schubergphilis/nagios

Development repository for Chef Nagios cookbook

Ken Schmidt

@Maigard

thanks for looking at it.

Ilja Krauchanka

@ikrauchanka

guys, how I can include configs with legacy hosts/services which I prefer do not convert into chef cookbook?

Sander Botman

@sbotman

you mean that you have old config that you want to load that are not part of the generated templates?

Ilja Krauchanka

@ikrauchanka

yes

configs were populated in chaotic type, and I do not possibilities and time on converting them into chef definitions. So I decided just merge them into one file and include the file from nagios cookbook generated configs.

Sander Botman

@sbotman

currently chef is cleaning up the conf.d directory. It's zapping all files that don't belong to the nagios cookbook configuration... You will need to disable this if you want to add extra configuration files next to the one that are created by the cookbook

Sander Botman

@sbotman

@karnold what kind of hostgroups do you have?

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

i havent configured any hostgroups specifically, it looks like it has autogenerated groups for my various roles configured in chef

Sander Botman

@sbotman

oke, but what does the hostgroup file contain currently?

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

# $Id: Generated by chef for node: devops
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# NOTE: This file is controlled by chef templates!
# Do not edit or change this file but change the following:
# template file : hostgroups.cfg.erb
# ----------------------------------------------------------------
# Hostgroup definitions
# ----------------------------------------------------------------

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name all
  alias all
  members *
}

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name  general
  members         chef,devops,elk,jira
}

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name  linux
  members         chef,devops,elk,jira
}

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name  monitoring
  members         devops
}

define hostgroup {
  hostgroup_name  production-admin
  members         chef,devops,elk,jira
}

Sander Botman

@sbotman

oke, so the new node is not a member of any role within chef

and it's still in the _default environment I guess...

on the other hand... it should have been a member of the hostgroup linux....

so that's a bit strange

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

it is not in the default environment, but it is in the general role with the other servers

Sander Botman

@sbotman

oke.. that's indeed strange

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

yeah, seemed strange to me as well.

Sander Botman

@sbotman

can you remove the 'register' => 0, from your options

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

sure, uno momento

well. that looks better, but still strange. Now it created a new entry for all 5 servers. but it did include albers like it was supposed to, it also added new records for all machines using the full domain name. and it did not register any of the servers for the host in question

maybe delete the config and try again?

Sander Botman

@sbotman

the configuration it created every run..

no need to delete anything...

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

ah ok

Sander Botman

@sbotman

but I guess it has something to do with your population of the nodes and the loop...

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

the hostgroup.cfg looks the same

Sander Botman

@sbotman

the same as before you mean..

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

right

hosts.cfg was updated. but hostgroups.cfg looks the same as when register was being defined in the recipe

Sander Botman

@sbotman

I guess you have also the default configuration active..

or did you disable this one?

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

hmm, i dont think so. what should be defined?

should i define the default-host template as well?

Sander Botman

@sbotman

I wrote something on https://github.com/schubergphilis/nagios/wiki/cookbook_example

But that might need some updating..

The default configuration should load the chef config and add all nodes to nagios

it should create hostgroups of all the roles/environments/os'es

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

ah ok. so i should be able to set this up and not have to define the host in the loop i am using right?

Sander Botman

@sbotman

No, unless you want to create the nagios configuration yourself...

and create funky exceptions or other.... then you can disable the default configuration

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

gotcha, ok. let me try that and see what happens.

Sander Botman

@sbotman

the defaults are within the recipes/_load_default_config or something and recipes/_load_databag_config

so most people add databags with their checks and define within databags which checks should be executed where...

but, since i don't like databags... you can also use the nagios_blabla provider to do stuff... like you have been doing with nagios_host

still... it's strange that your node is not added to the nagios hostgroups....

Kristen Arnold

@karnold

well, i switched to the default config and i get the same result

Sander Botman

@sbotman

so, when you do knife node edit yournode -a

You can see all the details of the node and it's all populated?

or is this node created with knife node create yournode

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