Puppet users - Oct 2012 - Nagios server howto for beginner ?

Hi all,

I would like to install a nagios server without reinventing the wheel.

I know there''s nagios (client?) functionality in core puppet, and a lot
of
modules in the forge. Unfortunately, the most promising one, thias/nagios 
uses thias/apache_httpd, and I would like to stick with puppetlabs/httpd to 
prevent fragmentation.

Has anyone successfully implemented it ? Is there any official 
documentation besides the type reference ? Should I dig in thias/nagios ?

Thanks in advance,

Francois


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Hi,

Nagios servers tend to quickly become complex beasts :-) I know what
all of the advantages of managing them cleanly with puppet are, never
missing a single typical check from being added ever again being the
main one, but there are so many downsides that I''m still not entirely
convinced that it''s a setup suitable for everyone. For instance,
it''s
quite hard to get things right in a heterogeneous environment, and
implementing simple custom checks becomes exponentially complicated.

Anyway, if you plan on trying out my module, feedback or pull requests
are very welcome. The httpd dependency on my own module can easily be
omitted with nagios::server { apache_httpd => false }, then using any
other httpd module of your choosing. Same with php => false if you
want to use your own module.
I always try to make my modules standalone, and when that''s not
possible, at least leave people a way to disable dependencies on other
of my own modules so that they can use their own instead.

Good luck!
Matthias

On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:00:18 -0700 (PDT)
ftiff <francois@esl-education.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would like to install a nagios server without reinventing the wheel.
> 
> I know there''s nagios (client?) functionality in core puppet, and
a
> lot of modules in the forge. Unfortunately, the most promising one,
> thias/nagios uses thias/apache_httpd, and I would like to stick with
> puppetlabs/httpd to prevent fragmentation.
> 
> Has anyone successfully implemented it ? Is there any official 
> documentation besides the type reference ? Should I dig in
> thias/nagios ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Francois
> 
> 


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