[Nagiosplug-help] Added 400 servers

[George P Boutwell]

  Didn't I read somewhere that someone had nmap hooked-up with Nagios,
such that if new services showed-up on existing hosts it would
auto-configure those services (if possible).  If so, then why couldn't
that be applied to hosts?

George

> -----Original Message-----
> 
> do you have the servers in an existing format?  Like in a 
> spreadsheet or something?  you'd need to have all necessary 
> information (name, alias, IP, anything else machine specific)...
> 
> If so - yes, you can script it.  In fact, I wrote such a 
> script for another list member - if you have a csv file with 
> the format 'Hostname,Alias,IP,parent1,parent2' it'll work 
> great for you as-is.  If not, you (or I, if you ask nicely 
> :)) can hack it to use whatever format you have.
> 
> If you have a load of random servers with no existing 
> "documentation", then, of course, no.
> 
> Also, this isn't really nagios plugin related.  This should 
> really be on nagios-users (so I cross-posted there).

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