[smokeping-users] Dynamic addition and removal of hosts

[Tobias Oetiker]

Hi Richard,

remote hosts reconfigure themselfs automatically when the master
gets new config ...

cheers
tobi


Apr 2 Richard Brady wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I would like to dynamically add and remove hosts to be monitored from a
> remote server.
>
> I have reviewed the code and although the dynamic host feature comes close
> to what I am looking for by supporting the update of host addresses, it
> does not support the addition of hosts from what I can tell.
>
> Currently the best thing I can think of is a script (invoked through CGI or
> SSH) that writes config stanzas to some file or directory (e.g.
> /var/lib/smokeping/targets) and then issues a reload, with that file or
> directory @included from the /etc/config file.
>
> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>

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