[op5-users] importing thoughts

[Michael Hobbs]

Hi all

 

As you can see from a few other posts I've been having issues with Merlin
importing properly

 

The system Nagios will be monitoring will have hosts being added/removed
often (I'm talking 10's added or removed each day) so it's important that
Merlin can keep up with the changes. Unfortunately at the moment Merlin is
unable to do this and I'm scratching me head as to why.

 

With this in mind I thought I would look at the basics and see if I'm doing
something fundamentally wrong

 

When we add or remove a new host we restart nagios via a script, this script
just restarts nagios and then calls Merlins import.php file

 

> <snip>

> #!/bin/bash

> /etc/init.d/nagios reload

> # import to merlin

> php /usr/local/nagios/etc/addons/merlin/import.php

> --cache=/usr/local/nagios/var/objects.cache

> </snip>

 

What I'm wondering is should we be stopping/starting Merlin during this
process as well instead of just doing the import?

 

And if so when should we restart merlin

 

should I do it in this order :-

/etc/init.d/merlind stop

/etc/init.d/nagios reload

/etc/init.d/nagios start

 

Or this one

/etc/init.d/nagios reload

/etc/init.d/nagios restart

 

Or maybe there is another way

 

To be honest guys anything I can do to improve merlins' import would be
great otherwise I'll be under pressure to go back to using NDOUtils and put
Merlin/Ninja on the backburner

 

Cheers

 

Mike

 

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