Re: [Nagios-devel] configuration directory

[AL13N <al...@rm...>]

>
> On Sep 3, 2013, at 5:34 PM, AL13N <al...@rm...> wrote:
>
>> Op dinsdag 3 september 2013 17:22:32 schreef Andreas Ericsson:
>>> On 2013-09-02 21:20, AL13N wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> i'm a Mageia distribution packager, and i'm maintaining some event
>>>> broker
>>>> modules.
>>>>
>>>> since these are packaged seperately we're trying to get things to work
>>>> out-of- the-box for our users, specifically adding event brokers in
>>>> the
>>>> configuration file for nagios.
>>>>
>>>> the problem we're facing is that: We don't want a nagios addon package
>>>> to
>>>> rewrite the configuration file itself. however, we would like to add
>>>> the
>>>> event broker (or other settings) and then reload/restart nagios.
>>>>
>>>> a beneficial thing would be a configuration directory (much like it
>>>> exists
>>>> with hosts and commands and stuff like that) but for the main nagios
>>>> configuration file.
>>>>
>>>> and if while we're at it, to have multiple directories, where
>>>> /usr/share/nagios/nagios.d/ has the "defaults" which can be overridden
>>>> in
>>>> /etc/nagios.d/ (for instance) (this is a convention that's growing in
>>>> use)
>>>>
>>>> I can try to start making a patch for this, but i'm asking about this
>>>> first, in order to find out if it makes a chance of getting accepted.
>>>
>>> Not only does it stand a chance of getting accepted; It's on the
>>> roadmap. If you start working on it I'll help as much as I can and
>>> I'm willing to accept less-than-awesome quality code, although I'll
>>> polish such later if it turns out to be an issue.
>>>
>>> The only real requirement is that any "main" config file option
>>> should be settable from any file in the dropdir.
>>
>>
>> the idea i thought might be doable, would be to allow multiple -d
>> options to
>> nagios, and allow those to be a file or a directory.
>>
>> this would keep working:
>>
>> [  ]# /usr/sbin/nagios -d /etc/nagios/nagios.cfg
>>
>> and allow
>>
>> [  ]# /usr/sbin/nagios -d /usr/share/nagios/conf.d/ -d
>> /etc/nagios/conf.d/
>>
>> to work too.
>>
>> internally, instead of one file, we'll have to have an array of
>> files/dirs, so
>> that reloading nagios would also expand the config files/dirs into files
>> and
>> parse them all in order...
>>
>>
>
> remember too that -d is daemonize mode so probably need another option…

yes, i guess i meant

[ ]# nagios -d /usr/share/nagios/conf.d/ /etc/nagios/conf.d/

but it seems we're looking into it differently