[hobbit] Building hobbit-nkview.cfg from cmdb (Critical systems view)

[Nico]

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Le 22 déc. 2009 à 19:25, Fran Garcia <franchu.garcia at gmail.com> a  
écrit :

> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to generate the hobbit-nkview.cfg file from an external
> source (our CMDB) and not using the Critical systems editor,
> hobbit-nkedit.sh .
>
> As I've being unable to find docs on the format for the
> hobbit-nkview.cfg file, I'm just hoping you help me to gather the
> relevant into. The requirements are:
>
> - All monitored hosts are subject to appear in the Critical systems  
> view.
> - All hosts are applied Prio3 by default.
> - Some checks (columns) may have higher priority than host's default.
> ie: load-balanced host is prio3 but http check in that host is prio2.
>
>
> Playing around with the editor, I've being able to produce this :
>
> # fake host definition that all unix hosts inherit
> dummy_unix_template|content||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|cpu||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|disk||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|files||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|fullduplex||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|hardware||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|http||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|info||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|memory||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|meta||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|msgs||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|network||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|ntp||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|ping||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|ports||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|procs||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|raid||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|ssh||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|sslcert||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|temp||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|timediff||||2|Group in charge||
> dummy_unix_template|updates||||2|Group in charge||
> # real servers
> actual_unix_host1|=dummy_unix_template
> actual_unix_host2|=dummy_unix_template
> ...etc
>
> However this has a number of drawbacks :
>
> - I've being unable to find a regexp to match all columns. Then it
> makes necessary to know in advance all the columns that all hosts can
> have (and involve the development team each time a new column is
> required).
> - It's also a problem since most of our HTTP checks are named
> content_* , ie: content_InternalURL , content_APP1, etc).
>
> any ideas?
>
> best regards
>
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