Hi Greg, I'm on my phone at the moment so I don't have the exact link handy, but there is a module on GitHub that works. I tinkered with it a lot in my old setup but found most of my problems were due to not really understanding how the collect/export functionality worked.
This is my favorite feature of Puppet. When I got it working, I teared up a bit. :) I believe it's http://github.com/DavidS/puppet-nagios (mobile edition) On Sep 30, 2010, at 3:04 PM, Greg Haase <gha...@syntheticgenomics.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > I am working on getting Nagios implemented with Puppet so that when I add a > node to Puppet a Nagios configuration file is generated. > > I can get nagios installed and configured on the server and the client with > no problems. Yet getting the client configuration file on to the server is > not happening. I did have it working at one point in time yet It seems that > I cannot get back to that configuration. > > I am relying on notation using the @@ and <<||>> I found somewhere in the > documentation yet I did not find a proper discussion of exactly how it > works. I don't feel that I have a proper understanding of how it works. > > What I understand is that by using the > > @@name {} > > I can load data into a "global object" that is accessible from any puppet > member. Who uses the > > name <<||>> > > Notation to call the data stored in that global object. > > I believe that in the past I was able to view this information on my puppet > server with > > ralsh nagios_host > > It would give me a listing of what was stored in nagios_host. Now when I do > this I see nothing. > > Here is a listing of what I understand as being a way to use this: > > Is this correct? > > > ----------------- > class nagios-server{ > ........ A bunch of other stuff .......... > file { "/etc/nagios/": > ensure => 'directory', > mode => 755, > owner => nagios, > group => nagios, > recurse => true; > } > Nagios_host <<|target == "/etc/nagios/nagios_hosts.${fqdn}.cfg"|>> > } > ----------------- > class nagios-client { > @@nagios_host { $fqdn: > target => "/etc/nagios/nagios_hosts.${fqdn}.cfg", > ensure => present, > alias => $hostname, > address => $ipaddress, > use => "my-servers", > check_command => "check-host-alive", > max_check_attempts => 3, > hostgroups => "my-servers", > contact_groups => "admins", > } > ........ A bunch of other stuff .......... > } > ----------------- > > Could someone please point me in the right direction to some documentation > that could help clarify this the use of the @@ and <<||>>? > > > I'd greatly appreciate it. > > Thanks > > Greg > Greg Haase > gha...@syntheticgenomics.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
