On 03-03-11 08:04, Gabriel Filion wrote: > On 11-03-02 02:27 PM, Brian Gallew wrote: >> I've found that Puppet/Naginator has the bad habit of occasionally >> breaking the Nagios config. Here's how I worked around this: 1) When >> you collect your Nagios resource, store them all in a temporary >> directory (in my case, ~nagios/var/tmp) 2) Purge that directory with >> a cron job every night (so deleted resources disappear) 3) Create an >> exec that creates a ~nagios/etc/nagios-tmp.cfg by running sed on >> ~nagios/etc/nagios.cfg and changing directories appropriately. 4) >> Create an exec that pre-flights Nagios using the nagios-tmp.cfg >> (which checks the tmp dir) and, if successful, sync the files over >> into the real Nagios config directory. >> >> It's a little clunky, but Nagios doesn't ever break anymore. >> Remember that your pre-flight exec should require all the Nagios >> resources (so the files get updated first), and should always run if >> the contents of the tmp dir vary at all from the real target (diff is >> your friend here). Otherwise, the preflight may fail once and then >> never run again until the next time you make a substantive server >> change. > > hmm, that's an interesting approach. it sounds like it requires a lot > of exec magic but it does cover for the config breakages and also for > purging resources. When I finally get some free time, I'll look into > implementing that. Thanks for the hint.
Nice! Currently, our Nagios config lives in a Git repository. Before pulling changes to /etc/nagios3 and restarting Nagios, we pull them to a temp dir, and with a nagios.conf with adapted paths, we test the config, just like you describe. This is all pretty much automated, so it's something I have been thinking about, how to implement that in Puppet. Step 3 in your description is -in our setup- unnecessary, we just keep the test-config in our repo as well. Thanks. Best regards, Martijn. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@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.
