Nagios XI + Puppet?

[Ryan Bowlby]

Hi All,

I currently make use of Icinga (nagios fork) + Puppet for fully automated monitoring. It's worked great up to this point. I've recently been asked to integrate fine grained notifications support into icinga. I'm not entirely sure puppet manifests are the right place to manage contacts, contact groups, and their use within host and service definitions for notifications.

Has anyone made use of the puppet + Nagios XI? Would it be possible to manage notifications within the webUI while still using puppet for generating the host,hostgroup,service configs?

Pagerduty isn't an option for reasons I can't get into here.

Thanks,

Ryan

[John Zimmerman]

Hi Ryan,

Were you able to get something figured out regarding Nagios XI + Puppet?  I am also looking for a clean way to incorporate the two.  So far the WebUI for Nagios XI is disjointed, but convenient compared to config files for some.  But it is not as clear cut to me on how to automate with Puppet while keeping the XI features.

[loxo]

I use NagiosXI and Puppet and have had some success in developing some interoperability without sacrificing the controls of the gui. My environment consists of linux hosts running puppet and a myriad of windows and netowrking devices which were all configured in NagiosXI via the gui. 

Generally speaking, building service and host configurations for NagiosXI are the same as they were for Nagios Core. You'll use exported resources to generate configurations.

To then import them to NagiosQL (what Nagios XI uses for a database in lieu of traditional nagios flat-file configurations) you place the configurations built by puppet into the import directory, which for their CentOS release is located at /usr/local/nagios/etc/import/. 
You have two options for the import routine. You can use the import tool from within NagiosXI located within the core config manager, or you can use the bash script at /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/reconfigure_nagios.sh
The script must be executed with /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/ as its current working directory. 
I prefer the script. Others prefer the gui. The choice is yours.

There's an option here to create an Exec resource for that script that then subscribes to the import directory and automate the whole procedure. The caveat is that the import directory is cleared out whenever the script is run. In effect, this will fire off that reconfigure script every 30 minutes when the nagiosxi server initiates a puppet run and populates that directory with the configuration files. 

For now, what I do is create a directory in which the Puppet uses as a target, then manually copy the files over as they get updated with new services/servers. My Nagios configs rarely change so it works for the level interaction I need. I'd love to hear if anyone has a more elegant ways to do this.

Cheers, 

Sam

[Jeff Bachtel]

I don't have Nagios XI (still using Icinga) but could you copy out the code from /usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts/reconfigure_nagios.sh needed to import files (but not the removal code) and put it in an exec resource (directly or via a new customer shell script) that subscribes to your target directory? You'd get the benefit of automated updates, and because your subset of the code wouldn't rm imported files, you wouldn't kick off every 30 minutes.

Jeff

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[Devesh mehta]

Hi Sam and Jef,

I am also trying to create the Puppet Module for Nagios XI. I am able to genterate the individual config file for each host & service in import directory.

I have create a exec block execue the reconfigure script and subscribe it to import directory resource. But the issue is, even after creation of new config files in import directory it does call the execute block.

If I run the reconfigure script manually it loads the config and configure the checks in Nagios XI.

Secondly, how to handle the inventory on the hosts and services and to avoid reloads of nagios after every 30 mins if there is no new checks in the Import directory.

Attached is my code please suggest if you have done it in past.

A quick revert on this is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Thanks
Devesh

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