entry, the nagios host entries go
>>> away, but nagios doesn't refresh. If I have it on the resources entry, it
>>> makes the service depend on it, and so won't purge:
>>>
>>> "Service[nagios3] still depends on me -- not purging"
>>>
>>> Is it possible to accomplish what I'm trying to do? If so, how?
>> Eric the most straight forward mechanism is to purge all the resources
>> associated with the host that is being decommissioned. There is a script to
>> do this attached to the wiki page for storedconfigs.
>> http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/attachment/wiki/UsingStoredConfiguration/kill_node_in_storedconfigs_db.rb
>
> But if I do this, it still doesn't notify the nagios service, so it will
> continue to monitor them (and complain to me that they're gone) until I
> restart
> it. So though that's a nice way to purge the DB, it doesn't really help my
> problem.
Notify from the containing directory using "checksum => mtime". It'll
change when a file is deleted from it.
Regards, DavidS
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