Re: Optionally monitoring, depending on local config?

[Andreas Rust]

At 15:31 24.09.2004, you wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> address@hidden said:
> > Why not simply do something like this at the end of the monit conf
> > file:
>
> > include /etc/monitrc.d/*
>
>         That's an option I considered, but I manage around 150 machines
> and I'd like to just push out monit (with a standard config file) onto
> them without having to configure each machine individually.  I do nightly
> automated updates on the machines, so it'd be trivial to turn on monit
> on all of them at once if I could come up with a general-purpose
> configuration file.
>
>         Another option would be to write a script that creates a
> tailored monitrc for each node.  That's probably the route I'll go
> if I decide to pursue monit (and if there's no way to write a
> general-purpose monitrc file).

If you are writing such a script, the above approach may be still suitable.
Wonder if the dependency part of monit can give you some functionality 
here, but I suppose
monit authors are more into this. :)

l8r


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