[smokeping-users] Dynamic addition and removal of hosts

[Tobias Oetiker]

Yesterday Richard Brady wrote:

> Sorry Tobias, I don't mean slave, I mean another server such as a web
> server that wants to tell SmokePing to start monitoring a new endpoint.

in that case you have to automate the config file editing and
restart smokeping once you did that ...

cheers
tobi

>
> Richard
>
> On 29 April 2013 13:58, Tobias Oetiker <tobi at oetiker.ch> wrote:
>
> > 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
> > >
> >
> > --
> > Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
> > http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900
> >
>

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Tobi Oetiker, OETIKER+PARTNER AG, Aarweg 15 CH-4600 Olten, Switzerland
http://it.oetiker.ch tobi at oetiker.ch ++41 62 775 9902 / sb: -9900