Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-11 Thread Peter Brown
You are welcome Phil. Hope it helps you achieve your goals. Let me know if you get stuck. Pete. On 11 April 2013 18:12, Phil Cole wrote: > Thanks Pete, > > I'll take a look at your module and see how things go. > > Phil > > > > On Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:02:14 AM UTC+1, Pete wrote: >> >>

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-11 Thread Phil Cole
Thanks Pete, I'll take a look at your module and see how things go. Phil On Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:02:14 AM UTC+1, Pete wrote: > > Hi Phil, > > The monitoring module I wrote does this very well. > It is on puppet forge if you want to have a look for some inspiration or > install it and

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-11 Thread Phil Cole
Thanks Dave. That sounds like the sort of thing that I was looking for, but wasn't sure if/how it would work - I'll give it a go. Phil On Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:45:19 PM UTC+1, Dave Nash wrote: > > At work we add a tag for when setting up the nagios checks in puppet > > tag "nagios_env:$e

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-10 Thread Peter Brown
Hi Phil, The monitoring module I wrote does this very well. It is on puppet forge if you want to have a look for some inspiration or install it and go from there :) http://forge.puppetlabs.com/rendhalver/monitoring The docs are pretty comprehensive now and explain how it all works. I basically se

Re: [Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-10 Thread Dave Nash
At work we add a tag for when setting up the nagios checks in puppet tag "nagios_env:$environment" then when we realize or export the check We link the generation to the tag Nagios_serviceescalation <<| tag == "nagios_env:$environment" |>> { require => Service["nagios"],

[Puppet Users] Managing multiple nagios servers with puppet and virtual resources

2013-04-10 Thread Phil Cole
Hi, For several years, we have @work had a puppet environment where when we add a new host/node, some basic monitoring is fed through to a nagios server using virtual resources and an old nagios class which either someone here wrote themselves, or found on the internet at the time. We are tr