• This post is a followup to Installing Nagios3 on Debian Wheezy

Back when I started using Nagios (I think ~1.2 or earlier) I don’t remember many options for being all that efficient in terms of “lines of config written” – certainly, any options for being efficient that there may have been ended up being overlooked in the rush to get it up and running, and I’ve been largely been using the same configuration files (and style) ever since – though I did start using host and service templates as soon as I became aware of them some time back in the 2.x branch days.

In the spirit of self-improvement, I’ve been revisiting the Nagios configuration syntax as part of rolling out a fresh monitoring host based on Nagios3, and have significantly reduced the number of lines of config my Nagios installation depends on as a result.

Continue reading Tips for Configuring Nagios3 Efficiently – part 1 →