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| author | Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> | 2011-12-17 11:23:59 +0000 |
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| committer | Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> | 2011-12-17 11:23:59 +0000 |
| commit | 8428e441a113fa1366c7336d2cca8d05b35c4a87 (patch) | |
| tree | 1db199ded3a344241544e3315b3d237a3b37f2b9 /README | |
| parent | 0e39b5ea1a0f351c3d1e657095296ba28e6da5eb (diff) | |
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Add support for remapping hostnames for individual client entries,
to make it possible to gather Munin and Nagios status for hosts
behind VPN connections and with non-unique host names.
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1 files changed, 24 insertions, 6 deletions
@@ -28,12 +28,12 @@ to enable Munin autoconfig on the sitesummary collector Sitesummary generated Nagios configuration ------------------------------------------ -Since version 0.0.51, there is experimental code in sitesummary to -generate Nagios configuration based on the collected information. To -enable this, install nagios3 and nagios-plugins-standard, edit -/etc/default/nagios3 to include -'NAGIOSCFG=/etc/nagios3/sitesummary.cfg' and run the sitesummary cron -job. Running these commands as root normally does the trick. +Since version 0.0.51, there is code in sitesummary to generate Nagios +configuration based on the collected information. To enable this, +install nagios3 and nagios-plugins-standard, edit /etc/default/nagios3 +to include 'NAGIOSCFG=/etc/nagios3/sitesummary.cfg' and run the +sitesummary cron job. Running these commands as root normally does +the trick. aptitude install nagios3 nagios-plugins-standard echo 'NAGIOSCFG="/etc/nagios3/sitesummary.cfg"' >> /etc/default/nagios3 @@ -70,6 +70,24 @@ to query Nagios NRPE on the clients. sitesummary-client sitesummary-client/nagios-server string sitesummary sitesummary-client sitesummary-client/enable-nagios-nrpe-config boolean true +Handling hosts behind VPN connections +------------------------------------- + +To handle hosts with hostnames missing in DNS or IP adresses not +available directly from the Nagios and Munin server, a mechanism to +map entries to new hostnames is provided. + +To enable it, create a file /etc/sitesummary/hostmap with content like this + + ether-AA:BB:CC:DD:EE:FF new-name + +The ether-* name is the host entry name from +/var/lib/sitesummary/entries/, and the new-name entry is the hostname +to use instead of the value in system/hostname. + +For this to work, the new-name entry must map to a IP address, either +in DNS via an entry in /etc/hosts. + Design draft ------------ system to collect key info about all the machines on a site, to help |