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So this is more of an open question than a specific problem, we've been using Nagios core for a few years and made the decision to move to xi recently. With Core we've managed our environment by templating and setting up a number of scripts that will automatically generate config files for particular new hosts by searching asset management data-sources and searching certain network segments for new devices... overall there's about ~2500 devices and ~4000 services.

With xi we are expecting there to be far more devices as we consolidate more of our monitoring into Nagios. We want to use the config manager to make it easier for those who have no knowledge of creating nagios config files, what I'm not sure about is how we can maintain the same level of automation? Can you automate the importing of config files?

As a side note in a similar vein, last I looked a few weeks ago there was a bulk user import script for xi published by egalstad... what happened to that?

With xi we are expecting there to be far more devices as we consolidate more of our monitoring into Nagios. We want to use the config manager to make it easier for those who have no knowledge of creating nagios config files, what I'm not sure about is how we can maintain the same level of automation? Can you automate the importing of config files?

http://support.nagios.com/wiki/index.p ... in_the_CCM

As a side note in a similar vein, last I looked a few weeks ago there was a bulk user import script for xi published by egalstad... what happened to that?

I know this was something we had under development, but I hadn't heard it being in production yet. Where did you see this posted?

Oh, I did read that earlier but missed the bit about the import directory the first time around, thanks!

It was on Nagios Library as a subscriber only download... It's a shame that it's not out yet that was going to make my job a lot easier .

That actually does still exist but it is in the Customer Only download section. However, the Bulk Host Import wizard was included in the Nagios VMware image.

I think there's been some confusion, I'm not talking about the Bulk Host Import (which is definitely going to be useful). There was a Bulk xi User Import at one point in time (can't remember the actual name). That or it was a really awesome vivid dream I was having hehe.

More to the point though, I'm guessing the xi user information is stored in the Database and the only way of scripting a conversion from Nagios contact to xi user would be database updates? There's about 100 odd user accounts that I'm going to want to get into xi and keep synchronized with AD.

Ah yes, I misunderstood, the only way I can see doing that is scripting it into the database, unfortunately.

Unfortunate, but if it has to be done, it has to be done... I'll have a go at putting together a sync tool and if it turns out alright I'll be sure to share.