Re: [Puppet Users] Multiple Nagios Servers

Brian Gallew
Tue, 10 Apr 2012 23:00:17 -0000

Every host is trying to create an exported resource named
"foo-admins".
 That''s not what you want.  You want a *virtual* resource named
foo-admins
and then realize it on each node.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Robert Smith <rsmith11@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I''ve been trying to build multiple Nagios servers using Puppet
(2.6.12),
> with no luck.  I''ve got a nagios::server class that includes:
>
>   include nagios::server::commands
>   include nagios::server::contacts
>   include nagios::server::contactgroups
>   include nagios::server::timeperiods
>   include nagios::server::servicegroups
>   include nagios::server::hostgroups
>
> and then it does it''s collection by running all the Nagios_command
<<|
> |>>, Nagios_contactgroups <<| |>>, etc.
>
> In the contactgroups.pp manifest, for example, I have something like:
>
>   @@nagios_contactgroup {
>     "foo-admins_${hostname}":
>       contactgroup_name => ''foo-admins'',
>       alias             => ''foo-admins'',
>       members           => ''sysadmin1, sysadmin2'';
>   }
>
> My thinking was that by including the _${hostname} in the resource name,
> that it wouldn''t cause conflicts between servers.  However, when I
run
> nagios::server on more than one system, I get err: Failed to apply catalog:
> Parameter alias failed: foo-admins can not create alias foo-admins: object
> already exists.
>
> Everything seems to be working on the @@nagios_host and @@nagios_service
> resources, which include $hostname in their resource names.
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
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