Bug#337236: [Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#337236: nagios-common: Change defaults from somehost to localhost, etc

[sean finney]

hi olaf,

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 02:42:09PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> /etc/nagios/resource.cfg:
> #xsddb_host=somehost
> #xsddb_port=someport
> #xsddb_database=somedatabase
> #xsddb_username=someuser
> #xsddb_password=somepassword
> 
> Could you change this to localhost, 3306, nagios, nagios?
> That would make configuration easier.

that seems fairly reasonable, makes less typing for the admin
in many cases :)

> Also, what's the status on the automatic DB configuration?

i took a stab at bringing in dbconfig-common, but hit a small snag
because the credentials have to be provided in like 8 different places
with different variable names.  i think i can overcome this by either
augmenting dbconfig-common (which i also maintain) or using some
other novel hack, but haven't revisited trying to do so in a couple
months.

on a positive note, now that nagios-plugins is under pkg-nagios control
we can move the check_nagios_db plugins into the package officially,
and modify them to load credentials out of a config file, too, meaning
much cleaner and more comprehensive support once it's in place.

	sean

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