Summary
When creating or extending Nagios configuration to monitor a large number of resources, spend some time planning the layout of your configuration. Some people recommend one file for each single definition, while others recommend storing things in a single file per host. We recommend keeping similar things in the same file and maintaining a directory-based set of files.
In this chapter we have learned the following things:
- Setting up efficient directory structure and file naming standards
- Where to put objects depending on the type and hosts it is configured for
- How to define dependencies so that Nagios can then detect root causes of problems
- Using templates to ease defining a large number of objects
- Accessing host, service, or contact-specific ...
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